The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1908-11-28
The New Thought.

and missionaries to the Orient to con-
vert what we deemed pagans to the
true faith, we have in reality brought
back the thought of the East and
mingled it with the thought of the
West and the philosophy-New
Thought-has been the result. New
Thought is the marriage of the
thought of the Occident with the
thought of the Orient. 1t has resulted
in wider and deeper thought and
feeling; 1t has broken down the bar
riers that have enchanted and cramp-
ed the soul, and, as result, the soul
has been awakened to a renewed life
and renewed energy. Before this
infusion of the thought of the East
into the philosophy of the West, this
was narrow world and the infinite
rather was a narrow, cramped affair,
whose greatest delight was tortue of
those who could not or would not
obey his narrow and arbitrary edicts.
But familiarity with other peoples and
other systems have taught us that the
common Father is boundless as the
universe and that he has planted his
truth, goodness and love in every
heart-whether that heart beat under
the brown breast of one in the tropics
or the whittier one Of the cold or tenn
perate north. 1t now becomes clear
that he has cherished no pets nor in
dulged any favorites. In every heart
he has planted the divine seeds of
truth, goodness and love, from the
cultivation of which the plants of joy
and peace and power must grow. He
does not force anything upon his chill
dren. They are free to accept or re-
ejct as suits their pleasure. When
they reject love, they reject joy; when
!. they reject truth, they reject power;
when they reject goodness, they re-
Ject peace. And each may have as
much of each of these as he can use.
The gifts of the Father are boundless,
and as various as the good things of
life; and each can possess all good,
and none can claim or exercise a
monopoly. We can not store these
good things away, for they last only
so long as they are used. The gather
ed good Of today can not feed the de-
sires Of the morrow, neither can the
evils of days gone by cast their shade
upon US forever. Love can not be
boarded as miser boards his gold;
1t must be spent. Hoarded love does
not exist. Neither can man hoard
truth; truth to exist must be shared
with our fellows. And what is good
ness but acts of kindness and deeds
OF love. We must spend these coins
every day of our lives in order to en-
Joy them, and the more we spend the
more we have and the greater is our
enjoyment, the fuller and richer is our
peace, and the greater and higher be-
comes our power. Love, truth, and
goodness are the great realities of
life; the only things worth while. And
they don't come by preaching; they
only come through action. And it
does not matter who the preacher is
or what he may be, for that cannot
affect the results in the least. The
one who spends the coins of love,
truth, and goodness is the one who
enjoys, and not the fellow who tells
us about it. And the beauty of the
whole business is, it costs nothing. 1t
is absolutely free, so far as money
outlay is concerned 1t may take a
little time, little thoughtfulness, a
little consideration OF the desires and
feelings of others, but 1t pays bigger
dividends than any other investment.
Never mind aN VS the atoning blood,
about confirmaAJ.s, baptisms, tithes;
beliefs, sayings, teachings amount to
nothing-just love, that's all Go
form the noble action, tn ereward is
in itself. Appropriate the good gifts
OF the Father and live! Say the kind
word, perform the loving action! All
the atoning blood that the world could
be made to contain will not plant a
spark Of joy in the heart where love
is not; spark Of love spent will Gre
ate that Joy without drop of atoning
blood having been split! All the bap-
tisms, the communions, and all the
tithes cannot bring the faintest breath
OF heaven where goodness does not
dwell. Where goodness is heaven is
even IL there be no baptisms. commu-
mons, tithes All the churches and
all the creeds and all the brother
hoods will not bring together enough
Of truth to perceive, but in the marts
of truth where the true coin OF thought
ia spent, without money and without
price, peace and power is higher than
heaven and deeper than the bottomless