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THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1919 A LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE By FRANK BELL, C. S. Mr. Frank Bel!, C. S., of Phila- delphia Fa., member of the B.oard of I^ctur-shi*) of The Mother Chtirch, The First Church of Christ Scien* list- in Briton, Mass., delivered a le<-tvre. on Christian Science Thurs- «.!: / cvâ- -nir.sr October 16th, under the a.jspi"es of First Church of Chirst, Scientist, Wilmette, 111., in the Church ed;f>t, Central Avenue and Tenth Street. Tbs- lecturer was introduced by Mr, John Gillies, who said: iRIENDS: : On hehalf of the members of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of. Wil- mette, I bid you welcome. In these days of fast moving 0"«nts, with the question of recon- st-rxticn holding a large place in public thought, many new problems arise. These are found not alone in business but in practically every phase of life and much depends upon their rir^ht solution>A correct under- standing of Truth is needful and is available to all. Christian Science understood and demonstrated heals every discordant condition, Whether it be physical or material, and will jc,!yc. our every problem. Or page ?01 of Science and Heajth vr, ' K-'vy tc the Scriptures, by Mary '*' " - I:Vt- .ire these words,: • Truth r Ves a new creature, in - 4,;>.:n oM •Jiinga pass away, and '.all ",1 ir-os' ir<> became new.' Passions, -.V-K^hi'e:--*. false appetites, hatred, ":'/ r, -r>)l 'i.'vsu.ility, yield to 'spirit- 1 u:-biy". and â- 'he superabundance of be- ':•' [<â- .'r-n ^V- side of God. pood." if-i^sir'olea'sure' to'have with'us Mr.' .rank dc.U, C. S., of Philadelphia, M'^-ber of 'the Board of Lectureship" ' Thr M'-'th^r C^yrb. The First Church .ofT "Christ, "Scientist; in Bos- tuu, ?â- 'â- â- '$â- â-  'â- â€¢'ho brings.'to us a mess- -r,-^ 0i Truth and Love. J adies and grentlemen, Mr. Frank Bell. Mr. Bell in his lecture spoke sub- stantially as follows: • Christian Science has been called the science of right thinking. Its practice is the activity by which wrong thoughts are compelled to give place to right thoughts, that the fruits of right thinking may appear instead of the fruits of wrong think- ing-. The method is scientific and the purpose Christian. Nothing could be of greater im- portance to you and me than the science of right thinking, because all there is to living »s thinking. We build on a false and transient basts or on a true and enduring one, ac- cording to the nature of the thoughts that comprise our sense of existence. All there is to living is thinking. The human body called living and the human body called dead differ only in this, that one appears to manifest the presence of mind, the other does not. There is no other difference. Th'e body immediately after death is composed of exactly the same ma- terial as immediately before death. Whatever we may consider that the body has lost in the incident called losing its life, was not material, for all the material that was there is still there. All that even appears to have been lost is mental. These are simple facts, known to every one. iney show how easy it is to understand that the reality of living is not pny- sicc! but mental. . T1-"'*- which is mental consists ot thought, and of nothing else. There- fore," to say existence is mental is to say living is thinking. • Conditions, then of living are conditions ot thinking. Health or s«cknes», strencth or weakness, beauty or ugli- n-ess.Vealth or poverty, joy or sor- row, each has its ba?is m thought. This would not be pleasant to con- template were it true that thinking is more'or less beyond control. Christian Science shows the willing student not only how to distinguish right thought from wrong thought, but how to hold to the one and re- ject the other, and thus to have dominion over the shaping of his career. Must Control Thought If the builder of a house were to accept every material offered, with- out regard tc> its source, quality or adaptability, can you imagine the result? If a weaver failed to dis- criminate as to yarns and colors, would you look for a fabric of value? So the chemist in his laboratory, the farmer in his field, the mechanic at his bench, must know the right ma- terial from the wrong and select ac- cordingly. How then can it be ex- pected that man, whose life consists of the thoughts he thinks, whose very being is mental, can realize harmoni- ous and desirable conditions without intelligently controlling the thoughts that shape and comprise his condi- tions. This might seem a hard task if one had to do it at once complete- ly To begin is not hard. Anyone can distinguish the Tightness or wrongness of at least some of the thoughts that offer themselves m the course of a day's thinking. We all know that thoughts of hate, lust, greed, fear and the like, are essen- tially evil, and that thoughts of sor- row, lack and discord are at least undesirable. On the other hand, all acknowledge the inherent goodness of I thoughts of love, truth and helpful- ness, while beauty, joy and hope make universal appeal. So then, each of us is ready to make a simple be- ginning in the important work of analyzing and classifying our thoughts, with a view to putting our mental house in order and keeping it so. The Bible says if we resist evil it will flee from us. Every one is try- ing to some extent to resist eviL To do this effectively one must un- derstand the nature of evil and its modes of operation. Christian Science shows that all evil is primar- ily mental. An evil deed is the fruit of evil thought. It is the same with the evil called misfortune. Was there ever a business failure but that some one's judgment somew.here was wrong? Physical disasters as a rule are traceable to some one who failed somewhere to be careful or wise, failed to think rightly. Even so-call- ed unavoidable accidents -often could have been avoided had some one known enough to walk on the other side, of, the street, -or stop the" train ai a pertain point, or steer the ship by another course. -.»"": .. .. How To Resist Evil , Tt follows that any physical man- ifestation, of ..evil is evil in. a .sec air cl- ary or resultant sfure, 'and that'â- â€¢if one would resist evil -itself and not mere effects of evil, he •'must 'resist j evil m.JthQ'4&ht..,,The process is. -of i course, entirely mental. It consists,) as. I have said, in displacing wrong.