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4 10 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1919 that is to say mental, but that the mentality that truly heals is not the human mind but the infinite intel- ligence, God, and that the provable knowledge of that fact is to be ob- tained through the unlocking or un- folding , of the Scriptures. One who would gain quickly the largest benefit from his study of this book will do well to remember that it is not a philosophical essay but a scien- tific textbook, and therefore offers not a theory to be argued but a method to be tried and judged by re- sults. The keynote of Christian Science is demonstration. Victory Over Drink An example of the effect of wrong thinking is the victim of the disease known as intemperance. His material | body appears to have been educated | to desire artificial stimulation. Noth- ing of the kind actually has occurred. Education is a mental process, and | desire is an activity of thought. Aj body composed of unthinking water | and mindless tissue could not have | been educated to desire. So then,| the inebriate's big devil of so-called | physical craving is only a figment of mistaken thinking. And so, by the | way, are all devils. It was the greatest right thinker who denounced the | personification of evil as a self-con- | stituted lie, utterly devoid of truth. | When the victim of drink begins to see how he has been deceived by the lie about physical appetite, he is in a fair way to further awakening. Having observed that craving is not physical but mental, he sooner "or later must look his problem squarely in the face and ask himself, "How can I apply a material liquid to a mental condition? How can a drink of whisky correct a wrong thought?" Were we to trace the drinker's difficulty to its source, we would come to where he first began to look himself over and was not pleased with what he saw. It is a common experience of mortals, and no doubt the verdict often is justified by the evidence. One who can take a thorough view of mortal self and not wish to quench the recollection somehow or other, surely is in a worse state than any drunkard. If you have observed those who drink, you may have noticed how often the illusion of intoxication expresses the opposites of human conditions. He who is weak imagines himself a marvel of strength, the pauper is prodigal with money, the timid grows bold, the silent one insists on being heard. All this dis significant. It voices the inherent protest against the unnatural limitations that mark the human sense of existence. Some- thing in the heart of man tells him he does not belong in such a state. It tells truly. Man, in his real or spiritual selfhood, is the image and likeness of the true God. Dominion is the birthright. Anything short of that is properly repugnant to him. We sympathize with the purpose of the drunkard. We regret only that he has sought to get out of intoler- able conditions through oblivion in- stead of through intelligence. It is the same with those who' seek for- getfulness in excesses of money- getting, social pleasures or intellec- tual diversion, or in zealous devotion to ceremonious sanctity. In the long run all such expedients will be found to have aggravated the conditions they were expected to relieve. The simple fact is that the human sense of self, from which we instinc- tively struggle to be free, must be fairly and squarely met and master- ed. Running away will not do. Nor may we hope to evade the issue by staving it off until so-called friendly death shall give release. The Bible rightly describes death as an enemy, not a friend. Tt is the business of an enemy to be everything but helpful. Besides, for one person to be requir- ed to face his task and work it out while another is relieved by a con- venient process of dying into glori- fied life, is so unjust as to be unthink- able. It is the doctrine of the moral slacker and is out of touch with the fair-play spirit of our times. Thus when the victim of drink or drugs turns to Christian Science for help he finds, first, a sympathetic ap- preciation of his yearning to get away from an unsatisfactory sense of self, and secondly, a means by which this may be done, through the stimulus of right thinking instead of through intoxication. In place of the momentary respite of the debauch, with its remorseful awakenings, Christian Science offers the perman- ent freedom of an enlarging realiza- tion of man's true being, from which there could be no desire to: escape. The notable success of Christian Science in the healing of intemper- ance is attested by a multitude of witnesses. Helps the Business Man Right thinking is the business man's best asset, his surest guaranty of success. There is a scientific reason why the so-called success that 'is built on deceit, fraud and greed is not genuine success and brings to its possessor no real happiness. = The scientific reason is that the product of evil cannot be good, no matter how good it may appear to be for a time. The right thinker in business knows how to resist the subtle sug- gestions of a false and unreal men- tality that would justify a wrong act for the sake of a seemingly worth- while purpose. He knows how to | selfishness is system of fattening on the weakness or credulity of his neighbor, but a system of helpful service. It is gen- erally agreed that business ethics to- day are on a higher plane than be- fore. Most of us can remember when the merchant in advertising his wares was not always expected to tell the whole truth about them, when the trickery of the "hoss trade" was more or less typical of trading in general, and scrupulous honesty frequently was regarded as distinctly not the best policy in business. The reasons for the improvement in commercial morals are not fully known to those who are unaware of -the extent to which business men are turning quietly to Christian Science for the solution of their business problems. As an example of how the ideals of trade have risen, let me quote the | words of a man of world-wide repu- tation for business success. In dis- cussing the subject of salesmanship recently he said: "My experience has taught me that the effort to make a man buy something he does not need, in the [long run defeats its own purpose. No |of a state to business can develop except as it promotes the interests of those who use its goods or its services. manship, the greatest the most possible un- enlightened selfishness. his ideals above his profits, in full confidence that profits will surely ac- crue to fine ideals intelligently exe- | cuted." Such a declaration from a modern captain of industry means that the business man of today is catching a glimpse of the