Arizona republican., 1919-04-22

cloudment of understanding. Old prei- uglees. preconceptions, as to what ! C Ch.lstlah Science ought or ought not Io pe' lSnlted by even a spark of the Truth lifst sfnolder and then con- sulIe away as the flame consumeth | the chalI. So If the smoke of their | Ioliiou9.l .loh uoes seem for a time to | aWahenlnS of right desire is going an |
 Now no illustration should he carriad too far. Any analogy between ynate- rial things and the spiritual idea is l bound to have it's limitations for han pily the divine Mind and it's exnreesion IS infinite and quite different from mortal mind concepts. What we may ieafn rom any such analogy Mrs. i-ody, the discoverer of Christian Sci ellce, shoWS us when she says on page of of Miscellaneous Writings.' ..Tn our immature sense of spiritual things. let us say of the beauties of the sen suoua universe: I love your promise and shall know, some time. the snir- itual reality and substance of form. light, and color, of what 1 now throush you discern dimly; and knowing this snail be satisfied. Matter is a frail conception of mortal m1nd; and mortal mlnd IS poorer representative of the beauty grandeur, and glory of the immortal Mind"
 IL does indeed require thorough awakening to understand and prove Christian Science. Mental sluggish- ness, the deep sleep of materiality. in teilectual or emotional reverie. all nave to give way before the bugle- call or Prlnclple. T myself will awake cary the Psalmist rejoiced. In so reailzinS the need that man always be up and doing, David was hearing and echolng the spiritual reveille. Awake ana sing, ye that dwell in dust" Isaiah repeated the same abrupt notes. Every oelef that matter is animated into a so-cailed man of the dust. every thought of man as dwelling in a mate rlal body has to vanish as the night areaIn melts with the coming of day. TO spring up into instant right action at the sound of Gods continual i reFellie is really easy. It is the slow i lazy delay that is hard, for nohodv truly likes lethargy. Fortunately the full awakening requisite for the dem onstration of divine metaphysics is 1 possible now.
 1 Ioday the world at large is begin nlng to understand more clearly than ever before that Christian Science is not merely system for doing without druSs, serumS, operations. and other material means. If Christian Science were simply way for doing without something, 1t never would have leay- ened the thought of all mankind as if mas done People want, not to do with out something, but to do with actual reality. So in place of any ephemeral methods, reliance upon Principle in wolves the genuine experiencing of the activity of divine intelligence. Human lty has but to turn to God and away from materiality in all it's forms in or der to see it's false beliefs disappear be- fore the unmistakablly real idea O. Life.
 Where, for instance, the mortal mind Investigating with microscope see: danger, the divine Mind knows that Minds activity or unfoldment, a bas, and distorted counterfeit of which i. all that the mortal mind can conceive of, Is going on tremendously. Thus tho spiritual idea, which divine Life pro- duces, is without a trace of destruction It is forever about the Fathers busi. ness. To this fact Christian Scienc, is vigorously calling the attention of al mankind
 As humanity becomes more attentive to Truth, the haze which comes iron the consuming away of old beliefs i. soon dissipated. Even if it seems for z while to finger, the one who lifts up hi. head is sure to see the mountain toy ghstening in the light far above tn,
 mist Like fairy floating island, tn, peak may seem to the awakenin, earth-dweller looking up through tn, smoke-Yapor. But the mountain of tn Lord, the spiritual idea firmly based ol principle, is no airy fantasy to beguil one pleasantly enough for the momen and then to fade into nothingness. Witt the complete arousing of thought ev cry cloud is dispelled and spiritual un derstanding stands forth forever un shaka ble. As Mrs. Eddy says on pag 299 of Science and Health, "Corporea sense, or error may seem to- hide trutf health, harmony, and science as tn mist obScureS the sun or the mountain
 but science the sunshine of truth. wi melt away the shadow and reveal tn celestial peaks"
 You have to wake up, you have { get up, right now and always, out c the drowsy dust of material living. Thi
 is demand of principle. God is eve
 wa-keful and His image and likeness
 ever alert Briskiy obeying this deman
 of life, one need never be disheartene
 if temporarily be looks up through
 strange haze. The infinite light {
 which one is awakening through Chris
 tian Science is not vague, obscuret
 mysterious, but clear, strong, yet mel
 low and altogether lovely. Even if tn
 continual reveille of principle is hear
 at wht seems almost human sunset, tn
 awakening satisfies because it is to tt !. true sense ofexistence as here and vo
 eternally, immortally, divinely goo
 This is the glory that is forever clear 1
 spiritual keenness. For the stirring
 thought to the realization of infinit
 mind and it's unlimited idea spirit keeI
 up ts constant reveille.