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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Continued from page 4
to you and to me: The time Is now when
ye shall do the works that He did; when
ye o'nnll take the Word of God and heal
the Biek; nhn.ll cleanse the leper; shall
east out evil, and Bhall raise the dead In
the name of God. .
We shall have every one of these things
to do, either here or hereafter, in the
self-same way that Jesus did them,
whether we want to or not, because there
Id no Way whereby we may enter the
Kingdom save through Him. If he Is
the Way, and tho only Way. then you
and I can onlv reach that Kingdom of
God which Is within us by doing what he
did. and as he did, to tne accompnsn-
ment or our Individual salvation, in me
manner Jesus Indicated.
eW all know the works o' h.-allng from
sickness and raising the dead Jesua ac
complished with God s word, as well as
the sin he overcame with tt, and we also
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know that he said: "He that bellevelh In
me, the works mat I do Bhall he do also;
una greater woikh than tnese snail he do;
m-cause 1 go to my l-atner." Do you be
lieve tnis statement? Do you believe In
mm? ihen wny don't you uo. the worn
iu did no as 10 be prepared to do the
stealer woikb of His piumlbe.
He have been taugiu lor ages that the
lime lor miracles, uu called, lias gone by.
mat lie only u.u me healing of ine s.ck
uial tne ji ws, who were a uliff-neck. d
people, might be convinced that He was
uie Aiussian. Are theie any fctin-neckeu
people on tarlti louay woo nted 10 be
convinced tnat He is the Mis.ilaii?
vvueie in ine iibie, oo We una tne per
mission given to anyone to separate any
part 01 mis promise from the lest of ill
W nt-nce comes the autnority to say that
Ouu s VVuiu may still be used to acstiuy
sm ana save sinners but it can't be used
tu destroy sickness and save the sick?
Does it not come dangerously near to
being sacrihge to deny tne rignt and duty
of man to be obedient to the whole of
tills virtual command, and so, practi
cally, deny that Jesus told the truth?
Don t you see where the trouble HesV
Look back to tne time of the Kmperoi
Constantino, when he assumed to be the
head of tho church of Christ on earth,
lie found the sick still being bi ought to
tne churches so that the elders might
Heal them. He began to clothe tne simple
luuh in form, ceremony and ritual! He
Clothed himself In gorgeous roues, and
unaily succeeded in so pleasing the eyes
and ears of the people that they clotheu
the Spirit of the Word in the grave
clothes of the letter, and the ability to
heal was lost. Don't you see from that
time to this, mankind has been trying to
excuse Itself tor Its unbelief, because it
has not been obedient to the Wayshower
by and through whom we must reach the
Kingdom of Uod?
Le us all go back beyond Constantine
to Christ. De us forget that Constan
tino ever existed, and let us take that
simple, plain, sweet, altogether lovely re
ligion tnat Jesus preached; let us take
that Word into our homes, Into our busi
ness, into our everyday lives, until we
know what it means to Love our neigh
bor as ourselves. Then we shall hnd
we can pray the prayer of the righteous
man, which ascendeth unto the throne,
and which accomplished much. Then
we shall find the Truth of that state
ment: "Ask whatsoever ye will in my
name, believing, and that shall ye re
ceive;" there being no one who can fail
to receive, who turns to God with the
same absolute confidence, and trust witn
wnich our Wayshower turned to Him.
Now, what about this belief of sin, dis
ease and death being real? You know a
universal belief Is not any more a founda
tion for fact than it would be if the be
lief were confined to one person. To il
lustrate what I mean by this, I am going
to call you attention to the time of Col
umbus. You remember that he was
treated with scorn and contempt and cast
into prison because he stood up before
the wise men of his time, (and I want to
say this to you that every generation
thinks its wise men are the wisest men
that ever were wise, and the people four
hundred years ago thought just that),
and said, every one of your scientific de
ductions, every one of your scientific
theses, every one of your scientific ex
periments to prove that this earth Is fiat
do not amount to anything at all, be
cause the earth is a sphere. Who was
right? Columbus was right, of course,
and the wise men were ail wrong. What
effect did the universal false belief have
un the shape of the earth? None; the
earth kep on being a sphere Just the
same. What effect did the false belief
have on the people who believed it to be
true? So long as the people believed the
fulse belief to be true, they were held
within the narrow confines of that be
lief, and stayed on that little speck of the
earth's surface because they Xeared that
If they sailed to a certain point, they
would fall off the edge of the earth on
to that something or nothing on which
Atlas did or didn't stand when he did or
didn't hold up the earth.
