The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-02-29

given last evening in the Elk club
room by Clarence w. Chadwick, G. S.
B., member of the board of lecture
ship of the Mother church, the First
Church Of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,
Mass. The lecturer wa introduced by
e. c. Weisman, who said:
Friends: We are gathered here to-
night to learn something Of Christian
Science, a subject no one a ignore
and yet pretend to be informed upon
the great movements of the day. This
healing truth, has in the space of a
few short years, encireled the globe
and has done SO on a basis of estab-
fishing the truth by proving its eff
cacy.
Although I am not a member of the
Christian Science church and my
knowledge Of Christian Science is de-
ctdedly limited, l know that 1t makes
no claim to be based upon anything
other than the pure, complete religion,
taught, lived and demonstrated by
Jesus Christ.
1t is a known fact that Christian
Science has made more Bible students
than any other movement of modern
times. 1t is teaching people all over
the world to study the scriptures
with interest and understanding and
with a purpose Of making practical
application or them in every day life.
The result of this applied truth is
shown daily by the many thousands Of
testimonies Of wonderful healings and
other benefits received.
The purely constructive character
Of Christian Science should recon-
mend 1t to impartial observers and
deep thinkers.
We hora fr1 .1Dno,f,,;t, {l;, oror
ing Of listening to one who Is amply
qualified to discuss this subject, and
1 take pleasure in introducing to you
Clarence w. Chadwick, c. S. B.. of
Omaha, Nebr.. member of the Chris
tian Science board Of lectureship Of
Tie First Church of Christ, Scientist.
in Boston, Mass.
The lecture follows: 5
In the evolution of human thinking
1t is becoming more and more evident
that We live in q thought world. What
ever confronts us must be Of mental
procurement, else there could be no
mental or conscious recognition of it.
What does the eye behold but a men,
tai image pictured on the retina? We
see thoughts because we think them.
Things are thoughts and thoughts are
things. Divest human existence Of all
thought and there would be nothing
left to see, hear, touch, taste or smell.
Without, thought there would be moth
ing to think or to talk about.
Mrs. Eddy's Discovery.
1t was in the year 1866 that Mrs.
Eddy made the all-important discovery
that .'all causation was Mind, and ev-
cry effect a mental phenomenon
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BY Mind she means not the carnal
or mortal mind which els enmity
against Cod" but one infinite supreme
creative governing intelligence of the
universe, eternal and Interchangeable.
Health and Disease.
Christian Scientists are a great deal
nor interested, in the subject of
health than disease. They have found
out that the right idea of health when
i~ntell3gently presented to humanity is
far more contagious than the thought
of disease. They do not believe in
getting sick and hen having to be-
come proficient in a knowledge of dis
ease before learning how to be we'll.
They have learned that health is the
normal condition Of man in Christian
Science, and that disease is a mistake
Of the human mind to be corrected by
a right understanding of health as an
attribute of God.
Jesus did not advise us to acquire a
knowledge Of disease in order to heal
disease. He did not counsel his fol-
lowers to study medical works in or
der to cope i~ntelligently with the ills
Of the flesh. He did not say to study
what the world says about sin in or
der to avoid its experience. What did
he say? This, Seek We first the king
dom. Of God and his Righteousness"
which is equivalent to saying, Seek
We first the spiritual understanding OF
God and his right thoughts or ideas"
Christian Science has come to open
the door Of consciousness to receive
this understanding OF God and to ap-
ply 1t to the correction Of every hui
man mistake.
Chrietian Science HEALING.
The beneficent influence Of Chris
tan Science Is f~arreaching. at