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pPWSiltllllll *'■ THE LAKE SHdRE NEWS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1918 5 He. A lie cannot be told about any- thing but the truth. Therefore, the only problem before the Christian ^Scientist is that of replacing the lie |with the truth. In his remark "Ye fare of your father the devil; and the >lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar and the father of it," Jesus clearly shows that mor- tal man with his sin, sickness and death constitutes the lie about the true man or the man of God's creat- ing, and, incidentally, that the only devil there is is the mortal mind which Jesus here states to be a lie. When we truly perceive that this en- tire operation is a mental one and that the mortal evidences of sin, dis- ease, poverty, sorrow and even death, are illusions of this mortal mind then the enormity of any situation, no matter how apparently grave, as- sumes less formidable proportions and the possibility of deliverance and ultimate complete salvation spurs on our efforts to more certain achieve- ments. Prayer. Have you ever heard it said that Christian Scientists are a prayerless people—that they do not believe in prayer? You probably have; I have. Do you know what a real Christian Scientist does from the time he awakens each day to the time he goes to sleep at night? He prays! If there is any one thing that the Chris- tian Scientist finds will bring him peace, health, prosperity and happi- ness, it is prayer, and he finds that ' the more he prays the more of peace and health and prosperity and happi- ness are his. Therefore, the more of these desirable qualities or conditions he manifests the more you may be sure he prays. I have gone to some length in an endeavor to explain to you the cause of humanity's slavery, its sickness, . its.want and woe, and I have en- deavored, in a way, to make plain to you humanity's remedy for these ills as taught in Christian Science. Now, it may be asked, by what means is this remedy to be intelligently and effectively applied? How is one to start out to prove that man in God's image and likeness is not subject to the laws of matter, the laws of sin. sickness and death, when seemingly all one knows of existence embraces a knowledge of these evils? My . friends, you start out by praying, you continue praying and you never cease praying. True prayer is one of understand- in,?. It comprises a knowledge of the facts of existence, even though faint- ly discerned at first, and it finds ex- pression in that mental attitude which claims for one-self that God- bestowed freedom vouchsafed to all of God's children—man's birthright of dominion over all the earth—over all evil and materiality. At the tomb of Lazarus Jesus exemplified true prayer in the statement "Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. And I knew that thou hearest me al- ways." whereupon Lazarus, who had been four days in the tomb, > walked forth. True prayer engendered from an earnest, honest longing to be God- like rejects as any part of God's kingdom that which has to do with the ills of the #flesh and proclaims the omnipotence and omnipresence of the law of good—the law of God. Prayer consists of knowing the truth about God and man. When this truth is mentally understood and consist- ently clung to, regardless of the evi- dence of the senses, then will begin to break through the clouds of dark- ness the gleams of light which pre- sage a fuller radiance as the sense dreams are vanquished, and then will begin a more comprehensive appre-. hension of the meaning of that pas- sage in the prayer of all prayers, . "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven." Fruit*. Since the coming of Christian Sci- ence to the world, religion and ma- terial methods of healing have un- dergone some radical and startling changes. Most of us here can well remember how Christian Science was ridiculed, laughed and scoffed at, persecuted and prosecuted for its revolutionary teaching that matter cannot create or cure disease and that all true therapeutics lies in an understanding of God, or divine Mind, the only Cause or Creator. The indignities which were heaped upon Christian Science for declaring that material remedies cannot cure disease are too numerous and too distressing to repeat. What is the attitude of the world today in this regard, solely as a result of the teaching of Chris- tian Science? Why, almost the com- plete abandonment of the theory that matter can heal, and this by mem- bers of a profession who but a few short years ago proclaimed omnipo- tent powers for their nostrums. Many physicians today tell us they seldom or never administer drugs for cura- tive