Life in the Word 203 God, is to be displaced, and a new mind substituted ; for god liness has the promise of the vigor of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come. How, then, is this injunction to be carried out? It is of importance to millions of anxious souls to have a clear answer to this question. And it may be had. The every-day incidents and the atmosphere amid which the average man and woman spend their time are such as to produce mental disturbances and disorders to an extent which, if understood, and if any thing could impress this thoughtless and excited age, would create wide-spread alarm. It was stated recently that there were twenty-eight thousand inmates of the insane asylums of New York State (a single state of the Union) prior to October, 1907, and that in six months following the industrial convulsion of that month the number of inmates was increased by three thousand. The startling increase in the number of sucides adds its forcible testimony; and the frequency with which one encounters cases of mental depression, insomnia, melan cholia, and other nervous disorders, tells of wide-spread and insidious foes which attack the seat of reason, and which call for methods and means of defense and repair which are be yond the resources of medicine. The writer knows by experience the indescribable horrors of depressed and morbid mental states, and knows, too, what a transformation is effected by the “renewing of the mind” according to the Biblical injunction. Full provision is made for this marvelous ¡transformation, and the conditions wherein it is effected are plainly set forth and are accessible to every believer. In this case the study of the word used in thé Command ( “be transformed” ) will make us acquainted with the con ditions essential to the transformation. The word in question seems to have been set apart by the Holy Spirit for the purpose of teaching the important and wonderful secret of the trans formation of the believer, during his existence in the body, into
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