Evening Star Newspaper, February 6, 1921, Page 36

THE SUNDAY STAR, FEBRUARY 6, 1921—PART 2. ADVERTISEMENT, ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. ADVERTISEMENT. ‘A Happy New Year to the Dear Children s~ 0 ‘And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the king- dom of heaven. ‘Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same.is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child jn my name receiveth me—CHRIST JESUS. (Matthew xviii,, 2-5.) The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopa_zrd shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray; and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such —CHRIST JECUS. (Matthew xix., 13, 14.) Laboring long to shake the adult’s faith in matter and to inculcate a grain of faith in God,—an inkling of the ability of Spirit to make the body harmonious remembered our Master’s love stood how truly such as they dom—MARY BAKER EDDY. (Science and Key to the Scriptures, page 130.) 1f a child is exposed to contagion or infection, o “My child will be sick.” - The law of mortal mind and her own fears govern her child niére than is frightened and says, the child’s mind governs itself, sults which might have been prevented ER EDDY. (Science and Health, page 154.) understanding. ~MARY BAK Willingness to become as for the new renders thought ~—MARY BAKER EDDY. 110.) . Childres not mistaught, naturally love God; for they are ure-minded, affectionate, and —MARY BAKER EDD 240.) A child can measurably understand Christian Science, for, through his simple faith and purity, he takes in its spirit- ual sense that puzzles the man. ~—MARY BAKER EDDY. Ah, children, you are the bulwarks of freedom, the cement of society, the hope of our race! HKRY BAPKER EDDY. Dear Children of the Twentieth Century: For some time I have felt an im- pelling desire to write to you, and *have recently questioned myself re- garding my untiring efforts,—fre- quent sacrifice of personal ease, walks and automobile rides and vis- its with dear friends, and a great sacrifice of material possessions,— that I may tell the “children of a larger growth” of the light and health and lupiineu and strength and oneness with our Father-Moth- er God, which Christ Jesus taught and demonstrated, and which, in this age, Mary Baker Eddy, the Dis- coverer and Founder of Christian Science, restored to the world. Therefore I shall obey the divine he law of unselfed love. and tell you, dear children, of the Truth, which has given me, and thousands, health, hl?pmzss. and a love for our Father-Mother God, in- cluding every child of God, for theie is but one god. one creator, who is eternal Life and Love. Everyone is God’s child and is really our broth- er. We must learn to think hts and then we will see d made them. We are h m as told that “There is_ nothing either good ‘or bad, but thinking makes it so.” S 1 “reminisce” just for awhile,—go back to my childhood and tell you some of my experi- ences, when I was a little girl 1 had a dear earthly father and moth- er, whom I loved so dearly, that 1 was always perfectly happy when 1 was with them. ey were very religious,—by this I mean that they loved the Holy Bible and tried to obey ’s law and follow Christ Jesus’ teachings, and I think they mmst have obeyed Christ’s teachings, for they were so good and so healthy and happy. You know dear little ones, that the Bible is the book that tells us what God says to His people, through men who love Him and who obey His com- mandments, one of which reads: ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God awith all thy heart, and with all thy ooul, and with all’thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neigh- bor as thyself. ‘These men were called prophets. They prophesied, or foresaw and foretold the result of wrony thoughts, or thoughts which wer not (Eod or thoughts, Life anc Love and Truth thoughts. Age: ugo people were told to be good and obey God, if they wanted to be hap- py themselves and be able to make others well and happy. Elijah was one of the prophets who talked with God and taught God-thoughts to the people, so you see, God spoke through him. and of course Elijah’s thoughts were all life and love and truth thoughts, and these good, God- thoughts made the people, who obeyed God's voice through Elijah, happier and healthier Bid ou ever hear, children. that once Elijah went into a house, and be must have been very hungry, for he asked for something to eat? There was a_mother who lived in lb:l bouse with her little son, and she told Elijah that she had only oil and meal enough to make one cake for her little boy’s breakfast and that then they must die. Elijah told her to take the meal and the oil and make a cake for him, and sbe made it and be ate it all. When my Sunday 1 _teacher told me this story, I said 1 ht Elijah was a very horrid man'and very sel- fish to eat the cake that the mother was saving for her little boy’s breakfast. Then my teacher told me that the mother knew that Eli- jah was God’s prophet and that she trusted him to ask God to save her and her little son. Of course, Eli- jah knew that God would give him receptive of the advanced idea. (Science and Health, page 323.) Beloved children, the world has need of you,-',—_dnd more s children than as men and women: it needs your innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontaminated lives. You need also to watch, and pray that unstained, and lose them not through h t —MARY -BAKER EDDY. (Miscellaneous Writings, page Y. (Miscellaneous Wmmgs, page shall lead them. (Isaiah xi., 6.) a little child is the kingdom of heaven. ,—the author has often for little children, and under- belong to the heavenly king- Health with ‘the mother roduce the very re- and they r rough the opposite little child and to leave the old you preserve these virtues contact with the world. generally brave. (Message for 1900, page 6.) (Pulpit and Press, page 9.) all that he asked for. Every Chris tian knows this, for the Bible tell them to “Ask, and ye shall receive.’ So he tald the mother that the mea should not waste, neither shoulc the curse of oil fail, and they dic not, for the story reads, “She an: he, and her house, did eat man: days. And the meal wasted not neither did the cruse of oil fail.” Then there was.another prophet Elisha, who told a woman how tc t the money to pay: her debts he man to whom she owed thr money was going to take her tw: sons and make them work to pa) this big debt. Of course, the moth er felt very sorry that her son: would have to work hard to pay he: debt. Elisha asked her if she ha: anything to eat in the house. Sh said “Nothing save a pot of oil,” anc then he told her to send out an borrow emqy!y vessels of all he neighbors. You see, the mother wa obedient to the prophet’s word anc she had her reward, for all th vessels that she had borrowed fron her neighbors were filled with oil which she sold, and she paid all he: debts. It is right for every one tc pay his or her own debts, is it not. children? If every one knew Elijah’s anc Elisha’s and Christ Jesus’ ,—and there is only one God~—there wonldn’t be anybody in debt, would there? If everybody knew that the God of Elijah and Elisha and Christ Jesus was their God and thelr lov- ing Father, no one would be wor- ried about debts and there would be no_hungry people and no starving children. "I think, children, if Elijah and Elisha were here today, they could feed all the hun, little and big children here and in Europe, and 1 know, I really do know that Christ Jesus could. 1 think that all the earthly fathers and mothers and everybod¥ had better find God and He will feed all His little and big children, do you not? Christ Jesus and his disciples knew that if people would be healthy and happy, they must love God and love each other, because God is the Father and Mother, or creator, of every one and of every- thing that is good and real, and of nothing that is not good, so that anything that is not good is unreal 1d we must not believe in what iod never made. You know that +ou must love your little brother and sisters and be unselfish and kind, and hare with them the good things you have, if you wish to be happy. and make Jour earthly father and mother and home hlppfl. As you grow older you will see, that it there is but one God, one creator, and this God is Life and Love, that every one must be your brother or sister and you must love them, because God is Life and Love, and He made them like Himself,—good, and that they are all His good children, whom He made in “His own image.” Even the birds and fishes and ani- mals, the flowers and trees and mountains, God made and they are all good, because there is but one creator, or Father-Mother God, and one real world. God is Life and Love, and I believe and understand, with thousands who try to fallow Christ, that He is the cause or crea- tor of all that is real and eternal If He is All, then e one and eve must be His thoughts or children. God-theughts are good thoughts, Love-thoughts, Truth- thoughts, and, therefore, there can never be any reality in a thought or tl;l:i which is not good. God bein, and all that He made 'oo:. ike Himself, we can never admit another power, as real, such as un- kind thoughts, selfish thoughts, un- grateful thoughts, for those wrong thoughts, if indulged, make little Who Are Entering Upon the children or big children very|after a while, that the organist,Igarden, radiant unhappy, very unlovable, and sometimes very sick. They are nmaughty thoughts, which God never made, and the little chil- dren of this century are learning to think God (good) thoughts: They are resisting thoughts which make them sick or unhappy and which make-others unhappy. When I was a little girl, no one knew that thoughts made people well and happy, or sick and disa- greeable to themselves and every one. Had my dear mother known that her fear that some disease called contagious was a wrong thought, she never would have transferred her disease-thought to me, her dar¥ing child. She would never have touched me with that naughty thought—fear—and I should have been spared colds and chil- dren’s diseases, and she would have had, during those sick-thought days, a_happy, healthy little daughter, to give her joy and reward her for her tender mother-love. However, I survived my parents’ idolatry and have learned how to think God (good) thoughts to every one, and how to refuse to think any but God- thoughts, life and love, to all. This gives me—and gives every one who obeys God’s law of Life and Love— health, happiness and love for all and for everything which God made It also gives the repelling power of Love to fear, and Love chases away naughty thoughts and protects lit- tle