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farer along life's highway to realize that a man is to God, c&vnv.. lBoD#n.h lutm‘-t 4 o a Davis Sunday follows: u‘!'hen is much evidence to show that future. Tt embitters ‘wise noble character. A, |are the e g geis 735Ea cast the seeds of fel.r and doubt, lnfl { o renders human beings vacillating, and @istrustful at the very times when .they ought to speak to evil with au- spiration to many & struggling heart and to many a despondent = way- thority and dominion. Hampered by|in. the shackles of uncertainty, human beings dare not advance, against the mental enemies that spell disaster to their happiness, -health, and whole- scmeness, but either permit them- selves to be overridden by these ene- mies or else withdraw into a condi- tion of hopeless inactivity. It would seem as though the only certainties that are universally ad- mitted by humanity itself are its own woes and miseries, its sufferings and disasters, and its own flnal collapse. According to the testimoney of the physical senses uncorrected by spirit- ual understanding humanity seems justified in this desperate point of view. According to this same testi- mony it has every reason to remain in a state of perplexity. It has a excuse for being incapable of deciding which way to turn for safety and what measures to take in the attempt to avert the inevitable doom of mortal- ity. According to this testimony the child is no sooner born into this world than it prepares to leave it. It is precipitated into a career of adven- ture among hidden foes, which appear from time to time as bad habits, dis- eases, losses, incapacities, and men moral, or physical peculiarities, vari- ously ascribed to inheritance, environ- ment, accident, and the like. At every stage in material growth, material testimony stands ready to predict further dangers, and if by the grace of God the individual should es- cape the grasp of these detaining fears and reach his full powers, this same material testimony provides for a steady decline into a helpless and per- haps graceless old age. All that the physical sciences may appear to do for the alleviation of human misery is nullified by the belief they inculcated that man is a mortal, erial being, whose inevitable end can only be post- poned, never altogether put off. Nor is prevalent theology any less merci- less toward man, because it teaches that he is a miserable sinner, and holds out no hope of salvation in the present, but only points to a future stete of existence in which man may perhaps find his real nature in the course of etrnity. m many a stricken heart and mind goes up the cry for an explana- tion of ultimate certainty. ‘Those ‘hungering and thirsting after right- eousness ask to be instructed how they may distinguish that which is true from that which is false, that which is essential from that which is non-essential, that which is real from that which is unreal. They ask for the understanding which will enable them to sort out from their lives that which is genuine and truly worth while, in order to abide by it and make it permanent. In other words humanity cries out for an absolute standard by which it shall be able to recognie the immutable, the unvary- ing, the eternal and indestructible fnc!z of existence. It the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and Christian Secience s in a position to offer this truth ‘which makes free, which saves, heals, re- generates, and redeems. The Real and Eternal. Mrs. Eddy, the discoverer and found- er of Christian Science, and the author of its_textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” offers the following explanation of the real and eternal on page 171 of that book: “Nothing is real and eternal, —-mm:.mg is spirit—but God and His idea. follows that the sick and sinning ‘need only apply this test to their own cases in order to find out what pertains to truth, what is necessary, lawful, and abiding, and on the ether hand what is false, hence unnecessary, illegiti- mate, and transitory in their experi- ences, In other words, their help and cure will arise from the spiritual under- standing of the fact that nothing is real except that which is of divine origin. That which is meré human belief, supposition, or superstition, is urreal, untrue, and non-essential. By means of this test it is possible to sep- arate the chaff from the wheat sim- ply by asking one's sel¥ of any given condition, thought, or act, Is it lke| hi “God and His idea,” or is it unlike Him and His creation? The answer will determine whether the particular condition, thought, or act.is real or unreal, true or umtrue, essential or non-essential. ‘Therefore Christian Science vides a way of estimating the tnct.! in every human problem and is thus a good 1 tal, i God, Now it is evident that in order to follow out this process of classifica- tion between that which is like God and that which is unlike Him, there must be a practical understanding