MORNING ENTERPRISE -. TUESDAY, MARCH 18;i913.
LECTURE PLEASES
(Continued from- page 3.)
she instructed her students to follow
her only as she followed Christ, and
though she was a rare Leader she
was an ideal follower of all that is
truly good.
God as Principle.
Man's comprehension of the prob
lems of life i3 to be measured by his
understanding of God. He holds to
contrary and widely divergent be
liefs about God and hence his inter
pretations of life are conflicting and
discordant. If he concedes to God,
the primal cause of all being, illimit
able power-omnipotence-and illimitable
knowledge Omniscience, and 'in the
next breath attributes to Him the af
flictions and disasters of human ex
perience, he is setting up a god of
good and evil, of benevolence and cru
elty, whom he may try to love but Is
bound to fear.
"The anthropomorphic idea of God
as a man-like being of human attri
butes and qualities enormously mag
nified, a heritage of mythology, hand
ed down to us through generations of
orthodoxy, is repudiated in Christian
Science. For its definition of God,
Christian Science consistently turns
to the Scriptures.
"In our contemplation of Deity, we
are thus led to lift our thought from
effect to Cause; from the thing cre
ated to the creator; from idea" to
Principle. Thus we come to under
stand God to be the infinite Person
ality without corporeality, the Prin
ciple of all true being, the supreme
good, the same yesterday, today and
forever, 'in whom there is no vari-
effect on the body is of every-doy oc
currence, as commonplace as eating
and drinking, the lesson they disclose
is lost upon the man who hastens to
censure Christian Science for achiev
ig what he styles the impossible, yet
which has been a part of him since
the day when as a crying infant he
on his mother's arm shed his first
tears.
"If then it is conceded that the
state of mind may disturb the secre
tions, causing the tears to flow, or
that the state of mind may quicken
the action of the heart, causing the
blood to rash to the face, or away
from it; or if the state of mind can
affect the organs of the throat caus
ing huskinefs, then it is plain that
the state of mind may be held ac
countable for' other derangements of
the organs of secretion, of circulation
and of speech. And if of these why
not of other organs of the body? If
changing grief into joy will stop the
flow of tears, .or in other words ' if
a change of thought will change the
flow of fluid to the eyes, why will not
a change of thought change the flow
of fluids to the stomach? Is it not
more rational then to treat dyspepsia
with mind than with tabloids and
powders?
"And so it is with all other bodily
diseases and derangements, they have
one and all responded to the curative
influence of Mind, administered tn
Christian Science.
"Jesus proved for all time and for
all Christendom that the origin of di
sease was mental and he healed it
with mental, medicine. He gave him
self no concern about physical symp
toms, but he destroyed what caused
them. He cared little about what the
sick man had been eating, but much
about what he had been thinking. He
said in so many words, 'It is not that
which goeth into a man which defil
eth him.' When he healed the sick
ience. His loving father has ,had
nothing to do with his suffering, and
'Our Father which art in heaven," lov
ing every one of His children, sends
upon them neither pain nor penalty.
From Him cometh only the good and
perfect gift.' .
"How necessary, then, it is for our
salvation for our health, for our
safety and our well-being to under
stand God's spiritual laws that we
may obey them. Many of us for years
sought this understanding in the
churches and out of them, seeking
peace of mind and health of body and
finding neither until we turned to
Christian Science, ' where we found
them both and with them gained a
measure of the understanding of God
that has transformed our lives.
Love vs. Fear.
"There is a short and cheering mes
sage . that Christian Science has to
deliver to all who have ears to hear.
It is not a new message. It has re
assured the children of men ever
since they first felt the chill of fear.
The loving mother encouraging her
toddling infant, the gallant captain
cheering his men to greater valor, the
gentle Saviour quieting his affrighted
disciples, all use it. That message is
'Be not afraid.'
"Christian Science emphasizes the
fact that when fear is eliminated from
the consciousness of the sick man
no matter what the nature of his ill
ness he has taken a long step to
ward recovery. It declares also that
people! who are habitually free from
fear, worry, anxiety, apprehension
and the like, all of which are the chil
dren of fear, are far less susceptible
to illness and misfortune than others.
