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20' b HARRIS B kb JOHN POOLE president of the Rotary Club t ‘Washington, D. C., and of the In mattional Association of Rotary (‘l-l-.l HELD TO CONVEY SPIRIT OF THE NEW CITIZENSHIP Aims ami Activities of the Rotary, Kiwanis And Civitan Organizations, Respec- tively, Explained. BY W. H. CLAGETT. What Is Rotary? What Is Kiwanis? What Is Civitan? Repeatedly are these questions | the aims and activities of three or- ganizations in the city which, in recent address by Col. John Temple Graves, were referred to as he conveyors of the spirit of the new citizenship of the worls Based on practically the same fundamental principle—service—the ideals of the three bodies are the product of the collective ldea sm of those bu: practical men, as Rotarians, Kiwanians and Civitans, are drawn together to further closer social and business relations with one another and to foster all civic movements inaugurated by the au- thorities for the betterment of the community as a whole. A detailed description of the work- ings of any qne of the trio would, perhaps, give a comprehensive idea of the other two, but. as there are differences in the histories, methods of procedure and general organiza- tion of the three clubs, a brief out- line of each will be given separately. Non-Sectarian, Non-Political. It might be said here. however, that all three organizations are coi ducted on a purely non-sectarian and cal basis. On the member- ers of each club will be found republicans, democrats, “mid- dle - of - the - road” advocates, Prot- estants, Catholics and Jews. 1In fact, regarding this phase of eligibility to membership in any of the three or- ganizations it would not be stretch- ing a point to paraphrase a famous inscription for the welcoming motto for all, and make it read: “Who enter here leave religlous, racial and po- litical prejudices behind. The motto of Rotary is “Service Above Self—He Profits Most wvl;o erves Best”; that of Kiwan gullfl, while the slogan of the baby, Civitan, is “Builders of Good Citizen- hip. ®"¥1 three organizations are Ameri- can-born and, while the activities of Rotary and Kiwanis have expanded to an international scope, to the principles. of _true, unadulterated Americanism can be attributed the Wonderful growth of each during the past few years. Recognizing the commercial bas of modern life as a necessity inc dent in human evolution, Rotary, the oldest of the trio, was organized to express that proper relation between private interests and the fusion of private interests Wwhich constitutes society. Paul B. Harris, Founder. The father of this world-known or- ganization, who also served as first president of Rotary, is an attorney Pa Chicago, Paul P. Harris, who in the vyears following his university career, had lr.:l\eled &bo\(ll the W(;):I;I ing acquaintances of many - e fmany lands.. After returning 1o the United States he went to Chi- cago with the intention of practicing his profession in that city. There he met the same fate that awaits many who go as strangers to & densely populated metropolts, for solitude is the average intellectual man's lot Who finds himself a stranger in a Jarge city, where the chief stimulus 10 thought in the ordinary mind oney, the getting and the spending mareor, without regard to the fellow Thls circumstance gave birth to the idea of founding a club wherein the members might not only become acquainted with one another, but also 10 devise means of proving useful to the community, thereby —making themselves at the same time more proficienit in service toward their fe! low men. Very shortly after tllil idea had come to Mr. Harris he explained it to a few friends he had made in the ‘Windy city. Encouraged by their e thusiasm and their desire to give proof of it. the first meeting of the club was held February 23, 1905, in the office of one of the members _of the club. From this time forth the meetings took place regularly, each member _acting the part of the host in his office in his turn. Shortly, how- ever—in fact, witkin the space of a few weeks—the membership had grown to such proportions that it was necessary to hold the meetings In hotels and restaurants. “Rotary” Selected as Name. Several names were suggested for the new club by Harris. One of them was “Rotary,” which had occurred to him beeause they had been holding their meetings in rotation at the dif- ferent places of business of the mem- bers. The name was subsequently adopted, and today Rotary is a word that stands for better busine: practices and lofty ideals in busine: and professional