of God Himself, His nature and quali- ties. It fherefore becomes the istian Science to become acquaint- ed first and last with God Himself. God and His Idea ‘When Moses was being commission- ed by God to bring the children of Is- rael out of Egypt, he asked by what name he should refer to God in reply to their question. We read in the bool of Exodus: “And God said unto Moses, I am that I am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the chil dren of Israel, I am hath sent me u to you.” This divinely chosen desig- nation, I Am reveals the essential nature of God. It stands for being, self-existence, infinity, perfection. The great I Am is the everlasting I Am, that was, and is, and ever shall be. He is life eternal, without beginning and without end, and His kingdom ruleth over all. The great I Am is one God, infinite and indivisible. He Is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipre- sent. He is the creator of all that has existence, truth, reality, or essential being. He acts as principle governing through law and ‘divine decree. He is imperishable substance, and He gives unto man immortality, bliss, and the “beauty of holiness.” Moreover, God is mind. Among Mrs. Eddy’s many contribu- tions to the right understanding of , none stands out more clearly than her definition of God as mind. Tt is obvious that if God be considered as Infinite and is one and indivisible, and this is the general theological teach- ing concerning Him, the word mind fully meets the requirements of the definition. This God who is mind is absolutely and wholly good, and He operates through the law of good only; and this l]aw means to every one of His creatures health, happiness, har- mony, and heaven. Then if God Is wholly good mind, is behooves the man or woman who desires to know whether any mental impression is real true, or essential, fo bring it to the test of the divine mird and compare it therewith. Evil Mind Unreal. Under this test it is obvious that an evil mind cannot be a real mind. It carn only be a pretense of a mind in- capable of originating truth or of giv- ing forth true impressions. Thus all envy, jealousy, fear, evil intent or de- sire, malice, revenge, all passions and appetites of the carnal mind, such as pride, deceit, hatred, sin sickness, and death, being outgivings of that evil mind, when measured by the standard of likeness or unlikeness to God, are retognicd as unlike Him, hence as un- real, untrue, and non-essential, as false and erroneous. Then it would fallow that any train of events start- ing from such erronedus thinking is eqlml]y unreal and untrue, and there- fore need not be admitted as having basis in fact. This enable any one to reshape his whole life, to set aside from his experience as unreal that ‘which is unlike God, and to place him- self whelly under the law of God. Material Life. ‘Thus, again judged by this same test of godlikeness, what shall we say of material life, being law, or bellef? In mind there can be no matter. The concepts of mind and matter mentally exclude each other. If God is mind, and this is the teaching -which, pro- ceeding from Christian Science, i5 con- stantly finding more general accep- tance, then there is no matter in God, and that which is not in the divine mind cannot issue from it hence mat- ter is unlike God, and in the last anal- ysis is unreal, untrue, and nonessen- tial, as far as the absolute truth of being is concerned. Mrs. Eddy has therefore followed out this reasoning to its logical conclusion by declaring that “matter is an error of statement” (Science and Health, p. 277). ‘This method of detecflng truth from error is the modus operandi by which umanity can disengage itself from the graps of evil. One by one it can take off the fingers of false bellef that have seized it, and hold it in subjection. Is any one haunted by sin? the test. Ask the question, Is sin god- like, like God? Far be it from us to admit any such supposition. What- ever sin may pretend to be, it cannot for an t be admitted as of di- Extraordinary Sale OF ALL OUR 8SUITS CONTINUED $14.50 and $17.7 Values Values ‘Then make | sk ] g 3 3 refore any such infraction must be classified as a belief apart from God. An_accident cannot claim to be u.ke God, godlike, but must be relegated to the realm of the unreal, untrue, and nonessential, and its supposed conse- quences must follow it into unreality. Then if maf medicine predicts the progress of disease as inevitable and the doom of*man as sealed, must this prediction be counted as true or untrue, real or unreal? ly - the divine mind prediicts no evil of its own creation. God, who made all that was and saw that it was ‘very good,” does not doom His own man to decay dissolution, and death. It follows thar such predictions, generally designated as laws of disease, have no divine or- igin and can be set aside without do- ing violence ‘to divine decrees. The spiritual understanding of this at once frees humanity from the dread of