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March 15, 1929 WILMETTE and appeared not once but several time!# to his friends and talke~l with them during a period of forty days. Then he ascendNl. that is, became invisible to the physical sense. He had demonstrnterl that in~ dividual life is indestructible and con~ tinuous. It might be thought that the significance of 8uch .t stupendous accomplishment would never be forgotten, but, witl]_in twv or thrt.?f' .;enturies, it was, very largely, until some sixty years ago. when, here in America, a spiritually minded and de·:ply reltgious woman, ap parently approaching- the enrl of mortal exi"tence as the - n~sult of an accident turned to her Bible f·)r eonsolation. While she was rea.din~ one of the gospel -accounts of healing performed by Jesus, a sense · of strength and freedom sttJle over her. Shoe arose tlressed :md pre- LIFE ·9 Christian Science and earned the right to be called the leader of the Christian Science movement. GIVES LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Editor's note: Appended is an excerpt from a lecture on Christian Science delivered in the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Wilmette, Friday evening, March 8, by Peter V. ~o~s of San Francisco, member of the noanl of Lectureship of The MtJther ·~' hurch, 'rhe First Church of Christ. Scientist, in Boston, Mass. 'l'he lecture subject was, "Christian Science; Its Purpos :o.nd Method." Thoughtful observers are impressed with the apparent imperfection of things as they pass before us in the panorama of life. The plant is twisted, the beast vicious, while man, the noblest of earth's inhabitants, seems so deplorably prone to disease and evil that he is described as mortal an.d fal len. May not all this supposed imperfection rest in our mistaken sense of things rather than in the things them selves? Unquestionably the Creator has made all things perfect and permanent. Otherwise the universe could not endure. The .source of the difficulty, then, must be sought in personal sense or in the human mind, ard the remedy must be applied to this l!J ind and a correction therein wrought to th e end that a perception be attained \\'!1;ch sees man and the uni·;erse ~s God made them . sented herself to anxious friends, sound and well. But she was not c-ontent wlth this. She mt,~st understand the process of spiritual healing. To this end she searched the Scriptures and devotecl her life. She found that JiSUS, in overcoming disease, setting aside material laws. and abolishing death itself, invoked absolute Science which he understood and which others can understand. In order that the world at large might profit by her discovery, she set forth the fundamentals of this Science m her great book, "Science a nd Health with Key to the Scriptures." Aft~rwat-:rl !:ihe established the Christian Scienc.:> Church with its per iodi~ls and other means for disseminating and guarding th~ truth. Thus it 'Vas, in brief, that Mary Baker Eddy became the Discoverer and I·'ounder of Miss Thalia G. Little, 1337 Greenwood avenue, entertained friends at a dinner party on Thursday, March 7, in honor of her fifteenth birthday. TREE OWNERS desiring the most reliable tree surgery service and counsel to be had, call us. THORNHILL BROS. MAsTtR TRitt SuRctoNs (Not jacks of all trades) Pltone Wll. 2!95 !029 Schiller Ave. · The human mind, because it ifl human , catches at most, only faint glimpses of what is going on eYen in tht~ ~0-ca ll ed physical realm. Small wond t·l'. th en. th at it g-etl' a grotesque senst~ of !-=piritually real things, and, instt:a rJ of see ing them in their ~lory and pc ·rfection, l'~'lHler. · th em sickly and ugly. j 1 1 he 1 \leutnl Jlealm So it is not surprising that the human mind s hould misinter!:)l'el, shou ltl b e littl e man. And this is pr cisel y what i he human mind does. l>iviH8 Mind, or God, 'I' creates and sees man :, pi ritual and pelfeet, above and bP y(1 nrl disease ; but ·h e human rniud, unable to comtH'dl,' ntl mall I in his fullnE>,.c:;s and pt:rfedion, Yisualizt·s 11 him as phyiscal, as a flin.i1; form or figm e, swayed by the evil, tormented bY disease. always limited ,,nd imp rfel't. Thus it is that evil, disea:-;e, and in1pu- 1 f ecjJon have their sourc t.: and aiJitling 1 place in the human mind or con;-;citJusness. Hence their c u,·e must 1ht:> re be brought about. !1 ::\I aterial things, the human body in- 1 11 dueled, seem very real and tan gible. But l ! al'tually matter is only a mistaken sense I 1 (If th in gs as dense and heaYy, as having weight and ends and sides. For the human mind is, so to s peak, shorU:ighted. It gets a blurred seniie of things as dimen sional and ponderous. This restricted sense of things constitutes matter. Mat- ! ter will therefore llisappear as morta l I' ~e use, und e r th e influ ence r)f truth. g:iyes way to a nght p erception which St·es things as they are in sp iritual perfection. ThL· <li~appt a ranee of matter does not mean that the foundation of thing~ will slip away or that the individtw l will cli ::;appear or lose his iden lily. It .-11eD ns that our heavy, awkward, c umb erc~ cl . s ufh . ri"p; sens<.· nf oui·s eJ\·t'S, :: n <-1 of things genera lly, will g-ive pb ~c to th e buoyant, t'l'<.'L'. spiritual-the t1·u e ~·ense of things and of ou r se lves. ·w e liv , then, in a mental realm. All things are mental, man him self being an ngg~gation. of thought s, a s tate of e on~ s<:iousness, instead of an aggregation o~ <·ell s or a physical body as phy~iology declares. And it is t oward c onsdousnpss rather than corpore:t lity that Christi a ~1 Science treatment is directed. Sdt'll<.:t·, l·Y declaring perfection in all things and in all places, operates · to elimin:u:e from human consciousness its beliefs that matt er is actu-al, that di se~c:;e is prest-n t , that evil is attractive. It A weep:s from consciousness the heavy, sickly sense cf man. and brings out the true sense of man as lwa lthy and holy, as spiritual and perfect. Christian Science accomplishes this by prese nting the facts to the inclividnal and arousing him to the true situation. ~t declares to him that the presence of God who is Love and Life lea vcs no place or possibility for disease and suffering; that man as the reflection of God is as perf ct in a degree as God is; that man is an expression of perfect Life and Mind and therefore that he is well and knows that he is well. The effect of these truth!", as they are ac~epted by the in· dividual, is to work a change in co!l· sciousness whereby his sens~ of pain or unrest, which is false, gives place to a sense of health and peace, which is true. Tltc Great Discovery lt will be remembered that Jesus, early in hi s ministry, healed all sorts of diseases and even raised the dead. through spiritual means. Finally, thre e nays after his crucifixion, he came from the sepulcher; I I 1 i,, I 1 11 1 1 I 1 BEAUTIFULas the CBirth of Springtime···. The spirit of Easter is inc<?mplete without flowers. And their rare eloquence is best expressed in our beautiful hardy potted plants and freshly-green cut variety. Lily Plants 50c and up Cut Roses $2.00 per doz. Blooming Plants $r.oo and up Phone University 502, 8607 or Wilmette 2128. \Ve'll gladly deliver. We also deliver by telegraph. 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