LECTURER EXPLAINS
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
(Concluded from Yesterday.)
■# THE BEGINNER.
Now let us take one who is learn
ing to know this Christ-way, and
beginning to walk in it. What ef
fect has this upon him?
He has been believing, like every
one else, that he is a material or
ganism with his life, health, strength,
intelligence, and love all inside of
him; that all that he is and all that
he has is limited by heredity and
environment. He knows it because
he has been experiencing it. Of
course, he is unprepared for any
emergency, feels unsafe, is inefficient
It is not strange if he is discour
aged. perhaps sick, dissipated. Now.
the unheeded Christ, the spiritual
idea of being, the Truth, comes to
such an one in Christian Science.
Be hears, and hears for the first
time with this new meaning, that
^ God is the only and all power; that
God is all his God; that God is
Life;—his life; that God is Mind,
Truth, Love, and that God, who is
all this, is all his •God. If he ad
mits this,—and slow or fast, if he
ponders it, he is bound to admit
it,—will not everything that is right
become more and more possible to
him. and will not everything jhat is
a. wrong become less and less dom
inant over him, and finally impossi
ble to him? Will he not at once
be better prepared for every de
mand upon him, feel more safe,
more efficient than before? If he
Is fallen, will this not uplift him:
if he is sorrowful, will this not
comfort him; if he is discouraged,
will this not encourage him; if he
is sick, diseased, will not this ease
him until it heals him; if he has
41 been a failure, cannot he with this
Christian, this right idea of being
rise to success? Let me say that
In thousands of instances this has
been demonstrated, and examples
are not far to seek. The neigh
bors, friends, relatives of many of
you here can tell you their experi
ences, and I am sure you will find
them corroborative of this. Neither
f should these experiences seem so
strange after it has been indicated,
as it has, what God is and what
man's relationship to God is; and
1 am sure it does not seem so
strange as it did that God should
comfort the sorrowing, make the
weak strong, heal the sick, yes,
raise the dying and the deed. But
perhaps it can be made still plainer.
HONESTY THE CHIEF
REQUISITE.
^ You nave all been taught to be
truthful and honest. I am sure. If
the temptation came to any of you
to tell an untruth, or to take some
thing- that does not belong to you,
^th:s education, not something in
herent in your brain or anywhere
in your body, would recall to you
that you must not do so. I remem
ber that as a very little boy, when
ever I touched anything not mine at
table, my mother very quietly said,
“Heisl” meaning that taking things
not mine would burn me. Through
out all the years that have gone by,
when about to touch things not min*
without permission, I have heard
that word. Is it in my brain? No;
it is in my education. We are the
children, net of f.esh and blood, but
► of our education: much of it, the
most important part of it. not ob
tained in the schools, and it is our
education that we constantly ex
press, live out.
Now, suppose that we not only
learn the letter, but become imbued
with the spirit of what has been
A said, and so learn the truth that the
kind of God that has been indicated
here, is the only God there is; that
| only he is man, male and female,
who is like this God, the reflection
or image and likeness of God; sup
! pose, when we have done this even
in the smallest degree, we always
ask of this very primary education.
What belongs to us, any one of us,
as the image and likeness of God?
! Could we not thus get correct an
I swers? What, for instance, belongs
to the reflection of power, infinite
power? Do powerlessness, inability,
incapacity? What belongs to the re
flection of Mind? Do lack of pur
pose. lack of will, and ignorance of
| what we need to know? What be
i longs to the reflection of divine
Spirit, infinite Truth, Love, Life?
j Do sensualism, untruthfulness. fear,
distrust, aversion, hate, sickness,
death? Would not the truth about
what man is and what man has be
just the opposite of all such claims,
and did not Jesus say, “Ye shall
; know the truth, and the truth shall
make you free"?
Suppose that the likeness in a
, looking glass of any of us here was
: claimed to be unlike us. to lack
something we possess, or to possess
something foreign to us, would we
admit the claim? If we did, would
we be truthful or honest? Would
we not be claiming for it some
thing that it did not possess, claim
; ing a distortion rather than a re
jection, a fraud and an imposition
'as our likeness? Can your image
' and likeness in the glass have some
i thing or take something that you
do not have or take? Can man,
then, the image and likeness of God,
, be different from God? Can he be
unprepared for anything, unsafe, in
efficient, helpless; can he take a
cold, sickness of any kind, and die?
