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Tim'.orjxojj' daily- journAu, Portland, ' Friday, evening, ."-December' ix 1012., BEJIEiffi HEARS i: Dr. Francis J. Fluno of Oak .. land, Cal., Explained Teach- "Ngs y at Masonic Temple Last Night. 11: land, Cal, addressed a large audience : subject of Christian Science. Dr. Fluno , of the First Cnurch of Christ, Scientist, ooston, jwass.. ana vti lormerijr . member of the medical fraternity be . fore becoming on adherent of the Chrls " tlan Science faith,. He was introduced ' by W. A. Petteys, principal of. the Wes- v "VVo ars IMA in an intensely practl ca ' ape when ; every , adyanciment is : when human endeavor U directed largely to me oeuermem or present oay con ditiona. In a certain sense, religion In hnlnff1 nil rt thtt aoma ,a , V. a Am offerings the greatest helpfulness - in solving present day problems being the , one most likely to inspire th closest icruuny.'..; Anai - unriauan science or f ers the largest' Measure of life, health and success to mankind now accounts . .."The truth, applied by Jesus in1 the first, century, in earing mankind not only from sin but frpm every form of , Sickness as well, la not rannpnlcArl h . too large number of people today, nuiure to appreciate which is due to a .. tiicnv riieni, ; we fninK"-io. misconcep ttons as to what the truth embodied In Christian Science. really represents. To . the end that these misconceptions may I be Cnrrectad. tha hnirl ttf lartnraahln ( Lrffforms an important function in the uufvivJU4Vll VI ilUHUftU OUieUU. i Dr. Flnno's Keotnre. - ! 'Til 1antlirai aoM in ,at, . ' ; "'Whlla ,we look not at the ' things , woicn. are seen, out at the things which ; are jiot seen; for the things which Ire seen are temporal; but the things which ' are not seen are eternal., 2 Corinthians "Metaphysics la derived ' from two frplt KAnll mal. awak .tin.. " " - UIVM, KUVTV V W jondj and phusicos, physical slgnlfes , vrcr, uejonu or auove tne pnyaicau . . "In triia mManhvlllMI PhuLtlnn CnL , ' nce. all is mind; there is no physical. V jiu material, no matter. Ana tne ao- called science" of metaphysics has no imn mm me science or metapnysics. i Beginning , .with , matter all - is matter, thero 4a.no mind; beginning with mind all Is mind. thr 1 nn mnttr . "'There Is nothing that, mind does' not .: evoive,, govern-ana voniroi, ? jama is : spirit and everything that spirit creates ' is 11 kn lfnelf. 'snltitual tnA tint mni.ri.l ' TO spirit there is no matter, all is spirit mo imuewiimueo, or material sense Would rovaal ill thin would ha vq life, substance and intelli . pence in the object. While the spiritual !v or unlimited sense.-the scientific under. ' standing, reveals the spiritual to be the em ana ine' material ,ine unreal.- , Stnaratea inal From Hattav ' "This material universe is. merely the letter and not tha trua Mai win. ----7 T T (w-w , a f VM or eliminate this material universe and man, tne true man, the true expres Blon Ol iioS. attill rams Inn 'an will tnr vr ..ratnaln .Anil im via mn.. m.a, change or annihilation than.h God, the , .mums iinnuipie, in waora man uvea, upon whom he deoends. and' vhom na ; represents.' nd to f lndnnanr the tFue man, is not to stuay the letter, or the - physical man, bo -called, but to study the principle, the character of God. ( By so doing we grow into the consciousness or icniisauun wi our reiauon to uod, which is th divine atonement or at-one-ment with the Father; having no other life, m othei1 intelligence but God, tlie divine ' "Christian Scipnce comes separating the gold from the dross, the wheat from the ohaff. Separating mind from matter, .... the spirit from the flesh, mortality from Immortality. th trua frnm tha fnl. k. rlght-from the wrong, 'that which is tium mat wnicn la nou . . ' , ' "Spirit is God, the one only good, who Is lire, truth. lov infaiiiiA.. -.. substance, infinite,; eternal, omniscient. ... w-rWiiiiupreBefc--3foiian ' not get over, around, -unrtn n ,,. " but 'In him TVS 11v-ant mnv. u. ' , , . ' - ... suu nave our being." It t God who formed the aicui. uw wnicn rramed, controls and ifOverna tha snlrltimi Univ.... i j the planets in their course. Exlstlna- in iu wuuumn space, yet instant here . With US. i . , 1 'iLlt 1 elf 'sten principle: self existent because it could not be made or evolved; for it would avi riii,.. ; ? "m',,!1'6 T.H whloh pu1j lf (JflUfe could be made) must itaelf )iav life, And of necessity must itself .. ultimately be life. Hence we muat'eon ., lud8 ,lf 1 existent, and that 0hlclr has It existence within Itself , ""y", " xis the spirit of no'oer.