Evening star., 1924-03-18
RIGHT THINKING HELD
KEY TO HEALTHY LIFE.
Christian Science Lecturer De.
scribes Teaching to Masonic
+ Auditorium Audience.
ASSERTS DIVINE MIND HEALS
Separates Mental Faculty From
Material Organs or Functions.

a lecture on CnrlStlan Science, entl-
tied God, the One Infinite Mind" was
delivered last evening at the Masonic
Auditorium by Bicknell Young. c. S.
B., of Chicago, Ill. The lecturer is a
member of the board Of lectureship
of the Mother Church, the First
Church of Christ, Scientist. in Bos-
ton, Mass. and was well qualified to
speak on his subject.
The Auditorium was filled and the
lecturer was introduced by Allan C.
Clough, first reader Of Third Church
of Christ, Scientist, under whose aus
pices the lecture was given. The lee
ture will be repeated this evening at
pm. and is free to the public. Mr..
Young said, in part:
Capacity to Think.
The wise man wrote. Get wis
dom: and with all thy getting get un-
derstanding." Understanding implies
thinking. We can all think. but we
scarcely realize that we can all be
great thinkers in the sense of being
good thinkers. We can all gain
thoughts which are purely spiritual.
our lives through Christian Science.
which enables US to recognize their
origin and prove their power. Prior
to the advent of Christian Science no
such thing was scientifically possible.
because uninstructed by Christian
science the natural ability which we
possess to gain and exercise Spiritual
power lies dormant
Though rarely considered by the
everyday man or woman. yet our
abillty to think is the greatest of our
possessions and the only means by
which we can know the truth which
Jesus said would make us free.
Nothing important that can be clas-
sthed as mental escaped the search
ing analysis of the discoverer and
founder of Christian Science, Mary
Baker Eddy. while carrying on for
many years the remarkable intellec-
tual and spiritual investigation that
resulted in the discovery of the true
system of mind-healing, which she
SO aptly denominated Christian
Science.
Right Concept of God.
Her discovery sprang from a right
concept of God. This concept salts
fies reason and agrees with revela-
tion. 1t adds grandeur as we'll as
practical helpfulness to the Christian
religion. 1t especially associates i'm
minence with God, and thereby makes
the divine law available to mankind.
For this reason and for others
equally cogent, she announced the
great primal fact of all science and
of all religion in the words: God is
Mind" and she proved tbs statement
to be both true and available during
many years of actual practice. by
healing through the power of the
divine Mind alone many cases of
diseases that are regarded as incura-
bic by the prevailing material meth
In the some way Mrs. Eddy's fol-
lowers. Christian Science practition-
ers throughout the world, in the ex-
act proportion to their understanding
OF the power of the divine mind.
books. and more particularly Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
tures," the textbook Of Christian Sci
ence, are doing the same work that she
did.
Divine Mind Heals.
1t is the divine mind, which saves
and heals in Christian Science, and
therefore in order to experience the
Christian Science, one must seek to
understand and demonstrate the di-
vine mind. MIS-. Eddy writes in her
book sciehce. and Health" (p. viD.
and one who reads her books at
tentively can scarcely fail to observe
that she is equally insistent upon the
fact that the time to think has come.
The general opinion of mankind
is to the effect that the ability to
think is dependent upon matter. So
much Is this the case that if you
speak to a person about his mind or
yours 1t is more than likely that he
Will answer in terms of matter His
education and belief tend to make
Christian Science shows that they are
not so, but that they are, on the con-
trary, antithetical, for mind, God, is
spirit, and matter is always the op-
poSite of spirit.
AS already indicated, Christian Sci
ence declares that the one infinite God
or Christendom is one infinite mind
which, being infinite, is unquestion-
ably capable of doing all the thinking
really be done 1t shows also that
human beings are not thinking with
their brains even when they suppose
that they are, for matter, that is to
say, brains, is always nonintelligent.
There is no such thing as thinking
matter.
3 Jesus FULFILLED Law.
Jesus declared that he came to full
NIL the law, that he came to save that
which was lost, that he came to save
mems. lives, not to destroy them. Ac-
cordinsly Christian Science has not
come to destroy anything that is es-
sential to human beings existence
VI "eiidtc. w uile II IepuQidteS tne
proposition that such glorious thing
as the. power to think could spring
from or be dependent upon nonin-
telligent matter, it does not teach
that we are to be deprived of our
brains. On the contrary, it shows US
that in the measure that Christian
Science is understood and demon
strated, the human body, including
brains, is improved in health.
Incidently, the slipshod ways and
immature conclusions which most OF