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HOLDS SCIENCE COMMON WITH OTHER CREEDS (Continued From Page One.) the Bible and beliere In the power, goodness and lore of God. But does not their refusal actually to rely upon God in a fc tlme of sickness indicate a fatal weakness a distrust of God that accounts for the failure of modern religious to satisfy that hunger for righteousness which is characteristic of all men as sons and daughters of God? “Now we cannot adopt any halfway measures about our relations to God. God is good. He is ever-present and all powerful, and that fact eliminates at once and forever any otner power or goodness. Since God has all power, uten evil, the opposite of God, has not power. The fact of the matter is, that tho Christian world has for the most part tueo retlrally accepted the omnipresent goodness of God, and has not had faith in. u >r understanding cf, its ever-present avails* bilitv. What is controlling our thought is determined not by what we say, but by what we do. It men and women prefer to rely on drugs rather than on the power of God in a time of sickness, it is because they believe drugs are a more potent remedy: and all professions of confidence in God to the contrary are'mere lip service and cannot be expressions of profound conviction of the heart. “Because modern religions showed this wide discrepancy between reality and a re-'tatement of the eternal Fcruths of the Bible became necessary It the race was to be saved from the myriad ills that beset it. For this purpose Christian Science came to the world. No matter what hostile critics may say to the contrary. Christian Science came to the world In response to the quenchless yearning of the human heart to know its God. a yearning that human wisdom can never supplv. No matter what the testimony of the material senses may be is to the' seeming reality of matter and evil, Christian Science holds ’ firmly,.ogicallv, and consistently to the eternal fact of the omnipotence of God. which overrules and destroys all the asserted power of slowness, disease, sin and death. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY. “By teaching reliance on the omnipotent goodness of God, Christian Science has reinstated primitive Christianity. What Is primitive Christianity? In the past, Christianity was too much considered to mean customs, traditions, dogmas and creeds of the early days of the Christian church. But if yon will recall the words and deeds of the great Bible characters from Genesis to Revelation, you will find that their religion was something vital, —a living reality. They made no mere professions of trust in God; they had an understanding of God, an! they proved their understanding by destroying sin, by healing disease, by breaking droughts, by controlling the economic laws of supply and demand, and by overcoming the last enemy, even death itseif. They made no empty pretenses of faith in God. and then followed after the latest advertised drug. No, they would have repudiated that procedure as contrary to the first commandment, ‘Thoa shalt have no other gods before me.’ THE BIBLE MESSAGE SIMPLE. “Now the message of the Bible is simple, logical, scientific. Little children lore the Bible. Thpv love it because its message is pure, inspiring, regenerating. But the pity of it is that our family Bibles have for years been lying on the shelf covered with dust —safety depositories for lost spectacles a::d forgotten Why? Because we ha'e allowed doetrint, precedents and traditions to pervert our vision so that we refuse to accept the plaiu teachings of Christ Jesus, the disciples, and the prophets. We have been taught to search the Scriptures for texts In support of some futile doctrine rather than to ponder the meaning of the Bible text and thereby grow in that understanding of God and man which heals the sick and vasts ont sin. Christ Jesus eomamnded his followers to ‘lleal the sick,’ and yet when the imperative command !s brought to the attention of many religionists *ho deem themaelves loyal Christians, they nay sometimes resort to various sophistries that they should not obey it. Christian Science Is fcas and on the Bitde. Like the Bible it is simple, natural, logical ami scientific. There is nothing mysterious about Christian Science or "its practice. It follows the plain teachings of Christ Jesus and as a result Christian Scientists live differently, and think differently than tbey did before they became Interested in Christian Science. The beginner in Christian Science notices at once that Christian Scientists do not use drugs. They have no occasion to do sc-, for the simple reason that they have found in Christian Science a vastly better system of h-aling sickness and disease than is afforded by the drugging system. Furthermore, they have found that reliance bon drugs obscures splritusl understanding and alienates m r n from God. If a person believes he has believes in the existence of another power than the Great I AM; he believes there la some other healing agency th3n God, and is consequently led to doubt that God is the h‘u!er of all diseases, as the Psalmist declared. He becomes skeptical of the divine power to heal and save. It will be noticed likewise that Christian Scientists do not accept as authority Bhysloiogy and medical works because iese reason, for the most parr, from the basts that man is a mere physical orfanism. whereas Christian Science reasons rom the basis that man Is spiritual, the image and likeness of God. The basis of reasoning cf physiology and medical works being the exact opposite of Christian Science, the conclusions arrived at can not. of course, agree. Thn again, the beginner in Christian Science notices that Christian Scienctists do not talk about disease. They do not gossip about disease, do not tell about the diseases they had in the past, the diseases they