It has uncovered in fear an agency
of evil, an enemy of health, a destroy
er of peace and a bar to man's pro
gress heavenward. It is not to be
wondered, then 'that the elimination
of fear from human consciousness is
ableness neither shadow of turning.' j i;et and rest, but on at least one oc-
in contemplating lion as infinite j casion said, 'Sin no more lest a worse
Principle, we find our life problems , thing come unto thee," thus indicat
must be worked out according to this nfr the mental origin of the disease,
unerring Principle of Being, or they Tne sick were healed by him through
will be failures, precisely as failure ! tfoiritual understanding, not by hu
follows the work of the student in j man will. Christian Science, similar-
aigeora, wno ignores tne principles of i yt relying wholly upon divine Prm-
he gave no parting directions about j an important feature of the mission
of Christian Science.
mathematics. The mistakes we make
in life and their afflictive. results are
due to our ignorance of Principle, or
to our disregard of the laws express
ing Principle, and in all cases are as
signable to our own shortcomings and
never to Principle itself. The deplor
able mistakes in man's history which
he designates as sickness and suffer
ing and failure and disaster will di
minish in frequency and virulence as
he applies himself to gain a better
understanding of divine Principle, and
persists jn using that understanding
in the affairs of his everyday life. He
must give it expression to the limit
of his cognition, for a principle un- denial of the human sense of self, and
expressed is as futile as a theory un-1 the affirmation of all good, and is a
mea- condition to which all must come
"Christian Science standg.before the sooner or later. 'As I live, saith the
world as a demonstrable religion, one i Lord, every knee shall bow, and ev
that is to be lived, not merely be-1 pit tonerue shall confess to God.'
ciple, has no relationship with will
power, mental science, hypnotism,
mesmerism, auto-suggestion, thought
transference, spiritualism or any of
the other cults or schools which rely
wholly or in part upon the influence
of one human mind or human will up
on another. These are essetially ad
verse to the teachings of Christian
Science, wherein the human mind and
the human will are made wholly sub
ordinate and subservient to the di
vine Mind, the will of God. Success
in Christian Science is only attained
as fallible human mentality is elim
inated. This implies self-denial, the
lieved. The standard of proficiency
for the Christian Scientist is not how
much he believes, but how much
of that belief he is using in his
daily life, in his dealing with hi3 fel
low men and in the sanctity of his
innermost thoughts.
"Hence it is that there is no such
thing as a purely theoretical Christian
Scientist. No man can become a
Christian Scientist by merely believ
ing in the teachings of its text-book
without practicing them. We are
Christian Scientists only as we put
into constant practise our knowledge
of our Teligion, be that knowledge
great or-small. We are Christian
Scienists only as we are Jrind and
helpful in thought and deed; only as
we think health and talk 'health in
stead of disease and disaster. We
are Christian Scientists only as we
say to evil mental suggestion, 'Peace,
be still!' Only as we are loving and
courageous and resolute and unswerv
ing in our warfare againts sin. sick
ness and death.
Body's Response to Mind.
"It is often charged against Chris
tion Scientists because they rely
wholly, upon Mind that they do not
"do anything" for the sick. When the
average man considers the needs of
.a sick person, his thought at once
turns to the medicine bottle and he
believes there is nothing being done
for the sick man unless he is made
to swallow something. Acording to
his peremptory opinions, the sick
man should be treated with something
that he can taste or smell or feel,
something that the senses can per
.ceive. Otherwise 'Nothing is being
done for him.' He may tell you that
attempting to change the condition
of a man's body through mind alone
is foolishness. And yet this same
intelligent citizen will readily admit
that a man's body commonly and fre
quently undergoes sudden and very
marked changes due entirely to men
tal causes. He will admit that salt
water will flow from his eyes if he
is subjected to great grief. That sud
den fear will produce cold perspira
tion. That anger will cause the face
to flush or pale, the heart to thump,
the voice to change.
"Now grief, anger and the like are
obviously mental, but because their
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In considering the immortality of
man one is confronted by the ques
tions, 'What of the hereafter? How
am I to regard the change called
death? What and where is heaven?'
Christian Science makes direct ans
wer to these very natural questions.
That whieh is called death, though
always an enemy and finaly to be
overcome, as the Bible declares, is
no more to be feared than is sleep.
