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JOHNW. DOORLY GIVES SCIENCE TALK AT MURAT (Continued From Page One.) selves frequently denied tnat the material drugg.ng system is iu any way an exact science. > "The conscientious mortal then mast face the fact that he Is today basing his existence, his salvation and his happiness on three things; first on a science which only pertains to material conditions and never to spiritual facts, second on a theology which does not claim to be scientific or exact, and tnird on a healing system which is neither spiritual nor truly scientific. What a picture of materialism this Is for humanity to face after thousands of years of human effort! It is true that many of the thinking people of today are deeply troubled at the evidence that theology, or our systems of salvation, seems to save from so little, and that the material healing systems have to stand helpKssly by whilst’men and women are devastated by epidemics and by a host of so-called incurable diseases. Also that the efforts of material science have in many cases been utilized not for the benefit of men, but for the destruction of men through the most horrible methods of warfare. Is humanity never to stop ana* consider these indisputable facts seriousfly? Shall men forever persist in their course of materialism, remallnlng content to believe that these things must be so and that there Is no permanent and fundamental remedy for human woes?

"THREE AS INDERSTOOD "IX CHRIST lAX SCIENCE. ‘•Christian Science, on the other hand, 'teaches that there Is an exact Science watch is true to Christ and Christianity, that there is a theology which is wholly scientific or true, and that there is a Jlvine healing method which is both Christlite and scientific. These three, tnis Science, this theology and this healing method, Christian Science declares to be eternal, ever-present, demonstrable facts of being, for they are the Science of Life, the theology of Spirit, and the healing method of Truth. Christian Science teaches that these are the divine aystems whien Jesus lived and labored to reveal to mankind, in fact these are the systems which all reformers have perceived dimly and have labored to reveal to men. Christian Science utterly refutes the suggestion that reformers auch as Abraham or Moses. Luther or Wesley were striving to bring to humanity some indefinite and impracticable Idealism. It declares without hesitation tnat they perceived and understood to some extent the only real Science, the absolute Science of spiritual being, which explains God's true nature and the relationship of true being to God. the only true theology, the exact, scientific, saving and redeeming effect of Truth upon . human thought, and the only true healing method, lnfln'te ability of spiritual understanding or of spiritual thinking to deliver from the diseases of mortal though and experience. Christian Science teaches that these are also the divine svstems which are revealed and outlined throughout the Scriptures, and that the Bible is no fairy story, but is when Its teachings are proi>erly understood, the book of absolute Science, of pure theology and of scientific healing. Christ Jesus the Saviour of men foresaw and foretold that these three systems revealing the eternal facta of being should some day appear to humanity In all their certainty and science. This appearing he foretold as the coming of ‘the of truth, (John 16, lot and Chris(Hon Scientists know that today there has been revealed to humanity that for which men have prayed and suffered, that for which tney have lived and died and for which they have been willing to sacrifice all. This blessed thing is the absolute Truth, about God and about existence, which expresses itself through divine Science, and whien Mary Baker EddV has discovered in this age and founded. j "Truly has Whittier written: — -*©h, sometimes gleams upon our sight. Thro' present wrong, th’ eternal Right; And step by step, since time began, We see the steady gain of man. ‘That all of good the past hath had Remains to make our own time glad. Our common, daily life divine. And ev'ry land a Palestine. “Thro’ the harsh noises of onr day. A low sweet prelude finds it way: Thro' clouds of doubt, and creeds of fear, A light is breaking calm and clear. 'Henceforth my heart shall sigh no more For olden time and holler shore: God's love and blessing, then and there. Are now and here and ev’ry where." (Christian Science Hymnal, p. 18.)

