The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-02-12
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|OFFICE OF THEIS DELIVERED BY
british CONSUL B,CKNELL YOUNG'
LARGE AUDIENCE LISTENS TO
TALK ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
BY MEMBER OF BOARD OF LEG.
TUREsHIP or MOTHER CHURCH.

An interesting lecture on Chris
| tian Science was delivered by
Bicknell Young. member of the board
| of lectureship of the Mother Church,
the First Church of Christ, Scientist.
last night. The speaker was intro
duced by A. C. Binkley, and the Uni
versalist church, on East Chase street.
was filled with an audience which fol-
| lowed the speaker closely throughout
| the course of his remarks. Mr.. Young
spoke in part as follows:
1T takes~a great deal of instruction
i to convince the average human being
that the word God does not mean
something remote or inaccessible Now
we can think certain ideas which re-
veal 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 a matter of fact we
think of them a great deal too much
Nevertheless, so long as that is our
tendency, 1t 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 matter cannot think nor
talk nor walk by itself when thought
is absent.
Influence of Thought.
'"To recognize the nature and action
of thought is educational To arouse
or awaken a human being to the ne
cessity for correct thinking and the
power to attain it as a habit. is the
object of all true religious and philo-
sophical endeavor. For this reason 1t
is universally recognized that in order
to produce good moral results it is
necessary that moral teaching should
be carried on, and in accordance with
this necessity people are taught to
guard themselves against evil thoughts
whether audible or silent. Is there
not the same necessity to guard
against the thoughts of disease? What
must then be the conclusion as to
the present effort made through the
press and elsewhere to instn the belief
of disease into children, and others, by
means of processes that are called
educational?
IF it were not obvious that such
efforts are basically wrong the results
of the last ten years prove them toS
be SO. The advocates of such systems
themselves admit that the diseases,
which such so-called education was
aimed to mitigate or destroy, have in
creased enormously in that decade, and
any one who has observed carefully
the influence of thought in human his
tory should have no difficulty in per-
ceiving that such results would neces-
sarily follow such a wrong system:
for, if one is to learn about disease
and the constantly shifting theories
which characterize medical science In
order to guard himself against dis
ease, if enc is to be forced to build up
in his own thought images Of disease
and germs and microbes and bacilli
through the use of charts and expert
ments in the laboratory and other
means in order to be healthy, why
would it not be as necessary to famiI-
iarize the young, and others, with all
the vices and sins that characterize
depravity, in order that they may
thereby gain in virtue aid morality?
Body Never Gets I'll.
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 suf-
fers. 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 a thinker, and
this contention is based upon the sup
position that person is thinker b,
means of 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 regen-
Grated as to manifest the omnipotence
OI EOOQ III u6dt4L6 Tile SICK Is well
as in saving the sinner.
Mrs. Eddy's Discovery.
I'VE are apt to think of revelation
as something imposed upon man by
God, but a more consistent under
standing of the word shows that its
meaning is best apprehended when one
understands it's 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 reve- !
lation, required first receptivity
1T was this readiness, this ceaseless !
responsiveness to divine Mind which !!
characterized her whole career and /
made her the leader Of the most far
reaching religious and scientific move |
ment that the world has known. 1t
was this same responsiveness which |
has made Christianity science re- |
sulting in such untold benefits to man |
kind that thousands of people spon-
yoxTarauce and love the his |