Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1921-02-06

I what power thought is. A friend
of my fathers, a lawyer, told me
he would give me bright silver
| dollar if l 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 great reward
Mother gave me the book and be.
gan to commit the. verses. By the
way, children, perhaps you never
saw this book. | hope you never
did If you have seen it, then you
know that Mother Goose was in
deed a goose to send out such fool
ish rhymes for little children ia
hear from nurses and mothers. ]
| 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
discord and sometimes pain-when
you learn this you will be glad that
you are the twentieth century chill.
dren 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. tho cradle
Down comes the cradle, and baby.
and all.
lust think, children, of repeating
such words to babies. Babies think,
and they feel the thought of nurse
or mother, or whoever cares tor
them. If baby went to sleep think
| ing it was in the cradle and the
cradle was on the tree top, and It 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 migns
have thought baby had stomach
ache and given it some peppermint
tea, but we know that it was tear
that awakened the baby, and only
love destroys fear.
But people did not know in those
DAYS that thoughts Influenced tor
good or bad, so they were not re-
sponsible, as they are today. Think
of another one of Mother Goose's
many rhymes, with which the chill
dren of the nineteenth 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
| asking a child to believe that a
heavy mooley cow could jump ovs1
the moon! Think of kitty playing
the fiddle and then try to convincS
the child that a dish could run away
with a spoon! These are only SAM
Piles 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 people of untruths and
deceptions, and of saying things
that could not be so. Thus the chill
dren's sweet faith was lessened and
they were made to doubt and DIS
trust. 3;
Mrs. Eddy tells us to keep our
minds $50 filled with Truth and
Love that sin, disease. and death
c-nnot enter them" Little children
are learning that they must think
God (good) thoughts, which will
make them happy and healthy and
help every one to be good and low
ing and unsel6sh 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 every one good
and that the universe and all things
that we see are Gods work,-when
they learn that He gives them lite
because He is Life, and that they
are loving and good because He is
Love and governs His own children.
when, l 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.M other 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 peo-
ole will some day learn to say these
words, which Mrs. Eddy gave to the
world:
There is no life, truth. intellf-
pence nor substance In matter. All
Is Infinite Mind and its infinite mani.
festation, for God is All-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 spiritual -..
All are being taught the power OF
Love and Truth and their relation
to their heavenly Father. eternal
Mind. Earthly parents, having SUI
fered so much from wrong thinking
in the Adam-dream, will themselves
abandon sick and evil thoughts,
which lead to suffering and sorrow,
and will teach their dear little ones
to keep their minds so filled 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, will be
crowded outs-destroyed.
Some time ago a lady wrote me
and asked if l would contribute
some verses or prose for book
which she was compiling. the profits
of which were to go to Pure Milk
Fund for poor little children. men-
tally denied that there were any
poor little children, for our and
their Father Mother God is rich and