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am «ogmua A LECTURE on nature of the all-Uvhsg Father and cause of ail which will enable us to progress out of the belief of evil into the eternal reality of good. ' GO© THE ONLY LIFE On page 5M of Science and Health Father is deAned as follows: “Eternal Life; the one Mind; the divine Prin ciple, commonly called God.” How beautifully this leads us away from the trammels of a finite, limited, con stricted belief about Deity to the true concept of Him as unlimited and to- finite! It shows us at onoe that God cannot be localised, limited in power, or restricted in any way- The Father, eternal Life, could not manifest Him self in that which ia aaaterial, dying, mortal, or inharmonious. He Himself must express Himself in that which is' immortal, eteraad, undying, and immutable. This life must be infinite arid unchanging. There never could takut «flrtàrit» toQuua obmon . F riday er manifest itself. Then God’s cre a dream. ation could only manifest the quali ALL TRUE BEING EXISTS IN GOD ties of the creative Principle, Is>ve. God, divine Love, not only creates It must be lovely, spiritual, harmon and constitutes all true being, but Ho Entitled ious, and good. “The word of the also contains all true being. An idea CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: Lord is right; and all his works are Is always embraced in its Principle. HUMANITY« LIBERATOR done in truth.” It ror.id not help be God is not located somewhere in His by ing eternal, for infinite Principle creatjpn, but creation is in God. - God Charles V. Winn, C. 8, would never withdraw its loving sup is not in man, but man lives and ha« of Pasadena, California port from Its offspring or creation. It his being in God. All true being ex Member of the Board of Lectureship could never depart from its purity and ists in the Mind and Love that ia God. of The Mother Church, The First vrtioieneM, for “Love never loses sight An idea can never be separated from Church of Christ, Scientist, of loveliness” (Science and Health, p. its Principle aqd Principle will never in Boston, Massachusetts 248). forsake its idea.« ideq. In the Bible we The invitation to a Christian Sci POWER OF TRUE THINKING read, “I will not fail there, nor for- ence lecture rouM be given in no The effect of these great facts upon sake thee.” God will never fail to more appropriate words than in these our daily lives and thinkirfg is almost support, protect, and uphold all Hia of Mary Baker Eddy, the Leader and incalculable. Aa has been previously ideas or creation. Founder of thia great religion: “Di pointed out, everything in our human Lincoln demonstrated the pure art of no loss good vine Love hath opened the gate Beau experience starts aa a thought. Then This truth destroys completely one the sppken word. In his speech he tiful to us, where we may see God by baring our every thought upon the of the greatest fears of the human was clear, logical, sympathetic and aad live, see good in good,—God all, eternal fact of the aMneea of Love and mind, the possibility of loss. Did you impressive. one,—one Mind and that divine; the .perfection of its creation, or mani ever atop to think that a very large whore we may love our neighbor sa be any lack of life or cessation of it festation, we would see only that percentage, of all human effort is ourselves, and bless our enemies” It is self-sustained and self-supported, which ia lovely and good, wo would spent in trying to prevent loss of (The First Church of Christ, Scien for, being eternal, there is nothing in think only of that which is lovely and some kind, a loss of money, health, tist, and Mi«ceilany, p. 132).' To en life that could destroy it, and there is good, and we would experience only friends, home, or happiness Our able us to enter thia gate Beautiful nothing outside of it that could over that which is lovely and good. Indeed, textbook tells ua, on page 802, “It is and see what divine Love hath pre power it. As we understand this Christian Science teaches and proves impossible that man toould lose aught pared for all of Hia children is the divine verity we have that life more to us that we really think only aa we that is real, when God is all and purpose of a Christian Science lecture. abundant which is the eternal heri think that which la lovely and good. eternally his.” God gives all good to If one were to sum up the needs of tage of adl the children of God. Wo There is absolutely no intelligence in man, and God's purpose in blessing ORISON mortals to-day they could be ex come into “the glorious liberty of the hate, envy, jealousy, or in anything His reflection, man, can never bo RAI RtSf pressed in one word—freedom. Aa children of God.” that is contrary to love. Wo know thwarted or annulled. It ia God’s ESTABLISHED 19 0 3 GOD THE ONLY MIND we took about us and see the unrest, that if we do anything unprincipled nature to give, and what God gives the dissatisfaction, the failure, the As this true understanding of God wo get into trouble, but if we do that is divinely safe-guarded and protect despair of humanity, surely no one as eternal Life unfolds