The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1911-07-06
The CHILD PROBLEM
THE HIGHER VIEWPOINT

sacred. .nOOk-Ifes open Tor the STUDY OF
everyone. IL we do not take the
course il offers the fault is our own !:
sooner or later we will, because to fit
itself for the duties of eternity the
soul mustfknow the secrets Of being.
One of these secrets is that this is a
U Iiverse of thought, that all that IS
d ne is by and through thought ma
chinery, so TO speak. Another secret
is that every thought particle has
chemical qualities, as under chemical
law, as proven by color, odor and
effect.
Every atom in existence is subject
to change and this through chemical
inter-relation and coordination.
Such secrets being out we should
avail ourselves Of them in order to
have the benefit of them.
Thoughts can be hidden from view
but their effects cannot; they.-makesup
the atmospheres that we create and
carry around with US whe rever we go
they are the expression of ourselves,
the.map-sheet that the expert reads
and classifies us by.
And you say, what has this to do
with chiIdren?" We answer, every
thing"
The child comes into this state of
things tender, susceptible. plastic /;
comes to the atmosphere of the home,
in it to take its way until it is able to
make departures for itself through its
own thought creation. Note the effect
upon the babe OF the mothers mental
attitudes. How quickly does the
duties of the day leave their impress
upon the little one. Hurry. worry,
fatigue, change the mothers aura, the
child feels it, is disturbed, distressed
and tells in the only language it has
and getss dosed for cholic or a cold
anything but the real thing and the
mother changes only from one chemi-
cal state to another of anxiety or fear
both poison to the tender nerves and
sensitive circulating system which
need gentleEess and loving kindness to
keep the body in happy, healthy,
growing state.
What is to to be done2 The work
has to be done and the babies have to
be cared for. Here is where the shib-
boleth Of the Poughkeepsie seer comes
in, under all circumstances keep an
even mind. This is the cruz of..the
situation. Let the elders always keep
the even mind" then the chemial life
will be maintained and the. health pre-
served by each one in the household.
The life of the child is often imper-
illed just by one outbreak of passion
on the part of the parents. Drugs,
nostrums cannot reach the case; their
chemical action has no realition to the
higher planes of thought force, they
cannot re-chemicalize the body so are
only hindrances. added burdens to the
struggling soul, too great often to be
borne so the baby goes away to a
state of being where the hindrances
cannot come to interfere with its
growth and development and its earth's
experience is lost to il although by
right it should have it,
Fathers and mothers, study this all
important phase of.life if you want the
babes to live and be healthy, ito have
their birthright chances to an exist
ence on the earth, preparatory to the
Immortality of the ether state. To
high or low. rich or poor the message
is the same, for, TO the soul there are
no distinctions. Call out the highest
and best within yourselves so as to
create .atmospheres in (which children
can thrive. Keep the heart warm,
gentle and tender and Danish anger,
fear, hate, malice, envy. jealousy,
anxiety, each attitude generating its
own poison to taint the air.
This is psychic age and the psy-
chical or unseen, super-mundane must
be taken into account. AS race ad-
vances it becomes more and more
amenable to the ssuper-physieal, so it
must treat ard be treated accordingly.
Old methods must be abandoned, old
concepts yield and old habits be broken
up. All conditions of life must change
as Progress the unexorable law
mounts its ladder round by round.
Natures domain is a moving panora-
ma of events. every expression of life
looking to betterment. A child born
today is subject to vibrations of
energy that were unknown even hun
dred years ago. The planet itself is
expressing superior energy that
makes so much more possible than has
ever before been done. Owing to this
tact the children of today suffer more
keenly than those of past centuries
and they suffer because of the old
thought habits as well.
But "hope springs eternal in the
human breast and why? 'Tis fed by
a perennial stream that never runneth
dry" so we will hold the gates aiar
that "whosoever will may come. "
That which we know not know our
constituencies will waken to by and
by and then life will be better under
stood this is the hope for the child
rem, but save all you can. parents,
teachres, guardians, friends, by the
magic staff, the even mind" that
emits no poison but qualities for good
all that you come in contact with.
Mary Alice Congdon.