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he k-'cw i» rcrnired faith to turn •;.v,T.y froiTi the body, and one c^>.n ^ee how the. sufferer's thought looking away from the evidences of disease and sin and limitation to something higher, caught from him the divine light and found instantly what it sought. Neither health laws, nor physical disabilities, nor temptations could withstarrd this demonstration of the Christ, God's presence and om- nipotence. For that is what the Christ isâ€"the communicator of gx>od, of health, purity, holiness, to men. Now we do not hear what anyone is saying to ns if our thought is busy with something else, neither can we receive the Christ communication if we are wholly preoccupied with self and the body. Therefore bringing the body into subjection really means, not starving and bullying it, but dropping it out of thoughtâ€"mentally rising superior to the illusive sug- gestions of pleasure, or pain in mat- terâ€"forgetting self, and listening for God's message to man of Life, Truth, and Love. Best Work of All Perhaps it is because we have be- come so absorbed in material occu- pations of one kind or an-other that we'have come to think of Science, let alone Christian Science, as outside of our scope. There is something very satisfying about having a lot of work- to do ,and the absence of work seems to create such a void in a man's life, that Stevenson once said of work that it was "God's greatest gift to man." But listen to this, "Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto^cvcbisting life, which the. Son of Man s 1 â-  p11 give unto yoti: for him hath God the Father sealed." Then said they nut"> him, What shall we do that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye be- lieve on him whom he hath sent." Perhaps you have never thought of yjptir work just in that light. The desk, the shop. the factory, the plough, the pulpit, whatever your particular task may be, have kept you fully occupied. But they, so far from being your real work, may sometimes be no more than Jesus outlined. What is it to "believe on him whom he hath sent"? It must mean more than mere acquiescence, as one night say "I believe there is a North Pole." It must surely mean to grasp the spiritual idea of manhood which Jesus presented and to stop thinking of man as a fallen beingâ€" a sick and sinning mortal. '"Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils." says the Bible. If some fruit" that is good to eat and some that is poisonous is set before you. you eat the good and re- ject the bad. Your belief expresses itself in action and so it should al- ways do. The truth about God and man is set before us in Christian Science and we can understand it and demon- strate it. Christian Science reveals to us that we have omnipotence close at hand and all around us giving authority to our every thought and action that is in Hue with truth. In the textbook of Christian Science we have the scientific rule, which Jesus promised should be given, enabling Us to correct our thinking and to put the truth in the place of the lie, as he did centuries ago. Proofs Not Perfunctory How is one to know that one is escaping from materialism and really grasping the spiritual idea of man- hood which Jesus demonstrated? Here is the answer from the Bible:â€" "These signs (proofs) shall follow them that believe: in my name shall thev cast out devils: they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents: and if they drink any deadly thin?, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and thev shall recover.' These then are to be the proofs that we have a rrrht understanding of Life. Not. you "-ill r>Wrve. the occupancy of positions of promin- ence, not the wearing of fine raiment, not the wealth and popularity, but the casting out of devils (where are these devils, or evils, if not in our own thouchts?L speaking with new tongues (not being afraid to voice the tru+h'h H^nrllinrr of serpents (showing up deceit), immunity from poison. ar"1 the healing of the sick. Most people will say that they were never taught that these thiners were any nart of their duty as a Christian, regular atendance at church being regarded as an adeouate sign follow- ing Christian belief. Consulting a recent commentary on this passage I find these words: "The gift of miracles was given to assist the dif- fusion of the gospel at the very first. When Christianity was firmly plant- ed, the gift of miracles was with- drawn." Could any statement be more misleading than (his? It surely has not a particle of foundation. To be- gin with. Tesus never used the word "miracles." He said these "signs" or "woofs" shall follow them that be- lieve. And again, he never hinted that there would be a time limit to these proofs. It is no. more correct to say that these proofs have been withdrawn than it is to say that there is a time limit to the fact that 2x2 â€" 4 or to such inventions as the tele- phone or the electric light. The only '^yj-'^^^^f^ THE 1..AKF, SHORE NEWS, FRIDAY, MARCH iifficuky there is uLo:u xl.z 1::_:;;;,, , ..;,..,::......