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'7- «'«ta»'- - A ■■ k ' » « * u A .' » X ». i. ■ • KM ■ .’’ch”1 •» ?MEa m «xmua | aaaa > Letter nom Mrs. « «• te ™ z ■= Marvc ObcrtGUffcr CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LEC r»AW. Uvn turejaaot evening I (Conttnuad from Page Five) t i . I ai limited human experience is what la!' ■ Illi IVI VUVI tVUIIVl happening in an infinitely greater degree to all-those who, when in I Mrs. Birdie Skieels again permits trouble, turn to the love of our the Sentinel to print, extracts from Mother, God. as revealed in Chris letters from her daughter, Mrs. Mar tian Science When you go to a vel Oberteyffer, who has been con-. Christian Science practitioner, be tinuing her voice study in Europe for lieving yourself to be burdened with the past two or three years To sickness, with sin, with s^ame, and ’.hoee of us who. have never' been in with sorrow, tfee practitioner will tall Europe,'■ahd very few here have, you in substance: “Why, this is not tltase. letters from that foraigp land like you, for you are Godlike; It is ire always interesting. ' - ■ in fact so unlike you, the noble, •Mrs. Obertauffer expects to return healthy, harmonious, pure creation to the United States and Coquille of God, that it is not you at all. You this summer: are God’s beloved child in whom He is well pleased, His image and like 7 San Nicolo, Italy, Aug. 6. 1934. ness, therefore you are manifesting Dearest Mother: At last we are strength, goodness, freedom, joy, away from Rome .and in a magnifi abundanme, all the qualities of God.” cent spot in the mountain^, the thing Little by. Httle you will firfd your Tauline, (a girl friend of mine), and self letting go of the false, sinful, I have been dreaming of for the last self-condemning, and sick concept two months in that hot, breathless of yourself, and turning whole Rome. heartedly to the arms of divine Love; We bought a round trip ticket to and your human need, whether it be Colzana. Summer excursion fifty for love, companionship, happiness, 9«r cent reduction and good for two health, supply, on. comfort, will be months, which cost us almost 020.00 met. It was the courage, compassion, ?ach The first night we stopped purity, and tenderness of this di ■WOT at Bologna and spent the eve vine Mother-Love which enabled ning and next morning looking over Mrs. liddy to found her Science on the-eUy. Then at noon, Ayg. 3rd, we the sure basis of Jesus’ command to ■ tool: a train that brought us on to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,- -Bolzana. Bolzana is a city of 50,000 rail-? the dead, and cast out demons. jeople, very beautifully situated with This command can be obeyed only high mountains all around it. through the prayer of faith or under We went to a small hotel that night standing. and, much to our surprise, found ev- Effectual Prayer lyone speaking German. Then we Solomon’s counsel to acknowledge lemerr.bered that this section of Italy God in all our ways- is disregarded was German before the war. Since, when we do not acknowledge Him as .hey have “been attached to Italy, they the only physician who healeth all have been forced to learn the Italian our d . The Lord’s Prayer exr langua^, but in spite of they con .TrLiin1^- presses vely the fa$ tinue to speak .their* own native that God is a ble for every hu- tongue. Practically aU pf them are man need. 1 Christian Sci- real German people. Rehlly, it seem entist the Lord’s Pra is not a pe- ed like being back in Germany again. tition to God to be our but an Pauline and I both started speaking acknowledgment fit th< t He what German we could remember. I is our Father and our Mother^ found that-1 had forgotten a great His kingdom is come, that His g deal—but when I forgot the German and loving will is done, that He sup rd I wanted, I suplied an Italian plies, forgives, and delivers from sin, oneSgnd found they understood me disease, and death. All of you here just the. same. We liked Bolzana so know the Lord's Prayer, so test some well that stayed there Saturday time, if you will, its healing and sav and Sunday til five o’clock when ing power by affirming its statements we took an auUNjus to thia tiny lit- instead of pleading with God to make tle village—only and one-half them come to pass. hours from the city. found out The Lord’s Prayer in its opening about it at a “travel bureau” in Bol- words “Our Father” reveal« man’s rnita and both fell in love spiritual origin and nature. Jesus pictures of the place. proved the truth contained in these We are new settled in a nice h two words "our Father,” for he ex The people who own this 'ptace are emplified the pure, spiritual, immu nice German people. The mother and table nature of man as the son, re- -father still speak German but the flectiom or idea of our Father, God- daughters who wait on the table Jesus also made clear to us the com speak both languages. Patiline and passion of our divine Mother, Love— I are very strange beings to these not by sympathy with, but by the people who live here in the moun destruction of aH that