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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1918 (Continued from Page Two) is a mighty power in this influence which has touched the lives of your fellow citizens and blessed them, which has made bad men good and good men better. Personal Experience As one of the many who have re- turned from going down into the pit, I testify gladly to the power of Chris- tian Science in my own experience. Because of the bias of medical and theological education, I was for many years deprived of the benefits of Christian Science. When my eyes finally were opened, I found health and spiritual awakening I had never known in the old ways of medicine and theology. I then discovered that the growth of Christian Science fis due entirely to the fact that it "meets the heart's great need" as no other system has met it. Throughout thir- teen years of the study and practice of Christian Science, in proportion to my understanding and application of its divine Principle, I have felt the abiding consciousness of God's pres- ence and power, and have come into an ever enlarging sense of dominion over all that is unlike good. I have experienced healing and have been witness to the healing of many others. These cases include acute and chronic conditions. functional and organic diseases, nervous and mental disorders. I have seen all types of disease and sin healed and their victims restored through spirit- ual power alone. My friends, IT am aware that the foregoing statement accords to Christian Science a place as a re- storative agency, not achieved by any of the prevailing systems of religion and medicine. Now I do not speak incompetently nor do I wish to speak impertinently of materia medica. To qualify my- self to practice medicine, I studied three years and graduated at a stand- ard medical college. At no place did this course of study rise above mat- ter. The text book which has most to sayabout health,and theway to re- store and maintain it, was omitted from the curriculum. The Bible is not studied in medical colleges! The supreme authority on cause and effect, the one exhaustive study of man and his Maker is there ignored. The entire tendency of material medicine is away from the spiritual. However much material systems of medicine may infect ordinary re- ligion, and the infection has already deprived the orthodox church of spiritual healing, it cannot be said that religion has affected medicine, which is avowedly unreligious, its practice requiring no Christion quali- fication. Christian Science honors and re- spects that class of physicians whose lives are devoted to the alleviation of suffering, whose interest in man- kind is not selfish nor political. To such noble men and women Christian Scientists ~say: "Let there be no strife," for, to the extent that we la- bor for humanity "we be brethren." But the radical cure and prevention of disease must come, not through drugs, not through material methods, but through improved mental states. Better thinking makes better bodies, just as better thinking makes better morals, and Christian Science is the religion of right thinking. After practicing medicine for three years, I was forced to the conclusion that to ignore the spiritual man is to be unprepared to cope with the men- tal processes underlying the discord- ant manifestations we see in the phy- sical body. Medical experience taught me, as it has taught others, that regardless of cJagnosis and treatment, a very large percentage of patients recover, a small propor- tion are unaffected, or grow worse, and a few die. It became conclusive that whether my ears rang with commendation or burned with con- demnation, I had perhaps done little to merit either. I came at last to know that material medicine, with its multiplied legion of diseases and its super-legion of remedies, is not, and, by its very nature, never can be a genuine curative agency. Today, from experience in the treatment of the sick covering active practice in both material and meta- physical medical systems, I am able to testify to the superiority of Chris- tian Science over all other methods. To illustrate this superiority a single comparative instance will suffice. Shortly after I became a Christian Scientist, while on a business trip, I was seized with ptomaine poisoning. After a strenuous night I reached home in a cemi-conscious condition and was just able to call for a Chris- tian Science practitioner. With one treatment, and a lapse of only twen- ty-four hours, I returned to my work entirely restored. About the same time a physician of my acquaintance was attacked in a similar manner. He was attended by fiye medical practi- tioners, lay in delirium for five weeks, and finally made a slow but imperfect recovery. The Universal Panacea If each individual in this audience were asked to give a reason for his presence here, no doubt it would be possible to classify the replies under' two great heads--religion and medi- cine. These may be said to be the paramount human interests, for sec- ond only to a future salvation, man- kind is concerned in the preservation of his body. Christian Science has amalgamated these interests so that, rightly viewed, religion and medicine become one; and since Christian Science, in its saving and healing grace, is applicable to all manner of discords, physical, mental and moral, it may be termed the universal pan- acea. : It is significant that the earliest systems of religious philosophy made no separation between religion and medicine. The pagan gods of medi- cine were called upon to. heal