The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-10
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURER
TALKS TO GOLDFIELD AUDIENCE

Church, the First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass,
lectured last night at Elks' hall
before q good sized and attentive
audience.
Mr.. Bell, In his lecture, said
Christian Science has been called
the science Of right thinking, be-
cause the practice of Christian Sci
ence is the activity by which
wrong thoughts give place to
right thoughts. that the fruits of
right thinking may appear instead
of the fruits of wrong thinking.
Control Of Thought
"All there is to living is think
Ing" said the lecturer, and n gave
illustrations OF how conditions OF
living are primarily conditions of
thinking. This, he said, would not
be pleasant to contemplate were it
true that thinking is more or less
beyond control. christian Sci
ence," he added, Shows the will
ling student not only how to dis
tinguish right thought from wrong
thought, but how to hold to the
one and reject the other. and thus
to have dominion over the shap-
ing of his career"
The essentially mental nature of
evil was explained, attention being
called to the fact that successful
resistance of evil requires a
knowledge of what evil is and how
il can be met and mastered at its
source The speaker referred to
the increasing recognition Of the
fact that ''the evil called disease
is the outward expression or ef-
feet of a mental state" He said
the growing practice Of Christian
Science, Gin which all manner of
disease is healed by treatment ap-
piled solely to mental conditions, is
helping mankind to see that dis
case in all its aspects is the work.
ing out Of wrong thinking" This,
he added, was not necessarily con-
scious and deliberate wrong think
ing. Illustrations were given of
the extent to which the common
daily experiences OF living express
years and years Of thinking" on
the part of others, to which we un-
consciously respond when we
ride on trains, walk the streets,
live in, houses, etc. Therefore,
1.-THE mental u of disease are
not necessarily confined to influ-
ences of which the victim Of dis
ease may be aware" Christian
Science, he said, proves disease to
be mental by healing it by a
metal method.
The Authentic Textbook
The book, Science and Health,
with Key to the Scriptures" by
Mary Baker Eddy, was described
as the textbook of Christian Sci
ence, in which are set forth "the
rule and method of the science of
right thinking, what it is and how
it may be learned and applied"
Persons who study this book in
the hope of learning how to prac-
tice hypnotism or mesmerism, to
conquer pain with mental sug-
gestion or will power, to heal dis
ease by calling it names, to over
come evil by ignoring it, or to do
anything else absurd or unnatural,
declared the speaker, were bound
to be disappointed. He said the
title of the book showed that its
purpose was to prove not only
that health is a matter of science
or knowledge. that Is to say men
tai, but that 'the knowledge that
is synonymous with health is re-
ligious knowledge, to be found in
the Bible, and that "the mentality
that truly heals is not the human
mind. but the infinite intelligence,
God" The book, he said. sets
forth not a theory to be argued.
but a method to be tried and judy
ed by results, the keynote of
Christian Science being demonstra-
tion.
The method of Christian Science
treatment was illustrated in a de-
scription of how it Is applied in
the case of the disease called in
temperance. False ~appetites, the
speaker said. were traceable to
wrong mental concepts which
yielded readily to the right mental
activity of scientific religion"
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