children and big children from their influence. My dear mother was my first Sun- day School teacher. T used to com- mit verses from the Bible and I learned the history of Jesus' won- derful power to heal the sick. But I thought Jesus was the Son of God and that God gave him special power to do this work. Jesus said to his early disciples, The works that I do shall ye do also, and great- er works than these shall ye do; but I never thought that I was also 5od’s child and could do the same. if T understood and obeyed the law >f God, as Christ J..us did. My nother was shocked when I ques- ioned the prayer she taught me to ay before I went to sleep, which an thus. “Now I lay me down to sleep; 1 pray the Lord my soul to keep. If 1 should die betore 1 wake, 1 pray the Lord my soul to take.” I did not want to say this(firayer recause I did not want to die and cave my dear parents, my horse and »iano and organ and home. I would ften tell my father, who desired > make me a musician, that other ‘ttle girls’ fathers and mothers did >t keep them in the house on right sunny days, practising on a iano or an organ. But father was isistent, and when I was fourteen -ears old I played the organ in his hurch. It was not a great big pipe rgan, children, but it was an old- ashioned Mason & Hamlin organ vith but seven or eight stops, which played for four years. I learned whom they discharged, was paid $600 a year, and father, who was a church official, was saving that money for his church, for in all those four years they never paid me anything Perhaps father was teaching me the lesson of obedience and unsclfishness. He was an archi- tect, and built and loved his church edifice, and, children, does it not seem strange that years afterwards Mrs. Eddy sent me to New York city to preach and teach Christian Science, and to heal the sick, and that, with my students, I built a church edifice? When the big pipe organ was brought into the church to be set up, and the console was on the floor and many workmen were there, a man came up and tpassed me a brown paper, upon which was written, “Madam, will you play ‘Nearer My God' for the boys?” I told them T would if they would sing it with me, which they did. So I was the first one to play the organ in the church over which Mrs. Eddy gave me charge. As a child, I rebelled at the pray- er, “If I should die before I wake.” Today, dear children, you can go to Slumberland with the prayer that dear Mrs. Eddy has given to chil- dren of the twentieth century, and which will never take you away from your parents, but will teach you that God is your Life and that you cannot_be separated from Life and Love. You will learn that God- thoughts are life. This is Mrs. Ed- dy’s prayer, which thousands of lit- tle ones offer to our loving Father- Mother God every night: “Father-Mother God, Loving me,— Guard me when I sleep; Guide my little feet Up to Thee.” There is another prayer, whose author I do not know: “Now I lay me down to sleep; I know that God His child does keep. 1 know that God, my life, is nigh, 1 live in Him ; I cannot die. God is my health, T can’t be sick; God is my strength, unfailing, quick; God 15 _Ali; 1 know no fear, Since Life and Love, dear God, is here.” 2 My second Sunday School teacher was shocked when I asked her, how she knew that heaven was such a lovely place. Had some one come back and told her? She said in heaven the streets were golden and the gates were pearl and the men were olaying on harps. I asked if there were any mothers in heaven and tittle children, for I did not want to go to a place where there were no mothers and’no little children. In my child mind I used to picture golden streets, and they seemed so bright they dazzled me and made me tonely. I compared them with the streets that led up to dear Grand- na’s house, where I used to linger +o pick the glossy pink thistles and ‘he wild roses, whose perfume I irank in, till I opened the gate which enclosed the old-fashioned LOVE’S LULLABY house-top, the on cra - dle of lula-by Mo-ther of Andante 4. Lul - la- by, 2. Lul - la - by, lit - tle one, 3. Lulla-by, 4. Lul - la-by, 5. Loveclothesthe pre-cious one, soon you will ham - let and Copyright, 1917, by G. Schirmer, 3 East 43d for four-part chorus of male voices with marigolds, bluetwlls, asters, sunflowers and all garden roses. Compared with these. heaven’s golden streets had no at- traction for me. The harps also failed to lure me, for the only harps T ever had seen were played in the streets by wandering musicians and my imaginatiog could not change the picture. The pearly cates were not to be compared to the wooden gate that swunz open and welromed me. as T went into my own “home sweet home” where were my dear foving parents. All this time their love for God and their efforts to obev His law and to follow Christ made such an impression on my child mind. that T loved my heavenlv Father and was alwavs a praverful happy child. T helieve T have alwavs resisted a separation from God. who is Life and Love and mv source and sup- plv of being. Although T never un- derstood the Science. or Principle of heing, until Mrs. Fddy taught me to love good and make all evil un- real, by understanding that all were God’s children. She told me that some day every one would ston thinking bad, wrong thoughts which cause suffering, and would think God-thoughts and let