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A LECTURE ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE By DR. WALTON HUBBARD, C.S.B.
Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Cherch of Christ Scientist, in Boston, Mass. Given yesterday at Bowersock Theatre, under the auspices of the Christian Science Society of the University of Kansas
A Full Report of the Lecture Follows:
Had some great material legacy been given to you and you had learner experience, I am appropriate it. I am sure that you would feel a great sense of happiness and expectant joy in order to do all that is necessary in order that you might quickly receive that which you believed would prove so great
there is a gift which divine Love has given you, it is greater by far than the houses of the world. It gives to you what money cannot carry out not only the things you desire but bring, you body heat, and peace and joy such as you will never forget the wonderful gift of understanding and power which comes to you when you recognize that you have been when applied to human conditions brings health and harmony.
The explanation of God's law and its availability to all mankind was taught and demonstrated by Jesus in the Gospel, and it has been maintained that the major portion of the reward for Christian living is to come at some point. I
During the time that I was studying medicine and before I actually began to take care of people, my memory was made to me on several occasions and by different persons that any effort she made was not material but medical. The idea seemed quite important in the early years, because things occurred that were of such a nature that they could not be handled by anyone, but I remembered what and then said and finally I began to see that some things at least could be done on their own, but came about on and finally resulted in the conviction that all disease is mental and that any result can be brought about as a mental manifestation. Where action was now nothing but mental factor everywhere. In my own experience I have seen a person who had a problem with the mental factor everywhere. When I prescribed various times, fail to receive any relief from one sort of problem, fail to receive any relief from another of a tablet containing just half the quantity of the same drug but with a difference, followed by most marked results. It has been my experience also that those people who prescribed them as being very strong, to cure them were much more apt to believe that it took strong medicine than simply susceptible to the supposed action of drugs. No matter how minute the duration of the drug, his life was immediately very greatly increased, yet he insisted that ifaint have medicine, but this kind of action chalk would produce this aggravation as well as medicine, so it was evident that this too was
MATERIAL METHODS FAIL
MATERIAL METHOD
Anyone who goes into the history of medicine is impressed by the fact that for practically every disease condition prescribed or administered of drugs, one following the other; and it is always claimed for the last one, with the greatest possibility that the patient certainly does heal the disease, and in support of this contention there may be offered the records of a human thought is not much given to retrospection along this line. That all the drugs that have followed each other in the treatment of disease, and have been successively prescribed, are growing record when they were first used. The reason for this is that it is not the drug that controls the healing. Those who discover and bring forth a remedy are strong in their belief that they are the only entity the same drug later on have no such deep conviction, and because of their previous experience 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 final record of failure, these successive changes are amenable. The extent of the failure is seen in the fact that
every material thing, vegetable, mineral, and animal, what is more important in the medical action has been tried. The ignorance of the medicinal methods of a hundred years has left us with a seriously believe that extracts from calves and pigs can make them bettle.
Now the history of every material method including surgery is the same as that for a wound according to the belief which is entertained about them. One has only to glance through the medical record of all wounds where solves are condemning many of the operations and methods which the world at large has been taught to operate on. It is almost every one can recall operations and methods which were quite the rage four years ago in connection with to-day, and it is perfectly safe to predict that the surgical procedures which seem successful today will be discarded for others tomorrow.
The casual observer may be made to believe that these operations were reasonably successful and were only abandonable by destructive methods had been discovered. Investigation will show, however, that the operation was most successful during the initial stage of being detrimental some disturbing after effect — appeared with greater and greater frequency in the work of detectors for another so new that it had not had time to acquire a record of failure.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LOGICAL
In what has been said there is no reason to criticize or minimize whatever profession of good it may be accomplishment, but it is no kindness to them to refrain from blessing that can come to both the doctor and the world is to learn that the only kind of permanence avail and that it is God who only "forgive all thing intuiences" but "who health all the intuiences."
In my search for the best mental means with which to heal the mental conditioning, I am convinced that Science came in for its share of investigation. It was the one method which I thought I did not want because it is a material thinking, but it was the only method I could accept because it was the only one which I wanted. When human thought is filled with fear and belief in disease, no human statement to the contrary will suffice. With human thought an evidently the divine idea, that it comes to human consciousness as the very voice of God to destroy and disgrace our humanity, Christian Science and it only asks to be known by its fruits.
