The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-19

lIlVe men Knew, who saw a god !. --on every bush, in the thunder, the lightning, in the sun, in dis ease and health, in winds and cats and alligators and sacred bulls, like Apis of the Egyptians. The modern world has greater wonders, which prove the god be- hind everything
 
 Thomas A. Edison visits the laboratory of Charles P. Stein metz, Schnectady. He sees the hunchback wizard produce arti- ficial lightning, and strip 1t of danger with a new lightning ar rester. For Mr Edison, who made the incandescent light prac- tica1, and made machinery talk, Charles A. Hoxie demonstrated voice reproduction caused by moving pin point of light on 8 photo film. The talking movies will arrive
 
 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle des- crtbes the terrifying actions" of medium, and Is certain that a strong breeze proceeding from the cabinet of the psychic, caused by spirit power. This area of lnVRSfiPa tinF7 e as some others. The power of the mind is little understood. There are remarkable phenom- ena which undoubtedly take place. Nobody knows why. Mind under some circumstances has power to communicate with mind at a distance, without the usual means.
 
 The fact proved, or improved, would be no more amazing than other forms of communication which are proved. Wireless which communicates between mind and mind, would have been as much denied as telepathy is now, be- fore the invention was demon strated. The open mind is neces- sary in these days.
 All things are mind. a product of some process of desiring and willing. Matter reduces to some simple substance, which can scarcely be substance at all; un- less creative will Is substance, as indeed it must be; the chief and nnotiviating substance.
 Como various methods of heal ing by faith. The Grotto at Lourdes. the methods of Mrs. Eddy, and others that might be mentioned. Healing does take place, under circumstances more unusual than the ordinary heal ing. but not more wonderful. What can be more wonderful than these facts; that life does exist; that it can renew itself. These things being established, the methods of renewal may be less familiar, but not more won derfu1
 Comes Emile Coue, a disting- uished F'renchman, with his for mula. ''Day by day I am grow ing better and better in every way" As a. man thinks. so is he. No doubt of it. The power to think is an element that must never be left out, if accurate con- clustons are desired. The differ ence between the man who plays the piano. the man who plays it better and the man who plays it best, is a difference in the amount of thought, expressed in desire and action. Some think there is a difference caused by the think ing that the ancestors of these piano players did. More likely than not those who do the best
  by heredity as well as by envir- onment.
 
 It will not do, therefore. to sheer at the method of Coue, such B phrase, we'll mastered. and fre- Quently employed in his fashion, might make a sound remedy for insomnia, caused by the process sion of obssessing ideas through the brain. The conscious mind holds but one thought well in front, and if this front position Is occupied by the phrase of Coue, other obtruding thoughts will be displaced. If then the person becomes better, the process is lot especially different from that by which mastery of the piano is attained.
  Essence of all religions is pray er. The idea of Coue is the idea of prayer, with the appeal to Higher Mind left out. One dis inguished clergyman has suggest d, in a sermon, that prayer is l higher form of appeal and so 10 doubt it Is. It is not too