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vjm Fotnr rEDFOUP WXIL TRTBTTiCE, MEDFORD, OREfiOy. TTEDNTERDAY. TCOYTArBER X 1937. SCOUTS RECEIVE MERIT REWARDS AT HONOR COURT BconU, Sco uter and , friends mt lat ftvenlnf at th court house. Earl 01ml, Medford district secretary, pre sided In absenoe of- Don Newbury, district court of honor chairman. Irv ine P- Beesley, local Scout executive served as court clerk. The following council and district Scout leaders as sisted In presentation of awards: Beth Bui lis, district chairman; George Prey, district finance chairman; Or. B. R. Elliott, deputy district com missioner; Oene ThorndUto, council treasurer; I. D. Jones, council camp ing chairman: E. P. Atone, chairman troop 40, central point committee; Earl Miller, scoutmaster troop 3: Jack Thompson, assistant scoutmaster troop 3; L. 0. Gulp, scoutmaster troop A; B. K. Brugger, scoutmaster troop 7; James Grieve, assistant scoutmaster, troop 19, Upper Rogue and Dale Smith, scoutmaster, troop 40, Central Point. Scout Russell Webber, troop 10, Upper Rogue, received second class badge rank. Richard Roberts, troop B received a second class merit badge for masonry. Scout Hal Jewett, troop 40, Central Point, received first class badge rank. Eagle Scouts Don Young r and Bob Jones of the local Sea Scout ship "S. 8. McLaughlin," each received merit badges In automoMl lng. Joe Beach, troop 35, Jacksonville, received merit badge In first eld to animals and John Salsbury, of the same troop for first aid. Highest rank wards for the evening were made to Scouts Charles Johnson of troop 3 and Prank Dixon, troop 7, each receiving star Scout rating. Prank Dixon pre sented his mother with a special miniature Star Scout mother's pin. Life Seout Gage O. Sanden of troop 86, Jacksonville, was presented his five-year veteran award by Clmmls aloner Prank Hull. Scout Sanden Is a member of the Jacksonville older Scout program of Explorers and has been active In Scouting for almost six years, he reported. Troop 8, Medford, served as "host troop" under Scoutmaster Earl MUlet and Assistant Scoutmaster Jack Thompson conducting the opening and closing presentation of colors, the pledge of allegiance and the Scout oath. The Boy Scout movement Is a member agency of the local Medford area Community Chest. . 200 PLANES USE Medford municipal airport ni uti lised by a 00 plane. In October. It w&j efeown in a report prepared by Thom M A. Oulbertaon, Jr., airport superin tendent, and aubmltted to the city euneu laat night by H. S. Deuel. The planet were classified as fol loin: a national guard. United States navy, 89 United States army. Si private and 134 United mall .and passenger transports. Laying of drain til was completed during the month on the east side of the main runway and on the south aide of tha oross runway, the report said. Laying of drains on the south side Is being continued. Pouring of concrete bases for the new flood-lights Is to be started this week, the report ssld. The Installa tion will provide the best airport flood-light system In Oregon, the re port asserted. E Decision of Ju.tloe of the Peace Wllllsm R. Coleman, In the case of Francis Wlllard Cartsr, Forrest creek resident, on trial yesterday on a charge of failure to stop and render aid at the scene of an accident, on the Jacksonvllle-Ruch highway, early on the morning of Sunday, October . has been taken under advisement until November 8. tn the accident. Miss Clara Mil kowskl sustained head injuries re quiring eleven stttchss. It was charg ed that Carter, after striking the csr of Lewis Applebaker, of Jacksonville, failed to stop. The complaint was filed by Applebaker. Five witnesses were heard at the hearing yesterday. FAST TIME RECORDED IN OAKLAND, PORTLAND HOP PORTLAND. Nov. 8. P Prank W. Puller. Jr., Bendli transcontinental air race winner, flew here from Oak land, Calif., In 3 hours and 36 min utes yesterday He stopped en route to Vancouver. B, C, where he planned to take off Prtday In a try for a new Canada to Mux loo flight record. Announcing Opening of 425 EAST MAIN MEDFORD'S WHOLESOME SEA FOOD MARKET Featuring Producti Freh From Oooi Bay OCEAN CAUGHT SALMON DEEP SEA CRABS QUALMAN'B QUALITY OYSTERS FHPSH EMPIRE CLAMS T LB SUPPLANTS SEALS IN CITY'S SCHOOLS Adoption of an educational cam paign to replace the sale of Christ mas Seals In the schools of Med ford. wss announced this week by Mrs. Robert C. Hart, county seal sale chairman. The little seals, which finance the battle against tubercu losis each year, appearing at boli day time, will not be sold to school children. A school-wide educational program will, however, be launched through the co-operation of S. H. Hedrlck, superintendent of schools. Art claasea will compose posters, telling the world about the work of the Christmas seal. Talks will be made by Junior high school children. Bell ringing exercises, telling the story of the town crier, who ap pears on the 1Q37 seal, win be fea tured In the primary grades. Each grade and department will In some manner learn more about the cam paign about tuberculosis and tne way Jn which It Is financed by tne Christmas seal. The seals will not be sold to chil dren and parents will not be asked to buy from children, but will be ex pected to purchase their seals through the channels familiar to other citi zens of the community. Seal sale letters will go through the malls Thanksgiving day and the customary booths will . be established