The Winslow mail., 1925-01-23

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Master the Way
Jesus laid down his life for mar-knd. He
| poured out his life throughout his ministry
before, on, and after Calvary, in ever iHcreas-
| ng and finally complete self-renunciation, that
! 'whosoever believeth me-" that is, whosoever
| should come to understand Jesus and the Christ
| he lived, should realize spiritual existence, not
material selfhood, to be his real life, no" and
| here and always. The evangelical self is the
| human self denied, and that individual is most
| nearly evangelical who has most put off the
| old man with his deeds" and has most put on
| the new man" of Spirit.
EvANGELIZATION OF HUMANITY
| The evangelization of humanity is effected by
| the coming of the Christ to human conscious
ness. This is 'the power OF God unto sal.
| vation" 1t eradcates the evils which beset
| human existence fear, mesmerism, mental
| suggestions, hypnotism, in short, the category
OF evil When the ST d1na GI sce E is salts
| fled, pardon replaces guilt, and reformation
| ushers in salvation
When boy, learned to think of hypnotism
| in terms of a cadaverous individual who wore
ia funereal garb, and made passes with fan
tastc fingers before his subjects eyes, the
while impressing him with suggestions as to ms
proceed to do the will of the hypnotist in vain
| antics and weird acts, most impressive TO the
| beholder.
| Christian Science denounces and repudiates
| hvpnotism utterly. Christian Science shows
that until enlightened and controlled by di-
vine intelligence, the entire action OF the SO,
called human mind,-both its conscious and
| unconscious thoughts,-s mesmeric, hypnotic.
But the Christian Scientist, rejoicing in the
knowledge of Gods sole control, knows there
are, no fantastic fingers, physical or or mental
making mesmeric passes before his eyes,
All the trouble in the world is due to the
| mesmerism of fear That is a broad state
ment, but what is it to be afraid? Fear is
the anticipation of evil. To be afraid is to sub
to the laws Of disease and sin to the false be-
| efs of accident, luck, chance, evil destiny,
| bad fortune. To believe ones self liable TO
! evil is to expect its possible appearance
| We hear much of free moral agency and in
deed man is morally free. But it may seem
| difficult for the sick man as well as for the
sinner to understand where the responsibility for
his condition lies. While many diseases are
brought on by violation of moral law, may
nevertheless point to the fact that often the
helpless sufferer is but the victim OF disease.
How is one responsible for an untoward event
| or condition of which he was not thinking
| Fear may be entertained consciously or uncon'
scously Conscious fear is seldom realized.
One works more or less actively agalnst ms con
sequences. But the unexpected seems to nap.
pen Evil seeks to hide itself and to steal
upon one unawares, for the devll Knows nus nus
| said: ""The thing which l greatly fear is come
upon me-" but he did not say he entertained
the fear consciously Rather, Joo indlcateo ea
upon him, to his great surprise he even De De
clared that he was not mesmer1zed into apathy:
that he mentally active TO de1eho lllhSel
against evil: 'I was not in safety, neither mad
| rest neither was l quiet; yet trouble came.
Evidently Job was confining his work to the
destruction Of his conscious fears and, intens
upon casting out whatever may have perturbed
his thought he omitted to destroy the fear
back in the unconscious thought Ih1s latent ieaf
at the last wrought his discontinue, and then
job thoroughly awakened, recognized anu ac-
cepted his responsibility
Wherein does the teaching of Christian Sci
ence touching the unconscious modes OF NOR
tai mind differ from the so-calied New Psycno.'
ogy? In this way: Material psychology de- ae-
ciares that Job had no recourse, no possible
way to avoid the evil effects of his unconscious
thinking; that these thoughts lay back IN tn, the
folds Of the brain, not out OF mind, but actually
tucked away in mind, awaiting an excltlng
cause to eventuate them; that when ripe ior
externalization, these evil mental states In
evitably came into activity.
Christian Science brings the assurance OF sal
| vation from such diabolcal fatalism. 1t teacnes
that the power of Christ, Truth, can penetrate,
expose, and destroy even the uniorneo, ,aie aIe1
ment and expression. But mind you, evil must
be more than uncovered Indeed to uncover evil
and give it credence is TO magnify anu ot,,ro per
petuate it. But to uncover It's unreal nature
| is to insure its destruction, for who would
continue to fear or suffer from that which he
evil is its nothingness. Had job been as sc1en-
tific Christian before his discipline OF pa
thence as evidently he was thereafter ne e might Ig
not have had to say, yet trouble came ans
OO"i
unconscious fear is to think God-given thoughts
and to live in obedience to them
1t is automatic that discordant incidents and
accidents rarely come singly just as single
case of disease may seem to be the sigma! lot
an epidemic, so a broken arm, broken oanX
vault, a fire may seem to signallze cycIe
of similar occurrences. Ihe Chrlstlah oclehtlsS
knows why that effect sometimes appears, aLo
he knows how to take correct steps TO eno the
reign of discord He recognizes the sequence
of untoward events the uncorrected operation
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GUS mental processes. These modes OF the hu-
man mind may be many speclfic instances
of incorrect thought, or they may be the result
| of general mortal belief, state often referred
to as mass psychology, whlchs is but name
| for consentaneous human thinking, OF whlcn
individual acts, whether unconscious or lnten-
| tional, are the #presslon.
| The Christian Scientist is not helpless before
| the vagaries of mortal mind He does not RAJ!
| at fate He entertains no superstitous 6ehef
in the inevitableness of discords, and accidents,
and diseases He prevents and cures them by
| correcting the false mental states producing
| them. It is plain that nothing exists, even IN
belief, without thought. Whatever the error
| confronting the Christian Scientist, he seeks
! to uncover and destroy the false belief appar-
emily producing it. However remote, that wrong
| concept can be detected, and corrected He
| brings the Christ, Truth, to bear upon the
| error thus overcoming evil with good. And
| so to the Christian Scientist there need come
| no train of misfortune. Upon his DEVOTED heao
| the rain of trouble need never pour. Depression,
| if it come is turned into JOY at the early llft-
| ing of the gloom
| 1t is possible to have and to see fewer
| and fewer accidents less and less discord, pow
| erty disease, and sin. All evil may become
beautifully less in your experience. Is not that
| prospect good tidings? Because of that dec
laration, are you to shut your eyes to distress.
| to harden your heart, to dry up the milk Of
human kindness2 No, with emphasis! Let il
| rather be healed" BY what right do you be-
| lieve to be real that which God did not, coulH
not make, namely, imperfection in His crea'
| ton? How dare you accept creation wherein
| disease sin, discord, and death reign? Ever
| while helping those who in distress, visiting
| the widow and the fatherless in their affiction;
is it not also Christian to keep ones self un-
spotted from the world? May not one thus be
far better able to help destroy the illusions of
| disease and distress? One has but to realize
the presence of God, good, to destroy any. be-
lief Of evil presence In old England the Ig king
of Truth and Love, God, is the supreme omni-