‘ THE OBIJLAGTION "TO PREACH CHRIST. "Christian Scientists recognize that they are only beginners in the underran ding of the Science of Christianity and they do not claim to be absolute and complete demonstrators of this Sriicnce. In fact they freely qplinit that there has only been one perfect demonstrator of Christian Science and that is Jesus the Christ. They do know, how ever, that God has revealed to the world through Mary Baker Eddy, this divine Science, the Science of the Christ, which Includes in itself all true Science, tneology and medicine. They also know that as their fellow men and women understand and accept this science that its accomplishments in the way of healing and saving will be even greater than they are at present, and will indeed be ao overwhelmingly conclusive that no man will be able to doubt the origin of this Science as being divine. It cannot be toe frequently affirmed that Christian .Scientists have no quarrel with their fellow religionists, with their friends who believe that science Is wholly material or with their medical friends. Indeed Christian Scientists desire to have the greatest love and respect for every one of their fellow men. no matter what their religious, scientific or medical opinions. Let the *eritie of Christian Science wno thinks that Christion Scientists are attacking his particular system, because they are declaring the Science of Christ, remember that there are on earth today some millions of people who at one time believed that Christian Science was trying to take something essential from them through Its teachings, but who now gladly acknowledge that they also have* found In Christian Science more than they ever hoped for in the way of holiness, happiness and health. • INTERPRETATION OF "GOD AND HIS CREATION. "Let me then invite you to consider this Science of the Cnrist which embodies, and is based wholly upon the idealism of Christ Jesus. As Christian Science pertains wholly to God and to His creation or to true being, it is of course necessary for 11s to consider what God is before we can proceed.' "Popular theology has regarded God as Sa distant being to be sought, in times of teed. through prayer. These prayers, in a few instances, seemed to be answered but in the majority of cases they remain unanswered. Material science nns. with Its material theories, removed God even farther from the ken of mortals, and materia] healing systems have educated thought to consider God as a being who works through material processes. Christian Science takes exactly the opposite view. Christian Science declares that God Is an ever-present divine reality, who is ever available to His own creation and is Infinitely knowable. His presence and power. Christiau Science teacbqs, are essential to every right activity and consequently to all health, holiness or happiness, and to all true existence. God, Christian Science also teaches, has nothing in common with materiality, hut He tnd His creation exist independent of suppositional matter and its so-called laws. In fact, Christian Science teaches that God Is the source and cause of all that Is true and, therefore, of true existence.

"The Scriptures use several terms for God which all Christians have accepted but which few Christians have understood practically and intelligently. Mrs. Eddy has applied these same terms to God, but •he has logically accepted the conclusions •bout God which these terms 'ndicate. For Instance, the Scriptures teach that God is Love, but they also teach that God la Spirit, consequently Mrs. Eddy bas concluded that Love is Spirit and therefore that Love is not to be found in material conditions. Also tl.e Scriptures dere that Spirit or God Is infinite and Christian Science likewise logically c*-n----riudes that matter, or material existence, Is not the truth of being, lit the same way the Scriptures teach that God is the only cause and creator and Christian Science therefore accepts the fact that the only real or true existence there Is or can be, must be the emanation or expression of this one and only cause, God. As God Is immutable and lx without shadow

of turning, His creatloa must be an emanation or expression* of immutable Spirit and must consequently be wholly spiritual. "ODD AS DIVINE MIND, AND ‘‘CREATION. SPIRITUAL OB MENTAL. "It is evident to any one who' has studied the Scriptures closely that when Jesus declared God to be Spirit he was not declaring God to be some indefinite abstraction, but he was revealing and describing the most certain, the most available and the most stable entity that could possibly be imagined,—Mrs. Eddy has once and for all taken this word Spirit out of the realm of mysticism and superstition and placed it in the realm of reason and science by explaining that Spirit is really divine Mind, or is the infinite Intelligence which knows, had knows divinely or truly. It is certain that when Jesus used the term Spirit he meant divine Mind, for on one occasion he explained quite naturally to his listeners 'the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, . . . ’ (John 6, 63). In fact Infinite Truth, which includes all divine mentality. Is Spirit, Christian Science, therefore, teaches that God is divine Mind or Spirit and that divine Mind is Love. As God is everpresent and omnipotent, the divine Mind which is Love must be omnipotent and irresistible. Even if one did not believe in the Scriptures and he reasoned logically he would naturally arrive at these same conclusions. Material existence shows that evil is destructive and that material conditiona pass away. Therefore being, to be eternal, must be spiritual and wholly good. Jesus in his tenebings frequently tried to show men that Spirit could not produce matter, and he was simply explaining the great metaphysical and scientific fact that God is the only cause and that existence must be exactly like that cause and. so wholly spiritual, and not what the human sense declared-it to be when he uttered such a statement as 'That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.’ (John 3,6.) "Mrs. Eddy has summed up the essence of her teachings in a short statement which she calls the 'scientific statement of being.’ This statement Is given on page 468 of her text book, ‘Science and Health with Key to tne Scriptures,' and 1s as follows:—‘There Is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance In matter. All is infinite Mind and Its infinite manifestation. for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter Is moral error. Spirit Is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit Is God, and man is His Image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.' As time goes on it will be found that in this statement lies the crux of all true Science, theology and medicine.

