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MEDFOBD MSIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, 'APRIL ?.0, 1934.
ME LECTURE
OF SUPERSTITION
The following lecture, entitled
"Christian Science. Its Case Against
Buperetltutlon." was delivered Thurs
day evening at the Holly theater by
Dr. John M. Tutt, C. S. B., of Kansas
City. Mo., member of the board ol
lectureship or The Mother church.
The First Church of Christ, Scientist
In Boston, Massachusetts:
at the Christian eflence textbook,
"Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" (p. 83), the author, Mary
Baker Eddy, declares, "Between
Chrlntlan Science and all forms of
superstition a great gulf la fixed, aa
Impassable as that between Dives
and Lazarus." The attempt to-bridge
that chasm between the false and
the true may be said to be the error
of the ages. It largely occupies hu-
. manlty today, and Is the proline
source of mortal man's embroilment
with the "decelvableness of un-
. righteousness."
RELIGION AND SUPERSTITION
Throughout material history reli
gion has been compromised and
complicated by superstition. Even
the Christian religion has suffered
from vain endeavors to amalgamate
the Dives of false material beliefs
with the Lazarus of spiritual facts;
and thus Christianity and Christen
dom have been hampered and biased
by Irrational and misleading beliefs
leading to foolish or Idle practices.
The religious Instinct Is, too often,
mankind's concession of Its own in
sufficiency. Soon or late every mor
tal recognizes and acknowledges
that Inadequacy. Religion is a bowing
before a power, outside human self,
and an adoration of it, or else a fear
of it. One yields to a stronger power
only through love or fear. The fear
Is firmly grounded In the case of
falsa gods, for the worshiping 01
Idols brings disastrous consequences
noon their worshipers, Hongion, ac
knowledging as it does, that power
of God. outside one's self, calls for
faith as well as reason. One's reason
may tell one there Is such a power
one's belief about that power may
be a faith in good, or In evil, or a
mixture of both. When the religious
belief Is replaced by perception or
understanding, faith Is glorified into
true Science. Science Is Knowledge
of facts, truths. Superstition Is that
which stands outside facts, uence,
superstition is always to bo reckoned
as false belief. Belief In the un
known is superstition, as St. Paul
Indicated when he declared to the
men of Athens, "I perceive that in
all things ye are too superstitious;"
or, as the Revised Version has It,
"very religious." Paul thus correctly
. estimated the Athenian religion, be
cause he had observed their statue
erected "to the unknown God." Su
perstition and false religious beliefs
are inseparable and are one, because
superstition Is always a false belief
in a power outside orVs self, over
which one has no control, and of
which one has no understanding.
The false belief may be one of good
or of evil, but all ignorant, or son
understanding, beliefs are supersti
tions. Against all forms of super
stition Christian Science thunders
. this omnipotent fact: Neither God
nor His creation Is Inscrutable I No
truth Is past finding out
THE GREAT INSIGHT OP
MARY BAKER EDDY
This was the great insight of Mary
Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and
Founder of Christian Science: that
true religion Is the search for, and
the understanding of absolute good,
God and His manifestation, man
and the universe; that God, cause,
producing intelligent acts, must be
divine Mind; that since It is the sole
province of Mind to know, Ood's
creation must be comprised In
His thoughts alone; .that, therefore,
all real existence Is divinely mental;
hence a finite creation, or a world
of matter, including mortal man,
must lie outside the realm ot real
ity; It must be falsely hypothetical,
.1 misstatement or misunderstand
ing of the facts of being. So, on the
one side, Mrs. Eddy found true re
ligion, and on the other, false re
ligious beliefs, or superstitions. And
as In the Bible she found the spirit
ual revelation of the truth about
God and man, even so from the
Scriptures she discovered the effi
cacy of the idea of Truth, Christ,
to correct the misunderstanding, tha
misstatement, and so to save mor
tal man from the dire effects of evil
and Its Inevitable superstitious be
liefs. Through the healing of her
ow-. physical disorders Bolely by
spiritual means, she discovered and
made plain to human understanding
the full gospel of Christ, healing
and preventing sin, sickness, dis
cord, all evil. Do you wonder that
Christian Scientists love Mrs. Eddy?
Consider that she has thrown the
beam of Truth into the dense dark
ness and superstition of their former
lives, and has Initiated for them the
establishment of the kingdom of
heaven on earth, the forever unfold
ing of eternal bliss, life unafraid.
Through the crystal clarity of her
splritual-mlndedness and the pu
rity of her life, the whole world Is
experiencing the enlightenment of
understanding. As superstition fades
tho world Is Joyfully proclaiming. In
the words of Jesus, "We know what
we worship."
THE UNIVERSALITY OP
RELIOION
Superstitions, then, broadly speak
ing, partake of the nature of false
religion, whether or not they are
admittedly so. Also we conclude that
all false beliefs are superstitions. Ac
cording to the Bible, the whole of
actual existence Is comprised in God
and His creation, for St. John de
clares that "without him was not
any thing made." Christian Science
reveals that a right understanding
of God Is religion In the absolute.