intercourse through- out tne world. The meetings from officé to office gave the members an opportunity to Jearn about “the other fellow’s" busi- ness, which proved to be educational as well as interesting. Thus was established a custom which has r¢ wolved itself into one of the present- day features of all Rotary clubs—the *business service talks” by members. A little more than three years after the organization of the first Rotary Club in Chicago the second Rotary Club came into existence. At that time Manuel Munoz, an American citizen of Spanish ancestry, member of .the Chicago club, at the suggestion of Mr. Harris, carried the Rotary idea mcross the American continent to San Francisco, where in November, 1908, the Rotary Club of San Francisco was organized through the inspiration of unoz and the active work of Home: ‘'0od, an attorney of that city. Un- til. this event, Rotary had not been thought of as & worid movement by the members of the Chicago club, But the seed had been sown, and following shortly the organization of the third Rotary Club at Oakland, across the bay, the fourth, the fifth sixth, and on down to the six- nth Rotary Club had sprung up Jike mushroom: Sixteen Clubs in Association. ZThe Rotary Club of Detralt- Miche EDWARD L. STOCK, | Governor of the fifth CHARLES W. SEMMES, lent _of the Rotar; ‘Washington, D. the United States, Canada, Nova Scotia, Alberta, Manitoba, British Columbfa, Ha- Prince Edward's Island, New Brunswick, England, Ireland, Scot- land and Wales, while clubs at large, under tae direct supervision of the in- ternational board of diregtors and thy secretary general's office, are to be foun: in Argemmd. Sa!kltt‘h?wnn, Australia, New Philippine Islands, outh” Africa and Uruguay. .\rmmg ‘more than a score of ni tions for greater service to them selves and to the Individual commit tees among them as well as to the world at large is what the members of the vonstitutional conventiom com- mittee of Rotary International call the work they concluded at the Chi- crganized in July, 1910, was the six- L cago Beach Hotel, Chicago, Iil., teenth club to join the ever-growing |chain, and these sixteen tions constitute the founder clubs of the National Association of Rotary which was Chicago in August, 1910. asked by persons untamiliar With|clubs organized since then have come |into being under the auspices of the when they urged on a draft for a new constitution and set of by-laws for their organization For one solild week, working night and day. representatives of every Ro: United States, Ireland, Scotland, 2 toiled over the variol . ry [ln(ernatlonnl Association of Rotal Pects of the “whereases” The original were the Rotary clubs of Chicago, San Francisco, Oakland, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York city, Boston, Ta- coma, Minneapolis, St.Paul, St. Loui Kansas City, At the con- , in shirt sleeves, and. with the beaded brows and ruf- fled 100ks of the honest worker, they they had fought a good figh( and had turned out what they real constitution and a real set of by-laws that will serve the international movement of service for many years to come. to Be Submitted. The constitution and by-laws they evolved after the week of toll will be submitted to the individual Rotary clubs of the world for comment and ud\hel and then will go before the n' annual international convention of | which the ent the organization, which is to be held nilns uasemblage {x called this year in Los Angeles, Calif. The meeting of the committee was an international gathering in every sense of the word. The Rotary clubs| b of Great Bl’)l.“ahl sent three represen- -4 tatives to this country to attend the | Flowers are then given to th ba |have had a b Pl F‘rom all sections of ¢ 'an- | 8ince the last m::’l’l‘:;yll’:’r"lll]‘;f;::l’;{ ited States the other|ing Rotarians and their guests ar Meeting at the same | introduced to the club. s :ll|me were :h}e{ international board of rectors of Rotary and the interna- | time is generaily d. tional committees on redistricting the | by well' kiown bublie. mes Stoxy United States and Canada, and exten- | speakers of international reputsting Do o tha. Conadian Hotary ciapy | the pace wenyDefore the local club in as also met at the same time. Yot the aident Harding an Loeal Organization Formed. With John Dolph as its first presi- regulated constitution. clusion of the New Orlean Portland, Ore., Up to the formation of th ation there had been no official ‘con- nection between any of Early that year, however, a nallonal board of commissioners pointed by joint resolution "adopted by the clubs then