THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL,, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 22, 1919.
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Mow Ho
Prevention Easier Than Extermin-
ation, but Problem Here Is
Serious One.
Br Sseba Child! Sargreavea
Portland Garden Aathority.
OREGON is a land of smiling gardens.
J of smooth green lawns, of broad up
land pastures where cattle are fat even
in the. winter. For the agriculturalist
it is certainly the land of opportunity,
but In a country where all -vegetation
grows In such perfection, there would
naturalise one little "fly In the oint
ment" weeds, A grass country Is al
. ways a weed country, though the weeds
: are never featured' very largely in our
descriptive literature.
Weeds flourish In lavish profusion
here, for the same reason that grass
does the winters are so mild and moist
that there is no killing out by-freezing.
With the first warm rains in -the fall
the seeds of plants scattered by various
means through the, dry summer season
are up and well established before cold
weather- checks .the growth.' With the
first hln of warm spring days they
start again and by the time crops are
being planted they are scattering their
seeds far and wide. The gardener who
has recently arrived from the East can
not for the life of him understand why
his garden is so full of weeds when he
plowed It in the fall and kept it so
beautifully clean the preceding season.
WEEDS BROUGHT IJT
With our mild, moist climate we
would naturally have a large variety of
native weeds, but added to this weeds
fiative to other parts of the country
have arrived In quantities with grass
and farm seeds and, liking the' soil and
climatic conditions, have simply made
a permanent home for themselves. In
, a generation or two -they far surpass
the foreign parent, so that often there
Is. small resemblance between the weed
as it grows, say, on the eastern coast,
and here, though it is in reality an en
larged form of the same plant.
Flowers and vegetables escaping
from cultivation is another source of
troublesome weeds. Poppies, especially
the Eschscholtzia or California poppy,
are well known examples of this. Veg
etable oysters and parsnips are two par
ticularly troublesome weeds when they
escape to the fields and roadsides. They
soon deteriorate so as scarcely to be
recognised as' a garden plant.
Botanlcally speaking a weed is simply
a plant out of place : and any plant
. which will not keep- its place in the
garden is to be viewed with suspicion
and kept by vigorous means in proper
bounds, and if this is found to be im
possible it must be excluded from all
well regulated gardens ; it bas then be
come an outlaw of the vegetable king
dom and must be accorded the treat
ment that outlaws in higher orders of
organised life receive.
PKETE3TTIOJT IS BETTER
I should hate to deter any One from
gardening or in any way discourage
them therein by dwelling at length upon
the disadvantages, but obstacles must
he recognized as obstacles before, they
can be overcome. And when all things
are taken into consideration most of
us will take the mild winters and will
ingly eradicate the weeds as they ap
pear, rather than go where we may de
pend upon nature in the shape of long,
cold winters to eliminate a' major part,
of this handicap.
In the fight against weeds, which has
of late years been taken up in a more
systematic way we now . have some
legislation on this point prevention is
easier than extermination, and this is
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PYRETHRUM FOR GARDEN AND WINDOW BOX
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rjpHE Pyrethrum is another of the daisy
X like flowers which fill in the odd
spaces in the border through the late
spring and early summer. This plant is
realljr a form of summer flowering
chrysanthemum. They have been grown
extensnively In Europe for a generation,
but have only been recently introduced
here ; the foreign grown varieties run
into the hundreds, each with a name for
its identification, but. our most progres
sive dealers list only six or eight named
sorts.
done by planting nothing but clean
seeds. For instance cheap grass seeds
for sowing lawns will very often pro
duce seemingly every weed known to
man with a little grass thinly inter
spersed at intervals. The grass, how
ever, soon succumbs to the choking it
receives from the flourishing weeds and
the discouraged home owner declares
that it is practically an impossibility to
get a good stand of grass on the lawn.
It is difficult to make him realize that
his economy in the price of seed has
made all his trouble. Any cheap seed
is very expensive in the long run, for
more reasons than this particular one.
OKDIIf AKCE HAS HELPED
Fall plowing,' especially "of gardens, is
another measure which goes a long way
toward eradicating weeds ; if the plow
ing is deeply done the small seeds are
buried and so rot during the course of
the winter. Cover crops, such as rye or
vetch, make for clean fields and gardens
besides furnishing humus to the soil. In
fact, where weed elimination Is prac
ticed in a thorough, practical way the
garden may be kept perfectly clean with
very little trouble, even where the
-neighbors on either hand allow all sorts
of noxious weeds to go to seed.