purposes. They have found out that there is no intelligence, power, principle or law in a drug. They are learning the truth of what Mrs. Eddy discovered fifty years ago, namely, that it is not the drug that heals. In the January, 1917, issue of "Pub- lic Health," a monthly publication of- the Michigan State Board of Health, publicity is given to a statement by Dr. George Goler as follows: "Real medicine is advancing, so that we have almost arrived at that stage where our patients do not pay us for medicine but for advice, and we— some of us at any rate—have almost come to the point where we are will- ing to neglect the medicjne alto- gether, and our patients have learned that we are able to do them more good without medicine than with it." Christian Science has distinctly proven that there is but one "pre- ventive medicine," and that is the understanding of man's God-given freedom from disease as taught in Christian Science. The New York Telegraph, editorially prints the fol- lowing: "The decrease in the death rate in the United States began when the Christian Scientists started their uplifting work. Christian Scientists have made this a nation of optimists. Men and women have 'got into the habit of being well,' as Oliver Wen- dell Holmes said. Christian Scientists have worked without ceasing to show their fellowmen that sin, sickness and death are abnormal conditions of mortal mind and they have succeeded. No group of religionists in America has ever had such an effect on the people, an effect for good, spiritually and bodily—as have the Christian Scientists. * * * The good health, of the "country shows the result of that work. Figures prove it." And permit me to read briefly from a sermon delivered by Dr. William S. Sadler, a physician of Chicago, Illinois, at a large Chautauqua gather- ing at Bay View, Michigan, in the summer of 1916. The Doctor's words are reported in part as follows: "The examples set by Christian Scientists should put to shame every complain- ing, growling Christian on the face of the earth. I am a physician, so you can't try me for heresy. The time is coming when love will guide us away from the tortures of feeling. The (Christian religion, if universally lived, would banish all illness and disaster. It is the only religion that is psychologically sound. When the love of God and of each other is per- fected in us it will cast out all fear." What, my friends, do you imagine would have happened to the good Doctor if he had uttered these senti- ments from a similar setting before the influence of Christian Science was felt in the world? Garni Theory. At this point let us pause just long enough to pay our brief respects to our little friend, the germ, and to the ,^erm theory. I refer now to the bad —the wicked germ. We are told that there are good germs, but they do not seem to be popular. The bad germ is the only one we ever hear much about. Do you know that if there were one iota of truth in the present day teaching and theory about the germ there would not be a man. wo- man or child here this evening? If the germ theory were scientific and had the sanction of God this old world would have been depopulated almost before it was populated. Consider for a moment the prepos- terous idea of a loving God, a loving, compassionate, omnipotent Father saying to His children :—"Children, I am sorry to have to disillusion you, but what Moses wrote in the book of Genesis about man being made 'in the image and likeness of God,' hav- ing dominion over all the earth, and what the Bible teaches from cover to cover about the loving kindness and protecting care of the Father and His love and compassion for His children, is all a myth.' You must hereafter place no confidence in God. Instead of being your protector and ever present help in trouble I am just the opposite. My purpose is to accomplish the complete undoing of my children, and to assist me in my task I have created the wicked germ. I have made him the deadly enemy of all my loved ones. I have given him infinitely more power and in- telligence than I have given my chil- dren and I have placed him in every- thing you eat, drink, handle or see. The germ is indeed the chosen of-the Father,' and you, my children, are his prey. He has explicit instruc- tions from me to accomplish your de- struction and I have endowed him with the power and intelligence to carry out this purpose. He shares omnipotence with me while you, chil- dren, are abjectly helpless in his presence. It is my purpose that soon- er or later each of you shall fall vic- tim to his prowess." That picture, my friends, is not what might be called a beautiful one, is it? Yet it is not overdrawn in the least particular. I