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THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1920 | A LECTURE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Dr. WaltonHubbard, C. S. B. (Continued from Pasre Three) you bodily health, and peace and joy such as you have never known. This wond^rfii! aift i; the understand- ing and power which comes to you when you recognize your true rela- tionship to God, and which when ap- plied to human conditions brings health and harmony. Dirin* Law Available The explanation of God's law and its availablility to all mankind was taught and demonstrated by Jesus the Christ, hut for many centuries it has been maintained that the major portion of the reward for Christian living is to come at some future time, as if one has unlimited and imme- diately funds in the bank but has been made to believe by his friends that the rules of the bank are such that he cannot use the money for many years to come. Christian Science furnishes the rule by which the power that Jesus used in ac- complishing: his wondrous works is made immediately available, and be- cause its beneficent power can make over and bless every phase of our material existence it is the most im- portant subject that can come to cur consideration. The wisdom of this world has failed not only to heal from discord and sin but to heal from disease. And it will continue to fail in its treatment of disease until- it is recognized that sickness is sick thought expressed on the body, and that sick thought is cast out through spiritual understanding. The wonder is that the fact that disease is mental has been hidden from the world for so long, and that human thought can continue to cling to material reme- dies in spite of their very apparent record of failure. That the patient must have faith in the physician in Order to get results is qui-te generally admitted. Notwithstanding this ad- mission, the human mind is so ma-, terial in its thinking that it ignores the mental aspect of disease and con- tinues its futile search in the ma- terial. In his daily practice the phy- sician comes in contact with symp- toms and conditions that cannot be accounted for materially. The mom- ent one assumes that these are men- tal manifestations and looks for con- firmation of this assumption he finds it on every hand. During the time that I was study- ing medicine and before I actually engaged in the practice, the statement was made to me on several occasions and by different persons that any ef- fect which followed the use of medi- cine was not material but mental. The idea seemed quite impossible to me at that time, still when things oc- curred that were of such a nature that they could not be accounted for on any material basis I remembered what had been said and finally I be- gan to see that some tnings at least were mental. The investigation went on and finally resulted in the con- viction that all disease is mental and that any result which has ever been obtained has come about as a mental manifestation. Where before I saw nothing but material conditions I could now see the mental factor everywhere. In my own experience I have seen a person who suffered from a condition for which I pre- scribed at various times, fail to re- ceive any relief from one sort of tablet while the administration of a tablet containing just half the quan- tity of the same drug but with a different color and taste was always followed by most marked results. It has been my experience also that those people who believed that it took strong medicine to cure them ' were much more apt to be quickly benefitted if the medicine through its disgusting taste impressed them as being very strong. On the other hand I remember one person who thought he was unusu- ally susceptible to the supposed ac- tion of drugs. No matter how minute the quantity of drug which was given him his illness was immediately very greatly increased, yet he insisted that he must have medicine. Powders that had no more medicinal action than chalk would produce this ag- gravation as well as medicine, so it was evident that this too was mental. Material Methods Fail Anyone who goes back into the his- tory of material medicine is impress- ed by the fact that lor practically every diseased condition there has been a continual succession of drugs, one following the other; and it is always claimed for the last one, with the greatest enthusiasm and positive- ness that it certainly does heal the disease, and in support of this con- tention there may be offered the rec- ords of many cases that have been cured. Human thought is not much given to retrospection along this line. If it were it would remember that all the drugs that have followed each other in the treatment of disease, and have been successively discarded, have had the same glowing rfeord when they were first used. The reason for this is that it is not the drug but the belief in it which ac- complishes the healing. Those who discover and bring forth a remedy are strong in their belief that it will cure, because the remedy is the out- come of a definite conviction as to how the disease should be treated; so they olftain marked results, while those who prescribe the same drug later on have no such deep convic- tion, and because of their previous experience may be even mildiy skep- tical. This state of thought brings about failure. because the new remedy with its short-lived record of success always takes the place of the old with its hnal record of failure, these suc- cessive changes are announced in the name of progress. The extent of the failure is seen iu the fact that every material thing, vegetable, mineral, and animal, which imagination con- ceived to have a medicinal action has been tried. The ignorance of the medical methods of a hundred years ago is laughed at by the men who seriously believe that extracts from calves and pigs can make them better' men. Now the history of every material method including surgery is the same as that of drugs. The results which come are according to .the belief which is entertained about them. One has only to glance through the medi- cal journals to see that physicians themselves are condemning many of the operations and methods which the world at large has been taught to believe would heal them. Almost every one can recall operations and methods which were quite the rage of a few years ago but are seldom heard of to-day, and it is perfectly safe to predict that the surgical pro- cedures which seem successful to-day will be discarded for others tomor- row. ;. The casual observer may be made to believe that these operations were reasonably 'successful and were only abandoned because other and better operative methods had been discov- ered, Investigation will show, how- ever, that the operation was most successful during its early history, and that something detrimentalâ€" some disturbing after effectâ€"appear- ed with greater and greater fre- quency until the method was aband- oned tor another so new that it had not had time to acquire a record of tatiure* â- '"•*>-. *â- â- *"%.