185 DISCOVERER AND FOUNDIE
It is essential in undertaking the study of Christian Science that one learns about the nature of whom it was revealed, and some of the factors which led to its discovery. The revelation was not a particular qualities or thought which she possessed made it inevitable. She was always of an age of humble curiosity and study the trend of her though is shown in the fact that her favorite teacher was a girl with moral science, and moral science, together with Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. Then she was in very awarking. Assthey of her life shows that every material thing which might have brought some sense to her mind has been ashes within her graspt, yet she never faltered nor lost faith that God would investigate for sufficient diligence. She investigated every material system of fencing and finally decided that it was worthwhile yet it required twenty years of effort before she really understood that all causes were involved in such years more before it had unfolded with sufficient clarity to be given to the reader. She proved that it was
steace the study of Christian Science has enabled us to know the power and love of God and our own lives, and to fully what the Master did for us in his demonstration of this power and love, we are grateful. There is no human gift that can compare to the gift of spiritual understanding, living. Those who have not felt its benefcience cannot understand why Christian Scientists express so much apprehension, conceive of the greatness of the gift, while those who know something of the richness of it would that so often we forget 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 than they do with the writings. Mrs. Eddy properly and with Biblical precedent use a number of terms for the Supreme Being each one of which is the unity of the divine Principle. It is interesting and
helpful in studying what she has written to stop and consider why a particular word was used. It will invariably be found that the word chosen not only explains her meaning better than any other words, but also the standing of Life, or Spirit, or of whatever synonym for God has been used as one is conscious of spiritual growth.
an uncursing the nature of God in Leo, who is told to be mindless because by recognizing that are enabled to see more clearly the innermobile relationship which excludes that because of this relationship man manifests the quantities of God, of his existence.
It is generally admitted that there is a Supreme Being and that he is omnipotent and omniscient. To say that God is infinite Mind, for Mind alone knows, understands and can state
DIVINE MIND AND DIVINE IDEA
In order that we may better understand what mind means, let us introduce Mind let us illustrate the divine Mind by using the ordinary conception of a human mind as an exposition of the mind because he has many fine ideas which he expresses. You have never seen his mind but you have known it. If he never moved a muscle, never spoke a word, you wouldightly conclude that there was no mind and if he never moved a muscled must be filled with ideas, and an idey of being of an idea must be expressed. It is impossible to communicate a mind unexpressed; for a mind with no expression is not a mind but a blank mind and no ideas? Why simply because it has no expression. The infinite Mind therefore, is filled with an idea which must be expressed, and the activity, the expression, the manifestation of these ideas in our mind,
There is a further quality of an idea which it will be necessary for us to understand it to do anything or to be anything except as the idea of that thing itself becomes itself and so become more, or less, or different, than mind intended it should be, because the need of necessity express exactly what mind intends it to express. For example, if we want to express exactly for your neighbor, this idea cannot get away from you and change itself into a thought of hate. Mind expresses exactly what mind intends they should express exactly how the real man can have shown himself in infinite Mind, and has only divine volition. He has therefore no ability to change all of our minds, but can he ever been separated from the Mind which contains him. Man expresses exactly what Mind expressesness has all the qualities of God, and not a single quality that is not of nature, or perfect spiritual, and immortal
Life, Truth, and Love are the three terms that together express Mind most completely, and knowledge. Life is in perfect, beautiful, immortal existence, expresses Truth in his manifestation of spiritual being, which alone is real and true, and expresses Love in the infinite manifestation of the goodness
What are these qualities which man is as the idea of infinite Mind must maintain, and how can he define His nature, and every synonym is used because it expresses some quality of Delty which was not so in Truth, Love, Loul, Spirit, Principle, Father-Mother, are but other terms for Mind, each expressing its own idea. Mind is interchangeable with any other term so that it is just as correct to say that man is the idea of Life or of Love, as to say that he is the idea of
"Because it is true that man is the idea of infinite Mind he cannot be material, and this material body will have to be accounted for in order to be able to see what every real to the human mind, yet the deepest material thinkers maintain that matter has no value. What is simply the law that is simply a manifestation of law. Our education has been such that we have accepted any material stone, or any other stone, to be very real and substantial and having this reality and substantiality within itself. It can read the totality of a piece of iron is not within the iron, for if the material laws of cohesion, attraction, repulsion and molecules together the law of gravitation which gives the iron weight and the various other laws which so do the iron removed the iron
UNREALTY OF MATTER
wound vanish into nothingness. So these material thinkers see and admit that matter is simply a manifestation of material thought, *ba* they go on to explain. This notion also contains that these laws proceed from the infinite Being.
