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."
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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.
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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
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men do . c They are going to move a mountain here and have published all the fact r ,.
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.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 , : ,.' '
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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.
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