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v 6 ThNeteOxBQON Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Tvesday M ornbtfr October SO, 1923 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE g MZ A free lector on Christian Sel ene entitled Christian Scieno : The Power of Good, by Paul A. Harsch. C. S. B.. Member of the Board of Lectureship of the Moth er Church. Tho First Church f Christ. Scientist. In Boston. Mass.. was delivered Monday renin:. October 29. under the ausDices of First Church of Christ. Scientist of Salem, In the ' eh arch edifice. Mr. Harsch spoke substantially as fallows: As a whole civilisation from the beginning has been satisfied with Its so-called accomplishments and culture. Rarely has it welcomed the ptoner whose message de manded a renunciation of estab lished theories and dogma, and it Is content If only Its material In terests be undisturbed. Indiffer ence.' procrastination and open re sistance have often seemingly checked the development of right mental activity, but Its momentum now Is well nigh irresistible and It Is sweeping on swiftly, silently, but as surely as the tides in their ebb and flow. Student of world affairs gen erally concede the fundamental correctness of this conclusion but call attention to the fact that the awakening often seems to come as slowly In the individual conscious ness as of old. Is it not a rebuke to human apathy to recall that m twenty centuries have come and gone- since the most stupendous event of the ages took place, that event which changed the whole course of human affairs? That is to say. nearly two thousand years have chiseled their record of hu man effort with Its failures ks well as Its achievements, upon the corridors of , time, since the birth of Jesus. Still all are not fully awake. Many are yet deep ly asleep.' Endeavoring to correct this hu man tendency to mental lethargy and sluggishness. Paul said in his epistle to the Epheslans "Awake thou that steepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. He was not speaking of physical sleep but of mental deadness with a)l Its paralyzing effects. Mental Awakening Illustrated A personal experience may .11 lustrate the almost universal re sistance to the mental call which Christian Science is making to this age in its presentation of the power of God, 'good, even though It comes with such clear and ringing notes. Nearly twenty five years ago I was seriously 111. The difficulty was a so-called chronic one and apparently deep- .. seated. It had refused to yield to medical treatment. Eminent and skilled members of the med ical profeeslon had been appealed to. One of them was a close aud valued friend. None had helped me. At this point, and as a last resort, help was sought in Chris tian Science and healing o! lowed. But I was not awak ened from my mental torpor. My r.ewly gained physical freedom to go on with ray life and work as In the days before satisfied me. Six months passed and a very precious member of my family was healed Instantaneously by Christian Science treatment, of a difficulty which, a physician who had previously attended the case aid would require an immediate operation. This healing brought me to the point of going to the cnristian science church ocea- slonally, but still no genuine awakening took place. Then our small son was, delivered from an elarmlng condition quickly and perfectly. I was grateful but my interest In Christian Science still more or less casual. Then finally came another crt I had Invested substantial sums, aiong wun oiners. in a commercial venture. All that we possessed in a material sense was involved and it seemed about to be swept away. There would be great loss to creditors and stock holders. The business at this junc ture was placed entirely in mv hands. The responsibility seemed v oe wholly mine. At last I awoke The struggle began. For days and months I sought to gain, by earnest effort, an understanding of the Bower of God. rood. vVrm f lmaur by this time to be the only Mind, hoping to apply this knowledge to the problem which seemed about to overwhelm me. Again and again the business teemed at the point of complete annihilation. It appeared that each tomorrow would be the end, our. tomorrow always brought a re spite. Now it"was a tiny glimpse v uw a guuuness, mat savea we day by lifting courage high enousrh to weather the storm, then the com forting assurance, "Lo, I am with you alway even unto the end of the world," restored my soul. Then lowly, day by day and against tremendous odds as tt seemed, I woke more and more to the facts ef real being and my relationship to them. As the awakening came, my con fidence m the power and presence of God as infinite good became stronger. The business itself grew accordingly. Light began to filter in through tiny chinks. Hope be came more buoyant. Wrong thoughts were corrected. Fear dis- KUed. Assets which at one time d seemed of doubtful value in creased substantially in actual worth, and- wr M nA fm.llv i.- i:..