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The New York herald., 1921-07-17
To "An Earnest Seeker for TRUTH: -

THE notice n The New
YORK HERALD, to which
you refer, seems to have
aroused many earnest seekers
for Truth" who are turning to
ue, pleading for an explanation
ai this strange announcement,
which, as you say, they consider
contradiction of the teach
irx of Christ Jesus and
Mary Baker Eddy"
# Is impossible for me to send
an indipidudr answer to these
letters, or to give my time to per-
sonoI tnquirers; therefore | reply,
through the columns of the press,
to the multitude who are ques-
tioning the possibilities Of man
when governed by God, as taught
by the Galilean prophet, Christ
Jesus, the demonstrator of mans
eternal oneness with his crea-
tor, and who proved the dream
of death to be an illusion. |
will give you my understanding
Of Christian Science, as taught
ENTHUSIASTICALLY ChristJesus,
and in this age discovered and
founded by Mary Baker Eddy.
In Unity Of Good, page SO,
Mrs. Eddy says: Death is con-
tradiction of Life, or Cod" and
In Science and Health she declares
that man is not material; he is
spiritual" Up. 46S.)
The records Of "birth" and
death" belong to the early stage
of human experience, in the ma
terial organization. Our Leader,
Mrs. Eddy, wisely guided her
students in Their emergence from
the material to the spiritual
sense Of God, man, and the Uni
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verse. Let our Leader be hear d
in this hour:
Itiswell to know. dear reader that
our material, mortal history is but
the record OF dreams, not of mans
real existence, and the dream has
no place in the Science of being.
The human history needs
to be revised, and the material
record expunged. (Retrospeetion
and lnsrospcction, p. 21.)
The material sense of God.
man, and the universe must be
replaced by spiritual sense, to
reveal God and His man, idea,
or child. The attainment of
spiritual sense enables the stu
dent of Christian Science to un-
derstand and demonstrate the
Science Of Life and the possibili-
ties, with which God endowed
man, to whom He gave "do-
minion," as executor of His
eternal law of Life and Love.
Jesus said to his disciple:
and my Father are one.
Father /. that they may be
one, as we are.
(John X, 80; xvii, H.
Our revered Leader says:
The meek Nazarene's steadfast
and true knowledge OF preexist-
ence, Of the nature and insepara-
bility Of God and man,-made
him mighty.
The Scriptures declare Life to
be the infinite / AM,-not a
dweller in matter. For man to
know Life as It Is, namely God, the
eternal good, gives him not merely
a sense OF existence, but an accom-
panying consciousness OF spiritual
power that subordinates matter
and destroys sin, disease, and death.
This, Jesus demonstrated. =.
miscellaneous Writings, p. 1897
Mrs. Eddy bid us:
Keep in Mind the foundations
OF Christian Science-one God and
one Christ. miscellany, p. 1917
After more than thirty years
OF opportunity to ass -milate and
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
NEW YORK CITY
July I3, 1921.


Mrs Augusta E. Stetson, July Is, 1921
New York City.
Dear Mrs Stetson:-
In the New York Herald have read the following
notice.
EDDY CENTENARY, JULY 16
The centenary of the birth of Mary Baker Eddy
founder of the Christian Scientist Church will be
celebrated Saturday July at her birthplace Bow,
Concord, N. H. Christian Scientists from many
parts of the country will make pilgrimages to her
and ohservances will be held in Christian
Science Churches.
I have been striving gain understanding of
Christian Science for four years. In my study of the
Bible and the teachings of Christ Jesus and Mary Baker
Eddy, have learned that spirtualzaton of thought
is necessary give understanding of the Science
of being, which will enable obtain health and happ-
and finally demonstrate DEATH This notice
in the Herald. and which have also observed in the
New York World, of celebration comrnenorating
Mrs. Eddy's birth" and the making of pilgrnages
her grave has startled me, with what is
contradiction of Mrs. Eddys teaching that I turn
you almost in despair and beg you will consider
presumptuous in asking you tell what this
of Mrs Eddy's teaching means? Does not Mrs. Eddy
teach that should admit material birthdays
real since they but the connemoraon of the pro-
duct of the carnal mind? In reference
tion of her birthday" by the dedication of the Concord
Church. she asks. g. why this meaningless
memoration of birthdays, since there none (The
First Church of Christ Scientist and Miscellany 235)
Does not Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures instruct that material birth death are
but phases of mortal belief and have nothing do with
the reality of being? If why do Christian Scientists
60 to a"grave?"rs
Having read your published and articles,
turn to you with hope that you enlighten me
upon this strange contradiction of the teaching of
Christ Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy. There must be
thousands who will be shocked, I was, at this in
credible announcement
am spending few weeks in New York. My home
is in Southern city and there quite number of my
friends who becoming interested in the study of
Christian Science / know they will be confused as
am, at this announcement. Am asking too great
favor dear Mrs Stetson, in requesting you to reply?
Believe to be-
An earnest seeker for Truth
F. M. PITTS
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
Religious Notice.

