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New
Thought
Creed
Meets Every
Situation
"Laym' for Him"
By Nell Brinkley
'opjrlRht, rlS. Intern'!. News Service
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Copyright, 1915, by Star Co.
The wife of a clergyman ha been
reading "New Though Literature." 8ha
writes me In m'ich distress Nrtuw,
while she Is personally happier and more
broadly rellg'ous than ever before, she
I.da herself accused of being a "heretic, '
a "dissenter." an "athe'rt" and "unbe
liever," and many more unpleasant
names am hurled at her by her hus
band's congregation.
This Is an unfortunate situation, but It
Is one which will occur more and more
frequently In the next decade. Annie
Hesant passed through a s'mllar ex
perience in England, when she found her
self unnble to believe In the doctrines
1 reached by her husrmnd. Unfortunately,
the dHlly cnvlror --ent of Mrs. Remit
"Hi" her husband's peculiarities of dis
position caused her to doubt her Creator
for a time and sent her over Into the
ranks of the Infidels, but she finally
swung !nt: line with true, practical re
ligious thought and devoted her life to
helping humanity to higher ground.
Some centuries ago Vasco da Gama
was cast Into prison for declaring there
roiild be any country other than that
memtioned In the Bible. He asked for
rhlps to go and seek the lands he knew
existed, and the council of whom he
reked the favor put nlm 'n chains.
Th world grows wiser slowly, and we
must not try to force its development.
Neither must we arrest our own de
velopment to please any Individual or
nny organication of Individuals.
The lady ho bas written me ought
to apply the New Thought principles to
r situation and learn the power wh'ch
In serenity. She shouln think more
an she talks. The creed of this New
Thought Is the most simple and beautiful
and ran only help her to conouer all
seemingly aggressive and unfortunate
conditions If she will be patient.
T.et !-,er say s'lently every day and
many times a day:
"God is the Spirit Love. All things
snd beings came originally from love.
I am an expression of this Infinite love,
and nothing but love and goodness can
go from me or come to me."
Tf she lives up to this thought every
hour in the day she will not long be
unpopular In her husband s congregation.
She should avoid argument regarding
creeds and dogmas. If obliged to listen
to them let her say her little rosary over
snd over, mentally, until It absorbs all
other Ideas.
When asked point blank Just what her
belief Is she should answer:
"I love my Creator with all my
strength; I love humanity as myself, and
strive to do as I would be done by al
ways. When I fall I only renew my ef
forts. I believe In the divine nature of
every creature and my desire Is to cul
tivate that element In humanity and In
myself. I believe all of success and
health and continual kindness and un
selfishness and cheerfulness and pa
tience and unlimited lor are the meth
ods for development.
"I make It a nil to never go to sleep
with a resentful or angry or Jealous feel
ing In my mind, and when these emo
tions seek me, as they do at times, I
hive them out with mental assertions of
inve and kindness. I fear nothing but
indulging In cruel or unkind thoughts, and
I believe my thoughts are shaping my
future In this world and the next and
that I must save myself."
If the questioner Is not satisfied with
this creed It will be useless to carry the
discussion further and It should be drop
ped. Disputes on religious subjects are
a proof that both the disputants have
no rellelon worth talking about.
It Is the dally life In the home. In the
neighborhood. In the market place. In the
shops that proves the worth of religion.
IJve the new thought and you shall be
loved ana reepeciea oy ine wono-.ir.:, . . . f lh. n.-.,, Am
members of all denominations and all j ,pKtti tosrt The toa(, personally, no
creeds and all men. favorite of mine, but I speak for him
And those who know you will cease to unJr a .ene of pU)n Jllllflr. n,.,.,,,,
ssk what your faith Is. since your life tho fPt , nU cajM, officially accum
wlll show It Is the creed of love for uod u,atw, fcy ,he Departm.nt of Agriculture.
and humanity. I appear to establish beyond question his
It Is not a one day religion, or one rljfht to tr.ated , fr,,nd .j,,, tlly
which depend, upon a form or a dogma of man ln th, Btruggle for existence.
-It Is one which must be hourly lived. Tn. Mng tru the we known ,nd curo.