have now, nor those they expect to have in the future. They do not fear disease, because they know that God never sent it, and that a right understanding of Him completely destroys it. They see clearly that all there is of disease is human fears and false mental pictures. It is evident to them that If the mental picture of disease is not entertained, disease will not at any time be manifested on the body. They are well aware that the issue of disease is determined by thought, and they have no desire to entertain such an unwelcome guest as a mental picture of disease although Chrlstion Scientists have an established reputation as a people ‘given to hospitality* as St. Paul advised. The faet cf the matter Christian Scientists have discovered that there Is a t.tst amount ot unnecessary knowledge floating around it. the atmosphere of human thought, knowledge based entirely on the evidences £d the physical senses, which, if accepted, ean not fail to be productive of pain, suffering, fear, and alienation from God. ‘Unnecessary knowledge,’ says Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health with Key tithe Scriptures, on page 274, ‘gained from V“ five senses is only temporal— the conation of mortal mind, the offspring nt sense, not of Soul, Spirit—and symbolizes all that is evil and perishable.’ Christian Scleut’sts have n race to xun and they do not purpose to run In vain because encumbered with a lot of useless impedimenta. MAN’S ONENESS WITH GOD. “Then again, the beginner in Christian Science may receive the impression that Christian Science heals merely physical ills and is only a :-übstitute for tlie drugging system or oth. r material methods. Christian Science heals the sick; there is no doubt about that. He would be a brave critics indeed who at th“ present time would arise and and ny tuat Cbri-ti in Science does hea! the si, k. Th • liv ng witnesses of its healing power arc num bered by the tens of thousands. But the healing of phy~ic-al ills is not the ultimate of Christian Science. Christian Science goes to the bi ttoin of the human mentality, uncovers the latent errors of, the human mind and destroys them, and arouses men to claim their ’divine heritage to be sons of God. Christian Science arouses men to see tnat nmn live* because God lives, for man’s life is derived from God. A man do-s not live merelv to keep himself In repair or to satisfy his human desires. A Christian Scientist sacs tnat a man’s real business in life is to know and to glorify God. The Westminster Catechism sat s, Man’s chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.’ If you buy an automobile you expect the machine to carry its occupants, nos to undergo repairs. Repairs must be le of course, if the machine does not run. So likewise, when a man Is sick or ainfui, he must be healed b-fore he is prepared to realize his sonship with God. But the healing of sin and sickness Is only the preliminary step by which a man comes to see that his real duty, his Ideal, i* to understand God, and to live according to His eternal laws. The

writer of Ecclesiastes gummed the mat- j ter up when he said, ‘Fear God, and keep ; his commandments; for this is the whole i duty of man.’ And so a man’s regeneration has merely commenced when he Is healed of physical Ills by Christian Science. Dimly at first perhaps, but j nevertheless surely, he begin to see a ; vision—a vision of a God who is Spirit, i Life, Love, and man and the universe > spiritual and eternal. He begins to see | a perfect model of manhood based upon ' man's eternal so-ishlp with God. He notes how lamentably inadequate were - his former habits and Ideals, and he finds j that a transformation of thought must ‘ take place if he is ever to attain this ideal. And so he begins to undergo that change of thought which is described iu the Bible by various terms: ‘conversion,’ ‘regeneration,’ ‘renewing of the mind,’ ‘born of the Spirit,’ ‘reconciliation with God.’ He begins to measure himself by the model of a perfect God and a perfect man and to grow to that perfection of thought which the Psalmist saw when he said, ‘I shall be satisfied when 1 awake in ttiy likeness.’ “But this process of regeneration requires work. We do not jump from mat ter to Spirit at a single bound, but when a man begins to work on the basis of the allness of Spirit, on the right road. As he works and prays, striving to be led off the ditine Mind which knows all things, the path of spiritual light sooner or later stretches out straight and clear before him. 'Blessed is he who has found his work,’ said Carlyle; ‘let him ask no other blessedness.’ T must finish the work of him that sent me. while it is day,’ said Jesus; ‘the night ,cometh, when no man can work.’ And so. as the Christian Scientist works, aci cording to spiritual law, order takes the j place of chaos; the ills of mortality are overcome, perhaps one at a time; sorrow | gives place to joy, sickness to health. ; poverty to plenty, sin to holiness, and ' the fear of death to the certainty of | everiasting life. I yiE vision SUPERNAL. | “This vision of the Fatherhood of God j and all men and women as sons and j daughters of God satisfies, as nothing j else can, the infinite aspirations of man. The effect on the great Bible characters of seeing the divine nature of God was far-reaching and profound. -So great was the change, so fundamental its meaning, that even their very names were changed. You remember that when Abram rose in thought above the human belief of polytheism, many gods, and grasped the sublime conception of I monotheism, one God, his name was j changed to Abraham. Ja- ob saw this ’ eternal reality, and Lis name was changed to Israel. Prior to this ha had been a ; crafty- trader, preying on the weakness ! and follies of his fellow men. At the | present time he would perhaps be called a ’profiteer.’ When, however, he saw the truth about; God and man. be-was so transformed thst he became a prince who, jas tee Scripture declares, had ‘power with God anil with man.’ Moses saw It j on Mount Sinai and he was charged to \ do ail things after the ‘patterns which I was showed thee on the mount.’ Christ j Jesus, on the mount of transfiguration, I saw this transcendent vision of the glory | of God, and man His perfect expression. ! ;, nd we are told that ’his face did shine ; as the sun, and his raiment was white ns light.’ Christ Jesus radiated light, j because he had spiritual consciousness. |He thought God’s thoughts. These j thoughts, these messages, these angels of His presence, came to him clothed ‘ with omnlscence and omr.ipotem’e; and \ because Christ Jesus entertained them. ! he was endured with power which enabled him to destroy pain, sin, death and j t->e grave. I "So profoundly impressed were men I by his wonderful teachings and unpar- , alleicd victory over the physical senses, j that they have dated tho calendar from I his nativity. His career thus stands out ; in history as a beacon light, imineaaur-’ | ably transcending all other human events Mrs. Eddy. the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, likewise. 1 more than eighteen centuries later, saw j this same perfect pattern, this model. ; which enabled her to heal the sick and j sinning, and enabled her to Inspire unj numbered multitudes to forsake human j opinions, dogmas, traditions, and drugs, j 'u order to follow the light of demonstrable truth. Now it might properly be I asked, how do we know that Sir*. Eddy | saw this same model o? God and man I that the great Bible characters saw? j In answer to that query let us suppose that some five thousand years ago a ! great writer and thinker climbed a lofty mountain—a mountain—’Through round its base the rolling clouds ara spread. Eternal sunshine settles on its head.’ and this writer wrote an account of hi* experiences in climbing that mountain | and pictured the marvelous panorama that unfolded to his enraptured vision j as he tolled his way t-e loftier heights. I And as time went on, other writers and thinkers made the same Journey and i recorded their experiences for tho guid | a nee of future generations who would : make the same ascent. Now. is it not I reasonable that their experiences would I be similar, nr.d that they would see the same panorama, and that their r>*cords of the a -cent would corroborate each j other? So likewise have been the exI perlence* of all who have climbed the | mountain of holiness, and risen above j the cloud of materialism that has darkened the vision of all peoph s Mr Eddy climbed this same mountain of holiness that all spiritual thinkers have climbed throughout the centuries. She saw the same vision. Her writings coincide with the spiritual sense of the Scriptures; they give the same spiritual illumination a* do tho Bible texts when spiritually understood; and her followers are healing tho sick and freeing the sinning, a* did the disciples of old when they finally understood the spiritual import of the words and works of the h’.es-ed Master. -And Christian Scientists today see and pattern their lives after this same perfect model, and as a result they are happy, healthful and spiritually minded. Genuine Christian Scientists pray continually that they keep in thought this perfect model. They pray that they may continually see God as Spirit, and man ns the perfect spiritual Image of God. They strive to be governed by the qualities of love, perfection, and holiness, which emanate from the divine consciousness, and they are alert to' de- troy in their own thought the hate or fear which would injure or depress their neighbor They pray that they may have spiritual power to overcome sin and aickne-a They know that every thought, every motive. every deed, is cast into the scale of truth or of error, and they strive daily and hourly that their thoughts, their words, their deeds, their lives may weigh in the balance with health, peace, and divine harmony. They strive to follow- the words of the Psalmist: ‘Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation o* my heart, he acceptable in thy. sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.’ THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF CHRIST JESUS. “The consciousness of Christ Jesus so perfectly reflected Spirit that no suggestions of sla or mortality could enter In the presence of his unparalleled knowledge of God, fear, disease, and j nth led ns darkness before the light. ; Knowing that God is Love, he loved with divine compassion his fellow-men, and because of that love, he healed them. We are told in the gospel that he healed •all at nner of disease.’ fhiist Jesus knew that disease was not of God, and j he conceded no more power to one disease than to another. The modern classification of diseases as functional, nervous. organic, he disregarded entirely. He knew ihat diseases were all/contrary to the divine purpose, and lie destroyed them all alike. We read in Luke as follows: ‘As he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and an | thority over all devils, and to cure diseases And he sent them to preach the , kingdom of God. and to heal the sick And the people, when they knew it. fol- ; lowed him; and he received them, and j spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of heali ing.’ (Luke 9:1, 11) “Now two features stand opt preeminently in the earthly career of thi great Teacher. One is that he utterly refused to accept os filial or conclusive the evidence of the five physical senses; the other is that he did accept to be final and conclusive the evidences of spir it uni senses. Spiritual sense was his only guide, his only basis of thought and action. ’lt is the Spirit that qttickeneth.’ he declared, an-1 then he added, •the flesh proflteth nothing.’ To lllus trate, let us note the manner In which he liar died the case of the man with the withered hand. The materialist, the man who accepted physical sense evi- i deuce as a fact, would doubtless have argued that the withered hand could no* be healed, that there was no remedy known that could restore those wasted muscles and revive the paralyzed nerves. That is the argument of the carnal human ntind. which assumes that man 1 s u physical organism, subject to birth maturity and decay. The great Teacher, : the master metaphysician was never deceived by such shallow sophistry. He I knew that man is perfect even as his Father in heaven is perfect; that the real