"CONCLUSIONS FALL "UNDER THREE CLASSES. “Here then we have the following conclusions : * . “(1) The physical scientist believes that existence is finite and material and his thinking relates wholly to so-called material substances and their actions. The Christian Scientist declares that true existence is absolutely spiritual or divinely mental, is wholly in and of God. or Spirit, and his thinking relates to divine facts. "(2) The theologian of today, offers an indefinite concept of God as a distant. Indescribable Being, whose power and presence are sometimes manifested in extraordinary or miraculous ways to deliver men from evil or to plague them with evil, and who manifests Himself through material conditions. Christian Science, on the other hand, teaches that God Is divine Mind and that this Mind is Love. Also that this one Mind which is Love Is most truly understandable and is ever available to men through right mental activity or spiritual thinking. Christian Science further teaches that this one Infinite Mind, God. forever operates through spiritual thinking to deliver men from all that Is unlike Himself. In fact Christian Science teaches that the divine Mind, God, operates not through material conditions, but to deliver from material conditions. “(3) The material healing systems of today rely on nonintelllgent material drugs for health, which drugs express the contrary of the nature of God. or Spirit, and the effects of which are highly uncertain. These healing systems also teach that God or Spirit works through material means. Christian Science, on the other band, teaches that disease is an effect of mortal thought and of false medical laws and opinions, and that acquaintance with God. the one and only Mind, brings Into operation the true healing law, the law of God. or of divine Mind which frees from the mortal mind and its diseased hellers, in fact, the three material systems deal -vitb both matter and Spirit as realities, co-operating and coalescing. Christian Science, however, declares there is but one reality, namely Spirit, God. divine Mind, and its expression :* also that material existence Is but a falsity which only seems real to the mortal or carnal thought. Christian Science further declares that an understanding of God and of spiritual being will deliver from mortal thought or from the carnal mind and from Its dream, mortality. This absolute, Invariable understanding or spiritual thinsing is what the Scriptures describe as the Mind of Christ, or the Mind which was In Jesus Christ. “THINKING OF SCIENTIST “ESSENTIALLY INTELLIGENT, j “I would ask you to consider seriously whether the Christian Scientist Is less intelligent, less s ientlflc, less cultured, i or less Christian because he devotes his I time and energies wholly to the effort of attaining the Mind of Christ and to understanding the divine Mind, God, and j His spiritual creation, rather than to i the study of fleeting material conditions which have no true science, no stability, no actual law and no divine reality? H must be admitted that it is the lack of this very spiritual thinking which has caused mankind to wander so far from the understanding of divine law and divine realities, and to wallow In the mite of material intellecrualisra iu which there Is and ..’an be no real Science, no divine theology, and no true heaMng. It must also be admitted that it is through this j constant study of spiritual facts, or ; through divine communion, that mankind will be led out of the by-ways of materialism and will be awakened to the great spiritual and scientific fact of one infinite, ever-present God, divine Mind, and one infinite, indestructible creation, absolute spiritual being, never beginning, never ending, but perfect and eternal a* the Father Himself. It is also In this study that the truly wise man will find hir solace and comfort, that the truly intellectual man will find his Joy, and that the true reformer will discover mans Infinite ability to help and to heal his fellow-men. “THE PRAYER OF "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. “How, then, is the Science of Christ, or Christian Science, which includes in itself all true Science, rheology, and medicine. going to reveal to men the truth of being which Science should reveal, the saving and redeeming theology which alone can deliver humanity from iln. and the healing grace whit alone kehls. One of the greatest aids to the understandings and demonstration of this Science of being, is prayer. What a wealth of deep and consecrated thought that word prayer stirs in us all. As long as the word ! prayer exists, human hope can never be | entirely lost. Then is the Christian Scientist who depends so largely on prayer, not in accord with humanity’s purest and highest aesires ? It is true that prayer bus been so. misunderstood and misused l that much of its effulgence and true j meaning has been lost, but even yet no i word means more to poor sick and suf- ! sering humanity than does this word I prayer. What then is the prayer of a j Cnristian Scientist? It is not a spasmodic attempt to perform the impossible, that Is to change or to influence the Immutable, divine Mind,' God, who Is always Love. It is not an attempt to obtain from Deity something that we do not deserve in order that we may continue on our material course. Neither is it an attempt to deliver ourselves from sickness, from poverty, from worry, nor from any vicissitude of human experience simply in order that we may be free from pain and trouble.

