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1.000 HEAR TALK ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Educational Lecture at Majestic
Theater by Virgil 0. Stick
ler, of New York
The extent of the Interest In liar
risburg in the subject of Christian
Science was Indicated by the pres
ence of approximately a thousand per
sons at the Majestic Theater last even
ing: to hear an address by Virgil O.
Rtrlekler, of New York, a member of
the Christian Science board of lecture
whip. The lecture was Riven under
the auspices of the local Christian
Science Church, which annually pro
vides a discourse of this kind for the
benefit of those who wish to be better
Informed on the subject.
The speaker of the evening was
introduced by Roy E. Bignall, of Ilar
rlsburg, who brielly outlined the i/lir
pose of the lecture. Mr. Strickler has
a direct, matter-of-fact delivery and a
faculty for simple and apt Illustration,
and while many phases of his subject
<ould not be Included In a discourse of
;in hour and a half, thoso which he
<1 id take up wero bundled thoroughly
from every angle, lie said. In part:
It Is undeniable that Christian
Science has healed many sick people
«nd has brought about the regenera
tion of many who were the victims of
Bin. Among Its membership are those
who have been healed of intemper
ance, of so-called chronic and organic
diseases, as well as of maladies that
were acute or functional. It has
healed others of sorrow, fear, unhap-
Itiness and similar diseased mental
conditions that often cause more suf
fering and distress than physical dis
orders.
In every case of Christian Science
healing, whether the disease was
chronic or acute, physical or mental,
the cure was brought about without
the use of hypnotism, mental sug
gestions, drugs or any material means,
and entirely through the application
of the spiritual and metaphysical
teachings of Christian Science.
The. healing of the sick, however, is
not the primary purpose of Christian
Science. According to the teachings
"of this Science all sickness and disease
result from error and false belief,
which are summarized as sin, and
when the error of belief Is destroyed
by the truth which Christian Science
imparts, the disease disappears. Chris
tian Science, therefore, teaches that
the cause of all diseaso and sin is
mental, and not physical, and that
both sin and disease may be cured by
one and the same metaphysical pro
cess, namely, by the substitution of
spiritual truth in place of error and
l'al3e belief in the human conscious
ness.
It is recorded in the Bth Chapter of
the Gospel of John that upon one oc
casion when Jesus was being harassed
by the lawyers and theologians, who
were plying him with questions and
seeking to entrap him by his answers,
he turned to a group of his followers,
who were standing near, and said to
them, "Ye shall know the truth and
the tfuth shall make you free." In
all of the Bible there is no statement
of greater Importance to mankind
than this utterance of the Master. It
prescribes the remedy for every hu
man ill.
ntimate Truth Will Make Free
There must be ultimate truth some
where, and when it is apprehended by
the human mind it will emancipate
those who apprehend it from bondage
to evil. Christian Science asserts that
ultimate truth concerning God and
man and their relationship is revealed
by the Scriptures, and may be gained
l>y every person when the Scriptures
are rightly interpreted.
It is sometimes difficult for people
to understand how religion can heal
sickness and destroy sin, but the
words of Jesus make it plain. Since
11 is through a knowledge of the truth
that these results are accomplished
the important thing for each one is to
sain an understanding of truth in
stead of being satisfied with mere be
lief about it. In other words, in or
der to find out how religion can de
stroy sin, sickness and all sorts of evil
condition, it is first necessary to gain
an understanding as to what is reli
gion. To gain the benefits promised
in the Bible to true believers it is
necessary to get rid of that which is
erroneous in religious belief and prac
tice, and to ascertain what constitutes
true religion.
There are many who honestly think
that it makes no difference what relig
ious beliefs they entertain, so long as
they are sincere In them. A mo
ment's reflection, however, will show
that such a theory is pernicious and
destructive, for it is perfectly plain
tjiat if a thing is not, in fact, true, no
amount of sincerity on the part of the
believer can ever make it true. No
engineer ever arrived at a correct re
sult, no matter how sincerely he may
have believed that his processes were
correct, if they were not so in fact.
With respect to many things it may
lie unimportant whether the thing be
lieved is true or not, but with respect
to the things that people believe about
God, and about themselves, and about
their relationship to God, they are
vital, because it will be shown that
the things believed with respect to
these matters, become laws that are
binding upon the believer.
The First Kssenttal
In trying to ascertain what consti
tutes religion the very first subject to
be considered is that which refctes to
God. Every one must agree that a
correct understanding of God is essen
tial as the foundation of religion. Any
system of religious teaching that is
founded upon an imperfect or er
roneous conception of God must nec
essarily fail to bring to its adherents
the help and comfort for which they
seek. When we look about us and see
the splendid fidelity of men and wom
en to their religious beliefs, and then
see how much suffering and failure
they experience, and how far short
they come of attaining the good which
they so honestly seek, it is a fair de
duction that there is something wrong
about tV.eir understanding of God.
