Arizona republican., 1919-07-01

is not enthroned in the sensuous grace of the form of Antinous or in the face of Helen, the mesmeric charm of which launched. in pursuit, a thousand ships It is the manifestation of Emmanuel, or God with us, to which Paul referred when he wrote, God was manifest in the flesh And herein lies, for those with ears to hear, and eyes to see the secret of art which Mrs. Eddy stroVe to unVeil to a perverse gener- alton in Christ and Christmas" in way the logic of which must be plain to the humanist metaphysician, though ne be blinded to it's spiritual force For friendship is true art.
 Real friendship, then, is the meeting of individuals in a common love. in other words, in a common understand ing of Principle. This love. it need scarcely be said is utterly devoid O. all physical or intellectual attraction The beauty which attracts it is the beauty of holiness; the intelligence which delights it is the expression of divine Mind. This is why the halo of loVeliness rests upon a friend, this is why confidence in friends judgment IS inseparable from friendship Such friendship never can be preached. lr It's highest and most perfect phase it made Jesus the Christ the friend anI brother of all mankind though man kind by reason of it's blazing sensual ity, rejected the friendship.
 No man ever knew better than Jesus that brotherhood was not confined to some relation in the flesh, but was ex- tended potentially to all mankind. Who he demanded, when he was told that his mother and brethren were in the press without, and could not reach him,-"Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?" And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples and said, Behold my mother and my brethren. For whosoeyer shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven. the same is my brother, and sister, and mother"
 Brotherhood, obviously then, to the spiritual sense of Christ Jesus, did not consist in anything born of human passion, but of that born. not of blood. nor of the will of the flesh. nor of the will of man. but of God" And it was because of the refusal of the people to recognize this and to turn from matter to Spirit, that he uttered that wonder full lament over Israel, under the figure of the Holy City, 70 Jerusalem, Jeru- salem, thou that killest the prophets. and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not" There to the man whose eyes are not holden, is the gravamen of the whole matter True friendship is based on the rock of Truth. and will withstand the storms: the foundations of the other kind are sunk in the sands of matter, and will be washed away.
 Ordinary human friendship. like those whom it binds together, is of the earth, earthly. The love it ex- presses is not the reflection of Spirit, but of an agreement in matter. The carnal mind, the mesmerism of the senses. in some of it's myriad forms. binds people temporarily together in a common prejudice or passion, or kin ship of taste or temper. This is way human friendship so frequently changes into enmity. and sensuous love into passionate hate. Metaphysically. to build up mans materiality is 10 be guilty of the worst possible enmity to [ him. for it impresses on him, if he is foolish enough to accept it. q belief in self apart from God, and If a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.
 What, then, is the conclusion of the whole matter? Is it not that enmity is one failure to understand Principle contending with another failure, or dashing itself in pieces against Prin- ciple? but always bringing disaster to those who entertain it even though they ciothe it in fair seeming or in pseudo metaphysics. And that true friendship is the drawing of like to like by the attraction of Spirit. Enmity is that. in short. which sees sick, sorroWing, and sinful humanity as reality: friendship that which sees that there is in reality no man but the in,age and likeness of God