The city ordinance compelling owners
of vacant property to cut down grass
and weeds has done much to prevent
the scattering of weed seeds, but to ac
complish a greater measure of preven
tion, cutting should be done very early
in the season before there has been
time for seeds to mature and scatter to
any great extent. The cultivating of
these unsightly waste spaces has al
ready helped in making gardens all over
the city cleaner, but there is still room
for betterment and every gardener and
property owner should In the name of
civic pride see to it that the waste places
are kept free to grow up to grass.
Lawns that have been subject to spas
modic periods of neglect very soon pro
duce large crops of weeds. There are
certain weeds that are perfectly at home
on the lawn, and they have a way o:
hugging the ground so as to escape
close cutting. The plantain is one of
the most persistent of these ; together
with the ever present dandelion, it Is
the bane of all of those who aspire to
own a smooth, velvety Btretch of sward.
The newly sodded lawn may pvomlse
well, but in a season It is a mass of
weeds. The way to prevent this is to
forestall the weeds in the spring and
then through the summer and fall keep
everlastingly at it. Too many home
owners allow the weeds to bloom and
even shed seed before they start weed
ing. It is then too late to make much
headway a thorough weeding the last
of March would have practically set
tled the weed question until fall.
Very close and frequent cutting of
grass will soon kill out persistent weeds,
for grass is stimulated by the cutting
while a weed that is kept constantly
disturbed and crowded, finally suc
cumbs. Barnyard manure is a source of
weedy lawns, for this reason it should
be applied very judiciously, especially
to old improverlshed lawns ; it is bet
ter to use a good commercial fertiliser
and to allow the grass cuttings to lie on
the ground to rot and furnish the neces
sary humus. If carefully and sys
tematically done, very poor weedy lawns
may be restored and the result will in
many cases be easier obtained and bet-
Doctor Tells How to 'Detect
Harmfii I Effects of To bacco
Try These SIMPLE TESTS
New Tork: Doctor Connor, formerly
of Johns Hopkins hospital, says : Many
men who smoke, chew or snuff inces
santly and who are seemingly healthy
are suffering from progressive .organic
ailments. Thousands of them would
never have been afflicted had it not
been for the use of. tobacco, and thou
ands would soon get well if they would
only stop the use of tobacco. The chief
habit forming principle of tobacco is
nicotine, a deadly poison which, when
absorbed by the system Blowly affects
the nerves, membranes, tissues and vital
organs of the body. The harmful effects
of tobacco varies and depends upon cir
cumstances. One will be afflicted with
general debility, others with catarrh of
the throat, indigestion, constipation, ex
treme nervousness, sleeplessness, loss
of memory, lack of will power, mental
confusion, etc. Others may suffer from
heart disease, bronchial troubles, hard
ening of the arteries, tuberculosis, blind
ness or even cancer or the common af
fliction known as tobacco heart. If you
use tobacco in any form you can easily
detect the harmful . effects by makintr
the following simple tests. Head aloud
one full page from a book. If. in the
course of reading, your voice becomes
muffled, hoarse and indistinct, and you
must frequently t clear your throat, the
chances are. that your throat is affected
by catarrh and it may be the beginning
of a more serious trouble. Next, in the
morning - before taking, your usual
"ft.
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Pyrethrum Is an attractive flower In the early
For window boxes these plants are ad
mirable, blooming freely all through the
summer. If given plenty of water and
a little shade through the heat -of the
day. yThe plants are perfectly hardy
and will last from season to season in
this climate if the drainage is good ; the
crowns sometimes rot if water stands on
them. Planted in the open border it is
best to mulch '. the roots during the very
hot dry weather.
As they are apt to sport when grown
from seed, if a certain variety is wanted
Ideas in Hot
BARE floors and wee rugs and warm
days belong together, both for ar
tistic reasons and for sanitary reasons.
Ingenious fingers can find plenty of
scope for activity In the little rugs of
this summer.
They come square and round, and
oval, oblong, diamond shape and f etch
ingly hexagonal. They are crocheted
or plaited; they are painted or cross
stitched, and then they are woven.
Hags, carpet warp, strips of cheese-
ter than where resoddlng is resorted to.
Such wayside weeds as thistles and
burdocks should be hoed out on sight ;
not merely cutting off the top but grub
bing for the deep fleshy roots which
only start again unless they are com
pletely destroyed. An oil can filled with
gasoline Is useful in this work ; a few
drops may be put on the exposed cut
surface of the root If it is difficult to
remove it all.