In our own times we look back and pity
the ignorance which thought it was wis
dom, and are positive, Just as the con
temporaries of Columbus were, that there
Is absolutely no question but what our
wise men are the wisest men that ever
were wise, and yet it la within the liv
ing memory of many in this audience
when our wise men were filling the news
papers and periodicals with attacks,
warning the unsuspecting public to keep
tneir money In their pockets, and not
let It be drawn away from them by the
tricksters and sharpers who said It was
possible for a man to talk Into one end of
a wire and have a man at the other end,
hundreds of miles away, hear what was
said and catch the intonation of the voice
so as to be able to tell who was talking
to him.
Who was right? Graham and Bell were
right and our wise men were no wiser
than Columbus' wise men. What effect
did the false belief have on the people?
So long as they believed It to be impos
sible to control the vibrations sufficiently
to reproduce the voice they were held
within the narrow confines of the letter
post and the telegraph for their Inter
communication, whereas, when that false
belief was broken, it was possible with
in five minutes to talk from New York to
Chicago, to transact business In five min
utes that used to take five weeks or
sometimes months to transact. Those
who have deemed themselves wise In
religious matters have held the world
for two hundred and forty thousand years
in the crin of the belief that God either
dlrectlv or Indirectly Is responsible for
sin, disease and death, and until we
break that false belief, until we turn
awav from it and do as Ezelkel Implor
ed us to do when he said, "Turn ye, turn
ye. for why will ye die," we shall con
tinue to sin, we shall continue to be sick
and continue to" die.
God as a supposed creator of Good and
evil, of Life and death, sin and disease,
Is not the God we Christian Scientists
know, nor Is He the God of the inspired
Scriptures, which teach us that He Is the
same yesterday, today and forever, with
out varlnbleness or shadow of turning.
C. S. Btands for common ense, and n
noans common sense because It Is my
sense and your sense; it Is a sense that
belongs to all of us; and-Chrlstlan Scien
tists have nothing that Is not yours; and
Christian Sciintlnts are simply using
wlmt the non-Chrtstlitn Scientists are
letting Ho dormant in their thongM, to
be nwakencd sometime.
Now, If God Is changi'U'BS, how could
he give life and then give death? When
life was existent wjiat would become of
oeath, and when death was existent what
would become of life? If God created
them they must both be as eternal as
their creator. How. can they both exist
eternally when one manifests the ab
sence of the other, as certainly as light
annihilates darkness?
Pur Hible tells us that death Is the
WHKt of s'n. Do you believe It? The
Hible does not say that in one case death
in Hie wHL'fH of sin and that in another
i line death Is the wags of goodness. It
makes the nnqualinea stRientenr iniu me
wages of sin Is death. Then if Oud cre
ated death, He must have created sin.
vmi rminnt pBcane tins conclusion oy
saving that He only permits sin; for to
permit It He must know it, and how can
He know it when the Scriptures tell us
that God Is of purer eyes than to behld
evil and cannot look upon Iniquity,
if i:,,i Id nf nnrer eves than to behold
evil and cannot look upon Iniquity, if hi
created death, and death is the wages of
sin, then It logically ronows inai uou
created sin; and as everything He created
Is good, It further follows, logically, that
sin Is not evil, but Is good, an argument
that cannot for an instant be sustained;
and our hearts are filled with Joy when
we know, as Christian Slcence teaches
us, that God neither sees nor knows sin.
Life Is creative and death destructive,
so that God. the only and primal Crea
tor, must be life, and not death, and
therefore- death, measured by the stand-
ard of perfection which God Is, Is not
j enl but Is the suppositional absence 01
or belief In the negation of Life. Then
I where shall we look for the origin of the
I oellef in ln and death except in the mor
I tal oonscloiiBMeffi. The mortal consci
j ousness is to be it ott with the old man
land his deeds) as It is ii off and is
mmerceded bv Immortal consciousness,
nan shall cease to know sin and death
and manifest eternal Life, being perfect
oven as his "Father which is In heaven
ts perfect."
