The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-09-19

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change his way OF thinking. II he
aere told 10 take of those useless
and disliguring glasses ard have q !
ook Mt things as they really are, he
would reply, "You are rnlstaken. II
have always seen the world this
way, and so has every one else /
know. OF course the world is blue,
and not green and brown and white
and gold" That persons point OF
view would need TO be changed, II
is certain he saw everything wrcng-
ly, but was ignorant of it,
Most persons today are wearing
blue glasses, but do not know IT,
These are mental glasses through
which they see the world, rot as IL
really Is and was creaasd. but az
their. educated point Of view has
made II to them, and according to-
prevailing opinion. they will insist on
seeing 1t SO until they take off their
"bhse glasses" and change their
point of view. Changing their point
of view will change everything for
them, and II their new viewpoint be
correct. the outcome will be an ever
increasing degree Of harmony, hap
piness and health.
There is little difference of opin-
ion about the fact that mortals need
clearer way and truer point of
view. All agree that the world
seems to be about as full today as
ever Of sin and fear, hatred and
jealously. impurity and disease, van
ity and selfishness. and that calami-
ties, tumults, and was have not sub
stantially decreased
Surely II Is too late now to believe
that the cause of these evils can be
traced to the great source Of inf
mite purity of goodness, the one eter-
nal and immutable Spirit, called God.
Surely intelligent people do not any
longer believe that God is the cause
Of human discord and suffering, any
more than they believe that the prin.
piple of mathematics Is the cause OF
the failures of pupils to understand
and prove its unchangihg rules. Ar
ignorant sense OF the rules prevents
the principle of mathematics being
correctly proved. and, lust so, IL IL
today discovered by all fair.minded
persons who have removed their
blue glasses" that II Is an ignorant
material sense of God and His spir.
itual rules, which results in fear and
disease. selfisrness. war. calamity
and death. The way of health and
harmony, the way of true prayer and
talvaffon, lies along the pathway oi
a right understanding. This right
understanding comes through the
study and practice of Christian Sci
ence, and in the measure that IL Is
attained II constitutes spiritual
sense of God The chief purpose ol
this lecture is TO consider and. SO
far as the time allotted ard thS
speakers ability permit, 10 resea
this true serse in contradistinctiont tt
the claims and evidence OF the false
material sense or the material point
of view.
A friend of mine once said" / rec
ognize the power OF the human mint
over the body and | recognize mat
ter also" Matter fl actually thu
greatest humbug In the world. nj
the world will sometimes discover
Probably no other kind OF ghost hal
fooled so many people, or deceived
them so badly. To the five materia
senses, matter seems 10 be yer,
real, but matter is not al all wha
il seems to be; material scientists
will tell you this. Its claim of pos
sessing life or intelligence or sub
stance is now found to be absoluteI!
false. Under increasingly powerful
magnifying glasses its nature az sub
stance continuously changes, ant
through certain processes its origin
al form and character are reduced Il
the minute forms called ions ant
electrons, ard the latter In turn arr
. reduced to what practically Is mater
, ial energy or mind. Here materia
science finds itself halted by grea
gulf which 1t never will be able u
, bridge and continue farther with ma
!, terial reasoning or material know
edge. Under a very strong micro
scope the particles OF matter ar
, seen to be constantly changing an
,, , moving about. as though at war wit
; each other. This Is actually tn
fact, and. II has been taught In III
i, schools that the material body .ur
: dergoes a complete renewal once j
seven years. This period of tim
has in recent years been gradual
reduced, All fIltilIiitHA FIFhth E@'NA
tist, Camille Flsmmarion, reducin
: the time by more than one half. an
quite recently scientist has al
I, nounced that this bodily chang
! takes place once in two months.
this be a fact, 1t makes total
, tust six distinct material bodies ths
YOU and I have exhibited during IN
past year. And we would ask. b
: the way. what has become OF ;hos
+ so-calIed chronic diseases which yo
thought you had two, four. or 81
: months ago? Surely they were M
in matter.
And so matter Is discovered b
. human reasoning to be quite di
:. ferent substance from Whist II a.
q pears TO the material senses to b
2 and 10 possess no life or no INTEL
a gence of its own. Then 1t must fe
|, low that If matter has no life or !
f telligence of It's own. II can have I
n sensation Matter as flesh or bloc
, nerves or arteries, cannot ach
r swell. harden. or be diseased: ma
A ter can form no opinion or report !
. message. for it Is found to be
: dream substance. which seems vel
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