The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-05-13
NOTABLE LECTURE
|ATTHE ELKSCLUB
Mrs. Blanche K. Corby
Speaks on Teachings of
Christian Science.
REVELATION OF TRUTH


discussed in most interesting man
ner at the Elks Club on Sunday after
noon by Mrs. Blanche K. Corby Of Los
Angeles, member Of the board of lee
tureship of the Mother Church, the
First Church of Christ, Scientist, IN
Boston, Mass.
Mrs. Corby was greeted by large
4 company Of members and friends OF
the Christian Science teachings. She
was introduced ny Mrs. Alice Rice
second reader in the local Christian
Science Church. II introducing Mrs
Corby, Mrs. Rice sa d:
Humanity is awakening to the need
as never before, OF more practical
religion. Christian Science, based on
the spiritual Interpretation Of the BIZ
Bile, is giving to the world that rell-
gion. through better knowledge and
4 clearer understanding of God and His
relation to man-an understanding
that does meet and heal every prob
4 lem of the human race
iMrs. Eddy tells us in miscellaneous
writings, He who dated time, the
Christian era, and spanned eternity
was the meekest man on earth. he
| healed and taught by the wayslde, IN
humble houses; to arrant hypocrltes
and to dull disciples he explained the
word of God, which has since ripened
into Interpretation through Science
His words were articulated in the
/ language Of declining race and COM
:1sss tied 60 the providence of God. In
no one thing seemed he less human
or more divine than in his unfaltering
4 faith in the immortality of Truth. Re-
ferring to this, he said, Heaven and
earth shall pass away, but my words
shall not pass away and they have not;
they still live; they are the basis OF
divine liberty. the medium Of Mind
the hope. Of the race.
"a clearer concept Of Gods promises,
provable here and now, will be given
to you by the lecturer who is mem
Der of the board of lectureship of the
Mother Church, the First Church Oh
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
ssI take pleasure in introducing Mrs
Blanche k. Corby, G. S. b., Of Los
Angeles, California"
Mrs. Corby said in part:
Every thinking person is cognizant
of things that exist; because of his
believes that there is first cause OF
creator. Christian Science proclaims
1 that God is cause Of all created things
/ It declares as Omnipresence and Omni-
potence, the all-inclusive infinite One,
/ or, as Mrs. Eddy so comprehensively
states. "The Adorable One" including
all life, law, power, intelligence, and
action. This all-inclusive Omnipotence
or the One Presence is best understood
as Mind. The one omnipotent Mind or
one conscious Being is expressed after
its own kind, then all that expresses it
must be mental because the activity of
mind is thought. Everything is men
tai, whether upon good or evil, a
spiritual or material plane. All that
we are conscious Of today is the re-
suit of thought. If it were possible for
thought to cease on earth today, COM
/ plete inaction, which is death, would
result Every complaint Of the body
is expressed through thought. If man
could not think he could not be con-
scious of bodily pain and discomfort;
it is only as all things are resolved
into thought, into mental conditions,
that the mystery of evil disappears.
| All wrong thought with its discordant
results can be corrected by right think
ing which can be continued only from
the standpoint of changeless Truth.
Healing.
The first step toward freedom from
evil is generally taken through the
desire for physical healing. The heal
ing method Of Christian Science, the
healing method. used by Jesus, is
unique, but there is no mystery, moth
ing supernatural about it.. It is the
simple teaching Of Jesus, the spon-
/ taneous and natural result of better
thinking. The physical healing in
Christian Science is not for the pur-
pose Of making man more comfort
able in materiality, of enabling him to
eat more food without discomfort, or
to indulge more freely in appetites and
passions without evil effects, but the
sole purpose of healing is to reveal
the truth about life. It heals the sick
to establish the fact of the reality of
God or good, and it heals the sinner
to prove the unreality of sin or evil.
Christian Science does not teach that
sickness and evil do not seem real to
the human consciousness; but it does
teach that the human consciousness is
a false consciousness expressing itself
according to its false beliefs in all
the phenomena of evil and sickness,
and that healing through correction
or overcoming is accol- plished through
the understanding of God and His law.
Throughout human history man has
deifed himself, he has created God in
the image and likeness of mortal in
stead of finding that he himself is the
image and likeness Of God. Because
God has been believed to be mighty
man manifesting jealousy, anger, re-
venge, visiting his wrath upon his
people; the belief that might is right
has grown to the utmost. As the re-
suit, human history is a record of the
cruelty Of the human will. It is be-
cause of the dedication of the mortal
or material mind and its beliefs, that
the statement is sometimes ignorantly
made that the healing of Christian
Science is wrought through suggestion
one mind controlling another human
mind. In order to correct this accu-
sation made against Jesus healing
works, he said, IF by Beelzebub cast