Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-31

no longer to exist. Now matter is
composed of molecular particles which
in themselves are incapable OF pleas
ure or pain; stone when struck feels
no pain. 1t never has the headache
or neuralgia; it never weeps or laughs !;
and why, do you ask because the
stone lacks the vitalizing spirit OF the
Infinite, which in all creation is mans
distinguishing and sole characteristic.
Life permcates all nature, the trees,
the grass, the animal creation high
and low, from the most infinitesimal
molecule seen by the highest power
microscope to the whale who rolls his
ponderous immensity in the unfathom-
able deep, all are vital with life, but it
is not the life of man. The molecular
tissues that compose them may be
chemically the same, but the ethereal
fluid is lacking, the essence of the In
finite is not there. The one is of the
earth, earthly, and the other is of
heaven, heavenly. Matter OF itself
knows nothing and feels nothing.
Matter being the lower power should
be always subject to the higher power,
which is the mind. 1t is the soul, the
spirit of the Infinite, which being sub
limated and etherealized is alone ca
pable of impression, or as you would
say feeling. There is a constant con-
fiict raging between mind and matter;
mind should control matter, not mat
ter control mind. Hence it follows
that the positive exercise OF the higher
power is bound to control the lower
power, and therein lies the solution of
the problem you seek"
There was small electric battery
on her table. "Look at this" she
said, laying her hand upon it; 1" feel
it. You see no sign of life. | press
this button, and it becomes radiant
with vitality; listen to its voice, it is
singing the anthem of the Infinite
which greeted the morning star. Feel
its throbbing pulse. You can see
nothing, but the heart beat thrills you
like the message from another world.
This is Christian science. This is the
mystic talisman which is to bring man
into closer communion with Nature,
which is God, where matter shall be
annihilated, and mind shall be su-
preme, and God shall be all in all"
l rose stunned and dazed and walked
away. was OF the earth, earthly, evi-
IDENTIFY, for l had the jumping tooth
tsehs, y sharp pain in my back, sciatica
in my left leg, and this with an ugly
turn of the grip and few minor ills,
served me with unmistakable notice
that an, still several miles this side
of Paradise with every prospect of re-
naming there for some time to come.
know it is only imagination, but it
feels just as bad as if it was real. l
suppose it is all right, can only say
that matter has got the better of me-
1t is true that my mind at the present
time is not in first class condition, but
my matter is infinitely worse off than
my mind, and my matter succeeds in
making my mind exceedingly un-
comfortable. l know it ought not to
be so, but it is so, and what are you
going to do about it? 'I'm out two
dollars and half-a martyr to Christ
ian science. Perhaps it may come
back to me in the Infinitesimal af
finity of Infinitude, or perhaps it is
dissolved in the indissoluble molecular
,, molecules. Pm going to wait and see.
Now you know just as much about
Christian science as do, and at much
less cost; be grateful and await for the
development.
Brother Eldridgc Gerry, the Presi-
dent OF the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children, is again on the
war-path, and has laid an embargo on
the appearance of lot of little child
rem in the spectacular opera of Blue
beard. Junior. The speciality of the
children is the scene of the old woman
who lived in the shoe. They sing q
nursery song. and dance little dance,
and enjoy the fun as much as the au-
dience. Their act does not take fif-
teen minutes. They are well fed, well
clad, and well cared for, and as well
behaved as any children in the city;
while in the theatre they are better
cared for and their morals are more
carefully supervised than when they
are at school, and all children playing
parts in theatres are remarkable for
their good manners and behavior, but
Mr.. Gerry fears that their morals
might be affected by the associations
OF the theatre and so prevents them
from getting an honest living.
Night after night l cross the great
Brooklyn Bridge. The streets are wet
and sloppy, the air is miserably cold
around the entrances to the bridge in
New York and Brooklyn; children
swarm there, little boys and girls, six,
seven, and eight years OF age-they
sell papers, some are well clad and we'll
shod, others have no shoes and their
clothes are in tatters. Why does not
Brother Gerry look out for these little
waits? He took Joseph Hoffman from
the stage of the Metropolitan Opera
House when he was earning thOus-
and dollars a week playing on the
piano. He was quartered in the finest
suite of room in the best hotel in
New York, with his father, mother, a
nurse, a valet, and IL special physician
to look after him, and Gerry sent him
back to Germany, involving Henry
Abbey, Hoffman's manager, in a loss
of over fifty thousand dollars for fear
his health would suffer. If the So
/ II A.,