The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-01-31
MANY SCIENTISTS
HEAR BOSTON man
SlrKNELL Young LECTURES on
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN THE
ACADEMY OF Music.
TO HONOR MRS. EDDY
GAYS MARY BAKER EDDY WAS IN
sPIRED VIXEN SHE pisCov-
Erred AND SET FORTH
TO HONOR MRS. EDDY


Academy Of Music 20 hear Bickneil
Young &. s. B. member Of the board
af Iertnrship Of First Church of
Christ. scientists, Of Boston,
Mr.. Young is an interesting talker
and held his hearers enthalled
ihroughou the lecture. Those pres
nD' who were not Christian scientists
were greatly enlightened on the SUB
iect.
In he course Of his lecture MT
Young paid glowing tributes 70 Mary
Baker Eddy. founder Of Christian
science. Following Is a synopsis or
the speech
II takes great deal Of instruction
~ convince the average human be
trE that the word God" does not
mean something remote or inacces-
sshie Now we can think certain ideas
~-AEeh reveal fSed We have seen that
here. These ideas reveal power. he
cause God ard power are one They
Are God With rs. ard therefore power
with us On the other hand We can
th3nk az our bodies, and as matter
~ fset We think Of them great deal
too much Never te}ess, SO long az
that is oax tendency. II ought not 70
~ daffScslt fer IS 20 recognize That
she true thought of ~hat God ~ may
sffac. our bodies, since some KIND OF
thought Is doing something 10 our
cause 81 mind: ard talk and think,
and WINK our eyes because Of mind,
and do everything ELSE we are doing
because ~ mind. and We do ahso-
lmtely nothing because NJ matter. for
matter cannot think nor talk nor Walk
BY Itself when thought is absent
Influence Of Thought.
y tn recognize the nature and action
ri thought is educational. tn arouse
or awaken "A human being 10 the ne
-eeelty for correct thinking and the
power to attain II as hahit. III the
object OF all true religious and phllo-
sonhical endeavor Fer this reason 1t
,s universally recognized that In order
To produce good moral results II is
necessary that moral teaching should
he carried on. and in accordance with
this necessity people are taught 10
guard themselves against EVIL
thoughts wheth audible or silent. is
there not the same necessity to guard
against the thoughts of disease? What
must then he the conclusion as TO
the present effort made through the
press and elsewhere to instil the be-
lief of disease into children. and
others. by means of processes that
are called educational7
II IL were not obviens that such
: efforts are hasicaily wrong the re-
suits OF the last ten years prove them
to be So The advocates ~ such sys-
TENS themselves admit that the dis
ease. which such so-called education
was aimed to mitigate or destroy
have increased enormously in that de
cade- and any one who has observed
carefully the influence Of thought in
human history should have no diff
Guilty In perceiveing that such results
would necessarily follow such a wrong
system: for II one Is to learn about
disease and the constantly shifting
theories which characterize medical
science in order to guard himself
against disease, II one is to be forced
to tufid UP in his own thought images
sof disease and germs and microbes
and hacilli through the use of charts
and experiments in the laboratory ahc
other means in order to be healthy
why would Ii not be as necessary t.
familiarize the young. and others, witt
all the vices and sins that character
ize depravity, in order that they ma.
thereby gain an virtue and morality
II IL be true, as experience ha!
proved beyond any doubt. that mora
education and high ideals tend 10 i'm,
prove character. why is IL not equal.
true than the incubation of true ideai
As to the origin, cause and law Of he
inR tends to produce disease?
Notwithstanding the somewhat com
mon notion chat Christian scieniisti
oppose sanitation and hygiene thu
levers in, and advocates of both
Scrupulous cleanliness in everything Il
rule among those who practice
Christian science. They require no
only personal cleanliness but clean air
clean food, clean streets. clean water
-lean clothing clean houses, and tha
everything be clean which they may
BE associated or surrounded. Ant
when all this is done. Christian scien
lists are still unsatisfi cd. for Chrlstia 4
science shows that little has been &C
compIished in the nature Of true ny
giene. and very little that is worthy
of the name OF sanitation, until the
human mind itself Is cleaned out anc
kept clean.
Jesus stated this fact more strongly
than any one else could, and Chris
tiAn science practice has proved con
elusively that to the extent that tbs
human mind is emptied Of fear NAL
ice, envy, hatred, revenge. evil think
Ing, evil speaking, and all the belefi
OF vice and sin and disease. lust II
that extent is a true sanitary system
being established. And furthermore
Christian science has proved in in
Vulnerable insta noes that when sucf
system OF hygiene, purely mental
is established. all Of the worlds by,
gienic requirements are more thar
fulfilled. and just in that proportion
also is the law Of health enthusiastically
and permanently established, both in
dividually and collectively.
The human body never gets III be
CAUSE Of any Inherent capacity TIA -af
SO. To put II exactly as II 49, the hui
man body does not know enough Il
suffer. Deprived OF mind II never
suffers. In science and health anC
her other works, Mrs. Eddy has mos
clearly set forth the fact that it ii
he human or mortal sense of thing
mi
allied. is the sufferer, and she hal
snar'ef thousands Of people through
1er books to prove that immortal mint
1eals. The objection made To this IL
sften 10 the EFFECT that you canno
rave thought without thinker ant
his connection is based upon the sup
position that person is a thinker by
means Of a mind which he contains
Christian science shows that mind i.