-7" : : ' n. . , , ; , -w ww.u0 " fc V HVVlOOl M I J IVUI dated. Creditors were paid, stock holders received-their money and my own capital investment was re- ' turned in full, This experience proved to me in a most convincing way that God is ever present to aid manthat is, to guide, to counsel and correct him; that He is indeed good and that xaim quality of good n ere as divlae , attribute possesses power to de stroy every phase of lack, limita tion and insufficiency. Good Defined la the text book of Christian ' Science, Science and Health with -Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, v its author, tiros define Good. "God; Spirit; omnipotence; Hnniscienee; omnipresence; omnl jction," (Pg. 587) and it is pro posed to present the subject of Christian Science here from the standpoint just illustrated, that it, of good and its power: power in herent in ft, constantly being mani fested by it, and inevitably litting mankind upward and onward to God. Desirability or Good Deep seated in the heart of every one of us there dwells a desire to know more aoout good, a yearning to attain to the secret place of the Most High, to that point of under standing whereby good may be brought more largely and more specifically into daily experience and there retained and used. In he Scriptural statement, "And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good." the word good is used in a definitive or qualifying sense.' but the Hebrew word so translated in this instance is quite as frequently employed as a noun. It possessed, to the writers of Biblical times, and to the translators of a later day, certain qualities which ex pressed beauty, gladness, welfare, ind in this sense was used in hun dreds of instances. When Jesus ssked. "Why callest thou me good he immediately answered his own question by the statement, "None i iL.i r i is Eooa. save one, uiat is, uuu, and thereby directed the thought of his hearers away from a sense of good resident in person or mat ter and towards the one source of all good. God. From, whatever viewpoint the individual may approach the con templation of good, .and be his de sire for it great or small, it is nev ertheless a fact that everyone is seeking, with some measure of earnestness, that which to his sense stands for good. Net one but de sires to hear and learn something which he may interpret in terms of tangible good. Good, to some, may nean a larger measure of health, relief from pain, freedom, from bondage of some unfortunate habit, release from the demon of lack and limitation, the destruction of some form of fear, fear of persons, renditions, or even of climate. To all peoples and from the ear liest days, good and the conditions or objects which it represents, have very properly been understood to be an outcome of Deity. But this belief was always accompanied by mother not so reassuring. Was i not believed that the same God on occasion sent pestilence, famine, war, ' discord, and misery, every thing in short that was not good? Or, if He was not directly respon sible for these things was He not supposed to permit them to bo? there appeared to be two power. Thus it came about that good as i quality of God seemed offset by n opposite and terrifying char acteristic called by various name. This thought of an evil power ?qual to, and sometimes apparently superior to good, has seemed lo have been so bred into the very fibre of the race that the true sense if God has been woefully distorted. theology has perpetuated this fal lacy and many of the myths and superstitions of the race have had their foundation in it. Voltaire the arch-skeptic, said, "If there were no God we should have to in vent one" and a modern writer adds, "That is what we have been doing since the beginning of time, creating God in our own image." Christian Science based on the teaching of Christ Jesus that God alone is good discards the possi bility of reality in evil and accepts the omnipotence and omnipresence af good alone. It teaches that since this is sound logic the sequence must be that there is no division or separation of power in God's uni verse which must be entirely and infinitely good. Therefore, evil does not exist as a reality or as a power. Infinity of God Since then, in the universe of Spirit, there is no thing or power to withstand God or to divide au thority with Him, or express any sense of being apart from Him we surety must agree mat lie alone includes all good. Likewise God's presence in His universe has been continuous, that is, without interruption from the beginning'. mamiesiea wiinoui DreaK or change. With these premises ac cepted we find ourselves contem plating a universe completely filled with God, good, who is and ever has existed exclusively and alone and who exercises absolute power and authority throughout the entire compass of His creation. is this all, the conclusion just stated has always and forever besn the fact and it leads to the com forting assurance, that there is no evil thing, influence, or power now existing, nor has there ever been in reality, such a power to harm. injure, kill or destroy a single one yt God's children. JOYOUSNESS OF GOOD Whittier