Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1914-11-26
CHRISTIAN SCI
ENCE LECTURE
Excerpts Frpm Address Of Bicknei
Young, Member of Board cf Le--
tureship of the Mother Church, he
First Church of Christ Scientist.

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The following from the address de-
livered at the Emma Theatre on
Sunday evening the Sth. will be read
with great interest by many. While
the lecture is not given in full we
give to it all the space available
cit takes a great deal of instruction
to convince the average human be-
ing that the word Cod does not
mean something remote o. inaccessi-
BILE. Now we can think certain ideas
which reveal God We have seen
that here. These ideas revesl 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, AID as a
matter of fact We think Of them
great deal too much. Nevertheless,
so long as that is our tendency, it
ought not be difficult for us to rec
ognize that the true thought Of what
God is may affect cur bodies, since
some kind of thought is doing some
thing to our bodies all the time We
walk because of mind; and talk and
think, and wink Cur eyes, because of
mind, and do everything ease We are
doing because of mind. and We do
absolutely nothing teeause of matte /,
for matter cannet think nor talk nor
walk by itself when thought is abgent
INFLUENCE OF THOUGHT.
To recognize the nature and action
of thought is educational. To arouse
or awaken human being to the nee
essity for correct thinking and the
power to attain it as habit, is the
object of all true religious and philo-
sophical endeavor. Fer this reason 1t
is universally recognized that in or-
der TO produce good morel results It
is necessary that mora teaching
should be carried on, and in accord
ance with this necessity pea3le are
taught to guard themselves against
ent. Is there not the same necessity
to guard against the thoughts of dis
ease2 What must then be the conclu
sion IS to the present effort made
through the press and elsewhere to
instil the belief ef disease into chill :
dren, and others, by means of PRO-
cesses that are called educational?
If it were not obvious that such eff
forts are basically wrong The result
Of the last 10 years prove them to be
so. The advocates of such syst ems
themselves admit that the diseases
which such so-ealled educati, n was
aimed to mitigate or destroy, have
increased enormously in that ale
and any one who has observed care
fully the influence of thoIght in hu
man history should have no difficulty
in perceiving that such results would
necessarily follow such a wrong sys-
tenn; fer, if one is to learn about
disease and the constantly shit ing
theories which characterize neiicll
in order to guard himself
against disease, if one is to be for, &c
to build up in his own thotlght
images of disease and germs and mi |
crobes and bacilli through the Use Of |
charts and experiments in the labcra-
tory and other means in order to be |
healthy, why would 1t not be as nee
sssary to famniarize the young, and |
others, with all the vices and sin that |
characterize depravity, in order that
they may thereby gain in virtue and
If it be true, as experience has
proved beyond any doubt, that moral
education and high ideals tegd to inn
prove character, why is it not equally.
true that the inculcation of true
ideas as to the origin, cause and law
of Being tends to improve health,
and that contrary teaching tends to
produce disease?
Notwithstanding the somewhat com
mon notion that Christian Scientists
oppose sanitation and hygiene, the |
fact is that they are enthusiastic be-
lieyers in, and advocates Of both.
cleanliness in everything 4
is rule among those who practice
Christian Science. They require net
only personal cleanliness but clean
air, clean food, clean streets, clean
water, clean clothing, clean houses,
and that everything be clean with
which they may be associated or sur
rounded. And; when all this is done,
Christian Scientists are still unsatis.
lied, for Christian Science shows
hat little has been accomplished in
he nature of true hygiene, and very
title that is worthy Of the name OF ,
Continued On sixth Pa9s.