in existence, to call lnd arrange the details of a conven- h was at this convention of the with representatives of fourteen of-the sixteen clubs organ- ized in attendance, that the n: association was formed. one of the delegates to that meeting made the jprediction that in years the world would see a thousand Rotary clubs organized—a result that bids fair to happen with- in the next twelve years. Platform Adopted. It was at the second convention of the | a organization, held in Portland, Ore., , that the famous form” was adopted. vention a committee had pointed to formulate the various in- dividual conceptions of Rotary into a concrete statement of principles. The committee submitted its report recom- mending the “Rotary platform” drafted by the committee, of which James E. dent, Pinkham of Seattle was chairman. platform was unanimously adopted, Ind believe will be ada am| the “Rotary plat- Prior to the con- sion to foreign countries. fiber of every Rotary Club in the world. this platform declares that the basis of club membership dn- sures representation of all interests and the domination of none in the consid- eration of public questions relating to business; that, on account of its lim- ited membership, the Rotary Club does not constitute itself the voice of the en- tire community on questions of gen- eral importance, but its action on such questions is of great influence in ad- vancing the civic and business welfare of the community. demands fair dealings, honest metiods and high standards in busi- ness, and emphasizes that membership in Rotary is a privilege and an oppor- tunity, and its responsibility demands honest and efficient service and thought- fulness for others. The National Association of Rotary Clubs survived but three years, passed out of existence at its third convention, held in Duluth, heard of the club's activities at’ the The founders at first met in a small room in the Shoreham Hotel, the old Commercial where they would lunch and discuss matters pertinent to their ciub, but the public heard little or nothing of their activities. Keening pace, however, with other Rotary Clubs of the country, the lo- cal organization gradually grew, not 80 much in numbers as to the caliber of men admitted to membership, until the outbreak of the great war, and the constructive work of its to be chronicled and hardly a day passed aily papers did not refer to some specific war movement that was being fostered by Rotary. In compliance with Rotary's estab. lished plan of limited or restricted membership. a plan adopted by the original club in”Chicago, which per- mits of only one representative from each classified business or profession, the Washington Rotary Club gradual- ly increased its membership, until to- day it numbers 1456 men, all repre- Sent tive of the calling with which ternational Association of Rotary Clubs, the organization by this time having established clubs in Canada and Eng- At the fourth convention, held in Buf- . Y., in 1913, eighty-three clubs, with a total membership of more than 10,000, were represented. creases, both in clubs and membership sts, marked the onward march of Rotary at each succeeding convention, until at the recent international con- vention, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, a grand total of 1,022 clubs, wita a mem- bership of 73,000, were represented. It was also at the fourth convention that the Rotary “code of ethics” was adopted, & code which sets forth the and practices fundamental in the relationships between ns. International Rotary is divided into twenty-five districts, distributed over!more o holding to this ofiginal plan, dur- ing the years of the expansion of Ro- tary, it has been pointed out by those prominent in the organization that the distinctive value of this first fundamental idea has been thoroughly “Other organizations may have thousands of -members on their rosters,” said an official of the local club the other day, “while the Rotary Club has only a féw score, but even in its apparent weakness in numbers lies much of the real strength of Ro- For it not only makes for a representative membership, but tends to make con- certed action easie: produces the ideal forum for discussi: virtually does away with clique rule; provides an avenue for removal of dead timber, and last, but not least, benefits the in- dividual membe! List of the Presidents. Since Its formation the local Rotary club has had nine presidents, includ- ed among whom, besides Mr. Dolph, were the late Joseph M Stoddar former president of the Cook Stoddard Company; George W. Hi ris, of Harris & Ewing, photo- graphers, present secretary of the club and “sergeant-at-arma of In- ternational Rotary; Daniel J. Cal- lahan general manager of the Nor- folk and_ Washington Steamboat Company; Edwin C. Graham, president of the City Club; John Poole, presi- dent of the Federal National Bank, Wwho also seryed as president of Inter- national Rotary in 1918; Roland S. Robbins, manager of Keith's Theater; Charles J. O'Neill, patent attorney, and the Incumbent, Charles W. Semmes, president of the Semmes Mo- tor Company. Washington Rotary is included in the fifth district of Rotary, which is composed’of all Rotary clubs in the District of Columbla, Delaware, Mary- land, New Jersey and that portion of Pennsylvania east of the 78th meridian—fifty clubs in all. Edward L. Stock of the Washington club is the governor of this district, and will preside at its convention to be held in this city in March. A Rotary club has two distinct kinds of meetings—one the weekly', and the other the quarterly meetin, The weekly meeting of tha jocal or. ganization is held at 12:30 every ‘Wednesday, at the New Willard Hotel, for luncheon. Inasmuch the mem- bers are in the habit of retur iing to their offices after the meetings, they are necessarily of shorter dura- tion than the monthly meetings, which are generally held in the evening, where members meet to dine and have & program of entertainment. Obligated to Attend. A distinctive feature of attendance at these meetings is that when a man becomes a member of Rotary he is advised of and accepts the obligation of attending meetings with regu- larity. Should he fail to live up to the requirements demanded by the club he is dropped from membership and another man from the same line of business or profession fs invited to take his place. In the case of the local Rotary Club absence from four consecutive meetings automatically ;i‘x;:'vfl & member from the organiza- Another distinguishing feature of a Rotary club is that the members are admitted only after they have been chosen by the club as desirable, and are then notified of their election. The members of a Rotary club are not only representatives of thelr respective business houses and pro- fessions, but they are supposed to represent and embody, as Rotarians, the ideals for which the club stands in thewr relations with all men in the business world. In other words, they :';‘ngl,l‘:rl}l'e alalled;mbllludors plenipo- m_Rotary woraige oom K tary clubs to the Program of Weekly Meetings. At t!| weekly meetings of the Ro- tary Club of Washington the method of procedure, while simple, is most impressive. Follov\lng the calling of the meeting to order by the president, @ short prayer is offered by the Rotarian “preacher,” Rev. Charles T. Warner of St. Alha s Church, after to “attention” by Col. Leroy W. S ron, and after the Amerl(‘lil ll.gu)f;s been raised to its staff the members Sing one verse of “America.” A short ness session usually follows, at which announcements” are made. Luncheon over, the remainder of the Secretary of the Navy Denb; = tive Rotarians, while nlmuyo;rr:m.:y distinguished personages, including Chief “Justice W. the Rotary Club of Washington, | of the Supreme. Court cf Criar S, 185t D. C, came into being in July, 1912, With but few changes, has remained the | With not more than twenty-five or thirty members, and, while governed by the platform and ethics of the na- tional organization, and later the in- States, grace th g '}"bc'e“" e honorary member e _club has just compl usual Rotary kiddies' Chrlsupn::l:lr{;. Elven each year for the poor children ther n - ments with which the eiup har ecn f}::e::;;fiz}:utxi are Boy Scout activi- R e American’ boy achieve- e officers of the R Washington are Charles W, St president; William Knowles Gooper. -r,mr;mg:mk Ggorge W. Harris, sec: : nk S. Hight, treasu; Harry' S. Evans, sergeant-at-arme: and Charles J. O'Nelll, immedl‘l‘te past president. The club’s offices are in the otel ]uu-' C. H. Miller, .,.m'.?.'é".“" i arsiof “o—_ len Beauty is Brought to iy m wuh Golden g] a G 1d A Glint Shampoo.