The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-04-20
Healing is Accomplished Through
Right Thinking and Right Living
Says Christian Science Lecturer

Virgil o. Stricken. member of the
board Of lectureship of The Mother
Church. The First Church of Christ,
the following lecture at Hagerstown
Friday night
"As 1t becomes more generally un-
derstood that through the ministry
OF Christian Science people are being
healed of sickness, sin, unhappiness,
worry. fear. and other discordant con-
ditions, there is an ever-increasing
desire upon the part of the general
public to learn how these results are
accomplished. 1t is the purpose of
this lecture to explain how Christian
Science does these things. There is
no mystery, nor is 1t difficult to under
stand. It can be stated without any
reservation whatever that every per-
son who is willing to do so may learn
how to heal sickness and to destroy
the desire to sin for himself and
other through Christian Science.
Many Different Religious Beliefs.
1T is said that there are more than
two hundred different kinds OF the
Christian religion alone, not to men,
ton the hundreds of other forms OF
religions that are not Christian. 1t is
q fact that people do entertain widely
different religious beliefs. In many
instances the differences are irrecon-
cilable. and yet every one believes
with all of the sincerity OF which he
is capable that his own particular be-
liefs are true. 1t must be conceded
that, In the main, all people are equal
~ honest and equally sincere in their
religious beliefs. The only reason
why they are grouped together in diff
ferent forms of religions is because
they hone1tly believe that through
their own particular form OF religion
they will find the good which they SO
earnestly desire.
CAS- one considers the subject Of re-
ligion from this broad viewpoint it
becomes entirely plain that most of
the people In the world are believing
as their religion many things that are
not true.
Limited to Spiritual Truths.
Every one will recognize not only
the desirability, but the necessity, OF
exchanging false and erroneous be-
liefs; hence it follows that ones re-
ligion Is limited to the amount of spir-
itual truth he knows, and that erro-
neoIs religious beliefs are only so
many delusions that serve no other
purpose that to obstruct spiritual
growth.
Christian Science aims to destroy
erroneous religious beliefs by substi-
tuting knowledge of truth in place
thereof, and to destroy out of the hui
man mind all evil qualities by plant
ing good qualities in their stead. 1t
wages relentless warfare against all
wrong mental qualities. 1t seeks to
substitute love in place of hate, I'M
selfishness in the place OF selfishness,
honesty in place OF dishonesty, and
truth In place OF error. It-lays ire
mendous emphasis upon the necessity
for bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ"
III Cor. x. 81 as the Bible commands.
1t shows that the cause of all disease
and sin Is mental, and not physical,
and that both sickness and sin are
destroyed by the evangelization of the
human mentality with truth and love.
1t teaches without reservation what
ever that the truth taught and prac-
ticed by Jesus. when understood and
applied, is sufficient without drugs or
any material means to heal the sick
and regenerate the sinner, and Chris
tian Scientists everywhere are en-
gagged daily in demonstrating and
proving this to be true.
Leave No Doubt.
Every student Of religion should
begin to give heed to what the Bible
teaches concerning the importance of
the physical for deliverance from hui
NNo In vii
8, Z. Ito oe carnally minded is DEATH
but to be spiritually minded is life and
peace. Because the carnal mind is en-
to the law of God, neither, indeed,
can be-" Again in Philippians ii, 5, it
is said. Let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ Jesus" and
In Romans xii, 2, BE We transformed
by the renewing Of your mind"
These significant statements from
the Scriptures leave no room for doubt
as to the cause Of sin, disease, and
death, or their cure. The carnal mind
is nothing more nor less than the un-
regenerated human mind 1t Is the
human mind in its natural state, when
filled with hatred, selfshness, deceit,
dishonesty, and other evil qualities,
and with superstition and false beliefs,
These evil and erroneous mental quail
tiles result in sin, disease, and death,
and in all human discord.
Not One Sinful Quality
1.-THE command is to get rid of erron-
eous mental qualities, and to have in
us 1.-The mind which was also In Christ
Jesus" for in this Mind there was not
\ single sinful quality. nor any super
stition or false religious belief. Thus