â-  !...r.:'*/. .*-a":v/.v,:...!;: If . Ut;.;-.-1 w ;. 5, 1920 1* work is the difficulty we have m un- derstanding God. How else can we know that we understand God ex- cept wc have proofs of His omni- potence and omnipresence? It is not intellectual proficiency that is needed for the making of these proofs,"but the unselfing of thought through purity, humility, and affec- tion,â€" the advancing stages of self- government. „ Based on Rules The healing work in Christian Science is not just an exhibition of blind faith in the supernatural, or in some divine interposition. It is based on certain rules derived from the Master himself. His treatment sometimes unspoken, but more often, according to the narrative, spoken, almost invariably resulted in com- plete and instantaneous healing. This is the kind of healing that need to be restored to-dayâ€"not the groping and experimental methods of materia conK nl"o:i" 1. .<.:" or" ••.«'_;.• i.....r'i ; :-- "When I am told that all au.hor";k> r.r^rec, I feel certain that one of them Vs I'u'idcred. md tin- re.;1, h^ve -ol !:v.-:d h'<::\ without cn.'su'ry." Ag:::n. tlv> rrpnict tlv* r^u" have always been so. is no argiivient in their favour. ' Antiquity does > T- add venerability to false belief. The fact that they found 'o-kW! <^<-<-> in Pompeii does not make cheating a right thing. The only authority for Christians is Christ Jesus, and his teachings are independent of time or place. "Before Abraham was, I am." "Lo, I am with you always." Therefore they must be scientific and they must be the only test which can safely be applied to all the mod- ern so-called sciences. If the latter do not stand that test, then they be- come as Paul said, "-oppositions of science falsely so called." You see how inevitably we are thrown back on to Christ Jesus for medica, not the blind reliance on a j our authority in all matters. His good person, a good place, or a good j kingship stands because it is iin- thing, which sometimes produces the I possible that any human authority same kind of faith-healing that drugs I can ever supersede it. We are safe produceâ€"but the Christ method,! if we hold to him, and Christian which turns the sufferer's thought to j Science does not ask us to swerve Him "who healeth all thy disease ... j one hair's breadth from his teaching, who crowneth thee with loving kind-j Instead it confirms it and reinforces ness and tender mercies," in other ! it at every point. We should ask onr- words, to his divine Principle, God. selves whether, like the captain of a What a waste of time it is trying to j ship, we are steering our course ac- locate a diabolical intelligence, in a I cording to the chart that he mapped tiny germ, equipped with a body <o small that you cannot see it, when the truth is that neither a germ nor any other suppositional manifestation of evil, or disease, can influence in out. or whether we arc mere pleasure sailors going anywhere that the caprice of the moment suggests. True Self-Government Self-government does not, of the smallest degree a mnid that has i course, mean just having your own gained the secret of self-government This secret brings detachment from the current fears and alarms, either in regard to health, property or so- cial conditions, and places us mental- ly where, in the poet's words, "'neither evil tongues, Rash judgment, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life Shall e'er prevail against us or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings." The demonstration we are to make in Christian Science is that sin and disease have no power because they have no mind, and that we, as chil- dren of the one Mind, can overcome these false beliefs through Christ, of whom Paul writes that, if we look to him. he "Shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body." Fallacy of Medicine A fond delusion that seems to be paining currency nowadays is that the health of the community may be improved through the systematic ap- plication of medical methods to the individual citizen. It is as if we were ho become so much live stock await- ing the marketâ€"to be sold to the highest bidder. "What is a man." asks Hamlet, "If his chief good and market of his time Be but sleep and feed? a beast, no more." There is something peculiarly ab- horrent to most people in the notion that health is an animal property, de- pendent on matter. Have we not seen over and over again that man. regarded as a healthy