Arizona republican., 1919-04-14
Cwritten for The Christian Science


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 No man, however matter of fact he | may imagine himself to be, is actually [ without an idealsm of some kind. It may not be a very exalted ideal, soar ing perhaps no higher than a stage | play, but such as it is, it provides | litle respite, q retiring place as 1t | were, from the sorC1id everyday world i of experience.
 Take for instance, the idea of a ! monarchy, the king business as MT. i G. Bernard Shaw calls it in mocking way. It is rather surprising to find so acute an analysis of human quips and cranks. apparently blind to the fact that the idea of monarchy, with its remoteness from the common gaze, its trapplngs and it's ceremonials, const- tutes, for thousands of people the only glimpse of the ideal they ever get TO them, the fleeting vision of these fa- vored beings who appear to belong to another world, affords the opportunity l for forgetting for moment the monot- | ony of the daily round, and they are 1 transported-just as we were when as ldren we read of the fairy prin- | cesses in our nuIsery tales-into an l ideal world of pink clouds and pre- cious stones. Perhaps MT. Bernard i Shaw would say ''so much the worse ] for them,' but the fact remains that t. this indicates a common craving of 1 the human mind, for something beyond | itself which cannot be suppressed. To other thousands, more educated l possibly, the Greek sculptors or the Italian conquecento painters, or the 1 great musicians, form the ideal world 1 or they will resort to the classics ot l poetry and prose, or, taking another line, will try to lose themselves in the mazes of a decorative ritual. but to find something outside of self seems to be q necessity to every human being.
 Mary Baker Eddy, the Discovered 1 of Christian Science. with her usual | unerring insight, indicates the cause 1 of the dissatisfaction in the human 1 being. On page 257 of Science and Health she says: Who hath found finite life or love sufficient to meet the demands of human want and l woe,-to still the desires, to satisfy the aspirations?" And on page 25S she continues: "A mortal, corporeal or finite conception of God cannot | embrace the glories of limitless. in- corporeal life and love. Hence the 1 unsatisfied human craving for some [ afforded by a material belief in a phy- sical God and man. The insufficiency of this belief to supply the true idea proves the falsity of material belief"
 The upheavals in the world today seem to be taking away much of its picturesqueness the glamour of old things, old places, old associations ia being ruthlessly torn away and the question is, what shall replace them, or will the succeeding generations fall to the level of 8 common dullne<S? The trouble is that all these ideals which humanity has chung to are proving to be a insubstantial and as unsati5fy- ing as any of the grosser pleasures of the senses. and we are forced back l to the conclusion which the Discoverer of Christian Science has indicated in the passage quoted above, that nothing less than the true idealism of spirit can satisfy the cravings of the human 1 mind.
 The fact is, as Christian Science clearly shows, that humanity has not found it's true ideal because it has not found it's true God. Christian Science entering inso individual experience, h shows quite unmistakably and uncom- promisngly. the difference between true IuedllSIn anu IaISe, dIlu SiNSa ls it's students an ability to differentiate betwen the two which is almost start ling.
 As an example. these uplifted ideals generally have the effect of inducing first of all, a great improvement 1T taste, in literature for instance or 1T art, in greater care in the matter o amusements. society, and so on. unti every aspiratioO or desire is finally brought into obedience to the captivity of Christ.
 In that most remarkable article Pond and Purpose" in "Miscellane- GUS Writings Mrs. Eddy, speaking O the baptism of the Holy Ghost, make: ion page 204) this statement: By puri flying human thought, this state O mind permeates with increased har mony all the minutiae of human affairs It brings with it wonderful foresight wisdom and power; it unselfs the nor tai purpose, gives steadiness to resolve and success to endeavor. Through tn accession of spirituality, God, the di vine Principle of Christian Science 1 literally governs the aims. ambition and acts of the Scientist The divin ruling gives prudence and energy; i banishes forever all envy. rivalry. eyi 1 thinking.-e evil speaking and acting. an 1 mortal mind. thus ~ptirgeds obtain peace and nower outside 9Ititsen- When this hallyN ,vnstrn 1ly>4ion i