Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-07


 with the wooden rods of human will ignorance, selfishness, pride or any otber form of wrong thinking they eSill be disappointed; but Mhen they use rods of the true metal of truth, love, humility, meekness, and the golden rule of doing unto others as you would have others do unto yod the nexus will be established and the divine power will flow from Spirit into the human consciousness, lm- parting to it qualities and capabilities that it had not possessed before and bringing into it a sense of peace that it had not before known.
 The prophet Mieah said mans en- emies are they of his own household, and Jesus repeated the statement. used to understand their meaning to be that a mans enemies were his c,Hn kin. but I now realize that man s enemies are they of his own mental household The mental guests or thoughts that we entertain in our mental homes are either our friends or our foes. Hatred, fear, self-loVe and all evil qualities of thought are senemies that bind man to sickness Hand, death, and man will never gain shis freedom until he drives out these 3ncmies and makes his consciousness be temple of God
 We are told in Christian Science lat fear is an ingredient of every 6sease, and if fear were entirely destroyed large number of diseases would go with it. If we could imagine this world with all hatred, fear, sun- erstition. self-will, and self-love des, troyed out of it, it is conceivable that longevity would be increased and that s happiness and health would be more ecure.
 <AS If Christian Science had never heal ed a case of sickness it would still be entitled to lasting praise for com2eil- ing this age to recognize the power and influence of thought. solomon declared three thousand years ago that as a man "thinketh in his heart. so is he. In other words, the quality of the man is determined by the quail ty of his thought It is therefore ol supreme Importance that man should know the truth, to the end that he may know how to think correctly. PARABLE OF THE TROPICAL SON { '.as the parable of the prodigal son / .sus illustrated the power of thought. ~ .,u will remember that the young
 took the property with which his
 ,r country where he made bad usH After a while he began to be ln
 and finally secured employment t.s very menial position. The posi- n,. however, did not yield enough
 nraaeep him from starving, and ne
 ., bliged to eat husks. About that
 ,.,A voice said to him, Why do you
 10 home? In your fathers house t, though and to spare, and why do Ma stay here?' Immediately self love became active. and said, 'ADo not go home. The neighbors will ridicule you. and the servants will laugh at you, and, anyway, there is no cer- tainty that your father will let you return Thus the argument of self love was sufficient to keep him on the husk, plane of consciousness for some timA longer. After while. how ever, he \said that even though the neighbors Should ridicule him and the servantA laugh at him, he would go home andNell his father the whole miserable stor& and would say that he was no more worthy to be called his son, but if the father would only let hiv some home he would he as one of his hired servants
 We can there see that meekness and humimilty had taken the place of self-love and had silenced pride, and instantly the line of communication was opened between himself and the father. The father saw him a great way off, and ran to meet him, and nut a robe on him, and ring on his finger, and the son found that he had been son all the time. Nothing but his own false sense had made him suffer, and when he got rid of the false mortal beliefs of a prodigal and revealed the qualities of son the scales fell from his eyes and he found himself in his right mind.