No ofTense will be given, therefore,
by the statement that the average
person has a very indefinite anrl nebul
ous conception of God. If you were
to ask a dozen people to tell you who
mid what God Is, you would get a
dozen different answers. There are
pome who think God its a person.
How many people thore are whc.
when they kneel down and close their
eves, and reverently pray to God, have
in mind a person, or a form, or an
image, to which they pray! And how
many others there are who think of
God as a being of anger and resent
ment, who sends failure and suffering
to those who displease him! And are
there not a great many others who
thlr.k of God as a being who lives in a
far-ofT country called Heaven, and
that It is necessary for people to die,
and go there, in order to see Him?
These are only a few of the Incor
rect beliefs which people entertain
about God. When it Is remembered
that Jesus has said that It is the
knowledge of the truth that shall
make men free, in the face of such
confusion of belief about Him, is it
strange that people are sick and that
they die? Is it not apparent that
what humanity needs Is a demon
strable understanding of God in place
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lof theoretical and speculative beliefs
'about Him?
I Correct Concept of CJotl
Vet, all the while that people have
i gone on believing these erroneous
i things about Ood. the Bible state-
I ments concerning him have been per
fectly plain. The Bible says, for in
stance. that God is Love, and, since
He is Infinite, he must be Infinite Love.
'Christian Science says, therefore, that
! infinite Love cannot be the author of
| evil, either in the form of sickness
or sin, and that, no matter what one
: may think about evil, it must be ac
counted for in some other way than
as being a part of the creation of
God. Now, note the significance of
that statement, for if God did not
create evil, and it is manifest that lie
could not have created it, then it fol
lows absolutely that evil is not eternal. I
For whatever God created must be
eternal like Himself, and if God were
the creator of evil, then evil would
be eternal, and, hence. Indestructible.
Christian Science presents a scien
tific method for the destruction of j
evil. No matter in what form it may i
present itself to the Individual, wheth-1
er as sickness, sin, unliappiness, sor-'
row or distress. Christian Science
says, that since it is evil. It may be
! destroyed and that tho destroyer of
jevil in every case is Truth, precisely
jas Jesus has declared. Wherever you
j find a Christian Scientist, therefore,
j you will find a person who is honestly
striving to destroy evil out of his or
: her experience by means of the scien
tific method which Christian Science
presents. While it may be true that
no one, thus far, but Jesus, has been
able to make a perfect demonstration
iover evil, yet every one will concede
| that Christian Scientists have, at least.
| made some progress, and have suc
ceeded, to some extent, in destroying
both sickness and sin for themselves
and others.
The Bible further discloses that God
not only is Love, but is also omni
present. If that is so, then He is
everywhere, for that is what the word
means. He fills all space, and is in
one place in precisely the same de-1
gree and to precisely the same extent!
that He is in every other place. Does
that not lift one's thought above the
concept of a limited God ? And is it
not plain that so long as people be
lieve In a limited God, who is limited
as to His form, dwelling place, or
goodness, they will continue to suffer
form limitations —limitations with re
spect to life and the duration thereof,
health, strength, mentul capacity, suc
cess, love, spirituality and every good
thing? Christian Science makes plain
that humanity can hope to be emanci
pated from the curse of limitations in
any and all of these directions when
men and women shall have given up
their false beliefs about a limited God,
and shall have learned the truth con
cerning His nature and character.
Upon one occasion they asked Jesus
to tell them when the Kingdom of
God would come, and he made an
answer that has proved to be a
stumbling block to many people from
that day to this. He said, in substance,
that the Kingdom of God is not a
place that you can see with observa
tion; it is not a place that you can
say, Lo here it is, or Lo there it Is, |
for behold, he said, the Kingdom of j
God is within you. If that statement
is true, then it follows absolutely that j
the Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom j
of Heaven, must be a state of con-1
sciousness, and not a locality. Then
is it not plain that the further people
go in the belief that the Kingdom of
God. or the Kingdom of Heaven, is a
locality, and that it is necessary for
people to die and go there in order
to become citizens of that kingdom,
in reality the further they are alienat
ing themselves from it? And the
more sincerely they believe that sort
of thing, the more their sincerity will
stand as a barrier to prevent their
progress towards that kingdom.
Christian Science, therefore, pleads
for a rational and demonstrable un
derstanding of God in place of theoret
ical and speculative beliefs about!
Him.
