The Washington times., 1928-04-21
LECTURE GIVEN
ON FAITH
CURE

A lAeture on Christian science:
The Knowledge OF True Selfhood.
was delivered in the Washington
Auditorium last Sunday afternoon
bv DR.. John M. Tut. c. s. B.. Of
Kansas City, Mo-, to q large audi.
ence. DR.. Tut is q member OF
the Board of Lectureship Of the
Mother Church, the First Church
sc Christ. Scientist. in Boston,
Mass. He was introduced by
Charles S. Baum. This lecture was
under the auspices of First, Second:
Third and Fourth Churches OF
Christ, Scientist. of this city. The
lecturer said, in part:
Deep in the so-called human
mind ia the belief IN the curative
power Of matter; that Fundamental
human opinion makes material med
icine. How the individual arrives
at that opinion is detail he
may inaugurate IT himself teach so
called curative agent must nave
had q beginning as such In some
body,g thought or he may accept
fl. consciously or unconsciOnsly.
af the hands Of others. or Of gen.
eral mortal belief. Anything II .
medicine to you that you 50 con.
ceive.
material medicine. then, is the
belief that matter is remedial.
Motive makes medicine. Practically
ali the forms Of matter have been
used as curative agents, hence
ones motive alone determines
whether or not one is employing
matter as medicine. In this, 40 in
all other phases Of human life, the
pure in heart alone see God. To
refrain from using material rene
dies ID to turn away from them both
materially and mentally to spiritual
Truth, Christ. Sometimes an In.
dividual wonders why he liz aot
has studied Christian Science, and
has perhaps had Christian Science
treatment, his thought has re.
manned unchanged In It's belief in
material medicines and In the heal
exercise az such Is material
activity of the body Is scientific.
ITO diet or restrict ones food is
either q material remedy or not,
according to ones purpose. 1t is
scientific to be. temperate in all
things. Should one diet, exercise
observe sanitary and hygienic laws?
No. but one should live normally
and be clean physically and morally.
It is wholesome to be normal, but
ii is not scientific to predicate
health upon physicality and ma
terial laws.
st. Paul Quoted
'.As st. Paul put it, let every
thing be- done az ito the glory OF
God" Il Corinthians 10, v. 81. not
as to the gloriffcation, or as to the
fear OF mortal mind and body.
Jesus wasted no time or thought
over material laws of hygiene, diet,
exercise, physiology. climate, or
medication. Can you imagine Jesus
weighing himself? Can you imagine
him estimating the calories in the
corn he plucked and ate az he
walked through the fields? And
yet his life showed him to be
sanative and hygienic expert in that
he was clean and sound In mind,
in body, and in morals. He lived
moderately in all things, did this
Way-shower. Christ Jesus was the
Way--our example in all aspects Of
human life.
Disease is not an entity, nor is
question of germs. but 1t Is a
question always of personal liability.
Thus the tubercle bacillus In held to
be ubiquitous, and we are told that
countless numbers OF them are
tbreatfed hourly by every one, yet
the disease they are supposed to
produce appears only in individuals
that present a liability.
what constitutes that liability?
A state OF mind or mental consent;
and that is true even when II seems
to be attributable to lowered re-
sistance OF body. for mortai mind
and body. remember. are one. Hence
the liability to disease II q per-
sonal state. Notwithstanding all Of
which, the patient Is not q person,
neither a sick man. nor q man be-
Heving himself to be sick, but is,
in fact, a false belief. In disease,
mortal man and body are the VIC
Tins OF personal sense
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