Weeds In the vegetable and flower
garden are sort of a confession of lazi
ness, for if taken in time there is no
need for their being there. A garden
that is constantly cultivated, with atten
tion given to the removal of weeds next
the vegetables after each rain, will show
a perfectly clean surface. It goes with
out saying that a clean garden produces
more and better vegetables than one
which is a riot of weeds ; the weeds not
only crowd out the tender plants by ex
cluding the air and sunshine, but they
consume the nourishment in the soil
which should have gone to the cultivated
plant, for the earth can support just
so much plant life well, and so the old
axiom the weakest goes to the wall.
WEEDS GOOD AS FOODS
Many of the common weeds are valu
able as early spring foods. The lamb's
frquarter which appears In all gardens
along with. the earliest vegetables Is as
palatable as spinach when ' gathered
very young and cooked in the same
fashion. The dandelion is widely used,
both as a salad and a cooked vegetable;
It Is a particularly good food In the
early spring on account of Its mineral
salts, which have medicinal properties.
The milkweed is another plant which is
not commonly cooked.- though It is both
palatable and nutritious. In fact, a
knowledge of these common weeds will
piece out the scanty vegetables that are
to be gathered in the early garden. It Is
necessary to know the weeds before at
tempting to use them as food, especially
the docks and milkweeds, for there are
varieties which are not wholesome.
The habit of Blacking up on the weed
ing when the bearing season nears Its
close is the source of weed troubles the
following season ; while cultivation need
not be so deep and frequent, It will be
necessary to keep the surface stirred
enough to prevent the small weeds after
each summer rain.
The noxious weeds such as thistles
and tarweeds together "with the fetid
dog fennel should be removed on sight
by .everyone interested in gardening, and
the weedless city will appear when every
housholder does his share in cleaning
"over against his own dooryard" ac
cording to the Biblical injunction.
smoke, walk up three flights of stairs at
a regular pace,' then stop. If you find
that you are out of breath, your heart
beat la forced, trembling or irregular,
yoo may be a victim of functional or
organic heart trouble. "If you feel that
you must smoke, chew or snuff to quiet
your nerves, you are a slave to the to
bacco habit, and are positively "poison
ing yourself with the deadly drug, nico
tine. In either case you have just two
alternatives keep on with the self-ool-soning
process irrespective of its dan
gers and suffer the consequences, or
give up the habit and escape the dan
gers. You can overcome the craving
and stop the habit in a very short time
by using the following inexpensive
formula. Go to any drug store and ask
for Nicotoi tablets, take one tablet after
each meal and in a comparatively short
time you will have no desire for tobacco,
the craving will have left you. With
the--nicotine poison out of . your system
your . general health will quickly Im
prove. Note When naked about Nicotoi tablets, one
of onr leading drarfistn said : 'It is truly a
wonderful remedy for the tobacco habit : away
ahead ot ' anything we bar mrer sold before.
We are nthorixed bj ' the manufacturers to
refund the money to every dissatisfied customer,
and wa would not permit the una of our name
unless the remedy posaesaed anwual merit."
N ico ml tableta are sold in this city nnder an
iron-clad moaey-hftcfc miarentee by atl np to data
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summer
it is best to buy plants, but if Just
blooms are the object, the seedlings are
interesting and beautiful, the single as
well as the double.
The colors .range through whites and
various shades of-yellow with dark or
light centers. There are also pink and
red forms both . single and double.
Doubtless this simple easily grown
flower will continue to Increase lrf popu
larity, for It Is one of the most lasting
cut flowers which can be secured and
that is a very strong point in its favor.
Weather Rugs
cloth, flowered cretonne and mop yarn
are some of the stuffs that are going
into the making of the crocheted variety.
Burlap is a most possible stuff for cross
stitch work and for the paint brush. Or
you might try the cross-stitch with ex
cellent results on plain hop sacking,
lined and backed with muslin, or some
material of the same sort. -
Needless to advise for the cross-stitch
treatment, bold motifs should be chosen,
and executed In rather big stitches.
The more vividly colored the stitching,
the more effective is the rug ultimately
going to be. One particularly striking
thing had a background of natural hop
sacking color touched up with two great
colorful baskets of flowers done in cross
stitch. These were worked in wool at
each end of the oblong rug. Then for
a final touch of effectiveness there was
a fringe of wool, likewise vari-colored.
Should you have any talent for weav
ing these lovely summer rugs, you might
be interested to know that hit-and-miss
patches of colorful cottons may be the
makings of a very happy round speci
men. A Gilet From
OP COURSE you want one, for the
' gilet is the newest conceit of neck
wear, and it is as useful and attractive
as any article of dress thtft has yet been
Revised for milady. But, like everything
else desirable, the gilet is often expen
sive, especially the very prettiest ones,
and' perhaps even the most inexpensive
seem an extravagance to the girt of
today with hosts of more necessary de
mands on her purse."