sumbit that the teachings oi the germ theorist com- pletely eliminate God or any idea of God as necessary to the creation or salvation of man. Infinitely more to be avoided than the germ is the fear and dread of it as well as the mental picture of disease and the fear of it engendered by reading these false theories, and by reading so-called health talks and descriptions of dis- eases appearing so profusely in the press of the country at the present time. Spiritual Healing. It was not many years ago that Christian Science was severely criti- cized for its teaching that spiritual healing is as essential a part of the Christian religion as preaching, not- withstanding the fact that almost in- variably the injunction of Jesus to preach the gospel was coupled with the command to heal the sick. The claim of Christian Science that the works of Jesus were examples to all humanity throughout all time of what may be accomplished through an un- derstanding of God and His law was met with most emphatic opposition. To claim the ability to heal the sick as did Jesus was called heresy. And now today, what do we find? Almost every religious denomination calling itself Christian teaches, in a meas- ure, its belief in healing as a neces- sary part of Christianity. Some re- ligious denominations are even now endeavoring to establish within their church a system of healing as a part of their denominational teachings. And in all their advancement along this line of light you may be sure that Christian Science wishes its sister religions Godspeed. , But, as pioneers in this age in the healing work as taught and demon- strated by Christ Jesus, Christian Science, speaking from a half cen- tury of experience, warns all who would undertake to emulate the Mas- ter in his work of healing the sick, to ponder well his words. To those who would depart from the path marked out by Jesus and reiterated in the teachings of Christian Science, it urges caution. To attempt to build on a dual foundation of matter and Spirit, to bow allegiance in the slight- est degree to material methods, to recognize aught but the one Mind, to depend on any but God and His law, means ship-wreck and disaster. There is but one way and that is the way taught in Christian Science, the way by which every disease known to mankind has been healed, the way by which the healing work is being accomplished • today in nearly every city, town and hamlet in the civilized world, as it was twenty centuries ago in the hills of Galilee. It is the way by which Christian Science has healed and is healing organic as well as functional diseases; such diseases as tuberculosis, intemperance, cancer, tumor, curvature of the spine, organic heart disease, locomotor ataxia, mal- formation of children, diabetes, gall- stones, brights disease, blindness, deafness, apoplexy, appendicitis and all the ills to which flesh has been Considered heir. The Discoverer and Founder of. Chris- tian Science. The mental process of complete evangelization involves unwinding one-self from the snarls of mortal ignorance; it involves individual purification of thought. The percep- tion of the truths of Christian Sci- ence does not come readily to the mind so filled with animality that there is little abiding place therein for aught else. The mind must be gradually emptied of that which does not lead to spiritual discernment. The less of materiality we believe and the more of spirituality we know, the more of the kingdom of heaven is ours. Therefore, the perception and discovery of Christian Science must have been the result, on the part of its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy, of a most thorough purification of thought. To so purify mentality that what Mrs. Eddy has taught us becomes apparent is no small task for most of us. What de- gree of purification, then, with naught but the guiding hand of Divinity, through the help of the Holy Bible, must have been Mrs. Eddy's! What hours of earnest, prayerful, selfless endeavor must have been given by her that humanity might know of this Truth that makes men free! The en- tire history of Christian Science from the moment its truths began to dawn faintly upon its Discoverer to the present time, marks it as a revelation come from God; as, indeed, the ful- fillment of prophecy. But what of the trials and the triumphs of her to whom the world owes a debt of grat- itude which it is now only beginning to pay? What of the moments of tearfu] expectancy. that were hers awaiting the world's approval when first she faintly and almost fearfully lisped her convictions born of years of study, privation and prayer? What of the time of testing that was hers when, without malice or resentment at the