Montana labor news., 1939-05-04

Christ Scientist, Butte, by John +
the Board of Lectureship Of The
of Christ Scientist, in Boston, Ma
in the church edifice, 229 N. Mon
stantially as follows:
Do we not see on all sides evil
dences of the fact that human be-
ings are ever striving to triumph
over limitation, bondage, needless
drudgery, unhappiness, and, last but
not least, mental and physical dis
ease? From the dawn of human
history to this year of grace, we can
trace the y~earnings of mankind for
deliverance from material diseord,
and the progress made toward such
deliverance. Possibly the most
notable contribution to the material
betterment of the human family has
come through the numerous inven-
tions which have happily replaced
many of the hardships and much of
the hand-to-mouth existence of our
forefathers. In fact, these days, as
one seems to annihilate time and
space in his m%otorcar, streamlined
train, or airplane, as he snatches
from the air through the wizardry
of radio a message from the utter
most parts of the globe, heats his
home by the turning of an electric
switch, or produces a tasty and Jour
ishing meal from a tin, he may be
inclined to cast a plying eye on the
men and women of yesteryears to
whom existence wa just one long
struggle. There may be such salts
faction with the purely material as
poets of modern life and achieve
ment, that, like Alexander the
Great, he signs for new worlds to
conquer.
A SERIOUS QUESTION
Now while there should be I'M
bounded gratitude for and appre-
citation of these marvellous latter
day human inventions and material
achievements, it might be well for
n to pause and put a serious
question to himself: Has mankind
made equally great strides in the
subjugation of fear, heartache, UNI
happiness, intemperance with its
train of evils, greed, hate, lack, and
all the ct ceteras of mortal discord
and disease? The great Teacher of
Nazareth centuries ago put the
question in these words: What shall
it profit a man, if he shall gain the
whole world, and lose his own soul?"
his spiritual sense? Will the pos
session of a great bank account heal
a heartache? Can one in an airplane
flee from the torments of a guilty
conscience? Can a house aglow with
the wonder of electricity insure a
mental home filled with the con-
seriousness of health and harmony?
After all, then, is not the overcom-
ing of sin, hate, and fear, limitation,
greed, and disease the most vital
problem facing humanity today?
CAN MATERIALISM HEAL
MATERIALISM?
Modern medicine and surgery,
aver their opponents, are constantly
combating and attempting to mas
ter the various physical ills of NOR
tails. Psychology, psychoanalysis, etc,
are delving into the mental realm,
and are striving to cope with the
various behaviorisms and so-called
fixations of the carnal mind. But
is not the effort of materialism to
heal materialism with materialism,
quite like the familiar picture of the
man attempting to lift himself by
his own bootstraps? Sacred history
records that Moses, through faith
and spiritual understanding, wrought
many marvels in the sight of Pha-
raoh, and straightway the magicians
of Egypt apparently duplicated his
works by their mesmeric efforts.
Finally, when Moses cast down his
rod and it became a serpent, and
the magicians apparently did like
wise with their rods, we read that
Moses rod swallowed up the other
rods. Here in the graphic word
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