Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 29, 1922, Page 6

PA PAGE SIX Lectu fbe Casper Daily Cridune WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1922. The lecturer was tintrofuced by Wiliam H. Patten, who said. Friends, we have gathered here for the purpose of bearing a lecture on the subject of Christian Science. This subject is the substance of life. It is Christianity made practical. Christian Belence is reestablishing the words @nd works of Christ Jesus and is prov- Ymg them practical and demonstrable today, beyond any question of a doubt. his Science is based on Truth. It liminates all mystery and is found- €d upon understanding. It is as simple s Truth itself and as demonstrable Reqs mathematica The students of * Christian Science have learged from Zhe study of the inspired ‘word of the Scrip'ares that God never made sin, si They also Giearn that the man of God's creation pite 3s not a miserable ainnex, but a bless tei @a child of God who always has been Sf perfect und always will be perfect; DEO Ghat Heaven is not a location but a ME @tvine state of consciousness, where NE 3m all sin, s ss, and sorrow have 8S been ciin ed and the Golden Rale BI $s a real I hoe epeaker of the evening is Paul 'OW Stark Secley, C. S. B, of Portland of Ti en na It tor nt w bh A ‘e s to > x a ” oc uv * > c © board of lec- er Church, the Christ, Scientist, in will speak to us Christ Mr. Seeley spoke as follows. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE WHAT IT IS AND HOW IT WORKS Coristian Science brings a healing fmessage. It condemns nothing but ewil. 1t exalts nothing but good. It is mot the dogma of a denomination. It is the Word of Truth in which science and religion are seen as one, and in this one is found true medicine, even the healing power ef God, It matters mot where one may be on life's road, Christian Science brings to the listen- @mg car a message of helpfulness and Jove. To the sick it shows the certain ‘way to health, to the one entangled in ‘he meshes of sin it adds moral cour- mse to right resolve, and points the Bond to freedom and deliverence. To those weighed down by burden and distress it opens the highway of peace nd happiness through a fuller under- Standing of the goodness and of the love of God To all who seck for bet- Yer things it is the dawn of a new Nght, that suppiants mystery with Bteson, ignorance with intelligence, @oubt with confidence, and unkindll: mess with love. For their brothers of differing re- Mgious beliefs Christian Scientists have nothing but good-will. They be- Meve that through the enlightened @hought of Christian peoples the world Will be Ied ever forward. They rejoice fm food wherever manifest and join With their whole hearts in the com- mon prayer of Christendom common Father God, “Thy kingdom ‘come. Thy will be done in earth, as 4 is in heaven.” In her Message to ‘The Mother Church in Boston in 1902, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Bounder of Christian Science, express- 4 that loving regard for the church @f her youth which is so frequently @ourd in her writings. She said, “It ‘was an inherent characteristic of my witure, a kind of birthmark to love Zhe Church; and the Church once lov- “ed me. Then why not remain friends, @r at least agree to disagree, in love; art fair foes. I never left tho “uurch, either in heart or in doctrine; Z but began where the Church left om” ‘Thoreau writes, “It is never too Iate to sive up our prejudices. No way of Shinking or doing, however ancient, an be trusted without proof.” Th teachings of Christian Science rest on weason, and they are supported by ‘Broo So in a spirit of right rea- woning anc honest consideration let 7s approach the subject before us, ‘with our thought open to all that {s true and good. FOUNDED ON THE BIBLE. teachings of Christian nseparable from the Bible. *They nm the eternal truth 2 that book of the ages The Science Bible only writes M o in nd Health, 110, where @he outlines the footsteps which led up to her discovery of ristian | Science. But pt the ‘the narrowness of its letter. Their be based on the fact, prov- es, that within its pages t inspiration cerning God's ars. eptic and have doubt- city of the Bible you may prove for yourself, through Christian Science, that the teachings pf Christ Jesus were absolutely accur- wte and scientific statements of the Jaws of life and health, and that there ‘was nothing in them that was super- matural. Rather were they the explan- @tion of the. natural supremacy of 00d over evil, of God over the devil, nd specific directions as to how you end I may utilize the might of good to overthrow the conditions of evil, gin, disease and finally death. How ignorant most of us have been ef this great storehouse of spiritual, ealthetving Truth so near at hand. Btevenson has spoken of the treasures of the Bible as “those truths which ‘we are all courteously supposed to know, and all modestly refrain from epplying.” There is more truth than there should be tn his statement. MRS. EDDYS TWOFOLD WORK. From childhood Mrs.’ Eady, under fhe guidance of her spiritually minded mother, had learned to turn to God for relief from sickness. Her Puritan parents saw to it that she received a thorough training in the Bible teachings and early in girlhood she became a member of the Congrega- tional church. As a young girl she enjoyed the friendship and confidence of her pastor who commented on cer- tain of her early literary efforts thus, “Mary, your poetry goes beyond my theology, why should I preach to you?” But there came a time, as per there hes ceme in your exper re on Christian Science- to our fence and mine, when the teachings of the church seemed to fall ehort, when the limitations of its creed and dogma seemed to obscure the wonder- ful Scriptural premises. In earty wom- anhood Mra. Eddy became convinced that Christ Jesus healed by some cer- tain law and that the same law could be applied now as well as then. Her high hope was illustrated by this re- mark made by her when invalidiam seemed almost too much for her to bear, “I know God can and will cure me, if only I could understand His way.” To “understand His way” be came the objective of her life. Aban- doned by friends, forsaken by rela- tives, burdened by sorrow, sickness, and poverty, this fmil New England |sentlewoman pressed forward for twenty years in untiring search for that law of healing which is as eter- nal as the love ef God and as un changing. Shortly after Lincoln had sccom- plished his God-appointed task there came to the waiting thought of this pure woman, at a moment of extreme physical need, a clear perception of the law and method by which Christ Jesus and the early Christians pad healed the sick, and she was instanuy nealed from the results of what had been Pronounce! a fatal injury. But it re- quired nine years of further study and application of this law before the Christian Science text book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Was completed and given to the world. This book corroborates and explains the teachings of the Bible. It pierces with the rays of spiritual Truth every human problem and omits nothing that needs to be known in order to accomplish the full deliverance of men from the bondage to evil and mor- |tality. Written in Lynn, Massachu- setts, In a lonely attic chamber, un der a single sky-light window, the rays of its healing message have Ughtened the hearts of multitudes. And its work is only begun. The discovery of Christian Science was, however, but ono part’ of Mrs. luddy's life work. After her discovery there remained the work of founding this new yet old idea of God's healing power in the thought of the world, sceptical, condemnatory, and unbeliev- ing. She saw that this saving idea must be presented fo men, protected from adulteration and misrepresenta- tion; and that orderly methods and means must be found to carry out theso purposes. How well the work was done! A half century ago Chris- tian Science was believed in only by the one who discovered it,—a lone woman, lacking friends, influence or human means. Her only possessions Were an idea and unbounded trust in God. Today this idea has found joy- ful acceptance in the thought of mil- lions Tho same wisdom which guided all the footsteps of this God-inspired woman enabled her to establish under the Manual of The Mother Church in Boston a system of church govern- ment, wholly unique and different from any other and adequate in every detail to the demands of this and fu- ture generations. In this Manual is set forth “the way” in which the co- operative and collective activities of the Christian Science movement must be carried on, and the processes and forms of action through which God's healing purpose of universal salvation is to be accomplished. EVER PRESENT MIND IS GOD. The consideration of rettgion and science properly begins with the cause f all things. Men may differ as to what this cause is but they are prac- tically united in their belief that there is a cause. This common con- viction wag recently expressed by Thomas Edison thus, “I can no more doubt the existence of an intelligence that is running things than I do the existence of myself.” But what is this cause, where is it, what is its rela tion to man? These are some of the questions we are here to consider. I wonder if at some time you have not looked through a certain kind of lens which has made objects that were very near seem as though they were remote. Remove the leng and the normal relationship is at once apparent. Our past religious teach- ings have often made us feel that God is far away. They have acted as the glass lens and have made what is very “the Lord is at my right hand,” 3 the Psalmist,—seem distant and remote. Let us begin by dropping any sense of God as one mile, two miles or any miles off, and let us look for the cause of all things right where its creation is, right here among us. | In the world today we observe many good ideas that are commanding in- creased consideratiom. ‘These ideas pertain to the welfare and betterment of men, individually and. collectively Wo note the idea of industriat justice as between employers and employees being