to ua, wo can which ia right, and in accordance with ed. What'serenity and joy it brings to conform the law of mathematics to wolfld deny that we ell need liberation readily grant the great truth that God Principle, we avoid trouble. So we to us as we study the life of our great our way to gain mathematical results. and deliverance from wrong condi is the one infinite Mind. Infinite* Life can readily see that right, true think Master and see his poise and sublime We conform our way to its way. tions and intolerable burdens. That and infinite Mind must be one, for we ing, or good thinking, is the only real faith in the presence of any seeming When we do this, it brings us mathe the prevailing systems of education, could not think of Mind without Life thinking there ia. and that any other loss! What supreme confidence Jesus matical results. When our supreme theology, and healing have failed to or Life without Mind. Mind can ex seeming thinking ia utterly devoid of displayed at the tomb of Lasarus! He desire ia to let divine Principle, Love, DR. J. J. LESLIE meet humanity’s need io self-evident press itself only in one way, and that reality or substance; knew that life was inseparable from govern and control our lives, then DIVINE DOVE THE BASK OF on every hand. That we must have is through its ideas. Since God is God; that it was the expression of Love’s plan brings us all that is love DENTIST TRUE BEING something different than we have Mind and Life, its ideas must bo Life Love divine; and that it could no more ly and good. Our Leader tells us that Hours 9-12 m., 1 to 5 p. m. known, to attain different recuite, expressing and Mind must impart to Divine Principle, Love, not only be lost than God could withdraw Him “Love inspires, illumines, designates, Evening by appointment cannot be gainsaid. The failure of its creation or ideas that only which creates all true being but it also con self from the universe. Aa our Lead and leads the way” (Science and Over Hudson Drug Store material theories and systems proves would bless or perpetuate its ideas. stitutes aX true being. Thia divine er has so beautifully expressed it in Health, p. 454), and this illumination conclusively that we must look in an We ordinarily think of mind as intelli fact gives ua a sense of God’a im one of her poems (Miscellaneous of truth shines on our path. As we other direction for peace and healing. gence, and to express intelligence manence, or nearness, which ia indeed Writings, p. 388); DR. J. F. YOUNG travel through the country we see Those who look to the human mind, means to know. We can only know a priceless boon. It shows ua that “Fed by Thy love divine we live, Chiropractor signs that read, “Stop, look, and lis human will, human way*, and ma that which is true. We may believe God not only give life to Hia creation, For Love alone is Life;” 345 So. Hall ten.” Christian Sicence teaches ua to terial methods fer deliverance will many things, but we can only know but is the very Life of Hia creation: and infinite Love will never fall to Next Door south of City Hall stop selfish human outlining, look look in vain. Divine Truth alone will true facte. Mind can only know true He not only gives substance to His feed, uphold, and maintain His cre away from self, and listen for the The new phone 102-M and eternal ideas. It knows nothing creation, but is the very substance of ation. Life is the spontaneous ex solve the problem of being. voice of God. That there is a way to attain free temporal, false, or wrong. Mrs. Eddy His creation. The Bible tells ua that pression of love and can never be re A Christian Scientist once found dom and harmony ia the joyous mes says, on page 415 of Science and man is made in the image or likeness pressed or suppressed for one mo JAS. W. WHEELER himself in a large city without funds sage of Christian Science. This way ia Health, “Mind in every case is the of God. All that man is, is the re ment. What a joyous day it must and without employment. Physician & Surgeon Many at- . not one of creeds and speculative eternal God, good.” flection or expression of what God ia. have been in Decapolis when Jesus tempts to secure employment had Ellingson Bldg. Coquille But someone may say, I do not see As God is Principle, and man is His healed the deaf and dumb boy! What theories but a way of certainty, a been made, but without success. Ev Leave calls at way that is open to all, a way where of what practical value this is to me. image and likeness, then man has no a perfect illustration of true Christian ery avenue seemed to be closed. All Hudson’s Drug Store or at Co demonstration rdplaees more belief Let us see. Everything starts as a mind or existence apart from God, for healing! We read that Jesus looked human efforts seemed unavailing. Pre quille Hotel and where unfailing proof displaces thought or concept. We cannot do aM that he has ia his, by reflection. up to heaven and said, “Be opened.” viously be had been employed in a doubt and uncertainty. That there is anything without thinking. Everyone Jesus said, “1 can of mine own seif “And straightway his . ears were certain business