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J '.TPTEl PT TT .PTfP A BRILLIANT SUNDAY." SERMON. BY . THE - REV. LEWIS T REED . . , . , . Theme J Suggestive Therapeutics. Brooklyn, N. Y. In .the Flatbush Congregational Church the pastor, . the Rev. Lewis T. Reed; preached a sermon on "The Theory and; Practice of Suggestive Therapeutics."; -The text was from Matthew 8: 13:' "And Jesus said to the centurion, Go thy -war; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour." Mr. Reed said: - - In thi3 theme of "The Theory and Practice of Suggestive Therapeutics," it is not my purpose to expound novelties-or: to satisfy curiosity, but to . assist all of you who worship here .to lay hold of some of the great princi ples within this movement by which if will be possible for you to live con fidently and joyfully. I should be glad to make aU of you practitioners of the art of suggestive therapeutics. There are a few great principles which it is essential-you should honor and obey, First the po.er of ..sug gestion. We have been wont to be optimistic about everything that takes place in our lives, provided nothing .evil appears at once on the surface. We have proceeded on the faith that the psychical system could take up and dispose successfully o? every sug gestion made to it., . Evil thoughts, envy, anger, greed, concupiscence, gluttony all the vices abhorred by St. Paul might present their vile pic- tures to the mind, and as long as we did not act on their suggestion, we still preserved our character. We de luded ourselves with a hope that we were what we-appeared to be. And now we have' had to learn afresh the truth of that Scripture: "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." I know of no process, in man's life more calculated to give him serious thought than this function of the subconsciousness of storing up the suggestions that the outer life brings. Day by day as we touch the world, and get our own reactions of courage or cowardice, of self-control or self iefeat, of purity or sslflshnsss, of lore or hate, y:; zz continually drop Sing, dropping' these'; suggestions into (he rsssrvoir of this subconscious self, ;o come forth some day to bless or rarse. Abraham Lincoln lives ,day by lay the sacrificial life of the burden oearer of this people. . Day by day, hour by hour, he gives himself the suggestion of Cavotion, E-crmce r.nd I faith; and then, when tho Lear for ?mne ealt witn wmcn xne aenp-,r- -,.ro ,,5 tnv-n'n.iifa T,0n I tures abound. If there is any cause an:l writes on a few scattered sheets fche supreme English masterpiece of 3ialf a century. Eenedict Arnold was ;always passionate and revengeful.' Day after day, year after year, the re action of life on, him resulted in sug gesting to his deeper self hate, envy, pride, and self-will. When his hour for expression came, he took up his pen to sign his name to the betrayal of his-trust. There is nothing in the process of the soul that needs to fcause us more of joy and more of 'fear than this amenability of the soul o suggestion. Secondly, yea must come to a new realization of the supreme place of "4the,. -will. Heredity must have some iplace in. the formation of character, 'although that place is not yet very clearly determined- but the most weighty discovery of the present day seems to me this rediscovery of the regal power ofrthe will to do right; These psychologists, and hypnotists, in . their investigations into the unex plored tracts of personality have come ' across not onlya God-like aspiration .-after virtue in every soul, but also -an unlimited power for the attain ment of that aspiration. Just as the -Master, of Life stooped over the crip Tple, saying, "Arise and walk;" and i knew that within that stricken form tthere was the ability to . rise and Yralk; so modern psychology stoops over every sinful soul and repeats the Scripture command, "Be ye there fore perfect," for ye are in the image of your Father in Heaven, who is perfect. This is a tremendous doc trine of individual responsibility. It i3 an, old Scriptural doctrine, but it gains a new force when, by the mod ern hypnotists' appeal to the soul of goodness in a man, you see the drunk ard go. forth a new man, the spend thrift reformed and the invalid, made well. If there are in us those pos sibilities, of virtue, there is ho escape for us from the responsibility of at taining that for. which we were cre ated. There has come to us the con viction that inspired. Jeremiah: "In those days they shall say no more: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. But every one shall die for his town iniquity; ; every man that eateth "the sour grapes his teeth shall be set on edge." There is no more proper incentive to earnest living than the realization or the fact that 'God has intended life to be perfect for every creature; and-that if it is otherwise, tne fault is in ourselves "Dark is the world to thee; thyself art thereason' why." Whoever would possess the . reality of the Christian life