about town, where those persons who do not receive seals by mall, will be expected to buy. - The same program is being adopt ed in the Ashland schools. FIGHT IN TEMPLE PORTLAND, Nov. 8. (P) Reports ot Injuries to three men followed sn asserted fight between A. P. of L. and J. X, o. factions which brought a po lce riot call from the labor temple aat night. Police said they found no disturb ance, but were told a man, had been taken away- by A. P. of L. compan ions, seriously Injured by a blow on the head from a baseball bat. Later a John Rogers, who gave hla address as the Timberworkere' hiring hall, was treated at the emergency hospital for scalp lacerations and possible fractured ribs. George Brown, vice-president of the local c. I. O. sawmill union, aald Jer ry Roley, a C. I. O. member, suffered possible rib fractures. ROVING TURTLE IONTA, Michigan. (AP, "Rubber Check," an aged but agile turtle, has been hanging around the Vern Jude vlne farm near Palo for more than 36 years, and the family Is prepared to prove it.. Judevine caught the turtle tn 1001 and carved his Initials and the date on the animal's shell. Eleven years later he again encountered the tur tle end repeated the "registration." Recently Judevlne's son, Dannon, caught a turtle, ambling across the lawn and Judevine discovered It to be "Rubber Check with his two In scriptions Intact. "We call him Rubber Check," Prank Judevine, brother of Verne, explained, "because he nlwnys comes back." Chamberlain's Lotion Is a fixture in offices everywhere. One reason for its popularity among all busi ness girls is that after using it, papers never stick to the fingers. Chamberlain's, a clear, golden liquid, dries quickly. Above all, it it never sticky, greasy, gummy nor "messy." Because It MfniM, it helps keep dainty fin sen lovely, skin smooth and at tractive. At all toilet goods counters. CHAMBFRUIN LABORATORIES. INC, A Do Mein, Iowa Jk Across From Hoiy Theater Hill A Lecture on Christian Science Entitle "Christian Scienoa: Ood's Law of Freedom and Dominion," given Tuts day evening at tha Holly thester by William Duncan Kllpstrlck, O. 8. 8 of Detroit. Mich. Huakar IS, Burs af Urtimtl, af Th. Hub Ckarc. Ta. FM Ciw. Ckrirt, Stfertbl, ft. )(., MiMSfhwrtU. In the tenth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke It Is reported that Jesus sent seventy of his dis ciples out into the world to practice the science which he had been teach- lng them. According to the narra tlve, the seventy returned unto him with Joy, saying, "Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name." To which Jesus replied, "Rejoice not, -truu the spirits are suDject unto you; out rather rejoice, because your names are written In heaven." By which, of course, he meant that they were to rejoice not so much over the worki that they did as over the fact that they had the spiritual understanding to do them. In those few words Jesus emphasized tne lact tnat one s spiritual under' standing that Is. the understanding of Ood and man's relation to God Is a necessary prerequisite to the overcoming of material conditions, and that the inevitable consequence of such understanding or right thinking is, among other things, in' dividual dominion over materiality. We can but Infer, therefore, from his statements that the principal pur' pose of our great Master's career was to endow men with that mental equipment or spirituality which would enable them to conform to hla Injunction to do the works that he did without restriction or limitation. ; The Mission of J Mas Jesus' words and works proved not only tne supremacy or spiritual understanding In connection with things material, but they proved that as one grows in tne understanding of Ood and Ood's spiritual universe one's Individual ability to control the material or the unreal Is correspond ingly enlarged and perfected. Jesus taught that spiritual understanding Is a necessary foundation for all Christian endeavor; that the spirit ual Is the real, and matter, or the material. Is unreal, because not of Ood; and that, therefore, as the spiritual gains . ascendancy In our concept of creation, to that extent are we able to bring out In our In dividual experiences a more har monious materiality. That Is, before we can mentally eliminate all matter as he did we must be able, through our understanding of Ood and Ood's creation, to control and regulate our concept of the material. As explained by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Chris tian Science, on pages 217 and 318 of her book, "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" we read: '"An Improved belief is one step out ot error, and aids in taking the next step and In understanding the situation In Christian Science;'" "Jesus demonstrated the divine Prin ciple of Christian Science when he presented his material body absolved from death and the grave." Jesus' demonstrations of the spiritual over the material advanced In an ascend ing scale of Importance, so that his final accomplishment was the com plete Individual elimination of all material conditions, even the in dividual elimination of a material world and a material body. This complete and final victory over the world and the flesh we have been wont to term his "ascension"; but before this final accomplishment ot complete spirituality, Jesus estab lished the Indisputable fact that all matter Is but carnal thought objec tified, and that, therefore, through the application