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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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BIRMINGHAM. Als. 1 1 rl Em-
plorment rolls st the Tenness CmI. ta!nd between Iraq end Syria. Pas
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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
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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
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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
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