sick- ness, just-as the gods of war were | appealed to for victory, and the gods of peace for plenty. Medicine began to separate from religion as medicine became more material and religion grew less so. Material medicine had so developed into a system apart from religion, that when Jesus began his restorative ministry, and healed the sick by purely spiritual power, he was termed both by the theologians and the matter physicians a miracle worker, so unheard of had it become to invoke the healing power of God. The only reason mankind has not turned to God, the great Physician, in the time of physical distress. is be- cause of the material bias of its edu- cation Mankind has been taught to look to God for salvation from sin, but to rely upon matter for the cure of matter and .its dire beliefs. Be- cause of the seeming increasing pow- er of false material education, man- kind has been unable to grasp the simplicity and adequacy of the spirit- ual laws of God applied to the dis- cords of the flesh. Jesus knew these laws, employed them, and laid upon all Christians the injunction to imitate his healing works. It may be argued that Jesus conferred the power to heal upon his contemporary disciples only. Yet he said unequivocally: "These signs shall follow them that believe." But if the contention be true, how did Paul, who was not Jesus' immediate disciple, acquire the art of Christian healing? It must be admitted that Paul used none but spiritual power in his restorative ministry. The Master alluding to his divine Principle, the healing and saving Christ, said: "Lo! I am with you alway." This Christ was available to Paul and he rose in spiritual consciousness to the realiza- tion of it. The power of God to heal and to save, so wondrously present with Jesus, and with the early Chris- tians for three hundred years, is available to all today, and when un- derstood and employed, in Jesus' way, becomes the witness of "Christ in you, the hope of glory." The Discoverer And Founder Christian Science was discovered and the movement founded by a wo- man, Mary Baker Eddy. From child- hood she had been deeply religious, and early had displayed a profound-. ly spiritual nature. Her first writings confirm this 'and also show remark- able literary talent; thus they fore- cast her later achievement. But such promise was handicapped by physical frailty, which, as she came to young womanhood, operated more and more to incapacitate her. Herocially she struggled against a semi-invalid- ism extending over many years. The failure of Allopathic medicine to help her, and her own study and futile application of Homeopathy. together with unvailing resort to other sys- tems of treatment, combined to turn her toward God as a "very present help in trouble." Graduallq she be- came convinced that disease, as well as sin, is mental in origin and there- fore amenable to spiritual treatment whereupon the Bible became the field of her search for health. At last she reached a state of spiritual growth where she experienced instantaneous healing from what her physician had declared to be a fatal accident. Filled with gratitude to God for her re- storation, she withdrew from society and for three years sought within the Scriptures the explanation of her recovery. Her research reveaied to her the Principle and rules of the spiritual healing which attended the restorative ministry of the Master and his disciples. This discovery she named Christian Science. Christian, because practiced by Christ Jesus; Science, because it is exact, demons- trable knowledge of the laws of God. Inspired by love for humanity, she wrote 'the text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." After demonstrating the efficacy of Christian Science to heal disease and sin, to restore health and dominion, she gave her book to the world. This book has revived primitive Chris- tianity. In less than fifty years mil- lions have received its evangelic message, "Fear not: For behold I bring you good tidings of great joy. which shall be to all people." The world as yet little knows the extent of its indebtedness to this gentle wo- man, but today her grateful benefic- iaries unite with Isaiah in declaring the promise due unto godliness: "Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in." God Christian Science accepts the prim- al order of Scripture which states fun- damentally: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." The most self evident facts we can | consider are that the universe, in- cluding man, exists, and that it is a creation. A creation implies a power by which the thing made comes into existence, and thus we arrive logic- ally at the Creator. That is very plain, and there have never been in the world's history any considerable number of people who would deny a supreme Cause, or God. Therefore Christian Science is not confronted with the necessity to es- tablish in thought the fact that God is. Its mission is to reveal what God is, how we are to know Him, and how we are to utilize His power in solving life's problems. Mrs. Eddy knew that what humanity needs is the right concept of God; that until mankind learns something of the truth about God, its efforts to work out its own salvation are ineffective and its progress at best is slow. The restorative ministry of Christian Science includes then, priarily, re- placement in consciousness of ig- norant or inadequate beliefs about God with right concepts of Him. In reviewing the history of religion it is surprising to note that however diverse the beliefs about Deity held by mankind, there is one: striking similarity