must achieve the Victory over his moods; and the most heartening mes sage of this or. any age is that by our God-given endowment of the will it is possible for us to give to the deeper Mfe of the soul the suggestions of courage and faith and patience and sirengin, wnicn aitogetner means eternal life. In the third place, you will have to -form' for yourself very likely, a new, and very stern, doctrine of sin and virtue. The old doctrine of a forensic justification before God was an ad mirable thing to look at, but it. did not "work very well either for the justified or for his family. Those who deemed themselves "saved" . very often railed tc possess the homelyvlr ' tues of cheert jbess, kindness, cour age and forgiveness; while many who were obviously "good" were not con- scious of salvation. The religion of - to-day gives the genuinely "good" man his due, and ; placards in their proper, place these hateful sins of un kindness, intolerance, moodiness worry, and hardness of heart.; It Is a great service that any sect bestows . when that body of people stands forth to. proclaim that the. ills ot the. flesh , have an origin in the ills of the mid, . and that the thoughts that, issue in these bodily ills are sins against the Taiga and Holy One? From whatever source derived,, the conviction of tne necessity of controlling the outbreaks of pur. evil moods, would be the great est conceivable blessing inso-called Christian homes.: This is surely no new. gospel.; All this teaching is from bolh Christ and the apostles; but it is undeniable that the recent presen tation of it has amounted almost to a discovery. The fourth principle which must govern your thought is that of the very great Influence that we exercise over one another. If you believe in the : telepathic communication of one subconscious mind with another, you will believe that the condition of your subliminal. ' consciousness -of irrita tion, or qiiiet, of hope or fear even though you speak no word, will' af fect those associated with you. In no hazy way,: but very definitely, then, we are bur brother's keepers, respon sible for the world's stock of cheer and faith. The home is the peculiar field for the operation of this sub conscious power. There the quickest of sympathy exists, there influence is felt most readily and most " deeply. The atmosphere of a home, although a hackneyed term, expresses a clearly defined reality. The atmosphere is the spirit of the house, emanating from the deep well of the subcon scious mind of the homekeeper. God. has created no more gracious figure in His great world than that of the wife and mother, who gives to the very place of her abode her own quiet, buoyant, soothing spirit. What she is in the unsounded deeps of her being will appear, in time in the house where she dwells and in the faces of the little children, that look ;up to her. On the other hand, the home of the card-club woman and the home of the gad-about! Who does not know them and shudder at; the thought? Their atmosphere is'that pf restlessness and spiritual poverty. Woe betide her children and her hus band: for she cannot give them, after Ltheir day of temptations and vexa tion, that by which they are renewed, the spirit of peace and quiet confi dence in good. II. Now, it will sometimes happen that, despite our best endeavors, we shall be overborne in the press. . Ill ness comes od, whatever -the cause, and the causes are often complex. What are we to do? Every physician would join with me, I believe, in say ing: make the spiritual attitude cor rect. To use the terminology of the books, give yourself the auto-suggestions of courage, confidence in God, faith in Kis willingness and power to care for and restore you. Make it the genuine conviction of your spirit that God does provide for all His li-ltt' ... ... ?r,IU3 . crsr.turss. Ke."t in the promises or of irritation, remove it, if it be pos sible, by the right action on your part. Nothing is more instating than harboring a vigorous grudge. I need not remind you how strictly scriptural is all this method of creat ing a correct. mental attitude; and I believe that your own careful obser vation would come to my support in the statement that the great majority of the diseases from which our house holds suffer can be finally traced to the fret and ambition of our present ife. As the pastor, then, of your souls and the minister of the Lord Jesus Christ, who, through faith, re stored the body, I would exhort you to cultivate to the utmost the virtues that Christ always insisted upon -trust in God, humility, self-forgetful-ness, forgiveness, sincerity. Still, in many cases, the conditions of ill health will continue. What is to be done then? Manifestly, If the trouble be serious, it is the time to employ the physician, who can diagr nose the case and prescribe the regu- ations under which recovery can be most rapid. I earnestly hope that in the excitement of this new discovery of the therapeutic power that is in the mind no one here will believe