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INVERTEBRATES

Two pals, and true pals,
 Loving chums together;
 Two loves, and true loves
 In any kind of weather;
 For my love is your love, ..@
 And your love is mine
 And young love is wild love
 When loving hearts entwine. Two loves, and true loves,
 Always and forever,
 Dear hearts, and sweethearts,
 Which time will never sever;
 For my heart is your heart,
 And your heart is mine
 And both hearts are glad hearts,
 With joy of love divine. Being shaved isn't unpleasant un- less the barber discusses the state of his nerves while trimming your Ad- am's apple.
 KELLY, THE FISHERMAN He riseth up early in the morning and disturbeth the whole household. Might are his preparations. He goeth forth full of hope. When the day Is far spent, he re- turneth, smelling of strong drink, and the truth is not in him. Now the Calisthenic movements required in grooming the ice-pan are centered about the ash pit door of the furnace.
 I have just about reached the con clusion, says Cordovan, that I would be as much of failure as a musical critic as a Ford tire on a Packard wheel
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BUSY AGAIN

~ BUSY AGAIN
 Busy guy is Henry Hurls-
 He's busy always picking up the girls, But don't think he's sporting gink He just works at the skating rink.
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A WISE BIRD Publisher-'In your story, notice you make the owl boot TO whom instead of TO Who.'"
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Judse-since Rastus Is 22 and
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dict of the experts is almost beyond ex-
preston. If the case is pronounced
chronic and therefore likely to be incur
able. a great fear is implanted in the
mental area of the patient and the dis
ease which should be averted is invited.
Another way in which the seeds of
chronic disease are planted in human
thought is through public lectures about
diseases. In some places these lectures
are given before school children, and
charts are displayed showing so-called
diseased organs of the body. Also tabu-
lated statements of the symptoms Of var
ious diseases are supplied. By this means
it is taught that any child, by noting the
so-called symptoms, can determine at
once the nature of the disease by which
he is threatened. Fear will always be
looking for the symptoms. This is no
Imagination. Multitudes of cases of sore,
chronic beliefs have been induced through
this method.
Jesus refused to recognize any disease
as incurable. He knew that added years
could never give reality to unreality. In
these days, and since 1866. Christian
Science, discovered, elucidated, and DEM
onstrated by Mary Baker Eddy, has prov
ed itself to be the hope for the hopeless
and the help for the helpless. This truth
is demonstrating; and demonstration is
argument and proof. There are thousands
of men and women throughout the world
today, ready to testify that Christian
Science has lifted them out of hell of
chronic discord. In view of this evidence
no one is justified in doubling or denying
the healing power of this wonderful truth
In Christian Science it is God who heals;
and God knows nothing about time.
We deduce from the teaching of Mrs.
Eddy that disease is a lie. 1t is not an
entity but nonentity It is not plus, but
minus. To human sense it is not a pres
ence, but an absence. AS darkness is
only the absence of light, so sickness is
the apparent absence of health. Sick
ness is a lie. 1t is nothing claiming to
be something. A lie which has been as
serting itself daily, for ten years, is no
nearer to being reality than is lie
which has been asserting itself only ten
minutes. A common illustration which is
helpful toward understanding how chron-
ic trouble may be destroyed through
Christian Science may be here stated. A
room which has been in total darkness
for ten years is no more difficult to light
up than is a room which has been in
only ten minutes. A door
thrown open will light up both rooms in
Chronic sickness is the
dark room. Christian Science is the open
door. I desire to testify, as on the wit
ness stand, to the healing power of Chris
tian Science. It healed me instantly Of
chronic ills after had given up all hope
of relief.
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well as on page of the Manual. There
she writes: 1.-The Rules and Bylaws in
the Manual were written at different
dates, and as the occasion required. They
sprang from necessity, from the i'm
mediate demand for them" It truthful
ly follows that Mrs. Eddy did not write
provisions in the Manual for future trou-
bles only. The trouble was already at the
door, and she wrote and applied that par
ticular provision of the Manual at once.
Therefore, there is no obscurity or am
biguity about the Manual. 1t will always
be true that for the disobedient, stray
ing pilgrim there is an open door for re-
turn. I repeat: The betrayer of Jesus
need not have committed suicide. The
reparable past belonged to him. He might
have knelt at the foot of the cross, a re-
deemed man, with peace in his heart.
For all self-willed, disobedient students
there is a healing, but each straying pill
grim must seek the blotting out of the
past and the renewal Of opportunity in
the right way.
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FORGET

