Arizona republican., 1919-05-13

Written for The GnTlSlldu StIeu1S
 Monitor)
 Some months ago in an editorial in a yeII-known daily newspaper the writer entrusted the power and pres tige of human jurisprudence with the vague aspiration of the Ten Com mandments," very much. as he thought, to the advantage of the former. IL seems certain, however, that a genera ton ago such phrase could not nave found expression in the respectable press and the question arises, what has happened to the worlds state of mind that such statements are now commonplace?
 AS a matter of fact, however, a con victim seems to be gaining ground that if the Ten Commandments had Kept their original place in human estlma- ton, and human jurisprudence had been evolved in obedience to them, the world would not have lapsed into it's present chaotic condition At any rate, it seems to be becoming more and more universally recognized that any real reconstruction will have to De 1 based on the spirit of those command ments. First, however, how is 1t that | they have become a dead letter to all 1 intents and purposes when few gen l erations ago they were still active ID men's thinking?
 The answer to this question must be l because then and previously the com 1 mandments were regarded with a Su- ! perstitious awe, and obeyed through fear. That fear was based very large ly on a limited knowledge of the ma
 terial universe, and many happenings were attributed to the direct interVeD- tion of an anthropomorphic God, winch are now seen to be due to Q very or dinary sequence of so-called cause and effect in matter, that is, in the world s belief. and many people secretly were afraid something would happen if they
 acted in contravention of the letter ot
 the Ten Commandments, hence the !, superstitious fear of breaking the Sab bath and so forth
 Many other discoveries, too, have
 tended to weaken the hold of the Ter Commandments on minds which hac no understanding of them. For ln- stance, it has been discovered that the 5 Ten Commandments had their count
 erpart in old Babylonian legends, anC
 so people jumped to the conclusion tha
 there is no particular virtue in tho
 Mosaic Code and that the tables O
 stone were mercy lSSSAuetiy ChIbOi | lishments.
 What they did not. and do not un
 derstand, is that while Truth is eter nal and universal, and has been part! I recognized and expressed under man! dispensations, only that consciousness which has some spiritual illumination
 can interpret it truly. That is wha
 the Hebrew mentality was capable o = doing. and that is what constitute e them the chosen people. That no douo V was in St Paul's mind when he em V phasized the fact that Abraham's see = were not necessarily those who de e scended from him in the flesh, pu l. those who partook of his spirit,
 The author of Science and Healtl If on page $40, has analysed the Ffrs ,f Commandment in a way which is nc e only masterfy, but sublime. She say -e "rThe First Commandment is my favor " ite text. It demonstrates Chrlsta Sc Science. It inculcates the triunity
 God, Spirit, Mind; it signifies that ma II shall have one Mind. The divine Prir el ciple of the First Commandment bast ot the Science of Being, by which ma i demonstrates health, holiness, and III in eternal One infinite God. good unifi'
 men and nations; constitutes tf - brotherhood of man: ends wars; fu