would make tains the year around. To think that man sick, sinful, or sorrowful. He one of us was born in America and bade the widow “Weep not” before I | the other in an English colony in he raised her son. After he had South Africa is almost too much for healed her grief he restored the them. And how wonderful- they young man to his mother. think it is that we can speak Italian So today the Science of Christ, of and German, too. The other people the perfect man, bids us weep not staying here are Italian and German over the temporal and painful families. We are the only unattached nature of a mortal. With true com- people passion it restores us to that divine We have been hiking up the moun Mother-Loye which , holds its child tains but found that we had no forever’ as an- idea of Ufe, as the breath for climbing and had to jest indestructible, spiritual man, of every ten steps. Yesterday I wmt whom God is ever mindful, ilone. I climbed up and up the wood “b Love, oUr Mother, ever near. ed mountain behind the village un To Thee we turn from doubt and til I reached the top and there on an fear! open spot I rested and looked out In perfect peace our thoughts abide; over the most gorgeous landscape I Our hearts now in this truth confide: have ever seen. On one «id« ,those Mania th« child of God.“ > jagged Dolomites looked close enough ßwlfeiiw* * *-l ft I tK |i I ♦ ♦ 4* 'V — ■ g-------------- ■■ = ii “First Woman President” F <r « ..I s> Representatives James W. Mott of Oregon introduces to the world his daughter, bom Monday. January 7th. He says she will be the first woman President of the United States. Little Miss Mott is the first congressional baby born during the new session. The photograph shows the baby at the age of three day«. —Washington Star Staff Photo. -6 ’■tufty.’?* .1~4*. ' 11/ v - ’ » X ■'V 1 Y f*’ * H • i * f A4 R. OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY U. ÎMI. taum i *4 Ï5BS----------------- ■*--------- t • t sws . ‘ ■ • « ......................................................................- 7 ' I I -RS- to touch and on the other side stretch through and ovar them. We passed ing for miles, were the wooded for inrough »he pail wtucu was ah Aus- I ests. with patches of cultivated Ufian ueiore tjw Wai' but now Italian,! ground atound a farm house here pnd apd-where many of the battles be-j tt —r cween Austria and {¡hf ly were fougnt.' there—and several little villages— • “Skin deep alone is their beauty." aroused by last week’« experience ¿veh saw some war <x ...eleries where ! The moat beautiful thing about it was each with TO artistic church spires. writes Mrs. Frances Holmstrom in This morning I went alone again eacn slab contained ll*e namasf, of her latest poem entitled. “Our Snow- that it disappeared in nearly as short across the fields to the other side and abopt twenty poor so.ther» wuo hi»d Psfprm," which she handed to the Sen a time as it fell. - > \ ’ Having »hue expressed our opinion up again to the top of that mountain. died in that vicinity; tinel Tuesday. Her thought that the W. al rI a. am of snow, we wish to add that Mrs. Oh! how I puff. But each ¿»J de- I WTWW — 1 is littU» mminhm on a iak«* covcia ... tenninedjo de a little more for I at a little mountain hotel on a lake another that fits in particularly well Holmstrom’s poem which follows is know there is nothing better in the and 1 went swimming in the take af with ibe aversion to a snow fall. well worth-reading: world to develop my lungs and give ter dark. And I never have felt such OUR SNOWSTORM me perfect breath control for singing. coid water. Needless to say, “I did So softly, softly, soAy, from skies that fit like a pall. n ’ t stay in long. ” '' The second night I forgot to tell you, we Uvo here for »o spiuy. Mnuy, ...... t 10 Hies a day. There are >1.70 Hyes we stayed at Innsbruck, a small Leisurely, lightly, slofvly, the first of the snowflakes fall. in one dollar, so you can see how quaint city in Austria. The third day cheap it is to live here in the moun we passed into Germany and on our Thicker, then thicker and faster, like fairies that fly in their sleep co,d way to Oberammergau visited the Till their wings lie in drifts on the grass-blades and myrtle tains of northern Italy. private castle of King Ludwig II-of and deep. Aug. 12 This is a beautiful Sunday after Bavaria. He was a mad king afid The snowbird’s flight from the thistle a dust of silver brushes noon in the mountains. Today is quite built this gorgeous Httle castle fdk (And the rocky pool inythe garden to .bordered with marble a special day for these country peo himself and permitted no one else til ple for they are having some kind of enter it. He war drowned in one of (The gallant, the gold-e^ed narcissi, the daffodil buds by the walk a celebration. They call it a “Feste.” the lakes near by and no one ever Fly winter's flag above springtime on every leaning stalk. t The band ot this community and of found out whether It was an accident Never has weaver woven such velvet as carpets the street, two other communities have been or if the people of the country got That wears not yet the pattern it will have, of children’s feet, playing just outside our windows all tired of being taxed to poverty for“ day. The band players are, ot course, his foolish extravagance -and just Of sled-runner, tracks, that will pencil its purity all about. composed of all the young boys and quietly put him out of the way. Or the .wreckage of snowballs shattered to the music of laughter and That night, we arrived in Oberam their fathers from the farms, but it * shout, is remarakble how well they play. mergau. The first thing which at Or the mushroom population of snow men, solid and staid, tracted our attention was that all the One band hns Just fi.