Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 365, Hammond, Lake County, 15 May 1922 — Page 6

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE t The Science of True Living A LECTURE

J lUCiCAKLl, iuCXG, c. si. M. limber r the lior,! of LPtnrefclp "1 Tl .llotiivr Cfercli, TUe Flnt j Churnli ut Clvrlut, Scientist. 1b !. ltoM, Mnjsa. I cojue Lero tonight to speak to :,ou on u sc:ence which rests upon he fundamental facta of being and ind which in 'the measure that it is iiidei stood Is capable of improving-, tnd even of transforming, the life oi svery man, woman and child. Because it can do this it follows that t can also reform the world, and I im prepared to show that it will do to just as fast as you and the rest it mankind understand and adopt it. In saying this I do not mean to mply that Christian Science is a kind of magic, or that it is a system

which will work for the benefit of

he race wthout any effort on their

part to conform their lives to its

l nnciple and rule. But I do say that it promises and provides health and peace to those who earnestly study and abide by its teaching. To any one who thinks clearly, or endeavors to do eo, it does not seem reasonable to suppose that the errors which producd trouble could be expected to remove it. Ask a stricken race if disease is less prevalent, less insistent, less fatal because of the centuries of education in the use of material remedies, and the answer, if truthful, will be a universal No! Disease ore as mysterious and baffling as ever to material systems of healing. Indus-

Christendom? If it does, then our ideals may, through Christian Selene, take on a practical value; they may be brought out of the realm of speculation into that of actual experiment and demonstration. These definitions of God, virtually accepted by the whole Christian world, constitute the fundamental facts of the science of true living as revealed In Christian Science. But they must be more and more clearly apprehended by the students of this Science, and consequently Christian Scientists are involved in the same research which Mrs. Eddy carried on. She says that she found the ideas of true science in the slpritual teachings contained in the Bible. They may be found by anybody who, in the light of Christian Science, looks for them n that same place. Such work is nj less scientific than that of sciences which have to do with material phenomena. In fact, to invesigate and understand thoughts and their nature and law is the highest kind of scientific research, and is the most Interesting and instructive of all studies. Besides this, there are immediate results, visible and practical, to be obtained by such a course. They are often acknowledged by the general public, who do not hesitate to say that Christian Scientists are a happy and healthy class of people. In ' mentioning this I am not

trial unrest prevails, greed ia ram-; claiming that all can be desired pant, and in "majy parts of the in these directions has been accomworld unparalleled conditions of plished. but at any rate, thousands crime are unchecked and unresist- 1 nf people who are alive and weU ed. From a material outlook whatUoOy testify that they were saved hope is there Humanity seems to ! from death and their health restored be sailing a boisterous sea without '.hrough Christian Science, chart, compass or pilot. The aposle says, "your life Is hid Christian Scientists do not fail to wltn Christ in God." Christendom take cognizance of the difficultes has accepted that saying, but it

when beset the rase as well a the individual. We ar not engaged in any superficial, altruistic theory. We claim to hav common sense, and the history of this movement shows clearly that, as a class. Christian Scientists are eminently practical. Ttn advantage which they have over other people is to be found solely in what they have gained of the tru Science of life and living, through the study of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and other works written by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science.

l(Ul 13 11119 OUJCilUQ i ui iue theories of prevailing aducational

systems Indicate or reveal it? All theories of general education are predicted upon the certainty and necessity of sin, disease and death. Such theories are 6elf-contradictory. They have been accepted and tried for centuries utterly In vain. With circumstances all in their favor, and supported by the overwhelming consensus of human faith and education, they have utterly failed. Under such beliefs, and uninstructed by Christian Science, living is tantamount to mere physcal endurance and final chaos. Christian Science takes issue with all such theories and conclusions. It appeals to the higher nature, to reason and logic, and educates us in the Science of Life, the Science of real thinking, which is the greatest need of the age. If we are living at all (and w-e are), if there be any action, energy, opportunity, availability, originality or volition; if men and women exist at all, and can think or do anything at all, .then there is a science for all this, and It is commensurate "with all that may be required of it We are living and thinking, and w have got to go on

