Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931, 1919-04-21
LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE SUNDAY NIGHT

UOhru VI ioNtufobHp W w" hsNN"Ne
church. tho First Church OF Christ,
Scientist, In Boston. at the opera
house last night. =, A. DeGenault
introduced the speaker. whose lee
turo was as follows:
Tho greatest English writer, Shake
Hpeare, said, There In nothing either
good or bad, but thinking makes IL
So" For ages this has been rccog-
nized, and ono OF the Hebrew prov
erbs IL 10 the effect that as one
thinks, 80 is he.
All OF us would probably agree that
We desire everything that IN useful
beneficial. and good, and that We 40
not desire anything useless. harmful
or bad; consequently, the question,
How may the one. the desirable oc-
currences. be Increased in our ex'
perience, and the other kind docreas-
cd or eliminated? would not be at
all new or startling 10 anyone, and a
correct answer to II would certainly
be OF interest aud Importance 10 us
all.
Ono Mind or Principle
II thinking. an has been said. Is
the cause OF every result. what kind
of thinking In the cause OF good re-
suits, and what kind OF thinking 10
the cause OF bad resultsf
II we turn 10 the textbook OF our
inspired religions. the Bible, we find
its first teaching TO be that In the
very beginning God made all that
was made, and that all that He made
was not only good. but very good. II
We take this teaching together with
what has been said. II would certain
iy mean that. everything being the
product OF thinking. everything good
must bo tho product OF Gods think
ing. and what Is called God must be
and IN that which alone Ia able TO
think. k.--Mind.- with everything that
Ia good due TO His. Minds. thinking.
Now let us turn TO what IL COM
monty called science. Ono OF the
meanings OF this word Is. "The know
ledge OF principles and causes" Prin-
ciple means that which IL ultimate,
basic, that which Is first or primor-
dial. and therefore the first cause,
In other words, as God is the begin
ming OF all In theology. so Principle
IL the basis OF everything In Science.
II is that which was In the begin
ming, the source or origin OF all.
Now, taking this together with our
first proposition. that nothing is but
thinking makes II so. we again find
that everything being the product OF
thinking. and everything being the
product OF Principle. everything must
he and Is due TO the thinking oi
Principle. and Principle like God
must he and is the primary, the ul-
innate, consciousness. or Mind.
From the two foregoing deductions
II will be seen that pure religion oil
Christianity, and pure "knowledgt
OF principles and causes" or Science
are not contrary or antagonistic &c
each other. but Identical; that by
Christian Science they are reconciled
and that their identity or samenes'
is found in Christian Science ant
only int christian Science, which
teaches jtst what has been stated
about God. Just what has been statet
about Principle. and that God ant
Principle are one; that In the begin
ming God. Principle, made all tina
was made: that all that He mad
was good. that all that is good mus
have, has. purpose: that, havini
purpose, Al must be due TO thinking
which could not be the result OF any
thing but Mind that Mind, there
fore. must be and is God, or Princi
pie, the primordial cause OF all.
In Christian Science, then. W
have one Mind. one Principle
cause OF all that made all, and o
necessity Mind, or intelligence, mad
all good; for to have made augh
otherwise, this great and only caus
would not have been Mind, or intel
ligence.
But here II may be asked, Do pre-
valent theories--theology, the natu
raj sciences-teach this? And
not, are these conclusions warrant
ed? Frankly, 1t must he said tina
as yet, they do not. II should d
noted, however, that Christia
Science has already caused marke
changes in the thought OF mankint
In the teachings OF theology and tn
sciences. In fairness to the MOI
advanced theologians OF our day an
to the most advanced natural sciei
lists, II must be said that the
teachings no longer oppose those
Christian Science as they formerl
did. The more advanced theologiar
no longer teach that God Ia corp,
real, nor do some OF the most a.
vanced natural scientists any long
teach some uncreated hypothetic
"Urstoff," protyle, or atom to be u
ultimate of all. They recognize th'
in the ultimate everything must an
does resolve itself not into a dew
but into states of consciousness; tn
the ultimate of everything must
thought stuff, not matter-stuff,
order to be capable Of translate
into thought; that everything mu
have It's beginning In intelligence
order to be Ineligible. To del
that consciousness, or Mind, was
the beginning would be to deny
source for the intelligence which '
express, the intelligence which ever
thing in nature manifests.
But granted that the unity OF Min
or Principle, and so of cause, Is st
denied, are we to bid revelation, re
son, demonstration. halt until {
schools approve them? Go to t
thousands who have been restored
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