The Delta independent., 1915-11-12


teaching that matter is unreal and that
|, what appears to be material substance is
but the concept of the human mind is
slowly. but surely, being recognized by ma
terial scientists to be correct. 1t has been
said of what is called matter that 1t is
"a suppositonal vacuum in a hypothetical
medium" This Hypothetical medium" is
known ether. of which it has been re-
Gently written by Edgar Lucien Larkin.
The most refined experiments made.
those by Nicholson. failed utterly to detect
the existence of ether. Rather indefinite
and unsatisfactory as medium. is 1t not /?
noted Englshman. Mr.. Balfour at the
London Congress of the Natural Scientists
of Great Britain, is credited with having
said THE material sciences now ex-
planning matter by explaining it away"
Those who have explained matter away.
leaving nothing in its place but an ndefi-
mite hypothesis, have not done as well as
Mrs. Eddy. the discoverer and founder of
Christian Science. for she has explained
the unreaity of matter and of its supposed
cause by revealing the one infinite indivis-
ible substance to be divine Mind and its
ideas. tSee Science and Health. p. 46s.)
We seem to exist in matter bodies which
are part of material universe. But what
dependence may we place the five physi-
cal which alone testify to the reality
of this existence At best the testimony Of
the physical senses is faulty and unreliable.
Many familiar illustrations of the unreli
ability of sense testimony could be cited.
Everyone knows that the sense of taste is
deceptive and sometimes makes very cold
| things seem hot. The sense of hearing often
seems to make sound originate in some place
where it does not. To Illustrate the decep
tive nature of the sense of touch, need
only cross the second finger the index
| finger and, after closing the eyes, roll
pencil or small round object flat sur
face. There will appear to be two of these
round objects instead of one, II the sense
testimony is left uncorrected
| If these senses cannot testify truly of
material things, how can they be expected
to give reliable evidence regarding those
things which are spiritual and eternal? As
a matter of fact. the physical senses have
| no higher conception of reality than that
which can be weighed and measured. where
as spiritual sense recognizes as substance
ony that which is imponderable and infinite.
Beginning with the objective universe.
many philosophers. reasoning inductively
from effect back to cause ultimately arrive
| by way of atoms, ions. of electrons. at what
they call force energy. Mrs. Eddy at
tributes to what she terms mortal mind
all that seems to be material, evil or mortal.
This term mortal mind is used by Mrs.
Eddy as the best term available, to de
scribe the false Of intelligence and
life that claims to exist the antipode OF
God. But she explains that the real Mind
and creator is not mortal. but immortal
not human, but divine. Thus the world of
| sense perception is left without divine
| cause. The troublesome thing called mat
ter is left outside the realm of divine
reality. 1t is found to have no real au-
| thority and enduring substance. or this
fleetng. temporary sense OF substance Paul
said THE things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not
seen are eternal III Cor. iv- 1s).
PAIN AND SUFFERING ILLUSIvE
Because the mortal. material body v not
conscious, It cannot, apart from the human
mind, be painful or sore or sick. The hu-
man body separate from the human mind
can have no sensation. 1t Is obvious. then,
that the sense of pain and suffering is in
| the human mind and not In the body
| Many have doubtless had the experience OF
| dreaming that they were in pain when the
| body was in what is regarded as a normal
state. Christian Science shows that all
suffering and disease Is dream from
which the dreamer needs to be awakened.
The first step in the direction of freedom
| from this evil dream of disease and mortal
| ity is to know that these evils are not OF
| God. God never made anything that Is not
| good Furthermore, God. being always
| good cannot make use OF evil for any pur-
pose or tolerate its existence In any from
The Christian Scientist is willing to ad-
init that suffering and disease seem TO exist
and that matter often seems quite real and
very painful He does not deny that to
human sense this is So but seeks to cor
rect this false sense of things with the
I ffnAu hat
that Mind be in him that was also in
! Christ Jesus" thereby substituting as con-
seriousness ideas that are good for beliefs
| that are evil he can free himself from the
/ sense of pain and suffering which Is cafled
sickness. as surely as he can, by similar
| mental process. resist and overcome the
| temptation to sin. Evil pain and disease
are without divine authority or actual ex-
| istence and cannot even seem to exist to
one who is fully conscious OF the ailness
| and ever-presence of good.
| DISEASE UNLAWFUL
The question is sometimes asked Since
| the Bible contains a record OF human suf-
fering, why does Christian Science. which
| is said to be founded upon the scriptures
teach that suffering should be opposed
Christian Science Is restoration or re-
discovery of primative Christianity 1t Is
based upon the life and works OF Christ
Jesus, who was the founder of Christianity.
Christian Science. therefore, accepts Jesus
as the master Christian. The question
arises, What was the attitude OF Jesus to-
ward human sufferng?" study OF the
gospels reveals the fact that while the at
titude OF Jesus toward the sufferer was one
of great compassion, he evidently regarded
suffering and disease as illegitimate lie
declared that he came not to destroy but to
fulfill He came. in other words. to do
the will Of the Father God We find that