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Show CISTi SCIENCE OPEN-I MEET! ON THURSDAY At an open air meeting In city hall square at 3 p. m. yesterday, Dr. Wal-1 ton Hubbard of the Christian Science board, addressed an audience on Christian Science. He was introduced by Mrs. Mary E. Tolmio. who said: "There never was a time in tho history his-tory of the world when people were turning more earnestly to God to deliver de-liver them from their distresses, and this deliverance can come only through right thinking. "We read in second Corinthians, 'For the weapons of our warfare arc not carnal, but mighty through God to the putting down of strong holds; casting cast-ing down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth Itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing1 into captivity every thought to the obedience obed-ience of Christ.' "Christian Science teaches us how these thoughts may bo brought into obedienoo to Christ through mental activity. ac-tivity. "We have one with us today who will deliver this message of right thinking as fully as it can be done in one short lecture. "I tako great pleasure in introducing introduc-ing Dr. Walton Hubbard, C. S. B. member mem-ber of the board of lectureship of the Mother church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass." Dr. Hubbard said: In discussing the subject of Christian Chris-tian Science, It Is my purpose to tell you-some of its discoverer and founder, found-er, Mary Baker Eddy; and to state briefly some phases of its logical reasoning, rea-soning, and the results foil application. Mrs. Eddy was peculiarly fitted not only for the discovery of Christian Science, but for its presentation and explanation. She was naturally and inevitably the author of the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." From early childhood she manifested a deeply religious nature. She was a tireless student and Investigator. In addition to these qualities, she was possessed of an ability as a writer so that from girlhood she was a contributor con-tributor both in poetry and prose to representative Now England publications. publica-tions. Those who are familiar with Mrs. Eddy s work, marvel at tho immense im-mense capacity for independent thinking think-ing and research which she manifested. manifest-ed. She tells us that she always felt impelled to hunt for the law of healing. heal-ing. She says: "During twenty years prior to my discovery I had been trying try-ing to trace all physical effects to a mental cause; and in the latter part of 1866 I gained the scientific certainty that all causation was mind, and every effect a mental phenomenon." ("Retrospection ("Re-trospection and Introspection," p No wonder that this persistent and unselfish search for truth should have been rewarded by the discovery of How Discovery Was Made. For three years following her discovery dis-covery Mrs. Eddydevoted all of her timo to a deep study of the Scriptures, seeking a solution of life's problems. This investigation revealed the fact that the entire Bible record teaches conclusively that a right understanding understand-ing of God has always brought dominion domi-nion over all material conditions, and that when the knowledge of Truth has been correctly applied it has always been attended by healing and regeneration. regener-ation. The Scriptures abound in evidence evi-dence that to. understand God brings healing. God Is Mind. Let us consider tho fact that God is Mind, tho only Mind, for to tho degree that wo recognize this great truth shall we be able to get rid of sickness and sin. Perhaps not all have been in the habit of thinking of God as Mind although al-though most anyone admits that God is wisdom. The word wisdom has generally gen-erally been defined to mean a degree of knowledge so that infinite wisdom-wisdom wisdom-wisdom without degree and infinite Mind are the same. We may illustrate tho divine Mind by using the ordinary conception of a human mind, as nn pvnmnln fnt- -.1. though the human mind is not real, in certain finite ways it counterfeits the divine Mind. You say your friend has a fine minti. You say you know this because h6 has many fine ideas which he expresses. ex-presses. You have never seen his mind, but you have known the expression expres-sion of it in ideas. If he never moved a muscle, never spoko a word, you would rightly conclude that there was no mind there. So a mind to be called a mind must be filled wMi ideas, and an idea by virtue of being an idea must be expressed. It is impossible to conceive of a mind filled with ideas yet unexpressed, for a mind with no expression is not a mind, but a blank. ! You would say that a rock has no mind and no ideas simply because it has no expression, for where there are ideas there is expression. Tho infinite Mind therefore is filled with an Infinite number of ideas or thoughts which must be expressed, and the activity, tho reflection, the manifestation of these ideas constitute man and the universe. uni-verse. God's idqas express Him "in countless spiritual forms." "These Ideas range from the infinitesimal to infinity, and the highest ideas aro the sons and daughters of God." (Science and Health, p. 503.) As God's ideas we exist In divine Mind, and are perfect, per-fect, spiritual, and immortal, and because be-cause we exist in God the Scriptures declare that "In him we live, and move, and have our' being." There is a further quality of an Idea that we must consider. An idea has no power to do anything or to be anything any-thing except as an idea of the Mind fn wVllrh i f ovtnl! T t onrmt- 1 itself or become more or less or dif- J ferent than Mind intended it should be, for it has no volition of its own and must of necessity express exactly the qualities of the Mind whoso idea it is. For example: If you have a thought of lovo for your neighbor, this Idea cannot get away from you and change itself into a thought of hate. In like manner the ideas in Mind must express ex-press exactly what Mind intends they should express. Man is tho perfect idea of infinite Mind, God, and as such an idea has only divine volition. Ho has therefore no volition to choose to do evil, or to be sick, nor can he become separated from the Mind which contains him. vzf -u.