Evening star., 1922-07-02
"Thou Hast Given Banner to Them That Fear Thee
That It May Be Displayed Because of the TRUTH :"
psalm IT,, H.

SApI eSS tIle eNll LlOUSllS, WHICH HTN
embodied in the song entitled 9TH,
Star-Spangled Banner, the evil
thinking which has brought desola.
ton and devastation for generations,
and has filled our hospitals and laid
in our cemeteries our brave, manly,
American boys, and which to-day
raises up its Hydra head to compel
America to continue devastation and
death. The call to arms is heard.
Christ, at his second appearing. IS
commanding his disciples of the
twentieth century to use the two
edged sword of the Spirit, which tri-
umphs over sin, and its consequences,
want, woe, and finally self-de.
stpuction.
When the classification has been
made, and Americans are permitted
to worship God according to the die.
tates of conscience, and are not
compelled by the brute force and
human will, which animate the So
called material man, to unite in this
mental battle which is voiced in
"The Star-Spangled Banner then
will come the final crossing of men,
tai swords the sword of the Spirit
the Word of God, welded by all
whose Exemplar is Christ, and thu
blade brandished by the so-callei
dragon; then will the potency of thi
sword of the Spirit, versus the ma.
terial sword, used by the carna,
mind, be proven. The two-edgei
sword of the Spirit will destroy evil
and its dire consequences, and re,
store unity of the brethren and their
relation to their Maker,-God. The
mental missile of the so-called car
nal mind ruptures the brotherhood
of man and leaves desolation and
devastation, with humanity crying
out for "life, liberty, and the pur-
suit of happiness, "a promise which
has never been fulfilled durinl
Americas conceiring experience, but
which wiU be fulfilled at her birth
Watts discerned the power Of
thought. when he wrote:
Were l SO tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
must be measured by my soul:
The minds the standard of the man.
In this hour Americans are awak.
ing to the spiritual fact. that the re,
fection of Life, Truth. and Love, the
Mind which Jesus the Christ demon.
strated, is an ever-active and lirinJ
presence, and is overcoming every foe.
"Choose We" is ringing through con-
sciousness. New occasions teach
new duties" The struggle for tha
Mind of Christ will go on, until
"every knee shall how and every
tongue confess" that man is immortal
and that God is the Author of his
being, supplying him with all things,
according to the Scripture, "Na
good thing will He withhold from
them that walk uprightly" psalm
lxxxiv.. 11.) The struggle for unity
with the source of mans being,
eternal Life, Love. and Truth. God,
goes on, and will terminate in victory
over all the ills to which flesh is heir.
When America is delivered and her
birth is recognized and announced,
then will humanity unite in the an
nunciation. "Glory to God in this
highest, and on earth peace, good
will toward men," luke H.. ~
Then there will be NEW heaven
and a new earth. wherein dwelleth
righteousness" and there will be na
more suffering and no more death.
Patrick Henry was awake to this
mental conflict between the carnal
and the Christ mentalities when he
declared, "The war is inevitable
and let it come. repeat. let it come.'
In this hour the mental war at the
birth of America is olepitablc; the
~ ho% ha ot
spiritual and materials waging,
"The chaos of mortal mind is made
the stepping-sto to the cosmos OF
immortal Mind. Mary Baker Eddy.J
Never on customs oiled grooves
Thought to higher level moves,
But CRATES and grinds with f1ic-
tion hard
On granite boulder or flinty sha-d.'
Indeed the granite boulder of tbs
yield to the law of omnipotent Life
and Love, our Father Mother God.
Woman was found last at the
cross and appeared first at the tomb
of Christ Jesus. There are thou
sands of Miriams and Esthers to-
day who, like Mary Of old. are sing,
ing the cradle song of Christ:
peace on earth, good will toward
men," In happy anticipation of tho
freedom of the sons of God, millions
on earth are uniting with the in
visible host in the chant: "Now is
come salvation, and strength, and
the kingdom of our God, and the
power of His Christ; for the accuser
of our brethren is cast down, which
accused them before our God day
and night" (Revelation xii, 10.)
Humanity will not forever remain
deaf to their prayers. "The date is
no longer B. c. Might no longer
makes right, and in this fair land at
least fear has ceased to kiss the iron
heel of wrong" Pulpit and Press,
p. s2) The hour of the abolition of
mental slavery has arrived.
"They are slaves who will not
choose
Hatred, scoffing, and abuse,
Rather than in silence shrink
From the Truth they needs must
think;
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three"
Our glorious flag, the Stars and
Stripes, shall wave triumphant, un-
til finally there will be no foe to d.
vine democracy, no oppressor to de-
mand allegiance to the enemy of
good and no one to WELD the cruel
sword of injustice. The cradle song
of Christ was not sung in vain.
The anthem of peace on earth, good
Gods will toward men, will ring