animal, will be betrayed by animality. Samson would be a good illustration of this, and Hercules another. Both of them were brought to disaster by animal- ity, the very thing that the doctors would call good health. Christian Science gives us back the right idea of man as the spiritual image and likeness of God. and not merely a healthy animal. Christian Scientists have no quarrel w»th the doctors but they do believe that the notion that in order to un- derstand health you must be a student of disease, has proved fal- 'acious and very costly to the com- munity. You might as well expect a gardener to spend his tin- studying weeds. Investigation of disease has -mormouslv increased the number of diseases. The study of health means the contemplation of that which is governed by law. and b'w is sr>:ritual. The raising of the standard of living has improved health conditions and will continue to do so, but this is due to common sense and a higher i morality, not to drugs or inoculation We are told in the Bible of one king, who "sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians," indicating that it was a matter of reproach that He did not seek his health from Go.'. If that were the general thought to- day. wc should not have such an enormous and costly system in our j midst as that known as "materia j medica," and undoubtedly great J numbers of those unselfish workers j whose motive is to alleviate the suf- , ferings of humanity would not hv' seeking to cure material belief with | drugs and hypnotism, but would be | Christian Scientists enlisted to lessen sin. d;sease. v^d d'-ath. in the Christ way, the way that Jesus taught on the horcs of Galilee. O-'y Ore Authority We should never let ourselves be '..11^1 ;-,•!.-> s f->1<:p s*>nse of ^eof^'v by statistics, or the statement that all the authorities are agreed. A re- way in everything, "Man is properly self-governed," writes Mrs. Eddy ("Science and Health," p. 106). "only when he is guided rightly and gov- erned by his Maker, divine Truth and Love."? To the degree that a man finds the truth in Christian Science, the law of God centers into his heart, and he be- comes a representative of Principle. Basing his life on the first command- ment and the Golden Rule he finds himself naturally impelled to uphold r<; ord. f and to aid in the ejec- ".'.r.n cf &'. order cr lawlessness, il? willing lo sh:.rc his new fouiv' fr^- om with those who are su5eri:i2 rom a false sense of law; that is, '•on d'se.^se ~r s-'n. cr n.;iu:it !on. lie knows that what has he-led li'm en ♦â- â€¢ev; others r.'nd he gladly briims to .heir notice the fact that the Christ method of luv.liiii; is here on earth to-day. and that it is to be fou'u' embodied in the text book "Science and Health", to which all may have access. It would probably be correct to say that more healing of disease and sin has resulted from the study of this book than from any other known method. Let us never lose sight of the fact that it is our absolute right to wor- ship God in the way that seems best to us, our right to seek health in any direction that we please, pro- vided that we do not trespass on the equal rights of others in so doing. Any attempted infringement on this right, whether mental or physical, compulsory religion or compulsory medicine, will not be tolerated in this ace. In conclusion, let me recite to you the short prayer given by Mrs. Eddy to Christian Scientists for their daily use (Manual, p. 41) :â€" " 'Thy kingdom come;' let the reign of divine Truth, Life, and Love he established in me, and rule out of me all sin; and may Thy Word en- rich the affections of all mankind, and govern them." True self-government first, and then the government of all mankind through "Thy Word." May not each of us, however feeble and inadequate our footsteps have been hitherto, take un from to-day this vital question of self-govern- ment, and find the true method in Christian Science. To quote the words of John Robin- son, original pastor to the Pilgrim Fathers, "When Christ reigns, and not till then, will the world have peace." x(v-i: i-, o:' av..ii:i> oy (ontkact TOR GRADING, PAVING AND O* . » -: I "<> | |<; T]"-; CT or ' s"'v **':'*i ••••.»-.T»-i -»- "---> A-IT.J.\rtT5 C'F WILMI-"."" K I'-: II Srl <"^ THE • • \ - 1 SAID vir,t,,\f:n; ot." WlLMETTtS, COIWTY. ILLINOIS. \V5 'ir»i.«(t«> S|>«>«-1j«I ANdfioniicnJ No. 1'W Wilmetn-, Ills., March 3, 1320. «T.,,.j,,t. i., ,, (..fl-v r\\<?n 1" ••'! ppmits hi',- t.FTe<l1hrU the l.idsf.ir the Impvove- iv• -nt of 11m- central r >:-?<-. n (I-O fi.-t «f ih« c'».t • : â-  'rieci: r'f-M- <::<> .*.n • 'turn's Addition to V," <•!"-"•,.. bel'ijsr that po-tWoi of said til ley lyinrf !