1t seems to me it will be helpful if I
call your attention to the meaning of the
word forget" 1t is composed of two
other words, for and 'get''-a prepo-
sition and a verb. The proposition 'for''
means in place of, or instead of. Get"
means to procure or to obtain.
To forget, therefore, means to get
something else in>the place of, or instead
Of, that which one is now holding in
thought. Forgetting is mental oper-
alton entirely. Ignoring something is not
forgetting it. To forget is positive, not
negative. It is substituting q different
thought for the thought one is now
holding onto. Let us see how this ap-
plies.
Has one a belief of and fear of old age?
Forget it. Get something else in the place
of it. Crowd it out of thought by getting
the growing conviction in Science, that
because one is Gods child and like Him
he cannot be infirm and helpless. God
never made a law that in Science man
should become infirm and helpless. There
fore, there is no such law.
Is one weighted down by a belief of
chronic trouble of any kindl Forget it.
Get something else in the place of it.
Wake up to the fact that Gods image
and likeness can no more be controlled
by lapse Of time than can God Himself.
Is one distressed by thought of wasted
opportunity and deliberate desertion
from the Fathers love? Is one burdened
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CHRONIC DISEASE

It is the universal teaching of materia
medica and very largely of mankind, that
on account of the past, that is, the lapse
of time, certain diseases gain power al
most impossible to overcome. It is said
that a sickness which has been in evidence
for long time has gained sufficient pow
er to make disease chronic. Now the
word Chronic comes from the Greek
word chronos, meaning time. Therefore,
a chronic disease is a time disease, that
is, a disease which has lasted long time.
In many lonely home and in many pub
lie institutions today there are multitudes
Of men and women suffering from beliefs
of chronic troubles. In most cases, these
troubles have been brought upon them by
the wrong thinking of the members of
their own families, by the belief Of her
edity, by the wrong thoughts Of their
most intimate and sympathetic friends,
and by honest, but ignorant, medical
practitioners whose wrong thinking was
making disease beliefs.
Has it ever fallen to your lot, after a
long battling belief Of sickness, to be ex-
amined by medical EXPORTS and then to
wait in terrible suspense, long minutes or
hours, to learn the decision Of the ex-
aminers? have been there and can
testify that the fear sometimes felt by
the victim while he waits for the YER
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THE sTRAYING PILGRIM

We would note a difference between
the case of the prodigal son and that of
the one designated the straying pilgrim.
The prodigal son made deliberate
break. He openly declared his purpose
of departing from his fathers house.
There was no mystery about his actions.
His motives were unconcealed. This much
may be said of the prodigal son of every
age: he is not a deceiver. On the other
hand the straying pilgrim does not op-
emily repudiate; he betrays. The elder
brother in the parable did not go away
from home physically; but mentally he
took long journey away from the IA
theirs house. This is shown by his un-
loving thought when the prodigal return
ed The faithless one of the Apostolic
Twelve never openly renounced Chris
tianity. Outwardly he remained MEM
ber of the apostolic group and claimed
the privileges incident to it. But in
reality he strayed afar off, so far that he
betrayed his Master. Yet he who be-
trayed Jesus need not have committed
suicide. The reparable past belonged to
him. on this plane of existence, that is,
in this so-called life. He might have
knelt at the foot of the cross a redeem
ed man, with peace in his heart. But
mixed with his repentance there seems to
have been a bitter, remOrseful sense of
disappointed self-interest, and this self
interest shut out the real humility which
must always precede renewal of oppor-
tunity. The example of the betrayer of
Jesus is a forever warning to all of us.
He was called and trusted by the best
man that ever lived. He was associated
with the Master and he knew what was
required of those who dwelt with the
Master. But self-will and self-interest
were entertained and gratified, leading
directly to the betrayed The Christian
centuries afford many similar cases. Re
gretful as one may be to recognize the
fact, yet the great movement of Chris
tian Science has afforded some striking
examples.
Mary Baker Eddy, through years of pa
tient activity, learned such a measure of
obedience to God-good-that she became
the Discover and Founder of Christian
Science. The most rigid scrutiny of her
earthly life reveals her as an exceptional
woman. No mystery enshrouds her per-
son. She appears to have been so single
minded in her search of truth that self
will, self-importance, self-love, and self
interest were markedly eliminated from
her daily life. It seems to us, who never
saw her with mortal eyes, but who read
and study the history of her life with an
open mind, that to have known her must
have been to love her. And that this
grateful love would have striven to yield
unquestioning obedience to her teoching
and directions. But well do we know
that early in the history of the movement
Mrs. Eddy was driven through deep wa
ters by the disobedience of men and wo-
men whom she had befriended, healed,
trusted, and honored. These troublers
in Israel never repudiated Christian
Science. They remained in the church,
but in various ways set up their own
will. unholy ambition, or self-interest
against the teaching and direction of our
Leader.
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LOVE AND OBEDIENCE

