The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-26

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will address you upon the interesting
subject of christian Science and
| Common Sense"
MIR. NORTON'S ADDRESS.
The speaker of the evening was given
a hearty reception when he stepped
to the front of the stage. He held
the close attention of the audience
! throughout. Without any extended
| preliminaries he plunged at once into
his subject and spoke as follows:
| Common sense is with the majority
| of people the most uncommon thing in
| the world.
| a diamond that can Je called wholly
perfect is very rare. SO is common
| sense. Common Sense is mental dig
nifty. 1t is king, kingdom, law and
people all in one.
Comon Sense is the supreme court
| of the human mind.
1t yields it's authority to no lesser
power in the affairs of ufe.
| Common Sense is the essence of i'm
partiality, nationality, and mental So
| briefly.
The word Common" means normal
or universal. The word sense is de-
| fined as the normal power of mind or
| understanding, and as rational percep-
| tion. Hence common sense can be de-
| fined as universal, normal, rational
| perception.
The Standard Dictionary defines
| common sense as sound judgment or
| practical understanding. Capacity to
see and take things in their right
| light"
| Common Sense is that faculty of the
mlnd which is gained only as the mind S
| movements, deductions, and percep-
lions represent normal mental action.
| Mind to be normal must act in har-
| mOnY with mental law, alias Nature.
or the creative Mind. AS Mind and
| spirit are synonymous wOrus. normal
mind action is essentially one with
| spiritual perception, discernment, and
| understanding.
The divine or Egoistic Mind, alias
| God, being universal Omniscience. all
| real mental action must be divinely
scientific and exact. Perfect Mind is
the essential nature of Deity. There
| fore all normal mind action in indi-
| vidual life, must partake of the mental
| life of universal Mind. Hence it can
| be logically affirmed that common
sense is but another name for rational,
| spiritual, or mental diSCernment
| Common Sense then is the sense COM
mon to all normal minds
This sense analyses. Classifes. weighs,
and separates Truth from error and
| ldNL llbHl ldDlt. nus IL is apparent
| that common sense is spiritual not
a material facuIty. 1t has nothing to
| do with personal sense testimony. Com
| mon sense as a normal minds harmoni-
| Gus action. 1t is the religious instinct
| in man working and operating in a
| healthy condition. 1t is judge and
| jury, ruler and ruled, discerner and
discernment. Common sense is the eX-
act opposite of mysticism, credulity.
| nd
ton.
SCIENCE Is DIVINE.
The word Christian is defined as one
who manifests the spirit of Christ, or
of His teachings, one whose profession
and life conform to the teaching and
example of Christ.
Science is defined as knowledge veri-
fled by exact observation and correct
thinking.
| The word Christian represents the
Christ type of character and stands in
universal consciousness for the noblest
order of manhood.
Science is exact or demonstrable
knowledge.
Science is that which is self-evident-
ly correct. 1t is that form of mental
philosophy which can be proven correct
through physical or ocular evidence.
The Interpretation and demonstration
slty synonymous with the understanding
of the divine Immanence
All true Science is divine. Divinity
is Deity.
God, the Anglo Saxon term for which
is Good, is Divinity's selfhOOd. Hence
the only science that can reveal the
nature of God and His methods of law
In correct way must be divine, or
mental science.
Common Sense makes men. Men
never make Common Sense. Yet it
can be truthfully said that the aggre-
gate normal sense of well poised spri-
tual minds constitutes the general
common sense of household. n COM
munlty, a nation, or a movement,
The science of Christianity is moth
ing more or less than the demonstrable
and practical understanding of the
laws of divine Mind.
Jesus taught pure MOnOthcism. His
life represents a consistent demon.
stration of spiritual and social sci.
ence, therapeutical or healing science
and above all else shows the triumpI
of Mind over matter, and Of Coco
over evil.
Christian Science and Common
Sense are synonymous. The abbre.
Walton for Christian Science is c. S
1t is not strange then that the tern
| Common Sense has the same abbre,
Walton, namely, C. S.
Christian Science is the science nl
demonstrable understanding of the
divine monotheism Of Moses, III,
prophets, and of Jesus. Monotheisn
in philosophy stands for the science
Of one universal Cause, Ego, or God
In religion it signifies that the nature
or being of God is universal, omnipo
tent, and all-inclusive.
METAPHYSICS PRACTICAL.
Christian Science is practical meta,
physics, For ages speculation anC
, vague idealism have been synonymou.
with the word metaphysics. The tern
has rarely been disassociated with the
names of Plato, Kant, Fichte, Spinoza
Hegel, Berkeley, Hume and Emerson
The mental skyward flights of thes,
teachers have had countless admirers
. nut their ideas have never established
a science of Being, nor evolved a sue