The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-29

AL COURIER, THURSDAY, o finely Illustrates this same thought in ha wonderful bool, "Natural Flaw in the Spiritual World, 4 mole, a bird, and man are equally denizens of the earth the mole sroyels In the ground and oogni2es only ts earthly confnes the hird scars above the level of the earth in the freedom of the upper air, soaring in the blue ether, singing in the joy of the sunlight and the green hough of the tree Man. in the large ness Of vision, looks beyond the birds horizon and pierces the infinite; Co him splendor of splendor unveils it. self in the lllimitable realm of Mind; the same grandeur and beauty exist for all, 1t is a question of concept, Of appropriations, Of apprehendng, Paul said, q follow after, that | may ap- prehend," and he refers to the grand | culmInation when we shall see even as we are seen, and know even as we are known. When we shall see Gods Ideal man, instead of our own, poor sense of man He also expressed the thought; As in Adam (the material or dust conception of manl all dle, even so in Christ (the immaculate, spiritual true concept of man) shall all be made alive"
 Material Sense of Man,
 The tenacity with which the human mind clings to what 1t sees often re- minds me of the old man who lived in the mild vicissitudes of his finite en- Nlronment, with it's priVations and sor- rows, yet thanked God daily for the | flat old earth and the sun and moon that rose daily to illumine his exist l ence, when some one disturbed his l equanimity by telling him that the earth was whlrlng through space and l the sun was the central stiffness He | pondered on this strange contradic- ton deeply and the next day seeing the sun malestically moving across the sky said, The sun does movei l see it." The heavens remained to him a blue vault studded with it's 'patlnes of bright gold" and the en- largement of vision was closed to the infinite systems, and systems revoly- lng in sublime subiection to law and order This. however, Is not so ser ious as Co cling to the material and limited sense of man, and his posslbil- ities as a child of God, If Jesus came to be the Savior of the world from its existent dlscordant conditions, as his works prove that he did; if he came to reveal that Truth that shall make mankind free, his teaching must have been revolutionary, in the realm of thought as Copernicus in the realm of astronomy; 1t must have been the rebuke of those conditions We should not be surprised that 1t seemed strange indeed often so preposterous that they scofred and mocked and stoned him.
 As Jesus spoke out hls sublime transcendentallsm knowing that now Is the spiritual fact and that time Is now, he said Before Abraham was am. and my Father are one. ''l am the living bread which came down from heaven; If any man eat of this bread; he shall live forever" "The words that I speak unto you. they are spirit and they are life" "As the living Father hath sent me and l live by the Father, so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me"
 How they scoffed and stoned and ieered this patient, tender Jesus whC used the divine power to heal and save, and bless The Jerusalem oi sensualism eyer stones and kills tho prophets that are sent unto 1t,
 Standpoint of Spirit.
 Jesus viewed man from the stant point of Spirit, not after, Soul mol sense. and that Is the secret Of Jesus and of christian Science He came a' we are told in the scriptures, to judge not after the seeing of the eye, nor tho hearing of the ear, but to judge righteous judgment The very basis o' Christianity of Faith, which the apos tie descrlbesa as "the substance of things hoped for" Now, faith is menta condition. yet it is evidence of thlng' not seen. or better the conviction oi unseen realities Paul tells us of the wonders wrought by this mental con dition The dead were raised, tht lame. the maimad were restored, tho mouths of lions were stopped, fire wa, quenched, victories were won, the wall. of Jericho fell down, Elijah was trans lated that he should not see death
 Now remember that you can hayf this mental condition az well as Jesus Peter and Paul and the ancieu worthies, and if should and will brinf about the same results; lt is uni versal law of cause and effect But fl order to do this you must deny th' physical or visible evidence and stead fly, consistently, hold on to what vol do not see.
 This is Christianity in lts eterna primitive purity perfection and power This is what Jesus. and Peter and Paul and the ancient prophets did; they hell on In thought to the unseen, eterna verities of being in spite of and in re versal of material evidence. and in tha consists the snbimlty and slmpllcit! of their methods and works
 f we will follow Jesuss reversals O denials of material evidence, and lool up to God the invisible, instead of f the ground as the source of good, " will find it all here in Mind In tn wilderness of mortal fear and douh the table is spread, the waters nov from the rock, the Red Sea Is parte for us Our Limitations ara the resul of our fears doubts, and false educa ton We really live and move an have our being in God, the inhnlt