Not unless God is and does these
things. How truthful, how honest
is one then who claims to be man,
meaning man or woman, the image
and likeness of God, and also claims
to be, to do, and to have everything
contrary to God? Is he then declar
ing the truth which alone makes
free; is he obeying the commands,
“Thou shalt not bear false witness"
and “Judge not according to the ap
i pearance, but judge righteous judg
ment”?
\\ e all need assurance. All will
agree that if God is the Principle,
the basic quality of all, claims con
trary to Him are not true. Yet
these claim*, the education of gen
erations upon generations, crowd
upon us, clamor for admission at
every turn, upon every hand. They
assure us at every impact, every
contact, that there is danger; dan
ger that we cannot, that nothing
can ward off; that cold, heat, dry.
wet, everything we breathe, drink,
eat, touch, smell, feel, everything
we undertake to do, is fraught with
' danger, danger that we have not
sufficient intelligence or power to
cope with; that all these things
have power over us. not we the
power over them which God gave
us and constantly gives us. We
have plenty of assurance, our whole
education is the assurance of strug
gle, of strife, of ultimate defeat,
disaster, death.
How like “the gentle rain from
heaven” dropping upon the dry earth
beneath, come the opposite assur
ance that “now are we the sons of
God,” even though this “doth not
yet appear”; that as such we are
the reflections of God; that be
cause of this we now have just
what God has, all that is good and
nothing else; that now is all this
available to us through being truth
ful. honest, through not bearing
false witness, not claiming and not
taking what does*not belong to us as
, the sons and daughters of God, so
heirs of God with Christ; by not
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deed aught contrary to this new,
this higher education.
THOUGHT PROCESSES.
If God is the all-enabling power,
and God is Mind, *ho operation of
this power must primarily be by
way of ideas, thoughts. Who can
straighten out his finger or bend it
without thought dictating the ac
tion? Who can bend it when
thought dictates to hold it straight?
Try it. Will the hand not do kind
things under the impulsion of loving
thoughts; will it not do cruel things
under the impulsion of contrary be
liefs? Will it not do brave, power
ful, steady, skillful, efficient things
under the direction of confident, in
telligent guidance, and trembling,
weak, inefficient things under the
impulsion of fear? All have ex
perienced this. Is it not a common
saying that one is paralyzed with
fear? Do not people die of fear?
Does any part of the body not
reached by thought do anything or
feel any way? If it does, how do
you know it without thought?
The schools are beginning to rec
ognize. and in some degree to ac
knowledge. that in Christian Science
a light has come into the world,
but they are not able to see that
it is all light, and that in it is no
darkness at all. Theology is be
ginning to teach an incorporeal God,
but not one who is the Spirit that
is all Love, too pure to behold in
iquity, evil of any kind, to cause it
or to permit it. The healing arts
are beginning to teach that mind
is at least in part cause, but without
recognizing that Mind is God. good,
so never the cause of disease and
death, but always the cause of
restoration, of health, and of life.
They call that mind which is but
false education, illusion, suggestion,
the ultimate cause of sin, sickness,
death. But the human beliefs that
still obscure cannot forever hide the
true light which shines, and shines
unto a perfect day when all shall
be illumined by it, and there shall
be no darkness, ignorance, illusive
suggestion, dis-ease, fear, and so no
sin, no disease, no death.
GOD'S THOUGHTS.
“And the angel of his [God’s]
presence saved them," we read in
Isaiah. We are also told that after
Jesus had withstood being tempted
by the devil, and all should now be
able to see that the devil was just
what Jesus called him,—“a murder
er.” that which is destructive, and
a liar, that in which there is no
truth,—angels came and ministered
unto him. What does this mean?
Does it mean that corporeal beings
with wings healed the people spoken
of in the Bible, and ministered unto
Jesus?
In the Christian Science text
book. “Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures,” by Mrs. Eddy,
on page 581, we read: “Angels.
God's thoughts passing to man; spir
itual intuitions, pure and perfect;
the inspiration of goodness, purity,
and immortality, counteracting all
evil, sensuality, and mortality.”
Cannot all see how such angels
could and did indeed heal the chil
dren of Israel, how they could and
did minister unto Jesus; how they
can heal you and me and everyone,
and minister to us all? Have not
all of you entertained just such
angels, time and time again, una
wares? Have not pure, spiritual
intuitions, inspirations of goodness,
come to you and to all, and have
they not been helpful to you?
^here did they come from; from
your brain, or from anyone’s brain?
They came from Mind, the only true
Mind, God, to inspire, to enlighten
you, to bear you up, and to set you
up on high. Have we all been in
spired then? Of course we have.
Have we always heeded these in
spirations? That is the question.