- to','- Gd aM "' Oo4 is Truth. . . "Sueh is the spirit of iif0, the tnlrit : ef truth, the eplrlt of love; ihe gVeat pr mal; trluna Deity, the three-ln-ono principle; the spirit that Is God. "Truth, God, must Of necessity be, and ; be primaU legation could not be. and " be primal, for there would be no wav . by which to prove that It were negation Two things opposed to each other cannot , nn nu jiuuung mat is true of uv vv iru vt me ! Otner. Slncn r therefore, the negative, error, could Tot i 4 w fwuiai, nuice 1U ODnoslta V the poaiUve, or truth, must be, d be primal. ' i- - ' -, -, "Hence truth must' be th e primal anfl from the primal all things mSt proceed And since truth cannot p?ess iielf in , error, therefore there can be no error i : truth cannot result In error, the nosi " tiva cannot result in th- P081' I cannot result In ThsTte, Md Tf ecano? lit the vanauished; then, all were Cfif , were wouia be no. life. And If truth , l ' . ). men error were the victor nd' truth.the vanaulshed b error, thereTomJ be r 3f yoS a:JrntSeTiiL':totea . t running before him. just turn around s. and face him. unri. ... ,"".." , " vruin. Ana ir you are I . ' . " '""-""gnt ot truth i ,0Ie1wld w,ult clht into It. Ex-v- n ora that irnn . . , . JTom center to rtZZ.X llomr "If you are honestly searching for the 1 truth, you oan n " - ur lns . ins irutn you'll fS'iiS!" theyfalse v "'V wTCnuBo it is raise. -' , . ' ,s- lo-nnfaa ail .' r-TrrbP-mareem to kupprcsTTruth ' hnt it cannot. Tmtv, i. iri?. ln"n Nothing can M itTloVSSrS ; , batter down Its adamantine walle.' tl v enter Its eacred precincts, except in the way that truth itself shall lead, and love must be the prompter. All who nitrr here must take, their shoes from all opinion; of every material or mortal fct-nse; for this is holy ground. "Science admits of no personal opin ion; Ugnores ail opinion. It la founded upon the rock of self evident, demon strable truth and can never be shaken. There are no beliefs in science; beliefs all vanish when the underatandlng ap pears. ;- r - 'With all thy getting get underetand ingA ,;;,,-;vV:h.!..;";: "Columbus believed there was a; land beyond the sea; he searched, he found; he no longer merely believed, be knew, "Newton believed there was a law that governed the phenomena of the falilnf apple.. ',iiy h-.;;. ..-.t''V-: . "Galileo believed there was an" estab lished principle controlling he stellar universe. '"' .., t - . "Mrs. Eddy believed there was a scien tific law underlying and controlling the health of man; she searched, she found, she demonstrated; she no longer simply believed, ahe knew. v,:" .r'-' : "The science of being does not contra dict the Bible; It . substantiates the Bible, But It may contradict somebody's ideas of the. Bible, It' would not be science If it did not contradict - aoroe person's beliefs of the Bible. v..v , "One error may suppress another, but cannot destroy It, Truth alone will de stroy ail error, will, vanquish every foe. "Truth is first, and can result In noth ing but harmony, j , s 1 , "Sin, sickness, sorrow, pain and death are discords and not the truth of being, of which, to. know the truth, is to be freed from. their giant grasp. ? "There Is no . truth In sin: that Is, there is no truth la tha thought that prompts the action, hence no reality; and that which la unreal is false, and la, therefore, nothing. It is a mistaken be lief,., that must- be destroyed through suffering or science; the overt act is not the greater wrong; it is for the thought that prompts the deed, that we must pay the debt, ' .', . "No one may think to escape the pen. alty due for sin; each must pay the Ut termost farthing, be he so-called saint or sinner. Every one must suffer until his belief in evil Is destroyed, and he will through choice desire to be led by unchanging truth and unselfish love. ; "Finite sense begins with' the appear, ance, in the evidence of the senses, and tries to reach a fundamental principle. "Evolution, has reached to protoplasm. Pathology has gone as far aa baoteria; but It Is ttlU an open question which is first, the disease or, the germ. Whether the germ cause the disease or the dis ease produces the germ; and this ques tion never can "be answered, only as it is answered in Christian Science; that proves conclusively that neither the dis ease nor the germ is true, that both are false., And. since the premise Is false, the conclusion must also be false. From nothing it came, and to nothing It must return. iy 1 ,V'v'-: i "And materia tnedlca must follow in Its wake; for, since disease la nothing,' there can be no medicine to heal It ex cept the medicine of truth, that prove1 the nothingness of disease, ....... .. "Matter has no intelligence,' drug cannot direct themselves; they cannot say, X will go to the lungs, or I , will work, upon the blood, or I upon the nerVes, or I upon the glandular tissue. They have no Intelligence to direct them, selves; it is simply your faith and the faith of those around you, mixed with the faith of ages, that seems to do the work. ."' ' ',:.'