Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-09

conference on the rehabilitation OF di
Bureau at Washington.
point Of attack and ridicule uDon this
Science Since some of the most adj
vanced natural scientists have com
mcu.cd to express similar views, how
ever, the attacks upon This ground are
made now only by those who are Rs yet
unacQuainted with the more recent sci
lentihc conclusions upon this subject T.
and occasionally by the clergy, who. as
students Of, and believers in the Scrip
lures, should rejoice TO see the tehch-
ings of the Bible vindiCated. For in
the Scriptures II is plainly stated thnt
in the beginning GOd'-the COD whom
Jesus defined Gs Spirit or Soul created
the heaven and earth" And II this
means anything II certainly means that
Spirit must have created them out OF
itself and that anything thus created
cannot be material But tho narrative
leaves no doubt as to this fundamental
and important fact; for In the very next
verse the second verse of the same
chapter. Il IS stated And the earth '-
meaning the apparent or matter earth
was without form that t. without
entity, and void without existence.
Thus, too, throughout the whole chap
ter Of the first and true narrative OF
creation, creation summed up as COM
plete, 1t IS plainly stated that by the
Word Of God-the utterance or ex-
preston Of Spirit-were all things
created that are IN the heaveLs and in
the earth; ana this must certainly mean
that only the spiritual is the real. Bat
In teaching the unreality Of matter,
Christian Science does not teach that
earth. air sea. and the things inst are
therein. flowers trees, tirds and so on,
do not exist. that You and ! do Lot tx
ist. Like the Bible. Christian Science
teaches THAT the worlds were framed
by the World Of God. so that things
which are seen were not made Of things
which do appear" And simply because
glass darkly.' students and believers
of the Scriptures shouId not continue
to deny the truth Of Mrs Eddys teach
iuEs and 20 assert as true whRt is con-
tragy to both revelation and reason.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
ANSWERED.
But what has this to do with saving
us from the Ills which constantly con
front ana assail us. with preventing them
and curing them? How can Il be ap-
piled TO improve our condition, mental.
moral, physicalt How can Il make as
more efficient and successful IN meet
ing our human needs? For whether we
believe ourselves to be spiritual or ma
terial, II is these needs that constantly
confront us; IL is from the every day
Ills that we all want to be saved.
It is just these questions that the
prophets and Jesus came 90 answer and
did answer by their works Il is just
these questions that Christian Science
came to answer and has been answer
Ing by it's practical results for hale Il
century. Like the prophets, Ike Jesus
and his immediate followers. Christian
Science has done this on the basis which
tod rgHA feI
spiritual or true sense of being; the
sense that Spirit Mind. is all-iu all. the
only cause or creator; that Minds ere
alton including man, Minds reflection
IL therefore spiritual, mental. and con
eists of right ideas and their perfect
manifestation This truth uucOyers as
illusions the myriad misconceptions Of
the physical senses to which everything
is matter. caused by matter limited by
matter, and ultimately destroyed by it.
There are those who misunderstood
ing Christian Science, asSall 10 and from
time to time undertake 10 "eXpuse' It's
methods, calling them suggestions, hyp-
nOtiSm, and SO on, just as those who mis-
understood Jesus and his works took
Ii upon themselves TO expose him, say
ing that he did his works Through
Beelzebub' meaning the devil. whom
Jesus defined as a falsjty ana thus as "A
false sense Of being, suggestion. bypno
tism. But the contemporaries of Jesus
forgot that he constantly revealed the
real nature of his own works through
his own teachings Of the truth, and that
his Niucidation of them was so con
yincing so benefcent that the common
people heard him gladly and were
healed. In the same way the detr3ctorS
of Christian Science also forget that
Christian Science has for fifty years
been turning the clear light of day upon
its own teachings; that 1t HIS done so
and is doing SO ut lJs eyc-y church
II
through its every lecture; that this pre-
seutatiOn, like that Of Jesus, IS attended
by and results In great good, I'm many
headings and refOrmauOns and that, con
sequeutly. the people, just the people,
the common people, again hear 10
gladly. Only the uncommon people find
Christian Science, as they Did the teach
nEs OF Jesus, IAN hard saying" and
speak Of its followers as they spoke or
him, when they said to him, Now we
know that thou hast a devil
That Christian Science and its meth
Ods-the application Of the right, the
spiritual idea Of being which has here
been somewhat plained-may also be
exposed here as plainly as possible,
may / not, with your permission, Illus
trate the working Of the spiritual or
right idea Of being in Christian Science,
that is, the application of it, ana may /
not do so by citing some actr-l eases
Of healing? In doing this, 1T not my
purpose to urge you to believe he par
ticular cases which I shall present, In
deed, you are perfectly free to believe
or disbelieve them. My sole desire is
to show the effect which Is bound to
result from the correction Of the wrong
sense which people have about them
selves, about others, and about exist
enca, and to do this so simply that all
may be able TO apply what is said to
their own needs and so to prove it in
their own experience, thus precluding
the necessity of believing anything what
ever upon the subject, because Of the
definite knowledge that will come to
them through their demonstration of 1t.
APPLICATIONS OF
PRACTICAL SCIENCE.
A case in point is that of little boy
who was brought by his mother for
treatment He was about ten years old,
very delicate, and what is called ner-
yous bis face twitched constantly, so
that, according to his mother, he at times
said, Mother, my face is 30 tired it
hurts" He had been thus from infancy.
The belief that it was a case of weak
nerves inherited from his mother was
entertained by all concerned Every