— —_—— JANE GREY HEADS CAST. “The Skin Game” Coming Here Week of January 30. John Galsworthy’s drama, “The Skin Game,” will come to the Shu- bert-Garrick Theater January 30 un- der the management of Wi Brady, in assoclation with Heatdesn; Ltd., London. The English players have been rehearsed in London by Basil Dean, and _Galsworthy hlmlgl( has written to Mr. Brady that the company will not have to be strength- ened for the coming tour, which in- cludes a Chicago engagement. The]O! cast will include Jane Grey, Reginald Dance, Alice Wyse, Audrey Cameron, Matthew Boulton, Russell Sedgwick, Francls _Roberts, Arthur C. Crosby, Lister William: ‘Walter Jackman, Frank Snell, Nora Nicholson, Lindon Lang and Ulric Collins. Mother! Take no Chances! Clean Child’s Bowels of Poisons Tonight! ‘Give “California Fig Syrup” Harmless Laxative for Your Child’s Liver and Bowels Hurry mother! A teaspoonful of “California Fig Syrup” today may prevent a sick child to- morrow. If your child is constipated, bilious, « feverish, fretful, has cold, colic or if stomach is spur, tongug coated, remember a good “physic- laxative” is often all that is necessary. Children love the “fruity” taste of genuine «“California Fig Syrup” which has directions for bables and children printed on bottle. Say California” or you may get an imitation. of the Science of existence. In response to these earnest inquirers. I am moved to give my SIRTL%I man, created by God, eternal Since the subject of “birth control” was recently published in the press and freely dis- cussed by all interested, many requests for my views upon this question have come to me from leading authorities, from Christian Scientists and from persons who are seeking a solution ‘understanding of a scientific, metaphysical, spiritual definition of birth control, which the present age and the law of God demand, and I am spiritually impelled to publish, in the columns of the press an article upon this vitally important topic—spiritual birth—which Christ Jesus freely discussed, and which he proved by the demonstration of his immortal individ- uality, as a son of God. All Bible students, or those who profess to follow Christ, will recognize His premise, re- garding the source of His existence, in his dcclarauun to His disciples, “I and my Father are one.” (1) Then he assures them of their spiritual origin, as sons of God, in these words: “That they all may be one; as Thou, Father, art in me, and 1 in Thee, tha! they also may be one in us.” (2) John, the beloved disciple, grasped the spiritual origin, or birth of man, and left this rich legacy to humanity. “Be- loved, now, are we the sons of God, and it {doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see Him as He is.” (3) Christ Jesus proved the infallibility of immu- table Truth i His victory over “the illusion called death. Therefore, all who recall Christ’s command to His disciples, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature,” (4) will recognize my prerogative to proclaim (1) Jokn x., 30. (2) John sxvii, 21. (3) 1. John 2. (4) Mark svi, 15. mmmvl ADVERTISEMENT, RELIGIOUS ADVERTISEMENT. | The Scientific, Metaphysical, Spiritual Definition ' of “Birth Control,” Under the Law of God B 0, JANUARY 22, 1922—PART I By AUGUSTA E. STETSON, C.S.D. the gospel, and demonstrate the healing power of Christ’s Christianity, or the Science of being, as given by Mary Baker Eddy in the Scientific Statement of Being: i % There is no life, truth, intelligence nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all. Spirit is immortal Truth: matter is mortal error. Spirit is the real | and eternal; matter is the unreal and tem- poral. &pm! is God, and man is His image and hkeness. Therefore, man is not material; he is spiritual, | (Science and Health, p. 468.) | The Science of being, as taught by Christ, was discovered and founded by Mary Baker Eddy and recorded by her in the text book of Christian Science, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. Therefore, I give my inter- | pretation of birth control, in accordance with the teaching of Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy, conscious that I am entitled to my views upon spiritual generation, from having demon- strated, for more than thirty years, the power of the Mind of Christ over the claim of a helief of life, truth, intelligence, and substance as ex- istent in matter, and over the l"uslon of so- called death, the “wages of sin” My conclu- sions are drawn from the premise, that God is the only creator and that all that He creates is good, made in His own image and like Him- self; and that everything that is unlike God, good, eternal Life, Love and Truth, in image or character, is not man, but is the product of the Adam-Eve false, sensual, material generation. Therefore, what I proclaim upon the subject of birth control cannot offend any one who claims | God as “Our Father which art in heaven,” or our creator, who made man like Himself, in the image and likeness of eternal Life and Love. i RELIGIOUS ADVERTISEMENT. RELIGIOUS Al‘lvEl‘l‘llEm “Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble." (Job