Editorial June 30, 1956 Issue

THE CONTROL OF HUMAN WILL

Harold Molter

Physical and mental energy, controlled by human will power, is a tyrant which enslaves the individual. It is a blind, stubborn force like the proverbial bull in the china shop. Controlled by wisdom it can be turned into useful channels and serve the purposes of good. The Apostle Peter furnishes an interesting example of how human energy is turned into useful channels. In the early years of his discipleship Peter was evidently guided largely by what is known as a warm heart easily influenced by the impulse of the moment.

One day he declared that he would give up all that he had to follow Jesus in the way; the next day he denied that he knew him. At the time of the Master's betrayal Peter forcibly and impulsively cut off the ear of the servant of the high priest and was rebuked by Jesus for this display of animal courage. In subsequent years, the great energy which possessed Peter yielded to the power of the Christ, and he became one of the world's leading Christian reformers.

Christian Science has the answer to the question of how to guide and control the abundant energies of children and others who are driven by the unbridled force of the physical and mental energy of mortal mind. In her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 201), "The way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides of Love." Thus we see that the driving force of mortal mind is controlled through the education of human consciousness in the things of Spirit.

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