Here is the solution. There Is prob
ably somewhere in your home, an - old
silk handkerchief belonging-to father,
or brother, or hubby, or some one of
the male persuasion, a hankie that has
passed its days of usefulness as such, but
that contains wondrous possibilities as
a gilet. And it Is easily turned into
one. Narrow it, using the best part, to
about 10 Inches across and 17 down and
then hem the edges. For trimming, any
thing will do. One particularly pretty
specimen made from an old handker
chief was trimmed at top and bottom
with an applique of Japanese embroid
ery, taken from a worn-out work bag,
and was extremely effective. This one
had also a narrow band edged in blue
going 'round the waist and fastening at
one . side with a snap fastener, and It
fastened to the coat, with which it was
worn, by means of more snaps, one at
each side of the top.
Another was made of an old linen
towel, with top and bottom embroidered
with heavy wool in a darning stitch,
and was trimmed simply with a hem
stitched top and a turned-up fold at the
bottom, also hemstitched, which became
two pockets with the addition of a seam
down the center..
So if you haven't the price of one of
these new vests, don't despair. Just look
in the old family scrap bag and put your
wits together, and go ahead. Qilets
are made in all styles and materials and
the more different you can make yours
the more attractive it will be.
Domestic Service
London. The domestic ; service prob
lem is still an aggravated one for which
the authorities are seeking a satisfac
tory solution. '
The unemployed pay of 22,000 girls has
been suspended because they refused do
mestic work. On the other hand, 66,230
girls have been placed in domestic ser
vice. -
In the meantime the T. W. C. A. is
organizing hostels from which they will
send out fully trained girls to do house
work - by the hour or the day. It is
hoped the scheme will" prove satisfactory
both to mistresses and maids.
The mistresses will rrfake application
direct to the superintendent of the hos
tel, so that the burden of obtaining work
will be lifted from the shoulders of the
girls, who -will be allotted to their vari
ous tasks according to the judgment of
the i superintendent, and will receive a
fixed wage of $7 for a week of 48 hours.
The; employer will pay for the girls' ser
vices at the rate of 20 cents an hour, di
rect to the hostel.
The girls will be charged $5 a week
for their board, lodging, laundry, use of
uniform, guarantee unemployment, and
club privileges. This reaves them a mar
gin of $2 for pocket money. : ' '
It is claimed that the mistresses will
benefit equally, for they will be supplied
with . efficient workers, who will get
through in an hour or two the same
amount of work which it took, the old-
time slipshod domestic the whole day to
perform.
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Ohiristtisiini Scieimce
Its Origin smici ILog'ic .
Herewith is published the essential features
of a lecture on Christian Science delivered in
The Auditorium Friday cTening. Jane 20,
1910, by Dr. Walton Rnbbard, C. 8. B., of
Hpokane, Wash. Dr. Hubbard is a member of
the Board of Lectureship of the Mother church,
tha First Church of Christ. Scientist, in Boston.
By Dr. Walton Hnbbard, C. 8. Bn
Spokane, Wash.
Member of tha Board of Lectureship of The
Mother Church,. The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
TN DISCUSSING the subject of Chrls-
tian Science, It is my purpose to tell
you something of its Discoverer and
Founder, Mary Baker Eddyj something
ot my experience in changing from the
practice of medicine to that of Christian
Science ; and to state briefly some
phases of its logical reasoning, and the
results following its application.
Every advanced idea, every unfold
ment of Truth, has come to the world
through the avenue of some human In
telligence. Whoever has discovered or
presented Truth has done so only be
cause his fundamental qualities, mold
ed by environment and education, have
made such a one a suitable channel for
the presentation of a particular idea;
It was not Shakespeare, the poet, but
Newton, the mathematician, who dis
covered the law- of gravitation ; nor
Kipling, "but Edison, to whom the se
crets tof electric lighting were revealed.
It was not Napoleon, but Lincoln, who
wrote, delivered and lived the Gettys
burg address. And so it was not some
materialist, but Mary Baker Eddy, who
discovered Christian Science, and the
spiritual character of its teachings as
well as the results following their ap
plication are of necessity a correct In
dex of the type of thought through
which they came.