living and thinking In order to ac

complish anything whatsoever. The evidence of our senses gives us no hint of what Tuif really is, and when from this standpoint we think anything about life we indulge In mere speculation, unless Christian Science corns to our rescue and gives us the right idea. Ordinarily, human life is considered to oe mere chance, manifstlng th whim and caprice of Instinct or desire. We have been taught to look out for our material needs, and we have been instructed In some of the sciences which are supposed to aid us in administering to thos needs, but our thinking, which Is the most Important thing we ever do, has had no science to govern or exhall It, but sas been based upon and fostered by educa

tion which assumed and inculcated the theory that matter governs man. Christian Science reveals the fact

that thought governs or misgoverns mankind, as the case may be, including the body, and that as we

pproach and attain a divine stan-

-d. the health and safety of the

- are proportionately secure.

scince of true living and true

ng is thus drawn from a high

urc than that of mere ordin-

human experiences. To investi

it requires research of the

nost unselfish, painstaking and per'sistent nature. Such was the re- ' search that Mary Baker Eddy entered upon and carried on for years. It culminated In the discovery of that science which she named Christian Science. She saw the vast importance of distinguishing between the true and the false, between the real and the unreal. She

I observed the permanent nature or divine facts and this led her to the conclusion that such facts consti

tute immortality, now to understand these facts was not so difficult for her as was the problem of teaching others to understand them. We who are the beneflearies of this Science, In common with the whole of mankind, can scarcely realize what It must have meant, fifty years ago, to awaken the world to the consideration of religion as a science and of real science as religion.

All the predjudices of sectarianism

was not understood and could not

be until the science of It was revealed, yet the wnole Christian world agrees that God, the immutable creator of the universe, originates, sustains and perpetuates His own creation. The assumption that life is primarily In matter is not basic enough to satisfy the faculty of reason In man. It limits life and at the same time calls it infinity and fails to exp'ain what life Is! or how, according to such theories. It ever got Into such forms. The only philosophy that satisfies In regard to life Is found In Christian Science, because Christian Science Is not a theory. It shows that Life Is and must be the self-existent Mind, inteligence. being, which we call God. This real Life, permanent, necessarily perfect, untouched I by disease, sin or death. Is the only Life of man. He does not need any other and could not have any other. The humsn being who recognizes this fact Is gaining something by way of education that tends, to both health and peace. The Science of Life must be the science t living which the whole world has sought and sought in vain. Yet It Is here, obtainable by any person who desires to have it. and costing nothing beyond the preliiminary steps of equipping one's self with the books which teach it. These books ..are the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy. Like other books, they are made up of ideas, and this science like other sciences, consists of ideas. The difference between this science and other sciences Is. however, that In other sciences, ideas, by way of instruction, pertain to material things, or actions, or the employment or use of material things and remedies.

whereas in Christian Science, ideas

themselves constitute both the means and the object of education, are the sole phenomena of this science, and are the only remedies

used to restore health and prevent disease.

Now to the average person, accustomed to rely upon matter, to speak

of ideas as remeaies ior uisc iuj sound like mystery, and yet all religion consists of thoughts or ideas, all science consists of thoughts or

ideas, all the great things of the world have their origin in educa

tion, which is attained by study and consists wholly of Ideas. But beyond this and above it there is something still greater to be observed, and that is that the infinite Mind. God, whirh spake and all

'things were, expresses Himself for

ever in ideas. It Is the realism or thought that people learn to believe in God and It Is there also that they learn to understand God. This being so, is there anything extraordinary mysterious, or at all mysterious. In the fact that Christian Science heals the sick through revealing, by means of thoughts or ideas, th nature, the power and the presence of God? If the ordinary human heiner is expressed in his

