Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-22

not TO illustrate the deceptive ma
turc of the sense Of touch, one need
only cross the second finger over the
index finger and after closing his
eyes, roll a pencil or small round OBJ
iect on flat surface. There will APP
! pear to be two of these round OBJ
jects instead of one. if the sensetes-
] timOny is left uncorrected.
If these senses cannot testify truly
Of material things, how can they be
expected to give reliable evidence re-
garding those things which are spirit
ual 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 sub
stance only that which is imponder-
able and infinite.
Beginning with the objective uni
verse, many philosophers, reasoning
| inductiVey from effect back to cause,
ultimately arrive by way of atoms,
ions, or electrons, at what they call
| force or energy Mrs Eddy attrib-
utes to what she terms mortal mind
| all that seems to be material, evil and
mortal This term mortal mind" Is
used by Mrs. Eddy, as the best term
, available, to describe the false sense
Of intelligence and life that claims to
exist as the antpode Of God. But she
/ explains that the real Mind and crea-
tor is not mortal. but immortal not
human, but divine. Thus the world Of
sense perception is left without "A di-
vine cause The troublesome thing
called matter is left outside the realm
of divine reality. 1t is found to have
n fAl OH mn
substance. OF this fleeing, temper
airy sense Of substance Paul said. The
things which are seen are temporal;
but the things which are not seen are
eternal IL Cor. ~. Isl.
Pain ana Suffering Illushc.
Because the mortal. material body
! Is not conscious. it cannot, apart from
the human mind, be painful or sore or
sick. The human body separate from
! the human mind can have no sensa-
ton. II 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 expert
ence Of dreaming that they were IN
! pain when the body was in what Is re-
! garded as a normal state. Christian
Science shows that all suffering and
disease Is a dream from which the
! dreamer needs to be awakened. The
/ first step in the direction of freedom
! from this evil dream of disease and
mortality is to know that these evils
are not of God. God never made any
thing that is not good Furthermore,
God. being always good, cannot make
use of evil for any purpose or toler-
ate its existence in any form.
| The Christian Scientist is willing tG
fg Il
to exist and that matter often seems
/ quite real and very painful. lie does
not deny that to human sense this is
/ so. but seeks to correct this false
! sense of things with the truth of be-
ling. He finds that by letting that
! Mind be in him that was also IN
I Christ Jesus thereby substituting as
/ consciousness ideas that are good for
/ beliefs that are evil, he can free him
self from the sense of pain and sur
fering, which is called sickness, as
surely as he can. by similar mental
1 process, resist and overcome the
temptation to sin. Evil, pain and dis
ease are without divine authority or
! actual existence and can not even
seem to exist TO one who is fully con-
scious OF The allness and eyer-pres-
ence of good.
Disease Unlawful.
| The question is sometimes asked,
since the Bible contains record of
human suffering, why does Christian
, Science, which is said to be founded
upon the Scriptures, teach that suf-
fering should be opposed -
Christian Science is 4 restoration or
rediscoVery of primitive Christianity
| 1t Is based upon the life and works Of
! ffI dor AZ
Christianity. Christian Science, there
fore accepts Jesus MS the master
Christian. The question arises, What
was the attitude of Jesus toward hui
man suffering" A study of the Cos
pels reveals the fact that while the at
titude Of Jesus toward the sufferer
was one of great compassion. he eVi-
IDENTITY regarded suffering and disease
as incgitimate He declared that he
came not 10 destroy but TO fulfill He
came, in other words, to do the viii
of the Father, God. We find that
much Of the2 ministry Of Jesus con-
sisted in his work of destroying sick
ness, and disease. If Christ Jesus
came to do the will of God, and spent
his time large in relieving mankind
through the destruction of disease as
well as of sim then it can only be con-
cluded that he regarded suffering as
unlawful and contrary to the will of
| God.
Furthermore, Jesus said. aye shall
know the truth and the truth shall
make YOU free (John viii, 32). The
question occurs, Free from what"
The answer is again found in the rec
ord of his works among men. 1t is
recorded that he went about doing
good" and healing all manner Of