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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10
SOLUTION THROUGH CHRISTIAN
 SCIENCE

Looked at materially there always will be something unsolved in regard to vitality and health, but it is found that Christian Science disentangles these forces sets them free from their material complications, and reveals health and vitality to be spiritual qual- ities or forces Christian Science teaches that there is one and one only real Mind. or divine Principle, which is all life, intelligence, and substance-there- fore, must include all true nature, Vii tality and health. Christian Science does not take away the beauty and har- mony of nature, but rather by improv- ing the material sense of things it dis closes beauty in nature and man never before seen. This nature and beauty revealed in the realm of divine Mind re the reflection of God; they are Gods spiritual ideas, and there is no other nature. Says the Bible, All things were made by him tGod); and without him was not any thing made that was made" Therefore, when na- turc is healing the sick, it does not mean that some mysterious force is at work in matter, but it means that dl-- vine Principle or divine Mind is being naturally expressed through spiritual thoughts. through the good thoughts of hope, faith, and understanding, through the law of Life, Truth, and Love- such thoughts destroy the false 'beliefS of fear disease and sin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10
CUT THIS ouT-rr IS WORTH MONEY

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10
HUMAN WILL IS MESMERISM, DESTROYED BY DIVINE
 PRINCIPLE
. FITTTIW-s 

Christian Science shows how each in- diyidual can. and must, for himself overcome these subtle evil beliefs, It shows that these beliefs let loose are aggressive and are eNpressd through what $ called will power or mental suggestion, which is only another name for hynotism or mesmerism And lt shows that disease cannot be healed by willful thoughts or suggestion, since enc error cannot destroy another error Christian Science shows that as the re- sistance of these false evil beliefs is not personal, therefore no personal harm can be done. It is an impersonal resistance in the sense that evil is im- personal. and in the sense that divine Principle, Love, is the impersonal power that human consciousness reflects to destroy the evil. This impersonal method of handling evil is the only Nethod by which evil can be destroyed, and therein lies the great practicality of Christian Science. Any method that starts from the premise that the evil material sense is God created or God acknowledged starts fenorantly and falsely and has no, perfect Principle with which to destroy error.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10

goes to the root of evil or sin and finds it to be only the impersonal and false claim that there is power apart from God, good. This false claim Mrs. Eddy calls mortal mind. as she says for want of better term; and this moftal ma terial mind is the same carnal mind which is "enmity against God" and what Jesus called a liar from the be- erlnnino-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10

1 They ask not your planting. They need not your care
 As they grow:
 Dropped down in the valley The field anywhere
 There they grow
 They grow in their beauty, arrayed in
 pure white;
 They grow. clothed in glory, by
 heavens own light
 sweetly grow.
 The grasses are clothed
 And the ravens are fed
 From His stor&
 But you, who arSloved And guarded and led,
 How much more
 Will He clothe and feed you, and give
 you His care?
 Then leave it with Him; He has every
 where
 Ample store"
 This law of unlimited supply is em- inently practical, as thousands have proved and are proving. These thou- sands who have come up out of great and washed their robes white, have awakened from this false sense of lack and poverty, weakness and disease and thanks to the practical rescue of Christian Science, are now restored. regenerated, and rejuvenated mortals.
 FOUNTAIN OF LIFE DISCOVERED
 The rejuvenation of mortals, or the renewal of youth. is natural sequence and practical result of the advent of Christian Science, and a highly impor- tant result, The fountain of life and wisdom has long been sought, and to the uttermost parts of the world, but ''the depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me-" In ether words, life never has been found in matter, and it never will be. The discovery of Life is the same as the dis covery of divine Mind, Spirit. Love, for these are synonymous terms for the one eternal Principle, called God. According to the first chapter of Genesis, man is created in Gods image and likeness and has dominion over all created things. Christian Science shows that when the temporal mortal man discovers that man is spiritual, and not material he will realize that Life is eternal and ever present and that mortal birth, decay, decrepitude, and death are only false material beliefs, over which man has full dominion. When this inheritance of dominion Is claimed and exercised, a mortal will no longer measure his life by the standard of material inheritance and years, but he will begin immediately to deny and ru fo1G lax
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10
DAILY DEMONSTRATION OF
 ETERNAL LIFE

