Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1914-11-19


We are not giving Christian Science
lectures for the purpose OF asking
people to believe In II; 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 hui
man being can be selfish and ever
put OF mortality For one to attain
Immortality, which il the natural her
itage that God has provided for all,
We shall have to be unselfsh. Jesus
ana not voice q mere religious admo-
milton but d scientific necessity when
he gave the rule, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as myself" He also
said, Deny myself and follow me-"
Christians generally, but not very
jOyfully. recognize the necessity of
self-denial. Christian Science ex-
plains it and makes 1t not only pos
sible but glad. 1t is generally sup
posed to mean loss. whereas 1t means
achievement. 1t means recognition
and manifestation of the dominion
which God gives to man. In self
denial one IS not thinking of himself.
If he were there would be no self
denial He is finding the truth of be-
ing, and in that peace and power and
perfect poise Jesus expressed the
acme OF self-denial in the words. Il
and my Father are one"
Self-abnegation enables one to do
good and 1t is therefore joyful oc-
cupation. 1t establishes liberty,
which is the freedom to do good,
since there Is nothing but slavery in
doing evil. God alone is infinite
Evil is not only finite but destructive
Tho glorious liberty of the children
Of Cod" is TO be found in this indi-
vidual power to do good. This kind
of power, which is the only real kind
Is not limited In its results. 1t over
comes disease as we'll as sins. and ye
God, who IL this power. has seemed
so distant and unnatural to us tina
when one is first told that Christian
Science heals disease through tn
power of Cod, he Is apt to doubt II
and perhaps even discredit the heal
ing until it is proved to him, and the
; when the proof of the healing is OF
. fered. he is apt to believe that II
brought about in some other way.
p God and Power One.
1t takes great deal OF instrucuo
= TO convince the average human bein
( that the word God" does not mea
( something remote or inaccessible
e Now we can think certain idea
e which reveal God We have see
d that here. These ideas reveal powt
e because God and power are on
- They are God with us. and therefor
II mower with US. We can think OF OF
l. bodies. and as a matter OF fact v
n think of them great deal too niue
e. Nevertheless, so long as that is o.
If tendency, II ought not TO be difhcu
II for us to recognize that the IT
Ie thought OF what God is may aife
As our bodies. slice some kind of thong
Is doing something TO our bodies
IL n M
ID and talk and think. and wink o
re owes. because OF mind. and do evel
al thing else we are doing because
Ut mind, and we do absolutely nothi
e. because of matter, for matter cam
is think nor talk nor walk by It's
We when thought Is absent.
is Because the human body seems
tie have sensation 1t is supposed u
Ell there is some kind OF intelligence
&. side of it giving it sensation, cor
OF uuently material systems investit
I'm ing only material phenomena
le- drawing conclusions only from
as observations have located nina
We the body, and religious systems II
ed followed in the same line ana 10
he ed soul and spirit In the body;
on no kind OF investigation has ever
yealed any Intelligence or spirit
me soul in any human body. Really
is words. Soul, Intelligence, Spirit
iod not be pluralized. They refer &c
md fnity. They serve to express u
ent the fuller meaning of the
low God" and when we grasp
to service in this respect we see tina
nth infinite Intelligence is enough !
ugh ,igence for everybody, and tina
eas infinite Soul or Spirit Is enough
hey everybody, and that 1t could not
ier; sibly be in anybody. and that the
h is human being can do is to acc
ling the knowledge which as his IN
the gence begins to reflect the divin
that telligence. and at the same tim
APP fleets the real Soul or Spirit wh
fest God.
with Influence of Thought.
IDEAS To recognize the nature and
con- of thought is educational. To a
y do or awaken a human being to u