CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21816, 20 November 1940, Page 4

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Operation Of Divine Power Nature And Character Of Thought A Christian Science lecture, entitled “Christian Science—the operation of Divine power in human affairs,” was delivered in the Scottish Hall last night by Lucia C. Coulson, C. 5.8., a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. The lecturer said that the present age was a scientific age, and the custom was to analyse and dissect and then arrange and systematise whatever subject was taken up. “I propose that we should consider to-day the nature and character of thought, its relation to our environment, and its bearing on our lives from the standpoint of Christian Science.” Thought was the most vital and potent thing that existed, and every experience was simply the outline or shadow of a thought. As you think so you will experience; just that, neither more nor less.” When Mary Baker Eddy discovered that Mind was substance and named it that, she discovered a marvellous thing for she discovered or uncovered the nature of all cause and effect, of which mankind had been largely ignorant before. By the word “Mind” Mrs Eddy did not mean the mind of mortals, the so-called human mind with all its limitations, its changing and distorted thoughtshadows. She was speaking of the Divine Mind, infinite Mind, every manifestation or experience of which was Divine. The perfect thoughts of the mind were facts, not shadows; they blessed all equally, and as all entertained them, as they thought God’s thoughts, their experiences and problems, mental or physical, were proportionately improved and transformed, for they began to shadow forth the harmony and dominion of changed thinking. The lecturer continued: “The nature of immortal Mind, the Divine Mind, is infinity. Everything it cognises is without beginning and without end. All the good which is its nature is without limit and without bounds. To finite consciousness, everything appears in terms of finity, of matter; to Infin * 3 consciousness, everything must partake of the nature of infinity, of Spirit. Now if we will lift ourselves out of the belief of finity, of limitation, and into the consciousness of infinity, great things will come to pass; for in this one change of attitude is to be found the solution of all human problems.” Christian Science, as its name implied, was not only scientific, but it was also Christian, and adhered strictly to the teaching and example of Jesus the Christ, the master Metaphysician, as Mrs Eddy had called him. The speaker said that they had to find what supply consisted of, and they must see God as its source. God being infinite Mind, His possessions were entirely mental or spiritual. It was certain, then, that God did not own an ounce of matter. He had no use for it and did not know it; yet He was the source of all wealth and was affluence itself. Of what, then, did His riches consist? They consisted altogether of thoughts, of ideas. Man was himself the compound idea of God, and his dwelling place was in Mind. Existing as idea in this infinite Mind, man had immediate access to all that Mind contained. “Dwelling with such thoughts as these gives us true self-assurance, the assurance of true selfhood,” said the speaker. “We become assured that God, the Divine Mind, is our Father, that we are, therefore, the sons of Mind, heirs of infinity, each one spiritually, individually precious; for since Mind’s model is infinite, its sons and daughters are essentially individual and are necessary, valuable to the Mind which formed them.”