Evening star., 1926-11-17
DESTINY OF MAN
IS LECTURE TOPIC
Paul Stark SeeIey Speaks on
Christian Science at Wash
ington Auditorium.

A lecture on christian Science:
i It's Relation to the Destiny Of Man"
was delivered last evening in the
+; Washington Auditorium by Paul
! Stark Seeley, G. S. B., of Portland.
Greg. Mr. Seeley spoke to a large
and interested audience and was IN
troduced by Arthur l.. Hitchcock. Mr..
! Seeley is a member of the board OF
| lactureship of the Mother Church,
the First Church of Christ Scientist
| in Boston, Mass.
This lecture was given under the
auspices of the -four Churches OF
! Christ Scientist of this city. The
! lecturer said in part:
Peter once asked Jesus how many
! times he should forgive his brother
| who wronged him. Jesus replled tnat
! he should forgive 70 times Z. Does
this not mean that the mind or Chrlst
| is that state of mind which Is al
ways forgiving, or giving up the
belief that error and wrong are real
and clinging fast to the perfect ideal,
wherein our brother is the image OF
God? An unforgiving thought clings
| to error and so becomes it's victim
and its agent, bringing only unhappl-
ness to itself, and no helpfulness to
others. Forgiving a wrong Is the
| same process as healing disease.
It is realizing that the wrong is not
of God and no part of the true man.
So is nothing to accept as reaHty
| Forgive us our debts, as we IorGlNe
orr debtors, is our petition IN the
Lords Prayer. How reasonable anu
| strictly scientific 1t is when we see
/ that in the very proportion that we
give up the belief in the reality OF
| wrong we find our freedom from all
| that is evil and wrong. In place OF
regarding evil as a quality OF our
brother, Jesus taught us 10 see II
and to oppose it as common
! enemy. ,5
mind are the same. Love - .ne
crown of intelligence. The unlVerse
ahounds with the expressions OF loV
ins. , Intelligence. Every useful and
good thing we have is the gift OF IN
J teIlieence. or love. We see love made
j manifest in good thoughts, in the sun
shine, in nights starry gems, IN tne
flowers and verdant earth, IN the
birds that sing and soar, in the pure
| affection of little children, In the pro
| vision by communities Of libraries
civic centers, schools, parks, ana play,
grounds, in good roads that unite anu
| bring men together in friendly ira
! ternitv. Love is found in the charity
~ men like Lincoln and of women like
Florence Nightingale, in the unselnsh
devotion of friends, in increasing klno
! ness to the lower creatures. Love IL
fo,,nd in the efforts of nations to con-
fer in friendly counsel and let love
impartial Justice be evident to ALL
| Love is found in the growing sense
of cooperation between the group we
call capital and the group we cali Id
bor. in fuller cooperation between IN
| dustry and industry, between nation
and nation, and in the gradual Weldlns
| of the bonds of Christian unity, thai
| in it's fuller appearing is to evidence
| loves sovereignty over ALL
I'm all of these and In a multltuoe
of unnamed ways loves Infinite ano
eternal presence is appearing, trans
forming a world, gladdening sorroWlne
/ hearts. removing sick burdens, reVeai
| ing the one great primal power anc
presence by whom, and for whom, ane
| in whom we all exist. Let us eacf
dav ioin our hearts and our thoughts
more fully in loves great symphony
| of being. Let us recognize and fill
orr place in loves universal concord
| of true thinking. Let us give, anC
! give. more and even more Of our un
| selfish true self, the self that has
| always been and always will be, the
! self which lives to image forth ane
make evident the intelligence, the
! goodness, the kindness of the mino
| which is love. Here is the goal Of
progress, our divine destiny-to dis
cover and to demonstrate the spiritua
| selfhood of man."