The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-10-06
A LECTURE
LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
By PAUL STARK sEELEY. c.s.
Member Of the Board of Lectureshlp
Of the Mother Church, The First
Church of Christ, Scientist
in Boston Mass.

~HuTSH OF OnrlSt, scientist
in Boston Mass.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer
and Founder OF Christian Science
was the child of Puritan parents. She
grew to womanhood among the hills
and wales of New Hampshire the
Granite State,-possessing a rare per.
sonal charm, culture, and affection
for the best things of life. She had
ever shown an unusual love for the
Bible teachings and early in life no.
cepted implicitly it's wonderful prom
lses OF health. With the years of
womanhood came sorrow. separation
from dear ones, and prolonged i'll
ness. From every trial she turned
the more resolutely in search of that
certain law Of healing which she be-
heved correct understanding of
God would bring. In this search the
theories of allopathy, or regular
medicine, were explored in vain, then
homeopathy, step away from mere
drugs toward a more mental form
OF healing, and afterwards hydro
pathy.
Mrs. Eddy recognized after years
OF investigation and experiment that
this certain law of healing was not
TO be found in any of the accepted
systems, and she then turned away
from the material and human to the
spiritual and divine
1t was in 1866 that Mrs. Eddy over
came a serious injury through re-
lance on spiritual, as wholly apart
from material, law and became CON
Vlnced OF the present availability of
this law for suffering humanity. For
three years thereafter she studned
the Scriptures most diligently and
from them derived fuller under.
standing Of this spiritual law of life |
and it's applicability to every need
OF men. The results of these and
the preceding years of consecrated
study and research were given to
the world in 1875 through the Chris
tian Science textbook, Science and !
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
which has become, next to the Bible
on which it is founded the most wide.
Iy read book in the Christian world.
Clara Barton, founder of the Amer
can Red Cross, wrote of Mrs. Eddy
with profound admiration. Love-"
she says, "permeates all the teach.
ngs of this great woman-so great,
believe, that at this perspective we
'an scarcely realize how great
md looking into her life history we
zee nothing but self-sacrifice and self.
essness. Mrs. Eddy should have
he respect, admiration and love of
he whole nation, for she is its
greatest woman"
Cause ad Effect
A great statesman has recently
aid that the work of uniting the ma.
ions in the bonds of brotherhood is
m effort to enthrone the conscience
[ the world. What is this conscience
f the world that we are so desir-
us of enthroning as our lawglver?
S it not the collective or common
onsciousness CT right, of Justice,
Nv and love? 1t is the universal
the common conscious
ess of right and good discerned as
ct but dimly, yet discerned and
beyed in an ever increasing meas
re, which in its full unfoldment is
God with us" the Mind of absolute
BOD. 1t is the house of the Lord
nd, in the thought Of the prophet,
Il the nations of the earth are men
lily flowing into it. Job discerned
lis incorporeal and unlimited sense
God and spoke of God as being in
ne Mind. Christ Jesus spoke of this
aren't intelligence as Father and
Dirit. John regarding the kindness,
ercy, and protection of the Father
ind spoke of Him as Love. God
Love; and he that dwelleth in
links in ideas of love dwelleth in
ID, and God in him." Il John 4:16.)
Man the Expression Of Mind
But we only know Mind as we