The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-08-08

made alive" The clarion call II
heard Awake thou that sleepest,
and arise from the dead. and Christ
V. 14.9 The words OF that noble
woman. Julia Ward Howe, are beins
realized:
"fIe (Christ) has sounded forth the
trumpet that shall never call re-
treats;
He is sitting out the hearts Of men
before his Judgment seat.
The efforts to continue to incite
Americans to hatred and violence,
which those who are ignorant Of the
power OF good or evil thinking are
making, by holding in thought the
sentiments uttered by Francis Scott
bombs bursting in air" THE foes
naughty host, ''the terror of flight
and the gloom of the grave" and
their blood has washed out their
foul footsteps pollution. the efforts
to perpetuate these sentiments can
no longer be entertained against our
Anglo-Saxon comrade Of today. Great
Britain, nor against any nation or
people. In the words of Alice Nor
gan Harrison. America must lead
the longing world from phantom
fears to- Loves unfuried Omnipo-
tence." Americas planted seed of
potent good must grow to world.
The efforts Of those whose anti
Christian purpose 1t is to estrarge
the two great English-speaking peo-
pies are doomed to defeat No alien
despotian shall ever impair the guar
antee given by our Declaration of
Independence, OF life, liberty, and
the pursuit Of happiness" not lib
erty to destroy our brother man, for
ali brethren; not liberty to trample
upon Gods commandments. Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind" and Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as myself ;" but
which frees from sin and its penalty,
sorrow and death. and establishes
the true, spiritual brotherhood OF
man. Under the solvent of Truth
and Love. evil must finally dissolve.
II there are those who desire TO
continue to witness 'sthe rockets red
glare. the bombs bursting in air, !"
and the destruction and suffering
Their weapons of warfare are the
same that humanity, under the rule
of the so-called carnal mind, has
used for generations, and with what
result? Let us continue to pray.
"Our Father which art in heaven,
HaIlowed be Thy name. Thy king
dom come. Thy will be done in earth,
as it is in heaven ST. Paul says,
'"The weapons of our warfare are
not carnal. but mighty through God
to the pulling down Of stronghold" "
The time has arrived when humanity
is awakening to the fact that thought
is force and that spiritual thought
force, the Mind that was in Christ
Jesus controls the universe. Ever
re-echoing through consciousness are
these words of the Discoverer and
Founder of Christian Science, Mary
Baker Eddy:
Legally to abolish unpaid servi-
tude in the United States was hard !;
but the abolition of mental slavery
is q more difficult task. The despotic
tendencies, inherent in mortal mind
and always terminating in new
forms of tyranny, must be rooted
out through the action OF the divine
Mind.
Men and women of all chimes and
races are still in bondage to mate
rial sense, ignorant how to obtain
their freedom. The rights of man
and on the lowest plane of human
life, when African slavery was abol-
ished in our land. That was only
prophetic of further steps towards
the Punishment of worldwide
slavery, found on higher planes of
existence and under more subtle and
depraving forms. ~ Science and
Health, PIP. 225-226.J
MentgI slavery must be abolished.
America, founded upon spiritual
ideals, can never become the prey of
the carnalIy minded, but shall be
preserved and defended by the Mind
which was in Christ Jesus, whose
words and works have been pre-
served through the centuries, in ac-
cordance with His statement.
Heaven and earth shall pass away !;
and they have not Christ Jesus
exercised the power of spiritual
thought-force with which God en-
doWed man. With the sword of the
Spirit, the Word of God, the dynamic
spiritual thought, he attacked the
envy, greed, lust, hypocrisy, pride Of
place and power, autocratic human
Will. and all that composes a carnal
man, who attempts to hold humanity
under mental influence, which re-
suits in wars, pestilence. famine, sin,
woe and death. These Authorizations,
which animate the so-called fleshly
mind. Jesus dispelled with his under
standing of the potency of his divine
mentality, his reflection of Life.
Truth, and Love. AS at his first
appearing, he triWmphed over sin and
ITS desolation, which ends in self
extinction, SO at this, his second APP
pearing, He is pulling down. the
strongholds of ignorance, superstition
ana mental SI0Uery. The final COM
bat between Christ and the dragon
has arrived. The wise read the hand
writing on the wall and the twentieth
century prophet sees the end of evil
oppressorS.
Truth was embodied in the Con-
stnution of the United States of
america, when the words Of our
forefathers were penned. affirming
our right to worship God according
to the dictates of conscience.
Once to every man and nation
comes the moment to decide, y,
In the strife of Truth with false
hood for the good or evil side"
Lowell
Thousands Of Americans are adj
herring to the weapons of warfars
which Christ used. when He com
Peter to put up the material
sword and use "the sword of the
Spirit" the Word of God, mans
spiritual weapon, as a reflector OF
Life and Love. The material sword
welded by hate, destroys our brother