Arizona republican., 1920-03-29

ton in it, before the true state of permanent satisfaction can appear.
 In mortal experience the pendulum swings pretty regularly between want and satiety, and these conditions sim ply express opposite phases of the same material desire. One mortal de- sfres to have and is discontented be- cause he has not; another acquires the objects of his desire only to find in his grasp the apples of Sodom. The writ CT of Ecciesiastes long ago discovered that "All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satis- fled with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing" He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity" Men constantly forget, if they ever consider, that they live in a mental, not a material world, This is the simple and sufficient eN- planation of the failure of material things to satisfy. Finiteness has not within itself the power to satisfy what cannot be satisfied with less than that which expresses the infinite. Who" Mrs. Eddy asks on page 25T of Sci ence and Health with Key to the Scriptures" hath found finite life or love sufficient to meet the demands of human want and woe-to still the desires. to satisfy the aspirations? In- finite Mind cannot be limited to fin ite form, or Mind would lose its in- finite character as nexhaustible Love, eternal Life omnipotent Truth.
 It is because man is a spiritual be- ing, created in the likenecs of God. that men must ultimately desire only that which is spiritual. and that they cannot be satisfied with the material with what is outside of realty and. therefore, non existent The promise of complete satisfa ction rests upon spiritual man. because he really exists at the standpoint of spiritual fullness in Principle. As a man begins to lose his desire for merely material things. and the false sense of satisfaction in the possession of them diminishes. The Psalmist discerned what mans genu- inc contentment would consist of, when he declared, They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house: and thou shalt make them drink Of the river of thy pleas ures.' The difference between setting ones desire upon the pleasures of sense or of reaching forth for the su persensibie joys of Spirit. measures the distance between inpermanent satisfaction in materially and the con- stancy of joy that springs from spir- itual consciousness Mrs. Eddy ex- plains the Psalmist's metapllor. when she writes on page of Pulpit and Press" "The river of His pleasures is tributary of divine Love, whose liv- ing waters have their source in God, and flow into everlasting Life. We drink of this river when all human de- sires are quenched. satisfied with what is pleasing to the divine Mind"
 When a man begins to see even a little of the falsity of mortal desires and to see that they are the source of all human dissatisfaction he also sees that in exchanging material for spir- itual desire he loses nothing. and gains all; for desire that is directed toward the things of the Spirit must itself originate in Spirit, or divine Principle. and the fullness of it's satisfaction is inherent in Principle. Desire that is directed toward Principle and abides in it is, naturally. so purified, so cleansed of material belief, that it be- comes the medium, or prayer. through which the power of divine Love reaches human consciousness to heal 1t of the beliefs of sickness. disease. and all other material limitations. which are the main causes of dissat isfaction.
 A man cannot of course recognize the falsity of material desire and its consequent dissa tisfaction without at the same time admitting the unreality of mortal mind itself, out of which false desire arises. With this recogni- ton. a man begins to awake from a false sense Of mind which is lkened to a dream that life is in matter. When a man awakes from this false con