world's bitter heartlessness, she patiently waited with out- stretched hands, her face toward heaven and a prayer on her lips, ask- ing—begging us, to stop for one little moment—just long enough to hear her simple story, the story of Jesus and his Christ? What of those times, my friends, and those trials? Think you. that aught but the power that comes from pn High could have en- abled one lone woman to stand and face the world's hatred as did Mrs. Eddy? And what must have been her joy when the first weary traveler along life's main haltingly gave ear, then, pondering, finally became her lone disciple! What joy must have been hers at the coming of the sec- ond, and the third, and others, and still others to partake of that fountain of living water 1 And what should be the measure of joy and gratitude of every Christian Scientist today as, looking about, he contemplates the multitude of happy, healthy, hopeful folk in all quarters of the globe, will- ing worshipers at the shrine of Christ, because of the teachings of this one, noble, New England gentlewoman I Mrs. Eddy discovered the divine laws of Life in the year 1866 and gave to her discovery the name of Chris- tian Science,—Christian, because it is pre-eminently a repetition of the teachings of the great master Chris- tian ; because it is loving, compassion- ate, Christ-like and universal in its adaptations and bestowals; because, through a correct application of its teachings, the works of Jesus of Nazareth may be emulated, and his command to go into all the world and preach the gospel and heal the sick, complied with; Science, because through the correct application of law, as laid down in its teachings, positive and predetermined results will follow as necessarily and as cer- tainly as daylight follows the night. A religion to accomplish the works of the Master must be scientific. A religion to be scientific must be Christian. Advancement along the line of spiritual endeavor is purely individual and one's journey heavenward de- pends entirely on individual effort and accomplishment. And so I ask you this evening, in taking thought on this subject, to consider it solely I and alone in connection with your I Bible and the light that may be i thrown on this Holy Book through the teachings of Christian Science. What advancement in the line of spiritualization of thought may be yours; what victories over sin and disease you may be able to accom- plish for yourself and for others will depend on your own efforts. Chris- tian Scientists will be able to point the way a bit clearer at times, but no one can open for you the gates of the kingdom of heaven. This you must do for yourself. And, if you are I earnest, my friends, in your efforts to I seek the kingdom nothing will hinder I you in your progress, for you will ' have your aim set on the goal of purity and holiness and naught but the eternal perfection of God and His universe will have abiding place in your consciousness. otfiyvi ■r--/'1^- Notice of proceedings for the opening and .extending of West Rail- road Avenue from the north line of Elmwood Avenue to the East line of Fifteenth Street in the Village of Wilmette," Cook County. Illinois. STATE OF ILLINOIS, COUNTY OF COOK, SS. In the County Court of Cook County. To the February Term, A. D. 1918. Condemnation General Num- ber 39046. VILLAGE OF WILMETTE vs. Edward H. Bagley, Angela L. Bag- ley, J. Edwin Dempsey, Mary J. Dempsey, Lawrence H. W. Speiod, Lillie R. Speidel, John F. Hoffman, Agnes M. Hoffman, Peter Morten, Delphine Morten, William A. Hoff- man, Eliza Hoffman, The Union Trust Company, Trustee, John H. Schaefer, Trustee, Chicago Title & Trust Com- pany, Trustee, John F. Hahn, Trustee, Edward H. Payne, and all other per- sons having or claiming interests in any of the said premises hereinafter described, designated and described "All whom it may concern." In the matter of the petition of the Village of Wilmette for the ascer- tainment %n trie just compensation to be made for private property to be taken or damaged for the opening of West Railroad Avenue from the north line of Elmwood Avenue to the East line of Fifteenth Street, in the Village of Wilmette, Cook County, Illinois, and what property ;:SIS||| will be benefited by such improved-Ill^ ment and the amount theredf. If|^flti$l| Notice is hereby given to the de- ^tflff fendants designated as "All whom it X|ti?