common to them all. With- out exception these beliefs have picturized God. Invariably he has been thought of as the image and likeness of something. Moses com- manded: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any like- ness of anything " Now God is not image, nor is He likeness, for the simple reason that, according to the Bible, His creation is image and likeness, whereas Deity is the origin of all things, or the first Cause. The progress of humanity has been pro- portional to the proper reversal of his inversion of natural order and the restoration in consciousness of divine Cause as primary. Mankind's concepts of Deity have ranged from the crudest forms of matter, images of stone, wood, met- als, and from the more impressive manifestations of matter, the sun, moon and stars, all the way to the deification of man. My early thought of God took the form of an elderly gentleman of most benign counten- ance and gracious carriage, who re- sembled no one so much as my father. And that is not surprising, since I was taught the fatherhood of God without an adequate explana- tion of His infinite character. May it not be said truly that every individual that approaches the sub- ject of Christian Science has a con- cept of Deity false in some degree? Mrs. Eddy saw this, and she saw also that these finite concepts, these false beliefs about God, operate to hinder the progress of humanity-- because they leave mankind to deal with effects without a true knowledge of Cause. She therefore chose seven prominent synonyms of God which she said were "intended to express the nature, essence and wholeness of Deity.". (Science agd Health, pg. 465.) Most of these synonyms she took directly from the Bible, and all of them have Scriptual authority. These wonderful words are found in Science and Health (pg. 465) in answer to the question, "What is God?" "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle Life, Truth, Love." Note that not one of these words express- es a concept of God as finite whether person or thing. John said, "God is Love," and love is not a person, nor a thing, love is a principle. Jesus said to the woman at the well, "Cod is a Spirit," and spirit is not a per- son nor a thing, it is a principle. When the Psalmist referred to Deity as a God of truth, he did not speak of a person nor a thing, but of a principle; when Moses said of God. "he is thy life," and Job regerred to God "in whose hand is the soul of every living thing." they used words which express in each case a prin- ciple. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus," said Paul, and showed that Mind is Principle and not a person nor a thing. These seven words each indicate, then, Principle, not person nor object, and are fully synonymous with God be- cause they "express the nature, es- sence, and wholeness of Deity." Now the outstanding character of Deity is His infinitude. God is in- finite, incorporeal, that is, not lim- ited, not bounded nor confined. The infinitude of God means, if -it means anything at all, that God is one, with- out a second. Therefore God is the only Principle, the only Mind, the only Life, Truth, Love, the only Soul, the only Spirit. "The Lord he is God; there is none else beside him." The revelation of "the larger thought of God" is enabling Chris- tian Scientists to understand Him, to draw near to Him, to see his handi- work, and to reject what is unlike the divine nature. Whatever the problem confronting the Christian Scientist he never rests until he ar- rives at God. God must be in all his thoughts, for the presence of God means the pressence of good and the absence of evil. It is often remarked how intimate- ly Christian Scientists speak of God. We no longer regard Him fearfully, because we have learned that He is Divine Love. We no longer imagine Him to be a magnified mortal. We have ceased to look for him geo- graphically or astronmically, or to circumscribe him in any way. But if to us his habitation is no longer limited to place, we have gained the understanding 'of God's presence everywhere. If we have lost our fear of Deity, we have gained for Him love and allegiance. If we have ceas- ed somewhat to believe in the power of evil, it is because we have learned something of the all-power of God. To all who thus are becoming ac- quainted 'with God, are learning to trust him, and are striving to be like him. Mrs. Eddy refers in the open- ing line of her textbook: "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to- day is big with blessings." (Science and Health with Key to the Script- ures, Preface VII.) Spiritual Sense And Heaven How do we know God and where do we find Him? Elijah in the mount before the Lord learned that God was not in the whirlwind, not in the earthquake, not in the fire--God was not in matter. He was in the still small voice. No man can understand God or know. His abode through the finite senses, for "no man hath seen God at any time." Because He is Spirit, He manifests Himself spirit- ually. "They that worship Him," said Jesus, "must worship Him in spirit and in truth." So Mrs. Eddy wrote, (Science and Health, page 481) : "Through spiritual sense only, man comprehends and loves Deity." And again, (Science and Health, page 209) : "Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant, capacity to understand God." I recently read a report of a ser- mon by a clergyman on the subject, "Will Christian Scietists Go To Heaven?" No Christian Scientist can doubt that he will be in heaven just in the degree of his understanding of Jesus' statement, "For, behold, the Kingdom of God is within