New Britain herald., 1921-03-21
AN SCIENCE ATE LECTURES
B Mass Meeting at Sun- y Rally at LyCeum
the auspices of the Christian

the auspices of the Christian
 church. a public lecture was
 the Lyceum theater yesterday
 on. Fl. A. Johnson presided
 Introducing the speaker. said:
 behalf of tho First Church of
 Scientist. of this city I have
 ieasure of welcoming you this hoon to. our annual lecture. It
 fomary In all Christian Science
 hes to hold at least one lecture lr: tho object of these lectures correct wrong impressions which have been enormously given out DO general public. A board Of reship has been established in Mother church. the First Church Rriw 5cTvaAiist at Boston, for tho
 70 of making these correc-
 and generally enllghtening the 1c as to the teachings of Chris
 Science and we have with us afternoon Paul Starke Seeley, c.
 of Portland. Oregon. who will speak to you on this subject.
 his talk. Mir. Seeley said:
 Ary Baker Eddy. the Discoverer Founder of Christian Science. the child of Puritan parents. She to womanhood among the hills vales Of New Hampshire-the nite state.-possessng . rare per Al charm. culture. and affection ths best things of life. She had r shown an unusual love for the 70 teachings and early in life ac- ttsd implicitly its wonderful prom of health.
 With tho years of womanhood came w0w, separation from dear ones,
 prolonged iiiness- From every & aho turned the moro resoiutely nArch of that certain law of heal N which she believed q correct un- Banding of God would bring. Tn ssaroh the theories of aiiopathy. fewuinr medicine. were explored in !, then homeopathy. a step away p mere drugs toward a more men, orm of healing. and afterwards opathy.
 rs. Eddy recognized after years Investigation and experiment that certain law of healing was not to hound in any of the accepted syv- and she then turned away from material and human to the spirit md divine.
 was in 1886 that Mrs. Eddy over e . serious injury through reliance gpartun1. as wholly apart from srial. law and became convinced he present availability of this law sufrsring humanity. For three thereafter sho studied tho ptures most diligently and from
 derived q fuller understanding his spiritual lsw of life and its liability to every nocd of men.
 cnults Of those and the preceding
 of consccratcd study and re-
 were riven 10 the world in 1875 bgh the Christian Science text
 "Scaonco and Health with Key Nc Scriptures" which has become to tho Bible on which 1t is found Tho most widely read book in the stian world.
 Darn Barton, founder of the Amer
 Red Cross, wrote of Mrs Eddy
 profound admiration. Love" snys. "pormeates all tho teachings his great womn- 60 great, be- c, that at this perspective we can freely realize how grcat-and look into her life history wo can see hing but self -sacrefice and self pess. Mrs Eddy should have the beet. admiration and love of the pie nation. for she is its greatest han"
 Cause and Erecf
 ! great statesman has recently said
 the work of uniting the nations ho bonds of brotherhood is an rt to enthrone the conscience of world. What is this conscience of world that VIC arc desirous Of en- >ning as our lawgiver? Is it not collective or common conscious b of right. of justice. law. and lover Is this universal conscience, the nmon consciousness of right and "a. discorned as yet but dimly, yet tcrned and obeyed in an ever measure. which in its full 'oldment is God with us." the hd of absolute good. It is the house the Lord and in the thought of prophet all the nations of the |th arc mentally flowing into 1t. Job barned this incorporea1 and un- Iited sense of God and spoke of "a as being in one Mind. Christ gus spoke of this parent intelligence Father and Spirit. John regarding } kindness. mercy and protection of . Father Mind spoke of Him as vo. "God is Love: and he that 'eIleth in (thinks in ideas of) love 'oiieth in God. and God in him" John 4:1e).
 Man the Expression of Mind. But wo only know mind as we know } ideas which express it and the rhest of theso is man. The world