The New York herald., 1920-12-26
ADVERTISEMENT.

| ligence stills the activity of human
thought--that ceaseless whirl of false
reasoning and false arguing, with
| which mortals become cOnfounded and
bewildered- God fills the thought
with the one NIind-IIimself, Life,
Love and Truth.
Solomon leaned upon God. Let us
| learn whence came his marvellous do
minon over man and the treasures of
the earth. His fabulous wealth and
seeming material prosperity, would
hardly appear consistent with Jesus
life, what ye shall eat, or what ye
shall drink; nor yet for your body,
what We shall put on Yet God pro-
vided all these seeming material
things; and as He clothes the lilies of
the field. who neither toll nor spin
so He clothed Solomon, who i'll all his
glory was not arrayed like them.
Did Solomon take thought for his
body, or his resources in order to pro-
vide for regal splendor-purple ard
| fine linen. Il retinue of attaches, ser
wants, horses and chariots-which
should herald him as q king? Where
was the wealth which must be pro-
| duced to build the house of the Lord,
which David, his father, had conceived
but could not erect, and left for his
son to bring forth? Solomon did not
hesitate when God said to him, ASK
what / shall give thee but answered,
| "Give me an understanding heart
and God granted it, and added riches
and honor and long life. Was there
any material wisdom and understand
| ing out of which he could build the
house of God? No! Spiritual sense
alone gives wisdom. Was understand
ing equivalent TO capital, to bonds and
| stocks. to bills of exchange, to gold
and silver, which he would require to
build the temple, or house of the
Lord? Was it understanding, which
Peter used as power to raise the
helpless paralytic, when he said.
"Silver and gold have l none; but
such as I have give / thee? He gave
| the paralytic strength to run and leap
for Joy, and this was accom-
plished through understanding, spirit
ual thought. Solomon and Peter both
had learned the hidden mystery OF
| God. and both used their dominion"
(spiritual Observation-Disclosures
ng) over the world and its re-
sources.
What is understanding? Are the
treasures of the universe therein
How can we gain it, and is it avail
able at all times and in all places and
equal to all emergencies? Since Solo
mon proved the power of wisdom and
understanding, why have not the
people followed his example, and In
stead of unremitting toll and cease
less anxiety for what they shall eat.
and what they shall drink. and where-
withal they shall be clothed, why have
| they not, like Solomon, asked Tor
understanding and wisdom? God Is
no respecter of persons, and will give
to all fully of His riches.
Solomon, Jesus and Mary Baker
Eddy have left to the world this
legacy-the riches of understanding
by which they accomplished their
mighty works. Jesus the Christ IL
lumined the world with the tran
scendent power Of Mind, and utilized
il to prove the utter nothingness of
disease and death. Paul declared that
death was "the wages of sin; tina.
1t was the effect of erroneous thought,
the lie, or false mentality. the belief
of life and intelligence in matter, the
Illusion of material sense, dream
which seemeth to be, but is not real.
The world has refused to accept the
doctrine our Master gave to humanity
which He declared showed "the way
TO eternal life and the power of God
He said, "My doctrine is not mine
but His that sent me" (John viii, 16)
Mortals have turned their faces
toward darkness. They have walked
in the valley and shadow of sin, sick
ness and death. They have been sail
ing on the ever-agitated sea of so
called mortal thought, without chart
or compass, drifting on its hidder
reefs and tossed by its tempests u
fear and disease. They have beer
Haunted by the mirages of hope dc
ferred." They are weary of its illu
slve pleasures, which they chase as Q
child chases butterfly, only to SEE
Il far beyond, or, IL haply he seize It
in his Joy of capture he opens his
hand to find the beautiful wing:
crushed, the life fluttering, and the
creature, which was thing Of beauty
becomes a lifeless mockery of his