Live it and the world must recognise m llsneM of the toad no 1tl,er
its worth and respect you. i furnu)n an excuse for the contempt and
dlsliko with which he Is almost univers
ally regarded. The blemishes of a friend,
says an old philosopher, are comely to
the eye of affection.
There Is. perhaps, no other of man's
animal contemporaries that has been the
object of so many baseless calumnies
Be sure you are right and then prepare anj supertltloua notions as the toad. He
for a lot of knocks. : has been denounced as a poisoner of rhll-
idren with his breath; aa a producer of
The man who takes himself too on a hand, that touch or ap.
oualy Is courting unhapplneas. 1 proach him; as a brlnger of untimely
rain; as a wanderer of the brute world
who cannot die, though Imprisoned for
agca in solid rock; aa a natural magl-
I'ntll an emergency is faced no man ". carrying a necromantic stone In
knows whether he la a coward or not. h lth whlc ""Heel cures can
, be performed.
A fair exchange Is no robbery. But ' This last la referred to ln Shakespeare's
what's the use of trading without profit? line: 'The toad, ugly and venomous,
wears yet a precious Jewel In his head."
It is well a be forgiving, but do not j &r. Brewer, In his "Dictionary of Phrase
lick the hand that smites, unless you are and fable," quotes an old English writer
a dog. J sa saying: "There Is to be found In the
hanHa nf all nlri mwA vrl.t toads atone
Occasionally the male with a deep voice th.y eJ, or ,,., whlch belng.
ra n inoui oui iui
em.
A HI ( if t rr tfmWuf
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And there's an anxious and sleepy mother listening at the
crack of a door, with her arm through their Dad's, and whisper
ing whimsically, "Will they ever go to 3leep?" and "wouldn't
they bo iong gone on any other night but this?" Nell Brinkley.
Our Ugly Ally, the Toad
By GARRETT P. 6ERVIS8.
In-Shoots
As a rule tew weslthy man never gets
credit fcr the honesty in his make-up.
keeping In the archives of the French
Academy of Hrlenccs. After eighteen
months, when the flutier wss broken
open, two of them were still living. The
Kngllsh geologist. William Buck aid. Im
mured a number of toads ln cavities In
randstone and limestone. Those In the
sandstone were fnund dead after thir
teen months, while those shut up In the
imestone lived nearly two years. Popu
lar stories of toads Jumping out of rocks
that have been blasted open, and ln which
they must have been encl'JH d for cen
turies, are common, but scientifically un
authenticated. Still, there Is no doubt
that toads are long-lived and very re
sistant to ordinary causes of death other
than violence.
One fact whl-h gives them a oertaln
title to human sympathy Is that they are
great lovers of borne. Where they were
born they stay. If they can. Mr. A It
Klrkland of Boston, who is one of ihs
ch'ef champions of the toad as a useful
snimal. says that-he has cnvtnrfng evi
dence that two toada have occupied door
yards In two different towns for twelve
oi raiseuo non- ued a rings, gives forewarning against
, venom.
j These fabled toad-stones, for no na
turalist of today will grant that any such
' thing really exists, were said to bear
, alwaya a figure resembling a toad on
The philosopher la usually the fellow 1 1' eurface. and It was believed that
ho provided "don't worry" rules for toucn of cured the bltea
If wicked man cannot sprout wings, he
should at least try to cover up his
tracks.
the rest of us.
I'nlesa a paid member of the band,
don't waste time tooting the horn for
the other fellow,
. J - I J L. .k 1 i
y Tne acanuai munar. mi sauna,
ran for a time poison the atmosphere.
Hut the odor soon blows away.
There Is no conceit like that of the
chap who imagines he can win the affec
tion of a girl by simply toasting his
shins before the old man's f rs every
tit.
of venomous anlmala In a collection
of antiquities at Londes bo rough there
la a silver ring with a reputed toad-stone
set ln It, and the legend connected with
th's ring avers that the stone "sweats"
and changes color when any poison Is
brought near It.
But, while most of the strange beliefs
have only a fanc'ful foundation, that
which concerns the remarkable longevity
of the toad and Its ability to resist star
vation and close confinement derives a
little support from sclen'lf c experiments
'n 1777 M. Her Imnt imbed ed t' ree toad
In plaster, and p'aod the in for safe
and twenty-three yearn, res e the y.
