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Show TRANSIENT CONDITION OF MATTER DISCUSSED ! The Lesson-Sermon Sunday, March 20, in all branches of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ Scientist, 5n Boston, Massachusetts, comes under the caption "Matter." A passage from the Bible which forms a part of this Lesson-Sermon informs us that "The world passeth away and the lust thereof; but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever" (1 Jno. 2:17). Today physical scientists, after many years of research, frankly ad-j ad-j mit that the propei-ties of matter as ! previously imagined, have disappear-' disappear-' ed from the universe. In fact only recently an eminent physicist, cautioned cau-tioned his audience that the world is 1 not to be explained alone in terms of I matter, but that the qualities of love, character, friendship and other per-l per-l sonal attributes have a definite place ' in the universe. Such declarations indicate that physical scientists ai-e 1 approaching the same conclusion that Mrs. Eddy deduced over sixty years ago when she insisted that man ex-1 ex-1 ists solely at the standpoint of spirit and is wholly governed by divine Mind. A correlative passage from page 191 of her book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, j which forms a part of this Lesson-i Lesson-i Sermon, assists in a logical disposi- tion of this subject. This passage follows: j "As a material, theoretical life-' i basis is found to be a misapprehen-; misapprehen-; sion of existence, the spiritual and ' divine principal of man dawns upon human thought, and leads it to where the young child was even to the ' birth of a new-old idea, to the spiritual spirit-ual sense-of being and of what life includes." |