Naturally @ Christian Scientist does not limit life and man; then, practicing this rule daily he does not limit his continuous power and vitality. He does not expect to grow old, to become in firm, stoop-shouldered, dim of vision, CT hard of hearing. He knows his strength and true faculties are in di- vine mind and cannot become weak ened. He realizes he must not become indifferent or careless about his habits or his appearance. He does not, in fact he knows he cannot lie back on the thingse he has done or sit in corner with folded hands and shift his burden of responsibility upon a child of the flesh. for he well knows he cannot self ishly lay down his own problem for a successor to solve. A successor will have his own individual salvation to work out and besides he knows that the real man made in Gods likeness, can have no successor. Men and wom- en of riper lessons and experience surely should reazie their dominion over the mesmerism of fear. limitation, and reversal. All persons should realize the danger of becoming selfsatisfied, or satisfied with a good enough med !cine or a good enough religion. Moth ing in matter is good enough for one who s seeking freedom, peace and sal- vuffnn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10
CHILDREN IN CHRISTIAN
 SCIENCE

The unusually large Sunday schools in the Christian Science churches indi- cate the pleasure and interest children take in learning the simple truths of Christian Science. Children of all ages soon learn to love these spiritual truths wrich they themselves can ap- ply with practical results in their daily studies, as well as to their habits and to their physical needs. Children do not take naturally to drugs and nos trums, or to fear and condemnation. Chris tian Science teaches children to think and reason, and that child was consistent who said to it's mother Mamma. you say if I get my feet wet, get cold in my head, but if l get my head wet 1 don't get cold in my feet "a very good illustration of the ruling and contradictory nature of material belief. As rule, children take skep- tical views of material diseases, like the boy who called his fathers disease "expendicitis" The child thought is naturally lowly and trustful, honest and sincere. This is the good ground which receives the seemingly abstract truths about the nothingness of evil and matter, with simple faith and con viction. These ideas need only then be protected and fostered to develop in the child strength and independence, which releases it's true individuality, and the child grows up happy and free, unbound by material laws, governed by divine Principle instead of by hu- man will. This saves the child many weary after years of fear confusion, and suffering. Accepting Christian Science at the age of 14 well know to what extent it's teachings have saved mo from physical disease and mental discord Jesus sayings, Except ye be converted and become as little chil- dren, ye shall not enter into the king dom of heaven" and Except man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom Of God" can well be readDRogether, the latter saying supplementing the for mer. These sayings are not abstrac- lions, but practical daily rules.
 HEAVEN AND HELL
 Thus heaven Is found to be state of ever present harmony and peace--a mental state, the door to which is opened by the child qualities of hu- miiity honesty. purity, and love. The opposite of this condition. called hell. is dealt with very simply and prac- tically by the teachings of Christian Science If heaven Is not a place, but state of purified consciousness. then hell is the very opposite state of mind. and most persons are able in meas ure to testify to this.
 EVIL IMPERSONAL
 The Bible teaches that if we resist the devil. he (eviD will flee from us; but with material thought this has been an impossible theory. Evil would some times seem to disappear only to reap pear in another guise, and perhaps more subtle form Christian Science
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10
THE TRUE CHURCH

Christian Science teaches that Life or divine Principle, and it's idea, man and the universe, are "an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens;" therefore, can never dissolve or become disorganized Organization is a con- solidation of human beliefs which may he good or bad. according as truth or error governs 1t. Good organization is temporal, human structure which proves it's elevating power and utility until it's Inevitable disappearance be- fore the divine idea. The human body and the human church are prominent examples of organization. Jesus said, q am not come to destroy, but to full fill" The human body and church are not to be destroyed, but human beliefs about them are to be improved until the body and the church have fulfilled their useful and practical functions. The real church is a spiritual house not made with hands" comprised of spir- itual and right ideas; in other words, all that proceeds from divine Principle,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10

1 Love. This is Jesus church, which he foretoid, built on the rock of spiritual understanding, the one universal church. It is the divine ideal of the human church, the latter proving its utility by demonstrating the Holy Com forter or Christian Science. and min-
 istering to the masses, to rich and poor alike. This is the function of the Church of Christ. Scientist an organi- zation established by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879, whose parent church, the Mother Church, is in Boston, Mass, and whose branches, numbering over l,SO0, extend over the world.
 VALUE OF CHURCH MEMBER SHIP
 Membership in the Christian Science church is an outward uniting with the Christian Science organizations but It Is essentially a non-ceremonial spiritual step. It is new birth. a new sense or life, a new sense of Truth that is able to destroy error and heal the sick ID other words, it is a step that each in- dividual takes for himself, governed by divine Principle, not by human willi hence. thereafter the member recog- nizes that he has advanced in spiritual understanding and Is grateful to the wise rules of church membership which have helped him to subdue fear, pride procrastination, and human will.
 PRACTICAL LESSON-SERMON
 The Lesson Sermon read in the Chris tian Science churches Is another dis tinct departure from time-honored custom, and is an example of the prac- tical and individual nature of the Chris tan Science ministry. During the week. throughout the world, unnum- bered earnest seekers after Truth are studying and asismilating this prepared Lesson Sermon, with the practical re- suit that they become independent or personal leadership and personal min istry. They come together at chufcn services and meetings, recognizing the great value of united thought and et- fort to crystaI1ize and protect the move ment. and side by side, in love and con- fidence, guided by the one Mind or PriE- ciple they work out their own indiVin- ual salvation in Spirit and in Truth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10
VITALITY AND HEALTH
 SPIRITUAL