{ thoughts with right thoughts. To do this, one must understand some- J thing of the nature of thought. It is I not enough to know that right and wrong thoughts produce opposite re- sults. One must understand that they are as far apart in their source or cause as they are in their effects. He who believes that both good and evil thoughts are equally legitimate pro- ducts of intelligence is not ready to resist evil nor to avoid its conse- quences. In the symbolic narrative of the Garden of Eden we may learn that human troubles begin with what is described figuratively as the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, in other words the taking in or accepting of the belief that evil and good are products of the same tree, have the same origin. Is the Adam of today wiser than his predecessor if he will not heed to the voice of reason, that tells him that the law that like produces like is absolute, and that opposites cannot unite in origin or ultimate? It is as true mentally as it is physically that we do not gather figs of thistles nor grapes of thorns nor find a good tree bearing evil fruit. This means that thought which by reason of their nature could not have had a good origin do not properly be- long in the consciousness of man. All such thoughts that would try to as- sume the right to a place in our men- tality may be treated as usurpers. They are illegitimate, abnormal, un- natural, unnecessary. We have a di- vine right to refuse to accept them for what they pretend to be. Our duty and privilege is to resist and dismiss them, and we shall not be entitled to have peace until we do. Living is thinking, and if we wish to manifest conditions of living that are the fruit of right thinking, we must cease to feed on an indigestible mixture of right and wrong thoughts. We must begin to pick and choose our mental food with mpre care than ever we have bestowed on' a material menu. ' Mental Nature of Disease That the evil called disease is the outward expression or effect of a mental state is more and more gen- erally acknowledged. The growing practice of Christian Science, in which all manner of disease is healed by treatment applied solely to mental conditions, is helping mankind to see that disease in all its aspects is the working out of wrong thinking. This does not mean that a person who has a particular disease must have been thinking persistently of that disease. It has been said truly that no man liveth unto himself. Since living is thinking, then no man thinketh unto himself. Some of the effects of men- tal invironment are matters of com- mon observation. For instance, it is considered natural for persons to manifest more or less markedly the mental states or temperaments of their families, communities or na- tionalities. Does the Chinaman have almond-shaped eyes because the ma- terial in his eyes differs chemically from the material in the eyes of peo- ple of other lands? Or is it because the almond-shaped eye has been for centuries the standard of what an eye ought to be, in the thought of the "key to the Scriptures." Thus the further intent of the book is to show that the knowledge that is synony- mous with health is religious knowl- edge and is to be found in the Bible. The business of a key, as you know, is to open something. It is a success or failure as a key, just in the pro- portion that it accomplishes xesults. Those only are capable of estimat- ing correctly th'e value of the Chris- tian Science textbook who have sought therein that, and that only, which it frankly offers, namely, a workable knowledge of scientific Christianity, made manifest in the overcoming of sin and disease. If the key opens the door it is a good key. If it opens the door for some and not for others, those who fail to get results cannot blame the key. Were it at fault, none could open the door with it. The fault must be in the ap- plication. The results will be equally unsatisfactory whether the key be ignorantly or willfully misused. It must be not only the right key but rightly applied. Health and Religion It follows that those who would have Christian Science healing must have it in the Christian Science way. The fact that unnumbered thousands have found the way is evidence that there is a way and that it can be found. The fact that some have miss- ed the way proves nothing as to the way itself but only as to the folly of missing it. The Christian Science way to health and holiness is through the mental regeneration that follows a right application of the rule and method of scientific religion, as giv- en in the Christian Science textbook. The nature of the ruleand method, as indicated in the title of the book, is spiritual, scriptural. This point needs to be emphasized,' lor the human mind ha's 'been -educated .to j-e.gnrd health, as something apart from re- ligion. Not long argvv i'ruin one end of America to another, medical doc- tors . were actualty ordering, the churche* to- clo^e tlrtir ' doors and •stop, the ptiblit1 worship of God* in â-  'order-to hnprove the health, of their c-omnumiib s. Tile doctors were not altogether to buYrr.c.' Churches that Iwive confessed their â- â- 'inability to demonstrate- the truth -of the Bible promises that health- -shall be the fruit of a right undv i .