Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-04-15

would couch myr emarks, as it were,
in the plain language of the street, so
that the business man and other peo-
pie could comprehend Christian Sci
ence. But as ones thought changes
from the material viewpoint to the
spiritual, the latter becoming more and
more natural and simple, one is in
clined to forget those early resolu-
tions. Besides, as the spiritual idea is
so exactly opposite to the material be-
lief, it is difficult always to express the
higher idea in ordinary material
terms so as to make it comprehensive
from the material point of view Jesus
once said, mo man putteth new wine
into old bottles" He used parallels
and similitudes to help reveal the
spiritual idea We are therefore con-
fronted with the happy task of at
tempting to change your thought about
matter and evil by the employment
first of human reason, afterward de-
pending upon divine revelation and
demonstration awakening in your
thought the true spiritual idea of God,
man, and the universe.
MATTER
A friend of mine once said, 81
recognize the power of the human mind
over the body, and | recognize matter
Also" Matter is actually the greatest
humbug in the world, as the world
will some time discover. Probably no
other kind of ghost has fooled so many
people, or deceived them so badly.
Paraphrasing the saying of a famous
American, matter may fool some of
the people all of the time, and all of
the people some of the time, but it
can no longer fool all of the people all
of the time. To the five material
senses, matter seems to be very real,
but matter is not at all what it seems
to be; material scientists will tell you
this. It's claim of possessing life or
intelligence or substance is now found
to be absolutely false. Under increas-
ingly powerful magnifying glasses its
nature as substance continuously
changes and its original form and
character are reduced to the minute
forms called ions and electrons, and
the latter in turn are reduced to what
practically is material energy or mind.
Here material science finds itself halt
ed by a great gulf, which it never
will be able to bridge and continue
farther with material reasoning or ma
terial knowledge. Under a very strong
magnifying glass the particles of mat
ter are seen to be constantly changing
and moving about, as though at war
| with each other. This is actually the
| fact, and it has been taught in the
| schools that the material body under
goes a complete renewal once in seven
years. This period of time has in
| recent years been gradually reduced,
| an eminent French scientist, Camille
| Flammarion, reducing the time by
more than one half, and quite recently
| a scientist has announced that this
bodily change takes place once in two
months. If this be a fact, it makes a
| total of just six distinct material bod
les that you and | have exhibited dur
| ing the past year. And we would
ask, by the way, what has become OF
| those so-called chronic diseases which
you thought you had two, four or six
months ago? Surely they were not in
matter.
| And so matter Is discovered through
| human reasoning to be quite differ
ent substance from what it appears to
the material senses to be, and to pos
sess no life or no intelligence of its
own. And as material energy or mind
it is found to possess a very false
sense of life and intelligence. Then il
must follow that if matter has no life
or intelligence of its own, 1t can have
no sensation. Matter as flesh or blood
nerves or arteries, cannot ache, swell
harden, or be diseased; matter car
form no opinion or report no message
for it is found to be a dream sub
stance, which seems very real but
which is not Nonintelligent matter
is not lawmaker nor lawbreaker
for as it Is without mind, it can i'm
pose no laws whatever upon man
Organic matter is said to be largely
impregnated with germs and microbes
Bad germs are said to cause disease
and good germs to be necessary fol
health. AS matter is found to be UNI
intelligent and unreal, there can be M
bad germs or good germs; then Their,
is nothing to fear or honor in this di
rectiOn.
MATERIAL SENSES
| AS lOI Tic I'VE material senses
through which mortal mind substanti
ates matter, these five senses are cor
respondingly fallacious and ephemeral
Matter having no intelligence canno
of itself see, hear, taste, touch, OF
smell. Innumerable illustrations coul(
be cited proving that the materia
eyes do not see, nor the material or
ganism of the ear, hear, etc. Hun
dreds of times daily you do not Sc,
what the eyes are looking at, because
the thought has been distracted b,
something else. Dreams are splendid
Illustrations to prove this. Eye-glass
es, which are carefully placed outsid,
before the eyes, should be fitted to thu
thought, and not to senseless matter
Just so with the hearing. few
minutes ago your ears did not heal
that noise on the street, simply be
cause your ears do not hear. You
thought or consciousness was on ant
hearing this lecture. Many time!
while eating a meal, sometimes O