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oer a Prof. Herman S. Hering | Talks at First Church “Christian Science and the World’s Redemp- tion,” Is Theme of Discourse Professor Hermann 8. Hering, C.| S. B., of Boston, Mass. member of | the Board ureghip of ‘The First Chureh of Mass Mother Ch Roston, Christ, Se delivered a lecture Monday night in the church edif * Chureh of Christ, Scientist and Denny | way. Professor Hering spoke on the} subject: “ tan Scie and the World's Redemption.” His lecture follows FROBABLY no religious subject in modern times has ever become so widely known and attracted so much attention in so many quarters of the| globe, as has Christian Sotence. It % a subject of interest not only among English-speaking people the world over, but also among the peo- ple of virtually all ciyilfzed nation- alities, There is scarcely a country on earth where its literature is not read. Translations of various articl have been printed in more languages. Thoughtful people everywhere are familiar with its name, although un- fortunately many such have a wrong concept of Its teachings and of Its accomplishments. Hence it ts espe- | cially for the benefit of these latter, though also for the purpose of Fr calling to the minds of Christian S entists what they already know the general question of the or and development of the Christian Science movement, together with the | teachings and accomplishments | ten or which constitute {ts part tn the world's redemption, will be briefly considered. THE DISCOVERY Christian Science was discovered by Mary Baker Eddy\in the year 1888. The discovery camo about In this wise: Mrs. Eddy, as a child, had been taught by her mother that God could and would heal the sick. She learned to believe implicitly in the Bible teachings and in the supremacy of spiritual power, and she never lost this conviction, When trouble came upon her, first, through the loss of her mother, then her husband, the subsequent plot to| take her child, and later through do- mestic unhappiness, poverty, invalidism, she clung very clo’ the Scriptures, constantly seeking for | an explanation of the Bible healing She carefully investigated many cur- ative systems and looked into any-| thing that prontised to explain how theso-called miracles of the Bible were performed, but she found noth- ing to satisfy her search. Finally after an accident which her physician declared would be fatal, she opened her Bible and read the second verse of the ninth chapter of Matthew. While doing so, she realized clearly thatthe healing which was done in Jesus’ time could be repeated now. Her thought vested absolutely on God and was lifted above the physical conditions to a high spiritual plane. In this mental condition sho was instantly healed, and was able/ to leave her bed and walk. ‘This happened on the Sunday fol- lowing the accident, which occurred on a Thursday evening. At that time A minister and some other friends who had called to inquire after her condition and had found her critic- ally ‘tl, were waiting in another room. They were therefore astounded to see Mrs. Eddy presently walk into the room, dressed and completely re- stored to health. When asked how/ she was healed, she replied that she| could not tell them then, but hoped | to be able to do so sometime. When her physician called, he claimed that his medicine had healed her, but she) showed him the pellets tintouehed tn | her table drawer. She was greatly impressed by her healing and by the spiritual exalta- tion which she experienced at that! time. She felt that she must find} out how this healing was accom-| plished for she knew that it was) wholly spiritual and totally unlike the results of any healing system) which she had ever before heard of | or investigated. She therefore with-| drew from society after this exper- fence, and for three years studied the Bible, seeking an understanding of Jesus’ works. As a result of this) search she gradually received the rev- elation of the Principle of sctentific | Christian healing, which she calls | “the great curative Principle—Deity” | Retrospection and Introspection, p. 25) and which she describes as Infl- nite, divine Mind. DEMONSTRATION After making her discovery of the true nature of God as infinite Mind and of the healing effect of this di- vine Mind upon human minds and bodies, she appifed this heallng Prin- ciple in cases of disease, deformity, | and even death, nnd did much mar- | velous healing, most of it instantan-| eously. While the cures she wrough' aroused astonishment among a fe a number 6f years elapsed after she! began this healing work, before she | found a few who wanted to know} how the healing was done, These | she taught, and as she had no text book or other published writings, she made notes of the main points of he teaching and circulated them among her students. She later prepared a pamphlet entitled, “The Science of Man,” which was her first published work, to be used by students in con- nection with her class teaching. Her students learned to do the healing! work, and the Cause of Christian Selence began to grow. In 1875 she