Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-12-30
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she answered some difficult questions,
and her simple, unhesitating, strong, !
and certain manner convinced me that |
she vas not depending upon her NOR
tai self or human will for knowledge. |
but that her wisdom was the outcome Of
her implicit spiritual faith in God.
Those who knew Mrs. Eddy best never
had but one opinion about her abso-
lutte reliance upon the divine Mind for
every daily move. I may add, merely
in the way of confirmation, that in
after years it was my privilege for a
period Of time to be a member of Mrs.
Eddy's household, when I possessed
every opportunity of watching her daily
habits, which 1 found to be as honest
and consistent in spiritual guidance and
practice as were the fruits in abundant
and beneficent results. What l then
witnessed confirmed what had gradual
ly been formulating in my consciousness,
namely, that spiritual Truth has always
been revealed to those who were most
spiritually minded, and that Mrs. Ed
dy's natural love for God and His laws
enabled her to understand and reveal
both to this age. And so what l then
say answered conclusively to me an old
question. Was Mrs. Eddy commission
ed by God or by mani And if by God,
can God make mistaken Gratitude
opens the door to spiritual understand
! ing, whereas harsh Judgment closes this
door. rGatitude for the lives Of great
people, rather than opposition to their
work and doctrine, constitutes the open
{ door to spiritual understanding. His
tory shows that those who profited
most through the unselfish and noble
lives of great men and women were
those who were most deeply touched
by sense Of gratitude for those lives.
Noble motives will prepare ones
thought for spiritual discovery, and
! thereafter the honesty and verify of
! Mrs. Eddy's great discovery will never
be doubted.
RIGHT VIEWPOINT
There are in the worlo today, as there
always have been, many diversities of
human opinoans or points Of view Once
succeed in changing q persons point
Of view and YOU give him wholly diff
ferent outlook, as when you change his
point of view from west to south OF
from west to east. Suppose a person,
who, from birth had been taught to
wear blue glasses and to view the
world through them, after twenty-five
years of continual use Of blue glasses
were told that everything is not blue
but white and gold and greoa Nnd
brown, it would be difficult for hin
at once to credit the truth and change
his way of thinking. If he were told
to take off those useless and disfigur
ing glasses and have look at things
as they really are, he would reply
esYou are mistaken, I have always seer
\ the world this way, and so has every
, one else I know. OF course the worl(
is blue, and not green and brown ant
white and gold.' That persons poin
of view would need to be changed. 81
is certain he saw everything wrongly
but was ignorant Of it.
Most persons today are wearing
, "blue glasses" and do not know it
, These are mental glasses through whicl
they see the world, not as it really i
and was created, but as their educate'
, point of view has made it to them, ant
, according to prevailing opinion, the,
will insist on seeing it so until they TAX
off their blue glasses and change thei
I point Of view. Changing their poin
of view will change everything TO
them, and if their new viewpoint b
J.. correct, the outcome will be an ever in
creasing degree of harmony, health, an
happiness. Only proof and demonstra
J.. ton, however, convince us which poin
e of view is right and which is wrong
!. Words only serve to awaken us and t
4 show the way.
! There is little difference of opinio
: about the fact that mortals need
!, clearer way and truer point of view
: All agree that the world seems to b
= about as full today as ever of sin an
= fear, hatred and jealousy, impurity an
disease, vanity and selfishness, and tha
/ calamities, tumults, and wars have no
/, substantially decreased u pto the pre-
a sent hour. Surely it is too late now t
d believe that the cause Of these evil
a can be traced to the great source o
y infinite purity and goodness, the on
t, eternal and immutable Spirit, calle
e God. Surely intelligent people do nc
b any longer believe that God is tn
IT cause of human discord and suffering
n any more than they believe that tn
n principle of mathematics is the caus
n Of the failures of pupils to understan
e, and prove its unchanging rules. A
n ignorant sense Of the rules prevent
n the principle of mathematics being CO..
IT rectly proved, and, just SO, it is toda