of the spiritual In our thinking, we are able, to that ex tent, to exclude the carnal, and thus present a more harmonious material concept. On pnge 177 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the textbook of Christian Science, by Mary Baker Eddy, we read, "Matter, or body, Is but a false concept of mortal mind:" and on page 591 of (he same book Mrs. Eddy tells us that matter Is "another name for mortal mind." Obviously, then, the less of the mortal we express In our thinking and the more of the spirit ual we entertain the more harmoni ous becomes our concept of the material. Thus Jesus demonstrated thnt ho could control and regulate, through the Christ, the condition ot his body as well as of the world about him, thereby presenting to humanity a more harmonious material exist ence as proof of his spirituality. As St. Paul puts It, where he says, "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of Ood. that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto Ood, which Is your reasonable service." Jesus' first recorded proof of the supremacy of the spiritual In connec tion with the material occurred at the wedding feast In Cana of Oalilee, when he turned the water Into wine. The miracles or demonstrations of Jesus thereafter proceeded In an ascending scale of Importance, and Included healing of all manner otl sickness, dementia, leprosy, broken bones, withered limbs; stilling of I tempests; calming the waters of a , storm-swept sea; the Instantaneous transportation ot a ship across the , sea of Oalilee; his disappearance from the midst ot an angry and threatening throng; the multiplica tion of the loaves and fishes; discern ment of the unexpressed thoughts and Intents of others; passing through closed doors; the overcom ing ot material lack; the elimina tion of space; and the overcoming of :cath. not only for others but tor himself, all of which were for your fcnd my guidance In working out our individual salvation from the mate i tel Every step taken by Jesus In hla brief career must sooner or later be taken by you and me. In one way or snother, and not death Itself will Mleve us of this necessity nor fasten the hour ot lis accomplish men I. Bar Cousins' Marriage. MILWAUKEE. Wis. (API Be csuse a county court ruling mskes the offspring of hslfststers full cousins to eaoh other, a roune man and woman were dented the riant to msrry by Hrry L. Wilcox, clera of I the msrrlsgs license bureau. Cous-' Mary Baker Eddy Aa we begin to glimpse the' full Im port of Christian Science, what It has brought to mankind; the light It has thrown on the sacred Scriptures; the freedom It promises and brings to a suffering, sinful, poverty-stricken world we begin in some degree to comprehend and appreciate the meaning and colossal Importance to humanity of tha life of Mrs. Eddy. No Influence since the time of Jesus of Nasareth has been felt throughout Christendom as has the life-work of the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Her Hie and her writings are filling the hearts ot a tick and weary world with hope and Joy. Her book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Is the most widely read book In the world today outside the Bible. In fact. It Is a book which has given back to a starved humanity the Holy Bible In all its purity ot purpose, ana is in dispensable to a right comprehension of that sacred book In connection with one's study of Christian Science. In Science and Health may be found the key which unlocks the secrets of Jesus' wonderful accomplishments, whereby we too may take up the cross as did he, and don the crown of spiritual endeavor. Ood The religious error of the cen turies has been . a circumscribed, localized, and humanly personalized concept of Ood; and this in spite of a Bible so filled with exact statements as to Ood and His nature that It would seem almost humanly Impos sible tor anyone familiar with Bible teachings to go as far astray as erudite theology has gone In Its con cepts and conclusions about Ood. In the twentieth chapter of the book of Exodus we find this most Illuminating and unequivocal com mand: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing thaT Is In heaven above, or that Is in the earth beneath, or that Is In the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them;" which, of course.' not only Includes a ban against the worship of Idols or Images but includes, also, a ban against the worship of any likeness, either mental or material, . of which an image or an idol might be a supposed counterpart or replica. In other words, an Idol or an image could not possibly represent or ex press the Ood which mankind should worship. God could not only not be an Image but an Image or an Idol could not represent God. If, then, we are holding in thought a hu manly personal or circumscribed Ood as the object of our devotions; It we are worshiping a Ood which we mentally pattern In the similitude or likeness of a human being; In fact, If we, are worshiping a finite God, a God who could be represented or depicted by outlines, boundaries, or form, are we not disobeying this sacred, unmistakable, and unavoida ble command? If Ood is not something of a finite or circumscribed nature; If He is not a humanly conceived Ood, what Is He? What does the Bible tell us about Him? It would be a rather useless procedure for the Bible to tell us so definitely whaCGod Is not, and then leave us to blind conjec ture to