*-•>- twin Hi" East line of Twelfth Street nnd tin- \Vi:U line of Eleventh Street In the Villnjro of Wilmette. <* ><)U County, Illinois, by grading-, pivliiff with concrete, and otherwise' Improving the same, in aeeordnnce with the or- dinance thirifor, were opened on the 2nd ilav of March 1920, and M. Foley Company being- the lowest responsible bidder, tlio contract was awarded to said M, Kolev Oompnnv on the 2nd day of March, A. 1>. 1920. Said bid ia for the work as a whole and is ns follows: 200 cubic yards of excavation in grad- lim fur roadway and oxih-sh material removed o.t $1.25 per cubic yard, $250. X17 square yards concrete, pavement seven (7) Iiuh«;s thick compoHcd of one (1) part, of heat quality of American Portland Cement., two (2> parts of fine fmizreirate equal to torpedo Band, and three (3) parts of coarse aggregate consisting of varying- sizes of crushed rock or gravel from \\ inch to l1^ inches in size mixed with clean water, including: ashphaltic felt expansion joints IhroiiRh and across the pave- ment at 30 feet apart, constructed In place, Including- materials and labor, at $2.7S per square yard $2,271.20, Total $2,521.2«. The owners of a majority of the frontage of the lots and lands upon wild streets wherein said work is to be done may, vvilhln ten (10) days from the date, hereof, as provided by law, elect to take said work and enter Into a written contract to do snld work at ten per centum less than the price at which same has been awarded. KDWAUt) ZIPF, R A. HIMMiOUMAN, . -^ WI1/MA.M II. EtJLlS, -%r .Insi-M'll HIUXZKN, .JOHN II. COCHKAN. Hoard of Local Improvements of Vil- lage of Wilmette. LI7-1 to Get a Maid For 30 Centsâ€"Page 7 VKOI'OSAl.S ♦ - Wilmette Special AHsesKiiient "Vo. IH7 ♦ â€" Wilmette, Ills., March 3, 1D20. Peak-d proposals for the Improvement I of the Jillcv In Block Fifteen (15) of Dinpee'R Addition to Wilmette Vi.lla.sre in said Village of Wilmette, by pradins , an'l paving the centrsit eig-hteen (IS) | feet of said alley, and otherwise im- | proving the same, in accordance with j the ordinance and specifications for, paid improvement, will be received by i the Board of Local Improvement of j said Vitlap-e of Wilmette until 7:30 o'clock V. M. on Tuesday, the tfith day I of March. A. I"). 11)20, at which time snld proposals will be publicly opened, examined and declared by said Hoard of Local Improvements in the Village Hall In said Villag-e of Wilmette. The specifications for said improve- ment niav be seen and examined at the ofllce of "the Board of Local Improve- ments in the Village Hall in Wilmette durine: all business hours, and blank proposals will be furnished at said office of the Board of Local Improve- ments in said Villag-e Hall. Proposals must be made out on blanks furnished by said Board of Local Improvements, and must be addressed to the Board of Local Improvement* of the Vlllap:e of Wilmette, Wilmette, Hli- nois, and endorsed, "Proposals for Pav- ing Alley in Block IB of T>lne:ee*s Ad- dition to Wilmette Village" and all proposals must be accompanied by cash or a check certified by a responsible bank, pavable to the order of the Pres- ident of the Board of Local Improve- ments of the VUlap-e of Wilmette for a sum not less than ten (10) per cent- um of the aggregate of the proposal and no proposal will be considered un- less accompanied by such check or ea«h. The contractor will he paid in bonds and vouchers, payable solely out of the assessment for said improvement, wh"ti collected, in accordance with pro- visions of the ordinance therefor, In th- manner prescribed by law. The contractor to whom the contract mav be awarded will be required to furnish a bond to the satisfaction and approval of said Board of Local Im- provements in a sum equal to the amount of hi« bid. conditioned for the faithful performance of said contract and said work in all respects according 'o the specifications and full and com- •'<->tt> drawings and according to the time, terms and conditions of said con- irRct. and also conditioned that such bidder and contractor shall promptly nay all debts Incurred by him in the orosecution of such work, including those for labor and materials furnished. Proposals will be received for the construction of said improvement as .hole: the said Board of Local Im- -f ments reserves the right to re- ject any and all bids. EDWARD ZIPF, IS. A. Z1MMKKMAN, • .JOSEPH HKINZKN, WILLIAM H. ELLIS, JOHN R. COCHRAN, Beard of Local Improvements of tfjrssA's/ssjp/s/y/s/^^^^ i "Tavi ^ir?" Ph°ne Wilmette 134and 135 | 1 ttXl? UII • DAY AND NIGHT Best Service and Most Reason- able Rates on the North Shore KETTER BROS. 611 W. RAILROAD AVENUE TAXI CAB and EXPRESS SERVICE WILMETTE r/sssss///MW//w/////////*ss^^^ Village of Wilmette. the L17-ltc PETERJ.SCHAFER 1501 Washington Avenue Tel. 969 W. 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