What Real Prayer Is
Another subject that enters into the
religious life of all people Is that of
prayer. Since prayer is the medium
through which the connection is estab
lished between the human and the di
vine, it is, therefore, of great impor
tance for every person to find out
what constitutes true prayer. What
are its characteristics, what is its na
ture, and how it may be employed so
as to bring to the one who prays with
certainty the blessings which the
Scriptures say shall come as a result
of true prayer.
It is stated in the fifth chapter of
James that "The prayer of faith shall
save the sick." There is no ambiguity
tbaut that language. It Is not Indefi
nite or uncertain in any particular. It
is. in fact, as positive and direct a
statement as can be made with hu
man language. And yet. It would
seem that one of two things must
necessarily be true, either that state
ment In the Scriptures Is wholly false,
or else people have not known how
to make the prayer of faith through
out the centur.es. Except in sporadic
instances, the sick have not been
saved as the result of prayer. It,
therefore, becomes a subject for legiti
mate inquiry in order that it may be
determined, if possible, whether or
not that statement in the Scriptures
is true. Many people ask if Christian
Scientists pray, and how Christian
Science prayer differs from that of
other churches, and it will doubtless
prove t.otn interesting and helpful if
the difference is explained.
It can be said that almost every per
son is taught to make the prayer of
petition, the prayer of pleading. They
are taught to petition God for what
ever good thing they desire, and also
to petition Him to withhold whatever
evil thing they seek to avo'd. Run
ning through the prayer of petition,
and in fact. Its very foundation and
essence, is the belief that the mind of
God can be changed by the petition.
There is the belief that, but for the
petition, God would not do the thing
He is asked to do, else why ask Him?
Or that but for the petition. He would
do the thing and would send the evil
that He Is asked not to do or not to
send.
Yet. all the while that this form of
prayer has gone up from unnumbered
millions of agonizing hearts, the Bible
has declared that God is unchanging.
If God is unchanging, as the Bible de
clares Him to be, then is it not plain
that s6 long as people go on In tWe
belief that it Is the function of prayer
Ito change the mind of God to meet
the human desire, in reality the fur
ther they are getting away from the
true theory of prayer; and the more
sincerely they believe that sort of
thing, the more their very sincerity
will confuse their understanding and
will prevent them from making the
prayer of faith which, the Bible says,
"shall save the sick."
Divine J.au in Operation
I Christian Science, upon the other
hand, teaches its adherents to make
the prayer of realisation, the prayer
of affirmation. Christian Science
teaches that God is Infinite good, and
that it is wholly unnecessary to beg
or petition infinite good, to manifest
good to us, for infinite good cannot
do anything else except manifest good
to every creature. If one should let
fall an object it would be absurd to
beg or petition the law of gravitation
to operate. That law would operate
automatically, and would pull the ob
ject down to the first obstruction.
Christian Science teaches that God
governs through spiritual law, which
law is operating throughout the en
tire universe, and is a law of Infinite
good, and is manifesting good and
nothing but good ceaselessly to every
human being.
One person says if that is true, whs.
then, do people seem to have so llttla
good, and so much that Is not cood?
Let ns look at that for a moment. If
one drops an object the law of gravi
tation will pull It down to the first
• obstruction, but If the obstruction be
, removed, It will pull it down further
.and further nk the are
i removed, until at last. If every ob
struction were removed, the law of
gravitation would then have its per
fect work, and would pull the object
to the center of the earth. That is
I precisely what happens through the
operation of spiritual law. That law
is operating in human consciousness,
jjust as far as the obstructions will
, permit, which obstructions are mental
| qualities—superstition, false beliefs,
I human will and the like. As they are
; removed, the spiritual law will op
erate further and further In human
consciousness, bringing good deeper
and deeper into human experience,
until at last, when every such ob
struction shall have been removed,
when the human consciousness shall
have been completely evangelized by
truth, and every mortal thought shail
have been brought into obedience to
Christ, as the Scripture commands,
then (he spiritual law will have its
perfect work in human consciousness.
In that day men and women will walk
tree from every evil condition, in the
conscious possession of that dominion
which God said in the beginning be
longs to man.
•As one shall work out this
question for himself, striving to ar
rive at that conclusion which shall
best satisfy him as to which is the
true theory of prayer, one other thing
'•an be mentioned to aid the inquirer
in reaching that conclusion, and that
Is that through the Christian Science
method of prayer hundreds of thou
sands of sick people have been
healed. Is not this great array of
proof by demonstration at least suf
ficient to put every thinking person
upon inquiry, lest the Christian
Science theory of prayer may not, in
fact, be the true theory.
Every person who prays desires to
know how to make true prayer. All
people desire good and not evil, and,
in the main, all people are equally
honest in their religious affiliations,
for no one would knowingly deceive
himself about so important a matter.