given fuller consideration than ever before. Industrial leaders are realizing that the time is near when the great messes of mankind must be freed from the’ overburden of phy- sical toil and the consuming fear of poverty. ‘Through the clouds of con- fused opinions we see the ideas of in- ternational arbitration and co-opera- tion among the nations of the earth becoming more fully established in thought. We see euch events as the Associated Advertising clubs of Am- erica taking for thelr organization's motto, “Truth.” The Rotary club, an international organization of business men, makes “Service about Self” the keynote of its activities. Now, my friends,'where do these right ideas come from? All that we know anything about is what is called matter and mind, so it is from one or the other that these ideas must come. | Matter can be divided Into some ninety |chemical elements, about twenty of |which make mp the human body, |thougsh {ts chief constituents are water, salt, carbon, and oll. The brain, often regarded as the source of thought, is said to be from 70 per cent to 90 per cent water, about the same percentage of water that is in a tomato or a very soggy potato, I pre- sume. So we must decide whether these ideas of industrial justice, hon- lesty, kindness, an@ so on originate in jmatter or in mind. Who would say |that an idea of international arbitra- tion came from a pint of water mixed ‘with a tablespoonful of salt with some @ressed up to make an imposing ap- pearance. z ‘These ideas, let us note, are not af- fected by time or space. They are the same in essence today as they were| 2,000 years @go, and the same in South Africa as in the United States. They are always here, and and no one has to do anything but think them in order to have them. Yet no human beng is their source or cause. It fs evident that these ideas spring from @ common source with which each one of us has a funda- mental mental relationship. Christian Science explains that this fountain sources’ of all right ideas is Mind, in- telligence, always here and every- where, but never in matter. This al- ways-present Mind is God, and jy the source of all good thoughts) Man is the agency through which this Mind expresses Itself. Let us remember then, that God fs Mind, our intelli- genee, our life, and that in reality man is the individual expression of God. ‘The only reason for man to exist is to express God, good . Since the true individuality man is the expression of Gof, God must be where man fs, and man must be where God is. We cannot see God with the physical senses any more than we can see Mind, but we can know Him, even as we know good, which is His being. The physical senses only seo what is temporary and destructible. God, Mind, is eternal and indestructible. A little child once expressed the funda- mental relationship between God and man thus, “There is one Mind and we all use it” Bclence says, “There is one Mind and we a'l express, or reflect it” ‘This Mind is the Prin- ciple, Spirit, Life, and controlling ant- mus of every living thing. Let us consider something more of the nature of Ged. How old ts God? Well, what could precede intelligence? Could intelligence evolve from non-in- telligence? Reason says no. You can never reason pack of intelligence, Then Mini must be selff-existent, without any precedent cause, and must be eternal. For as there is nothing to make inteMigence so there is nothing to unmake it. Surely ignorance can- not take to itself power and over- whelm wisdom and intelligence. Let us be ddubly sure we are not harboring any sense of God as apart from creation. He fs one with His creation, as the sun and its rays are one. God is not the cause of life outside of life. God is Life. God is aot only the source of truth, God is Truth. God has not merely a loving nature. God is Ive. And these names, Life Truth, Love, are, in their true sense, synonymous with Mind. EVIL, FROM CARNAL MIND. But, someone may say, there is much about man that fs not the ex- Pression of real intelligence, or God. There is much selfishness, hate, sin and disease. Yes, that surely seemg to be so. How then are we to account for the ungodly conditions with which we are confronted? This is the ex- planation. Good thoughts are the ex- pression of God. Evil thoughts, fear, sin, disease, discord, and so on are the expression of a so-called evil mind, the negative and opposite of God, im- mortal Mind. Paul thought about this same question that is befote us, and stated that “The carnal mind is enmity with God,” which of course means that the evil mind is hostile and opposed to all that is of God. And he said further: “To be carnally mind- ed is death, but to be spiritually mind- ed is life and peace.” There is the whole thing in a nutskell. The moral, the good, the righteous thoughts are the expression of God and bring true life and peace. Evil thoughts bring with them sin, sickness and death. There is such a thing, too, as being dead above ground, for so long as our tinds are filled with carnal thoughts we are dead to spiritual life. But how are we to stop evil