In the present state of our develop
ment both are incidental to the ex
perience of mankind both interfere
for the time with man's activities;
and the awakening alike in. both
cases will, we believe, show no sub
stantial change in individuality or ad
vancement. The gates of heaven do
not swing open at the touch of death,
but are to be entered by right thinking-
and right living, here and here
after. ' The work of regeneration and re
formation left unfinished here will
have to be done hereafter. The stir
ring command, 'Work out your own
(salvation,' follows us wherever we
may be and through whatever changes
we may pass. Death does not si
lence it nor modify its demands. Love
of life, not fear of death, is in Chris
tian Science the great incentive to
action and achievement.
The isles of the blest of the an
cients, the Elysian fields of Greek and
Lfttin Mythology, the seven heavens
of Hebrew cabalism, the battle-plains
of the belligerent Norsemen, the hap
py hunting grounds of the American
Indian all express belief in a place
of happiness after death portrayed in
widely differing imagery.
All of them, Pagan and Jew, Greek
and barbarian, Norseman and Indian,
Mohammedan and Hindu, unite in
maintaining that heaven stands for
futurity, that its portal is death, its
threshold is mystery. And now comes
Christian Science proclaiming in the
words of Jesus that the kingdom of
heaven is at hand is here and now
attainable. It) declares that we do
not gain heaven by dying, but by
right living; that death is not the
gate to a far-off paradise, but that
heaven is within our reach today and
that we get little of much of its as
we conform our lives, our thoughts
and deeds, to God's eternal laws.
"Christian Science puts aside the
mythologyic idea of heaven as a place
and shows it to be a state or condition
of mind. It follows, therefore, that
its attaintaent depends upon the men
tal processes of the individual. In
other words it affirms . that right
thinking I leading to right living is
the sure passport to heaven. Turn
ing to the life of the great exemplar,
Jesus the Christ, we find in him the
ideal thinker whoes thoughts and ac
tions conformed invariably to the
laws of God Spirit touching lightly
upon matter and things material only
as tolerated concomitants of his dwel
ling on earth among men.
"But hig heavenward thoughts were
not those of the inert mystic, or the
cellbound monk. They ripened quick
ly into action and touched his fellow
men with the ardor of regenration!
His thoughts were about God, hence
they brought lasting good to man.
They were of heavenly law,' and so
brought order out of earthly chaos.
They were of holiness, wholeness, and
hence health attended his footsteps.
No surer road to heaven can be
found than the trail be blazed for
its in the wilderness of human beliefB,
for though narrow it is straight and
there is shelter all along the way.
Most men have found they can get
all they want of heaven's antithesis,
hell, right here on earth, and there
are many who "believe they have al
ready had more than their share of
it, and perhaps they have. But they
should know that it does not come
from the hand of God. Sin brings Its
own punishment. It has been truly
said that man is not punished for his
sins, but by his sins. By sin is meant
what Paul defines as transgression of
the law, whether due to man's ignor
ance of God's law or to his wilful dis
obedience of it. The child, who
through ignorance or disobedience
picks up a piece of hot Iron suffers
because of his ignorance or disobed-
""Frequently it is said, "It is all
well enough to say 'do not be afraid,"
but how am I to get rid of fear and
rtorry and anxiety? . I use all the will
power and determination I can com
mand, yet I do not get rid of worry.
It comes in about as fast as I drive
it out.'
"Attempting to get the mastery of
fear and Vorry by will-power alone
is like trying to beat back the ocean
with a baseball bat, or trying to
chase clouds away with a broom. You
cannot get rid of them by fighting
them, but you can readily get-out of
their reach by risinf higher. The
waves of fear and the mists of worry
do not extend upwards and if you will
but climb to the hilltop of selflessness
where Love stands waiting to ' wel
come you 'with outstretched hands,
you will no longer toe buffeted by
fear or befogged by worry. For cen
turies St. John has been telling this
to the world in these words, 'Perfect
love casteth out fear.'
"In that perfect love may fear-tormented
man find a panacea that is
free as the air, as animating as the
sunrise and as dependable as the
tides of the sea. Perhaps the nearest
similitude to perfect love is an un
spoiled child and when you find such a
jewel you may note such an absence
of fear in the little one that is both
a delight and rebuke to those of us
'grown-ups' who have so much to un
learn before we can 'become as little
children.' Our human sense of love,
fine though it be, must be broadened,
purified, unselfed, and just in propor
tion as this is done it is to be relied
upon as the complete antidote of fear.