The only reason, therefore, why people
are grouped together in different re
ligious organizations is because they
honestly believe that through the or
ganization to which they belong they
will be most likely to gain the good
which they so earnestly desire. Since,
then, through Christian Science
prayer, so many people have found
health, contentment and peace, it Is
plain that sooner or later, every
thinking person will desire to know
how to pray as Christian Science
teaches.
The Ileal Creation
Another subject about which there
is great confusion of belief, is the
subject of creation. There is perhaps
no subject connected with religion, or
mentioned in the Bible, about which
there is greater misunderstanding than
there is about creation. It is surpris
ing how many people there are who
do not even know that there are two
accounts of the creation in the Bible.
The first account is to be found in the
first chapter of Genesis, and extends
down to and includes the third verse
of the second chapter. Beginning
with the fourth verse of the second
chapter, there fallows another ac
count that is wholly different from the
first.
In the first account, we are told that
God created the universe, and that
everything made by Him was good,
and, lastly, that He created man, in
His image, and after His own like
ness, and that he was good; while in
the second account, we have the al
legory about God coming down to
earth, and mixing up dust and calling
it man. Then follows the story of
Adam and Eve, and the Garden of
Eden, and we are told that a deep
sleep fell upon Adam, and that then
sin appeared, and that brother mur
dered brother, and from that day to
this that the man made of dust has
been a sinner and has been at enmity
with God.
Christian Science accepts the first
account of the creation as the spiritual
and real creation and upon this foun
dation and basis it builds. Religious
teachers throughout the centuries
have erroneously regarded the Adam
man as being the real man made in
the image and likeness ot' God, and
yet the Bible nowhere says so. The
Bible nowhere says that, the Adam
man was made in God's image or like
ness. That statement was made con
cerning the real man described in an
account of the real creation. And re
ligious teachers have vainly striven to
make the wisdom and the love of God
fit the creation of a sinner.
Such a doctrine as that is impos
sible. It dishonors God, and degrades
man. It makes God responsible for
all of the sin and all of the misery
from the beginning of timu, and the
best proof that it is not true is that it
has never delivered those who believ
ed it from evil.
How perfectly the name "mortal
man" fits him. Have you ever thought
of it? Mortal-mort-death, for that is
what the word means. A death-man,
having a death-body and a death
mind! Does any one believe that God
over created a death- man or save htm
a death-mind or a death-body? And
Is it not plain that so long as people
conceive of themselves as being mor
tals or the mortal, or death-man, so
long will they continue to remain in
partnership with death. Christian
Science makes plain that men and
women can be emancipated from that
enemy when they shall have learned
•he 1 ruth of their own being, and of
their own true relationship to God.
Christian Science teaches that man
is just what the Bible says he is; that
he is spiritual; that God made him
in His own image and after His own
likeness; that lie made him perfect,
and that what God made perfect his
never, possessed the capacity to be
come Imperfect.
Christian Science is trie only system
of teaching, either religious or secular,
that even makes an attempt to ex
plain the difference between man and
the Adam-man, and Christian Science
does explain It and make It perfectly
plain by pointing out that the Adam
man —the dust-man —the mortal or
death -man. is nothing more or less
than the false mortal concept of man
the misconcept of mar. It is pre
cisely as though one should Dut on a
pair of green eyeglasses. He would
then -look out upon a green universe.
He might scrub and scour some ob
ject all he pleased, but could never
remove the green from It, because the
green would not be in the object
though appearing to be there, for it
would be in the lens through which
he looked at it. The only thing neces
sary for the man to do in order to
translate the entire universe back Into
Its normal aspect would be for him
merelv to take off the green lenses
through -which he was looking. In
like manner, the only thing necessary
for us to do in order to translate
what seems to be a material universe
~,-1(1 material man back Into the spir
itual is to take off the false, mortal
eyeglasses.
