The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-06-02
BRATTIEBORO VERMONT WEDNESDAY EVENING ?, 1920
GIVES LECTURE ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
DR.. Walton Hubbard, C. S. B., Makes
Interesting Statements Before
Good Sized Audience.

DIR. Walton Hubbard, C. S. B.. a
member of the board of lectureship of
the Mother Church, the First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, deliv-
cred an especially interesting lecture
on Christian Science in the Auditorium
last evening. A good sized audience
was present, and the speaker was pre-
sented by Mrs Fred W. Putnam. DIR.
Hubbard said in part, with reference
to healing:
The explanation of Gods law and
its availability to all mankind was
taught and demonstrated bv Jesus the
Christ, but for many centuries it has
been maintained that the major por-
tion of the reward for Christian living
is to come at some future time. Chris
tian Science furnishes the rule bv
which the power that Jesus used in ac-
complishing his wondrous works is
made Immediately available, and be
cause its benefcent power can make
over and bless every phase of our ma
terial existence it is the most import
ant subject that can come to our con-
sideration. The wisdom of this world
has failed not only to heal from dis
cord and sin but to heal from disease.
And it will continue to fail in its treat
ment of disease until it is recognized
that sickness is sick thought expressed
| on the body, and that sick thought is
| cast out through spiritual understand
ing.
Anyone who goes back into the his
tory of material medicine is impressed
| by the fact that for practically every
| diseased condition there has been a
| continued succession of drugs, one fol-
| lowing the other; and it is always
claimed for the last one, with the
| greatest enthusiasm and positiveness
that it certainly does heal the disease
| and in support of this contention there
may be offered the records of NAM
cases that have been cured. Human
thought is not much given to RETROSPECT
| tion along this line. If it were it
would remember that all the drugs
| that have followed each other in the
| treatment of disease, and have been
suecessively discarded, have had the
| same glowing record when they were
first used. The reason for this is that
it Is not the drug but the belief in il
| which accomplishes the healing.
Now the history of every materia
method including surgery is the sam,
as that of drugs. The results which
come are according to the belief whicl
is entertained about them One ha
only to glance through the medica
journals to see that physicians them
; selves are eondemning MANY OF tn,
operations and methods which tn
| world at large has been taught to be
| lieye would heal them.
, 1t is inevitable that just so long a
the world builds up its belief in dis
case that disease will be manifested
1t may delude itself into thinking i
is making progress by apparent,
checking some one disease, but the to
, tai manifestation is not lessened in tn
: least
The only way to be rid of disease i
: to stop it at its source The belief
from which it proceeded must he re
| placed by spiritual understanding.
The reasoning of Christian Sciene
brings divine Love close TO human ex
1 perience The recognition that God i
Mind and that man is His perfect idet
D is the basis for Christian healing. Whel
we measure our thoughts by this divin
D standard and undertake as far as pos
E s;ble to entertain tnly that though
L which we know to be of God. th
thought which has made us sick or un
happy is eliminated.
Each inharmonious condition vhic
is overcome through spiritual under
: standing increases ones CONSCIOUSNESS
! of JOY and harmony. Every effort tc
!. wards spirituality and away from tha
which is material brings a rich reward