"As fear, then, is seen to be the
cause of so many of the afflictions of
mortals, so love is to be known as
their remedy. If we would have less
of worry, anxiety, apprehension and
the ills they invite, we must be more
loving; that is. to say, the-more of
God, perfect Love, we bring into con
sciousness and make manifest in our
daily lives, the less of fear can enter.
Love for God and man is the one
indispensible element of all true and
lasting success. The world of today
is slow to rise to the appreciation of
this great truth. The world of com
merce, of industry, of the professions
is still constructing its various under
takings out of the raw materials of
energy, determination, skill and en
terprise, each of which is measurably
useful in its particular channel, but
all are lacking in the one essential
needed to make them enduring and
truly beneficient. That one thing
needful is love for God and man.
"Did you ever consider how our
great cities are made up of buildings
agement. He is only happy when he
is miserable; the worse he feels the
better he likes it; the things that
condemnation. -Both are bad; both
are modeled after plans drawn in the
devil's workshop; both are obstructive
to progress. Self-condemnation digs
a hole; self-justification sets up a pole
and no man can go very far in any
right direction when he is either
crouched in the bottom of a hole or
perched on the top of a pole. Man
is endowed with nobler qualities than
those of the beasts of the field or the
fowls of air, and he must come out
of the hole of self-condemnation and
down from the pole of self-justification
on to the level 'ground of unself
ed endeavor if he would progress in
Christian Science.
"More than all of this Christian
Science discloses that the man hab
itually, discouraged is not only an in
viting target for disease, but is al
ready striped with the colors of un
belief, for he gloomily .distrusts the
power and goodness of God himself.
This may startle seme of you who are
accustomed to let yourselves be rob
bed of your courage discourage!
and to slide unresistingly into the bil
ious depths of the "blues" when things
go wrong. The Christian world Is full
of Fod-fearing and truthloving people
who yield readily to discouragement
because they have not yet discovered
where it comes from and'what is back
of it. They do not see that it is but
the advance agent of evil itself. A
famili-ir fable of folk-lore will per
haps illustrate this point.
It was once announced that the dev
il was going out of business and
would offer all his tools for sale to
whoever would pay his price. On the
night of the sale they were all at
tractively displayed, and a bad look
ing lot they were. Malice, envy, hat
red, jealousy, sensuality, deceit and
all the ether implements of evil were
spread out, each marked with its
price- Apart from the rest lay a
harmless looking wedge-shaped tool,
much worn and priced higher than any
of them.
"Some one asked the devil what it
was. 'That's discouragement,' was
the reply. 'Well, why do you have it
priced so high?' 'Because,' replied the
devil, 'it is more useful to me than
any of the others. I can pry open
and get inside a man's consciousness
with that when I couldnt get naar
him with any of the others, and when
once inside I can use him in whatever
way suits me best. It is so much
worn because I use it with nearly ev
erybody, as very few people yet know
that it belongs to me.'
"It hardly need be added that the
devil's price for discouragement was
so high that it was never sold. He
still owns it and he is still using it.
Discouragement is a stranger to
unselfishness. No man who faithful
ly trusts in the omnipotence of God
and the omnipresence of Love can af
ford to allow discouragement to argue
with him for one minute.
"The Christian Scientist in his un
ceasing warfare against evil in every
form allows discouragement no more
foothold in his consciousness than he
does to malice, hatred, envy and de
ceit. He is freed from the bondage
of all of them by knowing the truth
about God and man.
An effective plan to drive out dis
couragement is to bring into thought
some measure of gratitude or praise.
There can always be found something
to be grateful for if we will hunt for
it honestly and earnestly. The good
old-fashioned practise of counting our
blessings, the things we have we
would not like to do without, general
ly brings gratitude to the surface for
along every man's pathway m life
there are blooming the sweet flowers
of gratitude and if he will but stoop
and pull one and wear it he will find
its fragrance a magic dispeller of dis
couragement. Or if the day be cold
and dreary and the flowers covered
with snow, he can find that warmth
of soul which always banishes dis
couragement, if he will but heed that
part of a favorite passage of Jesus
from Isaiah, where we are command
ed to put on the garment of praise
for the spirit of heaviness.