character, that is, in his thoughts and education .should it be considered incredible that the divine Mind could reveal Itself through its own ideas, and if these ideas come from God, who Is Mind, is it extravagant or unreasonable to expect enlightenment, and even Improved health, through their presence and law? These questions might imply a dogmatic attitude, but I propose to Justify them and to show that the answers are no founded upon opinion, but upon facts. Consider that even ordinary systems of education, and ordinary views of science, unite in declaring that the creation or universe i Immeasurable. Even those who think it to be wholly material and who believe, or profess to believe, that thought can originate In and be carried on by brain or matter, are at absoluta agreement upon the facts of an infinite universe. Now let me call you attention to the further fact that all phenomena or

were) instinctively arrayed against effects imply a cause. Our obsersuch a proposition, and yet it prom-j vation of the effects may be inade!.ed nothing less than complete re- quate and, indeed, must be so, when demption for the human race. Even these effects are Infinite, but at any now, after all of Mrs. Eddy's great rate, however we regard effects, work. Christian Science is not unl- ' they inevitably imply a cause. Now versally accepted; but the signs of ' immeasurable or lnrtnite effects In the times are portentous and inspir- J quantity and quality, not only dIng. Why should they be otherwise, mand but actually require an im-

rnr Christian Science fulfills the . measurable or infinite cause. Rell

finite must be Indestructible. For this reason religionists throughout all ages, even though they have not reasoned it out, have instinctively felt and said that God is eternal, and the materialists, driven to the last ditch by heir own inveutigations, declare also what ehey call force or energy taken to the first great Cause cannot be conceived o as beginning or ending. The eternallty of Gid. is therefore universally admitted. No religionist will deny it nor think of doing so, and no scientist can. although his nomenclature may differ from that of the religionist. Now eternallty declares certain characteristics which we can here consider and be greatl ylnstructed. In this connection let me speak of the fact that Chrlslan Science has been criticlsd. and that Christian Scientists have been the object of attemped ridicule, because of their conviction that God is not th author of disease or sin, and that consequently disease and sin, which have no divine origin, are devoid of true existence, nevertheless this contention rests upon logic that is irrefutable, for if God be eternal, as all people admit, then God Is not the author of any destructive thing, neither does he Include within Himself the possibility or knowledge of any destructive or self-destructive element. To think otherwise is not only illogical and unscientific, but Irreligious, and in the last analysis even sacrilegious. I have asked you to follow along in this course of reasoning for a certain purpose, and that purpose I believe now begins to appear. It is that you may learn the naturalness of health and life and the unnaturalness of disease and death. Perceiving as I believe you must have done, as we have gone on here thinking this out together, that God does not and cannot include or conceie of a single destructive element or quality, you can see that a better understaning of God will mean more of the presence of God, and will tend to remove . destructive elements and incidents from our lives. Thereby health and life will not only be more general, but more permanent. We have taken a step in the Science of Life within these few minutes, and I wish to call your attention to the fact that it has been a pleasant step, and none of us

has suffered in taking it. I have not

urged you to believe in Christian

Science, and I promise you that I will not urge you to believe anything. The most that I sak of you,

anywhere, at any time, in considering this subject, is to think. It goes without saying that thinking requires logic, for without consis

tency, without Principle or basis for thinking, and conclusions drawn by

reason, there is no real thinking

going on. Just here, however, some who have turned their faces toward the light of Christian Science find thmselves assailed by questions as

to the reason for the existence, or seeming existence, of disease and

sin and the rest of the train of destructive and afflictive human ex

periences. They accept the- Inevitable logic of Christian Science.

which I ha-e briefly and altogether Inadequately touched upon here.

but they naturaUy wonder about

human experiences that, according to Christian Science, could not be either God ordained or God sustained. It is not strange that thev

should do so. but let it be said that

Christian Science is like other

sciences in at least one respect: if it Is to be demonstrated Its rules

must be followed. Its TrlnciDle

must be perceived and maintained

under all circumstances. Even In

the study of art and music, we find

that progress depends upon allegiance to certain Ideals which have sprung from standards established

by the most cudtured men and women of the world. Tfie mistakes that we make In the study of art do not, or should not. engage our attention any longer than is required to correct them. Let us then take that same attitude toward he afflictive experiences of human existence. They are not of God. consequently they are not scientific, and not true in the highest sense. They are only true to our limited powers of observation and because of. our inadequate education For example, certain mechanical Improvements which today are commonly understood and used could not have ben conceived of by our forefathers. If enlightenment