-.ished playing and even as mushrooms fade Strauss’ “Beautiful Blue Danube” men had long hair. How strange it That will rise and reign on • the grass-plots, »--j,..’ ’ • > • ’ ' and it was hard to believe that a looked to see a man driving a car- The cot where the sad, dark widow dwells with her sorrow alone __ country band had been playing. They, I r**««. riage, or carrying suit cases or riding Has, with an hour of snowing, to a fairy palace grown, I a bicycle, all with long hair and the band players, have green felt hats I • bicycle, all with long hair and You see this play includes Ari0 the house of the Httle old seamstress, with its maple boughs wide- with feathers and flowers stuck up in beards. and bare, the ribbons around the Crown, and over seven hundred people all taken it makes them all look very pictur from this little town. So rather than Wears a mantle as. lovely as she is, as white as her crown of hair. buy wigs for all ot them they let their • » esque. Down in that sodden hollow, waiting dread motherhood. -■ -The women are a «tudy. They all own hair grow in order to look like Crouches the wife deserted, counting her sticks of wood, have long hair pulled straight back tire biblical characters. I don’t know from* the front and braids wrapped whether you know the history of this And back of those sagging porches now burdened with sparkling graces all over the back of their heads. They Passion play or pot. In 1033 a great Are children with broken shoe-soles, and hunger stamped on their faces. * * alb have dark blue or blajk serge jtlague raged in this ^ection of the dresses (and It’s August) with high country. Oberamergag was hit very In a certain quiet acre the blanket folds softly around collars and long sleeves. Then most hard by it. So the elden of the town The carven shaft of granite, the contoiir of grassy mound, of the dress is covered with a blue swore ap oath to God to perform the Whereunder there lies a sleeper why has no grief to forget. gingham, apron. Their shoes are all ‘tragedy of Christ’s cruqjfiction every And waits for a lovelier springtime than jonquil or violet. heavy and laced up high. The queer ten years for the'rest of time, if they thing to me is that the little girls from would only be delivered from this But what know ^ljeav^q-borh snowflakes of the earth-made sorrows they cover? fou^ year« up are «11 dressed the plague. From that moment, deaths The^pext Or the stainless, hushing blanket of the soil, its white lies over? same as their mothers and grand from the plague ceased. mothers. Hair in braid, pinned up in year the people of the 'community In their quiet is only hiding, but never a thought of healing. the back, long, dark dreses, aprops kept their vows for the first time. Skin-deep alone is their beauty, a world uncleansed concealing. and high top shoes. All the women And throughout these three hundred -.< years, they have only failed once and And yet it is God’s finger, that, flake by most beautiful flake, look the. same. Such a treat this is to see these that was during a great war. Out of the cloud overburdened the showering crystals shake, They have built a great theatre mountain people all together. Such T a wholesome, fine type of person. We which seats 5,000 people and each So that He may, down looking, the white perfection see, And dream that the earth it covers is all He would have it be. have had a nice week in this beau performance it is filled to capacity. tiful spot. We always retire right af People come from all over the world ■ * —France« Holmstrom. « ter dinner every night, because there to see the way these mountain people " ........... .................... ............. . is nothing else to do. It’s too dark tell the story of Christ’s passion in Rpmp is much worse.? [ 7 outside to walk on - these country their own way. Must stop now. Love front—Marvel The play begins at 0:15 in the roads, so we usually go to our rooms G. T. COOK ' ■ ■■ ' and read in the evenings. What a life. morning, at the place where Christ Insure your car with Ned C. Kelley Brick Mason No, there is no kidnaping in Eu Is driving the traders out of the tem in a.reliable Oregon stock Company rope as In America.. That’s one thing pi«, telling them it must be a house of - —I* '■ ■ ' ■ i , —j-X— Fireplaces and Chimneys Europeans cannot understand God. And the people realize he is a P. O. Box 62. Coquille