The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-12-09
Peter Y. Ross Speaks
at the Masonic Tenn pie
The Operation of Divine Law in Human
Affairs" Is Topic of Address


arc ugl yours. Ihry arr not real
Z thirss nor genuine thoughts. they
are only false suggestions spuugiug
. nom mortal mind Then direct at
. trnti1n as best sou can. 90 tho great
truth that llfr-yuur tlfn--l- Cod.
I and that since God o. ever where
and always expressing Himself per-
I fectly, Llfc Is everywhere and always
funcuoniug harm0ni0gsly aud uuiH.
tsrruptcdiy, even where tho distress
I seems 90 be, Tho result. Aa you hold
I steatiastly 90 this truth. win DO
I change iu uuuscI0usurrs. whereby
7 your sense uf sickness which Il
. false gives place 20 a SENSE ~ health,
wh.gh Is true.
Suppose. again that you appear %
| De worried or confused. that your
mind seems dun 0r impaired ur that
. your personal ar bushes problems
dsty solution. There Dr. no remedy 30
near none go effective. as Tor you
calmly 20 insist that the an knowing
Mind which b God o. never disturbed.
never weary, never inadequate. and
that that Mind expresses itself
through you and guides you in every
right effort and undertaking You
viii then find your thought clarifying
ana expanding You will find, too,
that while o. yourself y0u can DO
nothing, you can, with tho help q
divine intelligence operating through
sou. cope successfully with tho dif.
faculties az hand
or suppose you seem. hcsct by sin.
ful desires or habits There 81 no
CERTAIN. permanent relief except 20
know that since God o. Principle.
you. Ills Likeness. arc man OF prin.
ciple, with whom tvil has no affinity
and 20 whom evil thoughts mako no
appeal, Evil thoughts. like alck
/ thoughts, DO not originate with God
or with man. They are not yours
Therefore you need not harb0r nor
respond 20 them. They come from
mortal mind and hence are no part OF /
tho reality 81 being. no part of your
true thinking or CONSEQUENCES. TAX I
Ink this stand. and refusing 20 cntrr- I
tain evil thoughts. sou will find that 1
they become less and lcEs persuasive. /
moro and moro unreal For. says /.
Holy Writ. God saw everything that /
He had made. and Ho made All that I
was made. and behold IL was very /
good Resist tho devil. evil. says /
James, and he viii flee. But you can |
resist evil effectively only az you 500 1
that evil thoughts arc not your
thoughts. and that. since good Is all. |
eyil actually s. nothing.
Suppose. once more, that you seem |
cast down with sorrow OF discourage .
msut, II Is at least a lriflo rraasur. I
Ing 10 remember that much % the
trouble which heretofore has hhr.
rowcd you never actually happened. |
dld IT, But speaking seriously and
fundamentally. is there anything 70
comforting. 80 healing. az 90 rcmsm. /
her that God. the only power and I
presence. IS Lover Therefore He
does not and cannot visit you with I
afllction or porplcXity, and there o. |
no other power 10 do 40. Really. I
then, there Is no cause or ground for 1
uahappncsa. God cannot. b. reason /
OF Ills very nature. DO less than sur. I
round and sustain you with loving |
kindness and I'll your life with peace .
and Joy.
Thus Il q that a right sense O,
Deity has a most vital and practical /
interest 10 people In their every day I
affairs and troubles FOR Il enables /
them TO appreciate that God Is not 7.
only the controlling and sustaining
influence OF man. but also the very
fount and fibre Of mans being. From 1
this vantage ground people dispute.
with measurable SUCCESS. encroach- |
msnis % disease, disaster. and every .
condition threatening their existence /.
or menacing their wcll.bclng. They /
sec that they are not held in the /
fell clutch OF circumstance" but that /
they are, In 50 far as they order |
their thoughts and lives uprigh,ly. |
safely hid under tho shadow Of the 1
Almighty" where danger and dis. /
comfort cannot find nor modest them. |
PERFECTION or MAN
But this sense OF security Is At
tained only by industrious. intelligent
effort. for anyone at an given 20 In.
trospection must be impressed with |
the apparent controversy. almost con. I
stantly going on In consciousness.
between right thoughts and wrong
thoughts. Each Individual seems 20 /
find in himself not ono but two con.
flicting persons. tho spiritual and tho
material, the good and the bad, the
well and the sick Paul speaks OF
being torn by There two conflicting
emotions when In his letter 10 tho
Romans he says: II find then a Law.
that. when I would do good. evil Is
present with me. For delight in
the law Of God after the inward man:
but | see another law In my members.
warring against the law OF my mind.
and bringing me into captivity 10 the
law Of sin, which Is in my members"
The mental battle. thus wildly dc.
scribed by Paul. n simply the at.
tempt Of false mortalmind thoughts
10 establish Themselves In human
consciousness and thereby usurp the
legitimate place Of true thoughts
from divine Mind. This state OF
thought this mentality, which seems
partly good and partly bad. Is some
times referred TO ag the human
mind. But every Christian Scientist
is proving. since evil has only n fic-
titious existence. only such power as
mortalg concede 70 II, that one right
thought can chase n thousand wrong
thoughts and that two good thoughts
can put ten thousand evil ones 10
flight, which gives promise OF an
end TO the battle sometime. with n
desire for and consciousness OF
good only.
Then there "a the moro or less con.
slant argument, silently going on In
the mind OF every individual. between
the forces Of health and the sup.
posed forces OF disease. The contro.
versy ig purely mental, although it's
results may eventually appear upon
the body. This ultimate outward
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