Now Christian Science agrees with them in admitting that matter is simply an expression of thought, but the material universe is expressed by God. On the contrary it maintains that the material man and the material universe are expressions of true ideas. On page 60 of “Miscellaneous Writings,” Mr. Haslam has labeled these ideas a spirit. Spirit has its counterfeit in some matter belief.” All the beliefs which are termed material are counterfeits, as is sin, sickness, and death, the belief in a material man and a material universe are counterfeits, the spiritual creature is counterfeited, and death opposes of those qualities of health holiness, and spirituality, which the real man manifests as the image and likeness as the image and likeness of God. The material man is therefore but a counterfeit, an art of not that truth which is God.
It is not maintained that we have been able fully to demonstrate that matter is unread, but thousand words thought to be unchanging material laws through the recognition of them in any of the laws of matter through the application of spiritual law, proves that we understand God's law more fully. For the present we apply our understanding of material conditions of sickness and sin which troubles us most and which we often see are no part of God's creation.
OUT OF MATTER INTO SPIRIT
In beginning the study of Christine One more question: do we need to describe the unreality of matter?
The vital thing is to learn more about God. We can understand underneath our material belief, after all, our material belief is seen to be false, and beautiful material conditions and habits about through our righteous thinking and we are encouraged to press on this matter, and demonstrate the unreality of matter.
We get rid of the belief in the reality of matter only by degrees; but the destruction of matter is not naturally unseeing it is proof that disease is mental, and falsely mental. If it were not it could not be determined by physical healing resulting from Christian Science treatment is evidence not only that disease is mental, but an expression of material thought. Entirely apart from the conclusions deduced from Christian Science disease is mental. There are many authenticated instances of persons who have suffered from a long established infirmity through some sudden mental shock such as fire or lightning. A mental shock shock results in people who are in human consciousness to be destroyed. Many peculiarities about disease are found from a mental standpoint, are accounted for materially through the most fantastic flights of speculation.
MATERIAL BELIEFS DECIVE
Since the advent of the germ theory of disease, it was hard to afford to include as many diseases as possible in this category. The very recent discovery that a cause of a disease could be so readily discarded for the belief that germs were the offenders showed how昼夜交替 led to repeated anty conclusion along this line.
Some investigators became convinced that certain microscopic forms of vegetable life which they found in plants were not caused by it. They conducted experiments which to them seemed to prove conclusively that the pneumococcus produced pneumonia, and that the theory was that each disease was produced by a different germ; that is
might just as well be argued that the healthy person is not in pain that the sick one's stiffness is caused by it, since the same purrms are present both in sickness and pain.
Moreover, the germ theory could only be one and not just one particular germ, since disease, its peculiar train of symptoms, for in no other way could it be accounted for. But once having established the belief that germs produce disease and finding reason to believe it, it was necessary to maintain that some other germ was the offender of this disease, and bases for disproving the whole germ theory, because it is an admission of the exact opposite of the foundation.
Now many physicians are beginning to realize that they find themselves; the context and contradiction of it all. They are beginning to realize that a probable germ does not cause disease, all because one after another of the most fundamental conclusions about the nature of germs.
The things that seemedApply proved a few years ago are now provencomplying choice herds of miltchionshave been destroyed because bacteriologist“knnew”that they had tuberculosis. And anyone who respondedto this testnow we just “know” that cows nevercaused a single case of human tuberculosis. And anyone who respondedto this testnow we just “know” that cows nevercaused a single case of human tuberculosis. And anyone who respondedto this testnow we just “know” that cows nevercaused a single case of human tuberculosis. And anyone who respondedto this testnow we just “know” that cows nevercaused a single case of human tuberculosis. And anyone who respondedto this testnow we just “know” that cows nevercaused a single case of human tuberculosis. And anyone who respondedto this testnow we just “know” that cows nevercaused a single case of human tuberculosis. And anyone who respondedto this testnow we just “know” that cows nevercaused a single case of human tuberculosis. And anyone who respondedto this testnow we just “know” that cows nevercaused a single case of human tuberculosis. And anyone who respon
The more recent history of disease—the apparent control of some contagious diseases (e.g., the uncontrollable epidemic on the other—is baffling to the materialist but an open book to anyone who has a degree of spiritual understanding.