reminds us, "That all ef good the past hath had remains to make our own time glad" and this dominant note of gladness al ways accompanies the refrain of good. To illustrate: Life. Chri3 tian Science teaches, is God, good. Admittedly it Is good to express Life in a full, free and vigorous way and to do so is a joyous thing. Could it be possible to imagine a condition more joyous than to be free forever from all sense of wear ",c. w - "J uevo iness; to be absolutely devoid of Kn i y ; 01 every tnoug&t or sic ness and disease; to have no con sciousness of a life that must ter minate sometime;' to dwell con sciously in the presence of Lif which Is all good? Would not this be heaven, eternal joy? To take from life all of its joy has always been the effort of that trcfr enemy of mankind, mortal mind or the carnal mind, as Scrip ture puts it. Mrs. Eddy aptly and graphically- calls this mortal mind snimal magnetism, and devotes a brief but rigorous and marvelous chapter In her text book to it This claim of evil power has been known variously throughout the ages. Bv Jesus it was called a murderer in thee words, "He was a murderer from the beginning and, abode not in the Truth, because there is no Truth in him." It is this false, untruthful and evil sense which ceaselessly endeavors to rob man kind of the joy of knowing, trust ing and expressing' an Infinitely good God. in whom is life eternal. Evil, however, invariably fails to accomplish its purpose in the case of those who are applying the knowledge of ever present good, God, as gained in Christian Science good ready to protect and guard its own unfolding sense. A simple illustration may help to show this more clearly. The clouds which conceal some noble and towering mountain peak from our gare when we have gone to view it, do not convince us by their false testimony, that the mountain itself has been removed. We still believe it to be in its accustomed place, though several days may pass before its beauties are re vealed. In the meantime we have experienced no fear that it has been removed, no anxiety about it or doubt as to its presence and re appearance, yet all -the time were we to believe our eyes, no moun tain would be there. In this man ner animal magnetism uses first -me and then another of the physi cal senses to delude, deceive and destroy. In this connection it is well to remember that God's children who reflect and express Him continu ously, constitute the only real crea tion. As the Bible assures us "Now are we the sons of God." We may, therefore, safely start from this fourfold premise: First, We are children of God. Second, God being Spirit, we, His children, are spiritual. Third, Being spir itual we partake only of the quali ties of Spirit and therefore are in reality, neither material nor mor tal and consequently not subject to sin or disease Fourth, God, good. being omnipotent and causing His children to reflect His power we can successfully resist all evil. The Road, to Health Now herein. Is seen the power of good, viz.: that every statement and every conclusion based upon it, or emanating from it leads only to health, happiness, genuine suc- ess, permanent peace, longevity. and above all usefulness. This is sufficient reason for holding to this! basic fact so persistently that our consciousness is constantly filled with good so that neither thoughts af disease, misery, failure, discord r even death itself, can find en trance. With such thoughts denied idmission it follows in a perfect sequence that none of these claims jo an evil power can express them selves in the bodily experience of me depending resolutely on the ower of ever-present good, God. Availability or Good The instant availability of good is a continual source of joy and thankfulness. With out-stretched irmsthe omnipresent, omnipotent Father-Mother Love, to use the exquisite name Mrs. Eddy gives us for God, is always at hand to nect every human need. No ex perience, however extraordinary may be the demand, however ter rifying the fear, but this good God is ready and waiting to protect and deliver. Again what cause for joy and gratitude arises from the power ind presence of good, as expressed by divine intelligence, God, to -ause His children to walk in the path of health and holiness, thus preserving and defending them. Contrariwise the so-called human mind following its own inclinations nd desires always brings, sooner ir later, disaster and destruction. Greed and avarice, ambition, appe tite self-will, pride and passion unrestrained may for a moment ?laim to be power and may appear to yield satisfaction and pleasure, but the evil fruit of these unli censed, because un-Godlike, quali ties is soon harvested. Many a stubborn disease has been com pletely healed when one or more of the qualities just enumerated has yielded to the silent health producing ministration of divine intelligent Mind, good. Elijah illustrates the power of divine Mind, infinite good, to res cue from persecution, to preserve from harm and to advance in spir itual understanding. "How long halt ye between two opinions?" he