p. 408 | Study the Divine Mind

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 26, 1900

Study the Divine Mind

A religious paper, deploring the growing abandonment of the Greek and Latin classics in the schools, says: “The study of natural history is a study of matter, the study of the classics is a study of mind, . . . They throb with the mightiest passions and thoughts of the human mind.” Yes, and that is just the essential evil of them: they do throb with the mightiest passions and thoughts of the human mind; and these are the altogether human passions and thoughts of the human mind, which “is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” What mankind needs to study is not the human mind at all, much less its mightiest passions and thoughts, but the divine mind. “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.”

To study the mightiest passions of the human mind is but to study the mightiest sins of human kind: to study the “mightiest” thoughts of the human mind is but to study the impotence of the human mind. This is abundantly illustrated in the Greek and Latin classics. “My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.” “Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts.” “Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind;” “bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” “We have the mind of Christ.” “Think on these things.”