has enabled us to discover them, and

thereby to avail ourselves of such

improvements, and thereby also to

do away with some devices which were crude and perhaps un-sclentl-flc. may not greater enlightenment enable lis fo do away with the exprlences of sin and disease, and when they are abolished shall we have any interest In asking bow It

was that they came about? An af- ' filctive experience, giving way to health and peace, or a crude invention, giving way to an intelligent discovery, need not be inquired into. Its day is past, and as ii had no permanent value. It had not real being. The best and only explanation of error Is to show its unreality.

and I ask you to consider this sufficient and final explanation. Permanent value must be the criterion by which we Judge. With this criterion In view, greater Improvements than are yet dreamed of will come to light and by the same token things that are. now accepted as natural will vanish under the revelation of the true naturalness of an existence that has its being, function and law in the God or creator who is wholly good. Consilder also that an eternal cause or creator cannot be conceived of to be personality, consequently the real personality of God, or the real character and being of God, must be Mind. There is no other word that so fully enlightens us and enables use to see the perfect relationship xlsting between the creator and his creation. Besides this, the word Mind satisfies our Intellectual cravings in another direction. It explains what we call thinking. Even though much of what is called human thinking is wholly unworthy of man and utterly unknown to God, yet even that semblance of thinking implies mentality, and mentality ; means that somewhere In the universe, and, in

deed everywhere in the universe, is

tiful thoughts. Chrlstlon Science takes us a step further. It shows us that really, great thoughts and pure Ideals In themselves constitute the activity of true science. Thus it is that the thoughts which reveal God in Christion Science possess Interest and power beyond any thoughts that, can be entertained by mankind. k To the old way, of thinking it seems incredibly that materially intangible facts should have actual value and influence. Yet the founder of the Christian religion proved beyond all question that diseases' even of the most fatal nature could be absolutely healed by the power of the understanding. He taught, however, that such po-T can only be available to men in proportion to their righteousness, their Tightness in every way. He knew and declared that the power to heal is wholly from God, the divine Mind, and he said and showed by his own works that this power is natural to men and women In the proportion of their understanding or enlightenment on the true nature of God and His law. I. accordance with the teachings of Christ Jesus, Mrs. Eddy shows that evil actions spring from beliefs entertained instead of rejected. Wrong acts mean wrong mentality, which is either utter ignorance, or perverted tendencies cultivated and submitted to. In turn, wrong actions persisted in seem to arouse and increase the very Instincts of erroneous beliefs from which they originally sprang; thus goes on a circle of evil feeding upon Itself. Christian Science, in calling attention to such things, shows the value of true education, and proves It byestabllshlng thought in accordance with God, the divine Principle of all being. This word Principle shows that thought can have a correct and permanent basis, and that, being constantly kept in accord with that permanent and correct basis, thought tends to produce better habits, which in their turn stimulate mentality In Its endeavors toward improved thinking. What is the origin of thought? We have been thought to believe that it is the brain, but advanced philosophers and scientists today realize, in some degree at any rate, that while brain may b Influenced or affected by thought, it cannot possibly of itself be the origin or basis of thinking. It is composed of the same simple elements that constitute the rest of the human body. These elements, as It Is well known, taken by themselves, or combined with each other, without the presence of human life, could not do anything at all, least of all think, which Is the most important act that is ever done. We must therefore conclude, and. we do conclude, in the light of reason, that the brain does not think, but that thought Itself exists irrespective of brains; indeed it only takes a momnt of consideration w ead us to the conclusion that afl of the thoughts or ideas thus far revealed.

