The St. Joseph observer., 1922-10-07

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II may seem difficult for the sick man
] as well as for the sinner to under
| stand where the responsibility for his
| condition lies. While many diseases
/ are brought on by violation of moral
! law, one may nevertheless point to
| the fact that often the helpless sufferer
Is but the. victim Of disease. How is
| one respbhsible for an untoward event
| or condition OF which he was not
| thinking2 Fear may be entertained
! consciously or unconsciously, Con-
| sCiuug fear Is seldom realized. one
/ works more or less actively against
his conscious fears, to deny them and
! OftSCt their consequences. But tho
! unexpected seems to happen. Evil
| seeks to hide itself and to steal upon
one unawares, for the devil knows his
! time is short once the error is eX-
| greatly feared is come upon me-"
! but he did not say he entertained the
! fear consciously Rather, Job indi-
| Gated that the thing he unconsciously
| feared came upon him. to his great
| surprise. He even declared that he
was not mesmerlzed into apathy, that
he was mentally active to defend him
| self against evil; Il was not in safety,
! neither had | rest, neither was quiet;
! yet trouble came" Evidently job was
| coniining his work to the destruction
! of his conscious fears and, intent up
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/ pcrturbed his thought. he omitted to
| destroy the fear back I'm the uncon-
| scious thought. This latent fear at
! the last wrought his discontinue, and
! then Job, thoroughly awakened, rec
| ognized and accepted his responsible
| ity.
Wherein does the teaching Of Chris
! tian Science touching the unconscious
/ modes of mortal mind differ from the
so-cailed New Psychology? In this
! way: Material psychology declares
| that Job had no recourse, no possible
way to avoid the evil effects of h.s
( unconscious thinking; that these
/ thoughts lay back in the folds Of the
| brain. not out of mind. but actually
/ tucked away in mind. assisting an
| exciting cause to cvCntuatc them: that
/ when ripe for GENERALIZATION these
| evil mental states inevitably came into
activity.
Christian Science brings the assur-
| ance of salvation from such diaholical
! fatalism. Ii teaches that the power
/ of Christ, Truth, can penetrate. eX-
! pose, and destroy even the Uniformed,
| latent errors of belief, thus preventing
/ their development and expression. But
mind you, evil must be more than un-
/ covered. Indeed to uncover evil and
I give it credgnce Is to magnify ana
| pcrpetuate II. But to uncover its ur-
/ real nature Is to insure it's destruction
! suffer from that which he knows to
/ be unreal? The only fact concerning
| evil is its nOthlngnCss. Had Job been
I as scientific o Christian before his
| discipline of patience as CviS rntly he
! was thereafter. lo might not have had
, to say, IGet trouble came" The Cf-
fectivc weapon against both conscious
! and unconscious fear is to think God
| given thoughts and to live in obeGi-
euCo to them.
1t ia automatic that discordant Incl
dents and accidents rarely come
| singly. Just as single case of dis
ease may seem to be the signal for an
epidemic, so broken arm, a broken
bank vault, or firg may seem to
! signalize a cycle of similar occur
! anCCs. The Christian Scientist knows
! why that eject sometimes appears.
| ana he Knows how to take correct
/ steps tUrcnd rho reign OF discord. He
! recognizes tho sequence of untoward
! events as the UnrOrrcCtcl operation
! of wrong thinking, the eXternalization
/ of erroneous mental processes. These
modes Of the human mind may be so
/ many specific instances Of incorrect
/ thought, or they may be the result Of
general msrtal belief, state often
| referred to as mass psychology, which
is but a name for consentaneous hu-
man thinking, OF which individual
acts, whether unconscious or inten-
tional, are the expression
The Christian scientist is not help
| less before the VaEaries Of mortal
mind lie does not rail at fate He
entcrtains no sup.rstitious belief in
the inevitablene-s Of discords. and ac-
cidcuts, and diseases He prevents
and cures them by correcting the false
mental states producing them. 1t is
plain that nothing exists even in be-
lief, without thought. Whatever the
error confronting the Christian Scien-
tiSt, he seeks To uncover and destroy
the false belief apparently producing
/ il. However remote, that wrong con-
ccpt can be detected, and corrected
lie brings the Christ, Truth, to bear
upon the error, thus overcoming evil
with good. And 50 the Christian
Scientist need have no train of mis-
fortune. Upon his devoted head the
| rain Of misfortune need never pour
Depression. If IT come, is turned into
joy at the early lifting of the gloom.
II Is possible to have and to see
fewer and fewer accidents. less and
less discord, poverty disease and sin.
All evil may become beautifully less
pCCt good tidiuEs? Because of that
declaration, are you to shut your eyes
to distress, to harden your heart, to
dry up the milk Of human kindness?
! No, with emphasis Let it rather be
healed" By what right do you be-
not. could not make, namely, imper-
| fcction in His creation? How dare
/ you accept creation wherein disease,
! sin, discord. and death reign? Even
! which elping those who are In dis
| tress, visiting the widow and the
| fatherless In their afflictiOn, IS It not
| also Christian 10 keep ones self un-
! spotted from the world? May not one
| thus be far better able TO help destroy
| tho illusions Of disease and distress?
| one has but to realize the presence Of
| God, good, to destroy any belief of
/ evil presence. In old England, the
| king was spoken of as the presence" ="
| The Kingl-Of Truth and Love, God, is
! the supreme omni-Presence, in which
| all evil is absent.
! Tender, affectOnate, sympathetic,
/ Christian Science unites Science and
! Christianity. The Christian Scientist
happily can be both scientific and
! Christian. both humanity kind and
| scientifically exact in knowing and
proving the unreaI1ty Of evil. Chris
tlan Scientists extend genuine sympa-
thy and they are able to distinguish
between true and false sympathy
| What Is false sympathy? Amy kind
| whatsoever that increases fear and
| tends to fix disease and discord upon
the individual. What is false charity?
4 H. L..