published her epoch- making textbook, “Science and} Health with Key to the Scriptures” —a truly marvelous achievement. She was always a very close student of this book, pondered it daily, and made frequent alterations and re. visions for the purpose of Improving her presentation of the subject. The fifhdamentals of her revelation, how- ever, have always remained the same, ORGANIZATION AND ACTIVITIES Mrs. Eddy at first conducted priv. ate meetings and later gave public lectures, until the need of a church organization became apparent. She then founded the first church in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, After this, or- ganizations werg formed in other elties, aa persofin were healed and became interested. Thus, from one student in tho early seventies, and official organ, The Christian & Journal, as branches of The M Churet { about elght thousand recognised practitioners. The completion of Church edifice in 1894 The Mother} marked an epoch and was followed by greatly | In 1906 an ex. seating over creased growth tension of this edifi five thousand was dedicated. There are now hundreds of church edifices belonging to the Christian Science de: | nomination course of construction. N Eddy established the first | periodical, 1 Christian Sicence | Journal, in 1883, and to this ha’ since been added two other monthiles, one quarterly, one weekly, and the daily newspaper, The Christian Sel: | ence Monitor, with an aggregate clr culation of many hundreds of thou sands, Similar growth has been made tn the Board of Lectureship, tnaugur- ated by Mrs. ddy in 1898, and in the Publishing which began in a very humble way. | RESULT OF SPIRITUAL WORK It must be evident to any unpre} diced thinker that this ph growth of the Christian fence | movement has been fundamentally a spiritual one, and that the outward material evidences simply represent | an externalization of its acceptance and many more are in} also | Soctety, ome and practi A large proportion of its followers first became interested in Christian Science through the healing. They had been {l!,—In many | instances bad been giveg up by| physicians as hopeless cases, Chris tian Sclence healed them and they | began to read and study the subject. This is the usual story The Christian Science movement | therefore is the results of works,— the progressive works of Christian | Scientists Who are continually heal-| themselves and others and thus/ working out thelr spiritual salvation Having now seen why Christian Science is a subject of great and growing interest in the world, and 1s | so firmly established in human ex- survey or review of the development of religious thought through the and/ ages and seo the position that the| who tn 1689 were driven into to! Christian Science movement occuples | north of Ireland. tn the spiritual evolution which has | taken place, as shown in the history of salvation HISTORY OF RALVATION = | The nature of human existence and | the history of spiritual development | may be traced both in the Bible nar- ratives and In subsequent events. There are two records of creation given in Genesis, Tho first, ax de- scribed in the opening chapter, tells of the perfect, spiritual, and complete creation made by the infinite and perfect God, called Elohim, in which creation there is no matter, no evil, and hence no need of salvation. In the second record, beginning | with chapter two, verse six, it Is the Lord God or tribal Jehovah who $s credited both with creating all things | on a material basis out of dust and | with introdicing evil. With this Adam and Eve coucept, which Mrs. | Eddy calls the Adam-dream, begins the history of human error and hu. manity’s consequent need of salva- tion. This Adam and Eve record predi- cates a different God, man, and unl- verse from those described in the! first chapter. The mesmeric state of | thought which believed in a material | God and a material creation is the | healing a | derry, they came to the United faith in God whieh knowledgment of Chris u ‘ emonatration of tu wor and is, in & word, the a tual living of a Christy life. Gradu ally, however, Christianity became more popular, and the Christians | grew to be a potential, political power and age It was then that the Emperor Constantine adopted Ct tlanity and made it a state reli thus winning greatly ext ence and support During the three hundred years fol lowing Jesus’ crucifixion, healing had been practived quite generally by the ch ns, After that period, the tivities lessened until they practically disappeared. To be ac unted a Christian, from that time became simply a matter of monial baptism and the formal ac knowledgement of a creed. The Chris: nded influ } Uan religion became a thing of forms | the spirit parently lost Jesus undoubtedly foresaw the an tagonism which would attack his teachings and endeavor to destroy them, yet he gave proofs of the cor rectness of his doctrine and © possible the establishment his religion by his followers. Although the clouds of material sense had rolled back sufficiently to of Christianity was ap. thus of ma’ et the divine sunlight of Jesus’ com. | appear, the