determine what He is or what He Is like. Jesus, the best authority we have, stated In no mlstakable terms exactly what Ood Is and how we are to worship Him. Jesus said that Ood Is Spirit, and, "They that worship him must worship him In spirit and in truth.". Now what does the term "Spirit" here signify? Does it signify something that Is humanly devised, humanly circumscribed, pic tured, or patterned? Does it signify anything that could be localized, lim ited, or outlined? No, Indeed. It sig nifies something that is Infinite; something that fills all space; some thing that is. everywhere, in all places, at all times, and under all circumstances and conditions. It sig nifies essence or ever-presence. In contradistinction to that which might be conceived of as outlined, humanly formed or placed. It sig nifies something even more infinite and ever present than the very air breathe, would you attempt to make a graven image or likeness of something that fills all space? Could you, In tact, conceive of such an Image or likeness? This all-embracing term "Spirit" as sigri tying Ood Includes many synonyir.ous terms used by other Bible writers to define Ood, such as the term "Life." In the book of Deuteronomy we are told that God Is Life. If God is Life and Ood Is Spirit, Life, then, must be spiritual, Ailing all space and ever present. One would not think of making a graven image or likeness of Life. St. John furnishes us with another synonym for this Infinite Gocj In me wrm ijove. ou uonn plainly states that God Is Love. Now Just how anyone could think of making a graven image or likeness of Love I do not know. Vet this Is practically what men have been doing for ages: trying to localize, Unitize, materialize and humanly personalize a Ood who Is Love. Love Is something that you and I must express in thought, Is It not? John did not say that God is a loving Ood. He said that Ood Is Love Itself, and there Is no other way In human experience that a Ood who Is Love could be expressed or realized except In Individual thought. St, Paul uses another term to de fine this Infinite Ood -vhere he re fers to Him as Mind as the Mind which was in Christ Jesus. The term "M1nd" thus used by St. Paul to de fine Ood must Indicate a Mind which is Infinite, which fills all space, and which Is ever present and ever avail able. This Mind could not be circum scribed or confined to a brain or a skull: it must be unlimited and un conflned. Ood as Mind must be r Ood which Is Intelligence, and this Intelligence must be ever present, filling all space, and ever available. Tt must Include all detflc and divine qualities, such as love, patience, kind ness, purity, honesty, and so forth, none of which could be expressed or realized in any way but In thought. An Infinite Mind which is Ood must haw existed throughout all time, re gardless of persons or localities, and could only find expression through the thinking of individuals. One would not think of making a graven Ings are barred Wisconsin. from marnage in Down the Ladder. OMAHA. Neb (AP Its the lit lis things In life. Joe MuniiAn's shoe lace wss untied. Joe Ignored it Joe climbed down th. ladder, stepped Image or picture of a Mind which fills all space. ' Han In the first chapter of Genesis we find that man Is created In the image and likeness ot Ood. It Is obvious that this Image or likeness could not be .unlike Cod; otherwise It would not be an image or likeness. If Cod is Mind and Life and Love and Spirit, and so forth, then man must be the exact Image of Spirit and Mind and Life and Love. Man could not include one element of materiality, because Spirit Is Infinite and fills all space. Man could not Include one element ot mortality or death, because Lite knows no such thing as death. Man could not Include one element of hate, because Love fills all space and knows naught but love. Man could not in clude one element of evil, because God Is good and knows no sin. Man could not Include one element of Ignorance or spiritual barrenness, because Mind or God Is all the In telligence there Is, and this divine Intelligence Is conscious of nothing but the spiritual This Infinite Mind, which Is God, must have some medium of expres sion, and the only medium of expres sion that Mind or divine Intelligence could possibly have would be through Idea. Divine intelligence, for Instance, must be expressed through you and me In our thinking, and this think ing, to conform to St, Paul's Injunc tion to have that Mind in us which was also In Christ Jesus, must con sist In expressing ideas which have their Inception In the Mind which Is God, and not In ourselves. Take, for example, love. You and I may ex press love in our Uilnklng. That love is not something which you and I have created or which has originated within us. It Is something you and I have appropriated from that In exhaustible supply of Love or divine Mind or Intelligence. Lore has al ways existed. As there Is but one Ood, and as Ood is Love, there could not possibly be more than one Love. So the Love which you and I express In our thinking comes to us from without. It comes to us from the one Infinite Intelligence, and Is ex pressed through you and me as idea. Kindness, patience, tenderness, gen tleness, are all Ideas of Love. Now, Ideas are the only sons and daugh ters that Mind or Intelligence has. Therefore these ideas resident In In dividual consclousnc, or thinking, constitute man. Man as a son of God must be