that he is privileged to sin against either himself or his brother. All laws of action are laws of God. The best re sults ensue when we learn how to use all of God's laws in harmony with each other. Quinine is just as much creation of the divine spirit as is the mind of man, and we may as well acknowledge that infection is a process likely to take place under pre vailing conditions, unless guarded against. i The employment qf mental healing n cases of physical disorder is the employment of a therapeutic agency. You may use medicines if you see fit and they nroduce the results, al though as a matter of fact medical practice of the present day makes less and less of the treatment by drugs and more and more of the treatment 'by the natural agencies of rest, air and water. On the other hand, you may employ the mental healer, provided your own spirit is so attuned to the spiritual life that you are able to receive its benefits. My own belief is that those who are wonted to the spiritual life--by which I mean the life of communion with , God. through prayer, the life of faith in a controlling power, and .of inter est In the life of the spirit in its higher manifestations are best pre pared for the reception of these ben efits. No one can be benefited who sets himself even secretly against his healer, who prefers his own will and way to 'the -will and way of, God, or who cherishes a false self pride in his own condition. The only way of restoration is the sincere and humble committal of oneself into the hands of God that He may work His restor ing will. One must learn -the very heart of the meaning - of the sixth chapter of Matthew, the core pf which is the insistence upon the necessity Of the genuine union of the life of man with God. If there is one place, in which no deception is possible it is in this relation of life with God. Whoever, the healer may be,' the pre requisite to success is the sincere de sire of the ' patient to be i helped Greater than the desire of having one's own way,- and of cherishing one's own foible, must be the desire to receive that "more" abundant life that Christ came to bring. ; Therefore, while, oh. the one hand, this is only a system of therapeutics, on tne otner, it is a system the suc cess of which is so intimately related to the attitude of a man's spirit to ward tne mtinite that It becomes a matter of religion. .- An Epigram by Dr. Frank Crane. . Life is a nemetiial rhnnaino" J road to ruin branches off ateverystep. Have Not Tied Opportunity td Get Rid of Mines COMMODITIES LAW SUSPENDED Senator Elkins Asks For ih& Suspen sion of the Operations of the Com modity Clause of the Railroad Bate Lav: Washington, Speeial.--Late in the session of i the Senate Senator Elkins succeeded in getting consideration for his resolution to suspend the opera tion of the commodity clause of the railroad rate 'law, which clause be came effective May 1. , ; Under the operation of this clause railroads would be liable to heavy. fines if they undertook to haul in inter-State com merce any articles or commodities produced from the manufactories or mines in which the railroads have an interest. ! The railroads contend that they have insufficient time to divorce themselves from the owner ship of such properties, or to test the constitutionality of a law compelling them to dispose of such property in terests. The resolution originally proposed to extend the time for the commencement of the operation of the commodity clause until May 1st, 1910, but the Senate inter-State com merce committee changed the day to January 1st, 1910. ' C?lcrr"r. Orr:- solution. When the measure was called up several days ago it went over under objection from Mr. Culberson, the mi no: ity leader of the Senate, but it was taken up by a vote of the Sen ate. Mr. Culberson had refused un animous consent, arid he was first re cognized to speak against the reso lution. He said that the committee had given no reasons why the exten sion should be made and he called up on Chairman Elkins for an explana tion. Mr. Elkins answered that the eondition of the country demands a delay in the operation of the law; that the railroads have been unable to find capitalists to take over the coal lands owned by the roads. For this situation he blamed the recent panic and 'he said that had it not been for this money shortage and business depression the railroads would have been able to comply with the law. He called attention to the., fact that the bill did not repeal the law. but only suspended it tempo rarily. The Lackawanna and the Reading Railroads yere specially chartered by States to own coal lands the Senator said and he' showed that the properties were mortgaged and re-mortgaged and that difficulty had been experienced in sfparating these obligations. Other railroads owning coal lands were in the same position he declared. Mr. Nelson said it appeared that the attitnde of the railroads was against compliance with the law anl to litigate as -to the power of Con gress to