world's hatred of | Christianity again shut out this light and spiritual enlightenment was once more engulfed in dogma and formal ia, SEED OF TRUTH IMMOR' Tho seed of spiritual Truth, by which was sown by Jos his disciples, and his followers during riy years, contained immortal L " ever, nd like yeast, it again began to leaven the human consciousness. Thus, after many centuries this Truth again appeared, in flashes as through mentalities were spiritual enough to fect its pow or, in spite of the materialistic doc trines which wore leading to the sup- pression of its spirit spiritual thinkers the thought of the world was being prepared for a suc censtul reformation. Wycliffe, Luthe: Knox, and other ref clear and courageous wrong teaching and freedom of thought, Word, the Bible, to all the people Pheso reformers were like rays of it were, John were Calvin, mers, correetors of | Perience, let us next make ® brief |ight breaking through the clouds and the darkness. Later re- tants were those shining tn formers and prot Persecution con ued and after tho siege of Lond rs, to establish d thelr political homes From a later generation of these God-fearing, courageous pioneers, & child was born in\Bow, New Hamp: shire, in 1821, who had a most un usua] mentality. The mother of this an pilot religion ai child was a woman of the deepest | spirituality who believed In the truth of the Scriptures and in the power of God to a remarkable degree and who counted among her friends many far in advance of the times in religious and philosophical thought. FINAL REVELATION This little child was Mary Baker, | wonderfully gifted and very recep- tve of spiritual ideas, Her mother talked with her a great deal of spir {tual things, and she had many un usual spiritual experiences, She was a constant reader and deep thinker. When, at the age of twelve years, she was about’ to join her parents’ church, she refused to agree to cer tain doctrinal points, for aho had al- ready gained an understanding of the Bible that was tn advance some of the theological teaching of her time. As sho grew older sho d veloped a mentality of such aclart that | Aided by these | oft} so-called original sin, which led to) tied, spiritual quality, that the divine disobedience, suffering, and loss. | jight of Truth broke through her con | Salvation from this Adam and Eve | sciousness as a discovery because she belief, therefore, requires an awak-| way ready, willing, and able to hear ening fiom this material mesmerism | the Truth, be receptive of the spirit |steps out of the mat one church In the year 1879, the Into the consciousness of the real, | spiritual man as recorded in the first | chapter of Genesis. | The Scriptures narrate how, at every crisis in humanity's history, a saving thought found a hearing in| some advanced mentality, which ap-| pealed to the people of its time and! led them out of ignorance and dark- | néss into a better state, thus bright ening and thinning the clouds of ma- | view of God as divine Spirit. | Thus, Noah at one crisis naved a) remnant of the people from utter de- | struction, Abraham Jater, through | his sense of fidelity and obedience turned from idolatry to the worship | of one God and became the father of | a nation through whom spiritual de velopment could advance on the basin | of monotheisin | ‘Then followed Jacob, who wrestled | with materixt sense and overcame it, | and who was given the new namo of | Israel; Joseph, who was able to biess | his enemies; Moses, who separated | good from evil and gave his people the moral law; later, prophets who could see and announce successive jal darkness of thelr day, and #0 lessen the dark ness of the clouds of sense; until fi nally a mentality appeared, of such exceptional purity and spirituality, that actual spiri 1 communion with God was possible’ a consummation | which resulted in what 1s termed the immaculate conception of Jesus. Here was a complete rift in the clouds, for | iod was seen clearly, and thereby the | first coming of the Christ was ren- dered possible. JESUS AND CHRISTIANITY Christ Jesus came, then, because the spiritual unfoldment to the hu-| man consciousness made st possible, because the rift In the mental clouds | clearly revealed the divine light. It was thus that he was “sent” by God, just as the sunlight comes directly from the sun into the room when the shades are lifted. It ts evident that the infinite God, has always been ever-present, but st required much clarification of consclousness to bring this fact to human apprehension. Christ Jesus was therefore God's reflection, expresaion, yea, His repre. | sentative on earth, teaching mortals the truth and endeavoring to awaken | them, through teaching and healing, to the recognition of the false nature | of material existence and the under. | standing of the divine reality, the | supremo power of God and tho per- fection of man. The right conscious- ness healed the Adam and Hive hellet, Jesus’ three yours’ ministry began the establishment of Christianity and his disciples continued his work #o that Christianity grew in spite of | improved | veal all