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10 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1924 A LECTURE Christian Science entitled "Christian Science, the Liberator." . A lecture on Christian 'Science was delivered on Monday evening, April 28, in the Masonic Temple, Winnetka. The lecturer, Miss Lucia C. Coulson, of London, England, member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Crist, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, was introduced by Mrs. Ethel V. Campbell, second reader of Wilmette church, who said: Friends: It has long been the custom for First Church of Christ, Scientist, Wil- mette, Illinois, to provide annually a lecture on Christian Science for its friends and neighbors in this com- munity; and so tonight--on hehalf of the members of that church--I bid you a most cordial welcome. This occasion is an especially joyous one for it might be designated a love feast, manifesting the bonds of fellow- ship between the Wilmette church and the newly organized First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Winnetka, Illinois, which brings to this village a visible expression of church such as our be- loved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, de- fines in our Manual: "The Church Universal and Triumphant" (p. 19). We have assembled to hear a mes- sage of deliverance from sin, sickness, and death, entitled "Christian Science; 'The Liberator," by a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother 'Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. It is now my pleasure to present to you Miss Lucia C. Coulson, C. S., of London, England, who will now ad- dress you. Friends--Miss Coulson. Miss Coulson said in part: "The world is full of philosophies, theories, and religions, and it may well be asked what excuse Christian Science has to offer in adding to the number. The answer is the Christian Science differs in one respect from all of them. It promises much and guarantees the fulfilment of thee promises now and here, but it also maintains that its every statement can be proved and must be proved by demonstration. This is the foundation on which Christian Science stands, this is the hope it holds out to the race, this is its contribution to the ages. It has shown religion to be scientific. Its appeal is not to those who are satisfied, but to those who feel they are in need of comfort, en- couragement, and healing. = It has come in the language of Isaiah the Prophet "to bind up the broken- hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound." What is it to be in prison? Tt is, according to the dictionary, to be con- fined, and confinement in its turn is described as being placed within limits. Most of us, then, are in bond- age to some form of limitation. We are in a prison of sickness, mabe, or of fear, or of lack--lack of opportun- ity, lack of harmony, lack of hap- piness; and all prisoners, generally speaking have one thing in common. the longing to find a way out. Well, there is a way out, and I am here to present it to you. Now, it is quite certain that every prison is mental. Sir Richard ILove- lace, the Cavalier poet saw this cen- turies ago when he wrote: -- "Stone walls do not a prison make, 'Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage." 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For there is on~ thing that can- not be imprisoned, which no tyrant can confine, and that is a man's thoughts. You may place him in the lowest dungeon, but you cannot chain or confine his thinking. Only he him- self can do that. And this brings us to the discovery that we imprison our- selves, for we alone have the control of our own thinking, to limit or en- large it. If then the prison is mental, the way of escape must be mental also. It is plain that the only thing we have to change is our thought. And this is where Christian Science comes in. It comes with the most comforting message in all the world, for it tells us how to control our thinking, how to enlarge our borders, how to set free our thoughts and break down every limitation that be- sets and confines us. Here some one may object, "But my problem is one of circumstances. The change I need is a change of circumstances rather than of thinking." My friend, it may sound a hard saying, but it is never- the less true (and in reality it is supremely comforting), that the cir- cumstances we deplore are the result, in every instance, of wrong thinking, not our thinking necessarily, but the There is a science of numbers, we are all agreed on that, and this science teaches the exact arrangement of num- bers. Each figure must be in a certain order to work out the simplest prob- em correctly. We cannot scatter fig- ures at random, and then expect a right result. Should there not be a science of thinking, to be worked out with the same exactness in order to reach a right. solution? Christian Science teaches that this Science of Being or thinking is here and has a perfect Principle and rule by whih thoughts can be tested and ordered and arranged, and by which every problem can be solved. thinking possibly of our parents or instructors which we have accepted as our own. 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