Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-07
URGES SPIRITUAL AS
ONLY REAL CREATION
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SHOWS
ITS SOURCE OF TRUTH
Declares Divine Mind, Which Is
Spirit, Alone Can Create Reality,
and Material Phenomena
Are Counterfeits

To the ordinary man reality is COM
prised in the evidence of the physical
senses. Being, as a rule, what a great
thinker has described as a common
sense scientist, a scientist, that is to
say, who measures physical phenomena
solely by his material consciousness, he
never seems to take time to think in
what this results. If he did he would
begin to realize that great part of his
education has been devoted to removing
the false impressions so vivid that in
the past men have prosecuted their
neighbors without mercy for rejecting
them.
To the physical senses the earth is a
plane, and it required centuries to con-
vince the human mind of anything to
the contrary. To the physical senses,
again, the sun moves around the earth,
and so ineradicable is this impression
that a great natural scientist has de-
clared he could never rid his senses of
this belief, though scientifically he knew
it to be untrue. So tenacious, however
are the senses of their delusions that
men were once tortured for proclaiming
these facts. which are now taught in
every school.
At the same time, so little has the hui
man mind learned that it is just as
ready to attack the Christian Scientist
of today for insisting that the only
reality is the spiritual as it was, in the
centuries which are past, to burn Bruno
and to imprison Calico, for explaining
to it the relative truth with respect to
physical phenomena.
Fiery He'll Is No More
Jesus explaining the signs of the
times to his disciples, on the mount of
olives, declared, Heaven and earth
shall pass away, but my words shall
not pass away" The old human con-
ceptions of heaven and hell are passing
rapidly away, but men hold as tenaci-
ously almost as ever to the reality Of
the physical heavens and the physical
earth. They admit that their fathers
ideas of paradise and purgatory,
evolved largely from the poetry of
Dante and of Milton, were as mytho-
logical as those pictured to the Greeks
and Romans in the pages of Homer and
of Virgil They are unwilling to go
step further and to admit that that
material view of heaven and hell was
nothing but material concept of fu-
ture life, rooted in a belief in the reality
of the physical universe.
Yet only as they began to understand
the manner in which Jesus said heaven
and earth would pass away, will it be
possible for them to see the new heaven
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eternal, spiritual reality of those ma
terial clouds and mountains which seem
so real today, viewed through the ma
terial senses.
Christian Science does not teach that
the clouds and the mountains are un-
real in the sense that when they pass
away there will be nothing left, but in
the sense that they are the material
counterfeits of the new heaven and the
new earth, and that, consequently,
these can only become visible when, as
Mrs. Eddy writes, ''the sense-dream
vanishes and reality appears
Spirit Is Father of Matter
For centuries Christendom has read
that often repeated saying of Christ
Jesus to the woman of Samaria, God
is spirit; and they that worship Him
must worship Him in spirit and in
truth" and has gone on it's way insist
ing that God made the material uni
verse, without apparently needing the
confusion to which it leads.
1t means that Spirit is the father of
matter; that divine wisdom has Great
ed something that ''prohteth nothing;
that the creation of God will one day
pass away, and so it ends by admitting
unconsciously that matter is temporal
after all. Now that which is temporal
cannot possibly be eternal, and that