The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-22
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
DELIVERED HERE

Quite a lot of interest was mani
tested last night in the lecture on
Christian Science at the Universalist
church, on East Chase street. The
lecture was delivered by Paul Stark
Seeley, c. S., member of the board
of lectureship of the Mother Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass,
who was introduced by Edward B.
Moss. He spoke in part as follows;
Christian Science.
The discoverer and founder of
Christian Science, Mary Baker
Eddy, in her work entitled "Miscel-
science, "Its genius is right think
ing and right acting" and in an
other of her works, "No and Yes"
she says, "The essence of this
science is right thinking and right
acting.
In seeking an answer to the
question how to think rightly, Christ
ian Science recognizes that there
must necessarily be the basis Of
standard according to which thought
may be measured as right or wrong,
the same as mathematical law
measures with exactness the correct
ness or incorrectness of mathemat-
ical thinking.
divine mind as the one intelligent
cause, and man as minds eternal
idea. whose real selfhood is goodness,
as the basis for right thinking,
Christian Science shows man how to
make this truth practicable in his
daily problems. The method is the
supplanting in consciousness of the
temporal and mortal sense of life and
selfhood with the true eternal facts of
spiritual life and manhood. 1t is a
| mental Transformation which grad
ually exchanges a material for the
| spiritual sense. of being.
as little children, We shall not enter
the KINGDOM of heaven" This
showed that the kingdom of heaven
was not place but state of con-
| seriousness, to find which one must
acquire the childlike qualities of
love, gentleness, humility, unselfish-
ness, purity and goodness. Thus we
see that heaven is not future state
| of regal refuge but present re-
ward for righteous thinking. In
stead of dying his way into heaven,
man must think his way in, and this
| is just as true this day and hour as
when Jesus said it. 1t is these child
| like qualities of thought that one
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| Christian Science, to gain the Mind
of Christ, the consciousness of truth.
"On earth peace, good will toward
men," was the message that herald
ed Jesus ministry. For nearly two
! thousand years these words and the
] PRAYER of the Master: Thy king
| dom come Thy will be done in earth
as it is in heaven, have been on the
lips of Christendom. But what is the
trouble? Something has failed.
Somewhere there has been hitch.
Something has been out of gear.
"This people draw near me with
with their lips do honor me, but have
! removed their heart far from me-
The trouble has not been with mems
words, it has been with mems
! thoughts. Rivers of words will not
bring Gods kingdom to earth in a
thousand centuries; universal right
thinking will establish it in a day.
| And universal right thinking is no
more and no less than every individ-
ual thinking that is, praying
rightly.
Mrs. Eddy discovered the law of
| Christian healing at a time when a
severe accident threatened her life
and her entire trust had to be placed
in other than material remedies; Her
first glimpse of this spiritual law
through which she was then healed
was followed by complete retirement
from society for several years in or
der that she might the more dill
gently devote her time to the study
of the Scriptures and CLEAN from
them a fuller understanding of this
law and its application to human
needs. III 1875 the textbook of
Christian Science, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
was published by her, setting forth
the result of her labors.
Christian Scientists honor and re-
spect Mrs. Eddy. They recognize
her great work for them and for all
mankind, even the reopening and
making plain of the way for indi-