Life — March 27, 1902 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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AN UY AAW Ya yA XX Z AT AN AMERICAN RAILWAY STATION. The Englishman: Wt BELIEVE YOU CALL THIS A PREE COUNTRY, DO YOU NOT? “WE USED TO—NOW WE CALL IT A PREAK COUNTRY.” In A. D. 2500. PHE remedy for all human evil, sorrow, misfortune and energy lies in the noble, diaphanous and mental philosophy of Christian Science, through whose potent agency the world will be transformed. Christian Science in its simplest form is a compendium of all the knowledge of the ages; the abracadabra of life; the fourth dimension ; faith in its perfect manifestation; the knowledge that makes all other knowledge look like thirty cents. As yet Christian Science is only in its infancy, having merely given a solar plezus blow to disease, doctors and diag- In its fullest development it will wipe out art, science, literature, learning, mechanics, agriculture, golf, whist, and that debasing form of human activity, called work. It will probably reach its full growth in A. D. 2500, for as yet it is crude and tinctured with skepticism. In that happy age there »y; will be no necessity for building rich Meyer Christian Science churches, since by concentrating their minds on;the vacant lots the initiated can raise cathedrals and materialize synagogues. It will be an age of castles in Spain and New Hampshire; it will be an era when homes, houses, fires, carpets, gas, kerosene, food, drink and clothing will be the prime unnecessaries of living, when anyone clothed in the right mind can produce the satisfaction these things produce. Aladdin will have come to earth again. No whiskered, wearied Populist will then work. It will be enough for the agricultural mind to project itself on the unsuspect- noses. ing fields and compel them to grow crops that will harvest themselves, march to imaginary mills, go forth as flour to mental bakeries, and thence as bread to walk down the throats of the faithful to satisfy the imaginary feeling called hunger. Those will be halcyon days, when the flour, coal and oil trusts will go out of business, and the motorman will mote imaginary cars and joyously slay his millions in his mind. Since mind will be so powerful then, the necessity for sun, moon, stars and earth will not be apparent; the Eddy-fied believer can sit in space, like Buddha, and imagine himself in earths of per- fection, where he pushes his head once in awhile, and his mind does the rest. Will this perfection of Christian Science ever be reached? Sure, Mike. Already, in advanced C. S. circles, chairs are mended, pianos tuned, freckles removed, sofas stuffed, teeth filled, carpets Inid, raised and cleansed, pictures hung, plumbing plumbed, wash- ing done, automobiles repaired and debts collected by mental treatment, and apple trees bloom in January. All you have to do is believe and do it hard. Now is the time to subscribe. Joseph Smith, A Milestone in the Wilderness. HE Thousandth Number of Ltrs, asa bistorical fact, is more than the mere anniversary of a successful publication, It is an earnest that enough unspoiled Americans remain to make successful a publication of that particular sort. For Lire {4 not only a weekly—it {sa Promise, So long as It ts "* worth living,” Just so long no one need despair of the repub- lc. Perbaps we should come out better in general, if we looked upon all our pabiications not so mach as periodicals and more as Types of the ‘Thing That Is. Asa number, thts anniversary tssue ts pecullarly interest- ing. For the first time we are let into the “living-room,” to meet the men who have made Lips what it ts—and this Is a favor for which prob- ably every reader will feel gratefal. These are our Preferred Creditors. I have LIvE from {ts first number; and would as soon turn from coffee to burnt beans as give up thls weekly Fountain of Youth,—Out West. QOME men are always too proud to come back until they’re whistled for. comicbooks.com