thoughts from pos- sessing us, and keep our consciousness always filled nvith God's thoughts, that’s the question we want answered, isn’t it? Christian Science answers it fully, and as we go on you will see what that answer is. It should be said sometimes, and perhaps this is a good place, that thinking good thoughts is the only way by which we can attain a normal and truly happy state of existence. Sooner or later we all have to discover that genuine goodness is true being and nothing else is. The one who is more or less willingly deceived into believing that righteousness beyond a certain point is unmanty and that a kit-bag of sins is essential to his hap- Piness is storing up for himself untold suffering. Christian .Scientists, let it be understood, do not claim to be bet- ter than their brothers, but they know that they themselves are better than they have been. They rejoice because they have found that the only legiti- mate state of being is thinking and living in accord with God. This they are learning to do in increasing meas- are. But do not judge Christian Science by the immature efforts of Christian Scientists, for they have only begun to demonstrate this abso- lute science of being. YOUTH'S OPPORTUNITY. And here may I say a word to the young people in particular. You will remember that in Ecclesiastes (12:1) the Preacher has counselled, ““Remem- ber now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not.” Why do you suppose he gave this special counsel to the young? Be- cause he saw just what we see today that the devil paints with his most alluring colors pictures for the minds of the young. The world of matter he pictures as full of promise, happiness, success. In our teens and early twen- ties its huo is often rosy and golden, but, my ‘young friends, substance, reality, and enduring happiness are not there, as millions have found who have traveled the road before you. “The evil days” to which the preach- er referred are those times in later years which are bound to come as surely as night follows day, if those who have glimpsed the eternal things of God turn from them into the side- paths of materiality which lead away from the path heavenward. Would that you who are standing on the It ts sometimes said give up so much to become Yan Scientist, but this is Christian Science separates” nothing but evil. It but asks us to surrender the fool's gvid of false ma- great sculptor, Michael Angelo, “The more the marble wastes The more the image grows.” HOW TO DESTROY EVIL. Now, let us begin the conmideration from the earth by our own bootstraps. To raise ourselves from the ground we need to get hold of something higher than we are. So to get free from evil and mortality we must lay hold of something higher, a higher sense of life and existence, and that sense ts the spiritual or God-appointed sense of being. First, remember always that every claim of evil must be reduced to % mental argument, a suggestion of the carnal, or mortal mind. “The basic e ror is mortal mind,” writes Mrs. Eddy on page 405 of Science and Health. If we wish to be vid of a tree that is sending out poisonous odors we would not try to combat the odor. We would search out the root and strike there. If we wish to be rid of evil we do not bether too much with its particular arguments, we go to the root of it all and strike there. If then we reduce the evil that confronts us to a mental argument with the carnal mind as its cause, what next? How do we get rid of this erroneous cause? How do we get rid of a shadow? A shadow is but the absence of tight. ‘To get rid of It we let in the light. Then there is no shadow. Christian Science shows that evil is not the fact of existence, only a shadow thought. the opposite of the fact. So in place of a mistaken evil sense, we turn to God, who is light, or intelligence, and realize that He is the only Mind, the only Truth, the only Life, and the only Love; that there is no other Mind, and that the supposed evil mind is not Mind, sub- stance, or reality and cannot infl ence, affect, or control God or His harmonious creation, including man. Now, secondly, please note this. The only way we destroy a lie is by ceas- ing to believe in it. Likewise we de- stroy evil as we cease to believe in it. We only cease to believe in it as we realize the substantiality of good and the presence and the power of God. We only realize the presence and power of God as we strive moment ly moment. cay by day, ves, thoucy’ by thought, to think the thoughts of God. Rays of light displace darkness, drops of water put out fire, thoughts of God, good, nullify evil. There is no other way. Christian Science shows evil to be nothing but a negative state of thought. It is like ignorance. We can all see that there is no such thing in reality as ignorance. Ignorance is but a negative state of thought, the absence of something, and it disap- pears instantly when intelligence ap- pears. So every phase of evil is but & phase of spiritual ignorance, an eb- sence of the understanding of good, the affirmative, spiritual Truth of be- ing, and it disappears