xiz., 1.) “Except a man man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” —CHRIST JESUS. (John iii, 3.) “For as in Adam (the belief of life and intelligence in matter) all die, even so in Christ (the understanding that man is an emanation of Spirit, Mind) shall all be made alive.” (I. Corinthians s 22:9 “To be carnally minded is death but to be spxmually minded is life and peace.” (Romans o) “The time cometh when the spirit- ual origin of man, the divine Science which ushered Jesus into human presence, will be undetstood and demonstrated.” “When we learn the way in n Chris- tian Science and recognize man’s spiritual being, we shall behold and understand God’s creation,—all the glories of earth and heaven and man.” “The foam and fury of lllegmmate living and of fearful and doleful dying should disappear on the shore of time; then the waves of sin, sor- row, and death beat in vain.” —MARY BAKER EDDY. (Sc- ence and Health, With Krj\' to the Scriptures, pp. 325, 264, 203.) Life and Love, is “without beginning of days, nor end of life.” @ Christ Jesus dis- cerned this spiritual fact, and recorded it in the following words: “Before Abraham was, Tam.” @ Of the eternal children of God, as they appear—for spiritual generation is the only reality of man—Mary Baker Eddy asks, “How old is he?” and answers, “Of his days there is no beginning and no ending.” ~She continues her celloquy in regard to the off- spring of God, or spiritual generation (and there is in reality no other) and questions: Is he wonderful? His works thus prove him. He giveth power, peace and holiness; he eleteth the lowly; he giveth liberty to the capuve. health to the sick, salvation from sin to the sinner—and overcometh the warld! Go, and tell what things ye shall see and hear; how the blind, spiritually and physically, receive sight; how the lame, those halting between two opinions or hobbling on crutches, walk; how the physical and moral lepers are cleansed; how the deaf—those who, hzvmg ears, hear not, and are afflicted with “tympa- num on the brain"—hear; how the dead, those buried 4n dogmas and physical ail- ments, are raised; that to the poor—the lowly in Christ . . . the gospel is preached. ¢ . . . a voice from heaven seems to say, “Come and see.” The shepherds shout, “We behold the appearing of the star!” (Miscellaneous Writings, pp. 167-163.) Spiritual man was heralded to the prophet- shepherds in the symbol of a star; and the iLove. The above quotation from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy is an explanation of spiritual generation, or the definition of “birth control,” under the law of God. Birth ’control is spiritual; but the birth to which I refer partakes mnot of the physical. It is wholly spéritual and smental, the revelation of man’s true selfhood, as God’s child. This birth is the dawning of the light of spiritual Life, or the real man, reflecting the Principle of eternal being. Mind, Spirit, which dis- solves the material concept and reveals spirit- ual man, as emanating from eternal Life and Love. The unfolding of spiritual sense, or the process of spiritualization of thought, is arresting the attention of the advanced think- ers of the twentieth century, and Jesus’ words, “Ye must be born again,” ® which have reverberated down the ages, are being apprehended and demonstrated. There is no reality in so-called mortal mind, and a ma- terial time-universe, or dream-world, for eter- nal Life and Love, the creative Principle of being, or great First cause, is infinite, and “nothing exists beyond the range of all-in- clusive infinity.” ® Infinite Spirit, Life and Love, our Father-Mother God, the one and only creator, controls the birth of Her infinite ideas, and there is no other creator and no other birth; for God, being infinite, is omnip- otent, omniscient and omnipresent, and His infinite ideas compose the spiritual universe, There is no other man and no other universe, but the spiritwal. In Genesis i., 26, we read, “God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Life and Love, the di- vine “Us,” our Father-Mother God, who made man’in His-Her likeness, is the only creator, and is man’s source and supply of existence. Man cannot be separated from :God, eternal Life, since effect cannot be sep- arated from cause. Christ Jesus’ words, * and my Father are one," confirm this spirif fact. : ) Hlbnm vii, 3. (2) ; (3) Johniii,, 7. (4) Science a»d Hfallh, ' 5lq. hght which is dawning upon the world today is the illumination of spiritual generation, or man in the image and likeness of Life and Mrs. Eddy says: The scientific man and