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

They were his working thought-mod
ell, and you will notice that into thi
thought-model enters not a single vest
ige of material sense testimony.
Now, when a man desires to becoml
proficient in some occupation, aeeoun
fancy for instance, he finds that h,
achieves right results and gains powe
in proportion as he advances in hi
knowledge of the ascertained facts. II
Jesus of Nazareth all human occupa
tions were entirely secondary to Thu
one paramount claim on us all-tha
of living one life on consistently trut
lines. This was what he meant by be
ing about chs Fathers business" A:
he advanced in his understanding OF
the perfect Principle of being, so he
advanced in power until the time came
when, having mastered all the claims
of matter, he was able to say, Gan
power is given unto me in heaven and
in EARTH And this power which was
given to him did not find its express
sion in an aggressive or dominating
personality, but in a wonderful meek
ness and g%entleness.
1t has been argued that these are
transcendental ideas peculiar to a di-
vine personality, and that, being out
side the range of everyday human ex-
perience, they are of little practical
value. This is the false argument that
has always tried to hold spiritual teach
ing at arms length, and Christian Sci
ence is in the world today to bring
home to us the essential practical ma
ture of the Masters thoughts about
God, and to prove that the thought
modal NTH ryhfab ha continued kipaaalf
is available for us today, as much as
it eve was.
Did he not say to his diciples "Be
we therefore perfect, even as your
Father which is in heaven is perfect
This vas his remedy for the imperfect,
d%iscordant human thought-model. He
showed that an active faith in and love
for the perfect Principle of being, the
source of all true harmony, was the
remedy for every human i'll.
JESUS REJECTION OF MATTER
Some people seem to think that when
Jesus declared that ''the spirit is will
ing, but the flesh is weak - he meant
that although one might be desirious of
thinking spiritually yet soon or later
the flesh, or material thinking, would
be too strong for you, and that, there
fore, a certain number of lapses were
inevitable. That is exactly what he
did not say. No, he was again contrast
ing the relative value of Spirit and
matter, as he often did, and he was
saying that Spirit, or divine Princi-
pie, is ever available to men, while
the flesh or material belief is always
unstable, always profiting nothing. 1t
is for you to choose.
His nights of prayer, his constant
healing work were to him the one sure
way of keeping clear his own percep-
ton of the ~allness and ever presence
and omnipotence of the divine Princi-
pie, his Father. ~ must work the
works of him that sent me while it is
day." he declared, ''the night com
eth, when no man can work." To him
the day was the light of spiritual I'M
derstanding, by which alone can any
thing be accomplished. In the besetting
of m|aterialism, he saw such men
tai darkness as made all real work inn
possible.
The so-called laws of matter, ex-
pressed as limitation and disease, APP
before him only to disappear
instantly, shown up, exposed, utterly
l~iscredited. What is called matter was
less real to him than it is ever to the
Physicists of the present day, who be-
ieve it to be a sort of theoretical trim
ty composed of ether, electricity and
To him it was less even than
/ theory. Entirely devoid of intelli-
yence or substance, it appeared only
Is a mental obsession, the false argu-
nent of limitation, imperfection and
liscord.
We read in "Science and Health
p. 305): GA discontinued, discord-
mt mortal is no more a maj than dis
ord is music. What is a discontent-
d, discOrdant mortal, then9 1t is the
of materialism, the evidence of
consciousness enslaved by the belief
hat matter has life, substance and in
diligence in itself, and that therefore
here is no escape from its bondage.
he letters of this belief fall before a
aith that is enlightened by the UNI
Outstanding of the truth.
HOLDING TO THE TRUE IDEA }
If you waeh a musician tuning a
tringed instrument, you will notice
hat he does not accept the evidence
f the ear on the subject of the desir-
d note. He is looking beyond the
ound given out by the string to a
lote that he has in his mind. He is
correcting the evidence present
d to the ear with that mental note.
When the sound given forth by the
tring harmonises with the mental note,
he work is done. /
To Jesus the human mind and body
'ere very much what the string of the
Instrument and the sound it produces I
re to the musician. The true man he /
new to be a perfect idea, secure in I
he keeping of infinite Mind, always
armonious. The evidence of the human I
lind and body no more deceived him 7
ito accepting a lesser standard for Y
cd 5 creation, than the string de- 6
the musician into accepting a .
'rong note. He insisted on the real S
lan-the perfect "image and like 1
of God, and. indeed, he never Il
wv man as anything else. Could the t
.~usician tune his string, if he did not i
now the notes Can you heal a sick f
an, if you do not know what man Isl Y
he attempt to heal a man by treating b
i'm simply as a thing of brain, blood. Ii
lnes, etc, and leaving his mental con- Il
ition entirely out Of the question, is b
DIV condemned by many doctors; but a
II the most part they still proceed on "
lie assumption that the mental eondi- Q
of the patient is the outcome Off 4
5 physical condition, and their efforts d
e aimed chiefly at doetoring the lat