Outside that absoluteness all Is
superstition or false beliefs. Indeed
It Is Itself an absurdity to imagine
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an outside of the Infinite omnipres
ence, the all-Inclusive God. Human
life, so called. Is a seeming mingling
of true religion and superstition In
varying degrees in individual human
consciousness, an evolution of false
beliefs out of themselves, a disap
pearance of them as the enlighten
ment from the coming of Truth,
Christ, goes on. Thus, as In the par
able Jesus told, the material riches
of Dives become poverty, utter lack,
In the illumination of spiritual
sense, whilst tho material poverty of
Lazarus Is replaced by the affluence
of spirituality. And so In Christian
Science all human life, In Its varied
activities, becomes religious. All
human living and doing Is glori
fied Into Christian endeavor, and
even the most menial tasks prove
opportunities to let Lazarus, spirit
uality, be magnified, and Dives, the
type of superstitious beliefs, be min
imized, reduced even to the point
of disappearance. Reducing evil to
such a point Is possible because evil
is essentially nothing, a mere nega
tion of good.
GROSS SUPERSTITION
OBSOLETE
Whether we are students of Chris
tian Science or not, wo probably
pride ourselves on a lack of super
stition. And indeed it Is true that
we may have quite abandoned the
simpler forms. We perhaps feel no
fear of walking under a ladder, of
spuung salt on the table, of seating
thirteen at dinner, of undertaking a
Journey on Friday the thirteenth.
Although we may deplore the break
ing of a mirror, we do not expect
from it seven years of bad luck; and
to encounter a black cat sends no
chilling premonition of evil up our
spines. Wq are quite free of all such
raise beliefs and may even Incline .to
feel superior to those not so enlight
ened. Are we not likely to assure
ourselves: Thank God, I am not
superstitious? But wait pride go
eth before a fall I To avoid that
fall let us take account of our posi
tions, lest having rid curselves of
the grosser forms of superstition we
may neglect to deal with the refine
ments or subtler phases thereof.
MORE SUBTLE ASPECTS OF i
SUPERSTITION
Israelltish history, as unfolded In
the pages of the Bible, may be con
sidered a relation of the warfare be
tween Science and superstition.
Again and again were the people
turned, by wise kings, from the evils
of superstition into which they, had
oeen plunged by foolish kings, and
Into which they were led by inter
marriage with the heathen round
about. These reformers tore down
the Idols and reinstated true reli
gion. But the groves and high places,
representing the most subtle forms
of Idolatry, the refinements of su
perstition, were usually left, even by
tne oest or the Kings. In the la
conic language of the Scriptures:
"Howbelt the high places were
not taken away: as yet the peo
ple did sacrifice and burnt Incense
on the high places." Jeremiah cries
In indignation, "Hast thou seen
that which backsliding Israel hath
done? she is gone up upon every
high mountain and under every
green tree, and there hath played
the harlot." And thus the elements
of weakness remained to break their
morale In times of enemy attack,
causing repeated defeats and cap
tivities. We need earnestly to con
sider whether we are not also re
taining the groves and high places,
whore we turn from the true Science
of Christ to adulterous beliefs, wor
shiping them as did tho faithless Is
raelites, under every green tree.
Science and Health tells us (p. 167)
that "only through radical reliance
on Truth can scientific healing
power bo realized." Paul had against
nun, oerore King Agrippa, what
Governor Festus himself said were
only accusations of the Jews out of
their own superstitions. Yet Paul ap
pealed to Caesar and thus forfeited
his freedom. For after hearing Paul
himself present his case, King
Agrippa declared to Festus,. "This
man might have been set at liberty,
If he had not appealed unto Cossar."
And so every mortal Is prone to have
a superstition to which he turns, In
times of stress, Instead of clinging
steadfastly to Truth. Mrs. Eddy
once said that the great need was
for "Inflexible practitioners." These
superstitions may be adopted out of
the great storehouse of mortal be
liefs, or may be adaptations peculiar
to one's self no matter which for
they are, one and all, decoys of the
carnal mind, deflecting human con
sciousness from the safety of the
universal and all-inclusive and in
evitable good.
THE GREAT TRANSGRESSION
In the nineteenth Psalm, David
asks: "Who can understand his
errors? cleanse thou me from secret
faults. Keep back thy servant also
from presumptuous sins; let thom
not have dominion over me: then
shall I be upright, and I shall be
Innocent from the great transgres
sion." We may consider that secret
faults are ignorant, unconscious and
Involuntary error, or as Mrs. Eddy
has termed It, animal magnetism, or
mesmerism; whilst presumptuous
sins are malicious, conscious and
voluntary animal magnetism, or
mesmerism. According to tho Scrip
ture, secret faults and presumptuous
sins constitute for each Individual
the great transgression. Mrs. Eddy's
general classification of error as ig
norant and malicious, involuntary
and voluntary, unconscious and con
scious, needs no additions; nor Is
evil properly susceptible of further
classification. Tho following subdi
visions are not meant to enlarge
upon the kinds of mesmerism so
completely covered by the Christian
Science textbook; they are more In
the nature of analytical Illustra
tions, and are discussed here because
they are properly to be catalogued
as superstitions "htch Christian
Science destroys. The subdivisions,
touching as they do, on certain as
pects of material psychology, or the
workings of the human mind, show
the counterfeit character of psychol
ogy as taugnt in tne schools, in con
trast to true psychology, or the Sci
ence of divine Mind and its Ideas, as
taught In Christian Science.
