The Monte Vista journal., 1916-04-29


tied with Grandma Fulton Sunday.
as for the business man. For one
thing, it takes fear out of business,
thereby removing a prime factor of
failure. The Christian Scientist in
business will tell you that he has rea-
son to be every day less afraid, be-
cause he is learning how to think,
how to discern between the right i'm
pulse and the wrong, how to hold in
check the aggressive suggestions of
ruthless human will and pride and
greed that would lead to mistakes of
Judgment; likewise how to put down
the enervating arguments of timid-
ity and self-depreciation. amid whose
mists opportunity might pass by un-
observed.
Discovery and Establishment
During forty years of almost un-
interrupted invalidism Mrs. Eddy
had been struggling toward the ap-
prehension of the scientific rule and
method that she firmly believed un-
derlay the healing of the sick by
purely spiritual means at intervals
throughout the recorded history of
mankind, and especially during the
first three centuries of the Christian
era. The revelation came to her in
an hour when death seemed almost
at hand, and through it she was
healed of her infirmity. The fact
was established in human conscious
ness. How to make it available to
her fellow men became the immedi-
ate problem. Years of consecrated
effort brought forth the Christian
Science textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
1t was followed by veritable library
of collateral writings
No Deep Mystery About 1t
There is no deep mystery about
Christian Science, except in the mis-
taken opinions of those who d. not
understand it. Consider, for in
stance, the teaching as to the un-
reality of matter Be assured that
to the Christian Scientist the noun
tains are as high, the skies as blue,
and the oceans as broad as to any
one else. Christian Scientists clothe,
feed, and house themselves after the
manner of their non-Scientst neigh
| bors And this is not inconsistent
Will, that which you will in due time
| find to be the actual teaching of this
| Science as to the relative unreality
of matter.
My purpose is not to imply by any
| means that Christian Science does
not require very radical departure
from the old concept of material
things. 1t does indeed involve a
wholly changed attitude, but this
change comes naturally and harmon
| iously, and with no sense of loss, but
rather a realization of substantial
| gain. familiar illustration may be
helpful: A patron of bank offers
in good faith to deposit coin which
the expert banker detects to be coun-
terfeit. The bogus thing never was
money but it had all the power of
real money over the unsuspecting
patron He had given an equivalent
of it's supposed money value in eX-
change for it, and would have been
| quite capable of doing so again but
for the knowledge that had come to
him through the clearer understand
\ ing of the expert. By purely men
| tai process, the uncovering of lie,
the innocent patron has been re-
leased from subsection to raise
claim of material power. The metal
in the coin has undergone no change;
it is the same as before, only the
truth is out about it now, and 1t can
no longer deceive.
Those who believe man to be ma
terial, life to be mortal, matter TO be
power, and true health to be depend
ent upon physical organisms, are IKE
the individual who mistakenly relies
upon counterfeit money to maintain
his credit at the bank If the latter
were to say to the expert, why do
you try to tell me this isn't real,
when ! clearly see coin, and you
can't deny that you see 1t too? would
not the expert reply: "Yes, you see
coin, and l see 1t too, but you do
not actually see money any more
than | do. We both see the same
thing, only | see it for what 1t is ana
you for what it is not" And so,
where the materialist thinks he sees
that which is actual, the Christian
Scientist, being better informed, dis
Germs a counterfeit of the spiritual
reality. The correcting process is
not going to involve change in any,
thing except mental concepts and