"It never fails.
Light and Darknes8.
I have thus far spoken more of the
results of Christian Science than of
its methods. "For the latter I would
have you consult the pages of its text
book, 'Science and . Health with Key
to the Scriptures,' by Mary Baker Ed
dy. You will not lay it down with dis
appointment if you take it up with sincerity.
But that you may carry away with
large and small, each constructed by 0u tonight some elementary percept
laying one brick on top of another un
til their walls tower upward and the
streets stretch out for miles? And
did you ever consider how all this is
possible only through the universal
use of that commonplace and homely
material known as mortar? How
these miles of walls would totter and
crash to the ground if the countless
millions of pieces which compose
them were not cemented together by
the mortar that binds every brick and
stone? I
So it is with our thoughts, our ac
tions, our endeavors. They are brick
and stones out of which our lives are
constructed. However well shaped,
however carefully laid they may be,
unless they are bound above and be
low with the cement of love for God
and man, they may in time tumble
into a tangled mass of mediocrity
like mortarless bricks. But when laid
with The cement of love into the struc
please him most are the things that
do not please him at all. He is con
tinually stumbling into the two ex
tremes of self-justification and self
ture of our lives, they will protect and
shelter and beautify the affairs of
all who enter them.
Discouragement
"Christian, Science brings the Truth
to hum ; (comprehension, gives free
dom from whatever enslaves and thus
bestows mental, moral and physical
liberty. In the process of liberation
it sifts out certain pernicious prac
tises and propensities, generally re
garded as harmless, but which are to
be shunned as allies of evil. It shows
us that 'we have indulged in moods
and inclinations that we believe were
guileless, if not commendable, but
were in reality neither wise nor harm
less. We find we have been warming
in the incubator of our favor the eggs
of serpents that we believed belonged
to doves. Perhaps the ,most common
of disease-inviting habits of thought
is discouragement. I dare say we
have all been on intimate terms with
it one time or another, and while we
have never found it cheerful company
we have not looked upon it as a sin
ister visitor. Yet that is just what
Christian Science shows It to be.
"Discouragement wears the invisible
livery of evil and is constantly and
consistently working for its master.
It is always pullings down and never
building up.
. "Did you ever know any one to ac
complish anything worth while when
in the grip of - discouragement? It
paralyzed effort, stupefies thought and
dissipates purpose.
"There is a ridiculous side to the
condition of the. man who is mentally
sick abed with a bad, case of discour-
to test for yourselves. I would place
before you this simple fact. The
Christian Science method of getting
rid of things that are wrong is to in
troduce things that are right. This is
not fighting evil but destroying it. It
has been proved in millions or. in
stances that a wrong thought which
is the father of a wrong action will
invariably vanish into nothingness if
you will but itroduce a right thought
in its place. Good destroys evil as
surely and as quickly as light destroys
darkness. Remember that, for you
will find it helpful if you are ever dis
posed to try Christian Science for
yourselves. If you will associate in
your thought good with light, and evil
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with darkness you will have before
you a flashlight glimpse of the impo
tence" of evil in the presence of the
good. Not all the darkness in the uni
verse can extinguish the light of one
tiny lamp. Wherever it goes it chases
away darkness, which is always with
out power -to move, or even to be in
the presence of light. So with the
light of good and the darkness of
evil.
"The comparison is a good one, but
it is not mine. You will find it many
times in the pages of your Bible. Re
member then, if you will, that the
Christian Science method of banish
ing evil darkness is to bring in the
light good. you were to try it
for a single day you would be sur
prised to find what a new sort of day
you would be giving to yourselves.
Every time you find yourself thinking
unkindly about your neighbor, bring
in a good thought about him. It will
help him and it will help you.
"Every time your thought drops to
the level of the beast, lift it as near
the stars as you can raise it. If
thoughts unclean, unjust, malicious or
obstructive are there, bring in some
thing of purity, of justice, of helpful
ness, of love. When you have done
your best in this line of noble en
deavor, you have accomplished much
You have taken a step, a little one
to be sure, but it leads In the direc
tion of the understanding of God
the knowledge of Him, whom to know -aright
is life eternal."
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