The Washington herald., 1920-03-08
SIN DEPLORED
BYLECTURER
Four Christian Science
Churches Join in Serv-
ice at Polls.
MRS. EDDY IS LAUDED
John c. Lathrop Declares
Fear Causes Half of Dis
cord and Disease.

Brookline. Mass. lectured on Chris
tian Science yesterday afternoon al
Polls Theater under the direction
Of the four Christian Science
churches Of Washington.
The speaker was introduced by
Arthur L. Hitchcock. first reader OF
the First Church. The lecture will
be repeated at the First Church. Co
lumbia road and Euclid street
northwest.
Mr.. Lathrop said In part:
Christian Science is natural, in
asmuch as Il has come to a suffer-
ing world in the ripeness of time,
In perfect order, and Ii has appeared
as Inevitably as the dawning OF a
new day.
Christianity Held Z. Check.
Religious history shows that
after the loss of the spiritual power
to heal the sick. during the fourth
century and during the following
centuries, so complete was the sur
render of the early Christians %
material laws and means that IL re-
quired many periods Of reform, be-
ginning in the sixteenth century. to
awaken and prepare human thought
for the coming Of the Spirit Of truth,
which was to guide into all truth.
I'm the year 1856, Mary Baker
Eddy, a New England woman OF
Puritan forbears, through a purified
state Of mental readiness, discovered
the divine Principle of being; and
4 har
ally developed the spiritual rules.
which assumed a method or system
CT healing and reform which she was
divinely led to name Christian Sci
ence.
The New Testament is very ex.
p1icit in denouncing the flesh as be-
ing contrary to Spirit.
Proves BlessInE 70 Sick.
Spiritual truth and love, the real
healer of mortals, is not only good
for sick people but Is equally good
for we'll ones, a universal, everlast-
ing benefit to mankind in sickness
and in health.
when will IL be seen that matter
is not a cause, but an effect, the
2nect of the material mind, and one
goes badly astray as long as he
1 deals with the effect-so long as he
drugs or treats IL. fears or honors
It? Hence, the mystification and un.
certainty in circles, which should
ere this be awake to the subtleties
of the material mind as the cause OF
matter. evil, disease and death.
| 1T should be obvious that health
vitality and nature are not to be
found in matter. Then what are
they and where are they to be
found? The correct solution Of this
vital question should unite the ply.
sician and the Christian Scientist
They can come together on this
question and the minister can unite
with them.
Prayer fs Right ThinkinE.
Though vitality. health, and life
are beyond the comprehension of the
physician and the minister, as they
themselves readily ack nowledge
may not these forces now be un.
derstood and explained?
The Christian Science prayer
avails, just in SO far as one under
stands and applies the divine prin-
ciple and rules of Christian Science
This means that prayer Is right
thinking; and in order to pray
Alright one must learn to think
Alright, and in order to do this must
learn Of divine principle; one must
cease believing that blind supplica.
! tion to God to grant personal de.
sires avails anything.
only the materially minded, en-.
shaved by the lie that life and in
telngence are in matter, find spirit
God, abstract or hard to under
stand. Unmask mortal belief, ex.
pose and reverse it's evil claims, lay
bare its willfulness, mesmcrism, anC
nothingness. and the light and sim.
plicity of spiritual Truth, without
seam or rent, begin to dawn upor
the thought, and the real man, q,
the image and likeness of God, 1.
revealed.
| Christian Science is this simple
law of life and intelligence in Spirit
not in matter.
Heaven Ii Mental State.
| Heaven is found to be a state
Of ever present harmony and peace
Ia mental state, the door to which
Is opened by the child qualities Of
humility, honesty, purity and love
The opposite Of this condition, called
hell Is dealt with very simply anG
practically by the teachings OF
Christian Science.
| IF heaven is not a place, but :
j state of purified consciousness, ther
hell Is the very opposite state OF
mind, and most persons are able ir
measure to testify to this.
christian Science shows how eaci
Individual can, and must, for him.
SELF overcome these subtle evil be
i nefs. 1t shows that these belief.
let loose are aggressive and are ex
pressed through what is called will
power or mental suggestion, which
Is only another name for hypnotisn
or mesmerism. And 1t shows that
disease cannot be healed by will.
ful thoughts or suggestion, sine,
one error cannot destroy another
error.
Fear Cause OF Disease.
Fear Is the shadowing torment
Of human existence that Is respon.
sible for more than half Of hu.
man discord and disease. Christian
Science shows that fear comes from
ignorance or sin. It teaches on,
how to rise out OF ignorance ant
out OF sin. and thus prevent and
heal all kinds of fear.
Naturally a Christian Scientist
does not limit life and man; then
practicing this rule daily, he does
not limit his continuous power and
vitality. He does not expect ts
grow old. to become infirm, stoop.
shouldered, dim OF vision or hard OF
hearing. He knows his strength
and true faculties are in diyin,
Mind and cannot become weakened
| He realizes he must not become
l Indifferent or careless about hii
habits or his appearance. He doe,
| not-in fact, he knows he canno,