Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-10-14


thought of as effect Here we see
that if correct concept of these fund
amentals can be gained the true or
scientific idea of life will be obtained.
This is the treasure which Christian
Science gives.
A great moral current is running
through the minds of men and nations,
and whence is it running? Every
thoughtful observer must see that 1t is
toward a oneness of mind, common
sense of right, common sense OF life
and how to live, among all the peoples
of the earth. Men are finding little
by little their natural unity, their one
ness of being, and they are finding 1t
in the one common universal sense OF
life and law which knows no geo.
grahical barriers, no racial nor ma
tional distinctions in its final develop
ment.
A great statesman has recently said
that the work of uniting the nations
in the bonds of brotherhood is an eff
fort to enthrOne the conscience of the
world What is this conscience of the
world that we are so DESTROYS of en-
throning as our lawgiver? Is it not
the collective or common conscious
ness of right, of justice, law and love?
1t is this universal conscience, the
common consciousness of right and
good, discerned as yet but dimly, yet
| discerned and obeyed in an ever in
| creasing measure, which in its full
| embodiment is God with us" the Mind
of absolute good 1t is the house of
| the Lord and, in the thought of the
prophet, all the nations of the earth
are mentally flowing into it. Job dis
cerned this incorporeal and unlimited
| sense of God and spoke of God as be-
| ing in one Mind. Christ Jesus spoke of
| this parent intelligence as Father and
| Spirit. John regarding the kindness,
mercy, and protection of the Father
Mind spoke of Him as Love. God is
Love; and he that dwelleth in thinks
| in ideas of love dwelleth in God, and
God in him" q John 4:16)
How near, how reasonable, and as
Christian Science is proving, how
practical is such a sense of God, for
we see that all right-mindedness is
| nothing more nor less than God mani
| fest, the fullness of true being includ-
ing your being and mine.
MAN THE EXPRESSION OF MIND
But we only know Mind as we know
| the ideas which express it and the
| highest of these is man. The world is
coming to honor and to recognize the
mental man, that state of conscious
ness which most clearly expresses the
ideas of the true Mind or God. Mrs.
Eddy has given an illuminating defin-
4 - in a.
| {p. 475), where she says, "He is the
| compound idea of God, including all
| right ideas"
Perhaps to define man as idea may
| seem to you rather vague. Men have
| thought of man in terms of matter for
| so long that the inclination is to think
| of him as a combination of material
elements cojoined, in a way yet I'M
known, with mind. But if you will let
| go for the moment of the material
| sense of man and try to regard him
] only from the standpoint of an ex-
preston of true intelligence you will
see that the term idea most fittingly
| expresses his status and relationship
to the parent Mind.
| Consider if you will why it is that
the world has recently so honored a
small group of forward looking states
| men,-the peace delegates at Paris. 1t
| is not because of anything physical,
| their weight, their features, or the
| color of their hair. The material is
wholly subordinated. What men honor
in them is the mental man, the indi-
vidual state of consciousness which
expresses right ideas. In the proper
ton that they have voiced what is
right they have struck a responsive
chord in the minds of men everywhere,
for their brothers are perceiving.
though yet darkly, the truer sense of
manhood and honoring it, This is in
its full embodiment the spiritual man,
the expression of God, best exemplified
by Christ Jesus. Man, then, seen as
the creature of Mind, is recognized to
be simply an individual state of right
mindedness always thinking in accord
with God, the true Mind. He is 'the
| compound idea of Cod, including all
| right ideas" (Science and Health, d.
475).
MORTAL MAN REPUDIATED
Perhaps some of you were taught as
children that man was first made from
the dust of the ground, others may
Delleve in the theory of material evo-
luton, man evolved from molecule and
monkey up to his present estate. If
you have accepted either of these
theories have you stopped to consider
where wisdom, intelligence, kindness,
charity, and love come from? Though
you may be satisfied with the theory
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mass of matter termed a body, that
explanations gives no satisfaction as
TO the origin of the things which even
today the world honors the most,
namely the mental and spiritual quail
| tiles of man.
The issue raised in the first two
chapters of Genesis, the first stating
the fact of the spiritual and perfect
creation, the second presenting the ma
ture of the false material sense of
creation, is whether we will accept as
our origin dust or Deity. We must
choose between matter and animality
or God and spirituality. 1t is the devil
versus God. matter versus Mind. On
which side are we? Disraeli. the great
English statesman, once put the issue
thus, What" he asked. sis the cues
tlon now put before society? The
question is this-Is man an APE or
Angel? My Lord" he replied 81 am
on the side of the Angels" "The side
OF the Angels" I take to mean the
spiritual side of sense of being. at
least that is what Christian Science
means by it, for angels it does not
conceive OF as human creatures with
I teathery wings but as the good
thoughts sent of God, which the
psalmist said were given charge over
man to keep him in all his WAYS.
| MORTAL CONCEPT OF MAN RE-
FUTED BY THE BIBLE
Isaiah sought to turn the thought of
his people away from this erroneous
mortal concept of man with the adj
monitlon, Cease We from man, whose
breath is in his nostrils: for wherein