Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-01-28
Miss McCoy's Talk 10 q Gathering n
willard Hall

Miss McCoy's Talk 10 q Gathering N
| willard Hall.
rHE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SCIENCE AND PATH
| crRE-rHE RELATION OF DISEASE TO Evu-How
MISS x'coy WAS coSvEErKp.
Miss Mccoy's lecture on Christian science inter-
ested large audience at willard Hall last night
They b ID an opportunity to test the doctrines or
the suoJugation OF the sensations OF the flesh when
they were met outside by falling temperature,
carried on the wings OF a cutting wind. THE STAR
reporter was 50 far converted by the hours talk
that ne turned down his coat collar. and resoiutely
refused to rub bis ears to keQ out the Old.
MISS MCCOY, young lady with strong marks Of
will-power In her face and a voice that was clear
ana pleasing to the audience, spoke for just one
nour On the health and happiness to be had
through Christian science. She said this science
oiHered from faith cure In as much as the be-
neverS In the latter considered that blind faith
lists found the for the faith that was within
them. The science was the knowledge OF the
truth OF Chrtst-dieine truth-or God.
HOW SHE WAS CONVERTER.
She said she first became converted through the
cure by means OF Christian science, Of sister who
had been given up by all the doctors. She had
found In Christian science the truth and In truth
perfection All persons, she declared, had 1t with
one truth, but one power, God the good! There
could not De two omnipotent powers. The power
was good and II could conquer all evil The trou-
Die with the teachings OF the Christian churches
the reason the men were getting out Of the
churches and leaving them to the weaker women
was she said, because OF the Inconsistency of the
teaching In one and the same breath that God
was omnfpOtent, all-Seefng and all-pOwerful and
that there was another power as great for evil as
God was for good. some OF the greatest crimes
and bloodshed, war and carnage, had been borne on
the shoulders OF theology. Il did not satisfy the
demands OF The soul
THE ADVANCE OF DISEASE.
Disease had she declared advanced and Dr0S.
pered with the Advancement OF the med
fcal scence. The more common became the pos
session OF knowledge OF medicines and surgery,
the more they knew OF the construction OF the
human body, the more powerful became diseases.
! Tnis did not satisfy the demands OF humanity.
Christian science taught that p rfection and nap
piness could not be attained through paying at
tention TO the body It must be through the
spiritual man only that health and happiness
could be attained. They must overcome darkness
with light No one would go alone In q dark room
and attempt TO struggle against the darkness.
They would bear a light before them and the
darkness would vanish, 1t did not go into the
next room. lie ceased TO be in the presence OF the
light. Thoughts OF the body excited its ailments.
Struggling with the ailments increased them: fear
OF them gave them power over The man and made
him slave. Envy, seli1shness. hate, avarice, and
all evil thoughts weakened the body. Love- un-
seliishness and all spiritual thoughts tended 10
give the soul dominance over the body AMI built
up Its healthy tissues. Every person. she said,
had God and heaven within themselves. The rays
OF the sun were OF the and were the sun.
There was no break From the sun TO the ray;
from the ray to the sun, 1t was the one The
soul OF man was OF God the good. and was God.
Christ conquered evil with good, aud revealed
eternal life. Any one who would say: ~ am OF God
and am perfect" provided they SAID 1t under
standiayly, would be perfect. II must be known
that the spirit Is the man.
DISEASES SPRING FROM EVIL
All diseases, she said, grew out OF selfshness,
envy, hate and those thoughts that are evil-they
are the Inheritance OF evil 1t might be asked why,
then, innocent children should be sick? Children
were she Said but the little mirrors In which were
rejected the grown up world Scarlet fever and
the whooping cough Were TIE growth Of evils and
could De cured by the good. Snt quoted the Bible
In many passages TO show how simple the truths
therein were from the standpoint OF Christian
science. which seemed mysterious and vague TO
the most OF mankind.