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----- “ *•«- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1914 FOREST GROVE FOREST GROVE PRESS PRESS G E O R G E H U N T IN G T O N C U R R E Y ED ITO R A N D O W NER Published every Thursday at Forest G rove, Washington County, Oregon. Entered at the Forest G rove, O regon, Post Office as second-class matter. S ubscription R ates in A dvanci :. I One Year.....................$1.50 Six Months............ 75 Cental Arrests for intoxication during January 1913 in Salem were 37, for the same cause in January 1911 there were 4„ who says prohibition does not prohibit? Reports generally throughout the state indicate that very few women are registering. In some localities the Women’s clubs are taking the matter in hand and are making a systematic canvas and thus are getting many to register that otherwise probably would not. The ladies o f Mommouth have followed the steps of the enterprising ladies off Forest Grove in organizing O ffice on M ain S treet . P hone M ain 502. a Civic Club to work with the Commercial Club in im proving the appearance o f the yards and streets. It takes the hand of women to make any city just as it Dr. James B. Withyeomb, who undoubtedly is au should be. thority on agriculture in this state made the public Did you visit the demonstration train Tuesday after Means a constantly increasing population, noon. If you did it was a most profitable hour. acreage in Washington County than in any other. This In other words a family can make a living on a smaller Have you anc^ouriTregistere^^^ County in the state from an agricultural standpoint, Checkers in hat and cloak rooms in cafes and hotels statement that Washington County was the richest in some places have been replaced with girls who are not allowed to wear dresses or aprons with pockets, L ogan berry growers have been making such hand some profits in this vacinity the past few years that as a result the tipping business has fallen off. an increased acreage for this year is already assured With factories in the east and saw mills and logging Our readers should not fail to attend the lecture next Monday night given by Prof. Learned on the 1‘Use and Misuse of Drugs.” camps in the west resuming .operations the questioi of caring for the unemployed is solving itself in a large measure. Japan found it. into the on their terested ministry. is doing a little house denning they have necessary to make a thorough investigation disposition of the millions being expended navy. The public is becoming intisely in and threatens to overthrow the present The “ Go to church Sunday campaign in Chicago was certainly a success, no less than one million five five hundred thousand people attended church Sunday in that icty. These campaigns are becoming popujar everywhere. Those senators and congressmen who are seeking re-election are bringing all possible pressure to se cure an early adjournment of congress and it is ex pected that the present session will adjourn about January 1st. , La Grande’s Commercial Clubhas filed a complaint with the State Railroad Commission asking for a re duction in the prevailing rates o f light and power. The club feels confident of securing a reduction as that city is paying the highest rate for light in the state. I so many Bible readers. Christian Scientist by merely believ It has fallen to my lot to have ing In the teachings o f its text-book known its author intimately in the without practicing. We are Christian last few years o f her earthly activ Scientists only as we put into con, ity. One November day in 1908, stant practice our knowledge o f our Mrs. Eddy called me to her side from religion, be that knowledge great or my home in Colorado to become a small. We are Christian Scientists W ILLIAM R. RATH VON, C. S. B. member o f that historic household at only as we are kind and helpful in OF BOSTON, MASS. SPEAKS Chestnut Hill which she once publicly in thought and deed; only as we think TO LARGE AUDIENCE. designated “ the happiest group of health and talk health instead of dis Christian Scientists on earth.” I was ease and disaster. We are Christian A . C. Atwell’s Introduction Requested privileged to share her daily counsels Scientists only as we say to evil for more than two years, and from mental suggestions, “ Peace, be still!” Sent East for Publiction. ! the time o f my first half hour’s Only as we are loving and courageous Last Thursday evening before an heart-to-heart talk with her, down to and resolute and unswerving in our audiance of over 200, William R. ■ the afternoon when standing at her warfare agains sin, sickness and Rathven member of the Board of side I saw her marvelous hands shape death. Lectureship of the first church o f ; her last written words, “ God is my It is often charged against Christ Christ, Scientist, Of Boston, Mass, life," I have never wavered in my ian Scientists because they rely after being introduced by A. C. A t I conviction that she has been the wholly upon Mind that they do not well delivered the following lecture chosen evangel of