Jesus said: 'He that hath my COM
mandments, and keepeth them, he it is
that loveth me-" Mrs. Eddy writes in
her Message for 1902, obedience is the
test of love-" Christian Scientists pro-
fess to love Mary Baker Eddy, and they
have good cause to do so, for all they
have received through Christian Science
was made possible through Mrs. Eddy's
untiring search for truth. The test of
our love for Mrs. Eddy is measured by
our demonstration of her teachings and
by our obedience to her directions. Her
teaching is summed up in the textbook
which has to do, primarily, with the in
ner spiritual life of the Scientist. Her di-
rections are found in the Manual Of The
Mother Church and are concerned with
the acts of Christian Scientists in all
their relations to the Cause of Christian
Science.
The laws framed by Mrs. Eddy for the
direction of the activities of The Mother
Church and the government Of its MEM
bers, as Scientists, were written from
broad, practical standpoint. They are
free from obscurity and ambiguity and
are designed for the protection Of the
Christian Science Movement. Not only
have we our Leaders written laws, we
also have her Interpretation and apph-
cation of those laws during her lifetime.
If this should seem too bold declaration
let one read Mrs. Eddy's statement on
page 148 Of Miscellaneous Writings as
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with this direfu- possession? Forget it.
Accept something else in its place. Learn
in Science that man in reality can never
be separated from the kind, seeking, saw
ing. protecting, loving Father-Mother
God.
Is one inwardly sorrowing over betray-
al of the trust and confidence reposed in
him by the great Master and our below
ed Leader? Forget it. Let us all forget it.
Put something else In the place of it.
What shall that be? What better than
that which our Leader recommends on
page 1926 of the textbook: "The purpose
and motive to live Alright can be +ained
now. This point won, you have started
as you should. You have begun at the
numerationtable Of Christian Science, and
nothing but wrong intention can hinder
your advancement. Working and pray
ing with true motives. your Father will
open the way" Loyalty to all the writ
ings Of Mary Baker Eddy is the only
consistent path for any one who calls
himself a Christian Scientist to pursue.
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THE LOVING THoUGHT

Friends, you have listened to a lee
ture on Christian Science. Some Of you
are wishing you might be healed through
Science. Some Of you have already been
healed. Some are being healed now; and
all are going to be healed. We know this
is true because the Christ must reign till
ne has put all enemies under his feet
and God is All-in-all.
For oil you dear people, who think you
are bound in prison Of trouble, there
is an open door to freedom, here and
now.
In one Of the Christian Science peri
odicals there appeared a few years ago
this beautiful story: There was man
whose business took his away from home
much Of the time. This travelling man
was a. good Christian Scientist. Being
in a hotel in a distant town, he rose ear
" In the morning, and taking his Bible,
textbook, and Quarterly, read the Bible
Lesson. He then went down and stood
at the door Of the hotel. 1t being very
early, he said to himself. What is there
for me to do while waiting for breakfast
to be ready?" Just then he looked across
the street and there he saw a vacant
store building. Inside the building he
saw a dear little bird beating its life
out against the closed window, seeking
freedom. A little to one side there was
another window sash with all the glass
removed, but the little bird was so busy
beating out it's life against the closed
door, that it could not see the road to
freedom.
What did the travelling man do? Like
a good Christian Science practitioner he
crossed the street, and because the bird
was too weak to resist his approach he
took it lovingly in his hands and carried
it to the opened window. When the little
helpless creature saw the open door and
felt the air of freedom, it did what
and many of you did when we first saw
the open door of Christian Science; it
was filed with health and strength and
went on its journey rejoicing.
Dear friends, the open door to God is
yours.
The Scripture which says, Behold I
have set before you an open door and no
man can shut it" is pledge to every
man, woman, and child on earth that the
past is reparable and the open door in
vites to freedom.
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THE STATEMENT