MBS. EDDTS QUALITIES
Mrs. Eddy was peculiarly fitted not
only for the discovery of Christian
Science, but for its presentation and
explanation. She was naturally and
inevitably the author of the Christian
Science text-book, "Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures." From
early childhood she -manifested a deeply
religious nature. She was a tireless
student and investigator. In addition
to these qualities, she was possessed
of an ability as a writer so that from
girlhood she was a contributor both In
poetry and prose to representative New
England publications. Those who are
familiar with Mrs. Eddy's work marvel
at the immense capacity for independent
thinking and research which she mani
fested. She tells us that she always
felt impelled to hunt for the law of
healing. She says: "During 20 years
prior to . my discovery I had been try
ing to trace all . physical effects to a
mental cause ; and in all the latter
part of 1866 I gained the scientific
certainty that all causation was Mind,
and every effect a mental phenomenon."
("Retrospection and Introspection," p.
24.)
No wonder that this persistent and
unselfish search for Truth should have
been rewarded by the discovery of
Christian Science!
HOW DISCOVEKT WAS MADE
For' three years following her dis
covery Mrs. Eddy devoted all of her
time to a deep study of the Scriptures,
seeking a solution of life's problems.
This investigation revealed the fact
that the entire Bible record teaches
conclusively that a right understanding
of God has always brought dominion
over all material conditions, and that
when the knowledge of Truth has been
correctly applied it has always ' been
attended by healing and regeneration.
The Scriptures abound in evidence that
to understand God brings healing.
GOD IS MIND
Let US' consider the fact that God is
Mind, the only Mind, for to the degree
that we recognize this great truth
shall we be able to get rid of sickness
arA .in
Perhaps not all have been in the
habit of thinking of God as Mind al-
tliAnvl, w, nat a nvAn oHmlts that (lnt1
Is wisdom. The word wisdom has gen
erally oeen aennea 10 mean a degree
of knowledge so that Infinite wisdom
wisdom without degree and infinite
Mind are the ' same.
We may illustrate the divine Mind
by using the ordinary conception of a
human mind as an example, for al
though the human mind Is not real, in
certain finite wsys It counterfeits the
divine Mind.
You say your friend has a fine mind.
You say you know this because he has
many fine ldeaa which he expresses.
You have never seen his mind, but you
have known the expression of it in
ideas. If he never moved a muscle,
never spoke a word, you would rightly
conclude that there was no mind there.
So a mind to be called a mind must
be filled with ideas, and an idea by
virtue of being an idea must be ex-
t la tmnftsolble to conceive
of a mind filled with ideas yet unex
pressed, for a mind with no expression
is not a mind, but a blank. You would
nnn ,v. a vnlr hna no mind and no
ideas simply because it has no expres
sion, for where were are raeas urert
is expression. The infinite Mind there
i. iiit with an infinite number
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of ideas, for thoughts must be ex
pressed, and the activity, the reflection,
the manifestation of these ideas con
tunt. an th : universe God's
ideas express Him "in countless spiritual
forms." "These ideas range irom me
infinitesimal to infinity, and the high-
. n t-m. Vi anna and daughters
ODb V " " -
of God." (Science and Health, p. 503.)
As God's Ideas we exist in aivine wiira,
and are perfect, spiritual, and lmmor
i . wanss wa exist In God the
Scriptures declare that "In him we live.
and move, and have our being.
IDEAS ANALYZED
There is a further quality of an idea
that we must consider. An idea has no
power -to do anything or to be any-
tt.tr.tr jivrAnt a a a n idea of the Mind in
which It exists. It cannot change itself
or become more or less or aiiierem
than Mind Intended It should be. for it
has no volition of its own and must of
necessity express exactly the qualities
of the Mind whose idea it Is. For ex
ample: If you have a thought of love
for your neighbor, this idea cannot get
away from you and change itself into a
thought of hate. In like manner the
ideas In Mind must express exactly what
Mind Intends they should express.
Man is the perfect Idea of infinite
Mind, God, and as such an idea has
only divine volition. He has therefore
no volition to choose to do evil, ' or to
be sick, nor can he become separated
from the Mind which contains him.
Man. then, God's Idea, God's image and
likeness, has alls the qualities of God
and not a sincle quality which is not
of God ; therefore he is healthful and
holy: spiritual, perfect, immortal.
What is the nature of God which man
as God's idea must manifest? God is
Love, and infinite Love can have with
in it no thought of fear or eviL God Is
Life, having within it no element of
sickness or death. God . is Spirit., and
there can be no matter where all is
Spirit. I
We say that God is omniscient, om
nipotent, . and omnipresent, but often
with little thought of what such a
statement means. Whatever of science
or' knowledge a person may manifest in
a mental, not a physical : expression.
Likewise his power or potency Is but
the expression of thought either on his
body or In other ways, and his presence
is felt through his thought and action
by those who have never so much as
seen his person.