man is not diseased, broken, deformed, but in the forever expression of divine Love, and he unswervingly held to that exalted conception throughout his whole earthly ministry in the face of almost] universal skepticism and opposition. Be- ' cause cf His understanding of Spirit, he said to the man with the withered hand, j ’Stretch forth thine hand. And he ! stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.' Another thing that should be noted in the ministry or Christ Jesus, is that he kept clearly in mind the difference between the real and the unreal. What is real? God is real. God’s creation is real. God’s man is rc.fi. Life, Truth, Love, justice, peace, harmouy, are real. \Vhat is unreal? Matter. mortality, sin, evil, disease, Jealousy, hate, and death are unreal. They are unreal because they are not God-created. They are opposed to the divine nature, | they are the fleeing misconceptions of the j human mind which, will inevitably dis- i ap< ear as the ‘new heavens and anew j earth’ •awn on human thought. Christ •Testis destroyed the unreal and exalted the real. The beginner in Christiau Science is at once faced with thn necessity of keeping clearly in thought this vita! distinction between the real and the j unreal, because only hy so doing can he ' have dominion over evil and demonstrate j the supremacy of Spirit. At times misinformed critics seek to convey the impression that Christian Science makes a mistake iu teaching that sin, disease, and death are unreal, claiming that they are ‘terrible realities.’ These errors may seem real to the uninstructed human thought; but they are not real in the sense that they are not God-created. If we believe that disease is real, that be--1:M tends to strengthen the bondage of not to destroy it. No man , throughout the ages has been healed of ’ disease by declaring its reality. The Christian Scientist knows that sin and disease must be seen as illusions of the human mind; then they can be destroyed through divine understanding. SALVATION LOR MEN. “There has been much misapprehension in times past of the true nature of Christ I Jesus and his relation to God and man. Scholastic theology has persistently rei iterated- throughout the centuries that ! Christ Jesus was God, but that can not be because Cod is one God. the Great ' I AM. not made up of parts. Christ Testis was not God, but the Sou of God, as he himself declared. Asa man born |of woman he was the Son of Man. Bei cause he was the spiritual ideal of God, ; he was the Christ, manifesting the qnai- ; ities of his dlviue Father. He knew i that Christ, the divine expression ' f 1 Cod, was f irever ready to heal and save, and that salvation is for all men. All men ure sons of Cod, and all men can gain spiritual consciousness, can nnderI stand the Christ Truth which heals and saves, and can exercise the power of spiritual understanding in destroying dls- | ease, sin and death. Jesus declared that he prayed not alone -for his chosen disciples, 'hut for them also whh-|i shill ; believe on me through their word.' In his I last recorded words utt red Just before | his ascension beyond mortal vision, he isaid, ‘And these signs shall follow them that believe;’ (understand the Christ), j in my name shall they cast out devils; | they shall apeak with new tongues; they ! shall take up serpents; and if they drink I any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; | they shall lay hands on the bick, and tbey sliull recover.’ POWER TO HEAL I Mi ERSAL GIFT. “The Bible teaches that the power to heal is a universal gift within the grasp of any one who strives to know God aright. The patriarchs and prophets healed. The twelve disciples haled; the seventy did likewise. Haul healed the sick and raised the dead, a.oi until tho fourth century the early Christians recognized ami practiced healing, as a part of the work of the church. At th beginning of the fourth century spiritual hcaiit g ceased. Scholastic theology lias tried in vain to make us belu-ve that this of spiritual healing was dtte to an act of God; t •>; a;‘r-.i v 1 . t i waa a s ;uai and pensatiou of Providence, extended to Christ Jesus and the early Christians |to prove that they were under the : divine protection, and that when this proof had been accomplished spiritual ! healing was withdrawn. But that theory ] has no fads within the Scriptures or j without, to support it, and it is coni trary to the nature of God. ‘God is no res; eeter of persons.’ ’Acts 10-34). His grace and goodness n.e for all men to partake. The spiritual law which Jesus demonstrated in healing tho sick on the shores of the S’a of Galilee is an universal immutable law, and Is just as operative today as it was nineteen hundred years ago. “No, the lo*s of spiritual healing can not bo charged to God. The real reason is that th early Christians failed to follow closely the straight and narrow wav of eternal truth. They began , iif y t . r.