| "The prayer of a Christian Scientist is i his constant, conscious, unremitting men- \ tal desire to live above the mortal and in accord with the divine. It is his unceasing attempt to commune with the divine Mind, God, and so to utilize the true Science which reveals true extstsnee, the true theology which inevitably delivers from sin, and the true healing power which always heals disease. The Christian Scientist's prayer la his persistent daily and hourly affirmation of divine Mind's infinite presence and power, and of evil's nothingness. It is his increasing knowledge of God and oi absolute spiritual being .and before this the so-called carnal mind and irs falsities of sense, material existence, sin, disease, and death grow fainter and finally disappear. This 1s the prayer of which Paul speaks as praying without ceasing. True prayer Is* one of the tenderest. most certain, most scientific and most intelligent things on earth or in heaven. The Christian Scientist's prayer is, in fact, his spiritual thinking and living, or his right mental actlv-

ity. Wnen a man tninks rigntly he is expressing his true being as the likeness of God, divine Mind. Spiritual thinking Is, therefore, really Immanuel, or God with us. Just as soon as a man recognizes that htß constant right thinking and right living) or bis right mental activity, that is his true consciousness, is indeed Immanuel, or 'divine Mind, God, with us, he at tnat moment begins to understand why true prayer Is Infallible and is infinite in its ability to reveal divine facts which save and heal. Thinking divinely, or having the Mind of Christ, is attaining somewhat to man In God’s Image, ‘.he true and only man, the man God made, the man who is forever an expression or emanation of God, to whom belongs dominion over all material things. “Prayer Is as Infallible, as certain, as definite and as irresistible as God Himself, for It is God. divine Mind, with us. expressing Himself through the Mind of Cnrlst, or through spiritual thinking. Such prayer knows no failure and no fear. It honors God In a way that a poor attempt to change or influence God can never do. Prayer recognizes and abides by God’s all-ness and evil’s nothingness. This Is the prayer Jesus described when be stated, In accord with all true Science, all true .theology, and all true medicine, ‘ye shall know the truth, and thg truth shall make you free.’ (John viil, 32.) Prayer demands absolute life-long consecration of thought, desire, activity. Intellect and purpose to spiritual law and divine facts. It teaehcfc us to acknowledge God In all our ways, a<nd to recognize no Other source or cause. Prayer demonstrated is heaven here and now and within us, for It includes In itself all health, all holiness, happiness, peace and. assurance. Such prayer Is God’s law to every condition, for It Is the very presence and power of divine Mind. God. “THE PURPOSE “OF TRUE PLAYER. “It mlgnt be well to explain that Christian Scientists make much of the healing of disease for the same reason that Jesus did, and that is because the healing of disease through spiritual means is accepted as a clear and indisputable proof of Immanuel, or God with us. Asa matter of fact, Christian Science teaches that what humanity really needs to be healed of primarily, is its faith in things material, or of Its material thinking. Every sin, every disease, every sorrow, every material condition. every catastrophe, every phase of fleeting mortality, Christian Science declares to be but an effect of material thinking, or of the carnal mind, and Christian * Science therefore proposes to heal the Individual and tne world of these things by first correcting tbelr material thinking, or their false material theories, with the Mind of Christ, or with spiritual thinking. The real mission of Christian Science, therefore, is to destroy men’s false faith in things material by demonstrating beyond a doubt the allness and supremacy of Spirit or of the divine Mind, which is God. “Let me remind you that the Christian Scientist’* prayer does succeed because of a merely Intellectual attempt to know the Truth at the moment of prayer, but it succeeds because of his life-long struggle to understand God and spiritual being, and to utilize Science iu avery event of life. Even the casual thinker will see that there Is no connection between such prayer which understands and demonstrates the infinite presence and power of the Mind which is God and the pitiful attempts of mesmerism, or of hypnotism, to heal men Christian Science healing dispels the mortal or mistaken sick or dinning sense which claims to bind u>an, end proves the divine fact that God. divine Mind, is the only Mind, and that this Mind alone governs and controls man. “CHRIST LI KEN ESS IN PRAYER “OF iHRIsTIAN SCIENTIST. “Christ Jesus, the master Metaphysician, when he made the statement. 