Right Viewpoint Necessary
Christian Science Is making plain in
many ways that so long as people con
tinue to look through mortal eye
glasses, through lenses that are com
posed of superstition, false beliefs,
human will, pride, self-righteousness
and the like, they will continue tc see
man and the universe as material in
stead of spiritual: they will continue
to see a deformed and diseased man
and a distorted universe. But when
they shall begin to lay aside the mor
ital eyeglasses and shall begin to look;
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through the lenses ot the spirit— 7
lenses that are composed of truth,
spiritual understanding, meekness, I
humility, love, faith and purity—they
will then see a constantly improving
man and universe. As this mental
transformation progresses. disease,
sin. sorrow, poverty and the limita
tions of old age will disappear and
the spiritual real man will begin to
appear. When this transformation
shall have been completed we shall
then see man and the universe as
wholly spiritual as they now appear
to God and as they have always ap
peared to God, for God has never seen
His children nor His creation through
mortal eyeglasses. lie has always
seen us as spiritual, and hence to Him
we have always been perfect. In that
day we shall know, as in fact we have
now learned, that nothing that God
made is material or ever needs to be
healed, and that the only thing that
needs to be healed is our own false
concept of that which He made per
fect. ,
If all this were only a theory peo
ple might be justified- in refusing to
accept it, but Christian Science prac
titioners are proving daily in all parts
of the civilized world that by holding
the perfect man in concept, by know
ing that man Is spiritual and perfect
and is governed by an ail-loving God,
and by arguing steadfastly from the
standpoint of the reality of good in
stead of from the standpoint of the
supposed reality of evil, the sick are
healed, and human conditions do im
prove.
Christian Science, therefore, is
proving step by step that the declara
tion made by Jesus Is true, and that In
proportion as the knowledge of the
truth fills human consciousness, driv
ing out error false beliefs, men
and women come into the possession
here and now of their God-given do
minion.
Mental Causation Eiplnlnrd
I know how difficult a thing it is
for people who are unacquainted
with the teachings of Christian Science
to understand what is meant by men
tal causation. Humanity has been ac
customed through so many centuries
to consider that all causation is vested
in matter, that when we begin to dis
cuss the subject of mental causation
we are dealing with something that is
unfamiliar to many. When I first
turned to Christian Science, I did so
for physical healing, and I was healed
under circumstances that admitted of
no doubt that I had been healed. I.
therefore, became deeply convinced
that Christian Science must be the
truth, because it had wrought In me
so great a change. When I was told,
however, that there was no intelli
gence or sensation in the human body,
I said that the thing was so mani
festly absurd that no intelligent per
son could believe It for a moment,
and in spite of the fact that I had
been healed through Christian Science,
I came very near turning my back
upon It, Instead of doing so, however,
I determined to make an honest ef
fort to find out, if I could, what Chris
tian Science meant by the statement
that there is no intelligence or sen
sation in the mortal body.
!1 had not proceeded very far be
fore I found that the statement was
true, and then I found that it was
necessarily true, and then I began to
wonder why T myself had not thought
of it long before, because it appeared
so perfectly plain and obvious. It
was pointed out to me that this body
which paople worship and fear, and
which most people get down on their
knees before every day and say to It,
"Oh, body, what can 1 do for you to
day, to keep you from hurting me?"
is composed of something over 70' per
cent, of water, and that the balance
of it is chalk, lime, starch, potash and
a few other things—that is matter,
ju3t as truly as the ingredients of the
dirt and wood are matter.
I then learned that there could be
no more intelligence or sensation in
matter when in the form of flesh,
bones and nerves than when in the
form of dirt or stone, which fact is
proved whenever an opiate is given
to a person and the human mind is
put to sleep. The body may thea
be cut and gashed and the nerves
lacerated, without the slightest indi
cation of intelligence or sensation.
I thus learned that sensation and
Intelligence do not reside in the hu
man body apart from the human
mind.
Some day all mankind will recog
nize the immeasurable service that
Christian Science has performed for
the human race in making this fact
plain. For if it be true, and it is true,
that sensation and Intelligence do not
reside in the human body, apart from
the human mind, then it follows, ab
solutely. that the human body cannot
do anything, feel anything, or have
'anything, except that which the hu
man mind first decrees, and that by
educating, instructing and controlling
the human mind with truth, we shall
thereby control the body with truth,
and the body will then be healthy and
harmonious.
lCffect of Right Thinking
Just as certainly as the human body
has suffered from disease end discord,
land has gone down in wreckage in all
of the ages of the past, as the result
of wrong mental government, Chris
tian Science is proving that in the
future the body will respond with
health and harmony, when it shall be
governed by "that mind which was
also in Christ esus."
Regardless of what any one may
think or say to the contrary, Christian
Science has proved beyonil all possi
bility of successful contradiction, that
Ithe human body is 1101 self-acting. It
!is not a self-acting machine. Since it
possesses neither intelligence nor sen
sation in nor of itself, it can act only
in obedience to the mentality that
governs it.
At this point Christian Science per
forms an invaluable service to man
kind by explaining how each one may
take possession of his body and gov
ern it harmoniously. Christian Science
here declares that no one is under
any obligation whatever to allow the
so-called mortal mind to dictate the
terms and conditions upon which he
may live, but upon the contrary, it is
the right and privilege of every one
to be governed by the law of Spirit
instead of the so-called laws of mat
ter, and that by telling the truth to
mortal mind, and thereby destroying
false belief, to preserve his body in
health.