MORTAL IDEAS TTIfHEAL
The recognition of the fact that God
is Mind, and that the real and spiritual
man lives within this Mind leaves no
room for a mortal, material, sick and
sinful man, yet we have the , problem
of materiality with its sickness and
woes -to deal with. Let us see if we
cannot deal with them by means of
Christian Science.
Nothing seems more real to the hu
man mind than does matter, yet the
most eminent physicists of the present
day are quite at one in saying that it
is impossible to prove that there Is such
a thing as matter. They, say that mat
ter is a function of something outside
, itself, the expression (of energy ; . and
mis is jusi anomer way oi saying inai
matter is an expression of , thought.
Christian Science agrees with them in
saying that matter is an expression of
thought, but points out further that
matter is an expression not . of right
thought but of wrong thought; that all
right thought, God's . thought, real
thought, must express God's nature, and
Is therefore spiritual, not material,, and
is expressed in spiritual things, not ma
terial things. The whole material uni
verse, with all its sin. sickness, .- and
death, is just the manifestation of this
wrong material thought -which counter
feits the spiritual.
The sum total of these material be
liefs Mrs. Eddy has named mortal mind.
It includes the belief in matter, all the
so-called material laws ; evil, disease,
and death; material man and 'the ma
terial universe. These various beliefs
are not of God because they are con
trary to His Nature; The material man
manifests, sin, sickness, and materiality,
which are the very opposite of the
qualities of health, holiness, and spiritu
ality which the spiritual man must In
evitably manifest as the image and like
ness of God. The material man is
therefore but a counterfeit an expres
sion of material belief and not ot that
Truth which is God.
The New Testament calls this materi
al or mortal mind the "carnal mind."
or flesh. We are distinctly told that
the carnal mind and its manifestation,
carnal body, "is enmity against God ;"
that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom;" that "they that are in the
flesh cannot please God." So it is plain
that God did not make the mortal body,
for His own thoughts. His own ideas,
cannot be at enmity with Him.
THOUGHT EXPRESSED OST BODY
Now the material body can do noth
ing of itself, but is simply the expres
sion . of the conscious or unconscious
thought of the mortal, human mind.
The conclusion . of the philosophers . of
our day, that matter is simply an ex
pression of thought, carries with It the
added conclusion that . every material
condition must be an expression of
thought hence -that disease la an ex
pression of thought. When we are sick,
It is sick thought made manifest on the
body ; and when we are well it is well
thought which is made manifest on the
body. Every function, every action, ev
ery condition of the body Is, from one
moment to the next, but the expression
of human belief, unless such belief be
corrected by Christian Selene.
If a man were hungry and food which
was placed before him had something
about it that was exceedingly unap
petizing,, it would apparently be his
stomach which protested, because the
thought which he entertained about the
food would be made manifest on his
body ; but what would his stomach know
about the food? Absolutely nothing!
If he believed that the food was all
right, this thought would be made mani
fest in proper activity of the stomach ;
and if he had eaten food believing It
to be all right and had then discovered
that it was all wrong, his changed
thought would be made -manifest in
changed function in nausea, indiges
tion, and so forth.
ABOUT GERMS
In like manner, to believe that cold
or wet could harm us would be, just as
disastrous to tne lungs or ins throat as
to believe that unappetizing food could
make the stomach sick. And when we
come to investigate this subject, we
find that there are myriads of thoughts
which the world has been entertaining
and which we have been making mani
fest on' our bodies In deranged func
tions of various parts of it.
It is not necessary to know each par
ticular mortal belief, or so-called law,
In order that we may appropriate the
sickness and troubles they stand for,
for we have accepted the Idea that dis
ease may come upon us unawares, so
we take In these wrong thoughts un
consciously and manifest them on ,our
bodies In sickness. -
There are many who admit that some
diseases are mental, but who still be
lieve .that those - conditions known as
germ diseases must be material.
We are told that germs are minute
forms of vegetable life, and we all
know that vegetation likes a suitable
soil in which to grow. It is possible
that you might find minute forms of
vegetable life in disease conditions or
In the products of disease ; but when I
IFF
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With the lingers ! No pain at all I Drop a little
"Freezone" on any sore, tender corn or a callus.
Instantly that corn or callus stops hurting, then
shortly you lift that bothersome corn or callus right
oil, root and all. without one bit of pain,
soreness or irritation. Yes, magic I
our thought is right, our bodies are
right, and there is no suitable soU for
the entertainment of any minute forms
of vegetable life, whether you call their.
germs or something else.
