Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-26
oltunates in bondage thereto.
 Looking Beyond Sense timnn1

, fortunates in bondage thereto.
 Looking Beyond Sense-testimony. | At this point some of you may ask, ! Does this mean that l must look be-
 yond that which see with my eyes and hear with my ears, if I would find the truth of being?" It means ] just that. And should we not rejoice in such a revelation? If the five material senses report the actual truth [ of being, there is no good or just God, no law nor Principle in the universe
 Look about you. What do you see? ? On all sides are evidences of inius- tlce, laWlessness, disease, disturbances of nature, poverty and dcath-a sorry picture indeed, and very far from that creation which was pronounced by it's Creator "Very good" Do we want these evils to constitute the truth of
 being? If you find yourself in the throes of a nightmare, what greater joy and peace can come than the awak- ening consciousness that after all it 1 was only dream.
 Was ever a message more vital to a stricken individual. nation. or race l than the understanding brought by
 
 with it's host of discords and ills is
 but another name for the Adam-dream and that it is possible for suffering i mortals to awaken therafrom For we may waken from a dream, but we can never waken from a fact! The night of materialism has seemed long, and the sleep has seemed deep and troubled; but thanks be to God, we are slowly awakening! At least the dream is losing for us it's terror, and bearing the voice of Truth cheerily bidding us to be not afraid, and to judge not according to the appearance,
 we are enabled more and more to look past the shadows, past the seeming, ! to the kingdom of Mind, where all is harmony and all is law.
 You are not asked to take the word
 of Christian Scientists for all this.
 You are urged rather to take the text
 book, study it with open heart and
 teachable thought, and prove for yourself the truth of these statements. Evil Unreal.
 | The following illustration may help to throw more light on the Christian
 Scientists attitude toward sin and dis ease Before studying Christian Sci
 ence, and while member of an ortho- GoX church, l was asked by a friend | to "use my religion" as he expressed it, in the effort to reclaim a brother seemingly enslaved by drink. I ac- cepted the commission and proceeded to "use my religion" found my sub ject in most repentant mood, and he agreed alomst tearfully with my ring ing condemnation of his evil ways. I asked him if he did not realize the depth to which he had fallen. how wicked he was, and how terrible was the evil power to which he had sub mitted. Yes, he realized it all, but evil had been made so real and so
 powerful to him that even the hope of divine deliverance, with which I fin ally endeavored to inspire him, was of no avail, and he sank even deeper in the mire of sin.
 | Let us now consider another picture: A slave to false appetite is brought to one endeavoring to be scientific l Christian, or a Christian Scientist. The Scientist sees before him no bad man. no perpetrator of sin, but victim of sin. He sees behind the, fleshly ap- pearance the man of Gods creating, who is not sinner, who has no pleas ure in sin and no sinful desires, but who is eternally pure and free. He therefore bids the sufferer to awaken from this mesmerism. He shows him that the bondage which to him has seemed real and powerful, is lie; for as Jesus said, there is no truth in the devil, or evil; and he is assured that God has given man dominion over all error. And in thousands upon thou sands of cases where these good tid- ings have been preached, have the vic tins of wrong desire risen in the glory of newfound manhood. And through the, same process. in numberless in- stances, has the sick man been awak- ened from his nightmare of invalid ism and pain.
 Gods Word Never Fails.
 "But," say you. Christian Science treatment is not always effectual." An, but it is, it is! A Christian Science treatment consists of thinking Gods thoughts, seeing creation as God sees it: and God-invested thought never fails! Suppose you are confronted with the task of breaking great rock. You seize hammer and vigorously start your work. Blow after blow descends, and you note with some discourage ment that even the surface of the rock has not been cracked A friend comes to your assistance. He hammers sturd- ily, but apparently makes no headway. Again you are led to resume the work, and keeping steadily at it you at last see the rock reduced to small pieces. Which blow did it? The last? No, every one of them did the work. Not one was wasted. not one. failed.
 The work of Christian Science is the work of eternity. It is spiritual edu- cation. During this process of educa- tion some students pass from our sight. Did Gods word fail? Were the blows of truth on the rock of error in vain? No, thousand times no! Ask those who fought side by side with them in the battle. They will tell you of the victories won; of the peace real ized, of the pain subdued, and the at- +o;rnoont of that sniritual vision of