operation of divine law in business. He is beginning to realize that the presence of such qualities as justice, truth and love in a business transaction has a definite relation to ultimate success, and that the absénce of such qualities will work eventual failure. The Christian Scientist in business not only knows that such results occur, but he has the advantage of knowing why they occur and how he may avail himself of the operation of divine law in business in constantly increasing de- gree. He is a trained observer of mental conditions. He knows that justice, truth and love, and like men- tal qualities, are certain signs of the presence of the true God, a presence necessarily active and good. Chris- tian Science has taught him that a right result never is due to chance, that it always is the outcome of the operation of divine law. He knows that this law is everywhere present and is. self-operative Therefore he knows that he manages his business best when he manages to keep out of | his business those qualities of think- ing that would prevent divine law from managing it for him. - A Remarkable Church A notable manifestation of right thinking is the Christian = Science Church. This church includes a cen- tral organization, The Mother Church, and branch churches and so- cieties in virtually every quarter of the globe. There are nearly 1800 branches, and new ones are being organized at an average rate of one per week. In the Christian Science Journal, official organ of this church, are list- ed the names of 6000 registered prac- titioners of Christian Science, an army of consecrated men and wom- en, who, often at much personal sac- rifice, devote their time to Christian healing. Great Interest Shown This church maintains a board of | lectureship, whose members éndeavor especially to meet the needs of those who may have little or no knowledge | of Christian Science, but who wish to know whether it offers a practical way out of human ills of whatever sort. The extent of the reaching out in this direction is indicated by the fact that two thousand lectures were heard last year by approximately one million five hundred thousand per- sons. Another unique feature of the Christian Science movement is the free public reading rooms maintain- ed by each church. Although never unmindful that the supreme need of mankind is spiritual enlightenment, of which physical healing is an incidental effect, the Christian Church does not neglect its humanitarian opportunities. In gréat public emergencies its response is prompt and substantial, and its members usually are found to be do- ing their share in support of worthy charities. From the beginning of hostilities in Europe a war relief fund was conducted under the auspices of The Mother Church, and through this fund flowed a steady stream of money and supplies, distributed by repre- sentatives of the church' among suf- fering and destitute war victims in many lands. : The Chrisiian Science Church is a self-sustaining church. It makes no demands on the community at large. It builds kandsome church edifices without solicitation of money from outsiders and with little or no such solicitation among its own members. It dedicates its churches free from debt. The demand for Christian Science literature requires constantly en- larging publication facilities. . The up-to-date publishing house in' Bos- ton now employs seven hundred per- sons. From this house issue all of the works of Mary Baker Eddy, be- build success on wisdom and fair dealing. Business to him is not a sides quarterly, monthly and weekly periodicals, The Christian Science In sales- | The best salesman puts] Monitor, a great daily newspaper of world-wide circulation, and quantities of other literature, some of it in eleven languages. In this connection it may be helpful to know = that thirty American legislatures, as well as the President of the United States, have recognized the practice of Christian Science by providing that it shall not be subject to medical laws or regulations. The president's recognition was given by President Taft as part of the executive orders for the government of the Panama Canal Zone. I do not mean to imply that there is any lack of legal right to practice Christian Science in any of the other states. Chief Judge Bartlett, of the New York State Court of Appeals, when concurring in a decision of that court, which | protected the practice of Christian Qcience from medical interference, The full measure of what Mrs. Eddy had to meet in order that the way to health and holiness might be made clear for you and me, can have been appreciated by herself only, but enough is known to entitle her to high place among those who were persecuted for righteousness sake. In a volume of her collected writings, known as "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Mis- cellany," on page 165 .she makes characteristically brief reference to this phase of her experience. She says, "There is scarcely an indignity which I have not endured for the cause of Christ, Truth, and I have returned blessing fo rcursing." Dur- ing many years Mrs. Eddy had not been permitted to" forget that the effort to hinder the spread of her teachings would not stop short even of trying to make her appear to be personally unworthy to have brought said: "I deny the power of the legis-|to light anything good and pure. | lature to make it a crime to treat] Doubtless she was aware also that | disease "hy prayer." The Supreme |long after she had passed away mis- t Court of the United States in a re-}representation and slander would cent 'decision has affirmed the right till find, here and there, an un- listinguish by law be-| manly tongue to give them utter- | tween the use of mental suggestion | ance. 3 | by certain drugless practitioners and the healing of the sick by prayer as | | practized in Christian Science. | Love Is Invincible {The price of spiritual leadership is | persecution. In human history every | call to a higher order of righteous- | ness has had to encounter the sharp reaction of the demand of un- righteousness to be let alone. Mrs. Eddy's discovery of the Science of Christianity was a challenge to ma- terialism in religion, in medicine, in every department of human thought. The challenge was answered in materialism's most approved fashion. The resources of devilish cunning, low intrigue and clumsy ignorance were taxed to the utmost to dis- credit the lone woman, who, without money, human influence or material organization, had dared to take her stand against the, entrenched forces of dogmatism and tradition. Her steadfast refusal to be moved by these things only served to aggra- vate the assaults. 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