Menticulture; or, the A-B-C of True LivingFletcher, Horace
Religion
Menticulture; or, the A-B-C of True Living
Fletcher, Horace
Anger; Conduct of life; Worry
"You will have then constantly before you the _only_ cure for mental
cancers, and the essence of all religions expressed in three words; you
will have touched the button of the Divine camera within you whose film
is sensitive only to the rays of good. Love and growth will do the
rest. The teachers of morality and religion will do abler work under
the realization that not only the 'old Adam,' but the Divine Essence as
well, have seats in each human soul, and that, when the good is
appealed to in terms of confidence and understanding, evil will be cast
out _instantly_, without a lifetime of controversy, and without waiting
for eternity, or even for the death-bed to unloose the fetters.
[Sidenote: Christian Societies]
"As a result of organization on the basis of Emancipation, and when it
has become an accepted fact that anger and worry are only bad habits of
the mind, no clergyman can show them and retain the respect of his
congregation; no King's Daughter can entertain them and be worthy of
her badge; no member of the Christian Endeavor Society can harbor
within himself the arch enemies of Christianity which the Master
commanded his disciples to cast out, and be loyal to his cause; and no
individual in the pursuit of duty, or even of selfish pleasure, can
afford to carry such weighty handicaps and hope to win the race."
PLYMOUTH CHURCH CLUB AND ARMOUR INSTITUTE
[Sidenote: Frank W. Gunsaulus]
A good example of a church club is that which forms a part of Plymouth
Church in Chicago. Plymouth Club was founded by Dr. Scudder and is
warmly encouraged by Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus, the present pastor of the
church. Dr. Gunsaulus is also president of Armour Institute, where
manual training is taught side by side with letters and the sciences to
men and women alike. In these two eminently practical organizations
most of the conditions favorable to growth are already furnished. Add
to these Emancipation as the motto of the club, and as the requisite
mental accomplishment for admission to the school, and the conditions
will be perfected to the highest degree.
The word Emancipation has a very formidable sound because it is
associated with a great war; but its attainment through germ
eradication is a simple and easy accomplishment.
[Sidenote: College Presidents Responsible]
The presidents of great mental and manual training institutions know
that the depressing and dwarfing phantoms of the mind are merely bad
habits--weeds that can be rooted out--and that anger and worry are the
roots.
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