which ho had de such a way our great Master, Jesus will readily concede that every act is do nothing.” The real man being the opened, i and the string of his tongue termined never to enter again. One DR. J. R. BUNCH the Christ, proved over nineteen hun induced by a thought. Then if we ai- likeness of God, he must reflect, or was loosed, and he spake plain.” Je- day when the problem seemed un- DENTI8T dred years ago. That it was an emi «■ wa;* started with the right thought, express, God, and as God expresses sus knew that speech and hearing sotvsble, a verse from an old hymn nently successful way is attested by r or ’vu» concept, we would always do Himself by thoughts or ideas which were faculties of mind; that speech X-RAY Service came to him: the fact that he had dominion over ' right and be right. If we plant a beet are always perfect and good, man Xgiven to man to declare and ex- Laird Bldg., First Street “I’ll go where you want me to go, dear every adverse condition and was tri seed wo get a beet; if we plant a car must and can reflect, or express, only i good; that the only true hear Telephone 83-L>- Coquille, Ore Lord, umphant over every phase of mor rot seed we get a carrot; if we plant that which is good. ting there is, is bearing the voice of Over mountain, or plain or sea; tality, even death itself. He said that : flower seeds we get flowers. As we MAN’S POWER ONLY REFLECTED God; and that as God is continually he was the way, and aa we foMow hia i realise that the only true thoughts The practical application of the imparting His thoughts or ideas to I’ll bo what you want me to be.“ GRANT CORBY way healing, deliverance, freedom, . are the thoughts of the divine Mind, knowledge of the foregoing facte in Hie creation, Hi« children can never Then and there it was firmly resolved «nd dominion are our sure possession good and perfect, then spurious and human affairs, aa in Jesus’ time, lose the power to hear the voice of Attorney at Law •o surrender all human will and to 'tod inevitable reward. There is per false thoughts are promptly rejected brings unbounded blessings. Can we God. At another time, in (Bethseida, Richmond-Barker Bldg. oyously obey the will and purposes haps no more significant sign of the aa untrue and erroneous. Pheno 157 Coquille, Ora. now not see why Jesus the Christ was he completely destroyed the belief of divine Love. The result was indeed times than the fact that seekers are GOOD THOUGHTS ALONE ARE the moot successful man that the that sight could be lost Residence Phone 24-M What a a happy one, for by nine o’clock the turning back to the simple but prov REAL world has ever known? Why was he beautiful lesson ie here for us all! next morning the Scientist had a posi able teachings of Jesus the Christ for Because God is the only Mind, He never baffled in the presence of dis You remember that Jesus put his tion which was only the beginning of J. ARTHUR BERG salvation and freedom. At the re possesses all the power there ie; for ease, deformity, or oven death itself hands on the man’s eyes and asked a succession of bieaaings. God is infinite Attorney at Law cent Lambeth religious conference in there is no other mind to dispute His It was because he knew that he had him If he saw anything, and he said good and infinite Love, and an infin Rooms 1*2 England a serious discussion of sovereignty. The divine Mind, then, no mind apart from God, and that his that he saw men as trees walking. ite Principle has infinite ways and Farmers A Merchants Bank Bldg Christian Science healing took place is supreme and omnipotent, and the Father, divine Principle, would never Jesus then aaked him to look up, af means to promote the purposes of Phoos 87 and a committee was appointed to only thoughts that can have any In cease to manifest Himself in him and ter he had put hia hands on his eyes good.. Coquille, Oregoa look Into it still further. One has fluence or power are good thoughts, through him. And so, as we realite again, and he saw every man clearly. DIVINE LOVE SUSTAINS HIS only to attend a Wednesday evening or true thoughts. Mrs. Eddy says that we have no mind apart from God, And so, as we see and know that CREATION DR. W. V. G LAIS YER testimony meeting in a Christian (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 252), but that we possess all by reflection, God’s creation is wholly good and God not only creates, constitutes, Science church' and hear the testi “Right thoughts are reality and pow that divine ‘Principle constitutes all lovely, we lose our erroneous, per VETERINARIAN contains, but also sustains all true be monies of those who have been re er; wrong thoughts are unreality and true being, then we can say with Paul, verted sense of things and see clearly. ing. We learn in Christian Science County Hord * Meat Inspector deemed from disease and sin to know powerless, possessing the nature of “1 can do all things through Christ We lose the false and gain the true, that God is the only real activity. Coquille, Oro. of a surety that the Christ-healing is dreams.” Right ideas are powerful, which strengtheneth me.” Such an which in reality has never