an Idea, a compound idea, of that divine Intelligence or Mind which Is God. God Is Mind or di vine Intelligence, existing In infinity outside human consciousness. This Mind Is evidenced or expressed through ideas. These ideas, existing In their entirety outside human consciousness, constitute the Christ When these Ideas, or the Christ, wholly displace false carnal beliefs In human consciousness they reveal and constitute the Individuality of man, or the true man, the man of Ood's creating. So the man of Ood's creating Is not made up of flesh and blood and bones; he Is not subject to birth, growth, maturity, and death. He Is co-eternal and co-existent with God, dwelling as a divine Idea In the consciousness of the Mind creating him. He Is Idea divine, pure, Inde structible, eternal; never subject to matter or the vagaries of matter; never fallen; never subject to sin, sickness, poverty. . want. unhaDDl- ness, or death. To the extent that you and I admit Into our conscious ness and express In thought those Ideas which constitute the Christ, those Ideas which are the sons of God, to that extent, and to that ex tent only, are we becoming God's children and bringing ourselves un der God's eternal laws ot health, happiness, freedom, and spirituality. Love, kindness, obedience to good, spirituality in thought, purity, hon esty, forgiveness, forbearance, pa tience, and the like, are all children of God, and you and I may avail our selves of their blessing to Just the extent that we admit and entertain thefh in Individual consciousness. We have the privilege, here and now, of availing ourselves of our son ship with Ood, depending entirely on our method of thinking. Mortal Man 1 What, say you, then, of this mate rial man, this man of flesh and blood and bones, this Adam-man? Who made him? What of his beginning and what of his end? What of this world Into which he Is born, in which he lives, and out ot which he thinks he dies? As the creation of spiritual man, or Ood's man, Is recorded In the first chapter of Genesis, so the second chapter ot Genesis is accred ited with the account of the creation of this matter-man, this Adam-man, and this second and material account of the creation of man pictures him as the product ot a mist or a mysti fication or a misunderstanding. This term "mist" Is referred to In other parts of the Bible by other names, such as the "covering cast over all people." and "the vail that Is spread over all nations," spoken of in Isaiah. In Hebrews, this term "veil" Is used as a synonym for the flesh. In other parts of the Bible we And the terms darkness and ignorance used in place of the term "mist" or "veil." St. Paul, in referring to the material, uses the term "carnal mind" In place of the term "mist." Therefore, our only conclusion Is that material existence Is not a product of Ood or Intelli gence, but Is the outcome of the lack of intelligence or Mind, Ood; in other words, the material Is a state of non lntelllgence, or no intelligence, which In its last analysis Is unconscious ness. Mrs. Eddy refers io material existence as a dream, In which the dream and dreamer are one. The process, then, of awakening from this state ot unconsciousness Into our true and spiritual state of exist ence Involves putting off the material and putting on the spiritual. Re ferring to this material man. whose origin Is described In the second chspter of Genesis, Isaiah said, "Cease ye from man. whose breath is In his nostrils: for wherein Is he to be accounted of?" Job. referring to this material man, this man ot flesh and blood and bones, this Adam-man, said: "Man that Is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and Is cut down: he flceth also as a shsdow, and con tlnueth not." Peter said of him, "All on the dangling lace, fell to the ground. At a hospital doctors told Joe he would recover. Alabama tndtMtry rialn. BIRMINGHAM. Als. 1 1 rl Em- plorment rolls st the Tenness CmI. ta!nd between Iraq end Syria. Pas Iron A Railroad company, one of Ala- ' sengert can make tne journsy Be flesh Is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass wlthereth, -and the flower thereof falleth away." Jesus said, "The flesh that Is, this man of flesh and blood and bones; this Adam-man) proflt eth nothing." Thus we find that the writers In the Bible do not attach much sanctity to the creation or per' petuatlon ot this mortal man this Adam-man. He certainly Is not a child of Cod. He Is not even a fallen child of Ood who subsequently may regain a state of original perfection. He never enjoyed a state of periec- tion, nor have any of pis ancestors or forbears enjoyed a state of per fection from which they have fallen. Ood's man could not be unlike Ood. He could not sin any more than Ood could sin. He could not have fallen unless God had fallen.. He could not be sick; tie could not be poverty' stricken; he could not be material any more than Ood could be sick or poverty-stricken or material. How to account for this mortal sense of man; how to escape from all the direful consequences which the belief In bis reality brings us; and how to claim and appropriate to ourselves our God-given heritage of freedom and dominion as children of Ood, is explained to us In Christian Science. Just as God Is ever present Mind or divine intelligence, existing outside our individual consciousness, awaiting admission thereto through our Individual thinking, so, what St. Paul has called the carnal