Truth, intrusted “ do anything” for the sick. When on Christian Science. In his intro with those good tidings of great joy the average man considers the needs ductory remarks he suggested that that have been waiting man’s readi o f a sick person, his thought at once the introduction o f Mr. Atwell be ness since the days when Jesus trod turns to the medicine bottle and he sent to the Mother Church in Boston the dusty fields of Syria, and sailed believes there is nothing being done as he considered it exceptionally mer- the blue waters o f Galilee. for the sick man unless he is made itous. The lecture follow s;- I could by the hour recite to you to swallow something. According to Christian Science has but one text incidents o f Mrs. Eddy’s wisdom and his peremptory opinions, the sick man book, “ Science and Health with Key sagacity, o f her courage and stead should be treated with something to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker fastness, o f her wit and humor, of that he can taste or smell or feel, Eddy. It is not a book to be quickly her love for little children and her something that the senses can per read or hastily thumbed over as one delight in the beautiful, o f the in- ceive. Otherwise "Nothing is being would a shallow novel. Nor is it to | expressible charm of her manner and done for him.” He may tell you that be approached with bias or prejudice the eloquence o f her voice, but it is attempting to change the condition of if one would share its riches; but its not o f these things that she would a man’s body through mind alone is truths may be proved and in turn have me speak. foolishness. And yet— this same in imparted with child or sage who turns It was her desire—almost daily ex telligent citzen will readily admit its leaves with an open mind. Only pressed— that her followers should that a man’s body commonly and fre the open flower it is that catches the disregard her personality and address quently undergoes sudden and very dew and yields its honey to the bee. their thought to the things o f Gd marked changes due entirely to ment It has been asserted that Chris which she has disclosed to them. She al causes. He will admit that salt tian Scientists place their text-book would have us study her books and water will flow from his eyes if he above the Bible as the guide to not her personality. She would have is subjected to great grief. That righteousness. No one can honestly ' us know her by what she wrote and sudden fear will produce cold prespi- make this allegation who has read not by how she looked. Years ago ration. That anger will cause the face the book carefully, for on page- 497 she instructed her students to follow to flush or pale, the heart to thum’j, o f Science and Health are printed .her only as she followed Christ, and the voice to change. these words, the first of a series of though she was a rare Leader she Now grief, anger and the like are tenets o f our religion; was an ideal follower o f all that is obviously mental, but because their “ As adherents o f Truth we take truly good. effect on the body is o f every-day the inspired Word o f the Bible as our Man’s comprehension o f the prob occurence, as commonplace as eating sufficient guide to eternal Life.” lems o f life is to be measured by his and drinking, the lesson they dis What more emphatic and explicit understanding of God. He holds to close is lost upon the man who negation o f such a charge could be contrary and widely divergent beliefs hastens to centure Christian Science demanded? about God and hence his interpreta for achieving what he styles the im The truths of Christian Science do tions of life are conflicting and dis possible, yet which has been a part not originate in the book of Science cordant. If he concedes to God, the of him since the day when as a cry- and Health. They find expression primal cause o f all being, illimitable iny infant he on his mother’s arm there but their origin is in God. They knowledge— Omniscence, and in the shed his first tears. have always existed and will forever next breath attributes to Him the Jesus proved for all time and for exist What effect, then, it may be afflictions and disasters o f human 1 all Christiandom that the origin of asked, does the study o f this book experience he is sitting up a God disease was mental and he healed it have upon those who have previousl> of good and evil, o f benevolence and with mental medicine. He gave him been Bible students? Does it sup crulety, whom he may try to love self no cncern about physicial symp plant the Bible in their reverence but is bound to fear. toms, Lut he distroyed what caused and admiration ? Is the Book of them. He cared little about what the The anthropomorphic idea of God books less precious to them than be sick man had been eating, but much fo re ? The answer is, “ No.” On the as a man-like being of human at about what he had been thinking. He tributes and qualities enormously | other hand Science and Health har said in so many words, “ It is not monizes many seeming incongruities magnified, a heritage of mythology,' that