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WILMETTE LIFE March 26, 1926 ciated that when we tll:ink of ~od a~ M'nd we almost immedtately thmk of H;m 'as Life also. The Bi_ble decla;es that God is Life. Moses, m exhortmg the Israelites to obedience to God, says to them, "He is thy life, and the length of thy days." John says ·. speaking of God in r~latio~ to crea~10~ and the beginning, · In hnn was lt.~e, and the life was the light of men.. Paul, standing on Mars' h_ill ~n1l notln~. th: Athenians' interest m God, proclatm~: He is "not far from every one of us. for in him we live, and move, and have our being." And ag·ain, in his lette1· 'to the Ephesians, the renown,ed apostle writes of "one God and F ~ther of all who is above all and through all, and in you all." · Since we abide in God and God abides in us, our life c~nnot be less than full, free, joyous, 1mmune from disease, out of dang-er, safe from destruction. In the past we . have been too much inclined to cone ' lYe of G~d as absent from His crt>atures a~.d J::lls creation. \Ve have declared, Thme i~ the kingdom, an1l the, power, anu the J:{lory," while we have all b~t overlooked His very l'resence and h1s intimate relation to . ourselve~. N_ow through the teach~n~s of_ Chrlst1~n Science is our vision opemr:g to H1s nearness, His immanence, H1s oneness with man; and we are no longer c~n tent to view Him simply as t~e S_ upreme Being, but rather as Bemg ltself· not alone as the source of life, but 'as Life itself, the Life of man and of the univer~t: Prayer or 'l'rt·atlnent It were almost sacrile~ious, insisted the 1 cture1·, to speak of dis ease in GIVES LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ·Peter V. Ross of San Francisco Speaks in Wilmette Thursday Evening, March 25 By J·ETEil , -. ROSS (~{ember of the Bnar<l of L<>ctureship of The !\lother Church, The First Church of Christ, SciE-ntist, in Boston, Mass. ) Speaking ot the mental ong·1n of human ills, Mr. Ross declared that Christian Sci~nce constantly reminds us of the importance of shutting out of our mental home wronJ:{ thoughts of every description, and of W(·lcoming good thoughts only, for f'\·erything ha s its inception in thought. Tu other words, back of all things is a mf:'ntal cause and propulsion. The t· vil df'ed would not have been committed if it had not first been thought or planned. Disease would never have madf' its appearance if mortal mind h;Hl not first conceived and pictured it. Hut ~omeone may ask, "How can this be true in my case, for I never thought of this ailment of mine befor' it came upon me?" In reply to this question it may be said that WE' do not rccogniz all that is going· on in the human or mortal mind, because there is um·onscious as well as conscious mental action. The thing-s and the happenings which we see about us are the out<·ome not only of the conscious but of the unconscious thoughts of mortals. \\'h (:ll we deRire to. mOY(· the hand, for example, we con~c10usly · I give the mental order and the resulting movement is visible. \Ve have no difficulty in tracing the mental cause and et'lect. But the same mentality which directs the hand to move also, although we are quite unaware of the fact, directs the circulation of the blood and every oth r function of the body. Does not the fact that the body ig largely governed by unconscious thought sugg st that disease may sometim s have its beginning in unC0n~cious thought, and eventually become outlined upon the body unless we put our knowledge of Christi~n Science into operation to _annul .:ts ~upposed laws and aggress1veness. ,llt"ntnl PletureH of Dl':'e~uJe . Xot onh· do diseases or1gmate l1l th~ught but they are mental in their makeup. They are false mental pictures. The proof of this statement lies in the fact that disease melts away when the mentality of the sut'lerer is corrected and normalized by that inflow of truth and love which Christian Science so impartially and generously brings to mortals. These pi.ctu~·es or beliefs of disease may obtam 111 th(· general mind of. humanity, ~nt~o_ught of and unrecogmzed by the IndiVIdual until their symptoms develop in h_i~ experience; but whether they obtam in the individual or in the general human mind, they are mental, both in their origin and in their structul'e, for they crumple into nothingness wheu the thought force which support~ tht'm is withdrawn. \Vhat mortals think about h(·alth and disease larg-ely det(·rmines whether they are on the way to health or to sickness, for ever:ronf' knows fl·om experience that what he dwells upon in thought tends to hf'eome real an1l tak~ posse_Rsion of him. A. per.so_n who heheves 1n g· h(l~t~. 'spectall~ 1f ~ !K) YEARS TI-!E STANDARD Of"~ stimulated by a guilty conscience, may presently see :c gho!'t. What he sees corresponds not with the facts but with what he believe!' . His companion who does not believt' in ghosts, and whose conscience is elear, sees none. Shakespeare devE:>lops thi~ idea with Macbeth. Macbeth, it will be remembered, . after inviting- his friends to a banquet, causes ont· of thE-m, Banquo, to be assassinated while on the way there. When the guests, who have no knowledge -·of the assas1:;ination, assemble, 't hey .see Banquo's vacant chair while Macbeth, all wrought-up over 'the crime he has instigated, sees not a vacant chair but Banquo's ghost. He sees what is in his own disordered thought or rather he sees a projection from what he would style his "heat-oppressed brain." So the individual who thinks a bout disease and pictures it in thought, or who leaves his mental door ajar so that the sickly thoughts of othe~s ma_y enter, need not be Hurpnsc.d 1f eventually he seems t1t sE-e dtsease ta.ke tangible form on his body. But it is not neces~a ry for a man to think specifically of rheumatism, for example, in order to bring- th~t ailment upon him. All lw rH·e<l d~ . ts to hate his neighbor, and rheumat1Stn or some other painful clisorder ~ay ultimately fasten its hold upon h1m. It is not necessary that hf' should hate anybody or · anything. LH him give way to fear or worry, and. tht-. hu~an mind, thus distracted, wtll 111 time dent nge the functions of the body which it is directing·. \\'ht·r(·as holding thought in line with the gTeat truth that man is spiritual and perfect Lecause he is an expr{'ssion of God, lifts consciousness out of th(· mortal ch2tnnels of diseasei ntotlw : ;3zsshfl <'hannels of disease into thE- nalm of health and safety. Di\'lne :'\lind or J.Ut· +~ l ,ti C .( I ' I .. I ( ( ·I - In 1liscussing the natul't · of (~od as omniscient or all-knowing-, :\[r. Hoss dt·velopecl at l ength tht· proposition that God is :\find, for, h aq!,U(·<l, what but :\lincl can be all-knowing'? Then. he added, from the considt·ratiou of I>eitv as :\lind it is only a Htt·p, and a ve.n· short on , to the <·unsidt>r·ation l·f De.itv as Life. It is ditlkult to c:onccive of intellig(·n<:<· and n~t· ntal action :-=t~parate and apart fr(·m liff' . In<le<·d mind and life art' s" i11timab·ly asso- this connection. Yet humanity seems so borne down with suffering ~nd miserv that disease cannot be Ignored~ Indeed Christian S<:i ·J~tists ~r(; not ignoring it, but are coplt1g w~th aand overcoming it to an cxttnt _wh_lch compe ls the attention of all thmkm~ people. 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