before the light of. spiritual intelligence as the dark- ness flees before the dawn. In Porto Rico when the moon is full the shadows of the palm trees seem so black and substantial that a stranger will step over them, as he would over | ald, some real object. Yet they are never anything but substanceless shadows. What the stranger needs to do is to change his sense about them. He must learn that they are but shadows and wholly unable to hinder his prog- ress. So it is with the shadows of| pears evil belief. They are not substantial and cannot hinder our progress when we learn of their negative nature. APPLICATION OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Let us now consider some specific application of Christian Science. Sup- pose an upright business man is con- fronted with a temptation to profit through a dishonest transaction. He thinks to himself, “No, I will not do that dishonest act for it is not right. It is not according to my standard of manhood.” What has he done here? He has mentally repudiated an evil suggestion that whispered to him, be- causo his higher sense of life knows that it is wrong, is erroneous and un- worthy of a place in his thought or life. te takes his stand mentally for what is right and true. Now this is just exactly what a Christian Scient- ist does only he goes further and mentally repudiates the suggestions of evil no matter what their nature may be. If the mental ‘method is usable to get rid of the sinful suggestion to be dishonest it is equally usable to get rid of the evil suggestion to be sick, for the latter has no more legitimate place in the life and thought of man than the former. Both are the ex- presston of the evil mind while man is made to express God, the divine Mind. So when evil whispers, “I'm catch- ing cold. My feet are wet and I'm afraid I wi soon have a cold in my head,” the Christian Scientist says in substance, “God, good, is my life, the source and support of my being. Sick- ness is not of God and has no relation- ship to Him or to His expression man. Mortal mind and its evil manifesta- tions have no real existence and can- not for an instant deprive man of his God-appointed condition or destiny. My true selfhood as determined by God, 1s harmonious, healthy and free. threshhold of human experience might|I therefore refuse to be dominated or but see that the goal of all living, the purpose of all true existence is the |or controiicd by any argument of cold ess which has no authority -By Paul Stark Seeley, C.S.B. from God tn ema by whom I Live, and, move, and bere my being.” Or suppos? the Christian Scientist earth's actors is the devil or mortal/tit we recognize what is already be- id. This is the world of negative/fcre us? All of us have so much to belief preying upon an-/b: grateful for, our country and its accomplishes is its/inst:tutions, our hoines, our churches, h scenes arejand schools, the bsantes of na‘urs, E il | i | rea! which is not one whit more|rejoice in the presence of good animate error, so-calledy|deny most effectively the presence EE ate ead of hateful and deceiv- 2 “Fath- @ f.tst step it subordinates the |¢r, I thank Thee” was his thought will of God, good,|4lways. The wholesome Pollyanna re- man on his way to|™inds us that the Lord says some 800 times in the Bible that we should earth-sense | Slad, and that since He movies. ‘There you sae move-| many times, He must have ment, action, people, but they are nt un spac 4 and gratitude go IE ‘chadiowe. side of life and stay there. Let us be ed cotuorieitia scene facpaa ese intelligent optimists. And it is well fad or gruescine we may find relief|t® remember that a normal sense of by saying to ourselves, “Well, it isn't|¥™mor is a good shockabsorber for true, no matte: what it seems to be.|80™me of the rough spots on the road It isn’t real.” We eliminate the sense |°f human experience. of its realness and find relief. That is APATHY IS A . what the world must do with all evil 18 A DEVILFiT. and on the scientific basis that God is] Apathy or mental stagnation is an- the only true Life, Mind and being-| other of the devil-pits we need to look Let us never forget, too. that this/out for. We cannot stand still. And ronst be done right at the point of our/to keep going forward we have to be individual thinking. The devil or the/ever awake, alert 4nd on guard. To socalled evil mind is a very busy¥|stop our efforts to progress because movie producer. His reels are run in|the grade seems a Dit steep is to the theater of personal consciousness} stall our mental engine, as it were, and the performance, if we permit it./and before long we begin to deterior is almost continuous. ‘The price of ad-| ate, divisible unity of idea of God is lovt every other idea end of and rejoice in God and no other state of thought can be present or be manifest.” MORAL COURAGE REQUISITE. You-+will see, I thnk, that. this method of mental practice simply displaces in thought the negative un- godly testimony of mortal sense, no matter how time-honored, with the reasoned truth of affirmative. and harmonous spiritual sense. as we stop believing in evil. When we do this it is as though we cut off the the strong light of spiritual minded. ness which renders impossible any re- petition of evil's shadow plays. The devil's motto we might put into order of thinking and it requires cour- age, moral courage, and lots of it. But the best thing about the method s that it works, a fact to which the entire Christian Science movement is a living testimony. And what stand for the right does not require moral courage? ‘Think of the moral courage no more can evil cling to or possess from these vivid scenarios of evil only | ta; current that runs the movie machine.