The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-21

2 pr. Walton Hubbard, c. s. B.. mem- Der of the board of lectureship of The Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston. lectured in Birmingham yesterday afternoon at the Lyric theatre before a capacity aud 5ence.
 { The lecturer was introduced by Mrs. J. D. Matlock, of Birmingham. The visitor spoke as follows:
 Had some great material legacy baen given to you and you mad learned under what conditions you might appropriate it, am sure that you would feel a great sense of happiness and expectan- cy. Anr you would be willing and der that you might quickly receive that which you believed would prove so great blessing.
 There is a gift which divine Love has given you. It is greater by far than all the treasure in the storehouses of the world. It gives to you what money cannot buy, for not only does it feed hnd clothe you, but it brings you bodily health, and peace and joy such as you shave never known. This wonderful gift is the understanding and power which comes to you when you recog- nize your true relationship to God, and which when applied to human condi- ftons brings health and harmony
 DIVINE LAW AVAILABLE
 The explanation of Gods law and it's availability to all mankind was taught and demonstrated by Jesus the Christ, but for many centuries it has been main fained that the major portion of the reward for Christian living is to come at some future time, as if"one has un- Limited and immediately available funds in the bank but has been made to believe by his friends that the rules of the bank are such that he cannot use the money for many years to come. Christian Science furnishes the rule by which the power that Jesus used in ac- complaining his wondrous works is made immediately available, and be- cause it's beneficent power can make over and bless every phase of our ma teriaI existence 1t is the most impor- tant subject that can come to our con sideration. The wisdom of this world has failed not only to heal from dis cord and sin but to heal from disease. And it will continue to fall in its treat ment of disease until it is recognized that sickness is sick thought expressed on the body, and that sick thought is cast out through spiritual understand ing@ The wonder is that the fact that disease is mental has been hidden from the world for so long, and that human thought can continue to cling to ma terial remedies in spite of their very apparent record of failure. That the patient must have faith in the physi- clan in order to get results is quite generally admitted. Notwithstanding g this admission. the human mind is so sAaterial in its thinking that it ignores rnUTnental aspect of disease and con- &inues Its futile search in the material. In his daily practice the physician comes in contact with symptoms and conditions that cannot be accounted for materially. The nom ent one .as- sumes that these are mental manifeSta- tions and looks for confirmation of this assumption he finds it on every hand.
 During the timeathat I was studying medicine and before actually engaged in the practice, the statement was made to me on several occasions and by different persons that any effect which followed the use of medicine was not material but mental. The idea seemed quite impossible to me at the time, still when things occurred that were of such a nature that they could not be accounted for on any material basis remembered what had been said and finally began to see that some things at least were mental. This in- vestigation went on and finally result cd in the conviction that all disease is mental and that any result which has
 
 q mental manifestation. Where before saw nothing but material conditions I could now see the mental factor ev- anywhere. In my own experience l have seen a person who suffered from a condition for which I prescribed at various times. fail to receive any relief from one /sort of tablet while the ad- mintstraton of a tablet containing g just half the quantity of the same drug but with different color and taste was always followed by most marked results. It has been my experience also that those people who believed that it took strong medicine to cure them were much more apt to be quickly benefited if the medicine through it's disgusting taste impressed them as being very strong.
 On the other hand I remember one person who thought he was unusually susceptible to the supposed action of drugA No matter how minute the quantity of drug which was given him his illness was immediately very greatly increased. yet he insisted that he must have medicine Powders that had no more medicinal action than chalk would produce this aggravation as we'll as medicine. so it was evideat that this too was mental.
 MATERIAL METHODS FAIL
 Anyone who goes back into the his tory of material medicine is impressed by the fact that for practically every diseased condition there has been a continual succession of drugs. one fol- lowing the other: aud it is always claimed for the last one. with the greatest enthusiasm and positiveness that it certainly does heal the disease. and in support of this contention there may be offered the records of many cases that have been cured. Human thought is not much given to retrospec- tion along this line. If it were it would remember that all the drugs that have followed each other in Sths