The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-11-11

| Bicknell Young C.sS. B. Of Chi.
cago, member Of the board of lee.
tureship of the Mother Church
The First Church Of Christ SdiAn.
fist in Boston delivered Try
interesting lecture at Fisk 3 up.
era House Saturday evening dr
Ricknell, who is+a clear, los5Sa
speaker was listened to BY a
large audience who gave him Thu
closest attention. He said in part
kingdom Of Heaven Natural.
..The world has tried for centuries
to theorize itself into happiness. How
many have succeeded? Look down
and UP the centuries See how many
have attained; practically none. Has
! all the success that ambitious men
! have known given them happi-
ness? Has all the wealth that untirine
industry and other means. have en-
abled people to accumulate given those
people happiness? Have they found
! happiness in any place or in any way
, that was actually permanent? Have
they seen anything like the Kingdom
of Heaven? They have not, because II
as not to be attained in these ways,
and still the Kingdom of Heaven is
just as natural as breath. Everything
that is true is natural; the only God
there is Is natural good, always al
hand. willing to save. more than will
ing. always ready; the only thing that
needs to happen to a human being Is
to get ready himself, to understand, to
be free, open, receptive, to let
thought explain and define the nature
of Deity, and by means of thought to
find that he himself is being redeemed
The first step is to get rid of the gu
perstitious beliefs that disease and
sin are either necessary or natural
They are neither. A correct concep-
ton of God entails the rejection Of all
the theories which tend to perpetuate
evil by ascribing it to Diety.
sometimes it has been considered
a dreadful thing that we should define
the nature OF God and show that some
one can really think upon these great
questions: What IL God. What is
Law? What is Heaven? How can It
be attained? We have been called pre-
sumptious for this. and not unfre
quently unchristian. Now if it be UNI
christian to ascrbe all power to God,
to recognize His dominion and rest in
the assurance of the supremacy of His
law, then we are unchristian. but not
otherwise. We stand today few peo-
pie. comparatively speaking, maintain
ing In human thought and experience
certain divine ideas which are older
than the human race for they are eter-
nal, and yet they are ever new, inter
esting and practical.
These facts are what we have to
consider. Christian Science gives us
the facts and never gives us anything
else, and it shows us that the facts
are all that any human being needs
in order to be delivered from any kind
of trouble. it makes no difference what
it is; and it shows us. Furthermore,
that true Christianity consists In APP
pretending and making practical the
divine facts which characterize both
the thoughts and actions of Christ
Jesus. 1t has generally been supposed
there was something mysterious about
our Redeemer, or that. at any rate, we
were to be redeemed by some mys-
FERROUS personality. Is this true? Je-
sus declared that all that which was
to redeem mankind always had exist
ed and was available to mankind In
any age if they would but understand
it
There has never been anything true
that was not available to mankind or
would not have been If they had been
enough awake, to perceive that it was
-
Influence Of Thought.
! ITO recognize the nature and action
Of thought is educational. To arouse
! or awaken a human being to the neces-
sity for correct thinking and the pow
err to attain 1t as habit is the object
of all true religious and philosophical
endeavor For this reason ID Is uni
versally recognized that in order to
produce good moral results it is nee
| essary 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.
! Notwithstanding the somewhat
| common notion that Christian Scien-
lists oppose sanitation and hygiene. the
! fact Is that they are enthusiastic be-
| levers in the advocates Of both.
| Scrupulous cleanliness in everything
il rule among those who practice
Christian Science. They require not
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 ID done, Chris
tiAn Scientists are still unsatisfied, for
Christfsn Science shows that little has
been accomplished in the nature Of
true hygiene. and very little that II
/ worthy Of the name Of sanitation, UNI
til the human mind itself IL clea1td
j out and kept clean. ~
s"Jesus stated this fact more strong.
II " than any one else could. ana Chris
tisn Science practice has proved c9n-
n clusively that to the extent that The
Il human mind II emptied Of fear. maitSe;
envy, hatred. revenge. svit thinki9t;
4 evil speaking and AL the beliefs t1lal
Vice and sin and dissase. Just 20 to
extent 10 . true sanitary system bef6G
n 6fnh1fnhaA And ftlrthermoFo Chf7fs