| busy to exp We must at the same time turn on/ 4) eyed as though we are lulled by the silent arguments of evil into a state of men. indifference ur complacency. Often evil suggests that. we are too too busy to pray, too our true manhood at Or sometimes our social interests crowd in and before we know it God is in nearly the last place when He must be first if we wish to make any m progress heavenward. Apathy to spir- the words of Voltatre, ‘pict Tact Xe! itual things quickly folowa when we candor ts atick onto a eundeam,tand make too much of human things. You will remember the parable Jesus told of the feast and the invited guests and their excuses for not com. the right-thinking man. SELF-WILL AN ENEMY. ing. One had a business, another rel- atives, another some cxen,-~today it ‘Two things are needed tn order that/is the flivver or automobile. You the individual progress in his under-|see evil hasn't changed one bit. Look Standing of Christian Science, first algut then for the arguments of hu. éorrect understanding of the nature of! man responsibility, human ease, God and man, and second a correct| worldly pleasure and position. These sense concerning the nature of cvil.| are just the alluring sideshows of evil and how to combat and overthrow it.| arranged along the road heavenwacd We have considered the basic truths| ind we do not belong in any of then, of Dantel when cast among the fam- ished lions. He didn’t stop to think of devouring beasts, the appalling picture which material sense present- ed. He thought only of the love and the power of God and man’s unity with Him. Why do you suppose the ions did not devour Daniel? Simply because his thought was so fully at- one with the divine Mind that the bestial appetites felt the restraining Power of God's presence and sensed nothing in him on which to feed. Think of the moral courage of Christ Jesus when hoe raised Lazarus who had been fn the tomb four days, long enough for decomposition to set in. Suppose he had admitted for an in- stent the testimony of the material senses as to Lazarus. Lazarus would never have come forth. It was be- cause he kept his thought firmly fix- ed on the unchanging harmony and Spirtual integrity of God ‘and | His creation, knowing that man as the rent or wave moves them. Who wants most common ts self-will. This leach-| 1, bo @ mental clam! like mental encumbrance is defined by Mrs. Eddy on page 597 “i Science se WORLD'S NEED IS MORE LOVE. “ motive er Oo coor” ‘The vil In the human wil Is| The world today, torn with diesen. that it is blind to aught but its own| SOM, strife, and ill-will, is hungry in .|its heart of hearts for love, for the purpose and desire. It has no rela-| 1 tion to the Father Mind, but sets in]!0ve that is genuine, good and pure, place of the will of wisdom and love|the love that destroys hate, unites the driving compulsion of the ignorant,|™en and expresses God. The {dea selfish, and criminal mortal mind v:,-]f Co-operation ts being born. Among ruled by Principle. This enemy of the] States, nations, churches, employers, individual and the common good ap-|¢™Ployees, farmers and individuals pears early in human life, and is ever | We see this right {dea of human broth- seeking to control us, blinding us to|¢rhood slowly but surely emerging, the government of God, It is often] Not without a conflict, but with a def. manifest in the early acts of the in-|initeness that is cause for encourage- fant insisting upon its own desires.|ment. Slowly men are coming to see The youth is frequently obsessed by|that in the final analysis self-interest this unseen evil influenca and goes| is to be found only in the common in- his erring way, his thought shut to] terest, and that we cannot have any any counsel but his own selfish, wil-| enduring selfhood apart from our ful purpose. The adult often mistakes] brother. So momentous is the step this mental usurper for true manli-|forward which mankind is now tak- ness, believes he must gain success] ing that the breaking up of old beliefs by it, dominate those about him with]of pride, selfishness, jealousy, hate, it, and in general be a little god boss-|and so on seems at times to cause an ing his own Uttle kingdom and his|icejam in the stream of progress, but subjects with this unholy power. The|under the moral force of love the human will is the autocrat ruler, the|stream moves on. tyrant, and the criminal of the men-| And so to everyone interested in hu- tal realm. man betterment