Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-02-01
MANKIND NEEDS
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pertty on this planet as that which pre-
vailed during the twenty years preceding
the first of August, 1914 and later develop
ments seem to show that never in all the
ages was discomfort so prevalent in the
breasts and thoughts of men as during
: this period. Some of the nations were
so rich that they could afford to apply
almost unbelievable Alrpluses Of revenue
to a means Of giving kent to their unrest.
Freedom from Indebtedness, phenomenal
expansion of trade, luxury unrivaled in
ancient or in modern times-individual
fortunes swollen almost beyond calcula
ton, individual extravfgance carried on
with a confidence and a boldness that
Muld neither be reasoned with nor
Sbashed-these were all present, and yet
the nations and their populations were
unhappy.
Tine was, and that not so very long
ago, when, comparatively speaking
mans wants were little here below, and
among the great majority Of the people
only moderate effort was required to
supply them. Bur prosperity, Legitimate
and artificial, has multiplied mems seem
ing wants in our days many times over,
and has made them so complex, that
they have long since passed and distanced
actual needs To meet what have now
come to be known as wants demands
constant strain; attainment only whets
the appetite for more: emulation takes
the Joy out Of accomplishment: posses
b1Ou ulSaDpUAuEb rather IMAM SATISFIES,
and getting, gnaws at the heels Of hay-
ing. .-
NIATERIALISM
Has ITS CHANCE.
Neyet hHs materialism had 4ts way
more completely than in the last seven
years. Never has its way been less OBJ
structed. To have opposed its headIong
career during the greater part OF this
time would have been to invite opPfO-
brium and hostility. 1t dominated nearly
everything and everybody. An opponent
of It's methods would be as one crying
in the wilderness in the midst of a howl
ing storm. Here was its chance, and it.
made the most of it, For years it had
been impatienty awaiting the day when
1t would prove itself the greatest force
on the globe. The opportunity coming
at last, it proved only one thing its
ability to destroy. 1t upset the world,
it halted progress, it stopped production,
1t unsettled the. thoughts of men, 1t
WrOught~ havoc and scattered wreckage
wherever its power or influence was felt.
3aIhunderOus explosions Ii counted upon
its big loans, big profits, high wages,
great bank accountable setting In OF
an era of imitation and artificial prosper
1ty-for justification. All OF these we're
realized to the satisfaction of human
craving and with their realization came
q period Of luxury and extravaganza such
as history had never before recorded;
but in conjunction with st all came eI-
perisnces in popular disillusionment,
ALL in Widespread moral degeneracy,
from which nOFpermanent recovery is
possible save that which shall be Brought
about through spiritual regeneration.
The aiIaent from which the world is
suffering is mental and individual Al
causation is mental Society, taken either
in its smaller or larger aspects, is pri-
marty indiyidualistic. That which del
eteri0uSly affects the individuak delete
riously affects the masses by healing
the individual a great step is taken to-
ward the healing Of the community and
the nation Mary Baker Eddy, soil
tary. but by no means lonely Inquire
IN the worlds history. thought all this
out, and thought it out to a logical con
clusion, over half a,~century ago, when
as the herald of n new crusade she
sounded the keynote Of universal free
dom, asking fuller acknowledges
of the rights of man as q son of God,
demanding that the letters OF sin, sick
ness and death be stricken from the hui
man mind and that this freedOm-a free
dom immeasurably greater than anything
in the nature Of political liberty-be won
through the abandonment of all barbar-
ious and savage methods, and by resort
to the spiritual healing or existing
wrongs How much the world-how
much mankind-would have gained In
the last fifty years had her doctrines
mel the beginning OF this period ana
81 teadfastk adhered to. is beyond com
mutation. The sorrow, the anguish, the
bitter woe piled upon human misery dur
ing the last eight years could have been
and would have been averted, if only
f4r tribute 10 the First Commandment
had been taken into the CONSCIOUSNESS
of men and nations.
LOOKING N THE
WRONG DIRECTION.
Outside of Christian Science, practically
all are looking In a wrong direction for
IN acceptable and satisfying arrange
ment Of the differences that are disturbing
the world. 1t is generally hoped that by
appealing to the individual and collective
seIfshness of men a basis Of settlement
may be found through territorial gifts,
through some amelioration of indemnitles,
through resumption Of trade relations,
through preferential tariffs, or, when
these, or any Of them. fail Of effect,
through some kind Of pressure. The
thought of bringing about an understand
ing on a basis of good will, of unselfish
ness, Of forgiveness and forgetfulness Of
brotherliness, of the Golden Rule, Of the
Christly injunction that we love one an
other" is submerged by the false md
foolish belief that behind every interna-
tional treaty all the ancient geographical,
racial, tribal, political and religious
bigOtries pretudices and bitternesses
impossible emergencies.
This is the bad old method Of interna-
tional intercourse from which advanced
government has essayed from time to
time, and struggled honestly and earnest
", to escape by the adoption of an open
and frank diplomacy.
The condition thus sought to be RENE
died, and which is still to be remedied,
has prevailed from the earliest period.
The Prophet Isaiah was constrained by
AEhe materialtsts about him to say: 1.-THE
seway of peace they know not, and there
is no judgment in their goings; they
have made them crooked paths; whose
ever goeth therein shall not know peace
Therefore Is Judgment faM from us
neither doth justice Oyertake us ave wait
for light, btt behold Obcurity for bright
ness but We walk in darkness
And Judgment is turned away backward
and justice standeth afar off for truth is
fallen in the street, and equity cannot
enter"
Mary Baker Eddy, f/the leaders Of the
peoples OF the earth would see it. %as
some day they must aud shall. has long
since made clear the basis upon which
world harmony can be secured namely,
through the understanding Of the one
great and only God. whereby the destruc-
about. ~
EFFICACY Of
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
That Christian Science heals sin. sick
ness and disease and drives out all
manner of evil In Individual cases is a
tact SO often attested and so Thoroughly
established that il were a waste of time
at this" late day to undertake to offer
rqfther proof. The heating efficacy of
Christian Science is now admitted bv in
formed people everywhere N1iniStoTe oe