been lost. His activity is ceaseless and continu again being demonstrated in our because they reflect or manifest the understanding gives one so great a That thia understanding is practical ous. On page 587 of Science and infinite power originating them. When realisation of power and dominion and bears fruit is borne out by count midst and ia available to aH. J. A. RICHMOND Health Mrs. Eddy refers to God aa What was the way of the Christ? one is expressing true thoughts be is that he gains a mastery, a freedom, less cases in Christian Science where , omni-action. In a universe where God PIIYS1CIAN aad 8URGEON What was it that instantly released manifesting his at-one-ment with the and a self-control which can be ob sight and hearing have been fully re is omni-action there cannot be any Richmond-Barker Building his patients from sin, deformity, suf Father, and this ie the sign of “Im tained in no other way. stored after they had apparently been suspended action, delayed action, or fering, and death 7 Surely It was manuel, or Gad with as“ (Science and POWER SPIRITUAL AND lost for many years. Coquille, Ore. imperfect action. Mrs. Eddy says, nothing material. He never employed Health, p. 34.) This realisation UNSELFISH HOW JESUS HEALED Phones: Office 82M, Res. 98R “Mind is perpetual motion” (Science any material means, agencies, or brings true freedom. The question of power is one that We And a notable example of how and . Health, p. 240). Mind, Love, methods. It must have been some The understanding of God aa divine has for many centuries engaged the Jesus healed in the ease of the res- . takes an interest in its ideas, sustain J. J. STANLEY thing entirely apart from anything Principle is without doubt one of the thoughts of men. Wars have been toration of the withered hand. Jesus' , ing and maintaining them; hence, LAWYER material in its nature, method, or de highest concepts of Deity which has fought to gain it, countless efforts way was contrary to the usual way. , there could be no stagnation or lack sign. His own words answer the ever come to humanity. Then when and untold sacrifices have been made He did not heal the man and then ask ( Office tn First National Bank of interest. What a feeling of se question fuHy and completely: "The we learn that Love is divine Principle to retain it The Christian Scientist, him to stretch forth his hand. The ( curity we have when we know that Building, Coquille, Oregon Father that dweMeth in me, ho doeth our cup indeed runneth over. though his understanding of divine healing was simultaneous with the our ( Father, infinite good, is all-acting, the works.” It was Jesus’ under DIVINE LOVE IS THE CREATOR Principle, has the golden opportunity obedience. Jesus knew that true sub- and . that the activity of good is the standing of God. the Father, the OF ALL to succeed in the quest of the ages. stance had never been lost; that per- only , activity there is or can be. The Principle is that which creates, Almost »11 efforts to gain power have fection had never been changed; that only source, cause, and origin of all being, { thing that is going on is the un- NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT that enabled him to overcome and constitutes, contains, sustains, and had as their basic motive some selfish true being had never been altered; ( foldmemt of good. The world has for NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that One could purpose, the desire for place, rule, but ia, was, and ever shall be perfect so destroy error and discord of every governs all true being. , long believed in a sort of absentee the undersigned has filed hie Final Account in the matter of the adminis name and nature, and he promised hardly conceive of a more comprehen fame, or wealth. God never blesses and good. And as we see this eternal God , who, after He finished His cre tration of the estate of J. S. Law that if we believed on him. or, in other sive definition of our heavenly Father such selfish purposes or aims. Our fact, we reach forth and lay hold up- ation, . has sort of watched it go on, rence, deceased, and the County Court words, gained the same understand than the one of Principle which Chris textbook tells us, on page 224, “No on those perfect gifts of God which that | the understanding of God as all for Coos County, Oregon, has set Sat tian Science has brought to the world. power can withstand divine Love.” can never be lost or absent. ing, we would be able to do toe same acting ia like a refreshing warm urday, the 20th day of February, works. What a priceless opportunity It shows us clearly that the only cre Divine Love possesses and manifesto. We forsake the false and the un- breese blowing into the icy haunts of 1982, as the day, and the County Court Room in the County Court is ours to know God so accurately and ative power there is, is divine Love.1 al! the power, activity, and mind there worthy when we learn this great fact mortal belief. While we know that House in Coquille, Coos County, Ore definitely that we can follow in our Divine 'Love is the only source, or ori-, jg, and as we realise that our only that all true