The New York herald., 1921-01-30
ADVERTISEMENT.

iui that you ulu NOT i've IN the days
| when people did not know what a
power thought is. A friend of my
fathers, a lawyer told me he would
give me a bright silver dollar il
would learn and repeat to him some
verses of the Mother Goose Rhymes.
/ was four years old and had learned
to read. The silver dollar seemed a
great reward. Mother gave me the
book and l began to commit the
verses. BY the way, children, per-
haps you never saw this book. I
hope you never did. If you have seen
| it, then you know that Mother Goose
was indeed goose to send out such
foolish rhymes for little children to
hear from nurses and mothers. I
will tell you several; and when you
learn that thoughts are forces for
good or bad, for love and peace and
JOY and strength, or for fear and dis
cord and sometimes pain, when yo1l
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 tho tree tsN
When the wind blows, tho cradle
When the boush ersa,sa tho cradle
will fall,
Down comes the orad1e. ana ssen
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.
II baby Went to sleep. thinking It was
in the cradle and the cradle was on
the tree top, and II 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 1t was
coming down, 'cradle and ALL"
Nursey or mother might have thought
baby had stomach ache and given
1t some peppermint tea, but zoe
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
Ole 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
And the dish ran away with the
spoon.
What a stretch Of imagination,-ask-
ing a child to believe that a heavy
mooley cow could jump over the
moon! Think of kitty playing the
fiddle and then try to convince the
child that dish could run away with
a spoon! These are only samples of
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 so.
Thus the children's sweet faith was
lessened and they were made to 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
He 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
and children Of a larger
growth" learn this and follow the
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 will appear The people
will some day learn to say these
words, which Mrs. Eddy gave to the
world:
There Is no life, truth, intelli-
gence, nor substance In matter. All
Is infinite Mind and It's. infinite
manifestation. for God is All-in-all.
Spirit Is immortal Truth; matter Is
mortal error. Spirit is the real and
clcTIldls udllcI 10 tKlo anu
temporal Spirit is God. and man Is
His image and likeness. Therefore
man Is not material; he Is spirit
ual
All are being taught the power
Of Love and Truth and their relation
10 their heavenly Father. eternal
Mind. Earthly parents, having suf-
fered so much from wrong thinking
N the Adam-dream, will themselves
abandon sick and evil thoughts, which
cad to suffering and sorrow, and will
each their dear little ones to keep
heir minds so filed with Truth and
Love and gratitude for the good
.hings that God, Love, has sent them,
hat selfish, ungrateful, false thoughts,
hat would make them unhappy, or
,ick will be crowded out.-destroyed.
Some time ago, q lady wrote mo
ind asked II would contribute some
yerses, or prose for q book which she
vas compiling, the profits OF which
we're to 90 to Pure Milk Fund for
Door little children. I mentally denied
hat there were any poor little chill
'ren, for our and their Father-Mother
Tod IS rich and can supply every need.
But | replied to her letter, that I
would send her something. Here are
he verses which wrote and to which
set some music for those dear little
children. They are also for the twen-