Article March 15, 1913 Issue

Profound wisdom is the goal of scientists and philosophers

John H. Wheeler

Fayette (Mo.) Democrat-Leader

Profound wisdom is the goal of scientists and philosophers. It was Jesus' definite and accurate knowledge of God's law which enabled him to display such a superior knowledge of all earthly things, especially the nature of human life. Thus he was able to teach the wise men in the temple and answer their queries with such profound wisdom and display of intelligence, that all the wise men marveled concerning him. Genuine science, then, deals first of all with divine causation and effects. We should remember that Jesus displayed this knowledge of science or truth without first having been taught by the so-called wise men, whom he afterward greatly enlightened. Solomon prayed for a wise and understanding heart, and being sincere with God, the fountain of knowledge itself, he was ushered into a mental realm of intercourse with God's true law and nature which enabled him to judge righteously, not only between man and man, but concerning everything, so that he was eventually accounted to be the greatest of wise men.

Paul wrote, "We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal," and must, we contend, be understood from the spiritual evidence or reasonings of truth. And again Paul said: "We are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die," or, in other words, fail in not placing our faith wholly upon God, who will direct our path in dealing with material or earthly things.

Mrs. Eddy is in full accord with John the divine, who taught us not to love "the world, neither the things that are in the world," for, said he, "if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him," namely, the proper wisdom does not direct his daily activities. Paul wrote a very earnest letter to Timothy in which he said: "O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called." He knew that actual science was alone found in the human exercise of God's laws, and expressed in our daily life through a consistent obedience to God's rule of life in the ten commandments, and positive resistance to the sinful tendencies of sensuous thought; this alone is spiritual wisdom and true science.

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