law and necessity supposed to be incor- porated in disease. It lifts the bug- bear of incurability from the fright- ened sense of the sick and sinning, and establishes them upon the sure foundation of their divine rights to Health, happiness, holiness, and through reformation and repentance to heaven itself. By this test of the real and the unreal, humanity can sort out of its experiences the inevitable good from the seeming evil, the spiritual necessi- ties from the material appearances. s process means gro: progress along the narrow way. It makes plain the path from sense to soul and is the modus operandi of Christian Science healing and reforming. In Science and Health (p. 469) Mrs. Eddy writes, “The exterminator of error is the great truth that God, good, is the only mind, and that the supposititious opposite of infinite mind—called devil or evil—is not mind, is not truth, ut error, with- out imemsence or realil The importance of recosmxins God as the only mind is clearly seen when the sad effects of believing in a sup- posititious opposite of the divine mind are learned by experience. Paul designates this supposidtloua mind as the carnal or fleshy mind. Mrs. Bddy has described it more specififically._as mortal mind, or the mind of mortals. This belief in a mind apart from God is capable of all evil. It would set up, if it could, a power opposed to God to nullify His 'decrees and dethrone His majesty. This belief attempts to de- fraud man of his rights and to rob him of everthing that he holds dear. Mortal mind, if not corrected by spir- itual understanding, will take man his health, happiness, freedom, Joy; his wealth, his friends, his good name; in short, all that humanity justly prizes. Mortal Mind. Christian Science uncovers the pro- cess by which this robber rst entices his victim into a byway of error and then picks his pockets. The process is the exact reverse of the method used by Christian Science in saving humanity from its woes. Mortal mind's method consists in inducing humanity to accept the untrue as true, the un- real as real, the non-essential as es- sertial, and then in tempting the de- luded victims to strive after these fal- sities. In this way the carnal mind sends its votaries on many a wild- gocse chase, which can only end in disapointment and disguest. It dan- gles before the ves of humanity the false concept of = genuine desire or need. It approaches some unsuspect- ing mortal with the promise of sub- stance, support, and sustenance. It asks, Do you desire substance? and the mortal naturally and very proper- ly replies, Yes. ‘Then the carnal or fleshly, or mortal or material mind, would ‘suggest that substance was matter, and that to gain substance, man must strive to accum- ulate matter. If the intended victim accepts this mental suggestion, mortal mind then leads him on a forlorn quest after substance-matter. Whether the victim does or does not accumulate matter as the result of this induce- ment, he will never be able to &nd true substance in matter, for true sub- stance is spiritual and mental, and fadeth not away, because it is not subject to material laws or origin or decay, but is eternal and indestructi- ble. Paul has truly written of “the substance of things hoped lvr, the ev- idence of things not seen.” ‘To some sick mortal this robber be- lief of a mind apart from God would offer health as a material possession. It would induce the sick to believe that health is dependent solely upon material conditions, and that health can only be restored or maintained by material remedies. Then it would drive the sick from one remedy to an- otber, from one place to another, from one material process to another, to seardh for health where it cannot be found, namely in matter. True health is a state of conscious- ness, It is spiritual and mental, not material. It is based upon the spirit- ual understanding of God and man as i Trg !wla.lth can_be reguarded only through a d Christian knowning of the truth otbelng of God as divine mlnd, the uuu originator of all ‘hasr eal existence, power, m- \ulity. In order that health may safe from the assauits tly be~ ing made upon it, it must be recog- for guidance and spiritual food. The Pharisee whose god is mere respect- lbfllty, ‘who worships human opinion, the so-called strong man who believes physical force to be power and_that might makes right, the human being who imagines beauty to be material— all these are victims of the mental suggestions put forward by the car- nal mind, and either suffering or science must wean them from their er- rors, and set them free to enjoy the blessings which can be conferred only by the divine mind, the only real, true, and_essential mind, the author of all good, the Father-Mother of us all. God Is Life. ¥ Christian Science furhermore de- clares God to be life, eternal life. This concept is naturally linked to that of God /'@ mind, in human thought, by the fact that the only way by which man is aware that he lives