Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-10-24
GAVE LECTURE
ON CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE WORK
Paul Stark seely Spoke
Last Night on the
Teachings.
Right Concept of God and
Man Cornerstone of
the Faith.
u8y Mrs. Helen Weeks Ross)

The eve of Liberty Day is a most
fitting time for a lecture on Christian
Science, because this science of Chris
tianity is bringing a message of liber-
ty to us-freedom from the bondage
of sin and disease.
In the Gospel of st. John. Jesus
said: Il am come that they might
more abundantly.' and he promised
the "Comforter''-"even the spirit Of
Truth'-'which shall bring all things
to Jour remembrance whatsoever l
have said unto you" In Revelation.
also, we read: Behold. l stand at
the door and knock; if n man hear
my voice and open the door. I will
come in to him and sup with him n
he with me-"
door of this age for admission. and
1t has proved by its works that it is
the Truth-giving life more abund-
antly'' to thousands of people. and
demonstrating the practical available
ity of h teachings Of Christ. Let us
open the DOR of our thought to this
Comforter" and receive the blessing
the bread of life"
It gives me great pleasure to well
come you tonight in behalf of this
church and to introduce to o Mr..
Paul Stark Seeley, member of the
board Of lectureship of the First
Church Of Christ Scientist in Boston,
who will speak to us concerning this
new-old religion. Friends, Mr.. Seeley:
Mr.. Seeley's Lecture.
MI. Seeley said:
In her explanations OF Christian
Science Mrs. Eddy has pointed out
similarity between mind and matter.
mind representing intelligence, mat
ter standing for the exact opposite Of
intelligence. non-intelligence. She
boldly rejected the theory that intel
hgence or thought could come from
non-intelligent matter. and accepted
the one reasonable premise that in
and that all thought and life is the
outcome and expression of mind. She
did not attribute matter or evil to the
one intelligent cause, mind. because
both express ignorance. discord and
limitation, which are contrary to in
telligence.
For every fact we know in our dali
ly life we may suppose its opposite
the lie about it. So in the universal
order Mrs. Eddy discerned that evil
and all that is mortal and material is
but the suppositious or supposed OPP
posite of Gods creation, which is the
good and eternal. Jesus exposed this
nature OF evil Wlen ne SPOKE
of it as "a liar" in which there is
no truth. Thus does Christian Science
unite. not cut. the Gordian knot OF
min n matter, the puzzle of the
ages.
The human mind sometimes stands
aghast when told that matter is only
mental phenomena. If perchance any
of you ma feel shocked at this as
sertion will be interested to know
that physical scientists are now ad.
uniting what Mrs. Eddy asserted long
before. namely, hat matter is indeed
not a substance of itself but mental
phenomena, the externalized concepts
of the human mind. A prominent
physical scientist in one of the hes1
known European universities has
within the past few years said. Mat
ter is a thing of thought which we
have constructed for ourselves An.
other says. The universe as known
to us consists wholly of mind, n
smatter is a doubtful and I'M
certain inference Of the human in
telligence."
Since God cannot evolve anything
unlike Himself, mar must possess thu
same quality and substance as hi!
creator. Jesus said: II and my Fa'
are one we-fa to recogniz,
the relationship between God and mar
here indicated. we fail to grasp tn.
basic truth of being. the vital par
OF Christianity, the very key to tn,
salvation of mankind. This onenes