-111-11l- gS of J ■ 'US, Coil forming them to nio pagan thought about • notn. What.was the result? The human mind became darkened and mystitie 1 and could no longer resort to tin- healing power of God; h-uee spiritual heal !ng disappeared and did net reappear for more than fifteen centuries, when the Science of Christianity was again given to the world b.v a New England woman, Mary Baker Eddy. THE DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER. “In ISfiG Mrs. Eddy was instantly healed of the results of a serious accident through the spiritual understanding of a passage in Matthew's gospel. The light that burst upon her consciousness in that hour of need was the result of many years’ prayer, meditation, and study of the Scriptures. The world of the nineteenth century, iu which Mrs. Eddy made the discovery of the power and availability of Spirit, was steeped in materialism, and there was a tendency to ias" reasoning upon matter and physical s‘l. ue. Mrs. Eddy took Issue with the thinkers of tho nineteenth century, who tor the most part reasoned from a matter basis. .she saw clearly that they reasoned wrongly. She discovered that ‘All Is Andnite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for Cod is All-in-all.’ (Science and Health, p. 4CS.) In other words, sh“ discovered that the universe lias n spiritual cause and not a physical. There Is but one cause. God, one effect, man iwi the universe. Hut she did not stop there. Her further researches ied her to distinguish between the divine Mind, its qualities and ideas, and tlie phenomena of matter and evil, which she termed mortal mind, or,—to use St. Paul's denomination—carnal mind. She saw that the two were opposites, and that the divine Mind and its universe of ideas only, can be true. Mrs. Eddy also saw that the exactness, logic, order, coordination, continuity, and law of God was tlie only real Science, which she named Divine Science. For centuries men hud been led to belle, e that religion and Science had nothing In common, tliut the acceptance of the dicta of natural science was tantamount to disbelief In God. Mrs. Eddy saw that religion and Science were one and the same, both emanations from the divine Mind. True Science is w-holly spiritual, and destroys the human counterfeit science in so fur as the latter is bused ou matter and mortality. When Mrs. Eddy grasped the mighty faet that God is the only Mind and cause, she saw that she hatl a mission to perform for the race, and that mission was to pierce with spiritual vision the dark clouds of matter, mortality, fear and sin, cast over the whole hugnan race; to disperse these cjouds with the reflected light of spiritual understanding, and to reinstate In human consciousness the healing leaven of tho Science of the one omnipotent Mind. “And so she began her work by testing her discovery. Site tested it by healing the sick.—many of them instantaneously,—by breaking the bondage of sin. and by the spiritual light and freedom her followers experienced, who, with unbiased thought, honestly sought to know tiq; truth that rnakelh free. In INI."), nine years after her healing she gave to the world the textbook of Ctarisi tian S b nee, SelenciNiuid Health with j Key to the Scriptures, n book, the mere , reading of which has healed thousands | of the various ills that flesh seems to he I heir to; a book which has done more to ! revolutionize the thoughts of men rei garding the truths of the Bible than any i other book that has ever been written. Sometimes critics will assert- that the textbook of Christian Science is illogical and contradictory, but these critics utterly fail to grasp Mrs. Eddy’s viewpoint. Asa matter of fact, there is not an illogical or contradictory statement in (he book, for the simp’e reason that ail its promises and conclusions are founded | on God, Spirit, as the only power, cause, and creator. Speaking of her experience I at this time, Mrs. Eddy wrote in Science j and Health (p. 10): In following these leadings of scientific revelation, the Bible j was my only textbook. The Scriptures i were ilhimned: reason and revelation ; were reconciled, and afterwards the | truth of Christian Science was demonstrated. No human pen nor tongue taught me the Science contained in this book, Science and Health: and neither tongue nor pen can overthrow it. This book may be distorted by shallow criticism or careless or malicious stu-

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dents, and its ideas may be temporarily abused and misrepresented; but the Science and truth therein will forever remain to be discerned and demonstrated.’ MOTHER CHURCH AND ITS MANUAL. “Sometimes we are asked, ‘Why did Mrs. Eddy form a distinct church organization, when there were so many denominations already established, dedicated to the extension of the religion of Christ Jesus?’ The answer to that query 1 is simple. Her message was refused by established churches and she was impelled to organize a church of her own. Asa result, The Mother Church was organized in Boston, in April, 1879, and has since been followed by a host of i branch churches now scattered throughout the civilized world. To guide and protect the church, Mrs. Eddy evolved the Rules and By-Laws set forth in the Manual of The Mother Church. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, the wisdom of which has been amply demonstrated i-n the prosperity and healing power of The Mother Church and its branches, Christian Scientists cherish and obey the Manual of The Mother Church because It unswervingly guides them and their churches in the straight and narrow way of demonstrable truth, and they have no notion, whatsoever, of departing from either the letter or the spirit of its requirements. The exalted purpose of The Mother Church Is definitely set forth in the Manual on page 19, as follows: ‘The First Church of Christ, Scientist, In Boston, Mass., is designed to be built on the Rock, Christ; even the understanding and demonstration of divine Truth, Life, and Love, healing and saving the world from sin and death; thus to reflect in some degree the Church Universal and Triumphant.’

