The Washington herald., 1919-01-06

/ htpt III lSilOTdnCe as 10 his pdTSntdse.
And. for all intents and purposes.
there you have a Chinaman. He looks
like one and believes himself to be
| one.
Some years later friend institutes
a search for him, and finds him. DO
you know who you are?" he asks him.
through an interpreter. The young
man gives a Chinese name. To his
great astonishment the friend replies,
But that is not your real name. YOU
have an English name, for you are.
in truth. a native-born citizen of the
United States, and because of this
fact, you should not be under the
laws OF China" Now let me under
stand this" says the young man.
You mean that while / am China
man now. I can become after awhile
an American citlzen?" No" says the
+ friend, now are you an American
citizen" But" suppose the young
man says. IF what you say is true.
there must be two OF me-a China
man here and an American some
where else" No" still insists the
friend, there is only one of you, and
that one was born in America. I"
We'll" rejoins the other. and he
thinks this question will settle it, eff
am an American. where did this
IChlnanan come from" What will the
friend say? MY dear young man, 1
refuse to discuss this Chinaman with
you. Haven't just assured you that
you are not a Chlnaman and have
never been a Chinaman? The only
place Chinaman seems to exist, in
your case. is in your ignorance, your
misconception of your origin. For the
only you there is. or ever has been,
Is native-born citizen of the Cnitel
States"
Accepted as Truth.
But what is liable to happen? I at
! young man will probably keep looK-
ing at his material Chinese appear
ance, keep accepting as truth that
which he has been enormously
taught, and will say. We'll, it doesn't
sound like common sense to me! Any
one can see that I'm a Chinamag,
and, what is more. l know am one!'
All, but does he actually know this ?
Can a man know a mistake? No. he
can only believe a mistake.
Asd so it is with US. Victimized
by ignorance of the true God and true
man, the true Father and the true
Son. mortals have accepted this ma
| terial, Adam-view OF creation. They
speak the language of materiality.
| They adopt the customs of the race
OF Adam in expecting and experience
ing sin, sickness. trouble, imperfec-
| tion, old age and death. And when
| Christian Science, the best friend
! mortal man ever had. finds him ana
says with infinite compassion: "Ler
me tell you the truth about your
self-the truth about your real SELF
hood. You are a citizen of the king
dom of mind You are in truth God s
spiritual creation, whose office is to
express harmony, perfect action and
| unchanging law. You are in fact not
that which you seem to be, but the
deathless, perfect image of your
Maker, when this awakening mas
sage is given, the mortal generally
| looks at his mortality. accepts as real
and true that which he sees with his
| eyes, and hears with his ears, and
says with conviction: NO. you are
mistaken. The truth about man is
that he is material, sick, poverty
stricken. unhappy. and what is more,
he knows It,"
Must Dcscern Fact.
Now it is quite evident in both the
case of the American boy in China
and the mortal, that in order to ascer-
tain the truth OF things he must look
away from the physical appearance,
and discern the fact. rather than the
seeming. And because he showed hoN,
this could be done. Jesus became the
practical Savior and Way-shower of
humanity. Foretelling the coming OF
the saving Christ. Isaiah wrote, He
shall not judge after the sight of His
eyes, neither reprove after the hear
ing of His ears, but with Righteousness
shall He judge. The jesus.
epitomizing His mighty message in
unmistakable language, said, Judge
not according to the appearance. but
judge righteous Judgment" and Chris
tian Science is today making available
this vital but long overlooked Chris
tian teaching.
Let US now consider Christian
Scientists treatment of sin. Suppo,-
a man victimized by drink or by the
tobacco habit seeks healing in Chris
tian Science. He is not condemned
by his practitioner, nor told how
wicked he is, nor is he urged to fight
evil with his human will. IL child
tells you that Canada is situated
south of the Hawaiian Islands. does
he need punishment. a scolding. or
does he need education? Just so il is
with the man who had made a mis-
take in his problem of being. He needs
enlightenment. not censure. and spir-
itual awakening, not material con-
demnation.
Didn't Know Better.
A man sadly victimized by the
drug and liquor habit once sought
out a Christian Science practitioner.
He told the Scientist of his un-
happy plight, of his degradation.
and the loss of money, friends. and
self-respect, and then said: I'm
fact. there is only one person in
all the world who thinks that there
is any good in me, and that is m '
! little 2-year-old child. and she
doesn't know any better" Then
said the practitioner, 'Tf that is
the case, your little girl is the only
one who has caught a glimpse of
the real you; for in Gods sight, the
man of His creating, your real
| spiritual selfhood, is just IS good.
Just as beautiful. just as undefiled
as that child says he is" And l
want to report that this revolution
AIRY message so startled the mate
rial dreamer. and so clearly revealed
his real spiritual manhood, that
from that very day he found his tor