Evening journal., 1921-04-09
RIGHT THINKING
ISRIGHT PRAYER
SO Asserts John c. Lathrop
in Lecture on Christian
Science
DEATH NOTHING
TO FEAR, HE SAYS

John c. Lathrop. C. S. B., member
of the Board OF Lectureship. OF the
Mother Church. The First Church OF
Christ. Scientist. in Boston. lectured
in First Church OF Christ, Scientist.
here last night. on the subject,
''Christian Science: Its Practical bN-
cellence." Mr.. Lathrop was intro-
duced by Sanford w. Sswin.
Thomas A. Edison says, To start
thought going. is the highest mission
OF mankind MT. Lathrop said in
opening. start thought going, hber-
ate mans true individuality, and the
rules OF right thinking will soon be
revealed to him. These rules, and
the divine Principle OF these rules
have been discovered in Christian
Science. and are available for all
mankind to understand and TO utilize.
'sThe act OF using this divine prin-
ciple and these rules discioses the
true meaning OF prayer. In TACT
thinking by divine principle and rule
and thinking blindly according 70
material belief. constitutes the exact
QlueTtnCt DtlHttn AAbhA HAc-N '--N.
wrong prayer, the difference between
the prayer that avails, and the prayer
that gropes in the dark and fails. be-
tween the prayer that heals the sick
as well as the sinner. and the prayer
that limits Gods power, and doubts
His willingness 20 destroy all kinds
OF error. Most people believe that
prayer to God is good thinking. Why
not extend the good thinking, IN
stead Of limiting 1t or stopping II al
together? Extending It is exactly
what Christian Science does. Ex-
tend it to the point OF deciding that
your thoughts shall no longer be gov
erned by the false belief that life.
substance and intelligence are in
matter, with its sickness, sin and
death. Extend it to decide that your
thoughts shall be governed by the
one Mind that was in Christ Jesus.
by life. truth and love, the divine
principle OF mans being. and when
your thoughts are thus governed, you
find that then you are really praying.
for right thoughts governed thus will
reflect the truth that heals the sick.
spiritual understanding is more
than human knowledge. Human
knowledge comprises the things
within the limits OF the fve material
senses Christian Science reveals
mans true sense 20 be a conscious
ness OF infinite spirit and its infinite
ideas consciousness Of the unre-
ality OF evil and the material senses
This consciousness is spiritual under
standing which casts out error and
heals the sick. Thus Christian Sci
ence has opened the way 10 eternal
harmony and happiness by supplying
mankind with spiritual understand
ing. and therein lies its supreme and
practical excellence as the comforter
leading into all truth
when Jesus said 70 his disciples
I have yet many things 10 say unto
you but ye cannot bear them now.
(John xvi: 10. undoubtedly h'
meant that they lacked spiritual un.
derstanding. The many things He
referred 20 were many things aboui
God. and many things about evil and
sin. II has taken centuries OF human
trial and experience TO lift faith
above a personal and blind trust II
God TO understand Him as life. truth
and love. as the one and only mind
as the divine principle OF being. a.
omnipotent and omnipresent II
fact, in no other way can God b.
known as omnipresent and omnipo
tent Il has taken centuries 70 un
derstand God as the ono infnit,
spirit, and 20 realize the sequence o
this fact, that man must be spiritua
and not material.
"A Christian Scientist f. learnini
how TO work how 20 loose himsel
from sin. how 20 awaken from mes
nerism. how 10 Danish fear 20 cor
over disease and 20 destroy death
lr short. he is learning how 10 live
and IS getting ready to live and Is no
getting ready 10 die. Death to hir
IS an enemy. as Paul called il. a falls
belief 20 be died 10 daily. that is. Z
b. destroyed daily. Therefore. deaf
IS nothing 10 be afraid or It
merely the wages OF sin. whose stin
is abolished IN human consciousness
by the Christ. truth. until there shal
be no more death. neither sorr1w
nor crying. neither shall there b
any more pain; for the former thing
are passed away" (Rev. xxi: 49,