Article May 2, 1903 Issue

Opposition to Mind

Lewis B. Coates

Ogden (Utah) Standard

Divine Mind or Life is the Principle of Christian Science healing and it is the only reformatory and saving element; if understood and practised, it is the scientific remedy for all evil; and this is logically and scientifically true, because Truth is the only remedy for error, Love is the only remedy for hatred, and Life the only remedy for sin and its consequent death.

What is it that opposes this divine power in saving mankind? It is the one evil or the evil one. Paul calls it the carnal mind, and says, 'The carnal mind is enmity against God;" it does not know God, neither, indeed, can it know Him. It is the testimony of the five physical senses, the adversary, which persistently argues that both cause and cure are found in matter; this theory dethrones the omnipotence of God and places the science of existence on a material basis; but no law of the carnal mind, or so-called "psychic forces," is on a divine basis; therefore, it is without God (Good); and is destitute of Principle and uncertain in effect.

This carnal mind, or serpent-talker, has had its phenomena in all ages. The enchanters, witches, wizards, and soothsayers aped divine power and withstood Moses. Peter said to Simon the sorcerer, who had been producing some phenomena in matter and deceiving the people, "Thy money perish with thee, because ...thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter."

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