The master Metaphysician,
Jesus the Christ, endured the
death of the false material senses,
or the physical crucifixion in
flicted by the carnally minded,
who placed him in a tomb and
sealed the tomb with a stone,
vainly attempting to destroy
him. History records his dem
onstration of his teaching. He
rolled back the stone and walked
forth, triumphant over the So
called carnal mind, and won a
sublime victory over the illusion
called death.
AS have stated, our Leader
rose beyond the mental ability
of any of her students TO visuolize
her, and in that hour those who
retained a material sense of her,
carried out the ceremony of the
materislists and buried their ma
terial concept of the Leader in a
grave. AT that time, / was in
terviewed in regard to this ex-
perience in the history of Chris
tian Scientists, and if you will
consult one of my books, Remi-
niscences, Sermons and Core
spondence, beginning at page
1914, you Will there find my re-
pies to the questions OF an
interviewer.
He inquired, What are Mrs.
Eddy views in regard to desth?"
My answer was, "She instructs
her followers to overcome the be-
lief of life in matter, with it's sin,
sickness, and death, by gaining
the Mind of Christ. In her text
book, Science and Health NTH
Key to the Scriptures, and in her
other writings, she continues to
teach that there is no death, /"
that "all is Mind" there is no
mattel" She declares that there
is no substance, nor intelligence
in mortal thought, so-called, nor
in its manifestation, mortal man
and the material universe. In
Unity Of Good, page, 38, she
AYERS:
1t is unchristian to believe in
the transition called material death,
since matter has no life.
Therefore Christian Scientists
must not continue TO comment
crate material birth and death;
and if they strive to emulate the
life of Christ and are loyal tc the
teachings of our revered Leader,
Mary Baker Eddy, divine Love
will enlighten them, as they
emerge from a material sense of
God, man, and the universe, to
the spiritual apprehension of
eternal Life and Love, the source
and supply OF their being. Mrs.
Eddy says:
BY LOYALTY in students / mean
this,-allegiance to God, subordi-
nation OF the human to the divine,
steadfast justice, and strict ad-
herence to divine Truth and
Love. (Retrospection and Intro
spection, p. 50.)
All Christians, weary of the
fruitlessness of the search for
eternal Life and unity with our
ather-Mother God, are look
ing, longing, and praying for a
cessation, through Christ, Truth,
of the ills to which flesh is heir
and for the passing away of the
former things (thoughts)
which produced sickness and
death. The divine metaphy-
sician, or true Christian Scien-
tist, comprehends Though spirit
ual sense) the words of Mrs.
Eddy:
The foam and fury of illegitimate
living and of fearful and doleful
dying should disappear on the
shore of time; then the waves of
sin, sorrow, and death beat in vain.
(Science and Health, p. 203.)
Genuine Christian Scientists
do not commemorate "illee It'll
mate living and fearful
and doleful dying" and through
their faithful adherence to
Truth, the phenomena of the
carnal mind are fast disappear
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would comfort the mourner. He
writes Of those who have passed
from our vision:
They have not died;
They live and breathe with you,
They walk here at your side.
And then he asks,
Why dream of popped sod,
When flower, and Soul, and God
Know there is no death?
There is one Life, no more;
No dying and no tomb.
Why seek We them dboue,-
Those that We love so dear?
The all of God is Love,
The all Of God is here.
And he assures the sorrowing,
They have not died,
Their hands clasp yours and mine;
They are but glorified.
They have not died;
They live, they know, they see;
They shout with every breath,
"All is eternal Life,
There is no death!
All is eternal Life!"
Gordon Johnstone.
Mrs. Eddy is mentally ACTIVE
in our midst, solving the problem
of scientific being, rising to spii-
itual dominion and demonstra-
ton, as did Christ Jesus, over the
illusion of death and the grave.
Her students are arising and call
ing her blessed. They are de-
Tending and demonstrating her
teaching. Her Church, the
Structure of Truth and Love"
not a material edit ce, which is
but the symbol, is built upon the
Rock, Christ, and "the gates OF
hell shall not prevail against it."
Jesus was crucitied fol- his efforts
to waken the world from the be-
lief in sin, sickness, and death.
Mrs. Eddy, in her endeavors to
al 1ouse humanity to awake and
come forth from the bondage of
material birth and death, antago-
nized the carnal mind. 1t was a
mental battle that Jesus waged
and in which he triumphed. II
is mental battle between hate
and love, evil and good, death
and life, the calnally minded
and the spiritually minded,
which Mrs. Eddy is encounter
ing, and she will triumph.
Troublesome Truth" has the
field and will uncover and over
turn allthat opposes eternal Life.
The divine man, the compound
idea, rejecting the fatherhood
and motherhood of God, which
constitutes the spiritual universe,
will be revealed as the only man
and the only universe, rtflecting
infinite, creative Spirit, God,
eternal Life, Truth, and Love.
This is the Science of being, as
taught by Christ Jesus and
Mary Baker Eddy.
The time is approaching when
the foolish virgins" will ask Of
the "wise Virgins" Give us OF
your oil; for our lamps are gone
out" And the wise virgins"
they who have kept their lamps
filled with oil, will reply, mot
so; lest ther g be not enough for us
and you: but go ye rather to
them that sell, and buy for your
selves" (Matthew xxv., s, 81
The midnight hour is at hano.
Christ's imminence is unmistak.
able. His voice is heard by the
faithful, saying:
The Son OF man cometh at an
hour when ye think not.
luke xii, 40.)
Watch We therefore: for We know
not when the master Of the house
cometh.
Lest coming suddenly, he find
you sleeping.
And what I say unto you I say
unto all, Watch. MARX xiii, $500
Sincerely yours,
AUGUSTA e. STETSON.
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Religious Notice.
Religious Notice.

