Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-24
THOUGHT MUST RISE
ABOVE MATERIAL TO
BRING CONFINEMENT
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE POINTS
WAY TO HAPPINESS
Direction Necessary to Achieve
Position Where Student ls
Satisfied with Labors

When Paul declared that Goodness
with contentment is great gain he
spoke from the richness of his own eX-
perience. On another occasion he said,
"I have learned, in whatsoever state /
am, Herewith to be content" Paul
had learned that contentment and sat
isfaction are not to be found in ma
terial things, conditions or surround
ings. He had also learned that these
things could not deprive him of the
sense of peace and harmony he had
found in the realization of Gods pres
ence and power.
How unlike the experience of Paul
is that of most persons. Mortals are
rushing hither and thither to find
something that will satisfy, some place
where they will be contented. Abiding
satisfaction they do not know from ex-
perience. Most people can tell what
they think would satisfy them If they
could only attain it, but when the
goal of their ambition is reached they
are many times greatly surprised that
the thing they so greatly desired does
not satisfy as they believed it would
Satisfaction, from a mortal and ma
terial point of view, is a veritable
will-o' the -wisp; it may be in sight
but never found, when the place is
reached where it was supposed to be.
1t is always just little farther on.
And so it is in mortal experience that
one disappointment follows another
until hope gives place to despair.
Material Cannot Satisfy
In Christian Science it is learned
there is a good and sufficient reason
for this. Material things cannot sat
isfy and the material senses cannot be
satisfied. 1t is universally admitted
that material things are mortal and
doOunad to diepord and 6aoau Tf fbau
seem to satisfy today they will not do
so tomorrow. and if mortals are con-
tent with the possession of material
things or the effort to attain them
they will be troubled and discontented
when material things no longer salts
fly. In something that is above and
beyond matter, humanity must find
satisfaction if it is to be really con-
tented until the chief endeavor of their
lives is to gain that which is real and
eternal.
The psalmist declared, "I shall be
satisfied when l awake with thy
likeness" 1t is believed by many that
man must fall asleep" before he can
awake in the likeness of God and real
ize the joys of that awakening, but
Christian Science teaches that the tes-
timony of the material senses is the
deep sleep from which humanity must
be awakened before the reality of
being is reached and the likeness of
God is attained Man need not die to
learn the truth of being; in fact he
does not gain reality by dying but by
living. Truth is eternal and unchange.
able, and no human experience can in
any sense affect the reality of being.
That which can satisfy exists today as
much as 1t ever willard that which
can be satisfied constitutes mans true
being. Why, then, do not people know
from experience what it is to be sat
isfed? Simply because they are not
looking in the right direction. They
are looking to something which cam
not satisfy to still the longings of that
which cannot be satisfied. The mate