-Lu-?&m l i ,i.wi)i 1 1 m 1 l l i. Man, then, God's idea, God's image and likeness, has all tho qualities of God and not a single quality which Is not or God; therefore he is healthful and holy; spiritual, perfect, immortal. Mortal Ideas Unreal. The recognition of the fact that God is Mind, and that the real and spiritual spirit-ual man lives within this Mind leaves no room for a mortal, material, sick and sinful man, yet we have the problem prob-lem of materiality with is sickness and woes to deal with. Let us see if we cannot deal with them by means of Christian Science. Nothing seems more real ot the human hu-man mind than does matter, yet the most eminent physicians of the present pres-ent day are quite at one In saying that it is impossible to prove that thero is such a thing as matter. They say that matter is a function of something outside out-side itself, the expression of energy; and this is just another way of saying that matter Is an expression of thought. Christian Science agrees with them in saying that matter Is an expression of thought, but points out further that matter is an expression not of right thought but of wrong thought; that all right thought, God's thought, real thought, must express God's nature, and is therefore spiritual, spirit-ual, not material, and is expressed In spiritual things, not material things. The whole material universe, with all its sin, sickness and death, is just the manifestation of this wrong material thought which counterfoils the spiritual. spirit-ual. Tho sum total of these material beliefs be-liefs Mrs. Eddy has named mortal mum. 11 luciuues ine ueneL in mailer, all tho so-called material laws; evil,, disease, and death; material man and the material universe. ' These various beliefs are not of God because they are contrary to His Nature. The material ma-terial man manifests sin, sickness, and materiality, which are the very opposite oppo-site of the qualities of health, holiness, holi-ness, and spirituality which the spiritual spirit-ual man must inevitably manifest as the image and likeness of God. The material man is therefore but a counterfeit coun-terfeit an expression of material belief be-lief and not of that truth which is God. It is not maintained that tho doctrine doc-trine of the unreality of matter, which is unquestionably logical and true, has as yet been fully demonstrated. Anyone Any-one who is seeking help in Christian Science need not trouble about It It is much more Important that you should recognize that God is willing and able to help and to heal you. Later on through the study of Christian Chris-tian Science His nature and allness will begin to unfold to you, and you will see that the unreality of matter is the natural corollary. God's Law Applied. Now you may accept the statement of Christian Science as good logic, but! you must apply it in order to know that it Is true. We have shown that j mind is ever present and that man is the idea of that mind. To what can wo apply this fact? Are you believing that sorrow and worry and discord arc real and that you arc suffering from them? Let us I dare to say that mind knows no such thing, and that you and I, ?God's ideas, j can manifest only the joy and peace and harmony of the mind in which we live, for if we keep our thought filled with truth and love, we shall humanly manifest the divine mind in harmony and peace. ' Wo have believed in and suffered from sins hatred, envy, deceit and other evil beliefs, but in spite of their seeming reality, let us deny thom any placo In our thought, for In real-1 ity we are God's children, Mind's ideas and by filling our thought with this fact wo shall humanly manifest more of the love, purity, spiritual power, and holiness of spirit Have you been troubled in your business? bus-iness? -Tho application of "Christian Science to business is not mysterious or occult, neither is it to be confused with will power oV suggestion. It is the application of thoughts of honesty, mutual blessing, gratitude and generosity gener-osity far above the standard of thought the business world has generally known, and this has' brought many successful business conditions where before thero had been business failures. fail-ures. Those wrong physical conditions which have come through the admission admis-sion of the world's thought of a material ma-terial law of heredity, are healed and annulled when we learn that the only Inheritance we have is of God, and hence good. "One is your Father, which is in heaven." .Those wrong conditions which have come to us through our admission of thoughts of contagion and Infection are healed when we learn that nothing but blessing bless-ing can come to us through contact with God's children, with Mind's ideas. There are myriads of difficulties that have come to us through our acceptance ac-ceptance of the world's thought that air, and food, and water those things which seem necessary to our material sense of existence at this time are filled with lurking curses; that at every ev-ery turn some unseen foo Is likely to strike us down. All these wrong ma- H terial conditions are done away with H when we learn that Mind's ideas live H in the "atmosphere of love divine" H and that Mind provides Its ideas with H an abundance of spiritual sustenance. j H Jesus said "I have meat to eat that ; H ye know not of." j H So there is no condition from which H we have suffered individually, whether IH it be mental or moral or physical, H which Christian Science does not heal, H 00 H |
