The Daily Missoulian., 1909-09-29

I the earth was flat and stationary. an,
] how snraged they were when GaIile
tried to show them the truth. Tn
I carnaI mind ciings very ohstInately q
old notions. Ii loves darkness rathe
. than light evil rather than good. mat
ter rather than mind, and the though
of spiritual reality in fooIishneSs nnt,
IT, Hence the people resist the giyini
up af their belief in the testimony %
material sense even though ii can b
easily shown them that they are con
stantly l,efng deceived thereby.
A. the fact II SO apparent. VIII,
should there be- this imhispoSition t,
accert the teachings oE Christian
Science that this material existence Il
simply Il false concept and not an act
uaiity of being? When. however, tina
teaching is accepted we begin to Obtain
"a true view nf some of
i 4s@.
s The wonders Of eternal mind
F Where sense is lost i'm sight"
From time Immemorial there have
been some who were ready tp percsfy.
and Ia accept new truths. and through
these. the prophets. poets. inventors
aiscoysrers and reformerg of tho ages
the world has been making slow but
steady progress.
Material Causation.
Christian Science teaches that mat
ter and material existence are phenom-
ena of mortal mind. a concept of exist
cnce obtained through the physical
senses, misapprehension of reality
held by human consciousness when un-
instructed by science. an appearance
instead of an actually. Ii Il simply
an imitation or count.rfeis
Now II Is not the appearance hut
only the original that has power. in
telligenco and substance. The mani
festation of growth, action or being In
matter In but a material concept of
spiritual facts.
The objects, action and power ex-
pressed in "A moving picture" are not
In the picture, and We do not asso-
ciate them with the picture. but with
the original which the picture repro
duces. Similarly, life. growth. action.
power, substance, law. etc, are not I'm
matter. physical existence or the ma
terial consciousness. but I'm divine
mind. the only cause and principle OF
bsing. and should be So thought of
When We recognize God az the only
mind. the unty cause, truth is reflected
in consciousness. and existence is har-
monous. When we believe causation
To be material or i'm mortal mind, We
put our trust and dependence In 1,
shadow, a false belief, and existence
so-ca!led Ii discardant. liable To dis
ease, disaster. death. In order to work
out our salvation we therefore need
To understand causation.
Consciousness Is Existence.
Consciousness Is existence. But
what is consciousness? What In ex-
istence? our conscious existence Is
obviously what we are conscious of
OF our real existence We may not be
conscious. Everything that we know
or see or believe. all our thoughts. acts
or experiences go to make up our uni
seionsness III
WE have all noted the mental de-
velopmcnt OF n child from the first
sense of mere existence up through the
saItaua stages of experience and edu-
cation To mature consciousness. At
first his universe lis limited, but
finally IL comes To include all that n
higher civilized man can know.
As we gain our cancept of existence
largely through the physical senses. il
IL very important that we bo abba to
weigh and sift their testimony. We
ali know how deceptive these senses
are. The distant house In not actually
small because 1t seems In be SO. neither
does the sun move because it appears
To move. sn also hearing. taste. touch
and smell are all fallibie. In fact, the
impressions received by the senses and
recorded mentally require explanation
and rectificatinn to mako them coher-
ent and intelligible.
Furthermore, We do not perceieve
truth through these senses Not see
ing the solar system rightly with our
eyes how can We see the truth of the
solar system save through the under
standing. which judges not according
To the appearance. How do we see the
truth of the multiplication table, ?
surely not with our eyes. but through
knowledge Of mathematics. that Is,
mentally, or through understanding.
These senses bring to our conscious
ness only impressions. from which we
form II concept of things. If. there
fore, the testimony of the physical
senses Is SO unreliable and unsatisfac-
tory il Is apparent that the conscious
ness gained through these senses can
not be true and reliable.
Sense impression.
One of the worlds foremost physical
scientists once said, as he laid his hand
On table. The only evidence We have
Of the existence Of this table is the
impression 1t makes upon us through
force of some kind The most ad-
vancad physicists and philosophers ad-
NIT substantially that matter is only
sense-impressinn. The ply
steal scientists have made radical
changes in their theories regardt fg
matter. and they now practically units
in declaring that matter Is fo.m Of
energy, and that the atom is IN asgre-
CATION nf force-cs nt.rs called ions.
IL is, therefore. rDuCplp That matter