The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-04
PAUL STARK SHELBY
 TALKS ON CHRISTIAN |SC|ENCEAT THELYR|C
Doctrine of Atonement No Longer a Human Doctrine, But Spiritual Fact,
 States Speaker

An audience that filled the Lyric the
 atre to its capacity was present yester- day afternoon when Paul Stark Seeiey Of Portland. Ore, gave lecture on | Christian Science under the auspices i Of the Second Church of Christ of this city. Mir. Seeley is one of the leaders ! in the Scientist church. and is member
 of the board of lectureship of the mother
 church." the first Church of Christ, Sci enlist, Boston, Mass. He is a forceful speaker and kept the close attention of
 the large audience throughout the lec- ture, which follows in part:
 | For every fact we know in our daily life we may suppose its opposite 1 the lie about it. So in the universal 1 order Mrs Eddy discerned that evil and all that is mortal and material is but the supposititious or supposed op- posite of Gods creation which is the 1 good and eternal Jesus exposed thls negative nature of evil when he spoke Of it as "a liar" in which there is no truth.
 I The human mind sometimes stands | aghast when told that matter is only
 mental phenomena. If perchance aty 1 of you may feel shocked at this as- SGT tion you will be interested to know I that physical scientists are now ad- ! hitting what Mrs. Eddy asserted long before namely that matter is indeed
 not substance of itself but mental | 1al oNfc l of the human mind. A prominent phys
 teal scientist in one of the best known | European universities has within the 1 past few years said: Matter is thing | oe thought which we have constructed ! for ourselves"
 l If Mrs. Eddy's premise was correct any every thing was in truth mental, | the next and far more important ques- | tion was, how evil mortal mind. and l It's sinful and diseased conditions was ! to be masterful and destroyed by the one true mind, God. This question she | met without compromise, and through l her writings so clearly elucidated the | laws of the one true mind and the 1 scientific way in which these laws l can be used to subjugate. overcome, and destroy all evil and disease, that l millions of mankind have through their
 
 l comforted and purified.
 FROM CAUSE TO EFFECT 1 Acknowledging the divine mind as 1 the alone cause Christian Science then I reasons logically from cause to ef- l feet and brings out what must be l true about man and the universe which ! spring from and are the expression | of mind.
 | Reasoning then from mind as the 1 primary cause, let us see what man | really is. How is he related to mind? What is his function, his destiny? The l Bible designates man as Gods image | son and heir. It also says that he Is made after Gods likeness, thus mak- ing him out to be the living repre- sentative or expression of God. These | terms of course apply to the real and | eternal man. not to the mortal and transient sense of man. But 1t Is the real man we want to know about and bring to light Since God is mind and minds only mode of expression must I be through its ideas. the very impor- I tant fact is seen that the real man must be and therefore Is the outcome 1 of mind, is minds idea, and is state 1 of consciousness forever expressing God
 Since God cannot evolve anything un-
 like Himself, man must possess the same | anu SuUSldnCe as ms creator.
 Jesus said, T and My Father are one | If we fail to recognize the relationship between God and man here indicated, we | fail to grasp the basic truth of being, l the vital part of Christianity the very l Key to the salvation of mankind. This oneness of man with God in quality but net in quantity is indeed the doctrine of i atonement as Christian Science explains l 1t, or the doctrine of at-one-ment Seen lx7 tl,11 1f<~1&k -f T1~fr cy-.- Ar-- urine of atonement is no longer a human doctrine but spiritual fact, namely mans natural and eternal oneness with God, divine Mind.
 WAY TO CHRISTIAN HEALING In place of an obscure. mysterious, or doubtful concept of God and His crea- 1 tion. Christian Science unfolds, as we have shown, the true idea or scientific concept of God and man. which is the cornerstone of right thinking and living and the way to Christian healing The coming of this true idea of God and man I in your consciousness and mine is the coming of the Christ that is to free us from the bondage of evil and destroy all disease.
 1 Theologians have for many years con l man, Jesus. Christian Science makes plain the distinction between the per sonal Jesus and the Christ, the true idea l of God, which must come to each indi- viduai consciousness and resurrect it ] from false beliefs. To cling to cor poreal savior is to worship a fleshy concept, and Jesus said that the flesh | profit. nothing. Jesus was a human per- l so,l. Christ is the true spiritual idea Of l fife which Jesus understood and exem- nlified better than all others, but which | Is krowable and understandable by each l of us. This true idea must be indi- vidually understood before man can know God. l Through true prayer man learns to know God correct understanding of prayer is therefore essential to an un- derstanding of Christian Science I As Christian Science explains it. prayer | is not imploring far-away Deity. It is the. simple and natural process of think | ing in accord with the ever-present prin- ciple, incorporeal good, God, It Is that ! thinking which shuts out the claims of ! material sense and places all trust con-
 fidence and faith in God. relying solely upon His power and wisdom to protect l end maintain the integrity of His uni verse, including man.
 A Last Resort
 1 From the Washington Star.
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