Truth. growth has been #0 great that in|the most intense opposition. from 1926 there are over two thousand] both orthodox church and sta, ‘to churches and socletion listed in the| be accounted @ Christian in thove ual idea, and obey its demands. This discovery, that God ts infinite Mind and that “there is none beside him," that reality is wholly spiritual, and that man {s His spiritual idea, was the complete disappearance of the clouds of sense which made pos sible the revelation of the full radi- ance of reality. Since Mrs. Eddy's revelation includes infinity, absolute- ness, and alinoss, \t is a final revela- {terial senso which obstructed their! tion and there can be no other, for there {s nothing more to be revealed We see, then, that the appearing of divine Truth on earth, from the time of Adam until now, has come through mentajities, which percelve this Truth, and by whose progressive recognition of a higher sense of spiritual reality the obscur- ing darkness was lessened Apostles and reformers were “pre- pared,” in so far an their mentalities were clarified and they could thus re- ceive Truth. Divine Truth {s forever at work, but until’there ts receptivity there can be no response. TUE COMFORTER Jesus stated that he had much to) tell his followers but they could not | bear it at that time, and he promised | to send the Comforter, who would r¢ Christian Science is this Comforter, the second coming of Christ, the impersonal messenger ap- pearing through the clouds of sense | and establishing the whole Truth, The perpetual coming of the Christ Is | the natural manifestation of Truth to human conactousness and is not a supernatural event Many devout, spiritually minded persons have received divine light, caught glimpses of spiritual truth, during the period of this transform. ing of consciousness. But Mrs, Eddy was the only ono who received the full light, remained at the task of working out the reasons for this ight, and reduced her discoveries to tho bagis of a demonstrable Sctonce. She demonstrated her discovery by performing many wonderful cures, and she taught her students this method of spiritual healing so that they also did marvelous healing work, One man, Christ Josus, and eleven isciples, left such an impression upon the world through their tench. ing and healing, that It has endured | up to the present day, and Mrs, Hd-> dy's @scovery of the true Principle of this teaching and healing has anv- ed it for the world in this age, and will extend tts Christ-power through. out all time, MRS, EDDY'S LEADERSHIP * Those who have claimed to have a newer or higher revelation, that 1s, an improvement on Mrs, Hddy's teachings, by moana of an interpreta tion based upon thelr own conceptn Instead of upon the understanding of Mra, Hddy's statement of her discov- ery, have thereby proved that they could | A tid not ¢ truth given in her | tatement a not demonstrated ¢ could powdbly understand eh jence rightly and seo its afin © omplotenes without @ right estimate of its Dis overer and Founder and of her work Because Mrs, Eddy was the Dis coverer and) Foun Intian lished the movement and inaugurated its institutions and policies, and espe ly because of her demonstrated rstanding of Christian Solence became the natural human lead. er of the Christian Scientists, Those | jof her students and followers who recognized her as such, were deeply appreciative of her work and | wlad and grateful for her teachings, her advloe, and her admonitions Those of her students, in Qe early | days, who refused to recognize her aa | | & teacher went from God and a safe Léader, drifted away ‘fr her and were | started mental healing methods which were antage to Christian Set nee. Refusing to be o nt to by | hings, they failed to grasp or to b ing and aved by the ‘Truth she was teach: subsequently became her enemies. r years, while appreciating | the loyalty of her earnest followers, Mrs, Eddy recognized the fact that there was too much dependence upon her per Therefo’ edly and emphi ly In lal na rey reed and 90k to her hernelf, for | nyern to to wchings instead of she that the stréngth of he: | successful growth of | her Jed upon the de ,eree in whiel netrated her teachings and made them thelr own, extent to which th al Jana the rose above per jependence. After Mrs. dy passed from this earth, her followers were compelled to depend ly upon her teachings, for they could no longer appeal to er permonally. They then saw, as ver before, that Mra. Eddy's teach. ings w complete and supplied every need. Indeed, they saw that Mrs. Eddy was still the human | mouthpiece of her revelation and/| | was not only telling them through | her writings what the fundamentals of Christian Setence include, but also through these same writings giving adyico and admonition regarding | thelr application to every human condition and necessity, Christian Sclentiats recognize the fac that Mrs, Eddy ts « thelr human Leader, though ndt present in the fleah,—a personal Leader without the element of material personal! Just as in the early days many tempted to stray from her| hings through the seductive ar- | guments of