WARRANTS'TAKEN American mcntaHty. Here it strong character with a large follow»-) would stopped immediately, but ing. And in order to keep A the are Smaller and they -they were before they must ^fet rid All Repair Wbrk. Parts, Naw 1 have much control over their of him. At 11:30 o’clock it stopped and Uaed Cars people than in the United and we all went for our lunoh’. Then Southwestern Motor Co. States. All, the criminalL at 1:30 it continued and finished at here, leave and go to rica be- five in the evening, including'every ==—; thing through to his resurrection cause there things are from the dead. My! what a powerful wasn’t afraid while walking 1 thing it is! And how much, more in mountains alone because every woman or child I met always greeted teresting it is, and easier to under- I too, seeing it like that than me by saying, “Grusse Gott,” which it in the Bible. means, “God bless, you.* That is al ways their greeting whether they at the home of Doubting got a good picture of know you or not. And how could '"1 they be mean when they are speak him which he tographed. I also got one of the man ing of God? took the part Garda, on Lake Garda, Italy of Christ He also a it. ■>• j We left the next .’■'IJ Of course, you know what a won and on that day we passed out of derful time I have had during this ny vacation through my letters and the into Austria, out of Austria tarn 4. Switzerland, and out of Switzerland many .cards I have sent you. . X.. When I left Rome all- ! asked foi into Italy. How strange to be in four was a place to rest, away from the countries all in one day. But we I noise and heat of a city. Pauline happened to te in that section oí and I found just the right spot and country where they all joined to- That-njiht we there we lived simply, enjoyed na gether. stayed in a ture’s beauties and gained strength. hotel »000 feet above sea 1 level on the We were at an altitude of 1171 me highest road in Europe. The There was DR. J. J. LESLIE mow all around the hotel — and I we al- ters which to about 3500 feet. K J. 4,4 Dentist The Dolomite mountains are, as ydu most froze, 'The next day we ar- know, very much like our Rocky rived back in Bolaano, stayed there -* American Bank Bldg. / telephone 470-L mountains in America. We did so the next day and the following left •J Marshfield. Ore. hate to leave this beautiful spot, but again. We traveled by train that time FRANK A. POOK, Agent Phone 10 felt we much be returning to Rome on our way back to Rome but stopped A after spending almost five weeks over at'Verona because one of the girls was going to Milan, so had to away. On Sept. 5, we decided to go back change trains there. There are some interesting things to Bolzano, which is the city where we left the train, and there we plan o see at Verona. Among them is the Also ned to take an auto bus trip all tomb of Romeo and Juliette. through the mountains. After in the house where Juliette lived. And quiring, we found a young man with we even saw the balcony where the his owh car who would take us at ove scene took place. the same price as the auto bus. so ~ Miss Bauer left Verona Friday but I decided to come to this f decided that would be much nicer. Pauline and .................... The night before we were to go on ake and rest up from I. all our stren- ) this trip. Miss Bauer, another com uous traveling before going back to! panion, suggested that perhaps this Rome. Lake Garda is very close to 1 man would drive us on to Oberam Verona. We have two rooms facing mergau, to see the Passion Play. he beautiful lake for seven lires a When he arrived the next morning lay. which is about -00c. We eat our we asked him, and as he had nothing breakfast here and trfke our other ■ else to do, he made us a price wc wo meals at other places irfthe town. Thia morning we saw the village couldn’t refuse. So we rushed around, changed Italian money into Austrian ■.vomet < doing iheir family Washing l^lhe edge of the lake. They did- and German money, packed our bags n’ftm i to mind the cold water, and were ready to start at ten o’clock _______________ 1 wis so thrilled because I have al They rul rubbed the clothes on funny f ways wanted, to see the Passion Play, little wash boards and knelt on the I had often the world known play, but I didn’t ground back of them. dream I could arrange it that way beard that Was the way some of the Funny how things usually work out village women washed their clothes in Italy and Germany, so now have when there is a great wilVisnt it? The first day we traveled through had the opportunity of seeing them those gorgeous Dolomite mountains do it. * -4 V» J <■ GO EAST SUNSHINE Modern Dentistry Southam Pacific r 1, -/ 1 r with the ,yp of our car down. Just three ladies and our driver. We saw one beautiful snow-capepd mountain after another, and it was so interest ing the way the road wound around, We. plan to go back to Rome next Monday. Don’t know how we can endure the low altitude after being where it was so high Even here the air feels depressing and I know r - « ■ f / z t *9 » •» > ,’J 'A- ■ X * ’ ____