you." God and heaven are within the grasp of spiritual perception alone. Orthodox views received a' just rebuke from a little child who, when asked where heaven is, replied "out in the grave- yard." By inescapable logic he had concluded that if God and heaven were reached through death, as he had been taught, the cemetery must be the gateway to the Kingdom. The Christian Scientist to whose inquiry the child responded, was able to show him that since heaven is God's home, and God is everywhere, heav- en must be everywhere. She explain- ed that God is Love and God is Good. and therefore where love and good are found, there is God and heaven; so to the child came the joy of know- ing God's eternal nearness, even His everpresence. Christian Science has come to re- store the right concept of heaven, and to reveal it to be spiritual con- sciousness, and there is not one in this audience but may yield his ma- terial sense to that divine influence and now and here enter the realm of harmony. Man The restoration in consciousness of God as Spirit, or Mind, at once lifts thought to a higher contempla- tion of God's creation--man. Man- kinds esimate of man has risen of course, no higher than his estimate of God. False beliefs about God have resulted directly in erroneous concepts of man. So a finite, mate- rial sense ofythe Creator has been reflected in humanity's thought of man as finite and material. Chris- tian Science comes to show the falsi- ty of such belief and to restore the concept of man as spiritual, the image and likeness of Spirit. Natural science declares man to be composed of chemical elements and to be confined to a physical body. It recognizes an immaterial factor in this man which it calls mind, but which it limits to brain matter, hold- ing that form of matter responsible for mentality. Paul terms this ani- mated brain matter the carnal mind, or the mind of the flesh, and further characterizes it as "enmity against God." Since this so-called mind comes in with matter, is wholly de- pendent on matter for manifestation, and goes out with matter, Mrs. Ed- dy calls is mortal mind, and its per- sonification she named mortal man. This erring, sinning, dying, material concept of man plainly is not the man God made in His image and like- ness, for the likeness of Spirit could not be unspiritual, the likeness of God could not be imperfect. Divini- ty is never less than spiritual, while matter is never more than material. Spirit and matter are opposites in essence and qualities. Popular theology holds that man is both material and spiritual; that he has a material body and a spirit- ual soul. It will not help to argue that man is both material and spirit- ual, since in that case, the destruction of the material body would result in the partial destruction of man. Chris- tian Science teaches what the Bible imports, that the real man is wholly spiritual, and that the mind-mattei combination, described by physical science, and the spirit-flesh combina- tion, described by theology, are false beliefs about man. ' Indeed the de- structibility of the physical body clearly shows it to be utterly unlike the infinite, imperishable Spirit. Jesus furnished an illustration both of the real man and of the un- real nature of physicality when, after proving its unreal character by dis- regarding and overcoming physical (Continued on page six.) VILLAGE OF WINNETKA SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE WINNETKA SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NUMBER 277. IN THE COUNTY SRT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLIN- Notice is hereby given to all per- sons interested that the Village of Win- netka, Cook County, Illinois, having ordered a supplemental special assess- ment to pay the estimated deficiency in the cost of the work and interest for the construction of a local improve- ment in the Village of Winnetka, County of Cook and State of Illinois, the ordinance for which said improve- ment provided as follows, to wit: for the improvement of Garland Avenue from and connecting with the present pavement in Church Road to and con- necting with the present pavement in Forest Street, by paving with brick on a concrete base a roadway nineteen (19 feet wide, except at curb corners, where the pavement shall be widened along curved lines of twenty (2) fee radii over all, including all excavation, grading, preparation of subgrade, cur- ing and protecting pavement during construction, constructing new catch basins, including sewer connections, and connecting the proposed pavement with the present pavement, adjusting manhole covers and walk approaches, all in the Village of Winnetka, County of Cook and State of Illinois, and which said ordinance was passed and ap- proved by the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Winnetka, Cook County, Illinois, on the third day of October, A.D. 1916, and which special assessment proceeding was known as Winnetka Special Assessment Num- ber 260, in the County Court of Cook County, Illinois, the ordinance for the same being on file in the office of the Village Clerk of said Village, and the said Village having applied to the County Court of Cook County, Illinois, for a supplemental special assessment to pay the estimated deficiency in the cost of the work and interest of said local improvement, according to the benefits, and a supplemental special assessment therefor having been made and returned to said Court, Docket Number 277, the final hearing thereon will be held on the seventh day of October, A. 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