a no-called new or higher revelat who craved a (buman personality as m leader have | yed from the path of the spiritual, scientific, and safe progres as laid do by Mrs. Eddy for the | benefit of her followers. | THE MOTHER CHURCH m of The Mother Church jin the Christian Science movement, jwith ite relation to the branch churches and societies, is unique, and we cannot have a right concept of what tho movement means and of what {t {# accomplishing unless this point ts clearly seen, Mrs. Eddy began in @ small way \tovorganize a church with her few | students and Interested friends, and left the management of this church | more and more to {ts members. Ex- | perience compelled her, however, to | disorganize and reorganize twice, un- tii m satisfactory manner of church government was devined in the pres- Jent Mother Church, which ta founded }on a wholly spiritual basis, The form of governmont thus instituted re- quired the Board of Directors to ad- minister the By-laws of the church, ® procedure which simplified the| | whole question and safeguarded the businems affairs of the church, as | well a» the spiritual welfare of all its various activities, while at the | samo time requiring of all {ta mem- | bers, support of ite provisions and lindividual demonstration of the church as “Tho structure of Truth and Love" (Science and Health, p. $3) | ___Mrn, Eddy prepared the By-laws of |Tho Mother Church with great care. They were not provided in advance were te », fo others of the needs they were formulated to meet, but wero the result of exper fence, Sho has written regarding them, “Thoy sprang from neceanity, the logic of events,—from the imme- dinto demand for them as a help that must be supplied to maintain the dignity and defense of our Cause” |(Church Manual, p. 3} The By-laws | were proposed, adopted, amended, re- moved, published or not published, | Just as Mra, Eddy's wisdom, inspired | by prayer and spiritual demonstra- | tion, dictated We see, then, that The Mother | Church, The First Church of Christ, Sciontist, in Boston, Massachusetts, | which was originated and established |by Mra. Eddy, fs still governed by her through the By-laws in the Man- ual, and is the charch tn which the Christian Science movement ts | anchored THR BRANCH CHURCHES Owing to geographical limitations | it 9 not possible for all Christian | Scientists to attend one church, | Th fore, Mra. Eddy made provision for local chruches, The government of these organizations must be purely democratic, since each one ts dis- tinctly a local demonstration The connection of these branch organizations with Tho Mother Church {s, however, of special inter- est. Mrs, Eddy has provided for a Lesson-Sermon, to be prepared by a Bible Lesson Committee, which ts the Lesson-Sermon read in The Mother Church, as well as in all branch churches and socleties. She has also provided that the Readers of all branch organizations shall be members of ‘The Mother Church and thus be amenable to its provisions and discipline. These Readers are, therefore, local repre- sentatives of The Mother Church, governed by it through ita’By-laws, and mouthpleces through whom The Mother Church Losson-Sermon is giv. en out, Here isa definite motaphys- Jeal connectian, by which the branch becomes a channel or arm, and by means of which The Mother Church ja extonded throughout the world, notwithstanding tho fact that these branches are organteally Independent and nelf.governod, Tho appreciation of this spiritual extension or representation of The Mother Church throughout the world is a point of vital importance Jn un- derstanding Mra. Mddy's great Cause be obtained by Christian Scientists in order that thelr efforts to furthor the Causo may be success. ful, and must TAT TEACH OF CHRISTIAN ba f which the and 5 mines net forth in t f Chrintinr Health with Key to Mary Baker Hddy Mr fate, and amt urtety of for what Chr ading and emphasize, elu these teaching» in « Science teaches by re tudying these be On account of the ity of this fect, it must suffice to the fact that Christan Science upon God, t ney necensary of the 1 atten’ brev-| wub- | sentation based fundamentally consequently we need to consider fo! & moment what Christian Bclence| ; teaches regar God. Mra. Eddy | wreatl AM; tho all-acting, all defines God as: °T all-knowing, all-seetng, wise, all-loving, nd eternal; Prinel. ple; Mind; Boul; Spirit; Life; Truth Love; 1 substance; intelligence’ (Selence and Health, p. 667), | Divine Principle is ono of the syn. onymous names employed in the Christian Selenee textbook for God, and the Bibio is full of this thought when it speaks of God as Creator, as just and right,” as governor, Judge law, th Going Him foundation, cause, ete. which F ciple in It in not a difficult step from Prin. elple to I AM, the name God ts re corded to have given himself in answer to Moses’ inquiry, The fre records of the voloe of patriachs, prophet od to be Min omn no for Deity God and ot the In ta tho whict uked perhag more than all ¢ » the Bible and which makes plain His omnipresence and allness, and that the divine creation {# whe 1, for only immaterial sub-) indestructible and eternal All Christendom {s famillar yith| the God of Truth who ts Life, of whom the Bible teach and whic hy} teaching Christian Science reaffir ms | und demonstrates, proving the om nipotent actuality which God really in we find the great de tlon of God in the repeated de tion muds BY Ste Jotn,-that..