'Greater love nath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends' (John xv., 13i, gave an exact rule by which men could prove their Christlikeuess, or their willingness and ability to demonstrate divine law. Christian Science, therefore, teaches that in proportion as a man understands the alluesg and the Infinite reality of Spirit, God, divine Mind, and the temporal nature of material existence, In proportion as he strives to lay down nls false sense of life as material and finite, and to attain his true life as God's expression, wholly spiritual or divinely mental, In that proportion Is he truly adhering to Christ Jesus' teaching. Iu fact, as a man banishes from bis thinking the qualities of the carnal mind such as Idolatry, hatred, wrath, and many other phases of the carnal mind, all of which Paul describes as ’the works of the flesh’ (Gal. t.i, and as he attains in his dally life those qualities of thought which Paul describes as ‘the fruit of the Spirit' (Gal. v.), then he la truly laying down the false sense of life. This process of spiritual thinking and living demonstrates the infinite M.ud, God. before which the so-called carnal mind, with its false mental conditions and Its materiality, gives place. Paul further says '(he fruit of the Spirit is love, Joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance;' (Gal. v.). and he adds, ‘against such there is no law.' (Gal. T.I. A Christian Scientist, therefore. finds that as he strives to let his thinking and his life express these divine quantles. or as he strives to gain the Mind of Christ, the qualities of the socalled carnal mind and their effects, sin. disease and death lose their suppositional presence and powA' in his thinking and in bis life. "EFFECT OF PRAYER IN “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. “The Christian Scientist recognizing that disease Is always the effect of false mortal law and of false thinking destroys

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disease through spiritual thinking or right thinking about God and about Hl* creation. This spiritual thinking, combined with the desire to know God and to overcome the qualities of the carnal mind in our thoughts and lives, constitutes true prayer, and this prayer reveals to men the Science of the Christ which includes all true Science, theology and medicine. Furthermore, as a man understands this Science of the Christ and strives to live it, so that he may demonstrate it both for himself and for hla fellow men, he Is obeying Jesus’ command as given to Peter, 'Feed my sheep’ (John xxt., 17), for It is only through the understanding of divine law as revealed In the teachings of Christ Jesus that men are going to be delivered from evil. Humanity does not need to be fed any longer on the husks of material theories, for it has already been overfed on them, bh,‘. it does need to be fed on the dlrine facts which Jesus revealed to men and demonstrated for their benefit. These facts lived and practiced In their purity and Science must eventually deliver mankind from all evlL “It Is sometimes objected that Christian Scientists are establishing an unnatural antipathy between the flesh or the material, and the spiritual, because they teach the infinite allness and supremacy of Spirit, God, divine Mind, and the temporal nature of materiality. To such objections one need only quote Paul's statement that ‘the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one tor the other:’ (Gal. v. 17). Mrs. Eddy, however, although teaching the allness of Spirit, particularly states that Christ Is the friend of mortal man (Science and Health, p. 433), and this because Christ saves mortal man from himself by aevealing man’s true nature as the son of God. The effect of prayer In Christian Science Is not to deprive men anything that Is worth having, but to remove materiality and its effects sin, disease and death front their thoughts and experience and to establish in their thoughts true health, holiness and happiness which are eternally based on God, divine Mind, and are attained only through spiritual thinking. “FEAR CAST OUT BT “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. “Christian Science handles all mortal discord with divine law. If the mffirtal discord be poverty, if It be accident, if It be worry or sorrow, if It be human trouble of any kind, the Christian Scientist recognizes that these things can only afflict the mortal mentality, because the body without a mentality would be unconscious of any of these things. Recognizing that these are all troubles of the carnal mind or of mortal thought, he deals with them through divine thought or the Mind of Christ. The wise Christian Scientist In his prayer, or his treatment, will always deal resolutely and unfailingly with the human belief of fear. As he gains experience In Christian Science healing he will find that fear Is an active agent In nearly every human