Alma record., 1913-10-23
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Lecture at Realty Opera House Last
Tuesday Evening
pICKNELL YOUNG THE SPEAKER
Who Held the Close Attention Of His Audience
Throughout Address
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God, to save us from those things
until those things shall be no more,
and step by step awakening more in
the image of good, we shall find
eventually that we are not human but
naturally divine; and that is saliva
ton
Nobody has been asked to believe
in Christian Science, and nobody ever
will be asked to believe it, for Christ
ian Science does not advocate a prose
lyting process, but explains divine
Principle. should no more think
OF urging a person to believe in
Christian Science than / should think
of asking him to believe in the mu,~
tiplication table. Neither one nor the
other is in the realm of belief. We
are not giving Christian Science lee
tures for the purpose of asking peo-
pie to believe in it. we are giving
Christian Science lectures because we
want to help mankind, and we want
to help mankind because we want to
help ourselves, and have realized that
the best way to help ourselves is to
help others. No human being can be
selfish and ever put off mortality.
For one TO attain Immortality, which
is the natural heritage that God has
provided for all, we shall have to be
unselfsh. Jesus did not voice mere
religious admonition but scientific
necessity when he gave the rule,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
thyself." He also said, Deny thy
self and follow me-"
1t takes a great deal OF instruction
to convince the average human being
that the word God" does not mean
something remote or inaccessible.
Now we can think certain ideas which
reveal God. We have seen that here.
These ideas reveal power because
God and power are one. They are
God with us, and therefore power
with us. We can think OF our bodies,
and as a matter of fact we think OF
them a great deal too much. Never
theless, so long as that is our tend
ency, it ought not to be difficult for
us to recognize that the true thought
of what God is may affect our bodies,
since some kind of thought is doing
something to our bodies all the time
We walk because of mind; and talk
and think, and wink our eyes, be-
cause of mind, and do everything
else we are doing because of mind,
and we do absolutely nothing be-
cause of matter, for matter cannot
think nor talk nor walk by itself
when thought is absent
To further understand the influence
of thought on the body, we should
remember that it is impossible that
there could be mind in matter, that
what is governing the human body,
ordinarily speaking, is not mind in
side of it but the great mass of hui
man belief which is entirely outside
of the body. All the functions of the
body are carried on because of that
which is not confined in the human
body but reflected in the conglomera-
ton of beliefs called the human mind.
Thousands of us may entertain the
same thought, but if that thought
were to originate in ones brain it
would be confined there, and only
one person could have such a
thought. and the other person would
be obliged to have a different one.
We can see from this that even hui
man experience shows the utter inn
possibility of contining the mind or
intelligence within the brain or body.
Yet so general is the belief that mind
has its source in brain cells that when
the brain of the human being is in
jured the mind is apt to be affected
unless something greater than human
belief or material systems intervenes.
The human body never gets i'll be-
cause of any inherent capacity to do
so. To put it exactly as it is, the
human body does not know enough
TO suffer. Deprived Of mind it never
suffers. In Science and Health and
her other works, Mrs Eddy has most
clearly set forth the fact that it is the
human or mortal sense of things that
suffers. The mortal mind, so-called,
is the sufferer, and she has enabled
thousands of people through her
books to prove that immortal Mind
heals. The objection made to this