demanded of Israel's hosts, assem bled on the heights of Carmel. But they "answered him not a word". He offered the priests of Baal a supreme test They accepted his challenge but failed, as evil always must fail, when confronted with divine good, omnipotent God. When Elijah turned to God in these words " Hear me, 0 Lord, Hear Tie, that this people may know that hou art the Lord God" "Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice" "and when all the people saw it, they fell on their laces: ana tney said, the Lord, He is the God; The Lord, He is the uvu Had not Elijah's seal demanded "an eye for an eye" and the slaughter of Baal's prophets four hundred and fifty of them, he might have been spared the hurried flight into the wilderness and the forty days of fasting be fore the journey to Horeb. But even Elijah needed a purifying ex perience and we find him in a shel tering cave in the fastnesses of the mountains watching the elements in their wild raging and seeking in the wind, the earth-quake- and the fire to find some explanation. Thus in retrospect, Elijah again faces the winds of false doctrine. Beating and crashing about him they seem to rend and tear th very foundation stones of material beliefs, but, they can neither touchl reality or the spiritual facts of the universe at a single point. Still in retrospect he feels the shock of ingratitude and heartlessness. Driven from home and his normal sctivities by those whom he , had faithfully served and his very lif? sought by them he is forced by divine Love, good itself, to realize that no dependence can be placed on persona, be they kings or com- moners. Still looking backward, he must have seen that his own fiery zeal had also availed nothing, for it was but self-will and this phase of his recent experience had been en tirely without divine sanction. In fact it was worse . than useless for it was destructive and had no ele ment of divine Love, good. In it His sense of good as resident in himself, in other words, in matter, must have been destroyed and he was -made ready, patiently and si lently to wait for the voice of God, and to let the divine will which is always good, always loving, always tender and compassionate, prevail. Thus cleansed and purified by the experience he had not long to wait, and though the voice was still and small he had no difficulty in dis cerning its message. Few individual experiences to day may be as dramatic as that of Elijah, but every experience, great or small, means growth in Chris tian character and grace, as pride, prejudice, doctrinal beliefs, man made laws, reliance on false, so called gods, and various forms of fear are forced to yield up their dominion. When these have been driven out, there may be heard but not until then the still, small voice, comforting, assuring, direct ing. Lfcnstian Scientists today everywhere are convinced of this and are listening for the voice of their good God, convinced that in every hour of need, He does direct them as faithfully and certainly as in those older days. Desire fob Good Now primarily, the desire for good for the guidance and con trol of all intelligent Mind, God, must exceed all other desires. Toe seeker for divine good must be able to say with David, "As the heart panteth after the water brooks, so pantetn my soul after thee. O God." Such desire is prayer- A prayer that is always answered. there are no exceptions. On the first page of the first chapter of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy, its author, declares that "desire is prayer" and that "no loss can occur from trusting God with our desires, that they may oe moulded and exalted be fore they take form in words and in deeds." This was the prayer of Elijah answered by the "still small voice." this the prayer of Nehemiah answered by the res toration of Jerusalem, this the prayer of Jesus before the tomb if Lazarus, and this, my friends, the prayer of thousands of Chris tian Scientists today. A prayer that is being daily answered by the healing of every sort of sin, disease and discord. In the opening paragraph of Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy says, that prayer "is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God, a spiritual understanding of Him, an unselfed love." Thus prayer implies first a desire for good, a desire to be and do good. Next, faith in an available and ever responsive God and in His infinitely good power; a spiritual appreciation or comprehension of Him without which faith and de sire are lacking an essential qual ity. There remains this in addi tion, that all prayer to be genuine, should have the quality of thank fulness or gratitude. Said Jesus, 'Father I thank thee" and then he proved death to be powerless and performed many other mar velous works. Nothing should be more natural then or more spontaneous than the giving of thanks to the source of all good, God. It is so obvious that "if we live and move and have our being" in God that not the sliarht- est act or incident of our daily lives but depends upon or proceeds from that infinitely good