Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-26
CHURCH SCIENCE
LEADER SPEAKS
TO BIG THRONG
1900 Attend Shubert Theatre
Lecture by Bicknell Young,
of Boston.

Fifteen hundred persons attended
Christian Science lecture at the Shu-
bert Theatre yesterday afternoon
Several hundred others were unable
to secure admittance.
The lecture was given by Blcknel
Young, of the First Church of Christ
Scientist, of Boston, under the all
spices of the Second Church Of Christ
Scientist, of Newark.
Mr.. Young was introduced by Mark
Hydes, of Liverpool, England, who
has recently come here to reside. MIR
Young's lecture, in part, was as fol-
lows:
at takes a great deal OF instruction
to convince the average human being
that the word Cod 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. On the other hand, we can
think of our bodies, and as matter
of fact we think of them a 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 are doing
because of mind, and we do absolutely
nothing because of matter, for mat
ter cannot think nor talk nor Walk
by itself when thought is absent.
Human Body Never Ill.
1.-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 1t 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 Is often
to the effect that you cannot have
thought without thinker, and this
contention is based upon the SUPPOSE
ton that a person is thinker by
means of a mind which he contains.
Christian Science shows that mind is
infinite, and cannot be contained. 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 om-
impotence of good in healing the sick
as we'll as in saving the sinner.
UOna uyhn raa1iv annrahendq any,
thing of truth knows that it is mental
and that being without beginning or
end or any kind of measurement, 1t
must be progressive in our expert
ence. The application of 1t cannot
even be formulated, and so far from
being mechanical is 1t that the per-
ception of today is but the stepping
stone to the greater understanding of
tomorrow. The thought which con-
stitutes the healing process of Chris
tian Science is not less scientific be-
cause of it's progressive nature; on
the contrary, it is more scientific on
that account since it is more spon-
taneous 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
Gnl1S eminent WHICH lne STUDY anu
practise of Christian Science brings.
For this reason no formulas are pos
sible In the mental processes of Chris
tian Science healing.
Mrs. Eddy Inspired.
1--WE are apt to think of revelation
as something imposed upon man by
God, but a more consistent under
of the word shows that its
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 doubt
ed, and yet that inspiration, that
revelation, required first receptivity.
ut was this readiness, this cease
less responsiveness to divine mind,
which characterized her whole career
and made her the leader of the most
far-reaching religious and scientific
movement that the world has known.
1t was this same responsiveness
which has made Christianity a science
resulting in such untold benefits to
mankind that thousands of people
spontaneously reverence and love the
discoverer and founder of Christian
Science, Mary Baker Eddy"