Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-29

poison stun? 1 guess it's that still. Well, to
| doubt that 1t was SO is error on your part
How often before when you've been want
ing the stuff badly. and knew that in an
| hour or two you would get 1t, have you
dropped of to sleep instead? Why, never
/ And when did this happen first? Why. when
| Presence Of Divine Love. not suggesting
things either to Him or you. but just leav-
| ing you there"
"Ah, but I don't understand" said
| Thurso. IF youv We done that, Is it all over ?
| Am | cured?"
mo, because you've made a habit of
! error, and you have to make a habit OF
| giving error up before you're cured:
You'll have to put yourself In the hands OF
| Love often and often before you get rid OF
! this. At least expect that, but one can't
know how He will choose to heal you.
| Why, man, we have to be continually doing
| you. Of some particular form of error. or
whether we are but just normal beings.
| And Divine Love is longing to help US. but
| We must ask"
| why does He allow error to bind us al
ALL? asked Thurso.
There is no doubt that 1t is So an
| swered Cochran. why, He has said SO
What's ever We shall ask In Ny name, be-
lieving."
But you profess to heal people who don't
believe" said he.
Il know Why not7 But a man who
QlQn DelleVe COulQE NEAL
Again Thurso had got unconsciously in
terested
you spoke Of laudanum as poison stuff
Just now" he said. But ii God made
everything, including peoples, how can 1t
be poisonouS3"
Cochran laughed.
"Well. we had better have Lady Maud
back" he said. TT was about that very
thing l was going to talk to her today lay
you've asked the question, why, pray do.
But If you are not interested in it, why,
If you'll read the morning paper, or any
thing else. just for half an hour we can
then all start out skating or whatever else
you like"
but aren't you going to treat me?"
| asked Thurso.
"oh. was at it this morning for some ne
time" he said. I've paid the morning
visit, so to speak"
Then again some spirit of antagonism en-
tered into Thurso, and when Maud came
back he crossed over to the nre with tne
paper. But the news was Of no Importance.
! and by degrees he found himself attending
less to the printed page. and more to the
voice that sounded so pleasant and cheer
fui. Sometimes he found himself mentally
ridiculing what was said. but yet he
listened. It was arresting somehow. and
whether 1t was only the personality OF the
speaker that arrested him. or what he
said he found himself. whether approving
or disapproving, more and more ABSORBED
in 1t.
Cochran spoke first, as he said he was
going to do about the apparently poison
GUS or sanative effects Of drugs. These
! he maintained were not inherent In drugs
| themselves. but in the belief OF those
who used them But to use drugs for
curative reasons was merely to encour-
age the false belief that they could in
themselves cure: while, on the other hand.
| any one who knew and fully believed
! that they could be neither health giving
nor destructive Of health might II he
chose, eat deadly poison and be none the
worse for IT. But no one who held this
belief would do SO merely as a demon
| stration. to satisfy the idle curiosity OF
| those who did not believe.
Then he passed on to bigger things,
and as he spoke his voice grew deeper
and more full Of conviction, vibrating
with earnestness.
but ali this" he said, though. OF
| course. 1t Is perfectly true, Is only de-
| tall that follows from the real and vital
proposition. How error originally came
| in, don't pretend to say: what we have
got to deal with today is that error is
here, and that this error that ascribeS
| to material things any real existence Is
a very common form Of 1t. But this is,
as said. only a secondary matter: what
| does not exist, but to know what does.
And one thing only exists, and that is
God in all His manifestations. The In
finite Mind. the Divine Love, Is all that
| be split up any some of 1t can appear in
any of the hues Of the rainbow so that
when you say. This Is blue. this is red,
yoa are only speaking of part of light,
| Is courageous this is pure. this is lovely,
you are only speaking of one of the hues
of God. 1t is good for US to contemplate
any one Of these. for each of them is
ing them all together. SO that they all
mingle with each other. And when that