New-York tribune., 1921-02-06
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Happy Neu Year TO The Dear Children
Who Are Entering Upon the Year 1872

full that you did not live in the dav.
when people did not know what =
power thought is. A friend Of NV
fathers, ii lawyer, told me he wonld
give me bright silver dollar II
would learn and repeat to- him sops
verses Of the Mother Goose Rbynas
/ WAS four years old and bad learno3
to read. The silver dollar seemed =
great reward. Mother gave me fba
book and l began 70 commit tbe
verses. BY the way, children. no,
haps you never saw this book.
hope you never did. If you have seeo
it, then you know that Mother Goose
was indeed q goose TO send out such
foolish rhymes for little children to
hear from nurses and mothers.
will tell you several and when you
learn that thoughts are forces fo-
good or bad, for love and peace and
JOY and strength, or for fear and dis.
cord and sometimes pain. when Won
learn this, you will be glad that You
are the twentieth century children
and know how to think and speak.
One rhyme reads thus:
Rock-a-bye, baby. upon the tree top.
When the wind blows. the cradle
will rock;
When the bough breaks, the cradle
will fall
Down comes the cradle. and baby.
and all.
Just think, children, Of repeating
such words to babies Babies think,
and they feel the thought Of nurse.
or mother, or whoever cares for them.
If baby went to sleep, thinking it was
in the cradle and the cradle was On
the tree top, and If 1t heard the last
words Of the nurse, when the
bough breaks, the cradle will fall"
no wonder that it awoke in the night
and cried out with fear that it was
coming down, cradle and all"
Nursey or mother might have thought
baby had a stomach ache and given
it some peppermint tea, but lcs
know that it was fear that awakened
the baby, and only love destroys fear.
But people did not know in those
days that thoughts influenced for good
or bad, so they were not responsible.
as they are to-day. Think of another
one Of Mother Goose's many rhymes,
with which the children of the nine.
teenth century were treated:
Hi diddle, diddle,
The cat played the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon:
The little dog laughed to see such
sport,
And the dish ran away with the
spoon,
What stretch Of imaginatlon,-ask
ing child to believe that a heavy
mooley cow could jump over the
moon. Think Of a kitty playing Inc
fiddle and then try to convince the
Child that dish could run away with
a spoon These are only samples O.
the rhymes with which little children
were entertained. They surely could
not. from these mental Impressions
develop intelligence, but instead, as
they grew older, they suspected peo.
pie of untruths and deceptions and
OF saying things that could not be 50.
Thus the Children's sweet faith Wus
leSsened and they We're made 10 doubt
and diStruSt.
Mrs. Eddy tells Us to keep our
minds 80 filed with Truth and Love,
that sin, disease, and death cannot
enter them" Little children are
learning that they must think God
(good) thoughts which will make
them happy and healthy and help
everyone TO be good and loving and
unSelfiSh and happy. The children
OF this age, who are taught to think
as Christ Jesus taught, and to think
that God made them good and that
lie made everyone good and that the
universe and all things that we see
are Gods Work,-when they learn
that He gives them life because He
Is Life, and that they are loving and
good because He is Love and governs
his own children,-when, | say, little
children and children Of larger
growth" learn this and follow the
teachings Of Christ Jesus and Mary
Baker Eddy, they will be healthy and
happy and have everything they need.
Our Father Mother God. Life and
Love, owns the whole real world The
so-called dream-WOrld He. God. never
made. 1t will some day disappear
and the real viii appear. The people
Will some day learn to say these
words, which Mrs. Eddy gave to the
world:
There is no life. truth. intelll-
gence nor substance in matter Au
Is infinite Mind and its Infinite
manifestation. for God is Au-in-all.
Spirit is immortal Truth matter Is
mortal error. Spirit is the real and
eternal; matter is the unreal and
temporal. Spirit is God. and man Is
His image and likeness. Therefore
man is not material; he is spirit
ua!
All are being taught the power
OF Love and Truth and their relation
to their heavenly Father, eternal
Mind. Earthly parents, having SUI.
krered so much from wrong thinking
Hn the Adam-dream, will themselves
abandon sick and evil thoughts. which
lead TO suffering and sorrow, and viii
teach their dear little ones to keep
their minds SO filed with Truth and
Love. and gratitude for the good
things that God, Love has sent them.
that selfish, ungrateful, false thoughts
that would make them unhappy, or
SICK viii be crowded out, destroyed.
Some time ago, a lady wrote ne
and asked IL l would contribute some
verses, or prose for n book which she
was compiling, the profits of whicn
We're to go TO Pure Milk Fund for
poor little children. I mentally denied
that there were any poor little chil-
dren, for our and their Father Mother
! God Is rich and can suOnIy evprv need.