mind, that which Is referred to as the "mist" or the "veil," counterfeiting the divine at every point, claims existence as one mind outside mortal man or hu man consciousness, awaiting admis sion thereto. Just as we admit the divine into thought at our own will or volition, so do we admit the carnal Into thought at our own will or voli tion. As divine Ideas are not emana tions of brain or of the Individual, so carnal thoughts are not emana tions of brain or the individual. In either case the case of divine ideas or the case of carnal thoughts they are all expressed through man In consciousness or thinking. So think ing may be said to be the process of accepting Into consciousness or rejecting from consciousness divine ideas or carnal thoughts, rather than the process of creating or orig inating either. Material Existence As the reflection of divine Ideas through man constitutes spiritual existence, without any taint cf mat ter or materiality, sin, sickness, or death, so the expression ot carnal thoughts In individual consciousness or thinking constitutes our material concept of existence this world of matter and this man of flesh. Matter and the material world, Including mortal man, with all his sin, his sick ness, bis poverty, his want, and his woe, exist, not because of any crea tive power of their own, but because ot the existence ot the carnal In Individual thought.. This carnal mind, so called, In Its attempted counterfeit of the spirit ual, contains all the elements of evil, and these elements of thought ad mitted to individual consciousness result In Individual material exist ence. Because of the supposed exist ence of the carnal mind in your and my thinking or the absence of the divine we are conscious of matter. The material world Is simply the carnal mind expressed In Individual consciousness, and therefore must be a counterfeit world. You and I, for instance, think In terms of the car nal mind; this carnal thinking in turn Is objectified as matter. Thus matter has no more substance than thought, because matter Is thought. The process of material existence Is something after this fashion: first, the carnal mind claiming existence outside of human consciousness or thinking; secondly, the admission to your and my consciousness of carnal thoughts coming from this so-called mind; thirdly, the individual objectl flcatlon of these carnal thoughts as matter. Your and my material world are simply the Individual objectl flcatlon of - carnal thoughts which you and I admit Into consciousness from this one so-called carnal mind which claims existence outside of mortal man. Therefore, your world and my world are Individual and separate; that Is, your world Is the Individual objectlfieation of car nal thoughts which you admit Into your consciousness from without, and my world is the Individual objectlfi eation of carnal thoughts which I admit Into my consciousness. Con sequently, each of us makes his own Individual world by his own Individ ual thinking, and therefore there must be as many material concepts of existence as there are individuals. The Physical Senses The five physical senses are mental objectlflcatlons of the carnal mind; therefore, we are not conscious of matter because we see, feel, taste, smell, or hear matter. We are con scious of matter because seeing, feel ing, tasting, smelling, and hearing are crentlons of thought. We do not see with our eyes or hear with our ears, even from a material point of view. We see, feel, taste, smell, and hear with our thinking. An uncon scious man, for Instance, is possessed of all his material faculties, and yet he cannot see, feel, taste, smell, or hear a thing. He doesn't even know that he has a material body, and he can't begin to see. feel, taste, smell, or hear again until he begins to think again. And further than that, some one else may do our seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling, and hearing for us; that Is, we may be made to see, feel, taste, smell, and hear what someone else thinks. Take, for example, the operations of the hypnotist. I have seen a hypnotist take possession of the mentality of another to the ex tent that the victim could be made to see, feel, taste, smell, and hear anything the hypnotist mleht men tally suggest. I have seen the victim of a hypnotist be made to suffer In tense physical pain when no bodily Injury had been Inflicted, and I have seen such a victim become perfectly oblivious to bodily injuries, pin pricks, and needle thrusts, at the sugeestlon of the hypnotist. I have seen subjects of hypnotism be made to think that they were enjoying the xtreme p'casure of swimming when there wis no water in sight. I have seen them listen intently and with extreme delight to the strains of bams's lsrcest tndiwtrlsl concerns, showed an Increase of 57 percent dur ing the seven months of 1937. R.eular trans desert highway transport services are bemt mam beautiful music which did not exist. I have seen them enjoy a banquet in the absence oi a particle of food. In fact, I have seen Individuals so com pletely dispossessed of their own power to think that their seeing, feel' lng, tasting, smelling, and hearing have been exclusively that of some' one else. They have seen, felt, tasted, heard, and amelled the thoughts ot another, a fact which not only proves that we see, feel, taste, smell, and hear our own thoughts, or thoughts only, but which proves also that our tninking is not done through