Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-10-13

ply you are mistaken, 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.p That persons
point of view would need to be
changed. 1t is certain he saw every
thing wrongly, but was ignorant of it.
Most persons today are wearing
'blue glasses" and do not know it.
These are mental glasses through
which they see the world, not as it
really is and was created. but as their
educated point of view has made it
to them, and according to prevailing
opinion, they will insist on seeing it
so until they take off their blue
! glasses" and change their point of
view, Changing their point of view
will change everything for them, and if
1 their new viewpoint be correct, the
outcome will be an ever increasing de-
/ gree of harmony, health, and happi-
ness. only proof and demonstration
however, convince US which point OF
view is right and which is wrong
| Words only serve to awaken US and
show the way.
There is little differnce of opinion
about the fact that mortals need a
clearer way and a'truer point of view.
All agree that the world seems to be
about as full today as ever of sin and
fear, hatred and jealousy, impurity and
disease. vanity and selfishness, and
that calamities. tumults and wars have
not substantially decreased up to the
present hour. Surely it is too late now
to believe that the cause of these evils
can be traced to the great source of
infinite purity and goodness, the one
eternal and immutable Spirit, called
God. Surely intelligent people do not
any longer believe that God is the
cause of human dscord and suffering,
any more than they believe that the
principle of mathematics is the cause
of the failures of pupils to understand
and prove its unchanging rules. An
ignorant sense of the rules prevents the
principle Of mathematics being cor.
rectly proved, and, just so, it is today
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
results 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. Thi:
right understanding comes through tn,
study and practice of Christian Sci
ence, and in the measure that it is at
tanned it constitutes a siritual sense o
God. The chief purpose of this lectur,
, is to consider and, so far as the tim,
: allotted and the speakers ability per
, nit to reveal this true sense in con
tradistinction to the claims and evi
dence of the false material sense or tn
: material point of view.
When, as a business man, l attende,
my first Christian Science meeting
and understood very little of the talk
: which went clear over my head, de
!, termined that il ever in the future
u spoke publicly upon the subject
would couch may remarks. as it were
in the plain language of the street, s
!, that the business man and other PEG
= pie could comprehend Christian Sci
= ence. But as ones thought change
:, from the material viewpoint to tn
y spiritual, the latter becoming more an
y more natural and simple, one is in
clined to forget those early resolu
> tons. Besides as the spiritual idea
: to exactly opposite TO the material be
&c lief, it is difficult always to expires
the higher idea in ordinary materi;
= terms so as TO make is COMPREHENSIVE
=, from the material point of view. jest
II once said, mo man puteth new wiz
n into old bottles" He used parable
and similitudes to help reveal II
spiritual idea. We are therefore cor
! fronted with the happy task OF al
~ tempting to change your thought abol
E matter and evil by the employmel
first Of human reason, afterward d,
IS pending upon divine revelation ar
le demonstration awakening in yol
y, thought the true spiritual idea of Go
u man, and the universe.
Matter
az A friend of mine once said Il reco,
IS nize the power of the human mind ov
=, the body. and l recognize matter also
"a Matter is actually the greatest hun
N bug IN the world, as the world w
~ sometime discover. Probably no 9th
J. Kind of ghost has fooled so many ne
re pie, or deceived them so badly. Par
- phrasing the saying of famous Anne
- lean, matter may fool some of the De
~ pie all of the time, and all of t
AT people some of the time, but it can
10 longer fool all of the people all of [
ny time. To the five material sens,
10 matter seems to be very real, but ma
e ter is not at all what it seems to b
IA material scientists will tell you tn
. Its claim of possessing life or intel
or gence or substance is now found
an be absolutely false. Under increasins
ne, powerful magnifying glasses its natu
TAI as substance continuously chang
lat and it's original form and character Z
ne reduced to the minute forms called ia
IN ana electrons, and the latter, in tn
'st are reduced to what practically is m
ue terial energy or mind. Here mater
al science finds itself halted by a or,
is gulf. which 1t never will be able
hu bridge and continue farther with m
Try tertal reasoning or material knowled
Under very strong magnifying 81:
the particles of matter are seen TO
as constantly changing and moving abo
81 as though at war with each 9th
OF This is actually the fact, and it !
sT- been taught in the schools that
I'm material body undergoes a compi
zen renewal once in seven years. T
est period of time has in recent years b,
use gradually reduced an eminent Frer
zen scientist, Camille Flammarion red
10 ing the time by more than one h
yer and quite recently a scientist has /
Oh nouneed that this bodily change tai
ing place once in two months. If this
ind fact. it makes a total Of Just
ult distinct material bodies that you an
ina have exhibited during the past W
ere And we would ask, by the way. w
lis has become of those so-called chro
at diseases which you thought you
re- two, four, or six months ago? Sur
- they were not in matter.
And so matter is discovered thro,
human reasoning to be quite a diff
| ent substance from what II annnn r.