Here let me say that Mrs. Eddy
did not originate the term "animal
magnetism." Many thinkers of her
game of the season yesterday when
thay took IS to 4 decision from ,
tj-.e first Christian chunJi learn on
Jackson school diamond.
The Churchmen garnered three
run In the opening trait, but were
I unable to eke out only one, more
(marker In the balance ol the content.
! Russell end Heath . occupied the
day, and prior to her time, wrote on
the subject. But she alone saw that
animal magnetism, and its synony
mous terms such as mesmerism,
hypnotism, thought transference,
mental suggestions, needed to be ex
posed as false, superstitious beliefs
in order to free humanity from the
dire effects of belief in them as real
ities. For that important reason
Mrs. Eddy dealt with animal mag
netism, but only to expose Its falsity.
and denounce It as powerless and
unreal. Thus she alone has dealt
with animal magnetism adequately.
Throughout her writings she has re
pudiated the false belief that evil
has power to be anything, or to do
anything, and has held to the great
fact In the Science of Being, that
omnipresent and omnipotent good
means no presence and no power to
evil.
GENERAL AND INDIVIDUAL
BELIEFS
We should bear in mind always
that all superstitions are false be
liefs, even as all false beliefs are
superstitions. They are held pri
marily In universal mortal mind and
are both general and Individual. In
dividual beliefs. are illustrations of
general or universal beliefs even
though they may seem particular to
the Individual. In so far as the In
dividual Is concerned, his beliefs, al
though always adapted from gen
eral mortal mind, are peculiarly his
own. Hence no two individuals think
exactly alike. Nevertheless all erro
neous concepts are related, being
-cnips or the old block," mortal
mind. And affinity, attraction, and
consanguinity are universal amongst
false beliefs. Thus is established an
other old saw, "Birds of a feather
flock together."
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VERSUS
CONSENTANEOUS BELIEFS
We may conceive of general be
liefs as the composite thought of
mortals, agreeing in common con
sent. Again, we may have the par
ticular consent of the Individual to a
so-called law of mortal mind. Thus
we have what Mrs. Eddy terms
"consentaneous" human belief (Sci
ence and Health, p. 553). The real
man Is acquainted only with good
and consents only to the action of
good. In Christian Science we learn
that our immediate privilege and
duty is to withdraw our individual
consent to illusive mass beliefs and
to demand our right of original
thought and independent action. We
must increasingly be in disagree
ment with wrong methods and evil
conditions Imposed upon us through
our conscious or tacit consent. In all
too many tragic Instances are we
consenting unto the death of Christ,
Truth, In our consciousness, and so
living In the deep darkness of super
stitious belief in the inevltableness
and the action of evil. Christian Sci
ence teaches that no evil can befall
us without our Individual consent
Withdrawal of consent Is Immunity
from all evil. Such escape Is full
the conclusive evidence of withhold
ing of consent. So, for example, we
may escape contagion and epi
demics, which Mrs. Eddy describes
as "common consent" (Miscellane
ous Writings, p. 328). And so we may
find peace and plenty where, In the
mesmerism of consentaneous beliefs,
strife and want may seem to abound.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VERSUS
OU8TOMARY BELIEFS
.Closely allied to consentaneous
belief Is "customary belief" (Science
and Health, p. 220) which In the
Christian Science textbook Is termed
"misnamed material law." Science
and Hoalth also declares, "Custom,
education, and fashion form the
transient standards of mortals"
(p. 247). Customary beliefs are,
then, transient, which fact is In
deed comforting to us when we con
sider how difficult It may seem to
break from standardization of
thought and conduct. Some hotels
post signs In bathrooms with the
legend: "This bathroom Is standard
ized." How significant of the legend
of our lives I We are customized and
conventionalized, often helplessly
subservient to the decrees of fashion
In thought, religion, business, medi
cine, ethics, and ideals. Even our
clothes are too often prescribed by
custom, and we are proscribed
thereby from independence and
spontaneity, without which human
life Is tragedy Indeed. Such things
may be less important, but consider
the Imperative necessity to breok
with the customary beliefs called
laws of matter, which bind mortals
to the superstitions of sin, disease,
discord, and even death. Christian
Science reveals that man has the
Ood-glven power to think and act
for himself. That freedom of
thought and action Is his recourse
when confronted by the superstition
of customary beliefs.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VERSUS
ASSOCIATIVE BELIEFS
Consider, now, anothor phase of
belief; that man Is more or less gov
erned by the association of thoughts
and things; that he remembers one
thing, or thought, by Its association
with or relation to another. Material
psychology terms this "association
by similarity or semblance of mental
Impressions, and by continuity or
relation of time and place." But that
false psychology takes no note of
the fact that human memory Is not
a function of the real Mtnd. Divine
Mind already knows, and to the di
vine Mind there Is no past. So man
exists In a constant state of know
ing. He therefore does not need to
recall. Doing things by the psycho
analyst metnoos or material psy
chology Is not Intelligent conduct.