God (good) thoughts govern them and give them life and strength and every good thing Some day every one will know that God is our loving Father- Mother and that He loves and cares for every one of His children. Christ Jesus told us this and Mrs. Rddy taught us to follow and obey his teachings. They are all workable when we admit that God is Mind intelligence. eternal Tife. Love, and Truth. and that God is the only cre- ator. So if we inst learn this and begin to think God (good) thoughts. think loving thoughts, think of every one as good and as God’s child, and refuse to believe they are not. we shall find ourselves under God’s law and shall be healthy and happy. God’s law is Life and Love, and in God there is no sin, sickness, nor seeming death. God feeds and clothes every child of His. just as He clothes the lilies. One day when the people were fol- lowing Christ Jesus to hear his teachings they became very hungry and the disciples had only five loaves and two fishes with which to <atisfy their own hunger. Jesus told them to call the people and ask them to sit down on the grass and five thousand hungry people obeyed. Tt was a big picnic, was it not, chil- dren? But Jesus knew that God would feed these dear people, be- cause they had been following him, to learn how he healed the sick and walked on the water, and Love sup- plied enough food for these five thousand people. They ate all they wanted, and I do not doubt that they were very hungry; and yet there were left twelve baskets full. I never heard what they did with the twelve baskets that were filled with food. but prohably they took Words and' Music by AUGUSTA E. STETSON, C. S. D. ba - by dear, lul - 1a - by, 11 - o-ver you, moun - tain nap-a-bye peas - ant and kings. ba-by-bye, cradled in and stream; guardsthroughthe night; 1) This is Christs message to cra-dled in soar in your dream blue, mo-ther - love sings hite, Un-der your High- er and In your sweet *God is the Love brood-eth sleep-a - bye, an-geis and in your soft In- to the dreamiand on Loves lul-la great and to car - eth for street, New York. Reproduced by permission. Also published three-part chorus of women’s or children’s voices. care of it and saved it for some other hungry folks, whom they might meet. Certainly we know that it was not wasted, for that would not have been right. We should never waste anything. Per- haps you think that fish and bread made "a poor picnic, bit you, chil- dren, must know that the people, in that day, liked fish and bread bet- ter than anything else, and I do not believe they would have cared at all for the nice sandwiches and cake and ice cream which mothers today give to their little boys and girls when they go on a picnic party. Dear little children, do you not wish that Christ would come again and feed the dear people who, we are told, are so faint for need of bread, and the dear little children all over the world, who are said to be so hungry and so unhappy and so ill clad—no shoes, no nice warm sweaters and no one to put them in soft little beds and hear their pray- ers and kiss them goodnight? Christ said, “Lo, I am with you alway,” and I believe he is here and we will see him, when we are good and kind and loving, and he will feed all the world and clothe every one, his lit- tle children and his big children and all the animals and birds and fishes and he will make everything so bright and so beautiful! He said he would come again and we must believe it, because Christ is Truth. One of his disciples said, and we find this in the New Testament, “Unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time.” So he will come, because he promised, and when we are good enough we shall see him, and every one will be so happy! Is it not pitiful to see what naugh- ty, selfish, greedy, ungrateful thoughts have done to bring suffer- ing to inocent little children? God never took the earthly fathers and left the little ones to suffer. War did it, and war-thoughts are hate, and envy, and fear, and selfishness, and these thoughts are evil, and they make wars and cause the dear children and all to suffer. I used to try to commit to mem- ory the verses of “The Star Span- gled Banner.” I did not like the words, “proud war’s desolation.” My vivid imagination pictured “desola- tion.” The “rocket’s red glare” dis- turbed me too, for I knew that some dear father or brother would get hurt or killed and mothers would grieve for their dear boys, who came home sick and wounded or were killed by the “bombs bursting in air,” so I did not sing any words, until it came to “'Tis the star-spangled banner, O long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” and these words I sang. I always like to think of America as “the land of the free and the home of the brave,” and the stars and stripes are dearer to me than ever. They day for nearly three yecars. But, entre nous, children, just between you and me, I do not think that every one who sings those words is “brave” and “free.” They are not all brave enough to obey God’s law, to love and trust their heavenly Father to feed and clothe them. Christ Jesus told them that God would feed and clothe them as He clothes the lilies, if they would obey the law of Truth, and love their neighbor as themselves. You and I know that lots ofi people are not free. They may think they are, be- cause they are not slaves, nor in a