-.Landing of God, need not" be Surprised if in times of public emergency they are classified as non-essential enterprises. Even some who believe they see that health is not primarily physical or mechanical, that a mental element is involved, may have no higher con- cept of mind than the mentality that Chinese people? Possibly our bac- "science"' and ^'health" are the words terilogical friends may reserve the right to discover an almond-eyed germ that has caused it. Our common daily experiences may help us to understand how largely that which we call human life is the expression of mental influences of which we are not definitely conscious. Consider, if you will, the myriad thought processes that have entered into the simple rpatter of your being here at this lecture, that have made possible the printed notices, the clothes you wear, the house you came out of, the steam or electric car or automobile in which you rode, the streets you trod, the years and years of thinking that had to be done to make all these available to you within a few minutes and with the slightest mental effort on your part. Since the mental processes to which we are continually responding are largely outside of conscious thought, the mental causes of disease are not necessary confined to influences of which the victim of disease may be aware. What Contagion Teaches Periods of contagion or plague es- pecially emphasize the mental nature of disease.. There is always at such times a disturbed condition of public thought. A wave of fear keeps pace with the physical manifestations of the disease. The fear increases as the contagion approaches a climax, and the two go out as they came in, together. When disease and fear are seen to be coincident, it is still much easier for the human mind to. believe that fear is an incidental effect of the dis- ease, rather than, that disease is an- incidental effect of. fear. This is be- cause the..human'miml is made up of, mental impressions obtained through the live physical, senses. The human mind thinks i.n terms-of materiality. It is easy io.r the human .mind to believe that .curiam- "loum.s of .con- tagion ha*ve_. been conquered ..by m^-. t-ecial UK-aits., but not so easy for it .to-catch the â-  fjUlL-significance of the tendency of. the hurmin. body, wh^n relieved by maberial .means . of one form of disease,, to become, inc.reasr ingly susceptible to disease in some other form, old or new. 1'Crsons have, been known to be so lost -in..con- templation of the marvelous and costly things that are being done to protect the public health that they have failed to notice that the more the public health is thus protected the more protection the public health appears to require. I do not mean to imply that the situation is by any means hopeless. The human mind's tendency to cling to whatever is easiest»for it to prasp, from the belief that the earth was flat to the belief that lttff Coatr not' fly, has stood in the way of progress, but has not prevented progress. - In- telligence, being of God, must in- evitably assert its omnipotent and omnipresent dominion over ignor- ance. The vain search for health in material means and methods is based on the fundamental mistake, that bodily conditions are independent of mental conditions, or, worse still, that the senseless body actually controls mind and dictates the thoughts mind may think. You cannot build a true system on a false foundation, and mankind will not forever try to do so. During the recent epidemic many medical men publicly protested against attempting to combat disease by increasing the fear of it. The Right Textbook The rule and method of the science of right thinking are set forth in the textbook of Christian Science, entit- led "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Ed- dy. This book contains the complete statement of Christian Science, what it is and how it can be learnedand applied. Volumes have been written concerning this book and its teach- ings, but nowhere has it been des- cribed so well as in the eight words comprising its title. In certain courts of law those who would call a wit- ness may 1»e required to tell in ad- vance what they expect to ft rove., by the testimony of the witness. Every word of the testimony then may be considered in the light of its purpose. The title of the Christian Science textbook is a statement of what the book is irttended to prove. The in- telligent student of the book-will never "lose sight of its title. I have known persons to say the? could not understand this book when in fact they had searched it only for confir- mation of theiu preconceived and mistaken notions of its purpose. Persons who expect • Mrs. Eddy's writings to teach them to be success- ful hypnotists or mesmerists, to con- quer pain with mental suggestion or will power, to heal'disease by catling it names, to overcome evil by ignor- ing it, to evade the consequences of sin through a convenient closing of the eyes, to coin dollars and cents out of a mummery of words, or to do anything else that is absurd,1 grotesque, unnatural or illogical, are bound to be disappointed. Considering the title of the book as indicating its purpose, we observe the close association of the words "science" and "health." The book therefore is intended to establish re- lation between science or knowledge and health or well being, to prove that health is to be found in the realm that is mental or spiritual, not phy- sical Associated with the words is supposed to operate through the material human brain, the sort of mind that is uterly at the mercy of mindless matter, that can be made to stop even supposing it is mind, by a blow from an unthinking club. From such a point of view, one might try to have the Christian Science text- book teach him to make the human mind heal disease. It will not teach that. 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