He that heareth and beveh Him hath
life. passed
from death life.
Verify verify, keep saying he shall
death-CHRIST JESUS (John v, viii. SD
The last shall destroyed is death.
The DEATH the God eternal life through
Jesus Christ LordPAUL N Corinthians s6 Romans s5O
Life is real and death the illusion
Birth things
from the spiritual
Sin brought death with disappear
o .
death must be submitted to- before immortal
fy appea-MARY Health Key
the Scriptures 4zS, 4s6 76)
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Religious Notice.

|
in matter" since God is Spirit,
eternal Life and Love, the only
creator, and that all that he
creates is real, his own image
and likeness, accepting the
teaching which Christ Jesus
gave to the world and demon
strated, it seems incredible that
his disciples, or the followers OF
Mrs. Eddy can be found believ-
ing in and perpetuating the false
claim of material birth, growth,
decay, and death. They seem
not get to understand that it is a
a belief of material birth" that
fulfils the conditions of fleshly
belief and disappears in what
mortals call death"
AS in Adam all die, even so in
Christ shall all be made alive.
q. Corinthians XIV, 22.)
The mesmeric, hypnotic condi-
tion of the so-called carnal mind
has deceived the whole world
with its claim of life in matter,
and some, who are earnestly
striving to follow the teaching of
Christ Jesus and our God-inspired
Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, have
not yet spiritualized their thought
sufficiently to apprehend the
spiritual facts of scien4 itic being.
These earnest seekers for Truth
have not yet heard the voice OF
the ever-present Christ:
Why seek ye the living among
the dead?
He is not here, but is risen.
MARK XIV, 5, 6.)
All true Christ ian Scientists
are striving to attain the Mind
of Christ, and follow and obey
theil beloved and revered Leader,
Mary Baker Eddy, and they will
eventually, through suffering out
OF the ileshly dream of life in
matter, in obedience to the law
of Life and Love, emerge from
the material senses and begin
to build on a wholly spiritual
foundation"
Eleven years ago our revered
Leader rose beyond the mental
capacity of any of her students
to continue to visualize, or OBJ
jectify her; but her advanced
students knew that she had not
died. They refused to be sep
arated from her spiritual indi-
viduslity, and they continued to
rise mentally with her IN her
ascending thought. Two years
before this she had published
in the Jouinsl a letter to her
"dear brethren in New York, :"
from which l quote:
When my dear brethren ir New
York desire to build higher
they must begin on W lily
spiritual foundation, TIA mich
there is no other. -.
Spirit is infinite; the-'. ..ore Spirit
is all. ''There is no matter is
not only the axiom of true Christ
ian Science, but it is the only
basis upon which this Science can
be demonstrated.
(Christidn Science Journal, vol.
XVI, p. $780,
|, with my students, replied
to her that we desired to "build
higher" and upon a wholly
spiritual foundation" viz:
Spirit is infinite; therefore Spirit
is all. There is no matter, .
and that we believed we we're
ready TO begin our higher demon
stration of the potency of spirit
ual thought-force, to break the
dream OF sin, sickness and death,
the product of the carnal mind.
Two years after this our Leader
passed through the valley and
shadow" called death. Having
attained to a degree OF spiritual
power, she dissolved with spirit
ual sense) the human concept
of a fleshly image, or booy, and
was no longer physically visible
to her students. But again |
repeat that some of her students
kneaO that she had not died, that
she was leading them to higher
1
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Religious Notice.
and accept the argument of the
materialiStS.

