Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-24

rial'sense of life and it's joys is a false
sense. 1t can never know the reality
of being, and so long as people are
seemingly content to seek harmony
through the material senses they must
expect to meet with disappointment.
Pleasure Is Spiritual
So long as mortal material conscious
ness seems to constitute mans iden-
tity the sense of dissatisfaction, dis
appointment and discomfort will abide.
All that can be cognized through the
material senses Is mortal. 1t Is only
when thought rises above the material
that the spiritual is discerned and the
reality of being appears. Then man
begins to realize that his true iden-
tity is spiritual. His origin is in spirit,
not in matter and this conception of
life is harmonious because it is real.
When one seeks happiness through
spiritual consciousness he is never dis
appointed AS he grows in wisdom and
in stature he learns that Spirit Is IN
deed the only reality of existence He
knows not less but more of life when
he learns that Spirit, God, is the only
Life He is not less intelligent but
more when he learns that God is the
only intelligence, and this infinite in
telligence is forever reflected by man.
He. realizes more real joy and is more
fully satisfied when he learns that
pleasure is spiritual.
In Christian Science it is learned
that the apostles words, Goodness
with contentment is great gain,'' have
a practical application to the affairs
of daily life. Goodness, or Godlikeness,
ever conforms to the law of God, and
the one who is content to seek har
mony and happiness only in accordance
with Gods law has begun to work out
his life problem in the right way. The
allurements and temptations of the
world have less power over him. The
loss of material things disappoints and
discourages the one who is looking to
them for happiness, but not so with the
one who is learning in whatsoever
state he is, Herewith to 'be content"
Because he is not looking to matter,
he has no fear that matter will fail
him or rob him of the blessings he
has found in divine Mind.
Christian Science Absolute
Thought should turn naturally from
material conditions and surroundings
to the spiritual consciousness of exist
ence. The more one becomes con-
scious of Spirit the less influence do
material things have over him. He re-
quires less of what the world calls
matter to satisfy him. He Instructive
~ NlSWo GIL liilllSS lIOHl ll6 spiritual
rather than the material standpoint.
He looks more and more to divine
Mind to supply his needs and satisfy
his desires. This in no way interferes
with the successful performance of his
daily tasks; rather does it enable him
to do better work and with less effort,
because those enemies of success, dis
content and dissatisfaction are held in
check if they are not entirely elimi-
mated.
Christian Science is absolute. 1t
teaches that nothing less than perfec-
tion is real in an absolute sense, but
it would be most unreasonable to eX-
pect to attain perfection in a day or a
year. There must be a beginning, and
this must be followed by honest, con-
scientious effort in every direction. If
this is done, the student will be con-
tented to work out his salvation and
he will be satisfied with the present
reward of his labors.-Christian Science
Monitor :.