even by the 'greatest thinkers, ex

isted prior to brain, and that these thinkers performed a service to mankind in discovering or bringing to light these Ideas, often clothing them In sublime and striking language and thereby making them more apprehensible. This is also what Mary Baker Eddy did. She aroused our admiration and reverence, not only by the Ideas which she brought to light, but also by the manner of their presentation. Now If you and I exist at this moment and can think, existence Is a fact and thinking is a present, conscious function of that existence. If we can think about the small things of life. It is only a matter of education to learn to think about the great things of life. If we can think about God and learn of his purpose and law, it is only a question of education to be able to think and act according to that purpose and law. Christ Jesus Is always the exemplar. The mystery which religious belief has associated with his words and works is disappearing in the light which Christian Science throws upon them. Redemption through Christ involves no such theory as that of vicarious suf-

fering, neither doe it predicate it-

being savod through the blood of Christ, the lift of Christ. Heaven is natural and constant to God and must be the same to man in hl image. We need only gain that likeness in ourselves in order to be In heaven. Jesus said, "The Kingdom of God cometh not with observation: neither shall they say, Lo here! or. lo, there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." Jesus knew that the Science of Life will heal the sick and acted in accordance with that science. He proved that the Science of Life natuarlly produces th phenomena of Life, and that health is indisputably one of the phenomena of Life. Divine facts constituted his mentality and made him the Christ, for they had their being, and they still have their being in God. It was what Jesus knew that made him different from jail other human personalities, but he placed no restrictions upo nthat knowledge, and we should not place ony if we are his followers. He was anxious that everyone should know and have the power to prove the healing saving Christ. This divine Christ, Truth, Is to be born within us, and there. In the realm of consciousness, or thought. It is to carry on Hi -e-dmptive mission according .to the example of Christ Jesus. Does this take away any of the respect and reverence which mankind justly feels for him who spake as never man spake? Was it not on the contrary this constant dependence upon Mind, God, that gave him the title of Christ Jesus, and Is it not a corresponding attitude on our part that gives us the right to be called Christian, and that, persisted In, will make us better Chris

tians day by day? He declared that life is not dependent upon matter,

but upon knowing, which is a char

acteristic of Mind, God. "And this

is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou has sent." We have learned to recognize Life eternal, and we insist upon maintalng the fact In spite of all evidence to the contrary. We would not be worthy of the name either of Christians in the ordinary sense, much less of Christian Scientists, If we failed to do so, for any theory of life contrary to eternality Involves death, which is the exact opposite of life. If you desire to go a given point you will follow the direction in which that point lies. You will not turn your back to that direction and go In an opposite one. All the ways that human ducatlon have devised or theorized about In reference to health and life are headed in the wrong direction and lead away from either or both. A healing system Is intended to produce health, which In Its turn tends toward life. How is It possible then that a healing system be founded upon the observations of disease The opposite direction In this case is the right direction. What Is it It s the direction of reason, the direction of divine revelation. It shows unmistakably that a creator who is life never introduced any death Into His creation, and that means, as we have already seen, that He never conceived of a destructive element such as disease, has never known it, does not know it now, never will know It. What does this mean to you and me? It means that In proportion as we get out of the old education and get Into the new, what we call our minds and our lives will be entirely different from what they have been. Instead of having an ephemeral existence, without any certainty except that of death, mankind will begin to show forth the divine nature, and the divine nature lives forever. This science of living.' this Science of Life, was illustrated by Christ Jesus, but as a science it could not be given to the world in his time. It has come in ours. Trink of that. Think of what if means to have the

privilege of studying ana demonstrating the Science of Life, a science for which the world had to wait, thousands of years before its mentality could lose enough dark

ness to even perceive -

desire to have this' Science universally understood, and we can only aay to you that we hourly repent of them In sackcloth and ashes. But the Science itself, the Science of Christianity, discovered by Mary Baker Eddy, has no shortcomings. Its possibilities for good are immeasurable as its divine Principle. God, is, and we ourselves, though offering no excuse for our failure to be fully worthy, beg you to consider that we are moving in the right direction, that Is, onward and upward. With arms extended to encompass mankind, in reverence and adoration to the God who is Love, and in devotion to His Christ, we give you this message of Life, of health, of peace, and we aim to express and make daily more practical in behalf of ourselves and for all mankind the compassion of Him who said, "I am come that they

might have life, and that they

might have it more abundantly."