is because he thinks. If the question is asked, How do I know that I live? the an- swer must be, Because I am conscious, becavse I think. Man is a mental be- ing. Living involves mental action, and so our investigation into the na-, ture of God passes naturally from the recognition of Him as divine mind to the "consideration of Him as eternal e. This life which is God cannot be finite, because God fs infinite. This life is not limited in any way, either in space or time, through matter or the flesh. God as life is incorporeal, ab- solute invisible, and indivisible. = God as life is continuous, without break, inferference, or hindrance. There are no intervals of death in life eternal, but real life flows on evenly, joyously, harmoniously, ever complete and ever perfect. In the first chapter of Genesis we have the record of the creation of God as life, creating man and the universe after His own likeness. In the second chapter begins the record of life in matter. In- the first we read, “And God saw every thing that he had made and, benold, it was very good.” In the second and subsequent chapters we have the account of the creation of man made out of the dust of the ground, and even of the cursing of that same ground. Christian Science .clearly sets forth that the first ver- sion represents the true, the real and the essential creation, and the second the untrue, the unreal, and the coun- terfeit universe and man. Thus the belief of life in matter is hecessarity associated with the belief of a mind apart from God, and these two beliefs work together for the enslavement and destruction of mankind, and their sup- effects are to be overcome by the spiritual understanding of God as the only life and the only mind. Belief of Life in Matter. From the belief of life in matter spring all the ills of which flesh is heir, all sin, sorrow, sickness, decay, dissolution, calamity, and catastro- phe. Death itself is the direct result of the belief of life in matter. This belief is the root of all fear, all strife, mad ambition, pride, envy, jealousy, revenge. It sustains the flesiily pas- sions and appetites, and accounts for idolatry, personal worship, personal domination, and so-called personal or magnetic attraction. It is a counter- feit sense of life which bears the fruits of tyranny and. superstition. Cain, ‘who rose up to slay his brother Abel, typifies this bellef of life in matter. ‘But the realization of God as life prepares the way for the brotherhood of man. If there is only one real life, Tecause God is infinite and therefore the one and only life, then in reality all men have that one life. Then sup- pose a court room in which seemingly opposing interests are contending for the mastery. There is the plaintiff, and there the defendant. Each has his own lawyer, pleading from oppo- site points of view, and for opposite results. Placid above the contending factions is the judge, weighing the ev- idence in the balances of truth. Ac- cording to the estimony of the physi-~ cal senses the court room is the scene of a contest, a struggle for suprem- acy.. There may be more or less fe ing of hostility displayed. It is hu- manly inevitable that there must be some evil in consciousness, whether expressed or suppressed. Now let a right idea come into this mental atmosphere, gn idea which we will designate as the spiritual under- standing that God is the only life of man, Perhaps it reaches the conscious- ness first ot the judge, as he watches frcm an and unbiased point of view t’ha struggles of both sides for self-justification. The perception dawns upon him that, no matter what the ap- pearances may seem to indicate, in teality there is but one life, and that in reality, therefore, plaintiff and de. fendant alike, with their more or less numerous adherents, have the same life, for there is not other. Now suppose this perception passes from one m to another in the reality they are all manifest- ing the same life, that therefore their are mutual, instead of being antagonistic, and that in settling the pending difficulty equitably they would ng the rights of all men and the ‘The Suits Ior 519. 75 At this first price we are able to offer some very handsome garments which were made to sell as high as $27.50. The highest grade of - workmanship has been incorporated in a goodly variety of stylish * models, the weaves being French Serge, Gabardine and Poplin in the most favored colorings. Suits for $15.75 For this very modest sum we offer an unusual value in Suits for . Women and Misses. Men’s Wear Serge, Poplin and Gabardine make.up the list of weaves, and most of the Suits are semi-fitted models, all of them being of smart design and handsomely trimmed and finished. Copenhagen, Navy and Shepherd Checks are prom- inent in the selection. 