The question naturally presents Itnelf
nt this point, "Where did mortal con
sciousness come from?" . My answer Is
ihat I don't know where it came from,
but I do know it didn't come fi-om God,
because it manifests discord. Is there
anvone in the audience who knows
where the belief that the world Is a flat
surface originated? Is anyone still stick
In to the belief that it is a flat surface
just because they didn't know the name
anil address of the- man who started that
foolish bell-? Of course not! It has
been proven to bo a sphere, and Jesus,
the Christ proved t the world, by his
words and works, that sin, disease and
death are no part of God s Creation, and
that His children do not live, nor move,
nor have their being therein.
The universal belief about death la that
It Is either the gateway to Heaven or the
entrance down below. This belief should
lead us logically to destroy the innocent
Infant In order to Insure its gaining the
kingdom, and the action of the native
of India In casting their babes Into the
river Ganges, was based on sound logic
and good reason: but the belief that
tenth Is ever a friend is fallacious.
Death Is an enemy. Christ proved Us i
unreality, and overcame it In accordance
with the law of God, thus indicating ulti
mate freedom from death for all man
kind. Do you think this statement Im
possible of acceptance? It is not an ori
ginal one, by any means, and Is simply a
reiteration of what Paul suld. Paul
didn't say you can go on overcoming all
tilings until It comes to death, and that
you are a helpless victim when that pre
sents itself. He said the last enemy to
oe destroyed Is death, and In his letter
to Timothy he wrote: "Christ Jesus hath
abolished death and brought life and im
mortality to light.' Do yuu believe Paul
knew what ha was writing. Do you be
lieve the statements to be true? YVIe, as
Christian Scientists, accept them without
modification or qualification, because they
are so absolutely In accord with what our
Master did and said. No! Christian
Scientists have not yet reached the point
where they have overcome tho universal
belief In death, nor have they yet reach
ed the point where they heul every case
brought before them, but like the prodi
gul son of Bible story, we have started
on our Journey back to our Father's home;
we are tired of living in a country far
away from Him; we are tired of feeding
on the husks of words that, no matter
how beautiful they may be, fall to bring
us any proof of their truth; and we shall
reach that haven of rest, and Hnd peace,
comfort and joy In his sheltering love.
We do know, however, when the In
fallible Principle of Christian Science is
followed, man shall solve all life's prob
lems correctly, and realize, In full the
meaning of .the saying, "Glory to God in
the highest, peace on earth, good will to
ward men." Some onfe will say at this
point, if what you sayMs true, what are
you going to do with the biblical prom
ise: "Whom the Lord loveth, he chasten
eth?" I am not going to change a word
of the Bible in order to explain this to
you, but I am going to call your atten
tion to something you all know, namely
that the Bible which we read is a trans
lation Into English from the original
tongues, made by seventy men, at the
command of King James, of England. I
am going to tell you, however, that they
found nothing in the original manuscript
which gave them any right or authority
to translate this passage In any such
way. The word "chasteneth" is taken
from the Greek root "padueln," which is
the foundation of the English word "ped
agogue," or "Instructor;" and the word
"paidueln" means "to instruct" or "di
rect," and it does not mean anything
else, and when that passage Is rendered
into English as it is written in the ori
ginal Bible, it doesn't read "Whom the
Lord loveth he chasteneth," but "Whom
the Lord loveth he instructeth;" and it
becomes another proof of tho Christian
Science teaching as to the abnormal na
ture of sin, which Christ destroyed In
conformity with the law which God man
ifested through Him.
In order that there may be sin, there
must be temptation; and In order that
there may be temptation there must be
sin, and they both must proceed from the
same source. Is this source Uod or man
kind? If it be God we are lost! If it is
mankind we are saved. Let this ques
tion be answered lor us by James and
John. James writes: "Let no man say
when he is tempted, I am tempted of
God: for God cannot be tempted of evil,
neither tempteth he any man: But every
man is tempted, when he is drawn away
of his own lust, and enticed. Then when
lust hath conceived, It brlngeth forth sin:
and sin, when it Is finished, brlngeth
forth death."
John writes: "Whosoever Is born of
God doth not commit sin; for his seed
remalneth In him: and he cannot sin, be
cause he Is born of God." Dare we In
the face of James' statement that "lust"
Is the origin of sin, and John's that
"whosoever is born of God can
not sin because he Is born of God," ever
again associate the name or nature of
God with sin in any manner whatsoever.
Paul says, "There is no respect of per
sons with God." Do you believe that?