let me say that the A friend once owned a parrot which| world needs your co-operation and would say day after day, “I want what | mine. It neeas brotherly consideration TI want, I want what I want.” This] one for another, toleration and kind. is ever the cry of the human will. It| ness. We need to be ever ready to rec. wants its way, no other. Blind, self-| ognize and to rejoice in the good in ish, unreasoning it drives its victims|those about us and to minimize the headiong into the pitfalls of destruc-| evil. We need to guard against “going tion and furnishes the impetus for the/to the mat” over questions secondary basest of human passions, malice and| in importance, thus retarding our own lust. Christian Science binds with|/and others progress heavenward. In everlasting chains this conspirator|the transition through which we are against happiness, goodness, and|passing we sec toc often good men brotherhood. It dethrones any belief|condemn good men. ‘Those striving in or submission to a mortal or evill for the same ideals politically and mind and establishes in our thought] religiously are too often separated the will of God to be the one deter-/iy the devil's wedge of controversy mining power. and dissension and their purposes thwarted by unavailing conflict. Dis- HUMILITY » i pie sension is the work of qvil. Spiritual There is but one antidote for self-|unity is the order of God. We need will, It is humility. Humility is no|more toleration, nat for error, but sign of cness, no surrender of|for our brother the whole world over real initiative, individuality or power.| who is working his way heavenward It 1s the finding, in the fullest sense,| according to his best light. of all these and more, for its brings| My friends, we are brothers. God man into a fuller sense of his true|has made us so. Only as’brothers can manhood than he has known before.|we find true life, only as brothers can We must all pass through the valley|we possess true happiness, only as of humility, and leave ther the heavy} brothers can we fulfil our Father's baggage of self-will, before we can| purpose and fill our places in love's reach the heights of holiness. .| harmonious plan. Tho efforts of the Eddy has said that “humility 1s the/adversary are jto divide Christians ef|first step .in Christian Science.”|and Christendom, to bring among us (Mise. Writings 354:23). Humbleness| controversy, dissension, strife and ‘of mind is based on the recognition war. But we are brothers, brothers that there is but one will, God's, but) now, brothers forever and forever. one determining Mind or intelligence|Onty in brotherhood is heaven, . only to which all men are naturally obedi-/in brotherhood is truth, and the one ent, each having his place and hi8}road to brotherhood is love, love that part in the one infinite plan. What|is deep, genuine, pure and Godlike. error terms “my will” or “your will” J oElen that Joveth ‘not his must be put down and kept down if/ brother whom he hath seen, how can “Thy kingdom come, Thy | he love God whom he hath not seen?” will be done” is ever to avail. The| ‘Two thousand years ago there came Master's: prayer must become ours,/ among men one so lowly that he was “Not. my will’ but Thine “be done.”| horn in a manger. No persecution Solomon puts it thus, “In all. thy! that could be heaped on him was too ways acknowledge Him and He shall| severe. Reviled, he reviled not again. direct thy paths. For malice he give forgiveness, for in- justice mercy, for hatred love. And INGRATITUDE AN EVIL. finally when nailed to the cross for Another stumbling block in the way|no cause seve the world’s hatred of heavenward {s ingratitude. This is a| his goodness, he still loved his unjust {ryzen, frigid, mental state which is a|brothers and prayer, “Father, for phase of seifishness. It would cut us|give them for they know not what cff from the presence and love of God.| they do.” Why this life so burdened To the extent that we are grateful for| with the hatred of men, why the su- the gocd we have we do recognize the| preme sacrifice of that Ilfe, crucified presence of God, who is good. How|in ignominy and disdain amid the can we-hope to see more of good un- scorn of his enemice? Why indeed? for a single instant aught that God has made. One cannot be @ moral coward and get far in Christian, Science, but if our desire is right and our effort per- severing Christian Science will bring strength to the hands that seem weak and confirm the feeble knees. We must learn to face the dev and all the hosts of hell if need be, know their impotence, and rejoice in the allness of God. The one power on earth before which evil cannot stand is that state of thought-so filled with the understanding of God that it knows evil's nothingness. On page’ 410 of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy has , “Christian scientific practice be- ging with Christ’s keynote of har mony, “Be not afraid.’ ” Paul says, “God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love,‘ and of a sound mind.” Fear is belief in our under standing of God as divine Love. ANIMATE ERROR UNREAL. It is plain that the way of thinking first it may seem as though Christian Science is esking us to deny testi- mony that is very real. This is be- cause we have blindly believed that the testimony which the physical senseg offer, which is the expression of mortal thought, is not open to question. But wait a minute. Let us see about this In the light of the true understanding of God and God's cre- ation. ‘This understanding shows a perfect God, absotute intelligence, as isn’t. If it ts of God it fs eternally true and good, if not it is a mistaken sense of life negative and temporal. ror.” _ It seems to be Ife but is not the God-appointed order of Ife. It is but the action and reaction of erring mortal thought. A very large part, of. what-coes on on the stage of earth is but animate error. True existence expresses God, 00d, and fs no more to be found in the strife of mortals than it is ina dog fight. The play and counter play of selfishness, jealousy, hatred, con- tention, and sinful intrigus, acting through mortals, is like the play of many manikins operated and control. led by one common ventriloquist and the ventriloquist manipulator ‘of ‘His one purpose was to give to men @ truer sense of Love, to prove by his Ufe and resurrection Love's dominion over hate. He did his work for you and me. He showed us the way. Are we faithful? Are we, to the best of our ability, thinsing: the thoughts he taught us to think, living the lives he taught us to live, and doing all we can to establish the Fathers rule among men, the rule of universal and inrpartial Love? Let us hear the Mas- ter’s own words. “A new command- ment I give unto you. tna. ye love one another; as I have ioved you, that ye also love one ano-her. By this shall all men know that ye are my d'sciptes if ye have love one to another.” ROTARIANS LOUD IN PRAISE OF GREELEY MEET District Convention Royally Entertained in Colorado, Says L. A. Reed, Just Returned. Pronouncing the Rotary convention at Greeley one of the most royal en- tertainments ever staged by a west- ern city, L. A. Reed, a local official of the Midwest company, returned here Tuesday from a cation, part of which time he spent at Greeley attending the district con- ference. Before returning to Casper Mr. Reed visited the Denver offices of the Midwest company and stopped in Cheyenne to attend the Shriners’ meeting and festivities. There were so many Casper people in attendance at the Shriners meet- ing at Cheyenne last night that the Burlington Railroad company permit- ted holding passenger train No. 29 at Cheyenne until 1 o'dlock this morn- ing so that the Casperites could at- tend the festivities and still return to Casper. “Gresley staged a wonderful enter- tainment for the Rotarians. The repu- tation of the Colorado city must have been well known ag 693 Rotarians gathered for the conference from every section of the district. ‘The beautiful decorations and the royal en- tertainment will make a real reputa- tion for Greeley.” Mr. Reed was accompanied on the trip by Mrs. Reed. Sho returned to this morning and joined with Mr. Reed in stating that they had a most enjoyable vacation. DETAILS OF WOOL POOL AGREEMENT ARE WORKED OUT BY GROWERS HERE Details of the agreement which wool srowers of Natrona county will sign when the entire “wool pool” which will be perfected here this year were worked out at a meeting of the wool zale committee, composed of Thomas Cooper, P. C. Nicolaysen and M. J. Gcthberg. The agreements are a pieise of the Yoolgrowerr not to seil his wool be- fere shearing time. it is also stated that each wool will be graded and classified and will be soll under com- petitive bid to the highest bidder at sales to be arranged by the sales com. mittee. Each woolgrower who eniers the Pool is asked to send a rampie of the wool from his clip to G. M. Penley, county agricultural agent as scon as the shearing work is completes, Penley, will forward the wool to Pro/ J. A. Hill, a wool expert at tne Uni versity of Wyoming for grading, classification and shrinkage test. The sheepmen will then be acquainted with the finding and al! wools of the same classification will be gathered for the sales to be held at convenient points throughout the county. NEW WEST SIDE MISSION WELL ATTENDED SUNDAY The first services to be held in the West Side Mission, West Eleventh street, by the Rev. C. M. Thompson, Jr., were well attended and showed @ great interest in the—work. The Sunday school services wero held at 2:30 o'clock with 85 pupils in attendance. The work was organized with E. A. Flinn as superintendent and next Sunday complete equipment will be installed for the Sunday school. The Sunday sermon followed the Sunday school services at 3:15 o'clock and the auditorium of the church edi- fice was well filled. Services will be held next Sunday at the same hour. ae Our four salesmen; quality, price. fit and style. Reliable Tailors: 225i ne a Transo Cigars—Union Mado. Vesta Batteries AT LOWER PRICES Two-Year Guarantee. Casper Battery Company 508 E. Yellowston Hwy. 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