||l may concern," and all persons and W^^k parties named in the report and as- }:J^$m§, sessment roll of the Commissioners '>0MI$ filed in the above entitled cause in :iSff||i said court against whose property infill benefits have been assessed to pay ,S^ft|| the cost of the said improvement :K^I§|1| hereinafter described, that the Vil- St©!! lage of Wilmette heretofore filed a pplfl? petition in the County Court of Cook -'l|l|fy County, praying for the ascertain- l|p§||l ment of the just compensation to b« 8|§|||||| made for private property to be taken |f25| or damaged for opening and extend- --;ff§f|| ing West Railroad Avenue from the fi!K§Si! North line of Elmwood Avenue to ^llSfll the East line of Fifteenth Street, in ;!&§&& the" Village of Wilmette, Cook |||fpf County, Illinois, in accordance with ^BMWthe provisions of an ordinance for ^f|?| the making of said improvement, said %$ff^ ordinance being on file in the office K ^ of the Village Clerk, and also what i S ??l real estate will be benefited by such, ^p;^ improvement and the amount of such ■MMM: benefits to each parcel*. SS^i That Commissioners wero duly ap- MMSiM pointed by said court to investigate ':':<iM^M and report the just compensation to Infill be made for private property to be 'i^MMB taken or damaged for said improve- *|t|||i|P ment, and also what real estate will fifllf'-; be benefited by such improvement, f?ifit| and the amount of snch benefits to f^p^? each parcel of land benefited thereby/ fllff!^ and said Commissioners have duly £^i|g .(1), Two (2), Three (3), Four (4), Ifllp Five (5), Six (6), Seven (7), Eight #|f- (8), Nine (9), Ten <10), Eleven (11), lilfc Eighteen (18) and Nineteen (19) in m?»&m Block One (1) in E. T. Paul's Second 3$0$~Addition to Wilmette aforesaid, i^Mm--* which lie East of a line fifty (SO) feet Southwesterly of and parallel with the Southwesterly line of the right of way of the Chicago & Northwest- ^^ ?oa ern Railway Company; all situated ll|ffl in the Village of Wilmette, in the SMSS County of Cook and State of Illinois. Iiijr|| You are further notified that sum- !^S^ mons in said cause was duly issued £%§tl|fi out of said court against the above |tl||p named defendants, which said sum- |§§f§t/; mons is returnable to the February ^ll|ff;; Term. A. D. 1918, of the said County illlK Court, to be held in the Court House, !ft§| ' in the City of Chicago, County and $!*§!$$/■■ State aforesaid, on the 11th day of liefti'■ February, A. D. 1918, as is \>y law $0?.r-: required, when and where you may %\^.: appear and plead, answer or demur ^ |« to the petitioner's petition and object f||jfs sought to be taken or damaged for Iflftff"-' the improvement aforesaid, viz.: Sf^llfca That part of the Northeast jQuarter (N. E. %) of fractional Southeast ... ..,,..., Quarter (S. E. %) of fractional Sec- ^,?$M tion Twenty-eight (28), Township V^mB Forty-two (42), North, Range Thir- . tf!§ teen (13) East of the Third Principal ; ?! 1. Meridian, lying East of the East line <' ^jf" o%Fifteenth Street and West of the ; ^; Southwesterly line of the right of K^^ way of the Chicago & Northwestern " :;,>,:M Railway Company; ',■'-■• :':-':;^VH^! Lot Seventeen (17) in Block One ? * '/• (1) in K. T. Paul's Second Addition , 5 Sg to Wilmette, being a subdivision of < 3^ the East 13.4/100 acres of the South v Ml Half (S. Vi) of the fractional South- f'j If east Quarter (S. E. %) west of the -\^}M railroad, of Section Twenty-eight Mv«%/:;< (28), Township Forty-two (42) North. 1 ?p| Range Thirteen (13) East of the Third CSC'|| Principal Meridian (excepting the 1C lli South 6.34 chains); .:.'vVr;^|| Also all those parts of Lots One ^fl^i made their report and have duly /f^jS made a special assessment to raise ^^^f||p the cost of said improvement, and 'f$SM have duly filed their report and as- Q^MM sessment roll in the office of the "KQ;iJ|| Clerk of said Court on the thirty- rf2#3§| first day of December, A. D. 1917. ^#'§11 That the total cost of said improve- V</M®fJ ment, as shown by the said Com- K ^i ^» missioners' estimate and report here- 1%|| in, is the sum of Fifty-four Hundred ^%;J^ and Twenty Dollars ($5420.00); that " *;1| a special assessment has been made '^l^Wi^ to raise the cost of the said improve- S =*|l ment, and that the report thereof \M-x|J was filed in the office of the Clerk V^ ^ of said Court on the thirty-first day ' ^ of December, A. D. 1917, and that the |^ proceedings are now pending, 4-11 The following is a description of * :p|y^ the lots, tracts or parcels of land ""b^>':£ to the report of the Commissioners i 1)|l as aforesaid, and upon your failure v ^ so to do, the same and the matters : 1 r?; and things therein charged and stated ;% will be taken as confessed and a #! judgment entered in accordance with ? the said report and the prayer of said petition. &1 Dated Chicago, Illinois, December 31st, A. D. 1917. • ROBERT M. SWE1TZER, Clerk of the County Court of Cook County, Illinois. ALBERT C. WENBAN, Village Attorney, and CHARLES H. JACKSON, Attorneys for Petitioner. L.S.8-4t