-. - ' (: ' "The surgical world, finding drugs a failure in the healing art, has gone mad ever amputation and operation. , . "Christian Science has come to the world, and eventually will perform both these wonders. For the science of life, from Its very nature, must overcome all evil, both cause and effect, both dtseaa and its so-called physical cure. , i f : "True health is not in physical man and material things; but a property and quality of the eternal life principle, that is aa unchangeable and Infallible as the eternal God himself, . The health that it not liable to sickness, that knows no sickness; that knows only health and wholeness, and perfect security la Its healthfulncss. . . .-. . r., . " Is True Kind Healing. "True strength is not so-called phys ical strength, which over exerts itself and gives way to weakness, and there fore is weakness; but It Is a property and quality of sternal truth, that knows no weakness and needs no exertion or effort o maintain Its own steadfastness. It stands -unmoved and unshaken, and without an effort, on the foundation of itself as a simple fact that cannot be denied. ,1-';, J.';-, --V y.i-: .;y...--e ; "It to a self evident fact, that If mind has adght to do in controlling the body, It has all. For a 'house divided against Itself shall not stand.' One must be the master. -. - ' , .,''.:; , ."Christian Science Is true mind heal ing, but mind healing, so called. Is" not Christian Science. ! r "Mind healing, ao called, begins, with an evil man, according to the testimony of the senses, and tries to make htm good; begins with a sick man, and tries to make him well or nealthy.i While Christian Science, reversing' this pro cedure, begins with perfection aa a basis of every thought and action. Be gins with perfect principle, or God, and perfect man; and from this scientific basis, demonstrates perfection at every step. - . "History . repeats Itself. Of old, the messenger of truth was, accused of casting . out . devils by the 1 prince f devils. Today, Christian Science is ac cused of casting out error with error; of healing sickness and sin by mesmerism, hypnotism, mental suggestion, or auto suggestion. ' , ; v . .; v;.. . . "Christian Science not only heals man kind and the universe of sickness and sin, but it also heals of auto-suggestion, mental suggestion, hypnotism, mesmer ism, , animal magnetism, spiritualism, and some other Isms. '.-:,. "r,-;,;'s,r ' "For Christian Science is the scienoe of truth, and true being, and must of ne cessity rule out all that is unlike God. the absolute and only good. Christian Science covers th whole ground;' and solves the problem of being physically, morally, financially. temporarily,' and eternally. h :,, -, ': .'' "All sin, aU disease,, all dlsoord' of whatever sort comes from trying to solve the. problem of being without or Independently of principle; or making the principle conformant to the problem, whloh necessitates' as many principles as problems. Making therefore discord the basis of being and truth and har mony a nonreality, , "Here we see the tower of Babel; try Ing to climb from earth to heaven. Try ing to reach health and harmony from the basis of disease and discord. Trying to build a medical science upon an un scientific basis. Trying to reach immut able truth from the. foundation of ap pearance. and belief, .;-'-. : ',::';: ' Mast Overoome With Oooo, "Aeoondlng to physics this material body which l called man, is seventy-five per cent water, If, you weigh one hun dred and sixty pounds, one hundred and twenty pounds of. that is water, and, according to physiology, this entire body undergoes reconstruction once in three to seven years. , That water that largely constituted your physical body a few years ago has floated away in vapor, and perchance settled in some lakelet. A goose drinks it, ; and then It is goose. Has that water any more intelligence when it says It is man than when , It says It la goose T When Is it the great er goose? When it struts itself a jnan or when It waddles itself a goose. t. "Mortality alone must die, for It Is a child of the devil; who was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there Is 'no truth In him.' And the sooner It dies the better; but we must die to the false, and. wake to the true. We must not be overcome of evil, but overcome evil "with good; must riot lie v.v(.m o, overcome dath with 111c. "! ; a 1 -emy that shall be iu urnyci h . "VV must separate the uinit. I !. the immortal, separate tho ft. i, . the spirit; and do It Unlay, tii.t death. The devil says, after death, t , i says, Ts'ow Is the accepted time.' j why does God say now? icaue ; I is truth, and In truth there is no ot:, r time, 'tis one eternal now. Anil w : does the devil say, after death? it.au :-a there Is no death, all Is life. Kv-r.. thing that tha devil makes or a.ivis, ;, w just like himself, a He from the In 'gin ning. And that that is not, uud already.:.