TRUTH WHEN KNOWN FREES MAN. “Christian Science teaches as does the Bible that God is that the universe of Mind is a spiritual mental universe, and that man is spiritual, forever reflecting the divine nature. Christian Science makes a clear and absolute distinction between the universe of God, the universe of Mind, ami the world of sense phenomena,—the mortal carnal sense of existence which mortals recognize through the five physical senses, the fruits of which are sin, disease, and death. The Science of Christianity makes clear that spiritual existence is the only real existence, and that the world of sense phenomena is unreal, false nothing but illusion. in the face of general belief in the reality of matter, this was a revolutionary post)ion to take, and Mrs. Eddy was tho first thinker since the days of Jesus ot Nazareth and the early Christians to arrive at that conclusion. The important question, however, is not whether the teachings of Christian Science ere revolutionary, but ure they true? And, if true, how do we know that the spiritual is true and the sensuous falße? Now, a Christian Scientist 's always ready to give a reason for the faith that is in him. We know these things by the test of demonstration. A genuine science proves Itself In two ways; first it eliminates tae umi essential, and, second. It carries within It self the proof of its own truthfulne s Thus tlie science of mathematics eliminates the erroneous statement that five and five ar eleven. That error can not possibly boa part of mathematics. it Is non-essential. As the student gains a knowledge of mathematics, be finds that the science of cumber a proves Itseif. Ho gains confidence in mathematics because he o-os that it is demonstrable; that the science of numbers carries within Itseif the proof of Us owu truthfulness. Applying the same line of reasoning to our relations to God, because the Science of Christianity is uot supernatural, but divln-ly natural, we find that as tlie perf. tlou of God, ills holiness, beauty, wisdom, and power dawn upon the tlluml-nat-d thought, we are divinely assured of their reality. Did not Bt. Raul declare thst ‘the Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the jliiidren of God ? Ou tho other hand, as this understanding of God unfolds to tfio human consciousness, the e vanes cent Httd Illusive character of the world of zeuse phenomena, tho nonessential, becomes more and more clearly exposed and gradually fades from thought. The more clearly we com prebend the things of (spirit. the more surely and completely we can beat sickovercome Hin, anil break the bonus of every evil. God is love/ said the beloved disciple. 'There is no fear In love -‘ arcl perfect love oasleth out fear, „ I'lote likewise casts out all that is unlike Love and enthrones peace tnd harmony tn undisputed control. eternal life EVER-URLSLNT FACT. • v l’o tlie degree that we apprehend that Cod Is Life, do we partake here and now of life eternal. Eternal life is not some •far off divine event/ but it Is an irrevocable fact, so be understood nnd lived here and uow. Jesus defined life e.tetn.il as follows; ‘This is life eternal, that t'l ey m'glit know thee tlie only true and Jesus Christ, who thou has sent/ You will note in till* declaration Ihat life eternal consists in knowing God. that t! „ present tense is employed Today tfi the day of salvation. Life Is God, and Cod Is ever-present, therefore life 1h hero nnd now, an ever-present fact. No bar id r is interposed, no door is closed betw.cn meat and life. Death is not a transitory state between mortality and immortality; but is an enemy to be destroyed through the discernment of everpresent Life. Our duty is to prove these things in the face of skepticism of the human mind. • We likewise can reason about man's Relationship to God conversely. The more we uro submerged iu tho belief that a matter world exists, that man lives iu a physical body, tliut pleasure, pain, happiness and death inhere in matter and physicttUty, the farther we are removed from the ability to overcome these errors by spiritual understanding, if we harbor bate, resentment or Jealously, if "o are tilled with human ambition or glory in Intellectual attainments, tlie light of spirituality waxes dim. No man ean h%T the sick by spiritual power, and retutu fel lowship with materiality ‘Y’o cannot s ivc God and mammon,’ was tlie declaration of him who wus beloved ot His Father. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DESTROYS EVIL. “VS hen wo come in contact with the material world about us, we are confronted with the phenomena of evil. We note its destructive character. It manifests itseif In myriad forms of fear, pains, droughts, wurs, storms and death Where did this unholy thing come from? Is it of God or is it not? A false theology has attempted throughout the centuries to lead men into the belief that God created evil; ihat in some mysterious way evil is good in tlie making, a crude form of good, as It were. But the fact is that God is not the nuthor of evil. If God were the author of evil, then God would be a God of hate, instead of iovo, a God of death, instead of life. Evil Is contrary to good, and there is nothing in all the infinitude of God’s universe out of which evil could lie created. Darkness is not farther removed from light than evil is from good. Light does not produce darkness, Life does not produce death. Confronted by these facts, false theology shifts its ground and argues that God permltte evil to be self-created. That is ficpliist.y, because God. having all power, would lie Just as responsible if 110 per mltted evil to be seif-cueated as if He created It direct. Some theologians, in theorizing about evil, assume that be cause God crested ail that was made. He must have created evil, since evi) has apparent substance to the physical senses. These theologians have utterly failed to see that the physical senses cannot in terpret Uod, that evil is without founds tion, has no reality and is merely a phenomenon of tlie human mind. “Christian Science clears up all mys tleism about evil, and show's that evil tinder whatsoever forms it masquerades, is a false claim, operating through the five physical senses. When we see even faintly the omnipotent goodness of God. we can never fear evil as we did before. Why? Because we have dethroned it. Before the omnipotence of God, evil shrinks to its native nothingness. We see it for what It is,—a lie, and a liar, ‘a murderer from the beginning’ as the Master a false projection of mortal belief, —nothing more. Does not the Scripture declare: “There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep the-' in nil thy ways’? Sometimes, Iu the face of the seeming activity of evil, men may become fearful and despairing. Accepting the scholastic lie about evil being God-created, and therefore invinclb'e, they may throw up their hands and become its unresisting victims. But the genuine Christian Scientist waxes strong when battling with evil. He refuses to concede to it one iota of power, or reality. He refuses to allow a single suggestion of its presence or power to

enter his consciousness. He knows that man has control of his own mentality through understanding the Christ, and that when w T e stand at the door of thought, refusing admittance to every whispering of evil and admitting only the ideas of holiness and health we are approaching that perfection of thought w’hieh Jestts knew when he said, ‘The kingdom of God is within you.' But if we fail to prove thai evil is an illusion and fail to gain the mastery ox r er it, that failure is due to the fact that we do not rely wholly and radically on God. Some people at times may listen to the sedueive argument that it is the part of wisdom to be moderately good and moderately wicked, but such a course will never win the victory over evil in the day of stress and trial. The lukewarm saint never healed a case of sickness in the past and never will in the future. We cunnot accept physical sense evidence, and expect to lay hold of the divine power in the destruction of evil The Apostle James declared as a prime requisite of a Christian that he ‘keep hitnself unspotted from the world.’ To master evil, we must be whsje-hearted, radically scientific Christians.

