The Republican journal., 1913-11-20
Lecture on Christian Science

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In Which the Difference Between Previous
ly Accepted Ideas and Those in Mrs.
Eddy's Teachings are Revealed.
In Memorial hall last Thursday night a lee
ture on Christian Science was given by Bick-
nell Young, C. S. B. member Of the board of
lectureship of the Mother Church. the First
Church of Christ Scientist. in Boston. There
was good attendance of interested listeners.
The speaker was introduced by Mr. Howard L.,
Whitten, and summary of his remarks fol.
lows:
1t takes a great deal of instruction to con-
vince the average human being that the word
"God does not mean something remote or in
accessible. 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 u.s. and
therefore power with US. We can think of
our bodies, and as matter OF fact we think of
them great deal too much. Nevertheless. SO
long as that is our tendency, 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,
because OF mind, and do everything else we
doing because of mind, and we do abso-
lutely nothing because of matter, for matter
Cannot think nor talk nor walk by itself when
thought is absent
INFLUENCE OF THOUGHT
To furthur 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 inside
of it but the great mass of human belief which
is entirely outside of the body All the func-
tions of the body are carried on because of the
conglomeration 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 human experience shows the utter i'm
possibility of confning the mind or ntelli-
gence within the brain or body. Yet SO gener-
al is the belief that mind has its source in
brain cells that when the brain of the human
being is injured the mind is apt to be affected
unless something greater than human belief
or material systems intervenes.
The human body never gets ill because of
any inherent capacity to do So To put it ex-
actly 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 obiec-
tion made to this is often to the effect that
you cannot have thought without a thinker,
and this contention is based upon the supposi-
tion that a person is a thinker by means of a
mind which he contains. Christian Science
shows that Mind is infinite and cannot be con-
tanned. The divine Mind is the primary and
only thinker. When we learn to think with
that Mind which Mrs. Eddy in Science and
Health declares to be the only Mind of man.
then what we call our mind will be so purified
and regenerated as to manifest the omnipot-
ence of good in healing the sick as we'll as in
saving the sinner.
One who really apprehends anything of
Truth knows that it is mental and that being
without beginning or end or any kind of meas
urement it must be progressive in our expe-
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formulated, and so far from being mechanical
is it, that the perception of today is but the
stepping stone to the greater understanding
of tomorrow. The thought which constitute S
the healing process of Christian Science is not
less scientific because of its progressive nat
ure. on the contrary, it is more scientific on
. that account since it is more spontaneous and
original. The divine Mind, as we apprehend
1t more and more, means to US necessarily
the very acme of originality. There is no
limit to the possibilities of the enlightenment
which the study and practice of Christian
Science brings. For this reason no formulas
are possible in the mental processes of Chris
tian Science healing.
MRS. EDDY'S DISCOVERY.
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thing imposed upon man by God but more
consistent understanding of the word shows
that its meaning is best apprehended when
one understands its naturalness. That Mary
Baker Eddy was inspired when she discovered
and set forth the truth of Christian Science
cannot be doubted, and yet that inspiration
that revelation, required first receptiyity
1t was this readiness, this ceaseless respon.
siveness to divine Mind which characterized
her whole career and made her the lie ader of
the most far-reaching religious and scientific
movement that the world has known 1t was
this same responsiveness which has made
Christianity science resulting in such untold
benefits to mankind that thousands of people
spontaneously reverence and love the Discov-
srer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary
Baker Eddy.
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