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TRANSFORMATION BY
MIND RENEWAL
THE OVERCOMING OF HUMAN ILLS: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE
Christian Science is applied to human problems through what St. Paul calls transformation by the renewing of the mind, said Mr. Frank Bell, of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, Boston, in the course of a highly interesting, lecture at the Y.M.C.A. last evening.
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The hold of materialism is that to lift one's sense of identity and weakening, the speaker proclaim-reality up out of the flesh into infinite ed. The human voice encircles Thus Christian Science restores that Spirit promotes health and harmony. the world in a moment, an ocean which was lost, Christian healing. of space is. but a day's journey
Life No Mystery by air. Those who see natural Life was no mystery to Jesus. "It progress in these things are not is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh far from recognition of the fact profiteth nothing," said he. The sick are healed and sinners are reformed that Jesus could be at the other through learning to look outside of the side' of the sea instantly by rea- flesh for that true spiritual animation son of the perfection of his state which alone is capable of maintaining
the univers
universe and all that is t
is therein. of mind.
To the Master evidently it was clear The speaker added, in part: that health is primarily a state of The common belief about a man's thought and only secondarily life is that he lives within a physical cidentally a condition of body or mat- body, that his identity is located in-ter. To him the sick were those side a material structure of flesh and "whom Satan hath bound," the Satan bones. How life got into the body, whom he described as "liar, and the what keeps it there, how it is to get father of it,” a self-constituted lie or out, and where, it is to go when it false sense, having "no truth” in it. gets out, are subjects of much specu- Both the casting out of devils, sick, lation and little assurance.
deluded beliefs, and the spiritual quick-
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All human ills are associated with ening of those who came to be heal- the sense of life in the flesh. There- ed were accomplished through
the in man is supposed to live a precari-operation of the Mind that -- was in ous life and to die an inevitable death; Christ Jesus, as St. Paul describes it. therein are his aches and pains, his Those who were healed, were those. fears and disappointments, his sinful whose hearts were open to the regen- habits, devastating appetites, illusive erative influence of that mind or sense pleasures. The sorrows and suffer- which perceived and reflected the ab- ings from which mortals pray to be solute truth concerning · God's delivered all have to do directly or in- tion. directly with the so-called corporeal,
Resisting False Influence
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fleshly selfhood, including that which The activity of Christian Science is is called the mind within the body not of the nature of mental sugges- Christian Science, concerned with the tion or hypnotism. Jesus expounded overcoming of human ills, that the in- the rule, "Not my will, but thine, be herent rightness of God's creation done." The effort of mental sugges- may appear, invites men to consider tion is to impose one human will upon the reasonableness of the proposition another. Much that is involved in the that since discord is found only with-so-called laws of evil and disease in in the realm of physical sense, the human experience can be traced to way out of trouble lies through the some such wrong mental activity or taking on of a better sense. It is pos- mental malpractice. Jesus denounced sible to do this in a perfectly natural human will and proclaimed the will of
way.
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God to be the only real will-power, That rule brought healing to the sick To hold to the belief that man lives nineteen centuries ago and it brings inside of a material body one must healing to the sick to-day. well-nigh ignore the fact that actual The rule, “Not my will, but thine, life has not been found in the body. be done," is, of course, the rule of per- Each of the activities within the fection. God's will is perfect. body can be truthfully described only Thought that is open to the fundamen- as an effect of something else. If tal Fightness of being catches some- that something else were inside of the thing of the spiritual import of body it scarcely could have escaped Jesus' teaching, and this improved, detection by this time.
state of mind, manifests itself, after The situation. is illumined by such its kind, in outward conditions. and statements as this from the Christian affairs. Jesus must have meant this Science textbook, "Science and Health when he said regarding one of his with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary healings, "Thy faith hath made thee Baker Eddy, page 208. "You em- whole." His affirmation of God's will brace your body in your thought, and that man is perfect had encountered you should delineate upon it thoughts a measure of acceptance, and that im- of health, not of sickness.” ~ A mo- proved state of mind which he named ment's consideration makes it plain faith, expressed itself in a correspond- that we do embrace our material ing; state of body, as states of mind body in our thoughts. Therefore both never fail to do. The scientific re- we and our thoughts must be in fact lationship between state of mind and outside of the body. One could not state of health is affirmed and re- well be inside of that which he em-affirmed in the Scriptures. " braces. We contemplate our so-call- ed physical selves from without, not from within.
Inspired Thought
Disposing Of A Negation Having accepted the Scriptural surance that the author "of all reality is good, and the creator of that only If man does not really live in the which is good, the Christian Scientist flesh, then clearly he ought not to go does not shun the logical conclusion on
believing that he does. Inspired that evil is not an entity. The teach- thought beckons us out of materiality. ing of Christian Science, that evil is In Genesis we are assured that true primarily a megation, may be illustrat- man is the image and likeness of Ined by the negativeness of the evil finite Spirt. A psalm reminds us that called ignorance.
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we shall be satisfied when we awake The schools are devoted to the over-: in God's likeness, the likeness of coming of ignorance, yet they do not Spirit Isaiah urges, "Cease, ye from regard it as something, No time is nian, whose breath is in his nostrils: wasted in the schools in trying to in- for wherein is he to be accounted of?" struct any one as to the origin or Jesus, commanding his followers to elements of ignorance. If a pupil take no thought for the body, declares were to demand to know who made that real life, life, eternal, is a state ignorance, where it came from and of mind,“ to know God aright. St. what it consists of, he would have. Paul; deeing that "they that are in be told that nobody made ignora the flesh cannot please God," advises it does not come from anywhere, nor Christians to cultivate a willingness does it consist of anything. The "to be absent from the body, and to educator knows that ignorance is not be present with the Lord.” John, the the presence of something but the ab Revelator, explains the possibility
sence of something, in other words, a beholding new heaven and new earth, pure negation. Knowledge of the not material but spiritual, through essential negativeness of ignorance mental purification.
does not tempt the educator, to ignore Christian Science teaches and proves the effects of the negation.
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