til, and In most cases if he succeeds In removing and casting out the fear from his patient's mentality he will heal him of his trouble at once. Since God, the only presen >, and power, is divine Love, fear can bn neither (IVesence nor power and the Christian Scientist through understanding th* allness of divine Love proves that ’perfect love (or God) casteth out fear:’ (1 John Iv. IS). . “Spiritual thinking, thar is a right understanding of God and of existence or spiritual idealism, is not only the way of salvation for the Individual, but humanity as a whole owes every step It has taken out of materialism to this very process of spiritual thinking. As humanity has turned thought actively and unreservedly, not to the tilings which are seen, but to the things which are not seen, and which are divinely real, then it truly has prayed, and this prayer has to some extent delivered from mortality and from the effects of mortality, sin, disease, death and limitation of every kind. Since salvation, however, is individual, the important factor Is the consecrated thinking of the in dividual. “LAW AND GOVERNMENT "AS REVEALED. "All thinking people recognize that we are today living at a time when humanity's sense of divine law has not sufficed to deliver it from war, from bolshevism, from class hatred, and from other dangerous tendencies. The fact Is that humanity is still working on the old basis of the Mosaic law, which says an eye for hn eye, and men have not yet begun to peneive and to demonstrate the law of Love whtyh Jesus declared and reiterated time and time again to be the only way of freedom from human unrest.. Mrs. Eddy has revealed to her followers that Just as heajih and holiness are dlv no facts which the Individual must obtain and retain for himself through spiritual thinking, so also law is a divine attribute which every Individual must demonstrate for himself. Thus the community will obtain law and government ba-ed. not on human opinions, but on universal obedience to the one divine Mind. God. Mrs. Eddy was so certain of the fact that true government Is based wholly on spiritual thinking and not on human arrangements that in her own Church, which she considered to be all-important, since she knew that It was destined to bring the Idealism of Jeaus to humanity in a clearer and more practical way than ever before, ahe established a form of government from which she had removed every posslhle human equation except a Board of Directors of five people. These Directors she did not expect to govern her Church, but they were to transact the business of her Church. The government of her Church she left to thp attainment and demonstration of divine government by the Individuals comprising that

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Church. In the same way that she expected her followers to demonstrate the divine fact of ever-present health, Just so she laid upon them the onus of demonstrating ever-present divine law. She also laid upon them the restriction of not interfering with the government of that Church in any human way, because she had no faith In human ways and means. In fact, Mrs. Eddy realized so clearly the necessity for demonstrating divine law in her Church and in human affairs, t.’Ut she devoted one of her books entirely to the subject, and this book is known as the Manual of The Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. Mrs. Eddy knew that the by-laws In this Manual were divinely Inspired, and that they were therefore unalterable. She writes of this book: ‘Notwithstanding the saeriligeo;:* m’Jh of time, eternity awaits our Church ,u nual, which will maintain its rank as 1, the past, amid ministries aggressive ani active, and will stand when those have, passed to rest.’ (The First Church of Christ Scientist & Miscellany, page 230, 1-4). The demonstration of divine law by the Individual is the only pure democracy, for in it every man has an equal right to bring into operation true law and power through his unlimited God-given ability to express the divine Mind, God, as the result of hla spiritual thinking or of having the Mind of Christ. This demonstration of government" through spiritual idealism alone can deliver 'humanity from war, distrust among natlor.s, greed, hatred. Injustice, and other national and class dangers and divisions. The individual who recognizee and lives the divine fact that God Is Love Is praying aright, and bis prayer will remove hate and war from among men, just as surely as light destroys darkness. Until men recognize and live these eternal facts, war, sin, disease, death, unrest and evil of every kind will continue among mortals. “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE "IDEALISM OF JESUS. “My friends, we Christian Scientists are declaring no new and strange doctrine to you, we are simply reiterating that the spiritual Idealism of Christ Jesus is real and