Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-06-28
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE
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he has prepared the soil. There IL
irrigating to be done and the obstruc-
tive sage-bushes must be rooted out,
ls 1t not possible, you who may have
read and can find nothing, that your
mental areas are numbered with the
stubborn growths of bias and criti-
cism and dissatisfaction or parched
with the unloyely alkali of purely
material viewpoint?
Ruskin gives the following useful
hints as to the proper way to arrive
at the full meaning of a book. He
says that we should study books;
First, with desire to be taught by
them, and to enter into their
Thoughts. To enter into theirs, OBJ
serve; not to find your own expressed
by them. II the person who wrote
the book is not wiser than you, you
need not read 1t; If he be, he will
think differently from you In many
respects. Very ready we are to say
of a book; How good this is, that's
exactly what | think" But the right
feeling is; How strang that is.
never thought OF that before, and yet
! see 1t is true; or II ! do not now
l hope shall some day" But wheth
er thus submissively or not, at least
10 ooiO lhdt yOu 81 " tut dulHOI
to get at his meaning, not to find
yours. Judge 1t afterwards, II you
think yourself qualified to do so, but
ascertain 1t first.
So let us approach this unique vol
ume with an open heart and sin
cere desire to be taught. And II we
persist In its study. nothing can with
hold from US the Joy OF its message
To analyze or attempt even re-
sumo OF the seventeen chapters of
Science and Health would require a
period OF time far greater than that
allotted for this lecture. 1t is our
purpose therefore to consider briefly
but few phases of Mrs Eddy's dis
covery. especially those relating to
the mission and teachings of Jesus
and the possibility OF repeating his
healing work.
Prayer.
The chapter on Prayer. with which
the textbook opens, is to the human
mind surcharged with the murkiness
OF materially, as cooling breeze,
waiting gently away the OPPRESSION of
midsummer day Through its
pages thought is quietly led from the
| finite material conception of God, to
the apprehension of Him as ever
present Love, an infinite unchanging
good, who needs no reminders from
frail mortality as to the proper con-
duct OF His universe. True prayer is
seen, therefore, not as petition, nor
the effort to change the all-knowing
Mind, but as that hungering after
righteousness, that "habitual strug-
gle to be always good" (Science and
Health, p. ~, which brings human
consciousness into relation with the
divine and lifts thought to the real
ization that a loving Father has
already done all things well.
Atonement and Eucharist.
The second chapter of the text
book Is entitled Atonement and Eu.
charist, and in clear, forceful state
ment deals with the great life-pur-
pose of the Master. 1t has been said
that this chaper may be ranked witt
the choicest OF English prose elias
sizes. 1t breathes a spirit of deepes
reverence, and only he who clings tC
material viewpoint and avoids tn,
authors uplifted spiritual sense vii
quarrel with its statements.
The chapter opens With a trumpet
call to thinkers; to those who may b,
willing, temporarily at least, to pu
behind them preconceived theological
opinions. and to reason. The life anC
mission of Jesus the Christ are in
stantly taken from the realm of tn
mystical, and supernatural, and ar,
shown to be intensely practical ant
divinely natural. Hear these clear
Ineligible utterances: Jesus o
Nazareth taught and demonstrated
mans oneness with the Father, an,
for this we owe him endless homage
His mission was both individual an
collective. He did life's work arigh
not only in justice to himself, Blu
In mercy to mortals,-to show then
how to do theirs, but not to do
for them nor to relieve them of
single responsibility. His missio
was to reveal the Science of celestia
being, to prove what God is an
what He does for man." The di
: yinity OF the Christ was made man
fest in the humanity Of Jesus" (Sci
ence and Health, PIP. is, &c, 25.)
Ignorance OF Jesus Mission.
Without doubt, the great error q
Christian history lies in mankind
ignorance OF Jesus mission. Mr.
Eddys spiritual Interpretation of hi
words and works reveals him as hi
manity's Wayshower. teacher an
friend, rather than humanity's Kint
And when the race truly understand
and demonstrates the facts involve
in this Interpretation, wars will b
unknown. sin, greed, and hate w:
vanish from the land. and the Pre-
phecy Of Isaiah will be fulfilled: "An
the inhabitants shall not say l al
sick"
The failure OF perfunctory relii
ion to measure up to the joyous staI
dard Of Jesus Christianity was neve
more manifest than in the followin
incident.
A Christian Science practitione
was endeayoring to awaken to
larger, happier sense of things I'll
. touchdown thought Of a wretche
man who applied to him for he'll
The patient claimed 70 have been
Christian from childhood, but in h
misery he could discern not oil
cheering ray. "rT
a TRY tu-cling to; some comfortin
verse from Scripture" urged h
practitioner, cor try to sing some VI
lifting hymn as you go about yo'
work"
Il The man left promising to folio
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