The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1934-06-08
Acquiring a Bigger Sense
of Things

the troubles which beset mankind
arise from the small sense of things
entertained by the majority of indi-
viduals. We find people living in
cramped and narrow circumstances,
from which they make no effort to
extricate themselves, because their
sense of home has not expanded be-
yond limited ideals. Others regard as
tedious and monotonous their tasks.
because they have as yet only very
little grasp of their native spiritual
capabilities. Then. what very small
sense has mankind in general of what
constitutes supply! We regard money
as our supply, believing that without
it we cannot live. But how limited,
unstable, and fluctuating is the value
of money, and how poor it's dividends
for those who cling fearfully and
greedily to it as if it were a vital
necessity
How narrow, too, is our sense of
life! We acquiesce in the generally
accepted belief that life includes old
age which is the forerunner of death.
Nevertheless, this false sense of
things need no longer be accepted as
real and inevitable, for as everything
has its starting point in thought, the
mental expansion can begin at once.
As birds powerful wings bear it
upward, so right thought will carry
the thinker far when it is turned in
the right direction. But if thought
Is kept chained down to a material
basis, where it has no room to spread,
expand, and soar, it follows that the
will in an Who
level Our need then is to free our
thought, lift it above the contempla-
ton of life as merely physical, and
set it winging into contemplation of
the great spiritual truths about God
and man to be found in the Bible.
For it is a fact that all the littleness-
es and limitations common to human
experience arise from false sense of
God and man who is made in His
likeness.
Even though the Bible depicts God
as loving, good, wise, and unchange-
able, many who have desired to
know Him have not learned to feel
Him as a mighty power and presence
in their lives. Yet this right sense
should be realized, for Christ Jesus
said, HE that believeth on me, the
works that l do shall he do also;"
and the mighty works which he did
were accomplished through his COM
plete understanding of God as the
ever present Father, caring for His
children.
Who ever had so boundless a sense
of things as Jesus? Even at the age
of twelve he felt his God-given abil-
ity to talk and reason about spiritual
things. Later, at the beginning of
his ministry, the Master turned the
water into wine at the marriage
feast. The human needs of five thou
sand hungry people in a desert place
did not dismay him, and the food
set before them was abundant When
called upon to heal the sick and raise
the dead, he did not bestow upon
them only partial recovery, but
health, activity, and freedom. And
to all who follow in this way, Christ
Jesus offers for all time full and COM
plete salvation and life without end.
To Mary Baker Eddy, the Discov-
erer and Founder of Christian Sci
ence, confidence in God as the vital
power, the sovereign presence, the
FatherMother Mind, outweighed all
other influences in her life; and
through her textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
she has placed this beautiful, practi-
cal, and satisfying sense of God
within the reach OF all mankind.
On page $40 of Science and Health
we find this profound statement:
"Unfathomable Mind is expressed.
The depth, breadth, height, might,
majesty, and glory of infinite Love
fill all space. That is enough" As,
to the material senses, the sun pours
it's light and heat upon all the earth,
blessing and heartening mankind, so
to the spiritual senses of those who
gain right concept of God, comes
the glorious assurance of the all
pervading presence and power of the
infinite Mind, which is Love, cease
lessly pouring forth its divine ideas
for men to recognize and utilize
Goodness, wisdom, purity, loving
kindness, justice, mercy, faith, hope,
courage, assurance-all these and
every other spiritual quality existing
in infinite Mind belong to man by
reflection, for he is the idea of God,
Tie SApI coolOu VI NOu U6luS.
Let all who find themselves held
in cramped and narrow places by the
limited sense of things they have
hitherto entertained, begin at once
to turn thought in the right direc-
ton. AS the glories of infinite Mind
are steadfastly contemplated, their
concept of God will grow and en-
large, and with 1t will come joyful
sense of freedom and power through
the spiritual ability to reject the
false beliefs of limitation, lack, and
discord. Ones daily life and occu-
pations will take on nobler outlines.
Instead of the dread of helpless old
age there will be the confident ex-
pectation of added wisdom, har-
mony, and fruition; and so the
ceaseless incoming of Loves spiritual
ideas to human consciousness, and
their faithful utilization, will be
manifested In our experience in
abundant supply.-The ChriStian Sci
ence Monitor.
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