source. -Lif2, activity, that is, the ordered func tioning of every part of God's crea tion, being itself, full of Joy and beauty all are but expressions of iivme Principle, divine Mind. God. good. The primal and eternal fact. that existence is dependent alona on God who is good and therefore neither can nor does express in all His eternal and infinite existence anything but good, this, I say, de mands gratitude and when the de mand is joyously conceded and spontaneously expressed the glow ax healing is experienced. Sin and disease alike yield to this prayer. The prayer which begins with a paean of thanks to an eternally good Father-Mother God, thttt there neither is nor can be in reality such a thing as disease in His infinitely good universe; the prayer which continues with thank fulness, that evil by whatever nam or nature it may nresent it self to consciousness, has neither intelligence nor power and which concludes with rejoicing because in infinitely good God orders His mi verse in such perfection, is cer tain to have its perfect answer, rhis prayer of faith and spiritual understanding, this conscious de rire for a ' larger sense of good. contains within itself the seed of universal salvation. Saying Power of Good With the. clear and correct un derstanding: of prayer which con stitutes so large a part of the men tal equipment of every Christian scientist ne is enabled to bring a larger measure of good into his swn experience and that of others Indeed it is in this way precisely, that his salvation is attained. Scriptural injunctions to work sut our own salvation are numer ous. The Christian Science text book quotes these with approba tion and insists upon the necessity of working out our own salvation in the way Jesus taught. It may be pertinent therefore to ask what salvation is and of what it consists? In many, if not in all Christian churches, salvation is defined, as "liberation from the bondage and results of .sin.w Let is then consider it from but one f many possible viewpoints, that from which we are discussing the question of Christian Science, lamely, the power of good to save, to deliver, from sin and its bond- As has been heretofore fre quently stated Ood, good. MlthaeJ can nor. ,does jUvide or share HU power. Were He to do so lie would no longer be God. Conse quently good must be' acknowl edged as all power for one to be saved from evil or sin. The uni versal understanding of salvation as it is taught in Christian Sci ence would mean the redemption of the race. To experience salvation from the results of so-called sin' wheth er in the form of sickness, dis ease, discord, lack, misery fear, unhappiness loneliness It must be utterly abandoned forsaken. Its false pleasures discarded. It must be seen that it produces no satisfaction and consequently is wholly undesirable. A realiza tion of the powerlessness of sin to produce anything having even the semblance of good must pre cede the rejection of the belief of its power to produce any form of evil. Healing By The Christ Method Freed from the fear of sin and from its indulgence by this pro cess of right thinking and living, the slave of evil finds the glow of hope and health taking 'posses sion of his entire being. His out look upon life changes and his hope of ultimate salvation from every iorm oi aggressive evil is enhanced. To illustrate: Jesus frequently pointed out this meth od of salvation, indicating to many a disease-ridden sufferer of his day that it was the destruc tion and forgiveness of sin which resulted in healing: he thus proved himself the true way shower. Ever great in simplicity, pro found in logic, clear and concise in statement were the words of the Master. To the impotent suf ferer at the pool of Bethesda, who for thirty-eight years had been seeking release, from an unna tural physical condition, Jesus said: "Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee": To the one suffering with palsy, "Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee": to him who' was let down through the tiling of the roof. these comforting words, "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee": to a gathering of the Jews one day "Whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin." And it was of Christ Jesus who did and said these things that John testified, "Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." It was said of Christ Jesus that he "taught them as one havintrl auuiontr ana not as ine scnoes- . . .I t . . So doubt existed as to whether his authority extended to teaching alone. All realized that he prac ticed authoritatively. They knew. either through their own observa-; tion or the testimony of others, , that his command was sufficient to check the elements in their wild I raging; that it was adequate to heal the sick and suffering and! that it was able to unloose the! hold of the last enemy itself. Wherein lay this power, this I ability to command, this supreme i authority? These were the ques-i tions the Jews of his day asked each other as they sat puzzled upon their -housetops in the soft Syrian nights, gazing