It Li animal magnetism, and Is based
on chemical reaction. The dog. cat,
bird, and flea are trained by asso
ciative animal magnetism a se
quence of animal Impulses, and so
considered, their performance Li not
a display or intelligence. Even so.
much of the habitual conduct and
thought of human beings Is associa
tive animal magnetism. Unin
structed by divine Science we Incline
to think and to do things mechani
cally because of associated sequences
of thought and events and material
objects. ThLi deadly mechanisation
ChrLitlan Science opposes. It heals
humanity of living stereotyped lives.
It sliows the truly scientific associa
tion of all Ideas, their mutual rela
tion, correlation and Interrelation
In divine Mind. By Its appeal to di
vine Intelligence tt brings to human
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thought and action.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VERSUS.
SUGGESTIVE BELIEFS
Another form of error's supersti
tious presentment Is mental sugges
tions. They may be unconscious or
aggressive. Aggressive suggestions
ore likely to be malicious. They are
always active and obtrusive. Mental
suggestions are error's claim that
evil can present Itself specifically to
human consciousness as self's own
thought and so determine action.
Thus even as the cow bird lays her
eggs In the nest of another bird,
error claims to deposit itself In one's
mentality; and so the suggestion
represents itself to be legitimate as
one's own thought or conduct. Sug
gestion Is superstition versus in
spiration. It Is corporeal Impulse
against intuition. It opposes the one
clear call of Intelligence, and man's
singleness of ear to hear that call.
Mental suggestions oppose the In
spired words of Mrs. Eddy (Chris
tian Science Hymnal, No. 304) :
"I will listen for Thy voice,
Lest my footsteps stray."
Always the object of suggestions is
to render one Incapable, or uncer
tain of the call of wisdom. "I will
listen for Thy voice." That one clear
call for you will ring out over the
confused noises of superstitious sug
gestions. "I will follow and rejoice."
The one clear call In any case Is to
maintain the facts of being against
the lies of animal magnetism. This
Is our call, and Truth, Christ, Is the
hope of our calling. To be conscious
of the truth regarding any lie Is to
eradicate that lie, and to strike a
blow at all error.
"Through the harsh noises of our
day,
A low sweet prelude finds Its way"
(Hymnal, No. 238).
Spiritual alertness and activity are
the antidote for mental suggestions.
With right motives one will be dl
vlnely impelled, and certainly, thus
minded, one must be correct in tne
majority of one's acts.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE VERSUS
BELIEFS OF ATTRACTION
The attraction of divine Love
which holds all ideas In relation,
correlation, and Interrelation, In co
Incidence with divine Mind and with
themselves, Is counterfeited In mor
tal mind by the attraction of matter
for Itself. This erroneous hypothesis
Is based on false attraction. There
fore, in belief, certain human men
talities may meet; and when the In
fluence Is wholesome the contact
blesses one and all. Such contacts
ore desirable and may establish the
brotherhood of man. Such contacts
offer opportunity for the realization
of the truth spoken In Mrs. Eddy's
beautiful verse (Hymnal, No. 253);
My prayer, some dally good to do
To Thine, for Thee."
Christian Scientists may hallow
their contacts between themselves,
and with the world,, and bless all
they touch. We cannot avoid the
world's contacts, nor need we wish
to. Jesus prayed for his own, not
that they should be taken out of the
world, but that they be kept trom
the evlL Christian 8clence has come
to reconcile our contacts with our
fellow men; to take away beliefs of
false attraction; to replace them
with splritual-mlndedness, compas
sion, love, kindness, consideration,
unselfishness. The practice of
ChrLitlan Science Is a synonym
for service. We must learn to touch
the hearts of our fellow men to
higher Issues only. Thus nothing Is
lost and all Is gained, and that is
Christian Science. But unhallowed
by Science, human life is beset by
erroneous belief of attraction, and
tho way out Is through prayer and
demonstration. There Is a time for
all human acts and conditions, and
they terminate duly. Pray for that
intuition which marks the coinci
dence of J,he human with the divine,
and reveals the hour and the way
both "for every procedure and for
every deed. We neod to bear In mind
Jesus' example; he was always
guided by unerring wisdom. Mortal
mind strove ceaselessly to set up
destructive Influences, but Jesus
poured the oil of spiritual love and
healing Into his human relation
ships. Bnd when another's unrespon
siveness made the contact appar
ently fruitless, afte.' he went all the
miles, he turned to more fruitful en
deavor, as he counseled his follow
ers to do. But he first went all the
miles. Mrs. Eddy, likewise, as a true
follower of the Master, went all the
miles. Even so, let us be sure that we
go all the miles. Even though we are
led to sever the contact where mis
understanding and Irritation persist,
nevertheless we should tmpersonal
lze the seeming source of error, and
remember that the person or thing,
in any such cose. Is but a decoy of
mortal mind to cover Its Intent to
destroy, through hate and fear of
one's fellow man. Oftentimes we
may, by destroying erroneous Influ
ences, turn hatred Into love, enmity
into friendship. But If not, then let
us remember that the world Is wide,
and there Is room for all to live and
act. Remember that If, finally, we
have thus to turn from Individuals
and leave them to God and the logic
of events, evil's seeming attachment
to persons Is destroyed In our
thought, is wholly overbalanced, by
Love's attraction for good; and har
monious relationships of truo serv
ice and cooperation will be demon
strated. There Is olways compensa
tion for any seeming loss; Indeed
there Is no loss, no breaking of rela
tionship in the unity of being which
Is God and man. Mind and Its Ideas.