true, that it is scientific in the highest s'nse, that it is truly theological and infallible In its healing effect. Christian Scientists have, In fact, learned that the oniy way of deliverance from evil or mortal woe of any kind Is spiritual thinking >r the divine Idealism which Jesus reverted to mankind. You may not at this time he readV or willing to accept or to admit These things, but I want to say to you with all respect, but with absolute assurance, that you and every human being must eventually accept, lire, and prove this teaming, for there Is no other way to salvation, and there is no other way of attaining heaven or of being freed from mortality. I<et me therefore advise vou to study the Christian Science textbook, ‘Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,’ by Mart- Baker Eddy, and see If it does not make the Blhle anew book, a more sacred book to vou. "ACCOMPLISHMENT OF “MARY BAKER EDDY’. ’One earnest, consecrated thinker, a loving, lovable woman, Mary Baker Kdd> , has accomplished these things for humanity In her day. It is not possible for me to speak as I would desire of Mrs. Eddy and of all that T owe to her. If there is today anything that is good, that is pure, that Is healthy, or that Is God-like in my life, I owe It to the consecrated thought and life of Mary Baker Eddy, and millions are telling this same story. It Is true that one only begins fully to appreciate Mrs. Eddy and her lifework ns he understands and demonstrates Christian Science, although a great multitude of men and women who are not

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Christian Scientists have also recognized Mrs. Eddy’s great contribution to the salvation of humanity. Mrs. Eddy not only discovered Christian Science, but as the result of rears of struggle and toll she sou ided it on a practical, demonstrable 'basis. No forward step in this great Movement has even bc?n taken but as the result of ner initiative and advice, and every step initiated by her was the result of deep and consecrated prayer. Christian Scientists regard Mrs. Eddy as God’s messenger to this age, and they know that through her revelation many of them have been delivered from sin and disease, and even from death. Think what this world of ours will be like when more of us are enabled and emboldened to put away our material theories and dependencies and to rely wholly on the divine Mind, God, operating In human experience through spiritual thinking or through true prayer. Then will sin and sorrow vanish from men’s thoughts, then will pain be stilled and the dread of disease be cast out, then will tne lame man leap with Joy and the leper be cleansed, then will war cease and the reign of divine Love be established. These very things are indeed being accomplished to some extent today, bnt the harvest Is still great and the laborers few. We Christian Scientists, therefore, long for the time when our fellow men and women shall recognize the all-importance of spiritual things and come to work and to pray in this vineyard with us. Then will be fully established the reign of true Science, the Science of Christ, the true theology, the theology of divine Mind, God, and the true h&eling, the healing through the understanding of the complete spiritual facts of being. Then will all men gladly recognize that Mary Baker Eddy Is Indeed God's mes.aenger. “In conclusion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Christian Science Is not an easy path for the loose thinker, but is the way for the simple and consecrated as well as for the profound thinker. Such thinkers find peace and Joy. health and life In divine facts, or in knowing God and true being, and it Is through such tblrk'ng that the individual, as well as humanity as a whole. Is going to be enabled to understand and prove that:— “ ’There's a wideness in God's mercy, Like the wideness of the sea; There's a kindness In His Justice, Which is more than liberty. “ ‘For the love of God Is broader Than is seen by human mind. And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind. “ ‘lf our love were but more simple. We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of our Lord.’ ’’ (Christian Science Hymnal, p. 236.) NAB 2; RECOVER CAR. Two young men from Marlon, ind., were arrested yesterday on the charge of vehicle taking- Charles Jeffery. 16, and Clar-nce Renfrew. 18. were caught In a stolen automobile, it Is charged at Anderson. Detectives brought the young men back to Indianapolis. The car was owned by Edward E. Wehrling, 1314 Hartford street, in this city. GOES WITHOUT FABSPORTB. HARTFORD CITY. Ind., May 23—Not to be deferred from his Intention of spending this summer at his former home In Germany, Joseph Hoefde. of this city, Saturday took out passports to Holland. He v 1)1 go from that country Into Germany. withoi\t the protection of the United States. He plana to be gone four months.

