Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-18
THE AMERICAN
WOMAN'S LEAGUE

phen Bennett wrote a song that has
been adopted by the Pasadena chap
ter, of which he is a member. A mem
Der of the Los Angeles chapter has
written "A Song of Sunshine" dedi-
Gated to u. G.. Lewis, founder and
president of the league, which is being
set to music by Maud McFarran Price
of Colorado Springs, Colo. When the
music is written the manuscripts will
be forwarded to Mr.. Lewis for ap-
proval and will be sung at a public
meeting of the Los Angeles chapter
by the Los Angeles Chapter quartet
under the direction of Miss Charlotte
Elizabeth Wands, assisted by Mrs
Talbot Wfngship Miss Caroline F
Lewis and Mrs. G. A. Weaker The
words of the song are as follows:
A SONG OF SUNSHINE
In the dawning of the new year,
With its story yet untold,
Came a word that swept our heartstrings
AS angels touch their harps Of gold
Came message form the master,
Set to music by the wind
Turn your faces to the sunshine,
While the shadows fall behind.
Turn your faces to the sunshine,
While the shadows fall behind.
AS a trumpeter in battle
Sounds a note almost divine,
Stirs and quickens gallant soldiers
AS they face the firing line;
So we answer like an echo
To the singing Of the wind
Turn your faces to the sunshine,
While the shadows fall behind
Turn your faces to the sunshine,
While the shadows fall behind.
We are standing in the sunlight
In the presence of the king;
W are living every moment
Like a bird upon the wing;
And we listen, listen, listen
To the singing of the wind
Turn your faces to the sunshine,
While the shadows fall behind.
Turn your faces to the sunshine,
While the shadows fall behind.
In the morning face the sunshine.
In the evening face the west
In the noonti1e look above thee,
And thy heart shall be at rest.
Sit ye in the blessed sunlight
And hear the singing of the wind
Turn your faces to the sunshine,
While the shadows fall behind
Turn your faces to the sunshine,
While the shadows fall behind.
The chapter house will be closed all
day on Mondays following Christmas
and New Years.
1t is hoped that next year the wom-
ans exchange Of the Los Angeles
chapter will be on a basis to supply
unique holiday gifts. Perhaps the most
features of the present sales
at the chapter house, 1882 West Forty
ninth street, are DR.. Nina A. Stevens
beautiful imported Japanese lunch
sets, lacquered pictures, book marks,
place cards and stationery made of
"Paullownia imperialis,' the beautiful
empress wood used by the royal fam
lily in the land of the mikado; the ex-
quisite hand illuminated texts by Nell
Danely Brooker and Caroline Mabel
In Of ioin In
trated verses, the "Poinsettia," "Pop-
pies" Peppers" and James Whit
comb Riley's Perfect Prayer" Mrs
Brokers are remarkable for boldness
and beauty of text and color. Miss
Emile s. Perry's lovely den notices
Mrs. Haug's orange marmalade, like
crystallized sunshine; Mrs. Leslie Mar
ion Carlisles Christmas confections,
which include dates, figs, nut-fruito
and grape juice, presented in attrac-
tive holiday packages, and also fancy
articles for wear and ornament
Some of the classes have been dis
continued for the holiday season, but
the following are still in session: Par
law, at the offices of Dr.
Susan Balfe, sos Mason building, Tues
day nights at o'clock; music, Miss
Constance Lister, at the home of Mrs
M. M. Howarter Monday nights; art
at the studio of Miss Ida M. Coates
2157a West Washington street, Sat-
urday night.
DR.. Carey will give his usual
Wednesday night lecture at Burbank
hall, 542 South Main street, at 8 o'clock
sharp, the subject for next Wednesday
being 1.-The Philosophers Stone: The
Chemistry of Life"
E. G. Lewis has written an editorial
on the life and passing of Mrs. Mary
Baker G.. Eddy, head of the Christian
Science church. which is as follows:
"A few years ago a man died whose
life had been spent in causing the
world to swim in blood and misery.
The world trembled and gasped in re-
lief as he died, and then proceeded to
glorify him. He had emptied a million
homes of bread winners, caused more
widespread misery and distress than
any man who ever lived, and built a
world empire that crumbled before he
was gone: yet when Napoleon Bona
parte died all the world bowed its head
in tribute to the beating he had
given it.
"a few nights ago a frail little gen.
tlewoman died, who, too, had built an
empire. A million hearts silently
her for a moment, but in ac-
cordance with her own teachings, 1t
was but a tribute of love and loyalty
for the brighter and better viewpoint
of their own life and death she had
taught them. There was no pomp:
but a few brief words in a thousand
churches following the usual services,
and announcing that a loved and re-
vered leader had exchanged a mortal
form for an immortal one. She had
shed no blood, destroyed no homes,
shackIed no nation, but what she had
done was to take away a little human
and substitute happier better
attitude toward life.
"She taught nothing new. for what
she taught was but a different view
of the same thing-the beginning and
the end. We may differ from that
view, but none even now can doubt
that she was a most remarkable soul.
Whether we agree with her teachings
or reject them, the lesson is the same
and the world grows better with each
lesson. The world owes her a greater
debt than it owed the world conqueror.
and if her works be of life, they will
live; and If not, they will die; but the
fact that even single life has been
made better will not be lost in the
worlds melting pot, from which. for
countless centuries, great purpose
beyond our human understanding is
being worked out.
"I have never read Mrs. Eddy's teach
ings, but I have seen some results of
them which compelled both honor and
respect. Nothing could be finer than
the way of her going, and its reception
by the multitude whose leader and
loved teacher she has BEEN"
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