CHRISTIAN 8CTENCE VERSUS
POSSESSIVE BELIEFS
Possessive beliefs are superstitions
based on the false hypothesis that
man can possess or be possessed by
a person, a demon, a passion, a cor
poreal Impulse, or a wrong motive.
Possessive beliefs are demoniacal,
because they operate to enslave.
The beliefs that one ran be subject
to another person, or be enslaved by
false appetites, drugs, evil practices,
and habits, these are Instances of
possessive animal magnetism. All
forms of slavery are resultant from
the entertainment of possessive be
liefs. And there Is only one cure,
namely self-possession, that Is, self
government and self-control under
divine Principle. To possess one's
self Is to put to rouf all the claims
of selfish gain or exclusive ororjertv
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rights. The qualities of divine Mind
are the common possession of all
God's children; and possession, In
all Its good and proper interpreta
tion, is preeminently an attribute of
man, for he literally has, by reflec
tion, all that the Father has, domin
ion over all even over himself.
Thus to control or kee; one's self is
to relieve others of the necessity
of keeping one. So self-possession
destroys false responsibility of oth
ers towards U7 and of us towards
others. "Am I my brother's keeper?"
asked Cain. And Christian Science
answers yes, and no. By helping
one's self the possibilities of helping
one's brother are released for his
service. We help our brother, then,
first by keeping ourselves, by reliev
ing him of the necessity to care for
us, and secondly, by unselfed service
of our brother. Self-care Is highest
unselfishness. Actually God's man Is
self-sufficient, by virtue or his ex.
presslon of the All-suftlclency. All
things must be earned to oe pos
sessed. Man earns his self-suffi.
clency, even as he earns his happl'
ness, by his expression, of omni-
action. Waiting, Micawber-Uke, for
something to turn up, Is a supersti
tion based on the belief of possess
ing something for nothing. It Is a
denial of God s law of compensation.
It denies the fact that "whatsoever a
man soweth, that shall he also (reap."
And without sowing there is no
reaping. Mrs. Eddy tells us (Miscel
laneous Writings, p. 307), "God gives
you His spiritual Ideas, and in turn,
they give you daily supplies." The
right sense of possession fills our lives
with gratitude and unselfishness,
but our Leader has warned us that
"we cannot conceal the ingratitude
of barren lives" (Science and
Health, p. 4). Gratitude Is the true
sense of possession and Is expressed
properly m unseireo, productive,
self-controlled, well-kept lives.
We must remember that error is
never a possession, but always a
false belief, claiming that It possesses
us or that we possess it. Neither the
possessed nor the possessor is a per
son, but always a false belief. Whose
belief, we may ask? Whose, indeed,
but yours, if you see or feel it? It Is
the possession of the one who
adopts it and acknowledges it as nis
own. Never claim possession of any
thing you should not have, for you
can never really possess anything
except by reflection of substance, of
good. To claim evil as your own is
always a superstition, since such
possession could never be a fact
POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF
THE DAY
Instances of the various forms of
erroneous beliefs may be noted In
some of the popular superstitions of
today, many of which have come
down from yesterday. One of these
superstitions is that man Is a ma
chine. We are repeatedly, and some
times heatedly, reminded by the
health authorities and enthusiasts,
that although we take the best of
care of our automobiles and ani
mals, we are prone to neglect our
bodies. - Our government is urged to
compel us to care for our bodies ac
cording to the formulas of medical,
hygienic, and sanitary superstitions
of today. Yet that man Is a machine
Is a rank superstition. Such a claim
Ignores mental Identity and the, fact
that the body is properly subject to
the thought of the Individual, and
actually Is a mobile product thereof.
Each mortal embodies his thought,
and he thinks himself ill or well, In
human belief, and thus he Is a iaw
to himself. He may change that be
lief of sickness Into one of health
and back again, and no amount or
kind of treatment can reach his
body except through his thought
Christian Science evolves all that
error of belief out ot Its claim to
existence. Christian Science reveals
the fact that the divine Intelligence,
holding man eternally In perfection,
acts on the human body by correct
ing the false beliefs, and thus ex
cludes disease, fatigue, wear, and
tear. So the body Is restored to nor
mality. Reflecting divine law, every
man becomes a law ot good alone to
himself, and in that enlightenment
he routs superstition.