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The scriptures express this fact in the statement, “As he (a man) thinketh in his heart, 50 is he.” The commonly accepted teachings of the sclences which concern _themselves with the nature and condition of man are not in agreement with this state- ment of the the scriptures. Physiology and anatomy describe him as a mate- rial being whose health and happiness are dependent upon material condi- tions, not upon his thought. ‘Then scholastic theology attempts to place an immortal soul somewhere inside this material being. It declares that this. immortal soul can sin, and Yet it is obvious that if sould could sin 'it would be mortal, because sin is self- destructive, Furthermore, - common supposition places a mind in the brain of that material being, a mind which can easily become unbalanced or de- ranged, and which is dependent upon its existence and thus for its equili- brium. When this strange being, rep- resénting a mixture of mind and mat- ter, becomes diseased or deranged ma- terial medicine is called in to restore the equilibrium which has been tem- porarity disturbed. Effect of Christian Science. Christian Science, on the other nand, approaches the sick and sinning with the truth of being, and treats man as a thinking being whose condition is to be regulated by right thinking. The cure is to be effected by mentally ac- cepting those thoughts which are like God, or godlike, and by rejecting those which are unlike God. This mental and spiritual procéss has healed all manner of diseases, many of them con- sidered incurable from the standpoint of material medicine. It has given a new lease of life to those doomed to an early grave. It has rejuvenated the prematurely aged. It has relieved the victims of depraved appetites. It has regenerated the fallen. In the course of its ministrations to the bereaved and the suffering it has flooded human consciousness with hope well founded, with a legitimate expectation of good, with faith based upon spiritual under- standing. It is explaining the Bible to multitudes who either had lost in- terest in it or had never known its glorious message. The presence of Christian Science in human consciousness has sweetened the daily life of many who had become embittered by their misfortunes, ana it has shown them the way to rid themselves of these misfortunes. It is hallowing family life with the touch of spiritual companionship. It is re- storing to usefulness and helpfulness many who have felt themselves a burden to their dear omes by reason of intemperance, invalidism, or in- capacity of one kind of another. The world s a befter place to live in by reason of the teaching and practice of Christian Science, now to be. foand every continent on the face o2 the \;obe. ither in nor of ody wil then utter Discoverer and Founder. ‘These beneficient results are directly traceable to the labors of Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christlan Science. The steps whick led up to her discovery, and thos: ‘which she took with a view of founding this movement upon a solid basis, arc matters of universal historic interest In Mrl. Bady's nltnblugn:plhy. en- SUMMER BLOUSES PRETTY COTTON WAISTS FOR $1.00 At this price you will find a varied assort- - ment of crisp, white voile Waists, striped effects and solid colors. charming lot of dainty new models. WASH SILK WAISTS FOR $1.98 Exiremely good quality for this small price and in a good variety of plain white A specially Blouses and striped ones. that every real effect was mental and not material. Her recovery from an accident through the realization of the power of God gave her the clue or all spiritual healing, and proved to her the rormal and natural character of the works done by Jesus and his fol- lowers Yn Bible times. She studied the Scriptures as her only text-book, and in 1875 published the Christian Science text-book, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.” In her desire to make this discovery available to all mankind, Mrs. Eddy founded The First Church of Christ, Secientist, in Boston, Mass. She estab” lished a Metaphysical college, and the different periodicals issued by The Christian Science Publishing society and now distributed to all parts of the world. She instituted a board of lec- tureskip, a committee on publication, and reading-rooms connected with the Christian Science churches. She wrote a church manual, a goodly number of hyrans which breathe the atmosphere of inspiration and of healing, and pro- duced a number of important volumes besides her chief work, the Caristian Science text-book. Mrs. Eddy's lit- erary activity was unusual, and her style is particularly suited to the majesty of her theme. While it is thus possible to record <ome of the conspicuous, steps in Mrs. Eddy’s career, no one but herseif could know the full cost of discovering Christian Science and_placing it be- fore a world which though harassed by evil was yet largely unwilling' to adopt the means she offered for its liberation. What moral ‘heroism this task required in the. midst of mis- understanding, loneliness, ~and - isola- tion, can only be surmised. Some. in- dications