Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-03
Women S Clubs
TOLLOWING a short business meet
ing at the Ebell Monday Charles
II z. Montgomery, NJ. D., read an

ing at the Epeu NlOlu@S N"i -
Il F. Montgomery, M: D. read an
interesting paper on "Old ThoughC
versus New Thought.
In the course of an interesting dis
course the speaker said: ITO try 70
cover the field of new thought in our
allotted time would be futile, so we
must be content in passing upon
few of its phases.
Life is individual, as we are 1ast
learning, and thought expressions
take on corresponding characteristics
A personal stamp imprints itself upon
every thought, action, age, ideanty
coming within the individual aura.
This we term the personal equation.
"Cogitation of the many upon one
or varied subjects projects multiple
ideas upon the screen of the times
This we nominate the Philosophical
Coloring of the Period. The ensemble
sof ideas in the subject today we term
New Thought.
'But to the student of thought his
tory new thought is not new but
old enhued by the brush of the age.
The radix reaches down deep into the
PHILOSOPHERS Of the long ago, d1scov-
cred by Aristotle, Pythagoras, Socra-
tes. Plato, the sophists, epicureans,
stoics, the mystic ages, Judast1c and
ecclesiastical periods
"On these PHILOSOPHERS and principles
new thought has builded a present day
City of Spirits.
''In this spirit city those who elect
may live, and the choice of habitat
rests upon the dweller.
"The heads of new thought are in
corporate mainly in the following:l Psy-
chic phenomena, reincarnation,s science
of rhythmic breath, vibratory har-
monies, prescience, unfoldment and
illumination of supreme consciousness,
mental and mind healing, cognition OF
central forces, which is nothing more
than parcel and part Of esoteric philos-
ophy and principles of ethics evolved
cent -rieS ago.
"New thought teaches the suprem-
acy of soul over body, and of mind
over matter in the healing Of the body,
the building of character and the or
dering of life in all its relationships
to nobler ends. New thought is Or
ganized optimism, a practical phtloso-
ply that means salvation now and
here for soul and body by the cultiva-
ton of faith and love, courage and
confidence, so actualizing the ideal
which is, after all, the. only Real The
foregoing resume is divided and sub
divided into a thousand and one
branches.
''Some new thoughts are certainly
'hair-raising,' though we cannot con-
scientiously recommend them as hair
tonics-but out of it all shall come
a twentieth century rational belief
worthy our hearty 'credo'; a composite
religion which shall in it's verisimili-
tude, feed many generations of earnest
searchers."
The state convention Of Women's
clubs will meet in Del Monte May 19,
20, q and %, inclusive.
The California Bulletin of Women's
Clubs. a magazine that will see its
first issue in a few weeks, is to be the
official organ of the state and district
officers.
The regular meeting of the executive
board of Los Angeles district will take
place Tuesday of next week. On the
following day the executive board will
be honored guests at a meeting of the
East Whittier Women's club. Mrs. L.
B. hogue Of Ventura, district auditor,
is expected to be present at both meet
ings, and while in Los Angeles will be
entertained by Mrs. r. J. Waters, dis
trict president.
California Business Woman's associa-
tion will meet this evening and listen
to the following program: Mrs Eliza
beth Lawrence, paper on Mature
SIuoleS eXnlDlClon or plants and sea
MOSES; Miss Janet Maclaren, talk on
'Some Old Songs and Their Authors. ''
Mrs. Lawrence's life work has been
the study Of nature as it is found in
plant life. She has discovered two new
MOSES (sea), specimens Of which are
now in the Agassiz museum at Cam
bridge, Mass. She has worked with the
Harvard university botanical school
and with the Smithsonian institution
at Washington.
Miss Maclaren is the organizer and
director of recently formed woman's
orchestra in Los Angeles.