Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-06

must confess he said, "that physica
laws have greatly fallen off in dignity
We can only now assign to them tn
humble rank of mere descriptions, ot
ten erroneous, of similarities which w
believe we have observed.
No lesser degree of honesty an,
humility must be looked for on tn
part of the Idealist. He must not la,
down the law either, and if it is tn
part of the Physicist to prove by hi
methods the unreliable and lawles
character of the testimony Of tn,
senses, it should surely be the part o
the Idealist to restore the kingdom tt
Israel, by proving in his life hat hi
has the understanding of the only truC
and eternal law-giver, the divine Prin
ciple, or infinite Mind, God. If he
turns to Christian Science, he will gair
this understanding and he will fine
there that Religion and Science are be
come reconciled and ineligible to all
for as st. Paul says "other foundation
can no man lay than that is laid, which
is Jesus Christ"
A clear Working Thought-ModeI.
Another distinguished physicist, Pro
fessor j.. Arthur Thomson, has summed
up the object of scientific research as
being the construction Of ga perfectly
clear working thought-model." This is
a very interesting statement, for where
as dogmt necessarily tends to limit
freedom of thought, a thought-model
tends in the other direction and acts as
a mental stimulus. For instance, the
ship-builder who accepts the dogma
that ships are always built of wood gets
left behind by the man who, taking for
his thought-model the rules which gov
ern floating objects, perceives that
other materials besides wood can be
used in the construction of ships.
Professor Thomson's summing up
also provides us with an excellent
answer to the criticism sometimes
launched at Christian Science that,
whatever else it may be, it is not scien-
tlflc. For if Christian Science offers
to us a clear working thought-model, as
IT undoubtedly does, it is-on Professor
Ihomson's showing-essentially scien-
tific. We all know a model as that TO
winch the artist turns in order to study
MS Impressions regarding his subject,
ana therefore a thought-model must be
that to which one turns mentally TO
gam right ideas concerning life, God
and man.
But the habit Of thinking in accord
with the testimony of the senses has
in a thought-model which in.
clud all the beliefs of good and evil.
and this is called, in Christian Science
mind. The hopelessness of this
thought-model forced from st.
the cry "When | would do good,
evil is present with me-" This thought |
model is, however, found in Christian
Science to be far from clear. Indeed it'll
entirely lacking in any true percep-
ton or understanding of Life. 1t is a
standing illustration of the words from
the Book of Proverbs: "Where there
is no vision, the people perish" The
Founder of Christianity perceiving the
of this material thought-model
said:-"Heaven and earth shall pass
away but my words shall not pass
away"
Jesus knew that the spiritual
5hought-model, to which he lived, was
'ome as a new revelation to mankind,
md that while their material beliefs
would, one by one, break up and dis
his words were to stand for
yer as the evidence of the divine
Principle. or infinite Mind, God.
The Fearless Nazarene.
Now, the consciousness of this divine
Principle, or infinite Mind, has always
'een reaching mankind through some
MEASURE of revelation or science, and
is the saving vision. 1t was this
hat enabled the Nazarene Prophet
earlessly to face the ritualism and SUI
.erstition of his time, and it was this
hat gave him authority over these
laterialistic beliefs. 1t was this that
nabled him to prove to men that they
Tere the victims of self-deception and
hat God, whom he visualised as a low
NC Father, did not send disease, death,
anime, want, tempest, or any other
iseordant thing. He summed up all
wv in the one word-Love, and proved
hat this Love, with its accompanying
ruth and Life, was sufficient to
over every manifestation of
vii, and east out fear in all its forms.
GU find his own estimate of his mis-
on in such passages as:
at I'm come that they might have f.
fe."
.'fTo this end was I born " = = that
should bear witness unto the truth"
II have kept my Fathers command
and abide in his love" Ii
The whole of his teaching and life !
,emS to have been devoted to the APP !
IieatiOn of these qualities-life, Truth &,
nd Love-to the thought processes of
ankind, and they were then, and still
re, found to be potent to dissolve the c
point of view-the point of view '
the material senses. j
In those three words Life, Truth and L
owe, is presented the Mind which is S
cd, and in a way which far transeends Il
~ corporal sense of deity. Life being /
ie true consciousness of existence; Il
ruth being the true consciousness of I
or spiritual ideas; and Love being \
le true consciousness of the harmony ,
hieh broods over all with infinite ten d
and care. u
THoUGHT-MoDEL OF JESUS. !.
If you study the Sermon on the I
cunt carefully, you viii find that h
'sus tells us very little directly about a
c nature of God, as one would do if t
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