Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-02-12
|C. s. LECTURER
|LAUDS FOUNDER
:. w. CHADWICK PRAISES MRS.
EDDY FOR HER WORK As
RELIGIOUS LEADER

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great leader and teacher of religion
in lecture delivered last night at tho
Grand by Clarence w. Chadwick, c
IS. B. Member of the Board of Lecture
ship of the mother church, The FRS
Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston
Mass. His subject, Christian Science
A Religion Of Right Thinking" fol
lows:
"Mrs. Eddy's vision of the Chris
not only healed her of the effects of Z
so-called fatal accident, but enabled
her to reach purified, mental height
where she could spiritually discern
the deep things of God and give then
to the word. She named her discoy
cry Christian Science. She was, to use
her own words, only a scribe echoine
the harmonies Of heaven in divine
metaphysics (The First Church c.
Christ Scientist, and Miscellany, p
115), consequently, she had no excuse
to offer for inditing the pages OF
Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures. The world owes pro
found debt Of gratitude to this noble
woman for what is contained in this
most unique book. There are many
thousands who can testify that the
bible was sealed book before Science
and Health came to them.
MRS. Eddy, as the discoverer and
founder of Christian Science, fought
the good fight and bravely won hel
laurels. Her works which have fol
lowed her have proved her one of the
greatest of religious leaders and teach
ers.
MRS. EDDY's DISCOVERY
TT was in the year 1866 that Mrs
Eddy made the all-important discov
cry that all causation was Mind, and
every effect a mental phenomenon
(Retrospection and Introspection, p
24).
"By mind she means not the carnal
or mortal mind which is enmity
against God,' but the one infinite, su'
preme, governing intelligence Of the
universe, eternal and Interchangeable.
1T seems almost needless to state
in presence of the widely acknoweldg'
ed fact, that the reception by the
world Of this enlarged concept OF
right idea Of Mind has already re-
suited in the healing of numerous
cases of insanity; has restored incor-
rigibles; has resurrected the feeble
minded; has healed inveterate sin and
abnormal, temperamental traits; and
conquered depraved appetites.
GODS THOUGHTS DEFINED
Goods thoughts are not the vision.
airy imaginings Of the erring, human
mind MY thought are not your
thoughts. saith the Lord 1t must be
conceded that Jesus mode of think
ing was on higher plane than that
Of mortals. When we learn to think
as Jesus thought. we shall perceive
the sharp distinction that he made
between the human and the divine
We shall learn that God-like thoughts
are endowed with life and power, and
are increasingly operative for good.
HEALTH AND DISEASE
christian Scientists are naturally
great deal more interested in the
subject of health than in disease.
They have found out that the right
idea of health, when intelligently pre-
sented to humanity, is far more con.
tagious than the thought of disease.
They do not believe in falling sick
and then having to become proficient
in the human knowledge Of disease be.
fore learning how to be we'll. They
have learned that health is the normal
condition OF man in Christian Science !;
and that disease is a mistake of the
human mind. to be corrected by a
right understanding Of health as an
attribute of God. Why believe in the
power and reality of disease when
such belief can never bring surcease
of suffering? Recourse to higher
state of consciousness is mans only
remedy for disease or sin.
Darkness, which is but the alb
sence OF light, is dispelled the mo
ment the light is allowed to enter
Just so with disease: it also is dissi.
pated the moment the right idea OF
health is allowed to dominate human
consciousness. If sickness and sui
fering are of God, Jesus would not
have healed them. Nor could Chris.
tian Science heal them today if they
are part of the divine conscious.
ness. The right idea or conception
Of God reveals them as human mis-.
takes, or errors of mortal thinking !;
and only as the Christ Mind is put on,
can such mistakes be corrected or de-
stroyed. In other words, Christ is the
one and only Savior of mankind; and
Mrs. Eddy defines Christ as the d.
vine manifestation of God, which
comes to the flesh to destroy incar-
nate error (Science and Health, p.
$3.50. Because Christian Scientists
understand the divinity Of the Christ,
they are enabled to heal the sick and
to reform the sinner.
TRUE FREEDOM
eve can not bring out in our lives
anything above our highest concept OF
God. If this concept makes God out
to be the author and sender of dis
ease, it is perfectly consistent for us
to have disease. We should not even
want to get rid of it, if we honestly
thought that God sent it.
Mans birthright is entire freedom
from bondage of every description.
There is, therefore, a law operative
to bring this about; and Christian
Scientists are striving to live in con-
formity to this law, designated in
Scripture as the perfect law of lib
erty.' Simply believing in Love
neither makes us loving or lovable,
nor does it bestow upon us the right