In this lecture we are endeavOring.
through reasoning and concrete illustra-
tions, to elucidate, somewhat, the general
subject of christian Science and the Re-
parable Past" The dominant thought of
the lecture throughout shall be this: that
man, in Science. can never lose his in
herent right to harmony, happiness, and
peace. The sayings so often quoted: 'He
has had his last opportunity" and, HE
has had his last chance" are declarations
of mortal mind which can have no effect
on the real man. His true selfhood, iden-
tity, and individuality are as unchange-
able as God
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THE ALLEGoRY

In that fascinating and edifying alle-
CORY, beginning on page 1923 of "Miscel-
laneOus Writings" Mrs. Eddy tells how
the divine Stranger came down to earth,
and meeting a penitent one, said to him:
d" Wherefore comest thou hither?'" The
penitent replied: " I came hither, hoping
that might follow thee whithersoever
thou goest;'" and the Stranger said,
" Make thine own way; and if thou
strayest listen for the mountain horn,
and it will call thee back to the path
that goeth upward" " That is the only
way whereby one who has strayed from
obedience may be led back to peace and
renewed opportunity. Listen for the
mountain-horn," or. as Mrs. Eddy puts
/ it in another way
shepherd, show me how to go
Ger the hillside steep,
How to gather, how to SOW
How to feed Thy sheep;
I will listen for Thy voice,
Lest my footsteps stray;
I will follow and rejoice
All the rugged way"
(Hymnal, page 2SS.)
He who is obedient to our Leader is
obedient also to our Way-shower, Jesus
the Christ. In stern and unremittins
watch over himself, yielding loving SER
vice to others, one grows into the image
of Him who is the same, yesterday, to-
day, and forever. The old past loosens
it's grip; the future ceases to threaten;
the heart leaps up with gratitude, and in
the practical performance of everyday
duties it becomes true that
Earth breaks up, time drops away,
In flows heaven with it's new day of end
less life."
Time. mortal mind and its history, the
past with its mistakes, rejected oppor-
tunities, sins, and sicknesses should all
go-and go now. for they are unreal. All
that is good, true, and beautiful is i'm
perishable. 1t has always belonged to
us. Only discord can be destroyed.
It is our priceless privilege to return to
our Fathers home, here and now. No be-
lief of old age chronic diseases, sin,
sickness, or even death-no sense of dis
cord in the so-called past should be per-
mitted to grow in thought. They have
no place in eternity. And we are in
eternity now, because we are where God
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er through Christian Science. AS an ex-
ample, we cite the case of the Prodigal
Son, as it is recorded in st. Luke's gos-
pei. This is a type of the prodigal sons
of all ages. The truth revealed in Chris
tian Science follows the prodigal into the
far country. There is no place, no con-
ditionS where it is not present. 1t is the
Good Shepherd going into the wilderness
after the sheep that was lost. The prod
igaTs disease is a belief of wasted op-
portunity; he has left the home of love,
separated himself from family and
friends, squandered his means and vast
ed his years. When want and hunger
and .homesickness attack him, he looks
back over a dissipated past and sees no
promise of redemption in the present life.
The religious teaching to which he has
been accustomed promised him forgive
ness in this life, but not renewed oppor-
tunity He sees the past as irreparable.
So general is the belief that opportunity
rejected is never succeeded by fresh op-
portunity. that even the most loving
friends of the prodigal keep fearing and
thinking and saying: "He has lost his
opportunity" This grievous burden OF
discouraging thought. to which the prod
igal himself contributes, fetters him as
with iron chains.
The prodigaPs troubles have been the
result of twofold thought. He believed
that following his own will would bring
satisfaction, and, that expectation disap-
pointed, he fell into the slough of de-
spond and experienced despair. Christian
Science shows both these conditions to be
false, and because false, unreal and sub
ject to destruction. When self-will is
cast out and the Chrisr-thought enters,
the prodigal son disappears and the child
of God appears. Mary Baker Eddy, on
page 497 of the textbook, writes: I'VE
acknowledge Gods forgiveness of sin in
the destruction of sin and the spiritual
understanding that casts out evil as un-
real. But the belief in sin is punished so
long as the belief lasts"
There is no past that is irreparable, but
let no one think that he can lie supinely
down in the far country and without any
hunger or striving of his own be brought
back to the land of renewed opportunity
and peace. He must himself arise.
The prodigal in the far country may
begin to long for a return to the Fathers
house, and may honestly say: Il will
arise and go unto my father" but he will
find it hard to do so without aid. Here
the Christian Science textbook, Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures"
Christian Science reading rooms, Chris
tian Science practitioners, Christian
Science lectures, and the Christian
Science periodicals are lovingly provided
for his help Through these avenues
many men, happy and blessed today
have come up out of a bitter past into
their Fathers house.
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THE DAY BREAKING

