Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-25
.SCIENCELECTURE
AT THE ORPHEUM
DR.. Walton Hubbard Was
Formerly Practicing Ply
Sician of Boston

DR.. Walton Hubbard, of Boston
lectured before a fair-sized audience
in the Orpheum last evening on
Christian Science. DR.. Hubbard was
formerly practicing physician. He
was introduced by Roy f. Bignall
of this city.
Man is the perfect idea of God
and as an idea of God he has no
volition of his own. He cannot be
sick or choose to do evil, for if he
could chance from being Gods per-
feet idea he would be greater than
God, because he would have spoiled
the Infinite design, frustrated the di-
vine purpose. Now infinite Mind is
infinite Spirit and infinite Life. In
expressing the perfection of infinite
Mind, man expresses infinite Life
and infinite Spirit, and as an ex-
preston of infinite Life man must
be eternal, while as an expression of
lnnnite Spirit man must be spiritual
and not material. Man, then, as
Gods idea, Gods image and likeness,
has all the qualities of God, and not
single quality which is not of God; /;
therefore he is healthful and holy;
spiritual, immortal, perfect.
Such a conclusion as this leaves
no room for a mortal, material, sick,
and sinful man, yet we have the
problem of materiality with its sick
neSses and woes to deal with as a
false belief to be eradicated.
Nothing seems more real to the
human mind than does matter,
though the most eminent physicians
or the present day are quite at one
in saying that it is impossible to
prove that there is such q thing as
matter. They say that matter is a
function of something outside itself,
the expression of energy; and this is
Just another way of saying that mat
ter is an expression of thought. Chris
tian Science agrees with them in say
ing that matter is an expression OF
thought, but points out that matter
is an expression not of right thought
but of wrong thought; that all right
thought, Gods thought, real thought.
must partake of Gods nature, and is
therefore spiritual, not material, and
is expressed in spiritual things, not
things. The whole material
universe, with all its sin, sickness,
and death, is just the sense of the
opposite,-hte sense of the absence
o fthat which God made.
NO wthis material. body cannot
do anything of itself, but is simply
the expression of the conscious or
unconscious thought of the mortal
human mind. Investigation proves
that all sickness is mental, that is, it
is sick thought made manifest on
the body; and when we are we'll it is
we'll thought which is made manifest
on the body. Every function, every
action, every condition of the body,
is the expression of what we are con-
sciously or unconsciously thinking
from one moment to the next.
"As we see that both sin and sick
ness are simply manifestations of
mortal thought. thoughts of imper-
fection, we also see that by putting
the thought of the perfection of God
and all that God has made in place of
this wrong thought we shall rule
out the wrong thought; and with no
wrong thought there can be no
wrong manifestation. The Bible
makes this Identical statement when
it says: Put off concerning the for
mer conversation the old man, which
is corrupt according to the deceitful
lusts; and be renewed in the spirit
of your mind; and put
on the new man, which after God is
created in righteousness and true
holiness
ITO those who are Just beginning
the study of Christian Science the
nothingness of the material man is
the most difficult proposition to ac-
cept. The logic of the argument of
the infinite perfection of Mind, God,
and the spiritual creation, seems
clear to most ofus. but the equally
logical and correlated argument of
the nothingness and unreality of the
material creation causes us more
trouble. This point will become
clearer as our spiritual perception
enlarges, for in the proportion that
the spiritual creation becomes real
to us, the material loses its reality.
Il have often been asked the ques-
ton, If this mortal material body is
not of God-if it isn't so--what am
l going to do about it? What am 1
going to think about ito
well, don't try to get rid of it all
at once. Be content for to-day to
get rid of the very worst things you
| know about it-those things that are
so obviously unlike God, so contrary
to the thought of His perfection, that
you can detect, no matter how small
your understanding, that they are
not His making, and hence have
neve% tren made. AS you deny their
reality and assert what you know to
be Gods perfection, these conditions
will disappear; and though you will
still have a material body to deal
with, it will be better body, made
better and stronger through the ap-
plication of Gods law of health"