-Another popular superstition is
the slogan of the public health
propagandist: Health Is purchas
able. Heaith Is, literally, wholeness,
or completeness, and Is the expres
sion of man's being and functioning.
Man remains always well, because
God remains so. That completeness
and unchangcablencss Is the law of
exclusion to disease; hence the Im
possibility of man being sick. By
this same law ot exclusion of error
mortal man Is saved from and
healed of sickness, by the realization
of the all-incluslveness of health.
Health is then not purchased or
purchasable It Is not a commodity;
It Is the forever fact, and need only
be acknowledged and realized to be
founi so, even in human conscious
ness and body. But for material
selt'knowledge, for delving into
body, and theories of pathology and
physiology, one may pay the price
of physlcai health and comfort and
be Immeasurably the loser thereby.
Another medical superstition Is
the popular refrain, "A clean tooth
never decays." Thus the unwary Is
deceived Into following the decoy of
physical hygiene to the exclusion of
handling tne real enemy or tne
teeth, mortal mind. While It Is true
that a genuine Christian Scientist
will keep his teeth clean, Just as he
will cleanse his Body and clothing
and be scrupulous In his warfare
against all forms or dirt yet he will
be equally wise In handling the mes
meric beliefs of whatever sort;
which superstitions alone, not dirt,
causo the decay. Ho will refuse to
agree that teeth decay from dirt, or
from chemical reaction, or from
poisons generated by disorganiza
tion of food stuffs, from too much or
too Utile of this or of that He will
wisely center his fire on the old
enemy, mortal mind, working mes
merlcally In human consciousness,
under cover of decoys such as "a
clean tooth nover decays." He needs
onlv note the proverbially perfect
white teeth of the notlve African,
and other aborigines, who certainly
are not in a position to see their
dentists twice a year and the case of
the white inhabitants of the South
Atlantic islands, Tristan da Cunha.
where a recent survey disclosed that
tooth brushes, decayed teetl., and
dental faddlsti were unknown.
ITALENT
fled Lions won t:
heir e-x-
1 ond game
ot the season
Sunday
There Is a widespread superstition
that exercise conduces to health.
This decoy Is sent out by mortal
mind to Induce one to concede to the
superstition as a mortal law danger
ous to Ignore. The victim does not
realize that it is far more dangerous
to give It the power of law than to
Ignore it. The wise Christian 6 Jen
tist will neither concede It as law
nor Ignore Its false claims. He will
bake no exercise-as such, but will be
normally active in pursuit of his
Intent He will use his legs and feet
for their evident purposes, namelyt
to convey him. He will walk, or play,
for the sheer Joy ot recreation, or
he will walk when he needs to do so,
but never with the thought that he
Is thus operating under or comply
ing with laws of health. A survey of
the teaching force In a certain great
university revealed that the seden
tary, desk, and laboratory workers
enjoyed the best health, and, nota
bly, by far the longest span of life.
THAT ONE BIG PROBLEM '
We are told in Science and Health
(p. 419), "Never fear the mental
assassin." The carnal mind is the
mental assassin always. True to its
deceptive nature, mortal mind Is
forever drogging a red herring
across the trail of Its destructive
intent, in order to mislead mortal
man Into giving attention to the de
coy, fearing it, caring for it, or ag
gressively contending against It,
while the real assassin Is left to pur
sue Its murderous purpose "a mur
derer," as Jesus put It, "from the
beginning."
In every human life there is usu
ally some one big problem, some
siren to whose dulcet tones the vic
tim listens enraptured, or to whose
horrific bedlam he turns and ever
returns a fascinated ear. It may
Involve the attraction of sin, the
love of It, or the fear of it the
pleasures and the pains of this
world. It may Involve a false sense
ot responsibility the cares of this
world. It may be In particular a
physical defect, a handicap of age,
temperament, environment It may
be a combination of many little
errors, or it may be one big obstacle,
an outstanding unfinished business.
It may be a belief of lack of oppor
tunity, vision, the conduct or mis
conduct of others or of one's self.
But back of it all is the real cul
prit, mortal mind, dragging a red
herring across the trail. Thus one Is
deflected into believing, for exam
ple: Here is a person seeking to
defraud, harm, deprive, and even
assassinate me I Thus he comes to
believe wrong or malpractice is of
and from the other fellow always,
whilst he himself Is absolved. So oc
cupied, he forgets that what a mor
tal. sees Is out of his own state and
stage of consciousness and can have
no other reality than its appearance
to him. To defeat the mental assas
sin, mortal mind, we need, then, tc
consider the world of matter, oi
things and persons, as inclusive ol
only the false beliefs we have ac
cepted at the hands of mortal mind
The center of the world upon whose
horizon we. look is our own thought
through whose mental eyes mortal
mind seeks to become real to us.
Trust not those eyes; they are fool
ing thee!
