Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-30


lecture. Many times while eating a
meal sometimes Of MANY courses. i'll
\. s;......, H. .hsorh
your '"ous"' 0' 0'''' @o'ou " "Dso'
ing conversation, you VIII taste little
or nothing you have eaten Does not all
this prove that your consciousness oil
sight, your consciousness of hearing
taste. is the only sight and hearing and
taste that Won have. and until YOU learn
the truth about sensation this con
seriousness i mortal mind and moi mat
+s,
MORTAL MIND
Mortal mind is nothing. more or less
than the False heIef that there Is life.
intelhgence and substance in matter.
What is left of mortal mind after all
its false material beliefs have been ex-
axnosed and reversed III will not have n
foot left to .tand upon. Its fraudulent
character win be laid bare to the world.
Tts ;nf;n;te l;m;tad self.certered be.
liefs are without Principle. therefore
const;tnte eelfishness ana from these
oelf;sb w;lTfpl. tboughts nroceed the
sins and evils of tbe worlo. And. in
turn. from these sins and errors pro
ceed all tbe discord. disease. and death
which afflict mortals. Did not ST. Paul
cali death stthe wages of sinn9 Jesus
denounced tho devil or evil as liar
and the father Of lies. A lie was never
tba trntb and can never reverse the
trn+b hui Trntb uneoyars lie and
dastrovs - Tbns II i discovered that
sin md owl in other words mortal
mind never had q real origin or ex-
istence Is really NOT mind. hut is simp-
lv error of beiief. Now let it be un-
darstooa that Il ia NOT the nainful
sensations of this false material sense
which make II subtle or dangerous but
rather ito pleasant sensations. But that
Liza of sonsot;on which inov;tab,v re.
cults % bv reason Of. ;ts falsitv in mental
5;seorS % and SUFFERING Is moi nerma.
nont and satisfving nleasnre There
foro n ;s not a pleasure to cratifv the
folso deca;y;ng senses Int n Is n
nIea sure IN master and overcome them.
THE REAIITY
And 40 we turn from the falsity to
the reality. Dreams in sleep, no matter
how real or alluring they may seem,
do not get us anywhere. We must
awake and he mickened to make pro
gress. The only way to reason away er.
I ror il to demonstrate the truth. Human
consciousness awakened to the truth
will cause error to fall back upon and
destroy itself. Jesus said, cit is the
spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profit
eth nothing" God is Spirit as the Bi
J BILE teaches. and Christian Science re-
veals that He is the only Spirit, o.
, Ming. But how to be quiekened by God
: especially in the hour of trial, is the
] question The Scriptures declare that
: God is foo pure TO behold iniauity, anc
) that a falsity cannot be beholden by
, the divine Truth is now quite appar
emit. Then if God, Spirit, cannot b,
seen or approached through the mater
J ial senses. through what human ave
J nue can He be reached and His inf
: mite blessings be bestowedg The ans
$ wer to this preeminent question should
| now be more simple. If God, the divin,
Mind ;s to he reached through though
! on1v oa man, helieve what other chan
nels of thought exists after the materia
has been eliminateda
SPIRITUAL SENSE
There is scarcely normally minded
J mortal who holds not daily som
4 thoughts of truthfulness, sincerity
faith, hope, courage, affection, pur.
ty, honesty; in other words, some un
/. /. selfish thoughts, which cannot be cal
ed material, but which point though