The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-13
You Have Three Kinds of Eyes
One for the Big One for the Little, Two for the Real
World. Use Them.

ordinary house fly, magnifed many times.
you saw such creature in your path you would shrek
with terror
If you saw such horrible things all around you you
would be very grateful if friend said "Do not worry;
those only little flies that cannot hurt you It is your
exaggeration that makes them look so big
Under the magnfying glass flea is terrible than
an elephant and ratesnake combined Under the magnify
ing glass drop OF sanan water becomes an ocean OF hide
Gus monsters.
Under the magnifyng glass of fear, worries, trou
bs and problems become giants and demons that make life
miserable and paralyze the will
To see straight and clearly that is the great problem
To know what is dangerous and avoid it. to realize the
smaness of little things and not fear them to know the real
hamesnes of that which looks big and the danger
times lurking in that which is smalEsuch is wisdom
would be foolish for instance, to allow himself
to be terrified by the greatly enlarged picture Of fly
But the mother wise who fears and combats the tiny
creature million times smaller than the fly the germ Of
disease carried to her chds face the ys spongy feet
To fear that which is dangerous, however small, and
refuse to be frightened by the magfyng of your own
imagination, such is ellbalanced common sense.
We look at troubles through magnying glass and
at good fortune through the wrong end of the opera glass
We magnify unreal difficulties and fail to appreciate good
things while worrying about the bad things than unreal
From his first savage days earth million years ago.
man has been terrified and dominated by his imagination
The lightning flashed in the sky the thunder growed-
that was bad enough Fears magnying glass Immediately
invented Jupiter hdeous god sitting up in
heaven dehberatey aiming his lightning at poor little
Man hid from wild beasts and from the storm in caves
the
opening or the rising tide beating against the imprisoned air
OF some grotto made strange sounds.
The magnifed fear of the savage invented devils
Wcnes vampires or other mental vermn inhabitants Of
the cave-and the savage ran from warmth and shelter
driven by unreal imagining to real wild beasts and real
storm
Christian Science has rendered great service to the
human race In lnculcatng absence of fear To make bad
Lmngs unreal Is the daily task Of the believing Christian
Scientist.
Scientists of the practical kind aege that Christian
Science goes too far in denying unpleasant realities
But there is doubt whatever that what Mrs Eddy's
science has done to help human beings control false fears
realty ouWelghs anything that the practical scientist NAV
tAsge as to neglect OF the realities of disease
great scientist has said that man fully developed
would use his eyes in three different ways
The fully developed man would see three things
The infinitely great of the cosmic world of stars and
The infinitely small of the microscopic world of in6ni
teslmal life and atomic structure.
The comforting realities of existence and our
own companions
One day the right eye will be specially trained to look
through the telescope and read its story
The left will be trained for concentrated work with
lures infinitely small.
And both eyes normal, telling the brain their story
through coordination will be used for studying each other
and the beautiful planet on which we live.
Without waiting for future perfection to give us three
kinds of eyesight try to develop three kinds for yourself
Your mind is made up of many kinds Of vision.
Use to much magnied the good that is others
admire it and pay tribute to it. |
Use another to see much magniied the weaknesses
within yourself make yourself better by studying and fight
them.
Use the right eye of your mind enlarge the appear
our blessings.
pc other eye to make abstract WORRIES troubles
he future superstitions, tiny, almost invisible as
re.
Hop the well balanced eyesight of both eyes to
ctical everyday life.
much and not too little of anything and
pot apply to your fears and worries the
ass that makes elephant of fea and q