Evening star., 1926-06-18
TIME final conflict has arrived,

man. born,of flesh, woman. MAN that
is born Of woman is Of few days, and
full of trouble" Cob xiv, ~
In Science and Health nltt Key to
the Scriptures, page $40, Mary Baker
Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder OF
Christian Science, says:
What if the old dragon should send
forth a new food to drown the Christ
idea? He can neither drown your
voice with its roar, nor again sink the
world into the deep waters OF chaos
and old night In this age the earth
will help the woman; the spiritual
idea will be understood. Those ready
for the blessing you impart will give
thanks The waters will be pacihed.
and Christ will command the wave.
The Gospel according to Saint John.
begins with the following statement
of spiritual creation:
In the beginning was the Word and
the Word was with God, aud Word
was God.
"All things were made by him IGod,
Spirit, eternal Life and Love. the one
spiritual mani; and without him was
not anything made that was made.
"In hfm [God. Spiritl was life; and
the life was the light OF men.
"And the light shneth in darkness
1.-THE feshly, so-called carnal or mortal
mindI and the darkness compre-
hendeth it not.'-Uohn l., |. 3, 4. 5)
In the first chapter OF Genesis we
read:
IN the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth.
"And the spirit OF God moved upon
the face OF the waters.
And God said Let there be light,
and there was light.
And God saw everything that he
had made. and, behold, it was very
good. Il Genesis l., |, 2, ), 3l)
1t was God. creative Principle
eternal Life and Love, which was ex-
pressed in infinite ideas, all rejecting
their source, and this is the true
record of Gods creation, the only real
and eternal universe.
The President OF our United States
issued an official proclamation for De-
coration Day. May 81, calling for a
nationwide commemoration on luly
4. Of the Tooth anniversary of the death
of Thomas Jefferson. and of the l5Oth
anniversary Of the birth of the Ameri-
can nation. through the signing of the
Declaration of independence
When Our noble President. Calvin
Coolidge, took his oath as the Chief
Executive of our nation, | reJoiced
that God had given us worthy repre-
sentative of American ideals, one who
had inherited Christly qualities from
his Pilgrim ancestors. I, who am a
lineal descendant OF Miles Standish,
have defended and preserved the
spiritual qualities of the Christ-mind,
which, | inherited; therefore, | protest
against obedience to these demands
to celebrate the death of Thomas Jef-
ferson. This request. coming from our
President. has panied me beyond ex-
preston. because | do not beliece III
the death Of man who was created by
God, Spirit, eternal Life and Love, the
only Creator Of man and the universe,
and every man was created by God,
since there is but one Creator
For the grave cannot praise thee,
death cannot celebrate thee; they that
go down into the pit cannot hope for
thy truth.
1.-THE living. the living, he.shall praise
thee. as | do this day isaiah
xxxvHl., IL, l9.)
He is not God OF the dead, but
of the living; for all live unto him.
1uke Xxx. 38)
The official statement of President
reads:
"By coincidence, the Sesquicenten-
NAL of the Declaration of Independ-
ence falls upon the centennial OF the
death of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote
it,
There is no death. In Gods uni
verse there is no past, present nor
future. There is eternity, in which
dwell forever the eternal individuali
ties of Gods children. Americas
great historic characters are not dead.
Though the human form vanish, the
mental, spiritual individual man of God
lives.
Through his official proclamation
President Coolidge speaks also as the
voice OF "the Sesqricentennial OF
American independence and the
Thomas Jefferson Centennial Com
mission Of the United States" and
asks for the cooperation of State and
civic officials and patriotic, civil and
fraternal societies and urges "that in
every community arrangements be
made for a proper observance Of these
two anniversaries.
The Presidents manifesto then con-
tinues, with a record of certain acts.
by which Thomas Jefferson further
,ce;e+ed II, the ,1nfo1dment of the