Los Angeles herald., 1905-04-03
DR.. TYNDAlL ON WHO
ARE GODS MINISTERS?'
Well Known Psychologist Speaks Be-
fore Immense Audience in
Blanchard Hall

Every seat in Blanchard hall was
taken yesterday afternoon long before
the hour appointed for the psychologi-
cal lecture on who Are Gods Minis
ters?" 1t was rather a cosmopolitan
audience as far as the various lines of
religious and philosophical thought are
concerned, many clergymen being
present. DIR. McIvor-Tyndall said in
part:
ut is only when the psychic in man
is awakened that he may receive re-
ligious and spiritual truth. And un-
less the psychic man be awake no
amount of theological training can
make such a man a real conscious min
lister of God. / hold that when it comes
to a question of the power or the right
to interpret and to teach the things of
the spirit all men stand upon abso-
lutely equal ground. The man who
cannot write his name legibly may be,
and perhaps more generally is, bet
ter spiritual teacher than is the one
whose years have been spent within
the walls of a theological college.
What then, you may ask, fits man
for the work of ministry? Life. Moth
ing more, nothing less. Life.
He who has come in contact with
all classes and conditions; he who has
learned the needs and the feelings
and the thoughts of all mankind; he
who realizes his kinship with all liv-
ing things, beast and bird. as well as
man; he who perceives beyond the OBJ
jective into the subjective side of life
and sees the cause of existing condi-
tions he who sees God in the face of
the criminal, no less than in the face of
the angel, he is fit to be a teacher of
truth, a minister of God, even though
he cannot write his own name.
"And 1t does not matter whether such
a one be a digger of bitches, a judge
on the bench or a clergyman in the
pulpit. He is what he is. His place Oil
the chessboard of earth is merely
matter of circumstance and cannot
alter the fact of his own being. am
that which am Remember this, you
who may be filling places that the world
enormously calls 'menial.' And should
you be washing dishes in someone's
kitchen today and tomorrow be tram
sported by some magic to a throne
still you can only be that which you
are Applying this great truth to
specific cases, man may prefix rever-
ened or affix d. d. to his name, ad
libitum, but 1t will not add one jot to
that which he is. All true teaching
(preaching) has for its aim the attain
ment of the souls absolute freedom
freedom from the tyranny of material
conditions, from fear and superstition
from dogma and creed. The true min
lister of God will never tell you that
| salvation or redemption is TO he
found in blindly following any religious
system He will not seek to restrict
you in any sense, because he knows
that your salvation depends upon
/ freedom from all restrictions. The mo-
ment that any one tells you not to 50
here or there, and that only by follow
ing his method of worship can you he
saved that moment you may know
that he is unfit to teach you anything
of spiritual truth, no matter how many
theological degrees he may possess
DR.. McIvor-Tyndall will speak next
Sunday afternoon at Blanchard hall
on "Our Brothers Keeper" At the Nc
Ivor-Tyndall Institute of Psychic
Science, 1901 South Grand avenue. this
afternoon and evening and on Wednes-
day and Friday afternoons and even
ings Dr. McIvor.Tyndall will address
classes in life culture.