Norwich bulletin., 1917-10-16
LECTURED ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Frank Bell Addressed Gathering Buckingham Memorial Movement Has 1,7OO Branches in All Parts of the World.

At the Buckingham Memorial Mon day evening a large audience heard Frank Bell, member of the board of 1ecLtureship of the Mother church. The First Church of Christ. Scientist, in Boston, Mass, lecture on Christian Science. After the opening exercises Mf.. Bell was introduced and spoke in MT. Bell in his lecture said Chris tian Science had been called the sci ence of right thinking. because the practice of Christian Science Is the activity by which wrong thoughts give place to. right thoughts, that the fruits of right thinking may appear instead of the fruits of wrong thinking.
 Control of Thought.
 'Au there is to living is thinking" :" said the lecturer, and he gave Illus trations of how conditions of living This he said, would not be pleasant to contemplate were 1t true that think ing is more or less beyond control. Christian Science" he added. shows distinguish right thought from wrong thought, but how to hold to the one and reject the other. and thus to have dominion over the shaping of his career"
 The essentially mental nature of evil was explained, attention being called to the fact that successful resistance of evil requires a knowledge of what evil is and how it can be met and mastered at its source. The speaker referred to the increasing recognition of the fact that 'tthe evil called dis ease is the outward expression or eff feet of a mental state He said the growing practice of Christian Science. ''in which all manner of disease is kealed by treatment applied solely to mental conditions, Is helping mankind to see that disease in all its aspects IS the working out of wrong thinking" |" This, he added, was not necessarily conscious and deliberate wrong think ing. Illustrations were given of the extent to which the common daily ex- periences of living years and years of thinking on the part of others, to which we unconsciously respond when we ride on trains. walk the streets, live in houses, etc. Therefore, "the men, tai causes of disease are not necessari- iy confined to influences of which the victim of disease may be aware" disease to be mental by healing it by Q mental method"
 The Authentic Textbook.
 The book, Science and Health. with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy, was described as the textbook of Christian Science. in which are set forth the rule and method of the 
 and how it may be learned and ap- piled" Persons who studied this book in the hope of learning how to prac- ttce hypnot1sm or mesmerism, to c0n- quer pain with mental suggestion or will power,- to heal disease by calling it names, to overcome evil by ignoring it. or to do anything else absurd or unnatural, declared the. speaker, were
 the title of the book showed that It's purpose was to prove not only that health is a matter of science or know ledge, that is to say mental, but that "the knowledge that is SYNONYMOUS with health is religious knowledge. to be found in the Btb1e,'' and that "the mehtalfty that truly heals is not the human mind, but the infinite fnte1h- gence God" The book. he said, sets forth not theory to be argued. but a method to be tried and judged by results, the keynote of Christian Sct- ence being demonstration.
 The method of Christian Science treatment was illustrated in descrip- ton of how 1t is applied in the case
 of the disease called incompetence. False appetites. the speaker said. were traceable to wrong mental concepts which yielded readily to the right
 Helpful in Business.
 Business men find the solution of their business troubles in Christian SClenCo, the speaker QeCIaI6Q, that IS, provided they are willing to give up trying to gain seemingly worthwhile ends by means of wrong acts. The lecturer quoted "a man of worldwide reputation for business success" as saying: My experience has taught me that the effort to make a man buy something he does not need in the long run defeats its own purpose" This was cited as illustrating the fact that the modern business man "is catching . el nf rf 1 txyfyp law in business" Christian Science helps the business man to see this more clearly, according to the lec- turer, 'fand to avail himself of the op- eration of divine law in business in constantly increasing degree" Chris tan Science tea ches him that a right result never is due to chance; that the presence of such qualities as jus transaction, are certain signs of the presence of the true God, a presence necessarily active and good and hav- ing direct relation to ultimate suc- cess" The Christian Scientist in business was described as "a trained observer of mertal condition" possess ing all the attendant legitimate ad- vantages of being able to think right ly.
 A Substantial Movement.
 The activities of the Christian Sci ence church were described by the speaker. It has seventeen hundred branches in all parts of the world, and new ones being organized at an aver age rate of two per week. There are six thousand registered practitioners of Christian Science, devotfng all their time to the work. The lectures, last year were heard by one million six hundred thousand persons, forty thou sand more than the year before.
 The church gives nberally in public emergencies, and its members do their share in support of worthy charities A steady stream of money and supplies has gone through this church to war sufferers in all lands since the war be- gan. This church makes no demands