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POSSE CAPTURES AUTO THIEVES Police, Sheriffs and Farmers in Wild Chase. ~ Special to The Times. RUSHVILLE, Ind., May 23.—Following a wild search by police, sheriffs and a posse of farmers, three Indianapolis men were arrested here Sunday afternoon after an automobile In which they were riding was abandoned after being upset west of this city. Search was made over several miles of territory and a number of shots were fired before the three men surrendered. Those arrested gave their names as Fred Carson, 19, of 840 East Market street, Indianapolis; Jack Edwards, 20, 918 English avenue, and Harry Miller, 22, 1033 West Michigan street. It was learned this morning that the machine was stolen from near the Statehonse, Saturday, and belonged tcJ William D, Cox of Danville. The car was almost demolished when it skidded into fresh gravel and turned over. The men will be turned over to Indianapolis police today. . Lieutenant McSturtry, in charge of the -local police auto squad, stated this morn ing that he believed the men arrested at Rushville gave fictitious names or else they are new ones In the auto thieving fraternity. Mr. McMurtry said a message from Sheriff Jones of Rushville notifying him of the arrest of the men, said he and his assistants had chased the men “durn near all over Rush County.” FIREMAN, ON RUN, HURT IN CRASH Street Car Hits Truck—Hold Motorman. Albert Gresh, lieutenant of city fire pumper company No. 14, Kenwood avenue and Thirtieth street, is recovering today from injuries received Saturday night. Gresh was on a fire truck which was struck by a Mapleton street car in charge of Motorman Robert Kuhn, 1406 North New Jersey street. The accident occurred in front of the Sanitary Loundry Company, 2441 Central aveijue. The fire truck was carried 154 feet by the street car and Gresh was thrown off and badly hurt. Kuhn wasi arrested on the charge of assault and battery. The police allege that the motorman did not attempt to stop the street car until within fifteen feet of the truck. Gresh lived at McLean and Meridian streets. He was taken to the city hospital. The fire loss at the drying room of the laundry was estimated at S2OO. HALT PENSION UNIT. HARTFORD CITY, Ind., May 23. Owing to the increase in the amount to he paid In before the pension starts, as fixed by the last session of the Legislature, the Blackford County Teachers’ Association Saturday voted to discontinue Its teachers' pension fund unit.

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1,000 VETERANS HONOR COMRADE Marion County Sacrifice Laid to, Rest. Special to The Times. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., May 23.—The first military funeral in Noblesville since the days of the Civil War occurred Sunday afternoon when the body of John G. Keesling, of Marlon County, was burled In the cemetery near this city. The services were under the auspices of the Frank Huntsinger Post of the American Legion and a thousand World War veterans were in the line of march which was headed by the Noblesville Military Band. Young Keesling was killed In the battle of Slossons In France. He enlisted In the service in the spring of 1917 and was among the first boys from this county to follow the Rainbow boys overseas. He was missing for a year before the War Department could establish definitely that he had been killed. His body arrived in this country a week ago" and reached here Friday. The parents of the young man live at Castleton, Marlon County. TIPTON, Ind., May 23.—More than 5,000 people were in attendance at the funeral services of Corp. Dewey Magnett, which was held In this city Sunday, under auspices of the Tipton branch of the American Legion, in command of Captain Hughes. Five hundred World War veterans in uniform were in the line of March. The Tipton band, followed by a firing squad, led the procession. The body was taken on a caisson from the home to the church and thence to the cemetery. The sermon was delivered by Rev Preston of the Methodist Ch’urch. TARIFF READY FOR HARDING Final Approval Given Emergency Measure. WASHINGTON, May 23.—Congress finally approved the emergency tariff bill today. Action necessary to send the bill to President Harding was taken by the’ House when it approved the conference reports adjusting Senate and House differences over the measure. President Harding is expected to'sign the bill. Passage of the bill completes the first step of the Republican revenue and tariff program. Today "Was tne second time the bill has passed Congress, former President Wilson having vetoed It In the last session. TWO OF FAMILY’ DIE. HARTFORD CITY’, Ind., May 23Twelve hours after the death of her mother. Mrs. Nanvy Meachan, 86, of this city, Mrs. Peter Harness, 43, died at Erie, Pa. She was unconscious at the time of her mother's death. Mrs. Harness formerly lived here.

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