I To Illustrate how the body responds
'to the mentality that governs it. study
the faces of two men. One is fur
rowed with deep lines. It expresses
bitterness and shows that the man
bates every one, and believes that
every one hates him. . The other is
radiant with good will, and shows by
Its every expression that the man loves
every one, and thinks that every one
loves him. What is it that makes the
difference the faces of the
two men? Is it not their thought?
And If thought can produce such rad
ical changes in the shape, expression
and contour of men's f«.ces, Is it not
plain that thought will also produce
like changes in the shape and action
of every organ and part of the body?
I*'or there is no part of the body that
is beyond the reach of human thought,
and since no part of the body pos
sesses intelligence or sensation in nor
of itself, it follows that no organ or
nerve can act except in obedience to
the mentality that governs it.
Aniter and Its Consequences
Also observe what happens when a
person becomes angry. Immedlately
the functions of every organ in tho
body are disarranged. The liver at
once begins to secrete bile, and to
diffuse It through the system, so that
one of the llrst results of a fit of anger
is that the breath becomes foul. The
heart action is also disturbed, either
being accelerated or retarded, and the
face becomes pale Of flushed. Any
physician will say that many deaths
have occurred from fits of anger, and j
yet anger is only a mental quality or
state.
Now, let one ask himself that, since
such results as these, which are wit
nessed daily, can arise from a sudden
wrong mental impulse, does It require
muclv thought to sec that like evil re
sults will also occur from the habitual
entertainment of a wrong mental
j quality? Is It not plain that hatred,
and all of Its subdlvisons and by
: products, such as malice, spite, resent-
I ment and revenge, must necessarily
| produce evil and discordant conditions
i upon the human body? And, like
| wise, that every evil quality of the
mortal mind, such as dishonesty, jeal
ousy, greed, avarice, self-will, fear and
t the like, are .so many conspirators
against the peace and harmony of
j mankind, and that until these qualities
I are cast out, and are displaced by the
; qualities of that mind "which was also
i In Christ Jesus." men and women will
continue to suffer, Bin, be unhappy and
die.
Again, one man believes that if he
sleeps in a draft he will take cold, and
it will be so. Sitting right by his side
Is another man who believes that
unless he sleeps in a draught, he will
be sick, and it will be so, and there
are two exactly opposite results fol
lowing from the same draft, not be
cause there is any power in the draft,
but because of human belief about it,
thus showing that the body responds
to whatever the human mind believes
concerning it.
Thus Christian Science is proving in
many different directions that the body
is not self-acting, that it has no in
telligence to act and no sensation to
feel, and that in every case, it obeys
and responds to the mentality that
governs it.
Indeed, this fact, is so plain, that
when It Is once pointed out every one
will readily observe instances to prove
it, and the more one gives heed to it
the more it becomes plain that by con
trolling one's mental state by truth he
can thereby control his body, and gov
ern its feeling and action.
Significance of Jesus' Wortls
It then becomes easy to understand
the immense significance of the words
of Jesus when he said. "Ye shall know
the truth and the truth shall make
you free," for when the human mind
is filled with truth instead of error, the
body will respond with harmony in
stead of with discord. It also becomes
self-evident that humanity must and
will be emancipated from bondage to
sin. sickness and death, not by doc
toring the matter body with drugs nor
through reliance upon dead ceremonies
or blind, unreasoning faith, but
through the regeneration of the
human mind.
Is that not precisely what St. Paul
meant when he said. "Be ye trans
formed by the renewing of your
mind"? Can there be any other way
for suffering men and women to be
liberated from evil conditions and
transformed into a state of peace and
harmony except through the conscious
evangelization and regeneration of the
human mind?
Regardless of what one may think
or believe concerning the doctrine of
atonement, it is plain that there can
be no such thing as vicarious re
generation. Each individual must go
through that process for himself, and,
either here or hereafter, he will enter
into the kingdom of peace only when
h< shall have gotten rid of the super
stitious. erroneous and vicious quali
ties of the human mind, and shall
conic to know the truth concerning
God and man. Christian Science points
out the way. It is the Science of right
thinking and right living in contra
distinction to erroneous thinking and
wrong living.
Concerning Mrs. KUdy
Some day all mankind will recognize
the immeasurable service that Mrs.
Eddy has rendered to humanity by her
discovery of Christian Science and the
establishment of the Christian Science
movement. Through her teaching she
has elevated religious understanding
from a theoretical to a practical basis.
She has taught the world that it is
the mission of religion to heal people
of sickness, sorrow, unhappiness and
fear, as well as to destroy sin. and has
so clearly defined the process by means
of which these results may- be accom
plished as to make it possible for
every one to prove it for himself and
thereby to heal himself and others.
