The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-06-28
Paul Stark Seeley. C.S.B.
OF Portland, Ore. Speaker
"Christion Science: The Science of Health
Happiness. and Immortality" Is Topic

a free public lecture on Chr.
tan Science was delivered At n
Lake wood Community theats
Thursday evening under auspics
% First Church Of Chris
Scientist. Lake steilacoom. IN
speaker was Paul Stark seele,
c. 3 B. Of Portland. Ore. men1he
q the Board Of Lectureship Of Tn
Mother Church. The First churcl
g Christ. Scientist. In Boston
Mas He spoke substantially =
follows:
Health and happiness we all de
Eire. Immortality most Of us hop
for. We can have all three. They liv
together In the spiritual idea o
Life which Christian Science ex
pounds and elucidates. Fortunately
this spiritual, heslth-gfving. happi
nezs-producing idea OF Life IL here
No one has to pass through tn.
death shadow in order 70 find It
TIE immortal intelligence men hav.
named God. makes sternally avail.
able TO each Of us everlasting
health. perpetual happiness. i'm.
mortal being. Here. now. today. to
morrow the immortal Life which /.
God Il ours to express and enjoy
Christian Science ceaseiessly chal-
l<nEes the apathy and indifference
Of mortals to this priceless fact.
What does one need TO do to be-
come aware Of this immortal.
spiritual idea Of Life. and the
health and happiness II bestows :
The individual must be willing TO
use his Cod-given ability to think
spiritually. to think the ideas
which join ones thinking. and 20
ones life. with the all-loving and
eternal Mind. What Il Gods great
est gift 10 you? It Is your ability
10 think spiritually. healthfully.
happily. eternaily. This In your
priceless talent. hidden by ignorant
material thinking. but now being
brought to light and utilized under
the impulsion Of Christian Science.
Where God Ii Seen
All reasoning a. 10 immortality,
and the health and happiness 1t IN
eludes. must begin with God. What
and where Is God? God IL not an
enlarged human person living at
some unknown address. God IL ths
one everywhere present intelii-
Eencs. or Mind. OF which our true
selfhood is the expression. Can God
be seen! Yes, but not with the
physical eye. The physical eye sees
physical persons and things. It has
no capacity 10 see what il meta
physicsl-that IN above the physi-
cai-and cannot see Mind, intelli-
genes. Mind IL seen. or perceived,
only by Mind-senss. spiritual sense,
and II IL seen where II u mani
tested Christ Jesus manifested
God. true Mind. more than others:
and could say, He that hath seen
me hath seen the Father" mean
ing that he who perceived the ac-
tiyity and qualities OF God which
he manifested had seen something
q the character Of God. Man as
idea IL really the identified activity
pf God. or. in the words Of Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures" by Mary Baker Eddy. page
<76. he Is ''the conscious identity Of
being as found in Science. In which
man Il the reflection Of God. OF
Mind :" This il something 10
ponder: man II that by which
Being. Mind. Is identified.
II Is time to stop clinging TO
physique and . temporary mate
rial organism AZ man and CRATE
fully recognize that the Bible
writer knew what he was talking
about when he said man IA the
image Of God. That Is the man God
makes. and that IL the one real
man now. what everlasting Mind
originates. II perpetuates.
Logic Shows Man Il Godliks
For centuries mortals have been
thinking with oomplete absence Of
logic concerning man. They have
started with an intelligent, perfect
God and ended with an imperfect,
ungodliks man. How the imperfec-
ton q man arises while God re-
mains intelligent and perfect. they
have never nationally explained. As
\ mathematical error never orig
mates with the principle Of maths-
MATES. % an imperfect concept Of
man never originates with the m
teliigent Lfe-principls. God.
The trouble has arisen hers. II
has been easy for mortsls TO accept
the premise that God IL perfect,
intelligent, and good. but when II
comes 70 man they find the ag-
gressiye testimony Of matter and
the material senses confronting
than These senses say man il far
from being Godliks and perfect.
They testify that he Is little more
than flesh. blood. and boneA Be
cause mortals have not been Eiffi-
eiently imbusd with the spiritual
idea Of Life to see the unreliability
& the testimony Of material sense.
they have accepted its illogical. ma
terial misconception Of man, and
temporarily lost the logical and
true idea Of man as the reflection
q the perfect and eternal Mind
which 4 God. Logic and under
standing have been lost IN the
wilderness Of the testimony Of ma
terial sense.
Through Christian Science the
izslvidual learns how mentally TO
stfck 70 the Iogical conclusion that