KID MARRIAGE

MAY BE ANNULLED

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ML'NCIE. Ind., May lo. Annulment of the marriage of Lehigh H

Marrow, 17, a member of the senior class of the Muncie high school to be graduated In two weeks, and

Miss Beatrice Brutton, 17, a tele

phone operator, which took place

late Frlady at Covington, Ky., will likely 'be taken by Dr. Benjamin B.

Morrow, father of the boy. The

father who learned of the marriage in a telegram early today, declared

his son' was without money and funds for the "elopement must have been provided by the girl's mother with whom she is said left Muncie Thursday. The boy left home Friday morning explaining he attend a school social function In the evening and would not return home until late. The newly weds are expected to return to Muncie late today.

FLOATING PALACE OF AMERICAN LINE ARRIVES HERE AFTER MAIDEN VOYAGE

DINNH6T0MS

' A woman sallingr In the Aquftanfa recently held the following conversation, by the aid of a man with a megaphone, with her randdaugh-

slef upon the belief that the ma- Think what it means that a person

hones of the Christian world.

Does not Its declaration that God Is Infinite Cause, Intelligence. Spirit Mind. Life, Love, Immutable, immortal Principle, the source and aubstanoo of all being, tally with our ideals of what constitutes the

omnipotent, omnipresent and om-

nlsca

gionists speak of this cause in veneration using the word God. Material scientists think they are more scientific when they speak of the first great Cause a senergy or force, but neither the one nor the other.

terial blood of Jesus saves from sin.

In all of the ancient languages, and to a great extent In the modern, the word blood Is used metaphorically to signify life, and In the New Testament it is constantly employed in that way. Jesus at the time of the last supper admonished his followers to live his divine life among men, and he did so by moans of a symbol which was perfectly understood by them, but has been misundersood or misinterpreted by religious systems since their time. Christian Science is showing us what salvation through Christ is.

does not omit Ahe healing of disease. Living the Cnrlst life Involves

us in the acceptance and practice of

the Christ healing. We have been accused of making too much of this healing, but it may be easily observed that such accusations generally spring from people who are in the enjoyment of excellent health. None of the afflicted who have been healed or who are seeking healing in Christian Science have ever accused us of making too much of the Christ healing. The power of God which characterized Christ Jesus came to him not in the realm of matter, but of understanding. That Is where all true power comes to man. That is where all true education fits us for life and equips us with courage and wisdom to jneet the difficulties of human existence, including diesease. How necessary it is for us to awake to the full value of true thoughts and pure education, which constitute real being! What would man be without power to think? Salvation Is the main object, it is even the object of all education, althugh that object is not mentioned in the curricula of schools and colleges. We are all seeking salvation, consciously or unconaclously, for we are all striving for satisfaction. Everybody wants heaven, though many appear to be searching for it in, strange ways, ? for heaven is nohting more nor less than real permanent happiness, satisfaction. On page 291 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes: "Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state

Mind, the cause and creator of all. of Mind in which all the manifestathlngs and tha ultimate explanation tions of Mind are harmonious and of our power to think, which be-1 Immortal, because sin is not there comes more Christlike as God is and man is found having no rightbetter understood. Jeousness of his own. but In possesWhen we peroeive that divine "Ion of 'the mind of the Lord.', as

the Scripture says." It follows that the way to heaven Is a way of education, in the highest sense of that word. We must think our way into heaven, and nothing can deprive us

exnresslons. can nossiblv denv the I in the ordiary curriculum of school ; of or excuse us from that exalting

nt God ef the Bible and ot all Infinity of that cause, and the In- or college to value great and beau- and redemptive necessity. This Is

Mind is the sole Cause of all things, we begin to perceive what Life really is, and how Life and its Science -may be more clearly under-

however divergent their view or I stood. We haye already been taught

could have been awake enough, free enough, clear enough mentally, spiritually, to discover such a Science as this the science of all sciences. This Is exactly what Mary Baker Eddy did. and she did somethin gmore than that; her discernment extended to me facts of being and revealed them, but it also descended to the present needs of mankind and 'met them. She saw that the omnipresence of God would tn he affirmed before it could

be realized and she also knew and

taugh t that the rejection ot an other seeming power would have to be persisted In before full proof that good is all powerful and Life is immortal could be obtained.