Into tue starry skies perplexed and wondering. Many times during the interval between the days of Christ Jesus and our own era have these same puzzling queries presented them selves to suffering and sin-sick humanity. What has become of "Christ-opathy" questioned a God fearing English Doctor who had become discouraged over the fail ure of the many "pathies" of his day? Writing, nearly one hundred years ago, Dr. Wilkinson of lho Royal College of- Surgeons, said. "After all our systems of health, public and private, there is one means remaining which we should be guilty of much base terror -as well as historical neglect if we did not dare to bring forth. We al lude to the healing powers exerted by Christ and His apostles, and by Him bequeathed to the race of man. As we read the Gospels we see how the Divine Man was the Great Physician; how He went about healing all manner of sick ness and disease among the peo ple; and how as many as touched the hem of His garment were made whole everyone. He also com manded His followers to do the like, and founded cure as the grand evidence of the Christian religion. I His proofs of His mission were sound bodies God's saving health! among all people the deaf hear ing; the .dumb speaking; lepers cleansed; the dead raised; those who were before bund now they see if the -age of miracles is gone, it is because the age of Christianity is gone. The age of mathematics would be past if no man cultivated them. Let then this mode and manner of healing be fairly experimented." Should success meet with the ef fort he added, "there will be no need of missionaries anymore, but mankind will bless their privilege and their Master's name. All other-pathies will give way to Christ-opathy." Sixty years ago the world's huu rer and its quest for a practical answer to tnis ever recurring question was rewarded. A new voice was heard speaking with au thority, as did the Master of old The voice dared to question the established order of. things medi cal, theological and scientific. It denied the reality of matter and its multiplicity of manifestations and again it was not the voice of the scribe or the Pharisee. It wns the voice of Mary Baker Eddy 3peaking irt' a new-old tongue, de claring anew the power of God, good. It. was the revelation. of tne healing Christ coming1 once more! to mankind as had been promised of old. And, as of old. few heeded the call at once. The thought of! the world was much as in Paul's day, and recalls his words to the Corinthians, "Net many wise men after th flesh; net assay mighty. not many noble, are called. Those who heard, this voice first were Jr humble and meek, the uncultured and unlearned. Such as these are often th first to grasp the mear. ing of Jesus' words, "Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in iw wise enter therein." In any event those who were thus listening eag erly and humbly for the voice, heard it, and because they heard. it was not long Deiore some i their turn were saying to the sice and the sinninsr. with at least a measure of the same authority as Jesus, "Arise, take up thy oeu and walk." Authority of Good This cdnfident message of good is the message of Christian Sci ence. - It is the message of Jesus repeated again. It comes with Ue same degree of authority and force that accompanied its presentation to the consciousness of men from th verv besrinninir of recorded history. It is the message of tbei Christ. Truth has always been available, but it has not always been used. From the dawn of his tory 'til now, however, there have been innumerable instances of its potent application. The Greatest Book in the World The Bible records the power of eood and its availability at all times by everyone and under widely varying conditions. Neith er age, sex nor social position, can alter or effect the operation of the mighty power ami authority of God, good. What a storehouse oi inspiration is the Bible! "The greatest Book in the wotMLit has been called. And this is the book that Mrs. Eddy loved as no other book. From earliest childhood she studied it, pondered its precepts and guided her life by its rules and standards. For three years after her discov ery of Christian Science, which occurred in 1866, she lived con stantly with her Bible, seeking through its inspired pages to find the Science of the Christ healing which had come into her experi ence. It was her only text book and she describes this quest as most joyous, uplifting and beau tiful. This was a logical result! of her training and environment asj well as her own natural inclination. Sebscriptioiii For Old and New Subscriptions to TODAY'S PAI Before Oregon Yes. b efore Oregon was a state when there were In dians and gold rushes (and thing) the Statesman was being read in the capital of the territory and throughout thft great Oregon country. Today, although it is 78 years old, the Statesman is younger than. ever. Read it through. We'll be happy to have you take note of every feature of the New States man. Yethe Statesman is not oldl Men may age, but newspa pers possess a fountain of perpetual