BODY CONTROLLED THROUGH UNDERSTANDING. “Experience has proved that the human mind cannot control the body harmoniously. The reason for this Is clearly apparent to the Christiauly scientific thinker. The body Is the expression, tho objectification, of human mortal thought. It therefore manifests whatever state of thought we entertain about it. If we believe in, and fear old age, sickness, contagion, heat or cold, we may have these wrong conditions manifested on the body, thus proving the words of Solo“'''0. ‘As ho thinketh in his heart, so is he.’ In all cases, whether we are aware of it or not, sickness and disease are first accepted in thought before they can be manifested on the body. The drugging practitioner assumes that the body is a self-acting organism and attempts to heni it by the use of drugs, but takes little account of the human mentality, which is the breeding ground of all mortal Ills. Wiser thiyj the doctors of modern medicine, Jesus declared that ‘out of the heart’ —the human mentality—•proceed evil thoughts * * * which defile a mail.’ The wise gardener does not merely cut off tlie top of the noxious weed that chokes his garden,—he digs it out, every root of it. The fad of surgical operations, stimulated by morbid fears and subtle mental suggestions, never gets at tho root of any ill. Tho effect may be removed by the operation, but tlm mental cause remains to bear fruit after itR kind, and later may engulf the patient iu a blacker cloud of fear and despair. The human thought must be purified before we can hope to cope successfully with sickness, pain, and disease. The body is not onr master, but our servant, and it is the duty of every one of us to prove this fact. Patti’s clear insight when ho declared that ‘whilst we are at home in tho body, we are absent from the Lord' has not been generally comprehended. The remedy for bodily ills is to look away from tho body, refuse to accept its false evidence of pain and disease, nnd to bold thought steadfastly to the r>-altn of divine Mind, where u.nn possesses unchanging health based upon the eternal truths of God A man Is immune to pain and disease only as he lives in spiritual ronsciottaness. Mrs. Eddy saw clearly that thought must rest on things divine, nnd not on matter and the body, or health and peace would never be gained. And so she tells us in the Christian Science textbook, page 2'H. ‘The crude creations of mortal thought must finally give piaco to thn glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spiritual and eternal. Mortals must look beyond f'dlng, finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things Where shall the gaze rest but in the unsearchable realm of Mind?’ HAPPINESS BASED ON SPIRIT! AI. KNOWLEDGE. “Happiness is tho universal goal of men and women. But happiness is not possible without pence of mi.ad. and peace of mind can only be attained when thought rests on a divine has Is. AJI ti-.t the physical senses apprehend is fading, transitory, mutable If -<• rest upon that basis, the foundation of our structure will sooner or later give way and confusion an 1 loss wi’i be onr portion. \Vu n u*t learn t" reject the fiNe und hold tho tiue, if we would 'dwell in the secret place of the niost High/ We are to know that Go 1 Is the only Life, and that our life 1* derived from God. We are ever to refuse to aee.pt any human belief thnt ruan lives in the flesh, or that n matter world ever existed or e\er can ex'sr We are to hold ttnuight to tlie eternal fact that infinite Spirit is tho creator nnd governs all, and there is no other creator and no other creation. "If we ar<> wise we will seek to gain i syirltuai understanding, which is the ‘pearl of great price.' With spiritual under|t.inding we make clear distinction between right thoughts and wrong thoughts, between divine Ideas which people the realm of Spirit, and mortal I# And we are hold to God's ideas and to repudiate mortal misconceptions. We gain spiritual insight its we ponder the tilings of God. and as we think on these things, their healing power and meaning are revunl-d. If we study the Biliie, and Science ami Health with Key to tlie Scrip tures, our thought is uplifted nnd purified; we learn to detect the difference be tween spirtiual ideas and sensuous concepts Just as readily as the musician through ills grasp of the laws of liar mony, can discern between tom# that ure true and those that are false. And as tlie nature of ’the oue altogether love-: !y.‘ dawns upon our thought, we can sing w ith the Psalmist: How- amiable are tbv tabernacles O Lord of hosts " ‘My soul longeih, yea, even faintoth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out fur the living God.' “Every man can begin now to gain spirituality. We can begin now to think God s thoughts and reftt'e to think evil thoughts. The problem of our salva tion is worked out in tlie realm of our own consciousness. No man Is so dark otied mentally; no man is In an environment so unfavorable but what be can mnko a beginning in right thinking, nnd refuse wrong thinking. God has given to every man power to control his own mentality. We uiu-t arouse ourselves to exercise tills control. Spiritual freedom, the freedom which comes through proving tlie ever presence of divine Love. i for a!! men, and all men can and will realize their consciousness of this freedom. If your burden seems heavy and the conditions about you forbidding, take courage. Remember that tlie great Master came to this earth not to relieve us of our responsibilities, or do our work for tis; but to show us that through the power of God man ean rise superior to all the ills of mortality. He overcame them. You and I can do likewise. Only be not fearful. Divine Love, all knowing, all loving, all powerful, is forever ready to heal you and to receive you ’clothed with the wedding garment of righteousness,’ into the Father's house.of many mansions."

