The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-07
TRUTH OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Miss Mary G. Ewing, C. s. B., Speaks
Before Big Crowd Here.

An enthusiastic crowd heard a
learned lecture on Christian Science:
A Study in Causation," by (diss) Mary
G. Ewing. c. S. B., member of the
Board of Lectureship of the Mother
Church. the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, Mass, at the
Grand theater Friday evening.
She said in part:
"The fundamental truth Of Christian
good. Mind; Spirit is the only active,
operative intelligence. or creative energy.
ably that the universe. including man. the
product of this intelligence, is spiritual
compelled to admit It's correlative.-the IN
reality. the impotence, the falsity and en-
tire mortality Of evil and matter. The ere
alive power of Mind. of good.-the Father
hood and Motherhood of Gods the
primal fact of existence; the relationship
between the creator and His creation, be-
and indissoluble.
Our false theories about life and its
origin have led us to accept material beliefs
about all things, and we have named our
mistaken sense Of substances. matter and
accepted as real and inevitable its phenom-
ena. Having accepted false promise. il is
impossible to make any correct or reliable
deduction, and so 1t is absolutely necessary
to get back to the truth about life itself, in
order to have any basis for right reason
1.-THE great mission of Christian Science
IS TO teach us to think accurately, independ-
entity, spontaneously, and TO reason honest
ly from the standpoint Of understanding
or true causation. This ability to think
clearly and correctly, which is ours as a
God given capacity, enables us to under
stand the law of divine Principle and so
to detect and uncover the falsity Of the
phenomena which are contrary TO divine
Principle; it also arms us with power to
dispose of such phenomena in proportion
TO our understanding OF their ephemeral
and unreal character. Now disease is one
OF these phenomena which lays great
claims upon our daily experience and holds
the human race in bondage, and 1 know
never be gained nor will it ever be main
tanned by any system that fails TO eradi-
cate disease 1t is unquestlonably true
that the very foundation of all discordant
human conditions lies in a mistaken sense
of the source of life itself. Jesus meant this
when he said, at is the spirit that quick
eneth; the flesh profiteth nothinc% and
today, in the accurate and systematic
teaching Of our Christian Science textbook.
laid down and the necessary guidance for
Its proper application of man, real democ-
raey,-these are ideas of Mind which are to
pc understood and demonstrated, and for
this reason Christian Science undoubtedly
affords the only consistent and permanent
solution of the problems of labor and cap
ltal, OF temperance and social reform, of
the equal rights and responsibilities of men
and women, of civil religious, and racial
liberty. The liberator is Love and Love
alone. but not a weak and erring, sensual
affection that selfishly condones or ignores
the claim of evil. That alone is worthy the
naI2e OF love that Is identified with Prin-
ciple.-that is keen and searching and un-
failing in its detection of wrong, and un-
swerving in its demand upon the individual
to separate himself from evil and walk
uprightly. The sacrifice of false sense, of
hayward will and lust for personal power
and glory Is demanded repeatedly by Love;
but in reward for obedience to this demand.
Love bestows the browning reward Of SON
ship In the kingdom of God. This is the
proof of the healing efficacy of Christian
Science, and it is applicable TO everv detail
of human experience in the life of the in
divldual and of the nation