his Maker are here; and you would be none other than this man, if you would subordinate the fleshly per- ceptions to the spiritual sense and source of being. (Unity of Gdod, p. 46.) At Christ’s second appearing, in the “image” of Life and Love, crowned with the “dominion” with which God endowed him, the words of Isaiah are being fulfilled: « Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Won- derful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. (Isaiah ix., 6.) With this Christ-man, the so-called drag- on seems to be in fierce conflict. In the words of Mary Baker Eddy, “The chaos of mortal mind is made the stepping-stone, to the cos- mos of immortal Mind.” ® The spiritually illumined read the handwriting on the wall, viz., the self-extinction of all that is opposed to God—of all that “worketh and maketh a lie.” Those who are awaking to the Science of being are grasping the incontrovertible fact, that Spirit, God, the eternal Mind, is in- finite Life, Love and Truth, and therefore that there can be no substance nor reality in material birth—no reality in a carnal, material so-called mind, which conceives and brings forth, that which ‘appears to the material senses to have beginning, but which inevitably terminates in suffering and death. « Accepting the Science of spiritual being, which Christ Jesus taught and demonstrated, we reach the conclusion that material birth, growth, maturity and decay are no part of the real man and the real universe. They are the product of the Adam-Eve dream of sen- sual sexual conception. The acceptance of the teaching of Christ Jesus, as to spinitual conception and spéritual birth, or oneness with the creative Principle of eternal being, God, discloses the fact that the images and fleshly beliefs of material sense, which sicken and die, are not of God. The so-called dragon, or material belief of life apart from Spirit, God has lost its pretensions to perpetuate the dream of material birth, growth, ma- turity, and death. Spiritual sense is the light which dispels darkness, or the myths of the physical senses. Thus the so-callpd “dragon,” the “accuser of our brethren,” is “cast out into the earth,” (2 and his lying angels—false fleshly senses, or the so-called carnal mind, that “worketh and maketh a lie,”"— are cast out with him. Christ’s offspring, recogniz- ing their spiritual origin, under the law of eternal ‘Life and Love, are appearing, and are reflecting the power and glory of an ever-present Father-Mother God, with health, holiness, and immortality, the re- sult of building character on a “wholly spiritual foundation,” ) the rock, Christ, Truth. According to the promise of prophets, apostles, Christ Jesus, and John the Revelator, the end of anti-Christ is seen, by all who have spmml percep- tion and who accept and are demonstrating the scientific fact that “Spirit is infinite; therefore Spirit is all. ‘There is no matter.”” ) Hence Spirit controls the birth of Her infinite ideas. There is 10 other creation but the spiritual, the infinite ideas wlitich emanate from God, Mind, our Father-Mother Life and Love, who, throughout cternity, begets, and conceives, controls, feeds, clothes, and environs everiav child of His infinite, eternal selfhood. Life e, our,Father-Mother God, the divine “Us,” unfolds and develops His-Her progeny, or the off- spring of Christ, who was the first-born of Spirit. On the scale of eternal Mind, S man ascends from glory unto glory. This is the Science of spiritual existence; and Splm, Soul, Mind being in- finite and all, the oncoming Christ, or Truth, is ful- filling the Scnpture— I will overturn, overturn, overturn it; and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him. i the pains 30 pioasates ok the o e pains easures o so-called carnal \mind are pro ulf-dennu:twe. “Dust thoy art, and unto dust lhll! thou return” (4) w:s the sentence upon the ma- generation. T ever-pr:sent Christ; the "ng of kings, and Lord of lords” at |.. 