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Kiwanis Jlub Puts Out Its First Paper Breezy and snappy and bubbling with, good nature the first edition of the “Indianapolis Kiwanian,” of which Frank S. Chance is editor, has made its appearance and will continue to shed sunshine as a weekly bulletin.

A Most Important Selling of Women's and Misses 9 New SILK BLOUSES Neuiest Style! They compare favorably with ij j \ blouses which have been selling re- ( i;, t; J r cently for $4.00 and $5.00 in quality, i I in beauty, in workmanship. I \ Spine are hand embroidered. It’s ar occasion to create a sensation, even on the new lowered silk market, to see si k blouses of such beauty and style sell at this figure. We made an advantageous purchase—then priced them at a close margin, as is the custom in The Basement Store. COLORS—FIesh, white, MATERIALS—Hand era- TRIMMINGS Novelty honeydetv, bisque, porce- broidered and plain trico- braids, hand embroidery in lain, Mrs. Harding blue and lette, tailored silk pongee, attractive designs, Ver.ise numerous others. Georgette, crepe de chine. lace, eta SPECIAL AT $2.98 \ The Ten Dollar Sale of /||l. New Spring COATS Sale lb n f[B For Women J|/ Price and Misses [ln, Smart, straightline models, luxurious wrappy models, clever drop-shoulder styles, set-in sleeve models, inverted pleated q \ styles, box-coat effects, tailored belt coats. y \ Cape coats Sports coats Tricotines Vl Tuxedo coats Wrappy coats Serges Johnny coats Velours Polo cloths / —— —>l Polo coats Silvertones The wanted colors On Sale at $lO A Most Extraordinary SALE of CORSETS Some are BELOW half former prices. We’ve omitted the famous name by request. In Four Great Sales Groups Sale price, Sale price, Sale price, Sale price, 98c s i.9B $ 2.98 S 3JB Exceptional $3.50 and $4.00 $5.00 and $6.00 $7.50 and SIO.OO values qualities qualities qualities Front and Back Lace Styles Thev are makes recognized by millions of women as the very finest workmanship in corset making. We’ve omitted the names in deference to the manufacturers. They’d merit much higher prices. They Yvere broken lots of high-class merchandise. We purchased them at half price—in some instances below half price. We’re passing our good fortune on to you—we’ve marked them ou tlie same basis. Brocaded corsets Coutil corsets Front lace High bust Broche corsets Batiste corsets Back lace Low bust Satin corsets Medium bust Lon" skirt styles, free hip models, flesh and white. All sizes, $3.98, $2.98, $1.98 ami.” *.. DOMESTICS and BEDDING DRESS AND APRON PER- I COLORED MARQUIS- BLEACHED SHEETING, 81 GALES yard wide, various ETTE, yard wide, light and inches wide, 65c A Q _ light and dark colors, includ- dark color effects; formerly quality ing the much wanted navy sold at 49c, • blue figures and 1C special BLEACHED PILLOW stripes iOC MUSLIN, 42 inches YARD WIDE CRETONNE, Yvide, 45c quality floral, Persian and stripe dePLAIN BLUE CHEVIOT B j gni goo d coloring for drap “RED STAR” DIAPER SHIRTING, 27 Inches wide, e ries, furniture slips, i o CLOTH, 10 yard lengths, in fast color; early season price e tc., very special lOC sanitary package—--45c, extra spe- 20 incheg wld6i b01t..91.65 Cia BLEACHED MUSLIN, yard Kit*‘SJ'JS • wide, soft nainsook finish (no hnit‘‘’>’of FIGURED CURTAIN phone orders), ex- 1 inches Wld ®, b01t..9-.^,5 SCRIM, 34 inches wide, ere- tra special IJC tonne patterns; for curtain BLEACHER) CHEESEor over-hangings (no phone YARD WIDE SHEETING, CLOTH, yard wide (no phone orders), extra spe- li) unbleached; 20c orders), spe- o cial lifC quality iLtzC cial 0€ THE Wm. H. BLOCK CO.

The “Kiwanian’* is the official purveyor of Kiwanis Club news. It announces Frederick N. Wlthey, New York lecturer and writer, as guest of honor at the club's weekly luncheon at the Hotel Severln Wednesday. Edward Hereth, chairman of Retail Division No. 1, will have charge of the program. Speaking of Mr. Wlthey, the secretary of the Cleveland Kiwanis Club writes:

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“Every one of the ISO present were intensely interested iu Mr. Withey’s analysis of the honesty of nationalities and types.” EASTERN STAR DANCE. The officers of Naomi Chapter, No. LSI, Order of the Eastern Star, will give a dance and card party at the Denison Hotel tomorrow evening.

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