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

was my privilege for period of time
to be a member of Mrs. Eddy's house
mold, when / possessed every oppor-
tunity of watching her daily habits,
which | found to be as honest and con-
sistent in spiritual guidance and prac-
tice as were the fruits in abundant
and beneficient results. What | then
witnessed confirmed what had gradu-
ally been formulating in my con-
seriousness, namely, that spiritual
Truth has always been revealed to
those who were most spiritually mind
ed, and that Mrs. Eddy's natural love
for God and His laws enabled her to
understand and reveal both to this
age. And so what l then saw answer
ed conclusiyely to me an old question.
Was Mrs. Eddy commissioned by God
or by man? and if by God, can God
make mistake? Gratitude opens
the door to spiritual understanding,
whereas harsh Judgment closes this
door. Gratitude for the lives of great
PEOPLE, rather than opposition to their
work and doctrine, constitutes the
open door to spiritual understanding.
History shows that those who profited
most through the unseIfish and noble
lives of great men and women were
those who were most deeply touched
by sense of gratitude for those lives.
Noble motives will prepare ones
thought for spiritual discovery, and
thereafter the honesty and verify of
Mrs. Eddy's great discovery will never
be doubted.
RIGHT VIEWPOINT
There are in the world today, as there
always have been, many diversities of
human opinions or points of view. Once
succeed in changing a persons point
of view and you give him a wholly diff
ferent outlook, as when you change
his point of view from west to south
or from west to east. Suppose per-
son, who, from birth had been taught
to wear blue glasses and to view the
world through them, after twenty-five
years of continual use of blue glasses,
were told that everything is not blue
but white and gold and green and
brown, it would be difficult for him at
once to credit the truth and change
to take off those useless and disfigur-
ing glasses and have look at things
as they really are, he would reply,
''You are mistaken, have always seen
the world this way, and so has every
one else know. OF course the world
! is blue, and not green and brown and
white and gold" That persons point
of view would need to be changed 1t
is certain he saw everything wrongly,
but was ignorant of it.
Most persons today are wearing
blue glasses" and do not know it.
These are mental glasses through
| which they see the world, not as it
really is and was created, but as their
educated point of view has made it to
them, and according to prevailing opin-
/ ion, they will insist on seeing it so
until they take off their "blue glasses
and change their point of view. Chang
= ing their point of view will change
everything for them, and if their new
viewpoint be correct, the outcome will
be an ever increasing degree of har-
mony, health and happiness. Only
proof and demonstration, however
convince us which point of view is
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serve to awaken US and show the way
There is little difference of opinion
about the fact that mortals need a
clearer way and truer point of view
All agree that the world seems to be
about as full today as ever of sin anG
fear, hatred and jealousy, impurity
and disease, vanity and selfshness
and that calamities, tumults and wars
have not substantially decreased up tt
the present hour. Surely it is toe
late now to believe that the cause Of
these evils can be traced to the great
source of infinite purity and goodness
the one eternal and immutable Spirit
called God. Surely intelligent people
do not any longer believe that God i!
the cause of human discord and sui
fering, any more than they believe tina
the principle of mathematics is the
cause of the failures of pupils to un
derStand and prove its unchangins
rules. An ignorant sense of the rule:
prevents the principle Of mathematic!
being correctly proved, and, just so
it is today discovered by all fair
minded persons who have removed
their blue glasses" that it is an ig
norant material sense of God and Hi!
spiritual rules, which results in feal
and disease, selfishness, war, calamit,
and death. The way of health ant
harmony, the way of true prayer ant
salvation, lies along the pathway of
right understanding. This right un
derstanding comes through the stud,
and practice of Christian Science, ant
in the measure that it is attained i
constitutes spiritual sense of God
The chief purpose of this lecture is t,
: consider and, so far as the time al
: lotted and the speakers ability permit
to reveal this true sense in contradis
tinction to the claims and evidence o
the false material sense or the materi
al point of view.
Il When, as a business man, attende,
! my first Christian Science meeting
} and understood very little of the talk
: which went clear over my head,
: determined that if ever in the futur
t l spoke publicly upon the subject,