dnu accept tne argument OI the
materialists.
Let God be true, but every
[mortal] man a liar.
Romans ill.,, A..
| credit our wise Leader with
the understanding Of Truth, and
| await her demonstration of
spiritual power over the false
claim called death. / never,
for one moment, doubt her
ability and spiritual might to
overt ONE the '1ast enemy" and
reappear in the image and like
ness of God, and / shall be
satisfied" only when | awake
in His likeness.
I shall be satisfied, when !
awake, with Thy likeness.
Psalms xvii, 15.)
The contention for immor-
tally between the students OF
Mrs. Eddy, who have been
BUILDING on a spiritual founda-
ton, and those students who
continue to adhere to and obey
the material senses, is apparent.
They have written their prob
lem upon the worlds black
board, while progress, the law
of the Infinite, has enabled
thousands to keep abreast with
Truth and distinguish the gen.
uine Christian Scientist from
the materialist, who continues
to perpetuate the dream of life
in matter. Humanity is awak-
ing to condemn this, as the
reversal of the teaching of Christ
Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy.
The true Christian Scientists
a,e striving to spiritualize
thought, that they may visualize
their great Leader and Teacher,
when she reappears, as did Jesus,
in confirmation of her accept
ance and PRONUNCIATION of the
teaching of the Galilean prophet,
viz, that man is an emanation
of God, eternal Life and Love,
and is therefore immortal, re-
flecting his creator, infinite
Mind, or Spirit. Let me quote
Mrs. Eddy's words:
The continual contemplation Of
existence as material and cor
poreal-as beginning and ending
and with birth, decay, and dissolu-
ton as its component stages
hides the true and spiritual Life,
and causes our standard to trail in
the dust.
(ScSencc and Health, p. 550.)
Birth and death belong to the
Adam-Eve generation, which
conceives in sin and brings forth
sorrow and death. Paul says:
To be carnally minded is death;
but to be spiritually minded is life
and peace. Romans viii, 6.)
Mrs. Eddy bids her students:
Abide in Truth, in fellowship
with and obedience to The Mother
Church, and in this way God will
bless and prosper you. This /
know, for He has proved it to me
for forty years in succession.
miscellany, p. 360.)
Mrs. Eddy defines Church"
as "The structure of Truth and
Love-" not a material organiza-
ton, but a state of spiritual con-
sciousness. Christian Scientists
understand this TO mean, abide
in spiritual, conscious oneness
with God and His Christ.
note to-day in the colu INNS
of THE NEW YORK HERALD
these headlines:
TO HONOR 1884 DEAD
IN HOBOKEN SERVICE
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
TO HONOR 1884 DEAD
IN HOBOKEN SERVICE