of the struggle can be gath- ered from Mrs. Eddy's own writings, but there-is in them no tone of com- plaint, no sense of grievance, only a little wonder at times that the world was 5o unwilling to be saved. For the rest, there shines through her writ- ings the positive assurance of truth, the spiritual beauty of holiness, and the joyous consciousness of the victory of truth over error of every sort. God is Love. It is reported of a certain lawyer that he asked the Master, “What shall 1 do to inherit eternal life?” To this the Master replies “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.” In these words the Master linked eternal life with love, setting down love for God and nan As a necessary step toward “he attainment of eternal life. John, the beloved disciple, who defined God as love, also stated, “He that loveth not his prother abideth in death.” Mrs. Eddy has brought out this same es- sential connection between life and love by the statement in her work The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany”/ (p. 185 “Life is the spontaneity of love, inseparable from love.” To conceive of love as being spon- tancous immediately brings ‘he con- cept of life into’thought. “aerefore the consideration of God first 2= mind. witLout an opposite mind, then as life, without life in matter, leads directly and incvitably to the glorious percep- ‘ion of God.-as love, as universal and ‘mpartial in character an dincapable of being perverted with jealousy, “atied, or the desire for revenge. In “his understanding of God as love hu- nanity may rest with the full assur- 'nce that this definition is final and al inclusive. More cannot be asked of* the power governing the universe, of the creator, of the father, mother, Special Values in Crepe de Chine and Striped Sill Blouses at $3.00 are illegitimate, unnatural, normal, and belong to. the nothingness, not of reality. ‘The realization of evil as unreal does not mean ignoring evil or neglecting, to handle ifg claims, but it gives man- kind the clue to its destruction. The human tendency is to personalize evil, to call it somebody—a man or a woman. Christian Science teaches that evil is not person but only a false claim, void, invalid, and unreal, in God's universe. Christian Science furthermore teaches that evil has no principle. It may seem to display intelligence, but that seeming intelligence is self-destructive and only spells its doomlin the pres- ence of truth. Evil cannot . really think. It does not know or under- stand reality.~ It-is not the cause or origin of anything real. It has no real history, displays no real quality or quantity, but is emptiness, - vacuity. It deals only in vain babblings and boastings which' it cannot substanti- ate. The practice of Christian Science is a natural result of its teaching. Since God ip. mind, life, and.love, and man is made in His image and likeness, the real man manifests the divine mind eternal life, ‘and imperishable love. ‘When the physical scientist desires to ascertain of what elements the sun or any star is composed, he takes an in- strument called the spectroscope and analyzes a ray of the sun.” By mdlng off on that instrument c ings called spectral lines be is lb]b to declare that certain elements are to be found in the sun. .Much in the same way the student of Christian Science is able to analyzé the nsture of God’s man by considering the nature of God himself. Let the sun roceeding symbolize God; from it, max that understanding of God and man which reveals their true natures, namely divine science, or Christian Science. Then by looking into Chris- tian Science the student is enabled to declare the attributes of and hence of the man of His making. Man Indispensable.. @ o Just as the ray is an indispensable manifestation of the sun, dependent upon the sun and inseparable from it, so the real man proceeding from the Father is always in unity with' the Father, always in at-one_ment ‘with | Him. Tt should be a comfort and an inspiration to many a struggling heart and to many a.despondent wayfarer along_lfe's highway to realize that man_is_indispensable to God, the son to the Father, the divine idea to the divine mind. The fact that man has been created ds proof that he is needed, that he has a place, that he fits into the eternal scheme of the universe, and is therefore ind! le. Let the sinning and suffering, the so-called human failures and the so- called human wre: be. the Tv degca_l;l the Ph“'yflui concerning thei um u the m is fixed that every one of the i erable ideas enmpotln: God’s un!v-m is indispensable, or these ideas would never have been aflnmo&. ‘act- uality, or life. gvery man, woman, and ehlld every right iden in the whole length and breadth, height and depth of God's creation, is a creation, is eternal an rm: is now in I'!:tutv ln >f the original source of all being, than | I8 to ‘s comprised in the word love. ¥ Since God l-]ove. thmhuo need ‘o dread the past or { Since God is !onv; lm.