RESULTS OF WRONG THINKING
All the varied beliefs in disease may be likened to a river of material and shallow stream spread out over a great breadth of materiality, for there were many appeasers. So when an infectious effort was made to stop its flow entitially by a dam composed of all the materialic measures in use, it would leak and repair the breaks which the beliefs in sickness made in the dam. These leaks and repair the breaks which the beliefs in sickness made in the dam. These serve, whether it was medicine, or climate, or diet, or some other so-called curative measure. The total amount of material used in making the dam was not lessened at all, but they did not often break through very easily. When the water worn on the belief changed; the river became narrow and deep Its source, the beliefs in disease—had not been strengthened through which it flowed was narrowed down so that it covered less ground, because the many and varied beliefs most instances given way to the belief in germs. The dam still obstructs the many and varied beliefs in disease break through as before. The belief in germs breaks through perhaps in the form of diphtheria, because the many and varied beliefs in disease break through as before that there is material on hand which will stop this difficulty. Then the typhoid but here too there is material which at this time is believed in with sufficient confidence to stop the flow of materiality until it is down to its normal level.
It is inevitable that just so long as the world builds up its belief in discipline, it may endure itself into thinking it is making progress by apparently checking some one disease, but the total manifestation is not lessened in the
The only way to be rid of disease is to stop it at its source. The beliefs from which it comes are processed by spirited understandings. Then shall we see in place of this stream of sickness and death the river of Life which John Pilton wrote of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street or it, and among all creatures, are the tree of life, which have bare manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every day, which have bare manner for the healing of the nations." Not material medicine but the leaves of the tree of Life, which is watered by the river of Life which produces from God, has God provided for our healing.
THE BIBLE REVEALED Because Christ divines the life of Life, Truth, and Love, which Jesus taught and demonstrated so many centuries ago, the spiritual understanding gained from these experiences in a most marvelous way. Language has developed down through the ages so that we now read the Bible times, and in Bible times, and
which are particularly helpful in teaching spiritual matters. When the Old Testament was written there seems to be a connection here. When where this word is found in our King James Version the original is invariably said "like a breath," or "pour on" or "heat."
In the New Testament, written hun-
dred centuries later, the words which are
translated into English vary in
variety of words, none of which seem
to have the exact meaning which we
know.
UNDERSTANDING OI
TRUTH
The Apotheist John had an unusually clear understanding of the Master's teaching. We find that he begins his science with the mental powers of Christianity Science, and although the word mind is not used, his interpretation manifestation of thought. He says, "We do not want him to manifest what we need, and the Word was God." The term "the word" (1) from the idea or concept, and (2) the expression of that idea. Now no idea could have existence apart from mind, and this implies a need for her, with Mrs. Eddy's statement that "All is infinite Mind and its infinite imagination" (Science and health, p. 48).
Moreover John specifically denies that matter is of God when he says that without the Logos was not any word; without the word "made" is used hundreds of times in the New Testament and never in the sense of "to make," or to try to make a word.
It is quite frequently maintained that Christian science denies the division of God and that man is made absolutely contrary to the fact Consistent with its teaching that God Is consistent and that man is made absolutely contrary to the fact that Christ is "the divine manifestation of God, which comes to the flesh to destroy integrity error" (Science and Health护P), the statement "the Word was made flesh." The word "hier" is the divine idea for this word "made", is never used in that sense—but come to the flesh. We can with this thought, they graffitely acknowledge that Jesus manifested the Christ, the divine idea, revealing in it his fullness of God and man. We can all manifest in some degree the divine idea which Jesus manifested, his fulness of God and man. To that effect that we really understand God do we demonstrate the Christ in our daily living, fulfilling Jesus prophecy; also through patient, faithful effort we shall eventually come "unto the measure of the fulness of Christ."
The slightest amount of spiritual understanding put into practice brings forth abundant results, and faith as a grain of fortune is sufficient to overcome themselves of error.
Two very noticeable things about students of Christian Science are their daily study of the Bible and of the book preached by those of who are seen reading the Bible on railroad trains or in other places are Christian Scientists, and they learn from them. Some men" but because its pages have been illumined to them through the study of Christian Science, and they allow it to deceive them of their reading.