And now, dear people, permit me to
gather up the thoughts of this lecture.
will tell you little story. A dear man,
who did not have the light which Chris
tian Science has brought to some of US,
struggled nobly for years against the be-
lief of an insidious disease. The dis
ease lasted so long that the past had
many bitter memories. The sad exper-
fence of years tried to crush him. The
past kept mocking him. One day when
discouragement lay heavy on him he
wrote little poem of fourteen lines and
named it "Barnacles." You know what
barnacles claim to do? Little by little
they thicken and multiply on keels Of
ocean vessels, and unless the accumula-
tions are dstroyed, they not only impede
the speed of the ship, but may destroy
it, Now our poet believed that the bar
nacles, which fasten themselves on hu-
man lives and impede progress in good,
are the mistakes and failures and sick
nesses and sins which are in that thing
called the past. Evidently in a day of
great depression he began his poem as
follows:-
my soul is sailing through the sea,
But the past is heavy and hindereth me.
The past hath crusted, cumbrous shells,
That hold the flesh of cold sea smells
about my soul,
The huge waves wash, the high waves
roll,
Each barnacle clingeth and worketh
dole,
And hindereth me from sailing"
When he had written so much, it
seems as though an inspiration came to
him. It seems as though he caught a
glimpse of the eternal right of man to
be free from the tyranny of the past, and
he finished the poem in a higher and
more glorious strain, like this:-
"Old past let go, and drop i the sea,
Till fathomless waters cover thee!
For I am living but thou art dead,
Thou drawest back, I strive ahead the
Day to find;
Thy shells unbind; night comes behind,
I needs must hurry with the wind
And trim me best for sailing"
Yes, that is our privilege. namely, to
trim off the barnacles of the past. To
repudiate the tyranny of the past is the
privileges of every child of God. For
getting those things that are behind"
says the apostle.
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prophecy of the poet Goethe. as he was
passing on. This is in striking contrast
with many poets whose cry would have
been: "The darkness deepensg'
Theology and materia medica have add
ed and they are still adding, to the mem
tai burden of mankind, by teaching that
much of the past is irreparable; that an
accumulation of mistakes, failures, sick
nesses, and sins. held in the embrace of
past years, will imprison one with scarce
chance of reprieve in this life. Man
kind needs the glad tidings of Christian
Science. These tidings proclaim release
to the captives. They proclaim a pres
ent GOd-good-a present salvation from
failures, mistakes, siclSnesses, and sins;
they proclaim renewed opportunities for
opportunities neglected, wasted, and re-
jected, if men are willing to accept the
law of Christian Science and honestly
seek to practice the precepts which that
law presents.
Mary Baker Eddy, on page 80 of
Science. and Health, writes: "'Now,'
cried the apostle. is the accepted time;
behold, now is the day of salvation, -
meaning, not that now men must pre-
pare for future-world salvation. or safe
ty, but that now is the time in which
to experience that salvation in spirit and
in life"