The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-26
introduction by Merritt j. Glass.


| have attended Christian Science
lectures in Tulsa for many years and
after each lecture the consensus Of
opinion has been, That was the best
lscture | ever heard The same ex-
preston is repeated again and again
At every lecture. IL Is therefore very
evident that the peculiar modus
operandi of Christian Science is to
always save the best for the last.
SO, tonight, II you and / are seeking
10 know, then you and | will hear
the best lecture that you and ! have
ever heard.
From the records of all time. man
has been seeking relief from sin. dis
ease. death. sorrow. inharmony, lack
and discords OF every type The par
amount question Is now and always
has been, Which is the Way Out?'
we are all travellers upon the sea
OF life and when in doubt we ask
OF those who have Travelled farthest,
which Is the Way" / have heard
so much and | have seen so much
and from my own experience want
10 testify that / know that Christian
Science is the way out OF all mortal
discord.
Cr!monologlsts tell us that wrong
thinking makes criminals. II wrong
thinking makes sin then right think
ing viii destroy sin. In like manner
good thoughts, cSrrect and destroy
bad thoughts aui so disease, lack
and all discord are destroyed and
man is saved from the effects of
wrong thoughts. Tonight the lee
turer brings TO US good thoughts and
IN so far as We appropriate them we
Will be helped.
1t is now my privilege TO intro
duce to you, representative of the
Christian Science Board OF Lecture
ship of the Mother Church. The First
Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston,
Mass, Mr.. Clarence w. Chadwick,
Of omaha, Neb.
Why do people congregate 10 hear
Christian Science lecutre? Is it not
because they want to know more
about good? Fortunately for hu-
manity there is an influence ever
operative in human consciousness
which sooner or later compels this
reaching out for the good. No one
could possibly live life of absolute
selflshness- There comes time
when he wants something better
than what he has; when the heart
yearns for something more satisfying
than belief in evil. sin, pain. and
sorrow; when he begins to think less
OF self and more of others.
What Of this self which for a time
imagines that it is satisfied with
earthly things, and treats with dis
dain the spiritual? Evidently 1t is a
false state OF consciousness. else the
great Wayshower. Christ Jesus,
would never have assured us that this
false selfhood must be denied or
corrected. If one would become an
active follower of the Master.
The revelation of Christian Science
to this age uncovers the mythical
nature of this false self, which Paul
refers to when he says, Who op-
poseth and exalteth himself above
all that is called God" A complete
statement of Christian Science may
be found in it's textbook, Science
and Health with Key TO Scriptures"
by Mary Baker Eddy. the Dicoverer
and Founder OF Christian Science.
1t is the inspired teaching of this
book that is opening the eyes of
countless thousands to behold the
unreal nature OF th!s so-called self.
False theology has tried TO get this
self into the kingdom of heaven,
while Christian Science shows us that
this false self is nothing more nor
less than the flesh and blood re-
ferred to in Scripture, which we are
assured does not inherit the king
dom OF God" Self is only another
lame for the so-called Carnal mind,
or mind Of the flesh, which Pau
Gays is "enmity against God"
1t is not the purpose OF this lecture
10 dwell at length upon the unreal,
but it is impossible to present Chris
tion Science to the world in a
thoroughly practical manner with
out referring incidentally to that
which Paul designates as the enemy
Of all righteousness" How to con-
quer self does not at first interest
inortals. but a spiritual awakening
finally comes when they find them
selves willing to admit the existence
Of something entirely apart from
self.
Going TO Heaven.
old theology has had much tc
say about going to heaven, but It
has signa!ly failed TO provide hui
manity with any satisfactory eX-
planation of heaven. The designa'
tion of heaven as a tar-distant abode
whore all good people are to con-
rregate after the su-called death oI
the BODY. has Ialled 10 give sat!staC'
iion The thought Of doubt and the
possibility IL not the probability, Of
finding the way TO a place called by
an entirely different name, hal
caused untold suffering. Christian
Science has come TO deliver those
who through fear OF death were al
their lifetime subject TO bondage.
Healing has often resulted from de
troying the patients unhappy belle
I'm the fear of death and in the un
certainty Of heaven.
Christian Science teaches us e
look for the kingdom OF heaven here
and now, and to be assured that W.
shall find II just to the extent tina
We separate the tares from the whea
in our own thinking. The obstaclt
standing between US and the king
dom of heaven is the belief in
false selfhood claiming anothe
creator than God, while calling itsel
Gods child.
There is nothing on earth tina
should interest us more than tn
experience OF finding heaven. What
ever trouble we may experience
however heart-weary or sin-hur
dpned we may be, our one and onl,
remedy is the application of righ
understanding OF the kingdom o
heaven If we are in the depths q
darkness. nothing short OF IN
heavenly vision will dispel sucl
darkness.
The kingdom Of heaven is not
place, it is a mental state, Il d!yin
harmonious state OF consciousness
We are finding heaven, then, dali
l.