Christian Science is applied Chris
tianity just as truly as engineering is
applied mathematics. There is no
mystery about it, and when one does
his work correctly, according to its
rule, healing and regeneration must
follow.
In the Bibl<» <«ohn xx:l7) we read
that Jesus said to Mary, "Go to my
brethren, and say unto them, I ascend
unto my Father, and your Father; and
to my God and your God." Also in
I John, 111:2, "Beloved, now are we the
sons of God. and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that,
when he shall appear, we shall bo like
him; for we shall see him as he is."
St. Paul also wrote (Romans, 8:10,17),
"The Spirit itself beareth witness with
our spirit, that we are the children of
God: and if children then heirs; heirs
of God, and Joint heirs with Christ."
Christian Science demonstrates tho
truth of these Inspired statements. It
makes available as a present right and
possibility man's inheritance as the son
and heir of God by showing that the
real man created by God is spiritual
and not material; that his life, con
tinuity, intelligence and harmony are
in spirit and not in matter; that all of
his qualities and attributes are derived
from Spirit, and that every .function of
the real man is governed by the divine
Mind. Man. therefore, expresses tho
divine nature, and hence he is the
Image of God", and as such is perfect
and immortal. The material man is
not the likeness of God. for matter
cannot be the image of Spirit. Tie is
the false concept of man. and the sin.
disease and death Involved in this
false concept will disappear as false
mortal beliefs are dissolved by truth.
The material belief must give place to
to the spiritual fact In every case.
Out of the amplitude of her own
spiritual understanding Mrs. Eddy lias
translated into human language the
truth about God and man. and their
relationship; lias revealed a perfect
divine Principle that governs man
kind. and has proved that the truth
taught by .Tesus is scientific, and may
be demonstrated to-day us of old to
deliver the sinning, sorrowing and suf
fering from their oppressors, to set all
mankind free from bondage to evil,
and to establish the kingdom of God
on earth
Mummers to Hold Final
Pow Wow; Name Aids
Mummers will get together for the
iinal powwow to-night at the Mayor's
office.
At a meeting of the parade commit
tee last night the list of aides was re
ported. The aides include:
Assistant marshals, Michael E.
Si roup, John Relly, George W. Sulli
van, Thomas Keesey; aids, Walter
Montgomery, O. C. Bickle, Charles B.
Orr, Moses Cooper, Stanley G. Back
enstoss. Jonas M. Rudy, G. Porter
Hammond. V. Grant Forrer, Daniel A.
Teats, Paul G. Schelhas, Coroner Jacob
Eckinger, H. K. Probst, Harvey
Mountz, Joseph Maisano, Clyde D.
Kllnger, 8. P. Eb.v, Harry K. Baker
and George W. Conner.
Second Division Harry Douglass,
marshal; aids, George Van Kirk, George
A. Hoverter. Charles E. Pass, G. M. |
Keefer and Charles Fackler.
Third Division—Sam Koen, marshal;
aids, William E. Orr. B. F. Reynolds,
J. B. Carl, Chqjles B. Baum and J.
Gold.
Fourth Division—l,leu tenant Aubrey
Baldwin, marshal; aides. O. H, Beck,
Rudolph K. Splcer, H. O. Beck, P. J.
Dylan and William Block.
DECEMBER 29, 1914.
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I coats; all sizes.
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GATHER NAMED OH
SERVICE COMMISSION
[Continued From First Page]
Ed by the Governor to be a member
of the Pennsylvania Public Service
Commission. His term will be about
two and a half years under the ar
rangement of terms made by the Gov
ernor.
Ex-Governor Samuel W. Penny
packer was named as chairman of
the commission to succeed the late
Nathaniel Ewing, the first chairman,
and iwas given the Ewing term, which
adds two years to the time he will
serve. The other commissioners are
advanced a year and Mr. Gaither given
the seventh place. The names will be
sent In the Senate for confirmation
when the legislature meets next Tues
day.
Mr. Gaither resigned to-day as pri
vate secretary to the Governor and
also secretary to the executive com
mittee of the Panama Exposition
Commission to take effect January 1.
He will not assume the duties of a
commissioner until January 19, re
maining with Governor Tener to close
up the business of the office which will
b ■ cleared so that there will be nothing
left over for tho Incoming governor.
He will retain his legal residence in
Pittsburgh, but stay in Harrlsburg, de
voting all of his time to the work of
the commission and acting as resident
commissioner so that there will be
someone always here.
