Seeking to Conquer Death

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 10, 1908

Seeking to Conquer Death

AMONG the latest manifestations of the desire to secure eternal life apart from faith in Christ is the organization of a “Live Forever Club.” The founder of this movement explains it thus:—

We do not offer any “isms,” creeds, or beliefs, unless our belief in nature herself can be classed as an “ism” or a belief. We, of course, find the basic principle of our idea in the proposition that mind controls matter. From this point we work forward along purely practical lines. We do not banish drugs, medicine, nor the surgeon’s knife as a tenet of our plan. Some of us—in fact, most of us—believe these unnecessary, but we accord absolute individuality of action, freedom of idea and plan, to our members. We believe that a healthy mind, directed along healthy channels, leads to a healthy body. Death, old age, disease, are all the concomitants of unhealthful conditions. We believe in the molecular theory in its fullest sense, and we believe that the mind is the creator of the molecules of the body. If the mind—the brain—be healthy, it will create healthy molecules, and healthy molecules mean healthy tissues, vigorous blood, and no wasting of vitality.

This teaching, of course, repudiates the whole experience of sin and the fall, and death as a result of sin, and is self-salvation in its baldest form.