It is not uncommon to hear that
some one is inspired by malice or
hate. Everyone is ready to credit
this but let some one be said to be
inspired by God, who is infinite pow
er, intelligence. Life, Truth, and
Love, and derision and reviling are
sure to be his lot. Is not everyone
inspired with Life? If not, how
then does anyone live? Are not all
inspired by Mind, Truth. Love? If
not, how do you express intelligence,
how i3 it that you are truthful,
kind, loving? Does this surprise
you? Then let me say that you
were inspired before you even
breathed or saw the light of day,
and that inspiration is the one es
sential of existence.
Everyone is most particular as to
the air he breathes. No one with
out absolute necessity would for a
moment breathe foul air. Every
one is most particular as to the
food he eats, what raiment he puts
on. and so forth. How much more
particular should all be as to what
they are inspired by; for whether the
thought that comes to us be good
or bad. it is one that comes to us.
not one that originates with us, and
sooner or later we are bound to
express it. Is it pure, beautiful,
good, true, the thought of health,
of life, of immortality; of courage,
and of love for all? If so. it comes
from the one true source. Bid it
welcome; let it abide with you, en
tertain it, make it your honored and
your welcome guest. It comes from
God and is the word of God. an
angel visitant, sent as of old to
heal, to minister, to save. Is that
which clamors for admission a base,
sinister, degraded thought, a thought
of want, discouragement, hate, fear,
anger, sickness, death? Then bar it
out, for it will express itself, bear
fruit after its kind. How bar it,
say you? By recalling and recall
ing the thoughts, the angels of God
and of His Christ, the truths taught
in the Bible by Jesus, emphasized,
illumined, and made practical by
Christian Science, until these shall
be an angel legion round about you
to guide you, guard you. and have
charge over you.
How often do we hear the ques
tion, How can I help what I think?
and the assertion, No one can help
what he thinks. We not only can
help what we think, but in order to
do better, feel better, be better,
we must help what we think, for
as a man “thinketh in his heart, so
is he;” and the w^j that has been
indicated, the way that Christian
Science teaches, is the only way in
which this help can come; the only
way under heaven in which men
can be saved here, now, anywhere,
everywhere, from ills of any and of
every kind. It is the only way in
which one and all, irrespective cf
time, place, vocation, circumstances,
can be truly armed and prepared,
can have absolute safety and com
plete efficiency.
A WORD ABOUT THE DISCOV
ERER AND FOUNDER.
What has been said will but dimly
indicate the teachings of the ideal,
yet most practical and scientific sys
tem of ethics and healing discovered
in the words and works of our Mas
ter by Mrs. Eddy. Through her
faithful, loving. Christlike leader
ship Mrs. Eddy founded this system.
Christian Science, and advanced it
to its present world-wide accept
ance. Bringing what she did to the
world,—the “pearl of great price."
the applicable, demonstrable Chris
tianity of Christ Jesus, which ha
proved itself such by comforting,
reforming and healfhg the vast ma
jority of those who have honestly,
earnestly studied her books.—she
has enriched the world bevond all
reckoning. Hundreds of thousands
of her beneficiaries rejoice in bear
ing grateful witness to their anpre
ciation of her divine service to them
and to all mankind.
As one who had the privilege of
visiting her home, let me say that
all about Mrs. Eddy was of the very
simplest. In her the world indeed
had a true examnle of simole living
and high thinking. Those who were
with her bear loving witness to the
fact that she watched, worked,
prayed without ceasing, and that she
did this for all alike. That this un
tiring consecration has borne fruit—
the fruit of purer, happier, healthi
er, more useful and loving lives—-is
attested on every hand. The modest
fortune that came to Mrs. Eddy
through the publication and sale of
her written works is by her direc
tion, like her life, being devoted to
the promulgation of her high teach
ing; to the establishment of “on
earth peace, good will toward men:"
to the establishment of the kingdom
of God on earth, in which there can
be no sorrow, no pain, no death.
Mrs. Eddy was at times reviled,
but she reviled not again. So un
mindful of the world was she and
so mindful of God that his thoughts,
messages that came and do come
with healing and blessings in their
wings, were always her thoughts.
Her one prayer was to be God’s
faithful messenger. The answer to
this prayei was certainly vouchsafed
to her. Mary Baker Eddy founded
a world-wide religion, a religion that
is Science, a Science that is Chris
tian and that both heals and saves.
In doing this she has risen to her
rightful place in divine Love—Love
that is reflected by the constantly
increasing esteem of the world, and
the grateful appreciation of thou
sands of her beneficiaries.
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