The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-02
APRIL 2, 1885
SCIENCE CHURCH
LECTURER GIVES
SERMON IN CITY
Self Expression Is Way to
More Abundant Life,
He Declares.

DR.. John NJ. Tut, C. S. B., Kan
sas City, Mo, member of the board
of lectureship of the Mother Church,
Est Church of Christ, Scientist.
Boston, Mass, last night lectured in
Cadle Tabernacle.
He said, in part:
Christ Jesus said, I am come
that they might have life, and that
they might have it more abun-
dainty In Christian Science, the
right sense of T expressed in in
dividual thought and conduct,
comes to solve both individual and
mass problems. The corrective
power of right example affects one
and all.
That example. as Jesus gave it,
means not waiting on another to
act or think, but it means a leading
Of the way. Self-eXpreSSion is the
way of the more abundant life:
Christ, the idea of Truth. in each
of us, triumphing over error. even
as it brings to light the eternal facts
Of real Selfhood.
Mrs. Eddy writes: The foam and
fury of illegitimate living and of
fearful and doleful dying should
disappear on the shore of time:
then the waves of sin, sorrow, and
death beat in vain
IF We go down in depression, if
we agree with mortal mind instead
of taking III stand against error,
evil will not. because of our fail
ure, be established and good des-
troyed. Yet now is the time for
proper life-practice, victory over
material self, triumph over all
wrong thinking and acting. We can
not complacently assure ourselves
that because there is no error there
is no need to do anything about
rror.
Immediate and correct steps
need to be taken to stem the tide
of evil Surging downward. We really
must do something about evil, be it
sin, disease, or other discord; for
whether the error be in conscious
thought, or expressed on the body,
it is necessary to overcome evil
with good The overcoming of sin
and disease. of discord, lack, and
sorrow, is the realization of their
nothingneSS.
In dealing with human problems
we should follow the counsel of
Science and Health. If you wish to
know the spiritual fact. you car
/ IicaOTr0r ~ H.. voVyorcinn fho ~ oforial
fable, be the fable pro Or con- Let
us perform the seemingly impossible
by reversing the fables-turning
them and turning from them: more
let us through the Christ-qualities
of thought and conduct even utilize
the unseen laws and thus turn de-
feat into victory.
BY reversal, these so-called laws
of matter lend their aid to a posi-
tive spiritual activity and although
the stars in their courses fought
against Sisera in his error, all
things work together for good to
those that are spiritually-minded.
Science and Health tells us The re-
Operative action of the system,
when mentally sustained by Truth.
goes, on naturally 1t is natural for
the body to be we'll. When the pres
sure and distortion of wrong think
ing is removed, it is natural for the
body to get well.
1--WE must work positively, within
our God-given abilities and capa-
cities, and so we shall deal with
mass error all about us effectively.
Our denials of the seeming power of
error will be actual achievements,
evidenced by our forward motion
against all claims c~ontrawise. De-
mails, without the power and posses
sion of spiritual understanding, are
without force and meaning"