The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-02-10
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
THEORY EXPLAINED

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Principles OF Christian Science
were explained by Virgil Q. Stricken.
c. :. B., Member of the Board Of
/ Lectureship of The First Church of
Christ, Scientist. in Boston, at q
meeting in Polls Theater yesterday
! afternoon.
The lecture was given under aus
! pices OF Second Church of Christ,
Scientist, of Washington. walter W.
/ Hummer, First Reader of Second
Church. introduced the speaker.
| Mr.. Strickler in mis- lecture said:
/ Christian Science aims to destroy
| erroneous religious beliefs by substi-
! tuting a knowledge Of truth in place
! thereof, and to destroy out OF the
! human mind all evil qualities BY
! planting good qualities in their stead
! II wages relentless warfare against
all wrong mental qualities. It seeks
! TO substitute love in place Of nate
unselfshness in place OF selhshness.
| honesty in place OF dishonesty anu
! truth in place Of error 1t lays ire
mendous emphasis upon the necessity
/ for bringing into captivity every
| thought to the obedience of Christ
| III Cor. 1853. a s the Bible commands.
/ II shows that the cause of all disease
/ and sin is mental, and not physical,
/ and that both sickness and sin are
! destroyed by the evanEslization OF
/ the human mentality with truth and
| love. 1t teaches without any reser-
I walton whatever that the truth
! taught and practiced by Jesus, when
understood and applied, is sufficient
/ without drugs or any material means
/ TO heal the sick and Tegenerate the
| sinner, and Christian Scientists
! everywhere are engaged daily in
proving this to be true.
! What Bible Teaches.
Every student of religion should
! begin 70 give heed TO what the Bible
lteaches concerning the Importance
Of looking to the mental rather than
| to the physical for deliverance from
| human discord. We read in Romans
viii:6. Z, To be Carnally minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded IS
/ life and peace. Because the carnal
mind is enmity against God: for II is
not subject to the law OF God, neither
| indeed can be- And in Romans Xii:2
| BE We transformed by the renewing
| of your mind
"SUch 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 upregenerated human mind. 1t is
the human mind in its natural state,
when filled with hatred, selfshness.
deceit, dishonesty, and other evil quail
tiles and with superstition and
false beliefs. These evil and erTone-
Gus mental qualities result in sin,
disease, and death, and in all human
discord.
"The command is TO get rid or
erroneous mental qualities, and to
! have in us the Mind which was also
| in Christ Jesus for in this Mind there
was not a single sinful quality. nor
( any superstition or false religious
/ belief Thus the human mind is
! renewed by the destruction of
/ erroneous and sinful mental quail
/ ties, and the substitution in their
/ place OF qualities that inhere in the
/ Mind Of the Master.
Right Thinking Important.
Thus Christian Science healing is
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right thinking and right living, and
/ in no other way can one demonstrate
3 the Principle that heals.
| Mrs. Eddy is acknowledged to be
I the Discoverer and Founder Of Chris
1 tian Science, and many people ask
what il is that she has discovered. In
J reply 1t can be said that she has dis
f! covered the law OF Spirit which is
spiritual truth.
Mrs. Eddy discovered the law OF
/ Spirit as truly as Sir Isaac Newton
| discovered the law Of gravitation, and
! this fact should be thoroughly under
stood. Just as Newton discovered
that the movements Of material bod
! is arc regulated and governed by
/ this material law, 50 Mrs. Eddy dis
covered the Principle that governs the
/ in The lives Of men. That supreme,
creative, governing, Omnipresent Mind
or Principle is God, the only cause.
/ the only creator, the only Ruler of
man and the universe
When Mrs. Eddy FIRST made the
discovery that matter in every form
has no intelligence, life sensation, or
substan nee, but Is merely the false
mental concept OF the material or
CaTual mind. her statements were not
/ accepted as true by physical scientists.
4 They declared that matter wasr real
substance They asserted that every
object. whether il be a star, d flower,
q rock. or the human body, was com
posed Of atoms brought together and
held together under varying condi-
tious. and that the atom was material
Hence. they said that since the start
| ing point of matter was the material
atom. matter must of necessity be
substance.
EIectrOn Is Source Of All.
1T is most interesting to observe
what has taken place since then-that
within recent years d physical scien-
list discovered that the atom IL not
the starting point Of matter. and that
the atom Is itself composed Of cleo
! irons. The clccrron, he said, was en-
ercv. which is not material sub
stance. Since then the physicists
! have come out frankly and now say
] that any inquiry concerning the ma
ru~r and character of the electTon
should be referred To the mctaphysi-
clan. and that the whole CUbjeCt be
longs to the domain OF metaphysics
and not phy=ics-
/ The Importance Or this cannot be
] o,-erestfTnateC All sin disease. and