Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1939-02-23
A Lecture on
A Lecture on
Christian Science
Entitled
Christian Science: What 1t
Is, What 1t Does
by
Louise Wheatley Cook, C.S.B.
of Kansas City, Missouri

Louise Wheatley Cook, C.S.B.
of Kansas City, Missouri
Member of the Board of Lectureship Of
The Mother Church. The First Church OF
Christ. Scientist, in Boston. Massachusetts
My Friends:
The metaphysical healing Of phys
ical disease has come to be accepted
by most persons as an accomplished
fact, since for nearly seventy years
now it has been practiced among us
through the understanding which
Christian Science furnishes Of the
unbroken Relationship between God
and ran. Those who have not per-
sonally felt its benefcenee usually
know of someone, or OF many, who are
standing as living witnesses Of that
same divine power which sesus under
stood and utilized.
/ know personally of a young man
whose X-ray photograph showed an
internal growth so situated that delay
was deemed dangerous, and he was
hurried to hospital for an operation.
He was not Christian Scientist, but
his brother was, and to this brother in
another city the mother Immediately
sent word: "He says, pray for him.
Do what you can" The sick man
was in the Middle West, the brother in
New York, but all that night across
the continent sped such clear, strong
declarations of Truth that in the morn
ing, when the surgeons started to OPP
crate, the growth could not be found.
They searched, and probed. but it was
gone. How they explained it, do not
know. only know that he is q well
man today, attending to his business
affairs as usual
No Criticism for Others
Christian Science has no criticism
for the splendid men and women Of
the medical profession who are help
ing suffering humanity in the only
way they know. We respect them for
their tireless efforts, and ! believe that
we are all growing closer together in
this holy toll. An instance of this may
be seen in some observations which
were made recently before the Amer
lean Academy Of Optometry in its fif-
teenth annual meeting in Chicago.
The case was mentioned of a young
girl whose vision was blurred ut
times, although a thorough physical
examination had failed to locate any
trouble. It was found, however, that
the girl had taken bitter dislike to
someone who came often to her home,
but whose presence she was not in q
position to prevent. To use her exact
words, II hate to see him." The op-
tometrist expressed the opinion that
this powerful hatred was causing her
vision to fail. To quote his exact
words: "Once she was brought to un-
derstand the meaning of her disease,
she was enabled to adjust herself in
diligently to the situation. Within q
very short time afterward, her symp-
toms vanished"
Hate! If hate can do that to the
human eye, why not to the human ear
as well, or the throat, or the lungs, or
the heart, or to anything else? If
adjusting herself intelligently to the
situation" or in other words, thinking
differently about it, could relieve the
eyes, why could not some other op-
pressed portion Of the body be re-
ieved in exactly the same manner
by thinking differently? If materia
medica admits, as in this case, that
thought affects some parts of body,
why not others? Why not all? Chris
tian Science says that it can-and
proves that it does.
All will probably agree that tears
have q wholly mental origin, that they
are the direct effect of something
which touches or saddens the thought
In response to which certain muscles
relax, and the tears flow. A blush Il
the outward expression Of some in.
ward emotion, such as pleasure or EN-.
barrassment. Bad news received while
one is eating may occasion q sudden
and complete loss of appetite. Elk.
treme fear may deprive one tempo
rarily Of the power of speech, nervous.
ness turn the hands to icy coldness
All mental, every bit Of it'll But where
repeat, is one to draw the line ?
Christian Science does not draw a line
at all. 1t maintains, and proves, as
in the case Of the man in the Middle
West, that there is no place in the
human anatomy, so-caIled, which
Truth, specifically directed, cannot
reach and where it cannot find imme.
date response.
Mrs. Eddy
1t is possible that such questions
as these came to Mrs. Eddy also. and
caused her to long for "the more ex.
cellent way" which was eventually tc
be revealed to her. How far she was
even then in advance of her time, the
world as yet but family comprehends
but it is coming more and more to un-
derstand her, and to give to her dis
covery Of the allness of Mind and the