East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-01-29

!, flesh, ye shall die; but II ye througl
= the Spirit do mortify the deeds Of tn
J body, We shall live. "Mortify'-
what does that mean? 1t means 1T
{ silence" ito deaden." Through tn
, spirit"-what does that mean? Tha
means, through the understanding
that all things are spiritual and tha
: nothing is material. Now, what ar
| the deeds of the body that Pau
} here admonishes us to silence oi
} "deaden" through an UNDERSTANDING
of all things as spiritual? Why, seeing
! feeling tasting, smelling, hearing
4 he testimony of the five physical sen,
Uses! bThese are the deeds Of the body
lThesey In fact constitute all tins
known faculties of the fleshly or mors
4 tai man. and all that we know Of the
4 material universe or ever will know
u cognized through these senses. fAnd
we arel told plainly enough by St
Paul that we are to 'imortify' or Isl,
lehce'' their testimony
We have been living all these years
reading and hearing read this pass
age of Scripture just quoted. the
while we have been nursing the de-
lusion that the five physical senses
furnish us the only, evidence of exis,
tence and consequently must be God
endowed. Yet this passage of Scrip
ture is plain and is In strict accord
with all Of the teachings OF the Mas
ter. 'Tf ye through the Spirit do
mortify the deeds of the body. we shall
live" That is, that not until,
through the perception and UNDER
landing of God, man and the universe
as spiritual, we recognize the five
physical senses as creations of erring.
mortal thought, shall we begin to ex-
perience that life vouchsafed us by
st. Paul in this passage Of Scripture.
Mortal Mind.
Now what is our authority for be-
'lieving, or through what medium do
we believe, that the material senses
of SEEING feeling. tasting. smelling
ard hearing are real and God-given
qualities? What is it that makes
these faculties seem real and essen
tial to us? What is it that bears to usl
evidence of their reality? Why.
nothing but this mortal or carnal
mind which is back of all material
phenomena and which st. Paul TellA
us must be put off. It is the human
or mortal mind, instead of matter,
that sees, feels, tastes, smells and
hears. Take away the mind of a
mortal and what testimony can the
five physical senses utter? Complete
ly silence his mentality and all the
argument in the world cannot make a |
man believe that he sees. feels. tastes, |
smells or hears. Nothing of a ma
terial nature impresses him. He isl
not even cognizant of the mortal
body in which he is supposed to re-
side. SO it should be perfectly ap-
parent that the evidence of the senses
correctly inform us of the
true Qualities of man governed by an
law, for the five physical
senses may be silenced while law
and its manifestations can never be.
Physical Inllarmonies
Following this understanding. that
the physical senses, which furnish
the only evidence of the physical
man, are nothing but manifestations
Of the mortal mind. operating with
out the realm of fixed law. it neces-
sarily follows that tho underlying
cause of all phenomena evidenced by L
hat same mind. Any of the so-called
of man manifested by
, disturbed physicality must neces-
'arily be the result of the same mind
,r cause underlying physicality. Con-
'equently. the remedy for all So
,alled physical inharmonies lies in
he correction of the false sense of
aw or cause. the result of the mind
or these inharmonies.
This, obviously. cannot be accom-
olished through mortal mind, the
mind that creates these inharmonies,
or mortal mind operates by virtue
# no fixed law of God to give it per-
or authority in any new
condition which its whims might Gre
tie. Certainly then, we have but one
ource of correction and that is the
livine Mind. or God, which is per-
ect, which knows no inharmony,
leither variableness nor shadow of
urning, but which is "the same yes
erday, today and forever"
This corrective process lies in dis
,lacing these false concepts of crea-
ion. of man and the universe, ana
he multitude of conflicting mortal
avs supposed to govern their rela-
ions to each other. with the correct
of God and his crea-
ion and the laws governing 1t. In .
lis work of demonstrating the pow !
rlessness of the so-called laws of I
natter the Christian Scientist has
My to deal with so-calIed mortal
mind and the divine Mind. Matter
nd its Accomplishments do not con- I
titute a least part of his considers I
ions as he recognizes matter as ,
merely a phase of mortal thought l
he Christian Scientist recognizes the 9
Iivine Mind, or God, as true and NOR {
al mind as the lie about the Truth. ]
here must be truth underlying every ]
lie. A lie cannot be told about any I
hing but the truth. Therefore, thel (
'nly problem before the Christian I
scientist is that of replacing the lie
With the truth. In his remark "Ye
re of your father the devil, and the
usts of your father ye will do. He |
vas a murderer from the beginning.
nd abode not in the truth, because
here is no truth in him. When he
naakafh a lie he sDeaketh of his