prison, but they are slaves to belief in a power opposed to Life and Love, God,—the belief of life in mat- ter instead of the understanding of Life in Mind. They are slaves to fear that they may become sick, or poor, or die. This fear is a death thought and only the Life-and-Lov: thought can destroy fear. The Bi- ble says, “Fear hath torment.” Paul speaks of “them who through fear of death were all their lifetime sub- ject to bondage.” Christ Jesus and Mrs. Eddy teach us that God, our heavenly Father, our creator, is Life and Love and Truth, and that there is no death. Some time every one must learn about the Principle of being, Spirit, or Mind, which is God. I wonder, children, if among the many poems which have been writ- ten about Amierica, you have ever seen the one entitled “Our America.” It at _once appealed to me as pro-| gressive and Mrs. Eddy says, “Prog- ress is the law of God.” The Bible tells us that “God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all,” that is, no sin, no sickness, no death, for all these conditions come from wicked thoughts, which also cause war and they do not belong to God nor to His children. This anthem begins thus: “America;, America, thou gavest birth To light that lighteth all the earth. God keep it pure! ‘We love that onward leading light ; We will defend it witn our might; It shall endure!” Certainly, America was born of spiritual ~thoughts, or _spiritual ideals, the light that will finally light all the earth and dispel all the darkness, suffering, and sorrow. God will keep it pure and we will defend this light with all our might. Ameri- cans often recall the words of George Washington, the father of our country, and repeat them in their defense of spiritual, mental ideals: Let us raise a standard, to which the wise and honest can repair; the event is in the hands of God. Abraham Lincoln, the President of our great nation, whom every true American delights to honor and emulate, left this rich legacy of his Soul-inspired words: ‘This nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedrm; * ¢ government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. I am telling you these words, dear have waved from my house every|children, that they may make a An - gels and O -.ver the Sleep on and | O - ver the Love feeds the slum - ber- robe, :ligh -b;r, love, um-| Fa - ther l':n'de,’ 0 - ver each spiritual mental impression, which. will help you to preserve America's spiritual ideals and inspire you to become great and good, as were Washington and Lincoln. It was said of Washington that he never told a lie. Both he and Lincoln were truthful, honest, and brave. Washington and Lincoln united in one firm purpose, to establish a na- tion which should be governed by God, good, eternal Life, Love, and Truth, and they succeeded. Today true Americans depend upon God for guidance, and try to obey His protecting and sustaining law, upon which America was founded. This will continue to make America the haven of rest, peace, and prosperity Dear children, let us help to make America truly the “land of the free and the home of the brave.” America, America, on-pressing van ©Of all the hopes of waking man, We love thy flag!— Thy stately flag of steadfast stars, And white, close held to heart-red bars, ‘Which none shall drag! « * s x x * % America, America, the God of love. ‘Whose name is ev'ry name above. Is thy defense. *ris thou must lead the longing ‘world From phantom fears, to Love's un- furled Omnipotence. —Alice Morgan Harrisom. Love never harms any one, but blesses all. Remember, dear chil- dren, that you can be very happy and healthy, and make others happy, if you are loving and unselfish and grateful for everything that your parents or big brothers and sisters do for you, or that any one doe< for you, to make you happy. Dic you ever awake early some cold winter morning, while it was yet dark, and hear the milkman rattle the bottles, as he left the nice milk for your breakfast,—and as you snuggled in your warm bed, that| your dear earthly father and mother had provided for you, did you send out to the milkman a loving thought, a grateful thought, and ask God to keep him hafi” and warm? Did you ever think how many are work- ing to make our clothes, our coats and shoes and hats and dainty little frocks,—~how many sew, and sew, and sew? And sometimes they must be very tired; but they finish their work and it comes to us to supply our needs. Do we forget to be grateful for all they provide for us? Never think that buying these things is all we have to do_for them. We must be grateful. Self- ish, unkind, ungrateful children are never happy. The t\gvenhe(h century children are learning that loving thoughts, grateful, unselfish thoughts, make them healthy and | X . ) Xp‘;i;: so glad that you, little ones of the twentieth century, will know the difference between the thought that makes you well and the thought that makes one sick. I think I will tell you another expgrhnce of my childhood, which will make you grateful that you did not live in the days when people did not know ‘ Yea» r 1921 | what a power thought is. A friend of my father’s, a lawyer, told me he would give me a bright silver dollar if I would learn and repeat to him some verses of the Mother Goose Rhymes. 