- â- - -V't^jt "-fTT-c Christian Science Logical In what has been said there is no disposition to criticize the medical profression or to minimize whatever of good it may be accomplishing, but it is no kindness to them to refrain from stating the truth. The, greatest blessing that can come to both the doctor and the world is to learn why it is that no material method is of permanent avail and that it is God who not only "forgiveth all thine iniquities" but "who healeth all thy diseases." In my search for the best mental means with which to heal the men- tal condition which produced dis- ease, Christian Science came in for its share of investigation. It was the one method which I thought I did not want because it would not mix with any of,my material think- ing, but it was the only method I could accept because it was the only one which maintained the logic of its reasoning. When human thought is filled with fear and belief in disease, no human statement to the contrary will suffice, and the thought which heals must be so evidently the divine idea, that it comes to human consciousness as the very voice of God to destroy and dispel the error. Such a system is Christian Science and it only asks to be known by its fruits. Its Discoverer And Founder It is essential in undertaking the study of Christian Science that one 'should know something of the one to whom it was revealed, and some of the factors which led to its dis- covery. The revelation came to Mrs. Eddy because the particular qualities of thought which she possessed made it inevitable. She was always of a deeply religious nature. In her secular studies the trend of her thought is shown in the fact that her favorite studies the trend of her thought is ic, and moral science, together with Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. There was in all that she did a persistence that is very striking. A study of her life shows that every material thing which might have brought some sense of satisfaction and peace crumbled to ashes within her grasp, yet she never faltered nor lost faith that God would show her the way out if she per- sisted with sufficient diligence. She investigated every material system of healing and finally decided that all causation must be mental, yet it re- quired twenty years of effort before she really understood that all causa- tion was Mind. God. and a number of years more before it had unfolded with sufficient clarity to be given to the world. So Christian Science came as a result of patient, unfalter- ing effort to know God's law. and to the one who possessed the qualities of thought which makes its revela- tion humanly possible. Because the study of Christian Science has enabled us to know the power and love of God and to rec- ognize and appreciate much more fully what the Master did for us in his demonstration of his power and love, we are grateful to Mrs. Eddy for having made it possible. There is no human gift that can compare to the gift of spiritual understanding, for it brings joy into every phase of living. Those who have not felt its beneficence cannot understand why Christian Scientists express so great appreciation of Mrs. Eddy because they cannot conceive of the great- ness of the gift, while those who know something of the richness of it wonder that so often we loigcL to be grateful. Spiritual Growth It is the common experience of those who study Christian Science that there comes to them a much larger, clearer understanding of God than they had before. In her writ- ings Mrs. Eddy quite properly and with Biblical precedent uses a number of terms for the supreme Being each one of which expresses some par- ticular quality of the divine Principle. It is interesting and helpful in study- ing what she has written to stop and consider just why a particular term for God is used in any given sentence. It will invariably be found that the word chosen not only explains her meaning better than any other, but that by its use one's understanding of Life, or Spirit, or of whatever synonym for God has been used, is increased, and one is conscious of spiritual growth. In discussing the nature of God let us begin with the fact that God is Mind, because by recognizing this we are enabled to see more clearly the inseparable relationship which ex- ists between God and man, and to see that because of this relationship man manifests the qualities of God, of Mind, and nothing else. It is generally admitted that there is a Supreme Being and that he is omnipotent and omniscient. To say that God is omniscient, all-knowing, is stating that God is infinite Mind, for Mind alone knows, understands. When Daniel sai.d "Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his," and when Paul said, "To God only wise, be glory," they moth admitted infinite Mind which alone possesses infinite wisdom and makes it manifest. Divine Mind And Divine Idea In order that we may better under- stand the operation, the activity, of infinite Mind let us illustrate the di- vine Mind by using the ordinary con- ception of a human mind as an ex- ample. You say your friend has a fine mind. You say you know this because he has many fine ideas which he expresses. You have never seen his mind but you have known the ex- pression of it in ideas. If he never moved a muscle, never spoke a word, you would rightly conclude that there was no mind there. So a mind to be called a mind must be filled with ideas, and an idea by virtue of being an idea must be expressed. It is im- possible to conceive of a mind filled with ideas, yet unexpressed; for a mind with no expression is not a mind but a blank. How do you know that a rock has no mind and no ideas? Why simply because it has no expression, for where there are ideas there is expression. The infinite Mind therefore, is filled with an in- (Continued on Page 12) m Property Population of 800,000 Served by This Company Experienced Men Direct Activities AKE no chances with your savings! Your money, in- vested in the Preferred Stock of * ___ the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois, will now bring you a larger cash return than ever before. The solid, substantial char- acter of this investment should appeal strongly to you. The Public Service Company of Northern Illinois provides a population of more than 800,000 in the territory adjacent to Chicago with essentia! electric and gas service. The company has $60,000,000 invested in plants and equipment alone. 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