which goeth into a man which handed down to us through genera- j in the Bible which have long per defileth him.” When he healed the plexed layman and thelogian; it ex tions o f orthodoxy, is repudiated in sick he gave no parting directions plains aparent contradiction it Christian Science. about diet and rest, but on at least for its definition o f God Christian discloses unexpected riches; it gives one occassion said, “ Sin no more lest new significance to favorite pas Science consistantly turns to the a worse thing come unto thee,” thus Scriptures. sages, and brings neglected ones into indicating the mental origin o f the Christian Science stands before the favor. disease. The sick were healed by hirr. The study and applicction o f its world as a demonstrable religion, one through spiritual understanding, not teachings by those who have had lit -1 that is to be lived, not merely be- j by human will. Christian Science, Hence it is that there is no such ! tie or no familiarity with the Scrip similarly relying wholly upon divine tures has made them Bible students lieved. The standard o f proficiency Principle, has no relationship with and Bible lovers. The one time athe for the Christian Scientist is not how will power, mental science, hypotism, ist, the scoffer and the blasphemer much he believes, but how much of mesmerism, auo-suggestions, thought are finding the Gospel a treasure that belief he is using in his daily ! transference, spiritualism or any of house o f joy and consolation whose life, in his dealings with his fellow the other cults or schools which rely men and in the sanctity o f his in untried doors had been barred wholly or in part upon the influence against them until unlocked by the nermost thoughts. o f one human mind or human will Hence it sithat there is no such Key forged by the hands o f a gentle woman who loved all mankind. No thing as a purely theoretical Christ (Continued on page seven) other book in modern times has made ian Scientist no man can become a CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE PLEASES PAGE THREE jj I ET A I MA T ire c § LEGAL NOTICES . . . . • SI nn □ □ □□ □ B □□ Notice for Publication □□ U. S. Land Office, Portland, Oregon. December 26, 1913. Notice is hereby given that William J. Lunney, of Gaston, Oregon, Route No. 1, who, on March 8, 1907, made Original Homestead Entry No. 16197, Serial 01359, for E. '/¿, S. E. L and N. W. S. E. 14 , and on December 28, 19"7, made Additional Homestead Entry No. 16414. Serial 01446, for N. E. Vi, S. W. 14. Section 31, Township 1 North, Range 4 West, Willamette U □ Meridian, has filed notice of intention no to make final five-year proof, to estab □□ lish claim to the land above-described, □ O before the Register and Receiver, U. S. QQ Land Office, at Portland Oregon, on □□ □□ the 12th day o f February, 1914. □□ Claimant names as witnesses: Wil □ □ liam J. Williams, of Gales Creek, Ore gon; Matt Vincent, of Gales Creek, Oregon; Charley Dennis, of Gaston, Oregon; Mrs. David Richards, o f , Gaston, Oregon. H. F. 24t5 H 900 o a c Dacca a n n a □ □ can □ □ □ dm ig b y , Register. 900 9 0 0 Q O C Ü 0D I9 900 D oaaoQ O O fl DO □a □ □ □ □ □□ □a Half - Price on na LADIES Suits and Skirts oa □ □ □ □ QQ □ □ □ □ BO □ □ Notice to Taxpayers Notice is hereby given that the 1913 tax roll for Washington County, Ore gon, will open for the collection and payment of taxes on Monday, February 2, 1914. No rebate will be allowed. All taxes are due and payable before the 1st day of April, 1914. Half pay ments can be made before the 1st day o f April, 1914, but a penalty of one per cent per month is charged on remaining half payment to be paid prior to September 1, 1914. Where no payment is made before the ist day of April, 1914, the tax becomes delinquent and a penalty of one per cent per month is charged from that date to September 1, 1914. After September 1, 1914, a penalty of 10 per cent and interest at the rate of 12 per cent per year will be charged on all delinquent taxes. E. B. S appington , County Treasurer and Tax Collector of Washington County, Oregon. 26t4 AN D CH ILDREN ’S C O A T S □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □□ □□ □□ JOHN □ □ □□ □□ HO pp ANDERSON □ □ □ □ □ □ □ □ The Clothier “ Saf et y F i r s t ” Our Mo t t o On Notice to Creditors In the County i ourt of The State of Oregon, fc. Washington County. In the matter of the last Will and Testament of J A. Hazlitt, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the under- ; signed, executrix of the last Will and Testament and of the estate o f J. A. Hazlitt, deceased, to the creditors o f I and all persons having claims against said deceased to present them with the { necessary vouchers within six months from the date o f the firBt publication of this notice viz, January 29th, 1914 to the undersigned at the office of Hollis & Graham, Attorneys, in the First National Bank building, in the City of Forest Grove, Washington County, Oregon. Dated at Forest.Grove. Oregon, this 27th day of January, 1914. Elida J. 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