being is in God and ia creation in finished, yet it is being un gon, as the place for hearing objec Master’s footsteps and win our free gin, of adl that ia real and true. One true business is to reflect and glorify reflected in man. God gives, but nev folded continuously; and while it is tions to said Final Account and the dom as he won hia from every phase has only to think of the so-called op God, His infinite power is available to er withholds anything that is right now complete, yet it will continue fe settlement of said estate. Dated January 12, 1932. of mortality and evil! As our text posites of love to see plainly that di us and for us. AJ1 the power there is, and good. God expresses Himself in unfold through all eternity. O. C. Sanford, books, "Science and Health with Key vine Love is the only creative energy. all the activity there is, all the law completeness, and will never fail to GOOD THE ONLY ACTIVITY Executor of the Last Will and Test to the Scriptures,” tell« us (p. 25): Hate, envy, jealousy, or fear never there is, is working With us and for bestow that which is requisite for ament and of the Estate of J. S. Law This understanding of God as omni create anything. Their whole ten ua in our righteous endeavors to completeness and harmony. It5 When action opens up ways and means of rence, deceased. “Love is the liberator.“ dency is to destroy, engender friction, “glorify (our) Father which ia in Jesus asked the rich young ruler to accomplishing good that are almost GOD THE ONLY CAUSE We all will agree that there is «cre and cause disintegration. They are heaven.“ srfl all that he had, it was not for the limitless. What a joy it is to know Better Butter Brings Business It is almost needlees to say that purpose of depriving him of anything; that Lots ia the only activity, that ator or cause. To conceive of * cre opposed to true, harmonious being. Oregon export! of butter to San ation without a creator is impossible. They are destructive and tearing with such an exalted concept of true for he distinctly promised him that Love alone has influence, power, and The very fact that there is being, or down, never constructive or up build power we never could or would use it ho should have treasure in heaven. control; that Love alone guards, Francisco and Los Angeles increased consciousness, brings with it the irre ing. Hence, we see that divine Love to control or dominate anyone. As we The young man was only to exchange guidqp, and governs; and that hate 18.9 per cent last year over the year futable conclusion that there la a alone is the only creative Mind, power, see that God constitutes all true being the false for the true. When we con cannot influence, control, mislead, or before, while shipments to the same we realise that all His children are form our thinking to the purposes of dominate. Good alone has activity. markets from Idaho last year in source or cause of being. Our text or presence in the universe. LOVE CREATES ONLY GOOD book says on page 170, “Spiritual Improved under the benign control of the one divine Love we can never even seem It is the only power that ia doing any creased only 8 per cent. From this fundamental fact as to infinite Love and that "He doeth al! to lose anything unless we get some quality of Oregon butter is believed causation is the one question to be thing or that ia operating to bring considered, for more than all others the only true creator we can grasp things well.“ We can safely and joy- thing better in its place. How easy anything to pass. Life alone is acting to be responsible for some of this in spiritual causation Mates to human the further fact that afi creation must ouely leave our loved ones to the it is to abandon selfish human win to proasote vigor, health, achievement, crease. How buttermakers can work progrès*.” Indeed, o*e’e concept of be lovely and good. God’s love being Father’s infinite care and root serene and planning, when this great truth and to annul any belief of stagnation, with producers to improve further the causation will to a very great extent; infinite, boundless, and unlimited, it in the divine certainty that Love is is understood! As we understand that impairment, suspended action, or fail Oregon butter quality will be consid dominate his entire life and enter into ( must have an expression or manifes- bringing out that which ia for the God is aa infinite, loving Principle, ure. Mind alone is acting, and is for ered at the annual convention and the very minutiae of his daily affairs, tation. . We could not conceive of an highest good of aH. Personal influ whose srie propose ia to bless His ever expressing Itself In intelligence, short course of the Oregon Butter and What a' boon Christian Science has | unmanifeated or unexpressed love, ence, selfish domination, human will, creation, we may readily abandon our Ice Cream Makers at < Oregon State college February 15 to 18. brought to ua by revealing the true( The very nature of love ie to expreea and jealous fear will thou vanish as way for His way. We de not attempt Christian Science Lincoln’s Great Qualities ar FIRST NATIONAL BANK Professional Cards
