Arizona republican., 1919-03-10
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 Tn essentials unity, in doubtful questions liberty, in all things charity The old Latin epigram is as true to- day as at the moment that it was written And if only a moiety of those who must have read it had ever at tempted to live up 10 1t, it's effect in the world would have been much greater than it has been. Unfortunate ly the human mind is, above every thing autocratic. It would always will ingly enforce unity in the essentials of it's own selection. But freedom in doubtful questions it regards as weak ness, if not taboo. It is like MT. Bagnet of the opinion that discipline must be preserved" but it would never ad- init with the insouciance of MT. Bag net that anybody differing from its view of the occasion ever could De right, whilst as for charity, it will al ways consent to reduce that to a minimum.
 Yet anybody who will take the trouble to think at all must be con- scious of the fact that without unity in essentials nothing can be accom- plished; without freedom in open questions, there is a certainty of op- presson; and that without charity in all things, inharmOny must become rampant. At the same time Melden- jus. it is quite certain, never intended that unity should be reached by in , inhalation. To begin with such unity would not be unity. but discOrd: and, to end it, il would obliterate universal | charity The only real unity is reached | in a scientific understanding of Prin- | ciple The man who concludes that ! he is right, and that every one who ! disagrees with him is either knaVe 1 or fool is quite commonly a knave or a fool himself At the very best he i is GratianO's Sir Oracle" insisting l that no dog shall bark when he opens | his lips. In such a man there is al ways the salt of persecution. He i makes trouble, and never ends it.
 As matter of fact, the nearest ap- ! proach to unity the human mind ever ! achieves is in connection with the null ! tiplication table, whilst it's greatest 1 tendency to dscord occurs in matters of religion. This latter fact is dis l tincuy illuminating, seeing that re- | ligion, if it means anything at all | means a dealing with the absolute Now men can onle differ over th' absolute owing to failure in demon stration. thereby proving exactly wha' James means when he declares in hi: epistle that Faith without works ]! dead" It should then, surely, be ; requisite of any religion that it should be capable of proof by demonstration The question, What is Truth?" Mrs Eddy writes on page viii of the pre- face of Science and Health, lis an swered by demonstrations-by heal
 ing both disease and sin; and thi
 demonstration shows that Christian healing cOnfers the most health anC makes the best men," Unless. then, ; man is steadily demonstrating hi
 knowledge of truth, he should be care
 ful in advancing his opinion. Un
 fortunately experience shows that failure of demonstration goes gener ally hand in hand with a firm enforce
 ment of dogma. That again, surely,
 why Mrs. Eddy wrote on page 92 o
 the Manual of The Mother Church
 Healing the sick and the sinner Wit / Truth demonstrates what we affirm c l Christian Science, and nothing ca
 substitute this demonstration.
 All of this has never brought con
 viction to the world because the worl
 has never grasped the scientific fact c
 the one Mind. As a consequence,
 has imported into its theology ever