Is your world comprised In some
physical disorder? Does your par
ticular one big problem seem impos
sible of solution, even Impossible to
bear? And does the horizon premise
to1 clear if that one big thing could
only be out of the way? A decoy I
Does the problem seem to be a lack
of supply, an Insufficient income, an
oversuftlcient outgo? Another de
coy! What we really need Is activ
ity and accomplishment. We need
to produce and to feel the ade
quacy, the affluence, the Joy of
achievement. There Is no lack In
hard work, nor of It, and Science
and Health reminds us, I repeat,
that "we cannot conceal the in
gratitude of barren lives." Rightly
considered, the one big problem be
comes an incident, important it may
be to dispose of, but still an Incident.
The cure for most unhappmess, and
even for disease, is self-forgetful-ness.
Selfishness and self-thlnklng
are at the bottom of all family trou
bles, whether marital, the church, or
In the larger aspects of the human
family: and always both sides are
involved, for it is no more the proper
Dart of man to see a quarrel than
to seek one, or to see an obnoxious
person than to be one. Is some
thing, anything, claiming to come
between you, my friend, and your
iov. peace, enthusiasm, duty? Just
a decoy, whatever It may claim and
however Inexorable and Important
it may seem. Remember that noth
ing is important enough to worry
over I The truth about you Is al
ways exclusive of the superstitions.
The truth Is the counterfact about
the one big problem, and that truth
Is to be sought and seen, and not
the error.
CONCLUSION
Finally, let us sum up the case of
Christian Science against Supersti
tion in these words Irom Mrs. Eddy s
Message to The Mother Church for
1900 (p. 10) : fc-vil is illusion, mat
after a fight vanlsheth with tho
new birth of the greatest and best."
The greatest and best can be none
other than the truth as revealed in
Christian Science. This is the blessed
assurance which Christian science
brines to vou. and to me. and to all:
The great spiritual Insight of Mary
Baker Eddy may be ours If we dili
gently seek to see and to be the
man God made In His own image
and His own likeness. It is your
proper function, and mine, to be
Just like God. Take heart, mv
friend I No fight with truth Is evei
lost; no fight against truth Is ever
won. For Truth Li always trium
phant Even though Truth should
seem to fall. Truth is still true anc
error Is always untrue, a superstl
tlon. Illusive and provably unrea'
Hold fast to Truth then, and dem
onstration, full and complete, mui
follow even on the heels or seemln-
defeat As Mrs. Eddy has put 1
(Miscellaneous Writings, p. IB) : "Hi
who has named the name of Chris!
who has virtually accepted the di
vine claims of Truth and Love In dl
vine Science. Is dally departing frorr
evil; and all the wicked endeavor
of suppositional demons can nevei
change the current or tnat we rrom
steadfastly flowing on to Ood, lui'
divine source."
j afternoon, defeating Talent 13 to 8
jon the latter'a field. The Ullmore
iboya Initiated their new bt' present
; ed them by C. W, "Chuck" Ellis, by
ringing out 18 hits, little Chuck
; Ward got four htte, and four runs,
j.out or 6 times at bat.
Xet Sumisy the l.lons will go 'o
, Ensic rolnt, to mtet that towu's ag
' (relation.
G. PASS, 12 TO 6
IN LOCAL OPENER EGAN ENTERED IN
Climate City Outfit Starts
Well, But Fails to Hold
Pace Hoffard Does
Heavy Hitting for Rogues
The Medford Rogues handed Ken
Williams' Grants Pass Merchant one
of the worst lacings a Grants Pass
team has suffered In several years,
when they defeated the Climate City
boys 12 to 6 yesterday at the Fair
grounds. Although the day was cold, with
threatening showers, one of the
largest crowds to witness a game In
recent years, was on hand. With the
exception of dropping the first ball
from a plane, everything went off on
schedule. Mayor Wilson took the
mound at 3:30, and on his fourth
pitch "Poke" Nininger, league presi
dent, laced out a single. Chief of
Police McCredie had very little trouble
catching the mayor's fast one.
The Fass boys started out wtlh a
bang, scoring four runs in the first
inning on an error, a base on balls
and successive hits by McCarthy,
Ogle and Droulette. The four runs
looked like enough to win the bail
game. However, tho Rogues snapped
out of It and scored one run In their
half of the first inning when Joanis
walked and scored on Hoffard 's two
base hit.
In the third Inning Courtney
reached first on an error by Chaney
and scored on Hoffard's single to
center, and when Santee let Haight's
fly ball gt away from him the
Hoosler romped across the plate for
score numer three. The home boys
took the lead In the next Inning
when three runners crossed the plate.
With McLean, Courtney and Joanis on
base, Santee dropped Hoffard's fly in
deep right for his second error of the
game and all three runners scored.
The Rogues had their big inning
in the eighth when they put the game
on Ice by scoring six runs on five hits
and two walks.
Hoffard. with three hits, was the
hitting star of the game. McLean
hit safely twice, and beside pitching
a beautiful game, gave the fans an
exhibition of how a pitcher should
field his position, handling nine
chances without an error.
