Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-10-26
Mr.. Finn GIVES
SCIENCE TALK
PUBLIC ADDRESS GIVEN
AT CITY HALL LAST
FRIDAY

a public lecture on Christian Science
last Friday evening at the city hall,
on christian Science: A Positive
Faith" Mr.. Films address was in
part as follows:
"For ages men have been engaged
in a continuous effort to get more out
of life, to obtain larger measure OF
freedom, and to find in the possession
of both that ease, comfort, content
ment, and peace, which make up the
sum of human happiness. But the
prizes sought have been elusive. They
have lost their value even with seem
ing attainment, for the struggle to
capture them, has, in the main, been
carried along on the theory that hap
piness is something material, and
therefore, something to be pursued
by pampering the material senses and
turning loose upon the chase the sen
sual desires.
.Not the objective, not the thing
sought. but the method and purpose
behind the seeking, have been wrong
Prosperity and happiness are condi-
tions to which we all should aspire, if
only we strive for them with right
motives and in the right way To
yearn for those things which make
for greater completeness OF human
existence, has been sanctioned and
legitimatized from the very beginning.
Gods promises to His children have
ALWAYS been represented as in answer
TO the DESIRE or prayer, for higher
understanding of Him-that is, for
a higher understanding and apprecla-
ton of Life in its full and true mean
ing.
"Christian Science teaches that lack,
limitation, poverty, are among the err
rors to be overcome by apprehension
and understanding of the truth that
divine Love is the source, and only
source, of supply. Christian Science
teaches that poverty and unhappiness
are abnormal, due to wrong thinking
and wrong living. Christian Science
teaches that prosperity and happiness
are desirable, and that they are at
tainble, when rightly, that is, when
spiritually, sought.
Peace and Happiness
sit is the desire for the spiritual
peace and harmony which constitute
real prosperity and happiness that
has led advanced thinkers of all times
to be discontinued with conditions as
they have found them. There is some
times a vast difference between con-
tentment and happiness. To be con-
tent with less than justice, would
mean acquiescence in injustice; to be
content with less than right would
mean acceptance of wrong; to be con-
tent with anything less than freedom,
would mean complacent agreement in
some form of slavery. Some of the
greatest revolutions of modern times
have been justified on the ground of
mans inalienable right to life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness-an as
sertion of elemental human privilege
which all the world receives today in
the light of a self-evident truth.
1.-TWO thousand years ago mans
right to life, in all its fullness, was
proclaimed by Christ Jesus in pres
ence of the prosecuting Pharisees, in
that beautiful figure of speech where
in he describes himself as a Shepherd
devoted to the protection and welfare
of his flock. L am come he said,
that they might have life, and that
they might have it more abundantly.'
Again, he told those who were striv-
ing to harass and embarrass him,
how, by knowing the truth, they
might secure real freedom. In almost
his first utterance in the presence of
the rabbits, he read from the prophet
Esaias, the marvellous passage pre-
dieting the coming of the Messiah
duke 4: 49,.
"In the first psalm is laid down
the basis upon which man may at
tain blessedness, which is but another
name for contentment, prosperity,
and happiness. And Mary Baker Ed
dy, the Discoverer and Founder Of
Christian Science, has written in Sci
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures the Christian Science
textbook, as the purpose of her de-
parture from the old theology, an in
spring and an impelling desire to
liberate the body, by emancipating the
thoughts of men.
"Multitudes have come into Chris
tian Science, seeking and finding
health; seeking and finding larger
share in the refnements and COM
forts of life; Seeking and finding do
nestle tranquility; business success;
financial ease; multitudes will con-
tinue to come into Christian Science
in the hope of gaining mental free
dom, the contentment and peace they
have sought elsewhere in vain, and,
If their purpose be honest, they shall
not be disappointed. But the vast ma
jority advance in Christian Science
because they have, in progressing
step by step, made every other consid
Grafton secondary to that of rising in
spiritual understanding and working
out their own salvation. In no other
way than by accepting the many in
vitations of Christ to come unto him,
to bring our burdens and our prob
lens to him, to ask of the Father, in
his name, believing, anything we need
not something we simply want
may divine assistance be obtained
along the way to salvation. To gain
healing or salvation, we must be
ready and willing to abandon self
dissatisfaction, self-righteousness
self-justification. Self is the princi-
pal obstacle to our progress in Chris
tan Science. Self would block the
way. We must get rid of self-but
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