Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-06-05
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TALK
IS GIVEN AT SEWAREN

10 UVLN III OEWHnEN
sEWAREN, June 5-Peter V.
Ross. c. S. B.. member of the Board
of Lectureship of the Mother
church. the First Church of Christ
Scientist in Boston. gave a lecture
Sunday night in the church edit ee
here. He spoke on Christian
Science: The Divine Immanence."
and said in part:
IF there has been my event of
modern history more remarkable
than the discovery of Christian Sci
ence. that event has been the sue
cessful establishment of Christian
Science on an enduring foundation
To discover this Science. required
rare spiritual insight: to so establish
it that the truths of Christianity
should not again be lost to sight.
required unsurpassed sagacity. res
o%iution, courage. and devotion
superlative degree by Mary Baker
Eddy which answers the oft repeat
ed question. Why did Christian
Science come through a woman?
ITO a world sick with it's belief N
materialism. intellectualism, and
skepaiciSm. as we'll as sick with sin
and disease. Mrs. Eddy has brought
a workable means of regeneration.
For the suffering and Borrowing she
has made known a divinely prepar-
ed way of escape Those who are
tunity thus provided. hold her name
in love and reverence. while people
the world over are coming to rec
ognize her as n Of the foremost
Eenefactors of the race"
Mental Origin of Human Ills
christian Science constantly re-
minds us of the Importance of shut
ting out of mental home wrong
thoughts of every description, and
welcoming good thoughts only. for
everything has its inception in
thought. The harsh word would not
have been spoken il the hateful
thought had not been harbored; the
evil deed would not have been COM
mitted IL it had not first been
thought or planned; disease had
never made its appearance II mortal
mini had not first conceived and
pictured it.
But some one may ask. How can
this be true in my case, for l
thought of this ailment of mine until
1t came upon me?' In reply to this
question it may be said that we
know very little of what mortal
mind is thinking. Mrs. Eddy says.
The physical universe expresses the
conscious and unconscious thoughts
of mortals' (Science and Health. o
484). When we desire to move the
hand. we consciously give the men
tai order and the resulting move
ment is visible. We have no difficulty
in observing the mental cause and
effect. But that same mentality
which directs and compels the hand
to move also directs and compets
the heart to beat. yet we are not
conscious of the fact. illustrations
of this kind can be multiplied in
connection with other organs and
functions of the body, for there
is unconscious as we'll as conscious
mental action.
1T is not necessary for a man 10
thil I specifically of rheumatism. TO.
example, in order to haVe that all
ment. All he need do is to W
his neighbour. and rheumatism or
SOM other painful disorder will
eventually fasten its hold upon him.
1t is not necessary that he should
hate anybody or anything. Let him
give way to fear or worry, and the
human mind. thus distracted will in
time derange the functions of the
body which it is directing. He need
not even be fearful or worried. All
that is required is for him to depart
from the truth that he lives in divine
Mind and accept the mistaken no
ton that he lives in a material BODY.
Then. at some time or another, the
images of disease inhabiting mortal
mind are liable to take UP their
abode with him"
Prayer or Treatment
'tRight thoughts are invested with
power and energy. for they come
from the divine Mind. BY clinging
to them we ally ourselves with m
nipotent and o~mnipresent good.
are the word of God, quick and
powerful to heal and to save. And
every man, woman and child can
in large measure, think rightly, that
is, insist that good is the actual and
all embracing, while evil, whatever
form it may try to assume, Is an al
fusion, a falsity. In the presence OF
such thinking, sickness and suffer-
ing lose their place in m con-
seriousness and pass out of expert
ence. They can be no part of true
existence, and multitudes of people
are to-day proving this through
scientific and intelligent prayer,
through right thinking and right
doing, which lifts them into that
consciousness Of Life harmonious
is God"
"But prayer, as understood IN
Christian Science, is much more than
merely asking God to give the good
things we seem to lack, whether of
health or happiness or what not.
It consists, rather, in silently realiz-
ing that already We possess all need
ed good and that the seeming pres
ence of sickness or distress or want
is not a fact but a false appearance.
mental attitude whereby we re-
ject thoughts of fear and hate and
disease, and entertain thoughts of
health and love and confidence that
underneath are the everlasting
arms" draws us nigh to God. In
deed it brings us into that oneness
Him where all that the Father
has is seen to be ours"