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

discovered by all fair-minded persons
who have removed their "blue glasses
that it is an ignorant material sense OF
God and His spiritual rules, which re-
suits in fear and disease, selfishness,
war, calamity, and death. The way Of
health and harmony, the way of true
prayer and salvation, lies along the
pathway of right understanding. This
right understanding comes through the
study and practice of Christian Science,
and in the measure that it is attained
it constitutes spiritual sense of God.
! The chief purpose of this lecture is to
consider and, so far as the time allot
ted and the speakers ability permit,
! to reveal this true sense in contradie
tion to the claims and evidence Of the
false material sense or the material
point of view.
When, as a business man, l attended
my first Christian Science meetings
and understood very little of the talks
which went clear over my head, de-
termined that if ever in the future /
spoke publicly on the subject, I
would couch my remarks, as it were, in
the plain language of the street, so
that the business man and other people
could comprehend Christian Science. But
as ones thought changes from the ma
terial viewpoint to the spiritual, the
latter becoming more and more natural
and simple, one is inclined to forget
those early resolutions. Besides, as the
spiritual idea is so exactly opposite to
the material belief, it is difficult al
ways to express the higher idea in or
dinary material terms so as to make it
comprehensive from the material point
of view. Jesus once said, ENo man put
teth new wine into old bottles" He
used parallels and simiGtudes to help
reveal the spiritual idea. We are there
fore confronted with the happy task of
! attempting to change your thought
about matter and evil by the employ
ment first of human reason, afterward
depending upon divine revelation and
demonstration awakening in your
thought the true spiritual idea of God
man, and the universe.
MATTER
} A friend of mine once said, 81 rec
t ognize the power of the human mine
over the body, and recognize matter
$ also." Matter is actually the great
| est humbug in the world, as the worlt
will sometime discover. Probably ne
, other kind of ghost has fooled so many
, people, or deceived them SO badly. Para
phrasing the sayin gof famous Amer
lean, matter may fool some Of the peo
o pie all of the time, and all Of the people
! some of the time, but it can no lon
, ger fool all of the people all of thu
q time. To the five material senses, mat
! ter seems to be very real, but matter il
not at all what it seems to be; mater
ial scientists will tell you this. 1t
. claim Of possessing life or intelligence
) or substance is now found to be abso
Mtely false. Under increasingly power
7 full magnifying glasses its nature a
u substance continuously changes, and it
Z original form and character are reduc
I ed to the minute forms called ion
' and eleetrens, and the latter in turl
are reduced to what practically is ma
Iterial energy or mind. Here materia
G science finds itself halted by a grea
+. gulf, which it never will be able t
h bridge and continue farther with ma
IS terial reasoning or material know
! ledge. Under very strong magnifyin
d glass the particles Of matter are see
v to be constantly changing and movin
e about, as though at war with eac
If other. This is actually the fact, and
# has been taught in the schools tha
" the material body undergoes complet
"a renewal once in seve nyears. This perio
:. Of time has in recent years been gra(
4 ually reduced, an eminent French scieI
:, tist, Camille Flammarion, reducing tn
a time by more than one half, and quit
!, recently scientist has announced tht
p this bodily change takes place once
two months. If this be fact, it make
n total of just six distinct materii
a bodies that you and l have exhibite
V. during the past year. And "
,e would ask, by the way, what has b
d come of those so-called chronic disease
ID which you thought you had two, fou
1t or six months agoH Surely they WEI
Ut not in matter
e. And so matter is discovered throue
20 human reasoning to be quite differel
Is substance from what it appears to tt
'l material senses to be, and to possess I
10 life or no intelligence of its own. An
~ as material energy or mind, it is foun
" to possess very false sense of lii
~ ~ and intelligence. Then it must folio
3, that if matter has no life or INTEL
~ ~ gence of its own, it can have no sens
"A tion. Matter as flesh or blood, nerve
n or arteries, cannot ache, swell, harde
"a or be diseased; matter can form no O.
r inion or report no message, for it
w found to be dream substance, wniS
seems very real but which is not. No
; intelligent matter is not lawmaker NJ
lawbreaker, for as it is without min
y it can impose no laws whatever upt
3 man. Organic matter is said to be lar
ely impregnated with germs and mi
4 robes. Bad germs are said to eau
disease and good germs to be necessal
! for health AS matter is found to
unintelligent and unreal, there c;
be no bad germs or good germ
then there is nothing to fear or hon
in this direction.
MATERIAL SENSES.
As for the five material sense
through which mortal mind substant
ates matter, these five senses are CO
respondingly fallaeious and ephemer'
Matter having no intelligence cannot
itself see, hear, taste, touch or SINE
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