Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-10
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
METHOD EXPLAINED
DR.. Hubbard Tells Large
Audience of the AppIica-
ton of Treatment.

DR.. Walton Hubbard. c. S. B., of Los
Angeles, Calf, explained to a large
audience in Masonic Auditorium last
evening a Christian Science treatment.
THE application of Christian
Science" he said. lis generally spoken
of as Christian Science treatment. but
it is not a formula. 1t is a question
of right thinking. When there comes
a discordant condition into human
thought we are to turn from 1t, realiz-
ing that because it is discordant 1t is
not of God. Then we go to the source
OF all being, to the divine principle.
love, and recognize that the real man,
the only man there is, Is the image Of
love. the perfect idea of mind. The
more insistent the pain or the discord.
the more vehemently must be deny
its reality. and hold to the spiritual
fact of mans perfection. his freedom
from the particular disease or error
which we desire to destroy. AS often
as the material error intrudeS itself
upon human consciousness we are to
argue for the spiritual fact until the
human thought yields and we appro-
pirate our spiritual inheritance of
health and harmony. This realization
OF Gods perfection and power in over
coming the difficulties which beset us
| Is true prayer. 1t includes gratitude
| for the blessings already received and
sincere desire TO understand God more
fully. Such prayer is answered, for
| it replaces beliefs of sickness and sin
with the consciousness of health and
holiness.
Mrs. Eddys discovery that all dis
ease is but a mental manifestation led
her to recognize that any discordant
thought might be factor in produc-
! ing ii. The most casual observer
knows that anger, grief and other emo
tons frequently produce profound
| changes in the functions of the body.
! AS the Christian Scientist learns more
about his true being in the divine
! - lie is enabled to analyze human
! tEnlking that before had been unintel-
! l1gfble to him, and he frequently finds
| that certain unrecognized mental char
acteristics or discordant conditions are
most potent factors in the production
of disease. Not only is Christian
| Science the right remedy for disease
| but the Christian Scientists intelligent
uncovering of the thoughts which pro-
| duce il. makes the physicians material
| diagnosis seem like a childish fancy.
Both Jesus and John made frequent
! statements about destroying fear. Jesus
| said, Fear not, little flock, for il is
Your Fathers good pleasure to give you
the kingdom" and it was He who de-
/, fined the kingdom of heaven as a state
| OF consciousness, when He said that the
kingdom of God is within you" Fear
| not, for 1t is loves good pleasure to
1 give you the CONSCIOUSNESS or good. JOhn
| said, God is Love" and There is no
| fear in love; but perfect love casteth
! out fear" AS ideas of divine love we
| cannot become separated from love, and
| where love is, there is trust and conf
i dence in good which leaves no room for
| fear.
In addition to the fear in human
thought which needs destruction. there
are thoughts of hatred and envy and
! ingratitude and the like. These dis
! turbances are sick states of thought and
often tend to produce sickness. They
! have no more reality than fear, for God
| never made them. but they must be cast
out as unreal, and this is done only by
! insisting that the real man is the idea
! OF divine mind and expresses only good
Nearly every one admits that the
great trouble with most business is
fear; fear engendered by the be-
lief that the possession of money is
life. Now God is life, and the only
real success or safety there is, is in
| the realization of our right relation
| ship to God. Seek ye first the king
/ dom of God and His righteousness; and
| all these things shall be added unto
you. said Jesus. Many are suffering
from disappointment. from sorrow
and grief. God never made these
wrong conditions and they are healed
by denying their reality and insisting
on spiritual peace and joy as the
facts of existence. 1t may be difficult
to assert that one is filled with joy
when one seems to be consumed with
sorrow: nevertheless, by doing it the
! healing comes. One does not assert
that he is peaceful and harmonious
because he is conscious of 1t. but be-
cause he wants to realize it. Every
discordant condition is to be destroy
ed by refusing to accept it as real.
and by insisting on the harmony that
is rightfully ours as the children Of
God.
DR.. Hubbards lecture was given
under the auspices of Third Church
of Christ Scientist, of this city. The
speaker was for years practicing
physician, but is now member of
the board of lectureship Of the First
Church of Christ. Scientist, in Boston,
Mass. He will speak in the same
auditorium again Tuesday evening.