the medium ot brain, and that the opera tion of thinking Is of such an inde terminate nature that someone else may take complete possession ot our physical senses and do our seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling, and hear ing for us. The Artist and Hla Canvas All our experiences of life exist in our own consciousness. All the sin, the sickness, the poverty, the want, the woe, the unhapplness of mortal living exist only In and as a conse quence of the carnal mind enter tained In Individual consciousness. All happiness, Joy, love, purity, holiness, freedom, abundance, true health, and harmony exist In the di vine Mind or God, and become a part of our conscious existence to the ex tent that this Mind finds an abiding place In our thinking. So, do you not see how completely within our own control are our own lives and experiences? Every material condi tion has Its spiritual opposite in Spirit or God, and as the material Is quite obviously the product of our own erroneous thinking, do you not see how we may begin to change our material picture for good by grad ually excluding the carnal from thought and substituting in place thereof the divine or spiritual? Ma terial existence may be likened to the canvas of an artist. With the brush of carnal thoughts we paint our ma terial picture of existence with all the experiences of lite. We paint Into that picture, matter, grief, sorrow, want, lack, unhapplness, poverty, hate, greed, selfishness, fear, strife, dishonesty, Impurity, loss all of the phases of the carnal mind. Nothing ugly, harmful, or discordant can come Into that picture that Is not made possible by the carnal In our Individual consciousness, and noth ing can erase from that picture these dark Images of thought but the divine entertained In human consciousness. Our picture as It now exists is a world of matter filled with sin, grief, regrets, sorrows, failures, mistakes, want, workless and helpless men, broken homes, shattered fortunes, crippled businesses, disappointments, misunderstandings, disagreements, Jealousies, hatreds, suspicions, trick ery, treachery, occultism, secret men tal manipulation, passions, false ap petites, and the like. All of these exist in the Individual picture which you and I have painted with our brushes of carnal thoughts. All these exist In our Individual worlds be cause of the carnal which exists In our Individual thinking. So, do you not see that our remedy for individ ual freedom from all these Ills lies, not In changing the world's thought, not In changing material conditions or manifestations, but in changing, by the Influx of the divine, our indi vidual thinking? For every untoward, harmful, ugly, and baneful Incident, experience, or circumstance In our Individual pic ture, there is a corrective, alterative and obliterating spiritual idea which, If admitted to and entertained In in dividual consciousness, will, to that extent, change and brighten our in dividual pictures of existence. For every hate there is an Idea of love. For every argument of unhapplness there Is the panacea of Joy. For every 111 there are God's ideas of perfec tion and health. For every want there Is the idea of Ood's abundance; for death there Is Life; for false ap petites there Is the Idea of complete ness and satisfaction; for dishonesty there is honesty; for impurity there is spirituality; for lnharmony there Is harmony; for strife and misun derstanding there is the one Mind; for selfishness and greed there Is ever present abundance and fulfillment; for matter there is Spirit We paint Into our pictures exactly what we hold in thought, and Just as the artist changes his canvas by a stroke of the brush here and there, painting out the shadows with the sunshine, the gloom with the light, the rough places with the traceries of harmony, so each one of us may paint and regulate his own world and experiences for good by refusing to admit the carnal Into thought and by tracing on his world canvas only those pure and exalting Ideas which he knows come from Ood, and which,, when allowed place In consciousness, obliterate the dark and unpleasant aspects of the mortal picture and brighten It with the sunlight of God. If wa would have a world filled with love, happiness, harmony, con tentment, abundance, success, and Joy, you and I must make It so. Each of us creates and lives in his own In dividual world. If we would have our world filled with love, you and I must put the love there. If we would have our world filled with Joy and happi ness, you ana i must put tne joy and happiness there. If we would experi ence abundance, we must not think In terms of poverty. If we would en Joy health, we must not think In terms of matter. No one else, no out side condition or Influence, can make for sorrow or happiness In our In dividual world. Each one of us ex periences and takes out of existence Jut and only what he puts Into it. Our world will not contain anything ot love for us If our consciousness Is tilled with hate and criticism. Our world will not contain anything of Joy or happiness for us If our own thoughts are those of worry and sin. Our world will not contain anything ot abundance and success for us If our own thoughts are those of fear. penury, and lack. So, do you not see how regulatorv our right thinking becomes; how by oringuig ooa into our lives, bv ad mitting divine Ideas Into conscious ness, we bring good into our dallv ex periences? Our