-"... ,;- ';' .i.-'-y-M,'r ..v ' . , .... "He overcame death with life; fc overcame the mortal with the immortal; he overcame the flesh with tha spirit; he overcame the false with the true. He was not overcome of evil, but over, came evil with good. . He made the n vine, atonement, or at-one-ment with tb father. . That is. ' he yielded up self entirely, and would have no life In the body, but in mind; strength, Intelligence, all. In mind; and mind Is spirit, and spirit Is God, and God is all, and there is none beside him. Hence he became one with , the Father. And he said 'I and my Father are one,' ,"For victory over 'a single sin, we give thanks, and magnify the Lord of boate. What shall we say of ,th mighty con quest over' all sin? A louder song, sweeter than has Msver before reached high heaven, now rises clearer and near er to the great heart of Christ; for the accuser is not there, and love sends forth her primal and everlasting strain." , 1 ' ' , i I, ' ' -' " ; ' ' 1 -9 A lLe jpam Jr ram -K ,'l;Ci?lk: -- People of Portland will be interested in readinsr the series of Letterfrramq frrnn Mr.' Clark.; Those who believe Portland prices are high will be beautifully dis illusionized upon perusal of these characteristic "Clarkisms" from sunny Cali fornia. If they do not convince you that GOLF PARK, WESTOVER TER RACES and EASTMORELAND are priced "too right," nothing ever will do so. MIGHT LETTERGRAM ' 'aWSBB :.,.:':.,. ST'.rc.taa-esu c)toif (iNCoaaonartd) Ta"mr scvces thi m.r.mt ctTricaM swautcr re e viawe awo ciem jwe a.wTte oa vwe eca. or vm.s slawk clarcncc h wacav (,ecr . RECEIVED AT v t3 THIRD STIIKKr PORTLAND. OREGON 3? n ii nr rr HE.J 4 10SP 0H 173 in. ...... . y . V,H ' ". ' 'v ' - 'Y ' - ' ' i'. ' . Lod Angelo's Calif Dec 10th 191 ' '..' ... ' . V 1 Y - '. ,. ' ' ' " '' - -' " ' V- ; I'.. .!'. : ' ' . . -i ' , ;i , ?' Lftwia H. Eoal Co , - ' ' , r-.;y:'.-,.,. -y -. ',. ., ' . '.'V. . Luribermons BxUc Building " Port land "0r9 . .. - - - v -i. : ... . . ' ; , - i .V, v- , , ' . " . . ,.' '. -; . ' . ' . I t To appr&ciata tlx grandeur of a mountain you must got offVwayse Tliadto gati away from Portland to appreciate its grandeurs lo lncoles i a cwat city tout h Portland would outstrip it if we had a little X6s Angeles spirit H &n soaking up a good-supply, so toe jwady for sorao hrish doings when I Get hacke ? X think that the big husiness men hare know more about WESTOVER ZEKRACE5 than the Portland y.:--vV ' :-'yJ:;7': ; :-.ff -;r - - :,y :; "i-r- .-r y-; men do . c They are going to move a mountain here and have published all the fact r ,. y ' '..'.;''. ':;.' ,s y '' ';''. ''"'';. ' :-v' ';". ' ,",.' . i ,-. ' . .. A- V -. . ' ' ! .. " " .. - .about WEST OVER 1EHBACE3 in thoir papers. Itrould sell like hot bakes at our pricesAfron the' Port of -Los Angolese Prices of s?ich property one and quarter miles from center.' of Los Angeles quoted to Portlnnders would cause an epidemic of heart, failure and Los Angelas real estate' is very act ivee - Put special stress On the prices" in WESIOTER TERRACES," GOLF .PARK and EASTMORELAND while 1 on twaye They : are tloye will send comparative' figures tomorrowe Making great preparations for. Panama Canal ho re e , : ,.' ' :F..He CLARK .12.50 AUllth 11 t y , '"iH'ivr:- v'':vy;'y.'-:-y:y::- y. ft',y..::.y-yyyy -f l .: a-, im. ii-..; ,'i,i'yv-y'''l,yiyiny.'y:l,,,;.H.?,,y,inii,yi ,"yy, ;:iy.;, slisssjsjh(ss)f. ft TjaatfSH. Director of Sales, f or WestoverTTerra Eactmoreland, 818-23 Spalding D ie;7 GOLF PARK is ing sold at a 1 axxvax temporary price, of 65000 per site. Each site has ai area of ap proximately 20,000 square feet. The present price of GOLl1 PARK property will. not re main in effect very much longer, WESTOVER TERRACES ! Will not be for sale after January 1, 1913, . . at present prices. The prices have been alto gether to6 low. and the advertised readjust ment has been made and will go into effect the fjrst day of the new year. ' . EASTMORELAND Jp f a- , drawn from the market during the period of : improve ment. -This work, is nearly completed and . will Jjc entirely so before EASTMOKELAND is again offered for public sale.- Property may, ho . purchased ' in E AST3I0EE.L AXB right now, if you care to investigate its mer- ; its; it has a great many. vl "-- -""V meiujieives Of J ' 1