1 was four years old and had learned to read. The silver dollar seemed a great reward Mother gave me the book and I be- gan to commit the. verses. By the way, children, perhaps you never saw this book. [ hope you never did. If you have seen it, then you know that Mother Goose was in- deed a goose to send out such fool- ish rhymes for little children ta hear from nurses and mothers. 1 will tell you several; and when you learn that thoughts are forces for good or bad, for love and peace and joy and strength, or for fear and discord and sometimes pain—when you learn this you will be glad that you are the twentieth century chil- dren and know how to think and speak. - One rhyme reads thus: Rock-a-bye, baby, upon the tres top, When the wind blows. the cradle will rock ; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, Down comes the cradle, and baby, and all. Just think, children, of repeating such words to babies. Babies think, and they feel the thought of nurse or mother, or whoever cares for them. 1f baby went to sleep think- ing it was in the cradle and the cradle was on the tree top, and if it heard the last words of the nurse, “When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,” no wonder that it awoke in the night and cried out w'.t.h fear that it was coming down, “cradle and all” Nursey or mother might have thought baby had a stomach ache and given it some peppermint tea, but we know that it was fear that awakened the baby, and only love destroys fear. E But people did not know in those days that thoughts influenced for good or bad, so they were not re- sponsible, as they are today. Thm}: of another one of Mother Goose's many rhymes, with which the chil- dren of the nineteenth century were treated: Hi diddle, diddle, The cat played the ndd:eh‘ 3 e cow jumped ovei ‘moon, The little d’og phughed to see such sport, And the Qish ran away with the spoon. What a stretch of in_'ngination— asking a child to believe that a heavy mooley cow could jump oves the moon! Think of a kitty playin, the fiddle and then try fo convincg the child that a dish could run away with a spoon! These are only same ples of the rhymes with whicl little children were entertained. The: surely could not, from these men impressions, develop intelligence, but instead, as they grew older, they suspected people of untruths and deceptions, and of saying things that could not be so. Thus the chil- dren’s sweet faith was lessened and they were made to doubt and dis- trust. 7 Mrs. Eddy tells us to keep our minds “so filled with Truth and Love that sin, disease, and death c~nnot enter them.” Little children are learning that they must think God (good) thoughts, which will make them happy and healthy and help every one to be good and lov- ing and unselfish and happy. The children of this age, who are taught to think as Christ Jesus taught, and to think that God made them good and, that He made every one g and that the universe and all things that we see are God’s work,—when they learn that He gives them life because He is Life, and that they are loving and good because He is Love and governs His own children, —when, 1 say, little children and “children of a larger growth” learn this and follow the teachings of Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy, they will be healthy and happy and have everything they need. Our Father:Mother God, Life and Love, owns the whole real world. The so- called dream-world He, God, never made. It will some day disappear and the real will appear. The peo- ple will some day learn to say these words, which world: no life, truth, intelll- genTL!I:,rt\orlsmbumne:' in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite mani- festation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth; matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temnoral. Spirit Is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material ; he is spiritual. All are being taught the power of Love and Truth and_their relation to their heavenly Father, .:teml Mind. Earthly parents, having suf- fered so much from wrong thinking in the Adam-dream, will themselves abandon sick and evil thoughts, which lead to suffering and sorrow, and will teach their dear little ones to keep their minds so filled with Truth and Love and gratitude for the good things that God, Love, has sent them, that selfish, ungrateful, false thoughts, that would make them unhappy or sick, will be crowded out,—destroyed. Some time ago a lady wrote me and asked if 1 would contribute some verses or prose for a book which she was compiling, the profits of which were to go to a Pure Milk Fund for poor little children. I men- tally denied that there were any poor little children, for our and their Father-Mother God is rich and can supply every need. But I re- plied to gler letter, that I would send her something. Here are the verses which I wrote and to which I set some music for those dear little children. They are also for the twentieth century little ones, and I hear that nurses and mothers and big sisters and big brothers are singing them to the children all over the country. So, dear children, let us together sing “Love’s Lullab; to alF the little children in world; and then I will say, Good- bye, dear children, for 2 while. Re- member me as your loving friend. avwagzzz;. _mmmmbma.mc.&n.nu-ulun.!.Ms—nwm&u&mu—--‘wwmhhm“#n._,,.‘, ctters of Mary Baker Eddy;" “My Spiritnal Acroplane;” “Pocmes® ¥ 32 Mrs. Eddy gave to the -