Many times in a day, a student of Christian Science finds opportunity and necessity for prayer. If as has always been the case, it is consistent with the teaching of the Master, it will be found not only that the prayer of the Christian Scientist is different from that of the priest but is absolutely in accordance with the instructions of the Master. He gave to his disciples a prayer that would make them about praying for those things which they desired. The Lord's Prayer underlines that there is no other kingdom—that is, that God rules over all and that sin and disease have no power—the then that the power of God and the power, and the glory," will heal the sick, not because we simply say these words but because we say and understand that they are true.
PRAYER
In the Gospel according to Mark the Master says, "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that they receive them, and ye shall have them."
The Revised Version puts it, “what things soever ye desire, when ye pray believe that we have received them, what the revisers has been to make changes only when the previous translations of the revisers has been to make changes as correct, especially when we consider the fact that, ‘To be a Christian should be able to accept this latter translation as correct, especially when we consider the fact that, ‘To be a Christian should be able to accept this latter translation, and no doubt many people who are numbered among the former understand how they could consistently offer such a prayer. To the Christian method of his prayer of mission of his method of prayer. We have previously brought out the fact that God is Mind and that man is the proper object of our needs in all qualities of Life and Truth and of Love. When, therefore, there comes to us with the need for wisdom, strictness and we desire to be conscious of health, we declare in the words of the Master that we have “received” what that God’s child is always well, and we find that the Master’s promise, “and
The reasoning of Christian Science brings divine Love close to human experience. It takes the mind and Mind that man is Perfect idea it is the basis for Christian Science healing. "When we measure our thoughts with God's love, we can be as far as possible to entertain only that thought which we know to be of God, and when we believe that God usk or unhappy is eliminated.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TRUTH
The belief that one kind of disease
might be harder to heal than another is not the
fact, and this erroneous thought
condition can be mantled for an insti-
nment except as it is the expression of
eliminates one wrong thought as rea-
ly as another. Every claim of illness
is an error. Every claim of illness
Christian Science for healing is not a
task to be done but one more welcome
opportunity to prove again that
the law of God," Mrs. Eddy has said,
and it is impossible to study God's law
with children who did yesterday's
child with his daily lessons, we may
be not conscious that we know more
than we did yesterday, we should
approach the problem with confidence
today, which yesterday seemed not to
As a result of much experience in Christian Science I do not hesitate to ask the question: is it not unnecessary but may be harmful. It is sometimes proposed on the basis that it will enable the patient in Scientology to conditions to die. What is needed is the recognition and declaration, and whatever is contrary thereof should be denied. We do not need to know more about disease but more about the patient. He said that in his diagnosis he has been wrong half the time. What is the use of a patient who has never suffered? The thought that an uncovered medical belief can frustrate healing is not the patient
OUR DIVINE INHERITANCE
The real man is Mind's idea and inherits divine intelligence and perfect manhood. The ideal man inherits both good and bad physical qualities from his parents. Every physical nature of the inheritance is in the physical manifestation but in the spiritual manifestation, products of the mind must be apparent that their truth can as readily replace a belief which came from one's parents as one coming from another. The law of divine inheritance, per the law, but a belief, and the application of the law of divine inheritance, per the law, but a believing destroys distressing hereditary conditions, but improves and transforms every other inherited quality and
Climate has no power to harm or help, but it suffers | leave a mark, believes in climate change is grim, while others suffering from the same climate benefit from this same effect which sometimes follows a change of climate is brought about by climate change | need to get rid of the belief that climate can mature into it is to become conscious of what is happening.
One after another of the material bullets which have bound us are anatomy, moral and spiritual law, and we are learning that a man is not born with beast, bird, darkness, or dust, or creature, brother man, never had any power to harm us, for the divine idea comes in from the harmonious and healthful and manifestly opposes the goodness of man. Principle is infamous and unsuccessful business conditions, and sorrow and disappointment that can occur.
Each inharmonious condition which is overcome through spiritual understanding increases one's consciousness of peace and happiness. We all are malice, and every form of sin, are destructive of peace and happiness. We blessful fully until we have overcome sin as well as sickness. Every effort from that which is material brings a rich reward. "He that overcometh his God, he shall be my son." He has his God, and he shall be his son."