The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-05-09
DR.. N0RTON'S LECTURE,
He Addressed Large Audience on
Christian Science in the Ly-
ceum Last Night.

Carol Norton. C. S. D.. the noted
Christian Science doctor of New York
city. lectured last night before a large
audience at the Lyceum on the subject
of "Applied Christianity" He was in
troduced by David N. McKee, first
reader of the Church of Christ, Scien-
tist of Adams avenue. Mr.. Norton 8
address was an eloquent presentation
of the doctrine of Christian Science.
He was choice in the use of language
and apt in his illustrations. He said,
in part:
Christian Science teaches the Godhood Of man,
that the Father, Creator, The divine Us of
| Genesis, the infinite rather-Mother, God is ST.
preine, and man. as reflection. is secondary,
| shining with borrowed light. The reversal of the
highest in life always expresses the lowest depths
of depravity, iniquity and 'thoueht error"
Therefore, the pervcrsion Of the simple demo-
cratic. lovingly kind tenets OF Christs teachings
leads to forms of fanactism. asceticism, crcedal
sodty and wor1n.of- the.d,ist notions. which are
bur symptoms of human mind derium.
Christianity, according to Christ. healed moral
disease and depravity by application of the cura-
tive principle OF Good. The teachings. methods
and life OF Christ healed bodily disease, func-
tional and organic, by the same method The
universal life of all that is real is God There
God. and ii law OF Nature cures God is the
Healer. Herein abides the simple naturalness of
the mis.callcd miracles recorded in the New Tes-
lament. Herein again exists glad message 10
the humanity OF this era. second only in import
ance to the in.healing message of Christianity.
All life being energetic mental, it is resident
in Mind. Therefore sick, disordered body
should he brought under the healing operation OF
the law OF divine Creation. Mind, in the same
hat
ally be taken to its maker, jeweler, rather than
to blacksmith Drug made of poisons
and all allied physical or materialistic methods
aiming at the cure of functional and organic dis
case and the establishment and maintenance OF
physical health among men. find neither sanction
nor foundation in Christianity according to
Christ. The earnest and women are often
from the moral and humanitarian standpoint en-
thisasts for the betterment of humanity, but the
misery caused by the continuation and spread OF
| new forms OF physical disease demands restora-
tion OF the undivided garment OF Christ. j. O., the
physical healing as well as the moral reScnera-
tion.
True spirituality includes bodily health for a
normal mind will make body of like nature.
Physical pain benumbs clear thinking. The
spread of organic and functional diseases tends to
increase depression. fear sorrow and mortality
among the sons Of men. With holiness comes
wholencss, with Wilderness, health; with health,
| erect moral and spiritual stature Herein alone
is apparent man in state OF natural existence,
with practical dominion over his body rs well ms
his morals. He who, bound by despair and
manacled with chains of misery, has drunk at the
refreshing and invigoraing fountain of Christian
Science, healing after all else has failed to cure,
alone kpows the heights and depths of this sol.
emE and sacred truth.
Much that is denonnated mind cure or mental
science is modernized form OF Stocism. i'll COM
mon parlancc, the philosophy OF smiling and
bearing. Without doubt, many minor pains and
ills can be for time subjugated and controlled
by mere will power or strengthened mortal
thought For the destruction OF sin and the
healing of diseases that have their origin in sin,
or for the thorough cure of the listed incurablc
organic and functional diseases, the human mind
is utterly powerless. At Just this point these
systems fail to apprelend reach the fundamen-
,al premise of Christian Science, which heals
where they canont and do not.
How could n woman scribe listening to the
still small voice of the Most High, let her pen
record any hut womanly Interpretation Of the
Motherheart of God. From the uplands of prac-
tical, as well as inuitional spiritual understand
ing. Mary Baker Eddy wrote "Science and
Health, with Key 10 the Scriptures" The good
that her life. teachings and books are accom-
plishing amply proves the scientific anu Christian
character OF Christian Science Her life work is
spiritually heroic, and humanity Is her debtor.
The work and moral fiber Of her honest, pure
minded and lovingly kind followers and fellow
toilers in Life's vineyard prove the power OF
Christian Science to make new Pnritans in
Christendom, men and women alive to all that
is beautiful and pure, loving and OF good report.
In the wings on the stage listening to
the lecture We're Il number OF persons
on invalid chairs and one on cot.