Evening star., 1921-01-09
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confounded and bewildered-and
God fills the thought with the one
Mind-Himself, Life, Love and
Truth.
Solomon leaned upon God. Let us
lean whence came his marvellous do
minion over man and the treasures
| of the earth. His fabulous wealth
and seeming material prosperity,
would hardly appear consistent with
lJesus' injunction, Take no thought
for your life, what ye shall eat, or
what ye shall drink; nor yet for
iyour body, what ye shall put on"
Yet God provided all these seeming
material things; and as He clothes
1.-THE lilies of the field, who neither
toll nor spin, so He clothed Solo
mon, who in all his glory was not
arrayed like them.
| Did Solomon take thought for his
tbody, or his resources. in order to
Iprovide for regal splendor-purple
land fine linen, retinue of attaches,
Iservants, horses and chariots-
which should herald him as king?
Where was the wealth which must
be produced 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 understanding
out of which he could build the
house of God? Mol Spiritual sense
alone gives wisdom. Was UNDER
standing equivalent to capital, to
bonds and stocks, to bills of ex-
change, to gold and silver, which he
would require to build the temple,
or house of the Lord? Was it un-
derstanding which Peter used as
power to raise the helpless para
lytic, when he said, "Silver and gold
have I none; but such as l have
give I thee?" He gave the para
lytic strength to run and leap for
Joy, and this was accomplished
through understanding, spiritual
thought. Solomon and Peter both
had learned the hidden mystery of
God, and both used their "domin-
ion" Spiritual thought-force-un-
derstanding) over the world and its
resources.
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
Solomon proved the power of wis
dom and understanding, why have
not the people followed his exam
pie. and instead of unremitting toll
and ceaseless anxiety for what they
shall eat, and what they shall drink,
and wherewithal they shall be cloth
ed, why have they not like Solo
mon, asked for 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 util-
lied it to prove the utter nothing
ness of disease and death. Paul de-
elared that death was "the wages
of SIM; that it was the effect of
erroneous thought, the lie, or false
mentality, the belief of life and in
telligence 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
land the power of God. He said,
my doctrine is not mine, but His
that sent me" Oohn vii, 16). Nor
tails have turned their faces toward
darkness. They have walked in the
valley and shadow of sin, sickness
and death. They have been sailing
on the ever-agitated sea of So
called mortal thought, without chart
or compass, drifting on its hidden
reefs and tossed by its tempests of
fear and disease. They have been
haunted by the mirages of "hope de-
ferred." They are weary of it's H.
lusive pleasures, which they chase
as child chases- a butterfly, only
to see it far beyond, or, if haply he
seize it, in his joy of capture he
opens his hand to find the beautiful
lWings crushed. the life f1utterino