Most of you will Bay to yourselves, Oh,
yes. Let us see if you do. As long as
we believe sin, disease and death to be
real, just so long we believe that God,
either directly or Indirectly, Is respon
sible for them. As you look around you
and see one man afflicted (I say It ad
visedly) with millions of money, another
with the direst of poverty, another with
perfect health, another with lil health,
another with Joy unspeakable, and an
other with misery and woe and des
pair, if you are one of those who are
having to meet the poverty, the despair
or the ill health, can you, right down in
the bottom of your heart, say you believe
God Is no respecter of persons?
Some one near to us is stricken with a
mortal illness, and we gut down on our
knees and pray that the Illness may be
taken from them that the person may
live. If it is from God, it Is good; and
why do you pray they shall be relieved
from It, if it Is good? If you believe God
sent the sickness, and yet get down on
your knees and pray that it be removed
that the afflicted person may live, hasn't
the physician who is attending him, if
he believes God sent the disease, Just as
much right to pray to God, at the same
time, thut tiie illness may continue in
order that he may live?
Mankind says God Is Immutable and
changeless, but hundreds and millions of
times every day it is praying the immu
table and changeless God to change,
change, change, until mankind is con
ceiving God as being the center and cir
cumference of eternal change. As long
as we believe God to be responsible for
all things, and yet get down on our
knees and pray that He may forget His
immutability, and take away what we
uon t wunt, anil give us wnat we think
we do want, Isn t it true that, if our pray
er were suddenly granted, we would be
scared beyond recall?
Is It logically possible for us to have
very much fulth in prayer so long as we
are held In the bondage of the belief in a
changeable God? Oh, if we would only
take into our consciousness, for one sin
gle instant, thut changeless Love, that
changeless religion that Jesus the Christ
preached to us, there would be no doubt,
no fear, and we would go to God in pray
er with the serene confidence, the im
plicit faith, that He who heareth in' secret
shall reward us openly, which the Mas
ter taught us to be our birthright and
nerltage.
This is what Christian Science Is ask
ing you to do; this is what Christian
Science Is laying before you; this the
uible that is prepared before you In the
presence of your enemies; this the bread
which cometh down from Heaven; this
the water of eternal life it is yours, it
is mine. Let us accept the feast that
Uod has put before us; let us recognize
the Comforter, the Wayshower, again in
our midst; the Comforter he promised he
would send when he said it was expedi
ent that he went to his Father. Then
there will be no more broken hearts,
there will be no more sorrow, no more
tears, no more separation, no more sick'
ncss, no more suffering, and no more sin,
for we shall have entered Into the real
ization that this is the day of the Lord
and with that realization there will come
to ub peace, that peace which God has
promised usj the peace which may be
lound only in that straight and narrow
Way wherein our Master leads us, into
the Kingdom of God, which is within
The revelation of Christian Science
came to Mrs. fcdily as the result of a life
time spent in continuous search and de
sire for the Spirit of the World and the
things of God. Mrs, Eddy, in her chosen
vocation as a religious reformer, occu
pits a position unique In the history of
tne worm, ior sue stanus aione as tne aa-
.ocate of unqualified faith in God, un
swerving trust in His goodness, and un
questioning obedience . to alt His com
mands. This calls on her for such meek
ness. humility, and self-sacrifice, that she
never could live such a life were it not
ior the protecting care of a real, demon
strable religion, wherein she rinds im
munity from the pangs and agonies suf-
lered by those who turn away from the
old concept of God and manifest realiza
tion 01 his presence.
Ever since ISiitl, Mr. Eddy's life has
been devoted to the revelation of the way
of salvation to mankind with such a
singleness of purpose, that mankind Is
awakening to Know ner work IB Inspired,
and that. Christian. Science is the Spirit
of the Word Jesus portrayed. Christian
Scientists do not worship Mrs. Eddy, nor
do they in any sense of the word defy
her In their thought. The whqle teach
ing of Christian Science leads us to put
self under foot; to have no way and no
will save Gods way and God's will; and
Mrs. Eddy sayB to the world, and to her
followers: "Follow me only so far as I
follow Christ;" and in her Chrlstly fol
lowing she has been the instrument
whereby the feet of hundreds of thou
sands have been planted upon the rock
of demonstrably proved Truth of God's
promises, and against that rock, in the
words 'of the old familiar hymn, "the
gates ei he'! shall not prevail." We do
love our Leader, but with a love that has
nothing personal In It; and W give her
only the allegiance and devotion to which
her tireless labor in mankind's behalf
entitles her.