Error is defined in Christian Science as the false belief that there is life, in- telligehce, and substance in matter. Thus vitality and health are shown to be conditions of thought or manifesto tions of divine Mind. and not attributes of matter. Then 1t is wrong and dis loyal to God to believe that nature works in or through drug or any ma terial remedy to cure disease. Neither nature nor divine Principle needs any help from matter in fact, Principle does not know matter, any more than light knows darkness. Light destroys darkness, and this illustrates how it is that divine Principle destroys material beliefs. Nature working through so- called good germs is a theory which may serve to show that divine Principle is expressed through good thoughts. provided that we remember that divine Principle alone is the reality in nature. Matter is unintelligent and negative and there can be no good germs or bad Q
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10

some logic, that if medicine is good for sick people it must be still better for well ones. And if drugs really pos sessed any virtue, this would be SO. Spiritual Truth and Love. the real healer of mortals, is not only good for sick people, but is equally good for we'll ones a universal, everlasting ben eft to mankind in sickness and in health.
 The recent experience in combating the so-cailed Spanish influenza is mo- table example of the negative results from material means of healing. From 8 variety of sources came a variety of experiments and results which doctors freely admitted were for the most part conflicting and unsuccessful. one hum dred volunteers who for several weeks in 1918 were under observation by the navy public health service to ascertain the cause of influenza. had influenza germs placed in their nostrils and throats. and ate them with their food. with the interesting result that not only no cases of disease developed, but the only noticeable effects of the ex- pertinent. according to the physicians, were increased appetites and more wig orous health. The health officer of New York city, Dr. Copeland, in an after interview (The Christian Science Moni- 
 thing he had to do in the control of that epidemic Twas to preserve the morale of the community and eliminate fear" and It is well known that the mortal ity during that period was lower in New York city than in any other large community.
 REASON OF FAILURE
 It is not necessary to continue these citations; they are commonly known. Why is it not seen that the uncertain ties in the progress of medicine which history has shown are due to the un- certainties of matter and material be- lief? When will all good people see that drugs do not, cannot, restore health, since in him tSpiri) we live. and move, and have our being?" And when will it be seen that matter is not a cause, but an effect, the effect of the material mind, and one goes badly astray so long as he deals with the effect--so long as he drugs or treats it, fears or honorssit? Hence, the mys- tifieation and uncertainty in circles, which should ere this be awake to the subtleties of the material mind as the cause of matter, evil, disease, and death.
 It should be obvious that health. vi- tality, and nature are not to be found in matter. Then what are they and where are they to be found? The correct so-' lution of this vital question should unite the physician and the Christian Scientist. They can come together on this question and the minister can unite with them. Though vitality, bealth, and life are beyond the compre- hension of the physician and the min- ister. as they themselves readily &C., knowledge, may not these forces now To. laf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10
DIVINE PRINCIPLE AND PRAC-
 TICAL PRAYER

minister of the gospel once asked me: 'In Christian Science you call God divine Principle. How can I possibly pray to principle?" The answer is by understanding what Principle fully means. One must turn his thoughts away from matter which contains no principle, to God. as the one infinite Spirit or Mind of the universe, includ- ing man. Christian Science teaches that God, Spirit. is the only cause. Life
 intelligence and power. therefore He is the divine Principle of the universe; and it teaches that man is His image likeness, therefore that man is spiritual and not material. This divine Princi- pie of the universe and man is active, cocrete truth, and as such is capable of being demonstrated in all human affairs. Such demonstration is made through prayer, according to the Chris tian scientific method of Christian Science. The availability of the Chris vian Science prayer Hes in its practical. workable nature. The Christian Science prayer works. or avails, just in so far as one understands and applies the di- vine Principle and rules of Christian Science to discordant mortal beliefs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10
HEAVEN AND HELL
EVIL IMPERSONAL

The Bible teaches that If we resist the devil. he (eviD will flee from us; but with material thought this has been an impossible theory. Evil would some times seem to disappear only to reap pear in another guise, and perhaps more subtle form Christian Science
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10
PRACTICALLY OF CHRISTIAN
 SCIENCE

