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|60,191â€" "6715 way rcies 13.3 25 *495 +495 the hile 1.500. +565 Gad 195 $10. P. 710 finish, +005 Synopsis Of Lecture On Christian Science Given January 16th THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1989 Ahem-onCthSduuby{ Gavin W. Allan, C.S.B. of Toronto, Canada, was given Monday evening, January 16th at Elm Place school auditorium. . The speaker, is a member of the Board of: Lectureâ€" ship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass, Following is a brief resume of the lecture. Whether one is affiiliated with one of the Christian denominations or mt,wbeth«mweo&‘:.h indif. ferent to, or rejects teachings of Christianity, one thing is almost certain â€" he has prayed. He may not have called his mental attitude or effort prayer; he may not have thought of it as prayer; he may reâ€" sent any implication that he has evâ€" er prayed; and yet it is almost cerâ€" tain he has prayed. is doubtless a cry for help â€" just a ery. <Let me illustrate. Suppose a child has been warned by his fathâ€" er not to do a certain thing. Supâ€" pose the child disregards this warnâ€" ing and gets »into a predicament from which he cannot free himself, his first impulse is to ery for help. It may be just a cry, a cry addressed to no one in particular; or, it may be a ery to his father, the very person whose warning he disobeyed. â€" In other words, when the child becomes aware that he is in trouble, when he feels or fears he cannot get out unaided,‘ his first impulse is to cry for help. & es way of" extricating ourselves, we cry for help. This is illusâ€" trated a number of times in the one hundred «and seventh Psalim. You may remember the Psalmist‘s desâ€" eription of the wanderers in the wilâ€" dernéss: "Hungry and thirsty, their cried unto the Lord in their trouâ€" ble." Also his description of the sailors in a storm: "They reel to and fro, and stagger . like a drunken man, and are at their wit‘s end, Then ;heyerynntothehrdinthektrou- le." y Is not this all too frequently the case, that men pray only when they are driven to it by fear? Men who, when their affairs are â€"running smoothly, when their business is flourishing, when their health is good, attribute their successes to themselves and rarely acknowledge the presence of a higher power; when reverses come, when courage fails, when they are "at their wit‘s end. Then they cry unto the Lord." This has ever been the experience of humanity; that reverses, troubles, distresses, and misfortunes which shake men out of the ruts or habits of living and back to their native impulses, almost invariably drive men to prayer of some sort. Such being the case, prayer must be reâ€" garded as one of the native impulses of humanity, and as such is more primitive than the most primitive creed, because, you see, the creed only attempts to formulate or exâ€" plain what prayer instinctively asâ€" sumes. 6 > & But there is a. higher form of prayer than the selfâ€"pitying ery for help. Let us turn to the illustraâ€" tion used a few moments ago. Supâ€" pose the child had listened to the warning of his father. | Suppose that he really desired to comprehend his father‘s point of view and to bring himself into complete harmony with it. Would not such a desire of itself ilustrate a kind of prayer? In its most primitive form prayer Indeed, would it not illustrate â€"a higher form of prayer than the imâ€" pu‘sive ery for help? â€"Would not an eager listening on our part for the voice of God to direct us be a higher form of prayer than an imâ€" pulsive ery for help when we find ourselves in trouble? Would not a yearning on our part to understand good be a higher form of prayer than a ery to be extricated from the meshes of evil? In other words, would not listening for God‘s voice be a higher form of prayer than erying to God? â€"â€" _ _ 4 So it is with us, children of a ‘ Now the fact of the matter is that‘each one of us is always in the Collins SELF SKIRT MARKER Chalk your hem the easy profesâ€" sional way. Just squeeze the bulbâ€"and mark an accurate hem in 60 seconds! Takes the guess work out of shortening a skirt! . . Complete with sample tube of powder. Orders also taken for Pinking Shears . . . Spool Holders . . . . Guages and 'l"elqhue Highland Park 405 for further x* attitude of listening. Two streams of thought seem to be ceasely comâ€" ing our way: one erroneous, the, other true; one unreal, the other real. One presents suggestions of fear, poverty, sickness, unhappiness, or sin, The other offers peace, abundance, health, happiness, and purity, To which are we listening? Which group of qualities would we prefer to experience? The good, of course. How can we make these exâ€" periences ours? We may begin by listening. â€" And then our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us the next step. . In the Christian Science textâ€" book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 261), she writes, "Hold thought steadfastly to the enduring, the good, and the true, and you will bring these into your experience proportionably to their occupancy of your thoughts;" that is, listen for the good, "hold thought steadfastly" to the good, and you will experience the good. Could anything be more reasonable? But someone may say: Does God really spesk to men? Can we hear His message! Just here let me say that there is a hearing that is keenâ€" er than that of the human ear, a mode of hearing each of us possessâ€" es; and the message of ‘!