I told you what Christian Science did
for me physipally. I am going to tell you
more. I had heard, in going to the
church with which my mother was af
hliuted, and in which she was an ardent
worker, that Just the other Bide of the
valley of the shadow of death there was
that beautiful New Jerusalem, the city
with Its gouen streets and Its pearly
gates, wherein I was told there was no
more Buffering, no more Borrow; but
strange as it may seem. J did not want
to go to Heaven If I had to die to get
there, for, with the story of the New
Jerusalem I also heard the story of the
other place, which is down, and not up,
and was told that nearly all who passed
through the valley went down, and not
up. The degree of uncertainty was too
great to be attractive, and so there had
grown up in my thought, as a young man
and boy, a terror and a horror of God.
I heard that all things were the manifes
tation of His Infinite Wisdom, and the
terror grew and grew in my thought, as
I pictured Him na located on some great
throne, far above me, ready and willing
to crush the very existence out of me at
any Instant, until I had reached the point
where I loathed the name of God.
Then Christian Bclence came to me and
told me mentally and audibly that God
Is Love! That there is nothing of God
In these things! That He has nothing
to do with them, and it took away my
disease and my suffering! It took away
my horror and my loathing for God.
Christian Science came to me and gave
me God, and when I tell you this I am
telling you the story of countless thou
sands spread all over this globe. Is it
any wonder that we love the one who has
been so Belfless and so faithful In her
work that, through It, God has come to
us and salvation beeh brought within our
apprehension? We are obedient to her
every teaching, gladly, willingly, Joyfully,
because It Is through her continued teach
ing, for over forty years, that God reigns
and may not be overcome, that the mys
tery of the Way of salvation has been re
moved, and the glory of God again been
made apparent to mankind.
Mankind's existence is one hideous
nlghtware of fear, and nothing is done
by mankind unless consciously or un
consciously It la governed by an under
lying substratum of fear. Mankind fears
accident, feara sickness, fears old age;
fears if it has any money it will lose it,
and fears If it hasn't any money It never
will heve, and there is your poverty, fears
It will die If it eats, and sure it will die
if It doesn't eat; fears what it calls the
devil; fears God, and fears death with the
utter hopelessness and helplessness of
abject slavery.
There is an old Arabian fable, antedat
ing the Christian era by hundreds of
years, which bears very . pertinently on
the question of fear. It relates that two
spectres were met going into a city by a
man who stopped them and nsked their
names. One of them said, "My name is
Cholera," and the other said, "My name
Is Fear." He asked them why they were
going into the city, and Cholera said, "I
am going in to kill one man," and Fear
said, 1 will kill all the rest." As we
read In history the story of the black
plague In London, we learn that thou
sands died at the time, not because they
had the plague, but because of their fear
of It.
There la no advancement, no hope for
man In fear of his kind, and we may
escape It by being obenient to our Bible,
and seeking first the Kingdom of God
that Is within us, knowing that it is true
In God, who is Love. Herein lies our
freedom, for our Bible teaches us that
there Is no fear In Love, for "perfect
Love casteth out fear." ,
If God puts drugs on the earth to pre
serve and save the life of mankind, why
did Jesus, who came doing the will of the
Father, fail to use them in the healing
which he accomplished? Jesus never
used anything for the healing of man
kind from disease other than the Word
of God, and that never failed.
Ah! I hear some one say, but he did
use material remedies when he put clay
and spittle on the blind man's eyes. I
am going to talk to you about this case,
for, when understood, It is one of the
most wonderful lessons 'In the whole
Bible. Do you believe that Jesus thought,
when he put the clay on the man's eyes,
that It would restore his sight? If you
do believe that, then you believe that
here was an instance in which Jesus
failed to foreknow what would happen,
for we know that the clay failed to ac
complish anything. Did the blind man
see while the clay was on his eyes? No!
Not until in obedience to the command
of Jesus he went to the Pool of Slloam,
which being interpreted, means "sent,"
and washed off the clay, did the blind
man see.
And thus Jesus taught us that, as we
cast one side all material remedies, no
mater how simple, and go in the way of
his appointing, blindly though it may be
at first, our obedience shall open the
eyes that see not, and we shall behold
the glory of God and His son, the living
Christ. No, do any of you think this a
far-fetched explanation of that story?
