The Great It by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 20, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 37.

The Great It.

By Editor

A leading exponent of Spiritism and kindred cults sends out with his portrait the following message, punctuated and capitalized as we find it:

"Behold! Here is Thy Magic Staff: UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES KEEP AN EVEN MIND Take IT Try IT Walk with IT Talk with IT Lean on IT Believe on IT FOREVER."

In other words, it is the worship of self, self-salvation, self-sustenance, self-worship. Self, or self's mind, is the "IT," the capitalized little ego. It is like the "I, I, I, I itself I" of Christian Science. It is the yielding to that far first lie, "Ye shall be as God." Practically, it is lifting oneself by his boot-straps. How much better, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."