The new commissioner was born in
Foxburg, Clarion county, forty-five
years ago and was engaged in ne.ws
paper work in Pittsburgh for a num-J
ber of years. He became secretary to
the Governor when he ran for Coiv
gress and came here with him, tak
ing an active part in Harrisburg life.
He is a member of the Harrisburg
Club and the Country Club of Har
risburg and has a wide circle of
friends who hastened to congratulate
him to-day.
GIRL KILLED BY SHCT
AIMED AT AiTHEII
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She was seated at the supper tablp
with some other members of the fam
ily of her grandmother, Mrs. George!
Pettit, when the fatal bullet came'
through the window. There was no
clue to the mysterious shoottng until a
young woman member of the family
told the police that Hann had been
jealous of her.' Hann was found at
his home and after he was told of the
death of the child be confessed, the
police said, that he had fired at his
sweetheart and was sorry to learn that
the child was the victim of Ills aim.
Hann is locked up in the Millville
Jail
West End Republicans
Elect Officers Tonight
Officers will be elected to-night at
the annual meeting of the West End
Republican Club, 1410 North Third
street.
No opposition is expected to the re
election of H. A. Douglass as presi
dent.
Howard C. Sponsler, vice-president,
and the secretary, J. S. Miller, with
the treasurer, H. W. Miller, will also
bo re-elected. E. A. Pelffer is a can
didate for election as trustee for
three years. Nominations for the I
membership committee includo W. It. |
Shuey, I. D. Meals. E. G. Hoffman, |
Harry Hoffman, H. J. Boyer and J. G. |
IChurch, Jr. I
FARM ADVISORS IN '
ALL THE COUNTIES
Great Work of the Counsellors Is
Shown by Reports Made to
Director A. L. Martin
Statistics just compiled by A. L.
Martin, director of farmers' institutes
and chief of the farm advisors' ser
vice In the State Department of Agri
culture, show that no less than 7,665
farms were visited during the period
closing November 30 by ten farm ad
visors. The advisors, ho states, aro
now engaged in lecturing in the farm
ers' institute courses and will be In
that line until the end of March, when
they will go into the Held to give Indi
vidual advice to tillers of the soil.
Charles G. McLain, Brooksville, who
is the expert on farm drainage, visited
almost every county and laid out sys
tems for 279 farms. Dr. M. E. Con
nard, West Grove, and E. W. Eighty,
East Berlin, the daily experts, visited
every county, reaching over 1,200
I farmers, giving advice on plans for
| barns for 3,000 head of cattle and at
tending neighborhood meetings. H. P.
j Kester, Newtown, and Franklin
Menges, York, the soil experts, were
I called upon to give advice on soil con
! servation in almost every county and
Spoke at scores of county fairs. Flf
| teen hundred calls for advice were
I answered by W. Theo. Wittman, Al
lentown, and Frank Kline, Spring City,
the poultry experts. SUeldon W. Funk,
Boyertown, visited 550 taring in l'orty
six counties to advise on fruit culture,
and attended fifty meetings and dem
onstrations. E. B. Dorsett, Manstleld,
the co-operation expert, visited forty
live counties, many of them several
times, in giving points on co-operation
in buying, and Mrs. Jean Kean Foulke,
West Chester, went all over the State
giving advice on home sanitation and
household economics.
"The work of these advisors is shown
by the records without even referring
to over I.GOO letters of the most com
mendatory character received by ine,"
'said Mr. Martin. "We feel that the act
|of 191!b which was the means of es
tablishing this service, has saved thou
sands of dollars for the farmers and
has given them advantage of a service
that is destined to grow In value. I i
am proud of the work done."
Pittsburgh Mason Now
Heads Knights Templar
Pittsburgh, Dec. 29.—Lee Stewart
Smith, of this city, who succeeds to
the office of Grand Master of the
Grand Encampment of the United
States, Knights Templar, following the
death yesterday at Troy, N. Y., of
Colonel Arthur Mac Arthur, Grand
Master, has been almost a lifelong
resident of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Smith was born in Cadiz, Ohio,
April 24, 1844. Ills father was a minis
ter in the Methodist Episcopal Church,
lie received his education In the pub
lic schools. Upon graduation ho stud
ied dentistry and practiced for a time,
finally giving up his practtce to enter
the business of manufacturing and
dealing in dental supplies.
He enlisted in the Civil War and
was discharged at the close of the
war with the rank of sergeant.
Ho is a charter member of Post
Commander of Post No. 3, G. A. It. In
tho reorganization of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania he was ap
pointed adjutant general with the
rank of major, later resigning to be
come major of the Fourteenth Regi
ment. N. G. P.
He joined Franklin Eodge, No.. 221,
Free and Accepted Masons of Pitts
burgh on August 2, 1866.