Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1921-04-07
a LECTURE on
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Entitled
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
THE TRUTH THAT HEALS

By
Mrs. Blanche X. COrby, {. 5. B.
Member of the Beard OF LectureshiE
of The Mother Church, The First
Church of Christ, Scientist,
in Boston, Mass.
THE time for thinkers has come
writes Mrs. Eddy in the preface of
her great work, Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures" In the
recorded history of man, there has
never been such intense thinking on
things spiritual and religious as there
is today. Advanced thinkers are
realizing that the world can never
be rebuilt from the old basis OF ma
teriality and continue in state any
thing short Of anarchy; and that a
true constructing league can be foun-
ded only upon the basis of spiritual
regeneration.
Christian Science proclaims that
the one and only cause OF all things
is. God. 1t declares that God is in
finite and is therefore divine Mind;
the infinite can not possibly be other
than Mind, for with all that is less
than mind We associate the limita-
tions of form, size, length, breadth,
color, and the like. Christian Science
declares that the one infinite Mind
or the one infinity OF good is all life.
law, power, intelligence, activity, and
is the principle underlying all. The
highest concept Of God TO be attain
ed is that of Love, expressed in the
compassionate, loving Christ Jesus,
who came to save that which was
lost" Through what is called the su-
preme sacrifice, he overcame death
on the cross, revealing to men their
Godgiyen dominion.
We have barely touched the hem
of Christ's garment today in our I'M
derstanding that God is Love, but
the glimpses already gained have en-
abled Christian Scientists to heal the
sick and to be helpful to humanity
This impelling force of Love will .
continue until, "ail shall know Him
from the least unto the greatest, -
and Gods love be manifested among
men.
While in religion the old concept
of God has been tenaciously held,
there have been progress, discovery,
and invention in connection with all
other things. The business world of
today could not continue its great
activities with the systems of hun
dreds of years ago; indeed, its ideals
and methods are continuously chang
ing. The conduct of business upon a
more systematic, a more scientific
basis, as it were, is constantly sought
and yet, a scientific knowledge of
God is far more important for the
welfare of mankind than scientific
business system. Christian Science
improves every department of life
and aids in the accomplishment OF
every right purpose. To accomplish
good we must expect to accomplish
good, and this joyous expectancy will
be apparent, for we should go about
radiating the gladness of living. We
read in Proverbs (l7:22), "A merry
heart doeth good like a medicine;
but a broken spirit drieth the bones
1t is generally considered that
spirituality is a supernatural, vague,
or indefinite condition of being '
which cannot be made practical. !
Christian Science removes spiritual !
ity from the realm of the supernat- :
ural and impractical and reveals it
as a normal condition. Spirituality is '
right thinking, and can be applied in !.
all of the detail and routine of every
day life. Christian Science has taught
us that we can think rightly about all :
that we have to do. The remedy for
all evil lies in the power of right y.
thought; there is nothing that can be
substituted for it, Our highest con-
cept of everything is the best that We
can express; therefore the more spir-
itual the thinking, the more is eX-
pressed of health. harmony, and bet 4
ter environment.
q &eryone yearns for health, peace
and life in abundance. Throughout
the world not one man can be found :
who will say that he does not want
these things. Christian Science can
bestow them, not in the way or after
the manner of the world, but by TAX o
ing away the sins of the world thru II
the capitalization of thought. Chris I
tian Science does not require the Civ
ing up of anything that is good and k
true. 1t is only the false gods of ma L
terial beliefs that must be gotten rid n
of in order to gain that which is al n
together lovely. Christian Science
teaches that only as we know God a
can we possess and express the