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


know that the man who is afraid is at
great disadvantage, as compared with
the man who is not afraid? I do not
| want 1t to appear that I am urging
| the right OF mere human will to dom,
| mate your affairs and procure results
| by means Of the headlong or tumultu-
Gus onslaught of the human mind. alias
mesmerlsm; nevertheless 1t is true, that
as you come to understand Christian
| Science, 1t will teach you to overcome
and to Danish fear; 1t will teach you
that you may do anything which is
right for you to do without dismay or
anxiety.
All Gloom Condemned
It is probable that there will come a
! time when you will be In quest of pro-
| fessional or business occupation; when
you will be in want of a situation. Let
| us assume that you will be entitled to
| 1t and that 1t will be right for you to
| be employed righteously and probably.
Such an assumption as this carries with
1t scientifically the conclusion that IL 1t
| is right for you to have such thing,
that thing must be in existence and
| must be available. Please bear with
me If presume to say to you that
| most of you do not understand how to
proceed advantageously to solve such a
problem, and although 1t seems to be
| applying Christian Science on a some
what low plane, 1t Is to be remembered
| that Science Is to improve every de-
partment of your life, and to facilitate
every form Of normal activity, and IT Is
to be remembered, still further, that It
purports to present the right way and
the adequate way In which to accom-
plish any normal purpose.
There are two conditions of the hui
man mind that are often spoken of: the
optimistic and the pessimistic, ana they
oil nvxTIn n
having a place therein. Christian Sci
ence, however, repudiates this Illicit
dualism, for the reason that 1t indicates
an unsound or liberated mental condi-
ton The ordinary definition OF the
word optimism falls far below q scien-
tiflc definition of the rights of man, put
for the purpose of making myself cas-
lily understood, I will say that each one
of you should be a>pronounced OPIUM
list. One of the most influential human
conditions is the one which Will cali
expectancy. In large measure ex-
pectancy is the open door to welfare,
and when misused, expectancy becomes
the open door to adversely. Keep the
right door open, by expecting to gain
everything that Is right. You are en-
titled to the fullness and ampleness Oh
life, but you will need to learn thal
gloomy foreboding never solves q prop
lem and never releases the influences
| that make TOT your 6Sot pa
and advantage. Learn, my frienos, Oh
the prodigious activity and supreme IN
fiuence of the Mind which is always
right. Learn that for every condition
of wrong thinking which waylays ana
obstructs the human race, there Is the
positive condition of dominion, nope,
and power which is an irresistible onset
thereto. Learn to operate according TO
the law of Divine Mind; learn to let
this Mind be In you, for 1t is the Mind
that means health and life and bound
less opportunity and recompense. NO
Legitimate Limitation rests upon you,
none is competent to express your own
noent Of limitation enter into your life;
remember that Mind will do every gooo
thing for you-it will move mountains
for you.
study Divine Science
Won are going out into the world,
Won will need ability to do and to per-
FORM. You will live side by side with
| peonIe who have been taught TO De
sfraid of every conceivable thing ana
condition. You will need to guard your
selves against the contaglon OF SUCH
fear and of the disordered , osiie saso os
the entire human race, wnlcn seenls
hent on continuing in the mutual pus-
iness of soaring and hindering itself at
avery point You must learn 10 main
tain a poise that Will mean ior you
aloofness and immunity from the DE-
messing predictions and phophesylngs
which humanity bestows upon ltseu;
| Remember that the primary law OF 90
ing is to you and for you, the law OF
health and life and be not AFRAID con-
corning your body. ,.
You came to Harvard university 10
acouaint yourselves with knowledge.
| You are acquiring large store OF use
FIJI information and intellectual Gull
| ture. TO all this I add this suggestion,
| that at the open door OF every man
| life there lies the pearl OF great price
the knowledge which goes beyond al.
other know1edge-the DIVINE sciences OF
infinite Being, knowledge OF WniS1
will nrofit humanity unspeakably and
nontrihnte to its untold success. For
twenty-one years it has meant for me
the difference between hfe and death.
FOR T was thought to be incurably Ill.
Since having been healed through
| Christian Science at that time, / nave
NOT had a serious instance of illness.
hut. notwithstanding this pronounced
| transformation, I may say to you that
| T have been able through the instru-
| mentality of this law to bring to pass
! within the environment of my daily
| life things of greater consequence and
| that were of more Importance to ordt-
| nary minds than 1t was for me to be
| withheld from the grave. / am but
one among a million people who thus
| have been benefited. Each one OF
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