Arizona republican., 1917-08-13
L0ue Is the ComQmey0y
(From the Christian Science Monitor)

Conquest is the delight of mankind. Something won or something achieved Is the burden of poets song and au- thor's story\until one is convinced that this unsuitable desire of humanity is it's dominant characteristic, it's greatest blessing or it's deepest curse. The de- sire to conquer has undoubtedly been misused, nevertheless this does not prove that it is not legitimate; it rather points to the inherent dominion of man, to Gods great gift revealed to those who through spiritual understanding see man as the image and likeness of Spirit, Mind. Because mankind has not considered this question from the right viewpoint, thinking only of its wants rather than of it's actual needs, the abuse of the desire to conquer has become fairly universal.
 Of what. then, does our right to conquer consist? How are we to dis tinguish the true conqueror? 10 the man on the street it may be of little interest to hear that the right and pow CT conquer comes from God, bu it will mean much to him if he is told that this exercise of true dominion will overcome every ill to which the flesh is heir, not emitting even his so-called business troubles. Now what this same man on the street has often realized | with more or less poignancy is his own inefficiency. Dominion in terms of the street, or power of conquest if you will have it so, means efficiency and the greater the efficiency the greater the | power of conquest and the greater the true success. Then what is there to 1 conquer? Just one thing, and that is ] self. It is the privilege, nay the duty l then to conquer a false sense of self,- a self that indorses matter as real and thereby denies the reality of God, Spirit i the very source of all true power ol conquest or efficiency
 All the various forms of selfishness that hinder true success, will be found to be based upon the assumption that matter is reality and power and the conquest of self therefore contcrs | largely around the belief we have 1T matter. So it is plain that in order tc win we must look away from matter and it's limitations into Spirit and Love As Mrs. Eddy says in Miscellaneous
 Writings" (p. 343): Warmed by the
 sunshine of Truth, watered by the heavenly dews of Love, the fruits ol
 Christian Science spring upward, anf
 away from the sordid soil Of self anG
 matter" It is evident. then, that the
 great conquest. into which every one
 has to enter begins with self. Logical
 y, it could not begin anywhere else
 for until a false sense of self is sub-
 dued it is wholly impossible to get z
 right viewpoint as to what one really
 has to conq%er or to gain. Is not this
 the reason why there seem to be sC
 manydisappointed people in this world people who have made prodigious ef-
 forts to conquer the things materia
 only to find that they have won nothing
 worth having because they have failed
 to conquer self?
 T am in full accord" says oul
 friend on the street, with the idea o
 self-control and so I am dailv increas-
 ing my will-power so as to be the bet
 ter enabled to succeed" That Is just
 where our friend makes his big mis-
 take, for by strengthening will-powel
 he strengthens the thing he wishes tt