The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1922-10-30
a LECTURE on CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

God and find ourselves without a.
fectivc means TO overthrow them.
hut IL evils claim valIdy Christian
Science answero with Positive
40.
THE NATURE OF EVIL
When talking with group OF his
countrymen In Jerusalem one morn
lng some two thousand years ago,
Christ Jesus drew very definite
line between the doyll and God. He
told them bIunily. "ye are OF your
father the devil" He was desiring
10 awaken them TO their wrong state
of mind which was filled with
thoughts OF pride. self-rIghteousnesa,
selfishncss and 40 on. They had
Teen boasting that God was their
father. but Jesus conlradIcted them
with the statement. III God we're
your father, ye would love me-"
tIohn VIII. i2l. In other words. II
you we're expressing the Mind that
Is God you would see and love the
good which express. The word
Father, 80 often used by Jesus. IL
another name for God. the parent
Mind. His opponents were accept
ing evil as the source OF their think
ing. 40 accepting the devil as their
father. or starting point, for there
Is no deyil. but owl mcntality-the
carnal mind. Then Jesus went ON
TO explain TO them that the devil or
evil does not abide In the truth for
Ito use his own wgds-"he Is a
liar, and the father OF H." tJohn s,
Az. Here Is an uncovcring OF the
nature Of evil. false state OF mind
with no more substance than a lie,
for II Is nothing but lie or liar.
Jesus. however. never said that
they could not be rid OF this wrong
mIndedness. Just the opposite. for
he said. III ye continue In my word
then are ye my disciples indeed
and ye shall know the truth. and the
truth shall make you free" (Johu
8, 3l.32). This word was his cor
rect teaching and thinking, thinking
not merely about God. but accept
Ing Gods thoughts. To continue II
this word would be TO follow In the
! same mental processes that Jesus
used. accepting no Father. but di
I vine Mind and ever entertaining the
thoughts which manifest this Mind
As all men come to think only The
| thoughts which are good we shat
all be witnesses and ambassadors q
/ God, to use the words OF Paul, ant
, evil will be cast into its utter moth
ingness. There Is but one way L
, destroy a lie, be II small or great
r and that is to become conscious o
: the truth. Jesus affirmed this whei
. he designated evil lie and said th'
, way to be free from II Is to under
r stand the truth of being.
= MORTAL SELF NOT THE TRUI
+ We all need to let go of the mis-
, taken sense that man is but a few
Y pounds of flesh, blood, and bone
+ with mental motor inside. He l
e something far more substantial an,
Godlike than that. When we lool
r into a mirror we believe we see on.
o self, but we do not, and how fortu
a nate It Is that the picture we see |
!. not our true self. Said Bishop Eos
4 ter, mo man living hath yet see
l. man." What we see in the lockin
g glass Is but the mortal or wron
4 sense of selfhood, a burlesque Q
I. our eternal self. This perishabl
(? sense of self is gradually abar
n doned, as Jesus showed us, throug
{. the realization Of the actually c
If spiritual life and spiritual manhood
o the expression of God.
!. AS for the disappearing theor
J. that man thinks through matter, tn
opposite of Mind, 1t is of intorcs
to note a recent announcement fror
d Paris. Professor Troude has state
# in the Scientific Review that as
# result of experiments made dJrin
d the war by eminent surgeons, 1t
# believed that the human mind
n seated in some part OF TIE bod
d other than the brain, and pcssibl
a. in the trunk. "They have furnishe
# me-" he wrote, with the full fac
G. citing war time operations, wher
n all parts of the brain were remove
II without impairing the mental facd
q ties" Statements such as thi
d should awaken human thought
d see what Mrs. Eddy discerned NOR
< than a half century ago, namel.
|. that we think, not because of ma
o ter, but in spite of It. Christia
e Science teaches that God, the divin
II Mind, is never in its opposite, neve
4 in brain or matter, but that as W
!, gain an understanding of Mind, ,'o'
ID as the only substance we lose an
n belief in matter as intelligent. Th
6 man God creates is the conscious
= active, individualized expression {
Cod untouched by any secondary {
: intervening Influence.
= GOD is VERY NEAR
;, Where do we find God? Risl
. where Elijah did, in the still sma
! voice dep down in our hearts. Il
n. voice deep down. In our hearts. It
% here that we feel the promptlngs I
j Truth and Love, the guiding han
Iv of God, that would turn Us fro
evil and hate, from sin and 'liscas