1) Unity of Good, (p 56. () Revelation ii, 9 @) Miscellawy, p. 357. (4) Genesis fis., 19. second coming has dealt a death-blow to the | animus of the physical or carnal senses. While ersisting in fighting against Christ, Truth, the aw of God, materialists are yielding to self- annihilation. Christ’s offspring, moved by the dynamic power of Spirit, continue to declare for one creative Principle, eternal Life and Love, and they are attaining spiritual concepts, which will reveal the spiritual universe, peopled with God’s perfect children, under the control of eternal Mind. The ideal man of God’s creating, Christ, the “light of the world,” the first-born of the Father, has won a signal victory over the so-called dragon, whose pretense of being a creator has utterly failed. The sensuous, carnal so-called mind can no longer deceive the world, with its claim to life and intelligence in matter, with its pleasures and pains. The counterfeit argument of sensuous, sexual conception and material birth, must finally vanish into nothing- ness. The so-called fleshly mind, claiming creative power and masquerading as God, is explained in the vision of St. John, and prophesies the seli- extinction of sin and its phenomena—the ma “terial man and material world: And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast, [the dragon] and his kingdom was full of dark- ness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain. “(Revelation xti., 10) These are the days when sin, driven to its final limits, destrovs itself. War, pestilence. and famine suggest the end of all that worketh against God and His Christ. The counterfeit material creation is doomed to seli-extinction The eternal God and H|s Christ, who are onc. according to Christ Jesus' statement, “Father and I are one,” are being revealed to all who are building, or who are begmmug to build, on “a wholly spiritual foundation.” The followers of Christ's Christianity are catching glorious glimpses of a universe peopled with the infinite ideas of an infinite Principle, or Father-Mother Life and Love. Spiritual sense is the light, which enabled Christ to prove his domain over the substance- less shadows, which mortals, ,or the material senses, call man; and his command, “Lazarus, come forth!” dlspclled the shadow and revealed the real man, who had never died. This, among many other denominations of the power of the Christ-mind over the hallucinations of physical sense, or the Adam-. Eve generation, is arousing ity to investigate the Science of being. Mortal “man’s mhumam(y to man makes count- less thousands mourn.” ~This_is the darkness which enshrouds, material existence. Christ’s Christianity, the light whose effulgence dispels the shadows, or the images of the material senses, enables one to fulfil the law of love for his brother man, destroys love of and trust in money, the god of the material world, which in- cites to personal ambition, pride of place and power, and finally remands its victims to disso- lution—nothingness. The words of our Leader, Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy, are under- stood by all who have come up through mighty wrestlings with the false belief of life and in- telligence as existent in matter. In their de- fense of their spmtual origin and oneness with God, as taught by the divine metaphysician, Christ, they have met the cruel forces of the so- talled carnal mind, which have been encountered by prophets, Christ Jesus, and his disciples, and by Mary Baker Eddy and her students who have overcome material sense sufficiently to he— gin to build “on a wholly spiritual foundation,” and who, in a demonstrable degree, have gained the power of the Christ-mind and the divine love which panoplies her children and protects them from the mental assassin—the carnal so- called mind, which has ever opposed Christ and them that are Christ’s. Some one has said, “Faith may anchor, hope may steer; but love, great love alone is captain_of the soul” Thus we discern the spiritual fact, that Creation is ever’ appearing, and must ever continue to appear from the nature of its inexhaustible source. (Science and Health, p. 507.) God ‘and His Christ, who are one, reign throughout the eternal and only universe. Again 1 emphasize the spiritual fact of existence, viz., that back of every symbol, or material phenomenon, called mortal man and material objects, is the spiritual idea, God’s perfect child. Spiritual sense is light, which must be attained to dispel the mythical shadows which are mis- taken for the real.man, and reveal God’s uni- verse, the phenomena of Spirit—man in the tmge of his crentor. God, and in possession of the “dominion” with which God endowed His manifestation or universe, under the control of omnipotence, eternal Life and Love. I conclude with this statement: Any hypothesis of material birth is’ false. Adam- Eve, and the creations of physical sense, are mydu. ‘When, under the effulgent light of love and truth, the false material senses dissolve and disappear, Spirit and’s; iritual ideas, or the real man and universe of God’s creating will be re- vealed, and the words of Christ Jesus, which He declared were eternal, will be verified, “The kingdom of God is within you.” (Luke :vu, 21.) “Rem-