It is not reasonable to maintain that
because you find germs In the prod
ucts of disease that they cause the
disease. No one would maintain that
because he found polliwogs In a mud
puddle that they made the mud-puddle.
The polliwogs are .in the mud-puddle
simply because it la a nice place for
polliwogs, and if there are germs in
the products of disease, they are there
for the same reason because they find
a congenial soli in which to grow.
EIGHT THOUGHT BRINGS HEALTH
Aa we see that both sin and sickness
are simply manifestations of mortal
thought, thoughts of imperfection, we
also see that by putting the thought
of the perfection of God and all that
God has made in place of this wrong
thought, we shall rule out the wrong
thought ; and with no wrong thought
there can be no wrong .manifestation.
The Bible makes this Identical state
ment when it says, "Put off concern
ing the former conversation the old
man, which is corrupt according to the
deceitful lusts ; and be renewed in the
spirit of your mind ; and put on the
new man, which after God is created in
righteousness and true holiness."
It is the putting tff of the old man
and the putting on of the new, through
Christian Science, that constitutes the
healing. The thoughts of sickness and
sin are ruled out of human conscious
ness by the understanding and declara
tion of the perfection of that which
God has" made.
DECEPTIOIT OF COUNTERFEIT
There are those who feel that it Is
almost, a sacrilege to dispose of ma
terial man as just the counterfeit of
4he spiritual, perfect man. This ma
terial man is so wonderfully made, they,
say, how can it be possible that God-did
not make him? They feel that it Is
dishonoring God to disown the material
man as His product.
Material man does seem to be won
derfully made, but you will remember
that In the many "better babies" shows
that have prevailed about the country,
though the best and most perfect babies
are entered, it is sometimes impossible
to find one that is 100 per cent perfect.
If material man is the creation of God,
it is not honoring God very much to
have to admit that more than 95 per
cent of His creation could be vastly
improved upon in the very beginning.
The material man seems to be won
derfully made, only because he is the
counterfeit of that wonder of God's
creating man In ,Hls Image and like
ness, perfect, spiritual and Immortal.
Others maintain that God made man
perfect and gave him his own free will
to' do good or evil, but man chose to
do evil, and the evil brought, sickness
and other troubles upon him ;- or that
man unknowingly transgressed God's
laws, but that God is In no way respon
sible, because had man chosen to do
right all, would have been well.
Suppose an architect put up a build
ing and It fell down ; would that be the
fault of the building Would you blame
the building It would only fall be
cause It was so constructed that It could
fall. Obviously, if God made man so
he could fall, and he fell, it would be
God's fault, nqt man's. But - the man
that God made never fell.
RIGHTEOUSNESS IS LIBERTY
It . should be stated -also that those
who hold to the belief that God made
man free to do either good" or evil are
holding a belief that is directly con
trary to Jesus' teaching. He said : "I
came down from heaven, not to do mine
own will, but, the will of him that sent
me." "I can of mine own self do noth
ing." "Whosoever shall do the will of
God, the same is my brother, and my
sister, and mother." . The Master every
where taught that to do God's will
constituted freedom-; for he told those
who believed that If they continued in
his word its truthJ would make them
free; and that whosoever committed sin
was in bondage to sin. It has ever
been bondage to be sick and sinful,
and to stop being sick and sinful is to
.enter into "tho glorious liberty of the
children of God."
It is not maintained that the doctrine
of the unreality of matter, which Is
unquestionably logical and true, has
as yet been fully demonstrated. Any
one who Is seeking help In Christian
Science need not trouble about it. It
is much more important that you should
recognize that God is willing and able
to help and to heal you. Later on
through the study of Christian Science
His nature, and allness will begin to
unfold to you, and you will see that
the unreality of matter Is the natural
corollary.
The many'Voxed questions concerning
salvation and touching the purpose of
divine Love toward His children are
answered through the spiritual unfold
rnent which comes through the study of
Christian Science.- Those questions
whlon the searcher for Truth had been
told were too difficult to be answered,
or were mysteries which God in ills
Inscrutable wisdom had kept from him,
are clearly and satisfactorily answered
. . .- I
(ill!
Tiny bottles of Freezone cost
only a few cents at drug stores
and he finds them to be thhir-which
divine Love Intended lie should under
stand. Now you may accept the statement
of Christian Science as good logic, but
you must apply it in order to know
that It is true. We have shown that
Mind is ever present and that man Is
the idea of that Mind. To what can
we apply this fact?
