The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-11-19

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/ ignce an impreGetou mace, on She
feye 81 light. That IS All we oversee
Anywhere. Just light As defined BY
physicists. Hight is form Of energy.
wave motion Of the ether. so that
the impression which has given birth
Ito our concept is produced by energy
! it is recorded mentally, and. as psy-
.choIogists explain. produces yibra-
tory naotion=in the inner sensorsumi
OF the brain This brain impression
i've :objeescfy We khink Of it as an
exterior object seen, when in fact we
are merIy experiencing and inter-
preting mental impression.
$50 with hearing. taste. touch, and
smell. They are all mental impress
s1ons. produced Sbx energy which we
/ uncousciously objectify. We never
really see. hear. feel smell. or taste
matter or objects, and never have;
we only experience and project a!
sense impression and call II matter.
MateriaHstie philosophers, Psy-
biologists, and physical scientists
have never. been able to do anything
practical with their conclusions be-
cause they have not known what is
back OF material appearance They
nave dealt wholly with phenomena.
ENot recognizing spiritual being, they
can only cling to matter, although the
logical deductions from their dis
kcoyeries point conelusively TO the
non-existence CT what they term mat
tier except as mental phenomenon.
sa,T--A n this materiahstic thought Isl
not the teaching Of Christian Science,
ana must not be confused with it.
Matter the Opposite OF Spirit
:. But what does Christian Science
teach regarding matter?
Mrs. Eddys,great discovery had to
do with the nature and character of
reality and the relation of its right
apprehension. the knowledge of truth
TO the human problem. In it God is
recognized as the infinite Spirit. and
that all reality is included in Spirit.
and its manifestation, as we are
taught in the first chapter Of Genesis
Mrs. Eddy's discernment of the
omnipresence of Spirit and its law
made obvious the impossibility of the
pl essence of its opposite-matter. AS
understood in Christian Science, mat
ter is seen to be finite, whereas Spirit
IS infinite; matter is limited, Spirit
is unlimited; matter is dinensional,
Spirit is undimensiona1; matter is
destructibfe, Spirit is understandable
matter Is mortal, Spirt. IS imEoree!
Being it's exact opposite, matter can
have no real existence in the realz
of omnipresent Spirit and its infinite
IDEAS.
Mrs. Eddy's discovery of the UNI
reality OF matter was not she result
ofphysical experimentation CT phil,
of physical experimentation or phil
the perception of the inGnlsy OF divine
Truth. than which there can be no
other real or absolute basis.
Spiritual Understanding vs.. Material
Sense.
-Christian Science shows. therefore,
that matter is a mental phenomenon,
false concept of substance obtained
through the physical senses. which
can testify only dimensionally- 1t
is a misapprehension of reality. Spir-
ituai things must be spiritually dis
cerned; the infinite cannot be cog
nized through the finite.
II we look at existence through
the material senses only, existence
Eobviously seems material, and. if we
d5 not know any better We will think
It is material
..A1l that we think, feel, hear, see.
and know, all our thoughts. acts,
Experiences. go TO make up our sense
of existence, our. consciousness. We
know that our Consciousness is large
! Iy made up OF. concepts based on the
Testimony of the physical senses, and
I that this sense testimony is fallihle,
unreliable. erroneous. For we do not
sbeheve a: house to be small because
1T appears so in the distance. we do
not believe a mirage because We see
it, nor echoes because we hear them
We know that all physical sense tes-
fimony requires explanation and rec
stffication in, order to make it intell-
kigible and coherent, and this proves
IT'S unreliabiHty. Truth requires no
correction.
Furthermore, we do not perceive
truth through the physical senses;
for example. we do not perceive the
mathematical truth involved by simp-
II looking at the multiplication table.
It is only through the understanding