youth. Theirs is the dynamic of a great un dertaking . . . each day life starts anew . . . there are new hopes to be -fulfilled, fresh news to be told, yesterday's obligation well filled is sup planted by the newer, larger task of the present. Just so with the NEW Ore gon Statesman. Proud of its past, conscious : of the high responsibility such years of service entail, yet-it must be We may recall that vmary Baker's New England home of a century ago was largely reguiaieu by austre and rigid rules: rules that had their origin in the stern and unrelenting theology oi wit Mm The doetrin of the Scotch Covenanters left little room for aught but work and worship. M. Raker's childhood was influ enced strongly by an, atmosphere that still retatnea mucn oi w. quality of her Scotch ancestors of that earlier day. A gifted and spiritual mother brought into this life, however, a tender love, that modified its austerity and bright nH it Her early years were rwnt at home. Her mother and an unusually gifted and scholarly brother supervised her studies in which she was most proficient. Later she was graduated from an excellent private school and quick ly developed marked literary aDii ity. Throueh those busy years she was being prepared in countless ways for the stupendous work that was to be hers in later life. Many of her close associates were men and women of deep learning and great religious intuition. Her whole tendency was along these lines and it was not strange th..t she should have been led in due time to the great discovery of Christian Science. A Labor of Love After this discovery, thai is from 1866 to 1910. Mrs. Eddy's life was one of unremitting labor a laoor of unselfish love a labor to estab lish the Science she discovered and loved. Throughout her long and busy life she never spared herself. Her love and devotion were invin cible. The result of this devotion to God, good, and His power is seen today in the rapid growth of Christian Science through tha world. The appeal of Christian Science is universal, as the appeal of good always must be, 'its influ ence upon those who embrace and practice - its teachings is always beneficial and its well organized plan for extension and for redemp tive work among all mankind Is freely acknowledged as one of Mrs. Eddys outstanding accomplish ments. The universality of good is il lustrated by the entire Christian the NEW paper in the NEW day. The policy of the New Ore gon Statesman will be to print more pictures, more local news and editorials and secure for its readers the best features obtainable. Markets Reliable Salem markets and market( reports from the market centers of the world listed daily. From the Capital! Every citizen of Oregon is vitally interested in affairs of state. You will observe that the New Statesman is truly the state capital newspaper of Oregon. It gets the inti mate little stories, yet highly important stories, as well as the big news of the state. To the tapayer the New States man is invaluable. It brings A3u every morning TO DAr S newspaper, packed full of news of the world, the nation, the state, and city and the happy home communi ties of the central Willamette valley. , ... . Science movement, broad and y.-t so varied in its phases that non, seeking good through its channels need be disappointed. By mean of a simple but complete and per fectly operating group of activities provided by Mrs. Eddy, this Chrisl ly movement proceeds on its re demptive way. These activities all of them, are symbolical of various forms of good always at hand to meet eac a and every need of humanity. May we not then sum up the whole sub ject of good and its power, as re vealed by Christian science, in this way: God is. God is good. God is omniscient good. God is omnipresent good. God is omnipo tent good. This my friends is the refrain of this entire discussion, with this additional thought, th it He is a rewarder of them hac diligently seek Him." Our joyous purpose then show! I be to search and seek, more earnest ly than before, for a larger faith. a deeper humility, a clearer insight into good, that we may express ia daily thought and deed more of that goodness that is of God alone We have seen in succession some thing of good, something of its op eration, its divine qualities, its healing and redemptive power. We have seen that God's purposes an al ways expressed and manifested in a 'good way, and that to worship, adore and demonstrate the power of such a God should be pur high est, and surely, our constant aim May we not then in cjosing, u these words of the Psalmist: "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with glad ness; come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we 'ourselves ; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his, courts with praise: be thank ful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his . mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. Offer Daily u Sunday For a full year MAILED to any address in Marion, Polk, Linn, or Yamhill Counties. This Offer Good Only Until October 31 by Mail Only R TODAY I