The Washington times., 1928-05-26
HEARD
On CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE

The Union of Reason and Revela.
ton" was delivered last evening
in First Church of Christ scientist
by Miss Lucia c. Coufson, y. 81
Of London, England. Miss Coulson
is q member of the Board OF Lee
tureship of The Mother Cnufcn'
The First Church OF Christ, ocleh-
list in Boston, Mass. She was In
troduced by William G. Blederman'
first reader of First Church, under
whose auspices the lecture was
given. The lecturer said in part:
.I have taken for the subject of
this letcure Christian Science: The
Union of Reason and Revelation.
1t is q surprise to many people
to be told that reason IL a factor
In the study of true religion, but on
the first mage of the Christian
Science textbook by Mary Baker
Eddy these words occur. The time
for thinkers has come, and i Is
certain that people are thinking
today as they never thought before.
Divine Mind Cited
EVEN physical science which
previously dealt entirely with matter
and material phenomena Is recog'
MIXING mind more and more. all
though it does not make the dis
tinction so clearly drawn by Chris
tian Science between the divine
Mind and the socalled human mind.
"The following statement was
made q short time ago by Prof..
y. A. Fleming, of the University
OF London: The physical uni
verse 10 a thought rather than
q thing, and thought implies and
necessitates q thinker Physical
science, therefore, ia gradually APP
preaching the standpoint of Chris.
tan Science: namely, that all Is
Mind, and that Mind alone Gre
ates, governs, originates; that all
cause is mental and therefore eff
feet il mental, and amenable to
Mind; that the universe itself
is q thought rather than thing.
"Let u see where this will lead
us and what it will bestow upon
us. 1t leads us to discover where
in lies the mastery of circum
stances and conditions. It be.
slows on US the power to heal
and prevent disease. It frees US
from the limitations with which
the belief in matter and material
thinking has bound US. and from
which we have not known how
to escape. Perhaps it Is this help
Iessness,. this inability of mankind
to overcome or avoad calamity,
that makes its heaviest burden.
There is no one so happy that
he would not like to be able to
protect and so insure that happi'
ness.
Remedy Appears
NOW this helplessness is due
to the belief that man Is mat
ter. that his troubles are material.
and that he has no control over
them. Once take the position that
all is Mind. that the universe and
all it includes is the product
Is Mind and Immediately the rem
edy appears. For if a thought
is the cause of the trouble, than
a change Of thought can alter it.
If O thought causes this or that
condition, then an opposite thought
will change the condition.
Now we have all been given the
power to think, and we all already
believe that we can or should con-
troll ~ar thoughts. Therefore. II
everything is in the first instance
a thing of thought. and We can all
think, how much control should we
have, how much dominion over this
earth? And what is the nature of
this dominion? 1t is evident, reason.
ing from this standpoint, that Mind
controls and governs all, and man,
the outcome of Mind, possesses this
dominion. Remember the gift of
dominion was recorded many thou.
sands of years ago in a book we
have most of us been taught to re.
we're. Let me read you verses TWEEN.
ty.six to twenty.eight of the first
chapter Of Genesis. And God said.
Let US make man in our image, at
ter our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish Of the sea.
and over the fowl OF the air. and
over the cattle. and over all the
earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth.
And God blessed them,
and God said unto them, Be fruitful.
and multiply, and replenish the
earth, and subdue it: and have do.
minion.'"