Alas for poor humanity! Their
insistence upon death as a reality
and their refusal to accept the
scientific fact of being, viz, that
man is Gods image" and 'ike-
ness" spiritual and not mate
rial, the emanation of his Father
Mother Life and Love, e,-this in
sistence upon the reality of the
fleshly embodiment, as the dear
departed, savors of pagan phi
losophy, blind idolatry, and an
absolute ignorance of God, the
creative Principle of being, and
Christ, or the body of Truth and
Love, God, which is composed of
infinite ideas, Oh members, and
whose existence is the reflection
of an eternal, creative Principle
called "Our Father, which art in
heaven. The time will come
when these memorial services
will be discontinued, and the
presence of the loved ones will
be admitted and revealed.
At times, moved by divine
Love and tender sympathy for
the sinner and grief-str..cken
mourner, and longing to arouse
humanity from its dream of life
in ma tier, which terminates in
suffering and so-called death, -
l cry out as did our Master:
o Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou
that killest the prophets and
stoneth them that are sent unto
thee, how often would have gath
cred thy children together, even as
hen gathereth her chickens under
her wings, and ye would not,
(Maahew xiii, 37.)
But | rejoice to note that
the Christly element is fast
developing in humanity, and
thousands who have not yet
accepted Christian Science are
responding to our Leaders
statement that Life is real,
and death is the illusion.
Science and Health p. 428).
Let all deny the evidence of the
material senses, when called upon
to part with loved ones, and
wait patiently for spiritual sense
to reveal to them the real,
perfect eternal child of Goa S
creating.
The New York herald., 1921-07-17
Religious Notice.


The author of the following
poem discerned the unreality
OF death, and wrote:
Beside the dead knelt for prayer.
And felt presence, as l prayed.
Lo! it was Jesus standing there;
He smiled, BE not afraid"
Lord, Thou hast conquered death.
we know,
Restore again to life," ! said,
"This one who died an hour ago."
He smiled, "She is not dead"
''Asleep then, as thou didst say.
Yet thou canst lift the lids that
keep
Her prisoned eyes from ours away"
He smiled. "She doth not sleepr
yet our beloved seems so far,
The while we yearn to feel them
near;
Albeit with thee we trust they are"
He smiled, "And I am here"
Dear Lord, how shall we know
that they
Still walk unseen with us, and
thee,
Nor sleep, nor wander far away?"
He smiled, "Abide in me-"
(Rdymond).
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AS universal consciousness is
leavened by the teaching Of Christ
Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy,
the false mentality, or cal nal
thought, which expresses itself
in material birth and deash,
will finally be destroyed.
Mary Baker Eddy caught the
lost chord of Christ. swept her
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-01-13
FIREMEN'S BENEFIT
FEBRUARY ELEVENTH

Friday, February IL, has been set
as the date for a Firemen's Benefit
Ball. There is nothing which can be
so conscientientiously supported as
supported as something that brings
money into the Firemen's treasury
and enables them to keep up the eff
ficiency of the department. This
city has an unusually we'll organized
fire company with a willing and self
sacrificing bunch of members. They
have already saved the city many dol
lars by saving property and they are
destined to save many more as we
are never free from the fire danger
When the committee comes around
to sell tickets, don't refuse and don't
object. If you do anything unusual,
buy two or three tickets instead of
one.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-01-13
Wolf Point
Referee, E. Y. Poore.
Glasgow Stars Outclassed

Handlers Wolves showed them
selves to be too strong in all depart
ments of the game for the Glasgow
Stars, who were outclassed in all
features of the play The difference
in the teams became more marked
as the play progressed. The Valley
County boys were unable to break
in on the Wolves team play. The
ball was repeatedly passed the length
of the floor to the locals goal and
shot through the basket with surpris-
ing accuracy. The Glasgow boys
showed flashes of good individual
play but were unable to organize any
system that would result in scoring.
They put up hard game fight and
the play was clean on both sides.
Very few fouls were called and there
was nothing but the best of feeling
on the part of both players and the
crowd.
King had very successful season
in the matter of shooting baskets,
scoring % points himself. Handler,
who played running guard, made five
nice shots and Frahm as center
counted four trips through the hoop.
The subs were given chance to get
into the game, Bakkam relieving
Lenz and Kleve taking Halls place
when the latter received a slight in
jury. The final score was Wolf
Point, 81; Glasgow, 12.
The positions and scoring of the
players:
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1921-01-13
FIRST STATE ELECTS
DECLARES DIVIDEND

The officers and directors of the
First State Bank held their annual
meeting at the banking rooms Tues
day evening. No changes were made
in the personnel of the officers or di-
rectors. Sherman t. Cogswell was
reelected president. Geo. H. Flint
and H. 7. Smith were elected vice
presidents, F. E. Rathert was elected
cashier, A. V. Appelgren, assistant
cashier
The conditions of the banks af-
fairs was declared to be in very sat
isfactory condition, especially CON
sidering the times. One thousand
dollars were added to the surplus
and a per cent dividend was de-
clared. A larger dividend could have
been declared but it was deemed
more conservative to leave larger
amount in the undivided profits.