The Dickinson press., 1916-05-06
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE

Fluno, C. S. c., of BE 3ton, Mass, il
the Elks' hall in Dickinson. Thi!
article is published by request of tn.
local church of Chri. an Science.
Dr.. Fluno said in rlrt: Christian
Science is the Science of being; i
is the law of Life, I.uth and Low,
understood and demo: :2trated. Chris
tan Science cannot .lil, any NOR,
than the science Of rvmbers can fail
The eternal laws of Life, Truth ant
Love that are found having theil
foundation in the c,e God, can M
more fail than their foundation Prin
ciple, the eternal God. can fail. TIL,
Science of being is as independent a!
the science of mathematics. Like tn.
Spirit of love, it seeks no reward ant
fears no punishment. It breads nj
downfall and asks no assistance. A!
the eternal fact Of being, it can stan(
alone; being true, and it's Principl.
Truth, it asks no support from any
one or anything. 1t is the same
whether thousands rally TO it's stand
ard or seek to trail it's banner in tn.
dust. It is a living reality, and it:
Principle everlasting Life, and there
fore cannot die. 1t will live through
all the ages yet to come, as it ha!
lived through all the ages that have
already come.
Christian Science is the eterna
fact of being and does not teach
eternal Punishment from God, OF
good, but on the contrary it teaches
that all must come to Truth at last
God is omnipotent, and being eyes
terday, and to day, and for ever" the
same. His omnipotcnce forever has
been and forever will remain. Hence
no other power a be, no other
power has ever been, no other power
can ever be able to stay His mighty
hand or thwart Him in His purpose,
Therefore God and Heaven are,
and their opposite is not, and divine
| Science is the angel that comes to-
day, to lay hold on that old serpent
which is the Devil and Satan and will
chain him and cast him into the bot
tomless pit (the great nowhcre). and
all his angles with him.
Christian Scientists being students
of this divine Science and. finding how
scientifically true it is, naturally and
necessarily, in a measure at least,
grow to become one with it, to reflect
it, to represent it and express it, in
thought, in word and in deed.
Christian Science Not Mesmerism
Christian Science is not mesmer-
ism; mesmerism is tn, belief Of minds
many, that each Individual has a
mind of his own, and that the strong
er mind can influence and take I'M
lawful control of the weaker mind,
which, judging frc.n appearances,
would be the naturu. inference, and
if the senses could be trusted, and ap-
p%earances were relit Die, this would
be the only conclusi u that could be
arrived at. But , "Thank God
through Jesus Christ our Lord" that
in the light of Chris ian Science, the
revelator, that morts, sense is found
to be a non-reality. That the Bible
and Science and Heal>n, corroborating
the Scriptures, also the grand and I'M
surpassed demonstr; lions of Jesus
and the apostles, an the corrobora-
tive testimonies of | ealing through
Christian Science, al teach and dem
onstrate that the one Mind has
power over the carn;l mind; that the
sense testimony is false, and the
Christ Mind in true.
Science and Health and the Bible,
when rightly understood, disclose the
fact that God is the only Mind, and
the so-called mortal mind is but the
carnal mind that must be corrected
by the divine Mind. So that Chris
tian Science, so far from being mes
merism, is just the opposite, it really
exposes and destroys mesmerism; for
instead of teaching minds many, it
teaches one Mind, and that the Mind
of God, in whom no evil is, no sick
ness, sin or death, which Mind must
overcome and annihilate the mortal
mind or negative mind, as darkness
is swallowed up by light.
Christian Scientists, instead of be-
ing mesmerists r finding their way
out of mesmerism, cut of the belief
of minds many, into the one Mind,
the Mind that is Gcd, where all So
called mortal minds ia swallowed up
and lost in the ono divine Mind,
wherein dwelleth righ ;%eousness.
Christian Science is the scientific
knowledge of the law of Life reduced
to a system and found practical, not
only in the physical healing of sick
ness and sin and all evil, but in the
destruction of them from off the face
of the earth, that HIS kingdom may
come, and His will be done in earth,
as it is in heaven. And Christian
Scientists are those who to the ex-
tent that they understand this great
Truth, and practicing it upon them
selves and others, who ask Of them
the same Gods blessing. Hundreds
are being healed every day, of sick
ness as well as Of sin, and of sin as
we'll as of sickness, and these in their
turn are learning the great law Of
being, and how to apply it in their
own case, and upon those who in
their turn shall come to them.
No Reality in Sin
Christian Science teaches there is
no reality in sin; that God made all
that was made, and all He made was
good; that God did not make sin. In
the Bible we read that God is of
"purer eyes than to behold evil, and
canst not look on iniquity." The
Master said "Therc is none good but