Christian Science is practical. as the healed and regenerated everywhere do gladly testify Christian Science is a divine law or system of perfect rules to be proved, and while the absolute is always possible, no one must think that he Is expected to attain it in any other way than by steps and stages. No one ever does so. Therefore he must not feel that he is required to give up everything that seems dear to him be- fore he can take the first steps in Christian Science. Growth will forever be gradual Any pupil knows that he must first understand addition before lie can take up the problems of sub traction and multiplication, and any man or woman knows that he just nat urally outgrows the pleasures of mar bles or dolls and cannot return to them. Whatever explains what fear, sin. and disease are, whence they originate. and how they are to be overcome is emil nently practical.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10
FEAR DESTROYED

Fear is the shadowing torment or human existence that is responsible for more than half of human discord and disease. Christian Science shows that fear comes from ignorance or sin. It teaches one how to rise out of igno- rance and out of sin, and thus prevent and heal all kinds of fear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10

There are more delusions and super stitions about health than there are hours and days in the year. For in- stance, how many people still believe that horse-chestnut or a potato car rIed in the pocket will prevent rheuma- tism; how many believe that only nau- seous medicines cure: that the germs of typhoid will cure typhoid: that rabbits foot on a watch chain will dis pei fear? A piece of raw pork, tied behind the left ear, is still recommend- ed in some regions as sure remedy for colds; and when I was a boy my mother ardently believed that peri odical throat trouble. caused by an elongated palate. which doctors said had. could only be relieved by wrap ping my throat with piece Of red fan mel smeared with lard. camphor. and salt: and the flannel always had to be red flannel When. soon after. my mother was healed in Christian Science. she imme ediately commenced healing others; and in two treatments. which she gave me fifteen minutes apart. that palate, which doctors said required a surgical operation. suddenly became so shortened that I have not known since that ever had one. There is also a superstitious belief. which possesses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-10
FEAR FPlDEMICS PREvENTABLE

Waves or Tear seem OCcdslpDdlly lo sweep over the country. They gener- ally are manifested in one of two forms, a fear of lack of supply or a fear of oontagion or disease. These so-called epidemics seem unpreventable and un- controllable to the limited, material sense of things, which cannot see the source of the trouble, and which em- ploys only shallow and contradictory means to stem the tide. Material means clip off only the branches, while Chris tian Science goes to the root of the tree; for a Christian Scientist With the perfect assurance of spiritual under standing employs means recomm ended throughout the ages--namely, the word of God; means which. when seientifi cally understood. in the words of the Bible are quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart"
 SOLUTION OF SUPPLY
 Christian Science destroys the fear of lack of supply with the same divine Principle with which it destroys the fear of contagion or disease, proving that there is no difference whatever between the law of wealth and the law of health. Christian Science shows that lack of supply is only a material belief, a symptom of the false material sense of things, fear oceasioned wholly by ignorance of mans unlimi- ted eternal sonship to God. Discover this likeness to God claim this sonship according to the rules of Christian Science then leave the outcome with divine Love and the limited material sense changes to an unlimited spiritual sense, which brings into light and prac- tical action the law of divine Principle, which supplies all wealth and health
 "Yes. leave it AYith Him;
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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-27
SCHOOLS OPEN
 NEXT MONTH
Students Busy Preparing for
 Opening of Schools.

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 In order to introduce this wonder ful new pen into every locality we make this wonderful offer: Simply serd us your name and address-no money-and we will send the pen by parcel post, prepaird. When it comes merely deposit 93 cents with the post man to help pay for advertising, box ing, etc. If you are not satisfied: mail it back to us within days and we will return your deposit, but if you decide to keep it, it's yours there's nothing more to pay. This offer applies to every one, both stu dents and grown folks, but there will only be limited number given away on this plan.
 Send your name today Ga postal will do) so as to be sure and get one. Address the M. T. Parker Co.,, Dept E, 231 Haywood St., Asheville, N. c. advt
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-27
IDENTIFY BODY.

Grantwood, N. J., Aug. 26.-The body of the young woman found slain in the Grantwood woods yesterday today was identified as that of Mrs. Blanche Cchulz of East 135th street. Manhattan. The identification was made by the woman's husband, Frank Schulz, who viewed the body at To- cal morgue.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-27
Fort Worth Shows Big Population
 Boost Over 1910

Washington, Aug. 26.-Census re- ports show:
 Fort Worth, Texas, 106,482, in- crease 33,17O, or 45.2 per cent.
 Paris, Texas, 14,939, increase, B. 67o, or 32.6 per cent.
 Mart, Texas, 3,1o5, increase. 166, or 5.6 per cent.
 Danville, Va, 21,539, increase g. 519, or 13.2 per cent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-27
VENIZELOS TO ATHENS.

Paris, Aug. 26.-Premier Venizelos of Greece, who was murderously at tackled by two young Greeks here re- gently, left last night for Athens. He has completely recovered from his wounds.