‘ru? can always be heard if we but listen. ltn:‘yeometouthro:d‘;hthceonn- sel of a friend, the words of a book we are reading, a remembered poem, or a passage of Scripture. _ How frequently have men been liftedâ€"out of the darkness of despair by the words of Elihu, as recorded in Job, "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life"! What numbers of people have been brought back from invalidism to health and vigor through heeding the message of truth in the "scientific statement of being," as given in our textbook (p. 468) : "There is no life, truth, intelâ€" ligence, nor substance in mater. All is infinite Mind and its infinite maâ€" ifestation, for God is Allâ€"inâ€"all. Spirâ€" it is immortal Truth; matter is mortal eror. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. â€" Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. â€" Thereâ€" BOWMAN DAIRY COMPANY fore ‘man is not spiritual"! : In the Christian Science textbood (p. 823) _ Mrs. Eddy <‘speaks of Christian Science as "the ‘still, small voice‘ of Truth uttering itself," and adds, "We are either turning away from this utterance, or are we lisâ€" tening to it and going up higher." And in one of her poems (Poems, p. 14) she has pointed out the true attitude, one which she herself maintained through many years. She says: ty "I will listen for Thy voice, f Lest my foosteps stray; 1 will follow and rejoice All the rugged way." It was this listeni attitude which enabled our ha;:r,to fulfill her mission as the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and unfolded to her the Byâ€"Laws of The Mother Church which continue to safteguard the Christian Science orâ€" ganization. One"lone New England woman‘s listening for the voice of God and willingly obeying! With what result: Effects beyond the powâ€" er of the human mind to compute. Unceasing Prayer In Paul‘s letter to the Thessalonâ€" ians he exhorts his readers to "pray without ceasing." If prayer necesâ€" sitated a repetition of words, unâ€" ceasing prayer would be an impossiâ€" bility; but since prayer is a mental or spiritual attitude, Paul‘s comâ€" mand can be obeyed. In this conâ€" nection let me quote a sentence from our textbook (Science and Health, p. 4), "The hdbitual struggle to be @lways good is unceasing prayer." You see, the mental attitude of alâ€" ways desiring good, always strivâ€" ing for. it, always willing to obey its denllnds â€" such an attitude is, of itlel{, prayer, In nliother passage in our textâ€" book (p. 15) Mrs. Eddy has writâ€" ten, "Selfâ€"forgetfulness, purity, and affection are constant prayers." Ben‘fig'n. Eddy has named three: qualities which the hum@gn mind is not eager to adopt. But qualities which, outstandingly > characterized _ our Master:. . "Selfâ€"forgetfulness." How: well does : this word (describe ‘our Master‘s attitude! â€""Not my will, €EE PR ESss but thine, be done" his prayer. He forgot self in God and his fellow men. | It may not seem easy to drop our sense of self, to lay down all sense of selfâ€"imâ€" [portance, or self. all deâ€" sire for selfâ€"case or â€"gratificaâ€" ‘tion. The carnal seems to inâ€" sist upoh the Tor a selfâ€" hood apart from God. That is its only dwelling place, and it is disinâ€" glined to move out. ?t it is doomâ€" ed to ejection from human consciâ€" ousness. And in the |measure that we put off the:old man and put on the new, in the measure that mortal mind gives place to that "mind . . . which was also lln Christ Jesus" we ‘ghall acquire selfâ€"forgetfulness, and our prayers will be intreasingly efâ€" Hcaciouns. | (u "Purity." â€" This is a spiritual quality, and it is not to see the very close n which exâ€" ists between it and prayer. On page 150 of Miscelany Mrs. Eddy .deâ€" scribes a phase of prayer which would be beneficial to each of us. She writes, "In speechless prayer, ask God to enable you to reflect God, to become His own image and likeâ€" ness." Is not this what we really desire, when we take time to think quietly ? If it is our Ful desire to be a pure reflection of God, it ought to have\ more than a momentary place in pur thought. | Let us keep At before us more and| more until it ‘becomes ~ur domi desire, our constant prayer. s | **Affection." Let not be backâ€" ward about mdopting, or shamed of: bmifutin:, the tender qualities of Mind: affection,, kindness, !or:in- mness, and love. In I John 3:18 we may zead, :;y little ‘children, let ms not love in word, neither in itongue; but Meod..nd in truth." i‘No writer in the Bible has more to \say in defense of the right sense of ‘love than John, and. you remember ‘his answer to the argument that it is possible for a person to love God ‘wnd hate his fellow man. He said \"He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom hq hath not seen?" Imâ€" possible! | & L Phone Highland Park 2700 What an affection Jesus had for mankind!~ How he yearned to bless his fellows! His affection went out to all to gather them to the truth of their spiritual manhood, and this pure affection was a conâ€" stant prayer. As we come to know, 43 NORTH SHERIDAN ROAD Open: WEEK DAYS 9 1. m. to 6 p. m. SATURDAYS 9 a. m. to 9 p. m. BUNDAIB&:‘!LL-. to 5:30 p. m. 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