Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-21
BASE DOCTRINE
ON FIRM FACTS
TRUTH AN ETERNAL ENTITY IN
THE UNIVERSE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ExEMPLl-
FlEs WISDOM Is POWER
"Flgures Won't lie" No More Certain
Than Other Truths Which by This
Application Destroy Isno-
rance and Error
CONTINUED from last sunday,s Herald,

For forty years Mrs. Eddy has In
sisted that causation Is in the Divine
Mind and not In matter. She pro-
claimed that God Is the only real cause
and source of being. the only Princi-
pie by reason of which all things ex-
istr
What does this divine God promise
for man? 1t is true that God Is invls-
ible The personal senses cannot pos
sibly perceive God, but regardless OF
this we inquire. what does this inVis-
ible spiritual animus promiseY 1t
promises life and health, the perpe-
tuity of existence. 1t promises the rule
of continuous harmonious being-the
dominion over all the earth. &c PROM
Uses normal prosperity In every way.
1t provides for the peace and perfec-
ton of Its own offspring-its own ideas:
/ would not have you misunderstand
me as meaning that the science OF
numbers is spiritual, but II presents
the highest exact concept of science
that is comprehended by material
istic age and will linger at this point
for a moment to call your attention TO
one of the simplest ideas OF this sci
ence Of numbers. Take for example
the idea two and two make four. Even
though the material universe were de-
stroyed, nothing could destroy two and
two make four. 1t is true everywhere,
IN the IDlQQle OF LHt VII lhC SUI
face of every fixed star. There are
clusters OF nebulae so far apart that
IL would take light travelling at the rate
of sixteen billions of miles per day, fve
millions of years to traverse thee dis :
tance, and yet IL you were privileged
, to go along that pathway you wouie
know that there was not an men
wherein you could not find that two
and two make four. One cannot I'M.
agine time when It was not or VIII
not be true Just think how usefui IL
is. How long would the banks and the
business Of the world continue Witnoni,
It? What chaos would ensue IL 1t couid
cease to be. How prodigiously I'M
portant 1t is. There is but one two
and two make four" and yet everyone
has 1t and is willing the others should
have 1t too. Did you ever know OF
ever killed because of It? No: on the
basis of actual truth humanity would
be peaceful, happy and without disor-
der. Think of the nobility of 1t. the
beauty, the charming simplicity OF just
one trueeidea and its activity.
Turning from this aggression. ! ven.
ture again to make plain the fact tnat
whether 1t be Mind. Spirit. God that Is
considered the cause of the universe
or whether 1t be matter, 1t Is apparent
that in either case the cause and au-
thority are invisible. Even the ma
terialist is obliged to rest every neiie.
a nom discernible supposition. Could
anything be more vague as origin or
more disappointing and tragic as con-
ciusion than that superstition!
Power of Universe invisible
In addition to the fact that the
source or omnific- origin OF the universe
is invisible, there Is the equally signifi-
cant fact that the Fundamental law
through which the universe is governed
also is invisible as Is all the power or
the universe. Think of 1t for a mo-
ment when Christian Science urges the
Acknowledgement of the invisible God
as the Creator and as law and power.
Remember that the. only evidence OF
existence IL In concrete form.
Only when the supreme cause OF
existence manifests itself through in
visible law and power can we behold
the result In action and In concrete
effect.
Without 1t existence, including man
and the universe, would be impossible
II law could be abolished, the universe
would collapse in chaos Therefore,
when I tell YOU that Christian Science
practice rests on an invisible Principle,
law and power, You will see that in
this respect 1t is by no means unusual,
irrational or impracticable. There Is
no other foundation or rule. The most
dense form OF materialism does not
rest on a more tangible impulse or
modus.
The materiaiistic theory declares
that we exist as victims; that we are
like bubbles on a sea of caprtcfous des-
tiny: that we are doomed to be sick
and to die at any moment and that
we have no adequate power to resist.
What does Mind declare? 1t de-
clares that YOU are not victim. that
YOU have a fundamental right to be
the master of your foe; that you not
only have a right to be man but a
right to continued activity also. The
promise is that we may do all things
through the Mind which was In Christ
that we may move mountains.
/ may be speaking in somewhat
fragmentary way because l am speak
ing extemporaneously. l understand
that you are accustomed to this and
YOU will therefore excuse me IL there
is any fault in the way of sequence.
Twenty-Five years ago one OF the
most celebrated instructors In America,
in addressing convention of teachers
told them that in the next fifty years
the discoveries in the realm of mind
would outweigh unspeakably In impor-
lance all the discoveries ever made in
what is called the realm Of matter and
invention.
Wrongly Called Abnormal
The outcroppings of mental possibil-
tiles in the realm of what Mrs. Eddy
designates mortal mind, when estimat-
ed correctly indicate the possibility Of