enact such legislation. He expressed the opinion that the rail roads were not entitled to any special consideration. Amendments to Resolution. Mr. McComber construed the com modity clause as not preventing the railroads from owning., coal mines?, from mininr the coal, or selling fiie product of the mines. He said that the eoal could be sold at the mine to independent dealers who eotrfd ship ftwi coal over the railroad wherever thev pleased, and there would be no violation of the law. Mr. Warren said fiiat such a transaction would be a perfectly rjatnt evasion of the law. Mr. MCumber admitted that a deal of this character might be pea to suspicion but he believed there would be no technical violation of the law. Socialists Celebrate in New York. New York, Special. Socialists will eelebrate by a parade of ten thousand men and women to Union Square Park where Selig Silverst in threw' a bomb on March 2Sth that may yet kill him. Police Inspector Cotright agrees to permit the parade , if no red flags are carsied. Other demonstra tions are planned all over the citv. Fraternity Convention. Ibwa City, la..- Special. Represen tatdves from every chapter' of the Delta Sigma Rho Fraternity are herr for a meeting of the general "couiV 51 of the society, which is being held at the University of. Iowa. Deltss Sigma Rho is an honor fraternity, founded in 1905, and has Had rapid Sowth. Chapters have been estab hed at the Universities of Michi gan Winconsin, Minnesota, Nebras ka, Chicago. Northewestern, Illinois and Iowa. The Northern Orotorical League's annual contest will be held here. ' ' ' : Work Hcrse Parade. , New York, Special. For the sec ond aanual New York work horse pa pade to be held on Memorial Day entries are closed and eompetrtios for all prizes will be limited to horse? Bamed before midnight. The parade wbioh promises fro be the greatest oi Us kind over held in this part of th atry, wtll'be, kdd under Hie auspv oea of the Women's Aucriliary of the ASArrimam FWiiw 41, n T r -- --"".T .. mc x icvt'IlllUO of Cruftlky, b Animals. ' New York City. The over waist that 13 made ; with loose sleeves is ono of the best liked and 1s always charmingly attractive. This one Is distinctly novel, giving the effect of a separate guimpe while in reality the entire blouse is made in one. In . the illustration , taffeta is trimmed with banding and is finished with em broidery on the yoke and the cuffs while it is combined with a chemi sette of tucked mousseline, but al most all the waisting materials are appropriate and the blouse' will be found quite as satisfactory for the gown as it is for; separate wear. It. will be charming made from crepe de chine or any similar thin, soft silk andr Indeed, 'from almost every sea sonable material. ' The chemistte can' be of tucking or of all-over lace or of anything in contrast that : may be liked i so that there is great variety possible. - The quantity of material required for the medium size is three yards twenty-one or twenty-four, two yards twenty-seven or one and one-half yards forty-four inches wide with three-quarter yard of tucking, nine and three-eighth yards of insertion: " A New Shade. The newest color shown in the ad vanced styles is called mulberry. This seems to be a cross between crushed strawberry and raspberry, and it is just near enough to old rose to be becoming to almost any complexion. , Hat in'Tobacco and Claret. A very large hat - with drooping brim rolled slightly at the left side and medium-tall straight crown, cov ered with miroir velvet iu tobacco brown. Binding of the velvet ' fin-" ishes the brim; " draped velvet, . held at the front by a diamond-shaped brooch, set. with a mock ' moonstone, surrounds the crown, and posed at the left of the back - is a " radiating j tuft of three deml-short ostrich tips I in ciarewea. . v American Beauty Favored. :ri The American Beauty rose is to be a? great favorite with all - milliners. Jt is occasionally used alone, but of ten combined with lilacs and orchids. :,: -.. . Child's Coat.- . ' ;; ' " -'Such a coat as this one Is adapted to all seasons of the year, for it can be made from an almost Mimitless variety ; of materials. In the illus tration white pique is trimmed with embroidery but cloth, silkK bedford cord and all materials used for 'Chil dren's coats are appropriate. For the coming season pique, linen, cotton bedford ' cord and the like are much used, while for the very warm weather still ' thinner fabrics -are dainty fand ; are very "much like'd, whereas for the cooler weather cloths are in every way. appropriate. The cape is not alone becoming, it also Is protective and desirable from the practical point 6f 1 view, hut it is, nevertheless, optional and can be used . or omitted as liked. . The coat Is made with a square yoke, to which the full skirt portion is attached. It includes comfortably full sleeves that , are finished with cuffs and the separate cape is ar ranged over it, while at the neck is a' turn-over collar. The quantity of material