Don't you know this is one of the few
places in the Bible where not only the
word but its meaning is given? "Go wash
In the pool of Slloam," which means
"sent," was the command of Jesus, and
the man obeyed, and when he had wash
ed he saw. We know it wasn't the clay!
We know It wasn't the water that healed
him, but that It was his obedience to the
word of God, as It came to him through
Jesus, that made him whole.
Instantly our thought goes back to the
story of Naaman, the leper, who came to
Elisha to be healed. The prophet sent
out word to him, telling him to go and
wash in the waters of the river Jordan.
He was wroth, and said "the waters of
my own country are better than the
waters of Jordan." He wanted It done
his way, but he was prevailed upon to
be obedient to the word of God, as It
came to him through the prophet, and he
went and bathed in the river Jordan, and
came forth every whit whole. When you
and I are willing to be obedient, as they
were obedient, then there will be noth
ing that we cannot take to the foot of
the cross, and leave It there, coming
away free and untrammeled, praising
God for His wonderful goodness.
Before I close my lecture, let me say
this to those desirous of knowing God,
as Spirit, Principle, Mind; do not be sat
isfied with any one's else statement as
to what Christian Science teaches about
It. but go to the fountain head and get
knowledge, pure and unadulterated, but a
careful, prayful study of your Bible, with
aid of the Christian Science text-book,
"Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures," every line of which carries
healing to its readers, because It Is the
result of Mrs. Eddy's having proved that
God healeth all our diseases, and Is
"Love."
My friends, Christian Science Is the
demonstration of that great, tender, com
passionate Love which Jesus Christ man
ifested to the world, not only in his
word, but In his demonstration of its
wonderful power. We want you to know
that Christian Science Is the revelation
to mankind today that only as we live the
religion of Love, making Its demonstra
tion that of doing unto others as we
would be done by, are we showing any
conception of that religion, pure and un
defiled, which the Bible commands us to
demonstrate.
Love brings no evil; Love brings no
suffering to man; and the understanding
of Love, as It Is demonstrated In Chris
tian Science, enables man to reach out
to his brother with a tenderness, a sweet
ness, a sense of consideration the world
knows not of until It Is given to it
through Christian Science.
Christian Science Is the manifestation
of that Love that respects no person,
that knows no relationship Bave the uni
versal brotherhood, bringing to mankind
the sutisfled consciucness that It 1b really,
demonstrably proved, that God Is Love.
In this consciousness of demonstrable re
ligion, Christian Scientists have their sat- -Isfactlon.
their Joy, their sense of har
mony that can never be disturbed, and
ther consciousness of Love that stretches
out Into the universe, including all In Its
omniscience, turning us, weary and heavy
muen, io vuivary una me cross, where
we are freed from its weight and its
shadow In fulfilment of the promise of
Him whose word never falleth. There
we find surcease for our Dain. our inrmw
and tears, In spiritual regeneration.
emerging gently out of self and away
from the world, flesh and evil, into thnt
everlasting peace which God glveth his '
beloved children, nnd toward which Mrs.
Eddy. God's revelator In this age, is
leading us.
We ask you to Investle.ite. not rin-io.
tlan Scientists, but Christian Science, and
see how absolutely It reveals the r.ndw
standard, wherein what blesses one bless-
es an. rivery promise shall be fulfilled,
and the grand work of Christ, as exem
plified In Christian Science, be univer
sally accepted. Then shall His "Will h
done In earth as It Is in Heaven;" then
shall we realise that His "Is the kingdom
and the power and the glory forever"
seeing the full fruition of Love, having
no other gods than "Our Father which
are In Heaven." who is Life, Truth and
Love everlasting.
A Californian's Luck.
'The luckiest day of mv Hfo""!
when I bought a box of Bucklen's Ar
nica Salve." writes flharlno p via.
a'hn, of Tracy, California. "Two 25c
boxes cured me of an annoying case
of itching niles. Which had trmihlcw!
me for years and that vlelded tn nn
other treatment." Sold under eiiar-
antee at Howell & Jones drug store.
Fireworks. Tyrolean cnncorla
the thrilling Leap-the-Gap act will be
the opening free attractions at th
Oaks, the big amusement park which
win oe open next Saturday,