Mrs Eddy's teachings constantly admonish us not to claim for ourselves or for our understanding anything beyond what we can substantiate by actual proof. Therefore we. your friends, who have invited you here to a lecture, and who welcome you upon all occasions when Christian Science is being correctly set forth, make no claim to have attained the fullness of this Science. We are trying to be worthy of this gift of God to men. We would be unworthy of it if we did no there and upon all other proper occasions express our gratitude, love and reverence for the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy. She established the cv.use of Christian Science on the enduring foundation of Christ healing, where tl stands and will continue to stand, a living and an ever rislna monument to a character and to a career of achievement absolutely unique in history. . God is Life, and perpeuatesHIs own creation. Jesus said, "The words that I speak unto you. they are spirit, and they are life." Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health. "God's thoughts are perfect and eternal, are substance and Life.' We have "been considering those thoughts here. They are easy to understand when sought in sincerity, because they are more natural to us than other thoughts, nearer to our real being than any other thoughts could be. The Bible is the original revelation of the immortal relationship of God and man. Christian Science makes the relationship understood, and in doing this it removes condemnation and establishes redemption In its stead. It shows beyond all doubt that the only final or possible sequence to a mistake is loving and complete correction. Sometimes our own shortcomings may have retarded the fruition of the

ter on the quay at Southampton as the vessel was leaving. "That have you done with gTandma's spectacles?" bawled the man with the megaphone. "She says you took them from the piano to play with, and you are a narghty child.' A leather-lunged official on the quay put his hands to his mouth and answered, "She says she gav them back to you." "She didn't," came the answer. "All right." came from the quay. "She 'remembers putting them on the piano again. She will send them on to you." "Good-bye, Effie," shouted the megaphone man. "Good-bye, grandma," was the reply. A little Scotch laddie, wee Willie Macgregor, returned home after his first day at school. When his father came tack from work that evening he asked the voune scholar what he had learned.

"I learned to say, 'Yes, ma'am, and 'No, sir, to me mither and fevther," replied the boy. "Did you, indeed!" said the father. "Aye!" responded Willie. "See here," protested the lawyer, "if I'm going to defend vou, youH have to drop that guilty look." "I can't help it," replied his client. "I'm new in the bootlegging business, and I have such a poor memory for faces, for all I know I nay have solicited the judge."

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IN its determination to continue rendering a maximum service to the 28 million people of 11 states, the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is mindful of the fact that these people will need gasoline and lubricating oils in continually increasing quantities as the years go by. During the past two years the number of automobiles registered in this territory shows an increase of over 35.

1919 1921 EI. - - - 478,438 670,452 Ind.- - - 277,255 400,342 Iowa - - 363.079 430,003 Kan. - - 227,752 291,309 Mich. - - 325,813 477,037 Minn. - - 259,743 328,700 Okla. - - 144,500 221,300 N.Dak - 82,885 92,643 S.Dak. - 104,628 119,262 Missouri - 244,363 343,386 Wis. - - - 236,290 i 342,060

The Standard Oil Company (Indiana) interprets efficient sendee to the community to mean the production of vast quantities of gasoline and lubricating oils of highest quality, for high quality can be of definite service to the consumer only when, he can obtain the products he needs when he wants them. The comprehensive distribution system maintained by this Company makes this possible, for the Company has brought into play every unit pf its enormous manufacturing and distributing organization, from the refinery to the bulk station, to the dark green tank wagon that patrols the highways and byways. As the need for increased facilities becomes apparent, the Board of Directors of this Company expands its activities, not merely to meet the immediate need but always to keep a step ahead. . .It is this anticipatory service which hass made this Company a leader in its field. Standard Oil Company (Indiana) 910 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago 2 HQ.

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