The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-14

Christianity" Christian Science is
exact. We must trust u absolutely.
II today we add just little TO our
stock OF love and obedience we shall
experience 40 much the less suffer.
ing and 40 much the more Joy. AL
ways as We add to our stock OF love
and obedience. we are thereby for
saking the corduroy road and gain
Ing the gravel walk. We are ap-
proa ching and entering the wonder.
ful garden of salvation through
Science instead OF through suffer
ing.
II IL our priceless privilege to rt
turn to our Fathers House. here ana
now. No belief OF old age, chronic
disease. sin. sickness or even death;
no sense OF discord. In tho so-called
past, should be permitted to grow In
thought. They have no place In
eternity.
The bay breaking
4 dear man, who did not have
the light which Divine Science has
brought TO some OF us. struggled
nobly, for years, against an insidious
belief OF disease. The sad expert
ence OF years tried TO crush him.
! The past kept mocklng him. He
wrote little poem OF fourteen lines.
called Barnaclcs. You know what
| barnacles claim TO dot Little by
little they multiply on keels Of
ocean vessels and unless the nc-
cumulations are destroyed they work
ruin. The past constitutes the
barnaclcs Of human llfe, Our poet
/ painfully recognized this claim and
voiced It IN seven lines thus:
"My soul Is sailing through the sea
But the Past Is heavy and hinder
eth me.
The Past hath crusted. cumbrous
shells,
That holds the flesh Of cold seq
smells about my soul.
The huge waves wash, the high
waves roll,
Each barnaclo clingeth and work.
eth dole
And hindereth me from sailing"
And then, catching n glimpse OF
the rights OF man to be free. he
concludes the poem In a higher
strain.
"Old Past let go, and drop T. the sea
! Till fathomless waters cover thee.
! For | am living but thou are dead.
| Thou drawest back. l strive ahead
the Day to find;
Thy shells unblnd; night comes be
hind.
] needs must hurry with tho wind
And trim me best for sailing"
ITO repudiate the tyranny OF the
past Is tho privilege OF every child
OF God" Forgetting those things
that are behind" says the apostle.
Forget
The word forget is composed Of
two words, for and get. The prepo-
sition for means in place OF or in.
stead OF. Get, means 10 procure or
obtain. To forget. therefore, means
to get something else In the place
| Of or instead OF, that which one
seems now to have. Forgetting Is
mental operation entirely. You
are therefore capable of perform
ing II.
Have you a belief OF and fear OF
old age? Forget Il. Get something
else In place OF II. Crowd II out of
thought by getting tho growing
conviction that because you are
Gods child and like Him you can
not be intirm and helpless.
Are you weighted down by a be.
lief OF chronic disease7 Forget 1t.
Get something else In the place OF
Il. Wake up to the fact that Gods
Image and likeness can no more be
controlled by the lapse OF time than
can God Himself.
Are you distressed by thought OF
wasted opportunity and deliberate
desertlon from the Fathers Love ?
Are you burdened with this direful
possession? Forget II. Accept some
thing else in It's place. Accept the
| ever-present, never-absent Father
Mother God.
Are you inwardly sorrowing over
betrayal OF the trust and confidence
reposed in you by the great Master
and our beloved Leader? Forget II.
Put something else In the place or
| Il. What shall It be? What better
than that our Leader recommends
on page 326 OF the textbook:
"The purpose and motive TO live
Alright can be gained now. This
point won, you have started as
you should. You have begun at
the numeration table of Christ
ian Science, and nothing but
wrong intention can hinder your
advancement, working and
praying with true motives, your
Father will open the way"