material world at Its best Is but the carnal tn thought ob jectified, and therefore, the substitu tion of divine Ideas In our thinking must eliminate some of the camel In tween Bagbdsd and Damascus In comfortable touring cars and buses In It to 33 hours. Bomholm Is a Danish Island In the Bsltic ses which has a populstton ot sbout sopoo Chief industry on the isltnd Is pottery making. our world, and In place of the carnal establish the divine and harmonious. Our material world Is an Inharmoni ous one to you and me only because of the lnharmony In our own think ing. As fast as you and I can bring Into thought the harmony of the di vine, Just so fast will materiality lose Its Inharmonious aspects and assume the aspects of peace and harmony. When we can so fill consciousness with the divine that we can see our brother man as Jesus saw him, we will not come in contact with dis honesty, trickery, or hat In our everyday life. To the extent that wa through our own pure thinking see man as Ood's child, to that extent does he cease to be dishonest, un truthful, and hateful to us. ' So, do you hot see what a powerful Instru ment tor good we have with us al ways, and how our right and pur thinking constitutes an Impregnable armor of protection from all the evil Influences and forces claiming exist ence In the realm of the material? Individual Control of the Materia In the material picture which we paint with the brushes of mortal or carnal thought we must un derstand that one wrong thought held In consciousness affects the en tire picture, and that we cannot hops to bring out harmony In any of our experiences if wrong thought exists In one particular. That is, one wrong thought In consciousness has the un comfortable and Inevitable faculty of affecting the entire picture, Just as , a wrong stroke of the brush in the hand of the artist may mar the en tire aspect of the painted canvas. Hate, malice, impatience, dishon esty, and so forth, toward one person or one thing In our lives, even though our mental attitude towards all other persons and things be ideal, will affect our entire mortal picture and will bring lnharmony Into every thing we undertake. And Just as one wrong thought works 111 In our entire material picture, so one right Idea held In consciousness will change the entire picture for good, and the more of God we entertain In consciousness, the more harmonious and sublime becomes our mortal, ma terial picture, our lives and our daily experiences. I have known a failing or a bankrupt business to be revived and resuscitated by the correction of an erroneous or Inharmonious con dition In the home. I have known nothing In all my experience that tends to business failure more cer tainly than lnharmony In the home. The same rule applies In all depart ments of human existence. A lady I know had been suffering for some years from a very pronounced and painful tumor. At a Christian Sci ence lecture she gained a clear spir itual understanding of a certain passage of Scripture. This clear un derstanding operating In her con sciousness healed her almost instan taneously of that tumor, although the particular passage of Scripture had nothing to do specifically with tumor or with healing. This but Illustrates In a degree how Truth or right Ideas operating in Individual consciousness affect, alter, and heal that which needs correcting in the mortal pic ture which the carnal mind has painted for us. So, do you not see that our deliv erance from all the worries, the cares, the poverty, and the misery of mortal living lies with Ood? My friends, bring Him into your con sciousness. Make Him a part of your conscious existence, your life and your being, and He will be your "very present help In time of trouble." Having that Mind In you which wa also In Christ Jesus is praying with Ood. Pray constantly. Never cease your constant, conscious communion with Him whom "to know aright Is Life eternal" (Science and Health, p. vll). "Be instant In season," and out. Cherish and guard those silent, consecrated moments you spend with Him. They are worth more to you than untold riches and the beguil ing Joys and pleasures of the flesh. Lengthen your moments of silent and reverent prayer with Him into hours hours of holy, sanctified com munion. Know God as you would a dear friend. Know Him as your Mother and your Father. Talk with Him. Think with Him. . Your mo ments and hours of holy contempla tion of Ood, and with God, will bring to you unknown and unthought-of blessings; they will bring a comfort, a conviction, a peace that nothing else can. Your hours of silent prayer ful thought will be to you "Im manuel" "God with us" and win Infold you In the love, the compas sion, the care, and the guidance of His Infinite and omnipotent wisdom. His Christ Is here and now plead ing for asylum with you. Let him in, welcome him, cherish and hold him. He Is saying to you in the words of St John: "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me;" and, "The tabernacle of Ood Is with men. and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God him self shall be with them, and be their Ood. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sor row, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed awaV The Christian Science Textbook SCIENCE and HEALTH With Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy Msy be read or purchased at the Christian Science Reading Room 414-41S Medford renter Rnlldlng 4
