Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-21

case Oh bhnu 1OHis lou KNOW tHhL
Blind Tom could listen to q piece OF
music for the first time and go imme-
diately to piano and reproduce 1t. He
is what they call abnormal, but In fact
he comes the. nearest to being normal
OF any OF US. The rest of US are alb
normal because we cannot do 1t. have
no time to elaborate this, but will add
by way OF supporting the statement as
follows: The people in this audience, I
will presume to describe as possessed
of trained conditions of mind. You
easily ascend to a high standard of
definition, so ask you. does 1t not fol-
low that IL any man can do this thing,
then thu act is one of the normal pos
sibillties concerning man?
Again. consider the lightning calcu-
lator." He may be boy only seven
years old. Ask him what will be the
interest at seven and one-half percent
on $7382.97 for twenty-three years and
twenty three days and he will give you
the answer instantly. He is called
phenomenal, and yet we all ought to be
able to do it. And why not? The
answer exists just as we'll as the ques-
ton. We do not need to manufacture
an answer. for 1t is always present as
a correlative. Why, then, do we not at
once seize upon the answer? 1t is be-
cause we people, who call ourselves a
fallen race, are mentally below a nor
NAL standard and have mentally re-
stricted ourselves. The thing that must
be accomplished for US Is this: Science
must and will enable us to appropriate
and manifest the unlimited capacity of
the normal man to know the truth.
This capacity will be manifested when
we are ruled by the Mind that Is God
instead of by the "carnal mind" which
is no mind at all; which Is always
wrong and always stands for limita-
ton.
|, You have had other lectures here. and
the subject of Christian Science has
been discussed before you In a general
way. It Is not my purpose to attempt
an elaborate exposition of the theology
Of Christian Science now, but rather to
confine myself to few statements that
have immediate application to your
needs and your future careers.
Pardon me If l may seem to be too
familiar and to enter too largely upon
what you regard as your own affairs,
but as you are soon to go forth into the
field Of life, I feel certain that I can
say something which will be of ever
lasting advantage to you If you are
disposed to consider and appropriate it.
1t is concerning the application and en-
forcement of natural law.
spurious Laws Dssected
Il
humanity is under the illegitimate law
of sickness and death: indeed, 1t seems
to be generally believed that man Is
naturally involved in disaster and that
he should be submissive to it.
venture. therefore. to speak to you of
some of the spurious laws or influences
that are fraudulently imposed upon the
race, and that will press with more or
less severity of impact upon you unless
them. Failing to do this, you are quite
likely to wonder, some day, why you
do not succeed; to wonder why you
fail here and there, or are unacount-
ably kindred.
If such be the case with you, 1t will
probably be because you have not
learned that you have a right to q
legitimate dominion over your affairs,
and have not learned to exercise such
dominion. The Bible says that Christ
has abolished the law of sin and death.
You are soon to go forth to a career
and at the very doorway of that ca
reer Is a so-called law that is declared
by materialism to be strong and far
reaching; 1t is the law of hereditary
transmission-a law of hereditary in
fluence and faint. Millions of people
are greatly hindered thereby and are
gratuitously suffering on beds of pain
because or this DeIieI.s
Christian Science declares that what
Is called hereditary influence and con-
tamination does not exist, because of
matter or of actual law. The mystery
of heredity has been solved; 1t has been
determined definitely that such influ-
ences are brought to bear and impress
sions are made by a process of pre-
natal mesmerism, but, let me say for
your encouragement, that there is
nothing natural or necessary about 1t.
There Is not q man here who Is ire
trievably under any such law. We
know absolutely that many people have
been healed instantaneously of So
called hereditary disease by delivering
them from that blight of prenatal
impress or liability; there is not one
of you in this room but may break that
law and release yourself.
Take, for instance, the case of ope
who is infirm of body or purpose, or
one of whom people say, his tempera-
mental characteristics are peculiar, or
that he is not forceful and energetic.
or that he has no talent, and this is
because he has been distorted by rea-
son of ancestral influences. Such a
one is liable to go through life under
that law and It's constraint, not know
ing enough to rid himself of 1t and to
establish his absolute freedom. Now,
I have not the slightest idea what you
think or will say about this, but let
me insist that Christian Science prom
ises you in the name of pure science.
according to a pure law. coming from
the supreme power OF the universe,
that 1t will deliver you from this OPP
pressive influence, and moreover 1t
promises that you can learn to do IL
for yourself Your efficiency and
prosperity need not be expressed nor
curtailed by any of the human beliefs
concerning hereditary impairment.
Opportunity and Poverty
Unless you learn to abolish the rule
you are liable to go out into the world
of future activity under the spurious
law relating to opportunity. This law
is another fraud; it declares that every
man has his opportunity and that II he
misses 1t he will probably be failure.
This is another phase of limitation but
| the rule has not proceeded from God,
| from science, from truth, or intelli-
gence. The actual science of being Is
| that you are rot under a law of limited
opportunity. You are subject to the
law of boundless and perpetual oppor-
| tunity and you can enforce that law In
your behalf righteously. just as widely
| as need be.
| Another spurious law | lat dwarfs
humanity is the law of lack and of
poverty. Christian Science teaches
concerning this, that the only legiti-
mate law is the law Of supply and that
| the normal man exists at the stand
point of supply. I would not have you
think that Christian Science encour-
ages greed and the mad rush for
money; nevertheless it Is to he said that
| restitution and poverty are abnormal-
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