GREAT TRUTH—COLOSSAL ERROR.
The greater the truth, the greater and more deceptive the counterfeit error. God is the Source of all life; and men only find life when they find it by faith in Jesus Christ, the representative, the power, the wisdom of God for this world. Life, life truly, comes to man through a mind yielded to God. But in the place of God and faith, man reasoning from himself is deceived by the devil, and is led to put himself in the place of God, and science in the place of faith. Hence we have “evolution,” and “Christian Science,” and a multitude of other things to deceive souls and hide God from men. Below is an illustration of this deception in the medical world, from the pen of Prof. Elmer Gates, in the Denver Medical Times:— The conviction has been steadily growing in the minds of scientific observers that medicine is not a science, and that, with the exception of surgery and sanitation, it is not even a rational art. If disease is to be actually cured and crime is to be abolished, there is but one royal road to such an achievement, and that is by the scientific study of the mind as we find it manifested in living things, and as it is capable of being modified by environmental conditions and its own activities. Mind is life. Life is not something different from mind. The life of a cell is its mind. The activities of a cell are psychological activities, and therefore the regulation of the psychological activities of cells and multi-cells is the basis of the long-looked-for fundamental laws of cure; therein lies the key to the mystery of disease and pain and evil, and therefore also lies the Ariadne’s clew to health and happiness and success. I think no impartial mind can review with me the evidence upon which these conclusions are based and doubt for a moment that life and vitality and psychic processes are solely mental processes. If so, then we are in sight of the law of health and disease and crime, and we see it not by faith, or through mysticism or symbolism, but through the medium of verified facts which are conquerors of scientific knowledge; and the study of this law comes within the province of strictest scientific research. If we can know how to regulate mind processes, then we can cure disease—all disease. There are two methods of regulating the mind in an organism—first by varying the environment conditions and the bodily conditions of the organism, and thus bringing about modifications of the mental activities; and, second, by causing the organism voluntarily to vary its own mental activities, and thus change its bodily structures and its chemisms and environments. But all this never will be apart from God. Whatever real, radical change is made in mind must be made by the power of God; and God acts in response to faith. Would that the world knew, as expressed by the weeping prophet, “O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself;” then would the world know that whatever change for good took place in man it would not be by might nor by power, but “by My Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” O, remember it, reader, it is only the Word of God, the Spirit of God, the power of God, that can regenerate mind! Creative power, the power which spoke the world into existence, must make man a new creature if he is to live. There is no true life apart from God.