Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-09
TO LOSE FEAR AND
CONQUER DISEASE
Christian Scientist Learning How
to Free Himself From Sin,
Says j. c. Lathrop, S. S. B.

to destroy death, said John &. Iathrop,
c. s. H., member of the board of lee
tureship of the church. in "A lecture last
evening at the First Church OF Christ,
Scientist, at Park Place and Van Buren,
street, Mr.. Lathrop Is one Of the most
noted lecturers Of the church, and
large audience took advantage of the
opportunity to hear him. Mr. Lathrop
was introduced by S. w. Sawin. and
spoke as follows.
"All persons desire harmony of mind
and body. All desire TO escape here
and now the seemingly endless trials
and sorrows. the sickness and suffer
ing, the fear. sin and death of mortal
life. All want salvation and desire a
present salvation from the ills and tor
nents of the flesh. Christian Science is
the guide-post pointing the direct way
10 this salvation. Christian Science Is
more than a guide-post; IL Is also the
conveyance. 1t points and provides the
way out of disaster. and proves itself to
be what Jesus foretold must come when
he said, I will pray the Father. and he
shall give YOU another Comforter, that
he may abide with you forever John
xiv: 16).
Evil and error and matter, fear. sick
ness and death are outgrown by waking
up from false sense that we believed
was true, and this false sense Is changed
by discovering the true sense Of God. OF
man and the universe. Isn't IL only by
discovering the truth in mathematics
that you get rid Of the error?
Faith abolishes fear. and entirely
changes your point of view. Christian
Science calls matter error Of material
belief. because matter is the very op-
posite of Spirit. which is All-in- all. and
God never made anything unlike Him
self. Spirit But whence came this error
of belief with all it's sin, sickness ana
death, to which we are capuVes.
Whence came the belief that you
couldn't float? But when you find your
self quietly floating down the stream.
gazing happily up into the peaceful oiue
sky YOU never ask yourself what mas
become of that belief. 1t VIII never
trouble you again, and you know 1t,
for ii has vanished into that imaginary
realm of ignorance and illusion to JOIN
its comrades-all those other false be-
liefs, beliefs in something unlike spirit
God.
"A lie is defined as a deception. Jesus
healed thee sick by knowing they were
deceived by false beliefs, that they were
captives of a darkenod thought or false
sense. and he set the captives free ply
sicalIy by his single thinking. that rs, his
right thinking about God and man
Jes,ls' spiritual right thoughts reflected
the Christ. Truth, which the captive
felt mentally. and thus was freed from
tho influence OF the evil and SICK beiiefs
which were affecting him physically.
Thomas A. Edison says. ITO start
thought going. is the highest mission OF
mankind" Start thought going, hDerate
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 DIS
covered in Christian Science. and are
available for all mankind TO understand
and TO utilize.
The act of using this divine Princi-
nIa and these rules disclosed the true
meaning of prayer. In fact. thinking
nv divine Principle and rule, and think
ing blindIy according to material be-
lief. constitutes the exact difference be-
tween right prayer and wrong prayer,
the difference between the prayer that
avails, and the prayer that gropes IN
the dark and fails. between the prayer
that heals the sick as well as the sinner,
and the prayer that limits Cod power,
and doubts His willingness TO destroy
all kinds of error. Most people believe
that prayer TO God is good thinking.
WI not extend the good thinking, IN
stead of limiting it or stopping II alto
gether? Extending 1t IS exactly what
Christian Science does. Extend 1t 10 the
point of deciding that your thoughts
shall no longer be governed by the false
beliaf that life. substance and intelli-
fFg a4f Z
Sin and death Extend it 10 decide that
your thoughts shall be governed BY the
one Mind that was in Christ Jesus, by
tfe Truth and Love. the divine Prin-
ciple of mans being. and when your
thoughts are thus governed. you find
that then you are really praying, for
right thoughts governed thus will re-
fleet the Truth that heals the sick.
spiritual understanding is more
than human knowledge. Human knowl-
edge comprises the things within the
limits of the five material senses.
Christian Science reveals mans true
sense to be a consciousness of Infinite
Spirit and its infinite ideas.-a con-.
sci BUSINESS Of the unreality of evil and
the material sense. This consciousness
is spiritual understanding which casts
out error and heals the sick. Thus
Christian Science has opened the way
to eternal harmony and happiness by
supplying mankind with spiritual I'M
and therein lies its su-
preme and practical excellence as the
Comforter leading into all Truth.
when Jesus said to his disciples. I
have yet many things to say unto YOU
but ye cannot bear them now (John
xvi: 12), undoubtedly he meant that
they lacked spiritual understanding.
The many things he referred to were
many things about God. and many
things about evil and sin. 1t has taken
centuries of human trial and experience
to lift faith above a personal and blind
trust in God to understand Him as
Life, Truth and Love. aS the one and
only Mind, as the divine Principle of
being, as omnipotent and omnipresent
In fact, in no other way can God be
known as omnipresent and omnipotent
1t has taken centuries TO understand
God as the one infinite Spirit. and to
realize the sequence of this fact. that
man must be spiritual and not material.
Most mortals are limited in all their
ways. They have a limited sense of
health, of strength, of life, of supply
and of love. Their happiness and joy
are limited, and they hold a limited
sense of God, of Christ, of man and of
heaven. Fear accompanies this limited
sense, for limitation and fear are COM
and are tn. logical effects OF a
limited material consciousness. Deny
ing the reality of matter, dropping the
personal sense of God and