required for the medium size (four years is ;four and three-quarter yards twenty- seven, tnree and tnree-quatter yards thirty-two or three yardr f orty-fqur ir-ches wide, three and three-quarter yards of narrow, six and one-naif yards of wide .banding, six and one half yards of; edging. . Ribbon Through Xace. The running of ribbon through lace has become more fashionable than ever and the handsomest dinner gowns are treated with silk and vel vet ribbon and with chiffon velvet; used as- though it were ribbon. Quills On Hate, Golien quills are in great; demand for; hats, and what could be easier than to paint over those that fail to match any bat at present in use? ' FORT WAYNE HOTEL BUR& New ' Aveline" Hotel , at Fort ya, Destroyed by; Tire Early ga Morning and at Least 1 welve pJ suns irosi lflBir jjives. Fort- "Wayne, Ind., Special. J least twelve persons lost their liV( in a fire which destroyed the Aveline Motel here . early Sunda The entire interior of the buildino a smouldering heap of ruins and hoi ma;iy diead are concealed by the d, bris can only be conjectured. . The; hotel register was consmjJ by the fire and there is no accural means ot determining who is mJ mg. xne Known aeaa are : R. S. Johnson, Tana, 111, M. Hirseh, New York. T T liTJll- VOUA i tt.. sin. J. Ellis, salesman for Carsoi Pierce, Scott & Co., Chicago. . Wl A. Pitcher, Fort Wayne, sales! man for S. F. Boyster & Co., Porf vvayne. - J. : vv . - ueviney, , salesman f01 Detroit; Neckwear Company, Detroil Mich. " Mrs, Sarah Hathaway, MishawakJ ma. - Unknown woman, Mjps. Hathaway. companion oft The complete destruction of the in. fcerior of the hocel makes the 'Avork of recov9ring of bodies diffiwlt. Charred wood, bricks and twisted i girders are .piled, up between the walw t the second stery. Piece bv piece this must be removed befora the roll of thejdead can be coxnplet ed. Some of the bodies taken out are tnangied and charred beyond recog nition. v Entire Family Lost. New York, Special. An early morning fire in a four-story brick tenement at No. 17 Humbold street, a thickly populated section of Brook lyn, eaused the death of six persons and the serious injury of f oar oth ers. , Every member of one family, consisting of a mother and four ehildren, are among the dead. There were many thrilling rescues by po Kee and firemen and it was due to Hieir brave vork. that the, death list was not larger. A half dozen or more persons w4o were trapped in the upper stories were saved by jump ing' into life nets. The financial loss eaused by the fire is estimated at $10,000. The dead : Mrs. Dora Abrams and Sadie, Carrie, Anna and Charles Abrams; and Mrs. Jennie Gbhen. The iniured are : Mrs. Mav NVhlp Mrs Amplia "FTiTsipTilinm - "Pnti- 1 leven nie Hirschhorn and Anna horn. IIich- I IPoisor May Stop at New Orleans. New Orleans Speeial. One of the most important concessions ever made by the railroads to a Southern City becomes effective whereby ten day stopovers wilt be allowed by all east , and west lines at New Orleans. Near ly 100,000 people pass - through New Orleans annually and- it is believed that a large majority will take ad vantage of the stop-over privilege. The concession -is "due to a total eli mination of ticket scalpers from the Tow Half Buried in . Landslide. Montreal. Special The little vil lage of Notre 'Dame de Salette, about 18 miles from Buckingham, is report-, ed to , have been half buried in a land slide. Details are very meagre. About 25 "lives are reported lost. There is neither ... telephone nor telegraph in Notre-Dame. ' Bailey's Majority May Be Bednced. Dallas," Tex., Special. Additional returns from the Democratic primary lection are scattering. Several coun ties not reported cast majorities 1 for Johnson,' and it is probable that Sen ator Bailey's majority for delegate-at-large to the" Denver convention will be below 25,000. Mill Operative Shoots Painter. Atlanta, Ga., Special. James Huff, of Porterdale, Ga., was shot and in stantly killed by Jack Pierce, a cot ton mill operative of - this city neat be corner of Decatur and North Boulevard. Pierce made his escape. The cause of the shooting . is not known,; but . persons in the vicinity heard Pierec. say to Huff : 1 ' Jack, don't come any further, .or I'll kill you.' A momer-t later a shot was heard and Huff fell. ; Huff was a painter and bore a good reputation. News of t:e Day. .The peace of Central -America i& again gravely endangered by a ensit in Guatemala. . ; Funeral services over the body of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannennan,; the British Premier, were held , in West minster Abbey.: - - . i -. 1 " ' , i 'A landslide in Lebelle eounty, Pro- vinco of Qnebec, buried more than ROP I 8lt Brtok tltfl. I notl Hone; It n new h ugly : form i linatoi i the cc grata, I simple I suppoi Jmay t I year, la dis 1 1 ii . xieavo: it i i i . 1; l Kwbrn Letters aid Eve Grocer AT 20 f yourl LACK! Ch a 'score ox. ttnt uuu cuat uvea. .
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