The widespread belief that little toads
sometimes rain down f r. in the sky 1
based, Mr. Klrkland thinks, on the fart
that young toads have la n concealed
.'iidcr slones, rubhlh and leaves during
the sunshiny lio..ri will ruldenly come
forth by hundred when an unexpected
shower occurs.
But now for the evidence that the toad
Is really an ally of man In his war
against noxious insects. This depends
entirely upon examinations of th fod
that toads consume, as shown by Inspe -tlon
of the stomach. They are decidedly
"carnivorous," since no less than 9 per
rent of their food Is of animal origin and
consists mostly of Insects noxious to man.
It remains to tell how ha g-ts the'ii.
since most of them are alert and lively
fellows. The secret of his success Is In
his tong ie. which Is long, and, what Is
even more to the purpose. Is hung st the
Inner instead of ihi outer end. ("onw
quently It acts like a lasso, which he
flings with lightning speed snd unerring
aim.
"And tho best time to do it will he dur
ing Christmas week."
She emptied her heart of other con
s'derHtion. She filled every 'number of
I' Willi the Mile locked out children.
There wrr- ninny of them in her dis
trict thut ler htiMmnd represented, she
found. She set to work. She energized
tremendously upon that problem.
The result is that a huge new armory
building In that quarter of Greater New
York will be open on Christmas and
New Year's day and all the ila.is be
tween, from 10 In the morning until
at night.
A Chiiatnins tree and playground and
sand piles and warm luncheons and com
fortable fires will be provided for the
locked out children and their kind.
The week will he on great throbbing
toy to the children who would otherwise
be ('hi'lstinasless and Joyless.
Isn't that the way. I wonder, to unlock
the lurked In heart T Isn't the key of It
a little child's craving for Joy?
The chamber of the heart may be
gloorn-tllled. The key may be rusty.
Hut why not let some little child tun
that key?
What If you have a quarrel with life'
What though Its conditions are not wha
you would have them? Try to get sotn
child's feet upon a happier path. Lot '.'
turn the grating key. You will be sir
prised at the strength of Its weak lit. I'
fingers. So strong are they It may b
that they will make you forget why '.r.
locked that door.
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The Locked Out Children
By ADA PATTERSON.
Have you a locked in heart? Whether
or not you are sure about It, let me
tell you the story of the locked out chil
dren. A congressman's wife was suffering one
morning from the locked In condition of
the heart, which soma of us call worry,
and which others call self-centredness.
At all events, there are moods in which
we are apt to lock the world out and
ouraelvee In and brood upon these things
which are not aa we would fcave them.
And the last state la worse than the firs':,
for no good ever cornea of such brood
ing. The locked In condition la always
a bad one. Our spirits, like our physical
aelves. need air and wide spaoea and
freedom of movement, and the eye of
the soul need, to look outward rather
than Inward. A friend called, bringing
In with him a fine whiff i f bracing outer
air and told a story,
"Such an unpleasant thing happened In
the neighborhood. Not two blocks away
from either cf us. Just half way be
tween your homo and mine. It's true that
one-half the world doesn't know how the
other half Uvea."
"What Is the story?"
The congressman's young wife felt the
turning of a key ln the lock. The door
of her heart was opening, a little.
"It happened In one of the rear tene
ments. The woman Is a widow. She hat
two children, a littlo girl, aged 4. and
another little girl of She has to no
out every day to work. She la a frill
that If the children are left In their inf
erable home something may happen to
them. The house might he burned rr
some heavy piece of furniture mlg'nt fall
upon them. She Is a Poor, shy thl.ig.
who doesn't know her neighbors. Sne
doesn't speak their lsnguage. The k'n
deigarten In tbe neighborhood la f'j'l.
Bo she did what she thought was let
She locked the little ones out neigh
bor found thm crying In the hall In tho
evening at 6 o'clock. They had bee-
stsylng In that dark hall with a :id
wleh apiece since T o'clock that morning.
The door of the listener's hesrt swung
wide.
"Something must be done," she said.
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