Prizes, put up by the merchants
were won by the following players,
Hoffard, due to his heavy stick work
coming in for the lion's share:
Hand-made tie, given by the Tog
gery for first base on balls, won by
Eddie Joanis.
Shirt from Mann's Dept. store for
first two-bass hit, won by Hoffard.
Four passes to Craterian won by
Joanis for scoring first run.
Waverly cap, donated by J. C.
Penney for player driving In first
run, won by JToffard.
Dinner for two a Franklin's cafe
for first stolen base, won by Haight.
Hoffard also gets hair cut and
shave for first hit of game from
Brown's Barber shop.
Grants Pass.
AB H R PO A E
Chaney, ss 6 0 2 1 1 3
McCarthy, tf-rf ... 5 2 1 0 0 0 1
Ogle, 3 4 2 2 4 1 0
Droulette, c 3 2 1 0 2 2
Blevins, 1 4 0 0 3 0 0 1
Garrett, 2 ... 5 1 0 3 0 0
Santee, rf ...... 3 0 0 1 0 3
Powers, If 2 0 0 0 0 0
Ostrum, cf 3 1 0 3 0 0
Earhart, p 2 0 0 0 0 0
Nelson, p ,.,.... 2 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 33 8 6 24 5 7
Medford Ropues.
AB H R PO A E
Joanis, If 4 1 3 0 0 0
Courtney, 1 4 13 9 10
Swanson, 3 ....... 4 0 0 0 2 1
Hoffard. cf 6 3 2 2 0 0
Hughes, rf 4 10 10 0
Haight. ss 4 0 0 5 1 1
Hlllen, 2 .401212
Joy. c 3 116 0 0
McLean, p 2 1 2 2 9 0
Totals 34 8 12 27 14 4
Summary Struck out, by McLean,
6: Earhart, 6; Nelson, 3. Base on
5 (Sj
A Fitting
Last Tribute
WHEN loved one Is gene, It Is diffi
cult to be praetleal, to plan wisely
the last services. And It Is un
necessary to be troubled by such details
for they may safely be enlnnted to us.
CONGER
FUNERAL PARLOR
WEST MAIN AT NEWTOWN
Solicited for membership In Order of
Oolden Rule and declined.
baUi, off McLean, 6: Earhart, 3: Kel
son. 8. Hit by pitcher, Haight by
Earhart, Two-base hits, Hoffard.
Stolen bases, Chaney, Haight, McLean.
Innings pitched, by Earhart, 31-3,
Nelson, 4 2-3, McLean 0. Winning
pitcher, McLean. Losing pitcher, Nel
son. Umpires, Huff and Richardson.
BRITISH AMATEUR
STARTING MAY 21
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland. April SO.
(P) Members of the American Walls,
er cup team who arrived here last
night and the usual contingent of
American touri:t amateurs are among;
the 225 entries announced today for
the British amateur championship at
Prestwlclc Scotland, starting May 21.
Captain rrands Oulmet ot the
Walker cup men and his teammate
Ous Moreland will clash in the first
match, meaning that one American
will be eliminated from the title
chase.
In the other first round matohea,
members of the team and their op
ponents are:
Chandler Egan of Medford, Ore., and
James Wallace of Troon; Jaclc West
land and Robert Harris, well known
British amateur; Oeorge Dunlap,
American amateur champion, and G.
A. P. Walsh of Calcutta; Lawson Lit
tle and R. W. Ripley of Banstead
Downs; Johnny Goodman, American
open champion, and William Robb
Mosley; Max Marston and D. R. H.
Martin ot Knole Park; and Johnny
Fisher and Graham Patrick Stirling.
All the Walker cup men meeting
foreign foes are figured to win their
first round matches.
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BASEBALL
Yesterday's Results
Los Angeles 5-8; Sacramento 3-4.
Portland 7-2; Hollywood 4-6.
Missions 6-15; Seattle 1-2.
San Francisco 4-3; Oakland 0-2.
Where They Open Tuesday
Seattle at Portland.
Oakland at Sacramento.
Los Angeles at Mission.
San Francisco at Hollywood.
National League Standing
W.. L. Pet.
Chicago 9 2 .818
New York 7 3 .700
Pittsburg 5 4 .558
Brooklyn 5 5 .500
Boston .... - .. 4 ' 4 .500
Cincinnati ...... 3 7 .300
St. Louis 3 7 .300
Philadelphia 2 8 .200
Yesterday's Results
At Boston 6. New York 4. .v
At Philadelphia 7. Brooklyn 8.
At Pittsburgh 9. Cincinnati 5.
At Chicago 4. St. Louis 9.
American League Standings
W.. L. Pet.
Detroit 8 3 .807
Cleveland 5 3 .625
New York 6 4 .800
Washington 0 5 .545
Boston ........ 5 5 .500
St. Louis 4 4 .500
Philadelphia 4 7 .384 ,
Chicago 3 6 .333
Yesterday's Results
At New York 3, Boston 2.
At Washington 7, Philadelphia 6.
At Detroit 1, Cleveland 7.
At St. Louis 6, Chicago 2.
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Bleep good. Quick, thorough ac
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