Are you believing that sorrow and :
worry and discord are real and . that ,
you are suffering from them? Let us 1
dare to say i that Mind knows no such
thing, and that you and I, God's ideas,
can manifest only the Joy and peace
and harmony of the Mind fn which we
live, for if we keep our thought filled
with Truth and Love, we shall hurnqn- a
ly manifest the divine Mind, in har
mony and peace.
We have believed in and , suffered
from sins hatred, envy, deceit and
other evil beliefs, but in spite of their
seeming reality, let us deny them any place
in. bur thought, for In reality we
are God's children. , Mind's Ideas, and
by filling our thought with this faot
we shall humanly manifest more of the
love, purity, spiritual power and holi
ness of Spirit.
Have you been troubled in 'your busi
ness? The application of Christian Sci
ence to business is not mysterious or
occult, neither Is It to be confused
with will power or' suggestion. It Is
the application of thoughts of honesty,
mutual .blessing, gratitude and genera
oaity far above, the standard of thought
the business world has generally known,
and - this has brought ' many successful
business conditions where before there,
had been business failures.
There are myriads, ot difficulties
that -have come to us through our ac
ceptance of the world's thought that
air. and food, and water those things
which seem necessary to our material
sense of existence at this time are
filled with lurking curses; that at every
turn some unseen foe is likely to strlkn
us down. All these wrong ' material
conditions are done away with when,
we learn that Mind's ideas live In the
"atmosphere of love divine," and that
Mind provides its ideas with an abund
ance of spiritual sustenance. -Jesus
said, "I have meat to eat that ye know
not of."
So there is no condition from whiclfx.
we have suffered Individually, whether
it be mental or moral or physical, which
Christian Science does not heal.
New U. S. Stamps
For the first time In 20 years the
United States government has especial
ly prepared a series of Its postage
stamps for use In a foreign land. On
account of the confusion associated
with the price of silver today, Buch
franking labels are to be put in cir
culation in China.
ROGERS SAYS HE
SUFFERED FOR
40 LONG YEARS
Was So Run Down We Could
Hardly Drag One Foot After
tha Othfir Fee s -4.
Fine Now.
"During the forty years that 1 suf-
fered with stomach trouble and rheu-
matism I never found anything that
helped me the way Tanlac has. and I
am glad to recommend it to everybody."
said Charles II. Rogers of East 8i4
Crown ave., Spokane, Wash., to a Tan
lac representative the other day.
"In all that time." conftnued Mr.
Rogers, "it Just looked like the. older It
got the worse I felt. I didn't have any
appetite to speak of and what little I
did eat didn't seem to do me any good,
but would sour In my stomach and
bloat me up terribly and I'd get so
weak I could hardly get around. Some
times' I'd just give up completely and
wouldn't be able to do a bit of work
and I suffered a lot with nervousness
and at times I'd be so dizzy that when
I'd stoop over I'd feel like I was going
to fall. I Just felt tired all the time,
but mostly in the mornlnjrs, and many
a time I've forced myself to work when
it Just looked like I could hardly drsg
one foot after the other. .,
"I had rheumatism mighty bad In my
arms and legs and was troubled a lot
with shortness of breath. I tried differ--:
ent things to get relief from my trouble
but nothing I took seemed to do me a
bit of good and then my . brother-in- .
law told me I ought to take Tanlac, and
I, did, and I Just want to ' tell you ' I ;.
commenced to get results from it before
I had finished the first bottle.' I've
only-taken five bottles so far and now
my stomach Is In fine shape; in fact, I
haven't had a bit of trouble with my
stomach since I started on Tanlac. My
appetite Is fine, now. and I can eat
anything I want and what -1 do eat
seems to do me good. That rheumatism
Is all gone, I'm not troubled , any more
with those dizzy spells or shortness nf
breath and my nerves are as steady as
a clock. I'm not ' bothered with any
tired feeling and I rest, well at; night
and get up in the morning feefing rested
and full of energy for my work, which
I can do with ease, now. I Just feel so
irood every way that I tell all my friends "
about' Tanlac and how Itj has' helped
me." , . , ! ,
Tanlac is sold In Portland by The
Owl Drug Co. Adv.
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Very Red and Itched Terribly.
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"I had pimples all over my fore
bead until I was ashamed to comb
my hair straight dsck.
The pimples scaled over
and were very red and
they Itched ad terribly at
night that I could hardly
sleep. They- caused
disfigurement. :-.
"Then I used Cutlcara
Soap and Ointment and it bnly took
one cake of Soap and one bor of
Ointment to heal my trouble.";
(Signed) Miss Nannie Robinson,
Route X Box 239, Reedley, CaL , ,
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Do not fail to test the fascinating fra
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25 cents everywhere. ' - -
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