“% Wohn 4:16), the saving, pire wuld Father Mother, all knowing, all-wise, _all-harmoniqus, thus completing the perfect corrpla | tion with the Bible of Mrs. Edgy’s| scientific definition of God's nagure Finally and character. | Bo also do the teachings of [the Bible «nd of Christian Sclence og-!n- cide regarding man who was ngade in tho “image and likeness” of and the universe which God pro-| nounced “very good. | REDEMPTIO? HEALING Tt should .next be seen that Christian Science ts the Bclenge of Christianity, namely, tho exact sys- tematic, demonstrable knowledge of | the Christ teachings and their appli-| cation to human redemption, When | we understand the mission of Christ | Jesus we see that his teachings were | intended, by saving mortals from the | misery, wretchedness, and ungodll-| ness of material Living, to bring to! them salyation—redemption from | tho world's evils | It ts ovident that this redemption | includes healing,—moral, mental, and | phyalcAl. A record of Josus’ life and works, as given in the New Tegta-| ment, shows that he Alwaym attrib- | uted the healing results he obtained to tho power of God.’ Indeed, in Jesus’ work tho healing wan done to cnll attention to divine power and to waken the sufferers to a right be lief nnd faith in God. Mra, Eddy called Christian Science tho Sclence of Mind-healing, meta- phayical healing, spiritual healing, | eto., and the fnct that tts healing 1s accomplished by the power of God, thru spiritual understandin; tablished beyond doubt to-day, There. fore Christian Science ts truly divine | Selence, the Sclence of divine Being, the Science of the Principle of. all existence and of its operation, This operation Includes tho Inter-relation- | ship of all God's creation and, when applied to the solution of human problems, st means tho redemption of mortals, through divine power, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING Bince the healing of sin, diseaso, and all other earthly misery ts an ensontial part of the world's redemp. tion, and since, Christian Science brings about this healing, let us con- sider this question for a moment, for it involves a subject that is greatly misunderstood. It is, of course, a fact that in Christian Science the healing is done mentally, which has led some who are unfamiliar with Christian Sci-| ence to believe that its healing is accomplished through a form ot mental suggestion. It 1s also be Noved by some.that Christian Science heals only cases of nervousness and hysteria, or slight {ndispositions which nature would take care of, or cases concerning which It is said} they “would set well anyway.” It] ‘s quite truo that cases involving | hysteria, fear, and imagjnation have been healed, but these by no means constitute the larger portion of tho} work done, It 1s @ matter of record, | supported by indisputable proof that | Christian Sclence has healed innum. | erable cases of organic and structural diseases which had been diagnosed as auch by reputable physicians. It is tho healing of serious and critical cases which proves most strikingly the efficacy of Christian Science as a healing agency. Christian Science heallng may be demonstrated and will bo differenti: | ated from all other forms of mental | healing when tite following points aro understood: first, {t has a divine foundation and results from the operation of divine Mind and not human will; second, {t ts based upon absolute reality, the Infinity of Mind, Spirit, Truth, and the perfect nature of the {deas which constitute real boeing; third, it {s predicated upon the) unreality of all that 1s unilke perfect spiritual Boing, namely, the unreality | of matter, evil mind, mortal law and power, which constitute so-called ma- torial existence, or tho “Adam: dream"; fourth, {t {s fundamentally corrective process, as Jesus intl. mated when he said, “Yo shall know the truth, and tho truth shall make you free,” ITS RAQUISITHS It {8 sometimes asked why overy | person who recelves Christian Sel-| ence troatment is not healed, In the first place tho Biblo tell us that Josun “did not many mighty works," among his own countrymen, ‘be LUDES bi is os. | | | \ | gv DELIVERS. LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIEN wuse of th \ ef’ It is quit | disease, and untold mine pm pe h is the ‘ | 1 th ® t r . careful observer will find at the | by ‘ ted him from ‘ 4! | Christian Belence church member- | heave The t I r ady composed almost entirely of| t breque to b who have been healed af It ' t recogt by lor moral « nt. Only nat "| near 4 8 t ent » have come into uction f > : { ¢ th f ‘ etian clence because of ar br Chri an They uid \ relief from physical suffering fany have bois healed of diseases | t! ; not want to give up the sinful! og character which puzzled the] picted when God P causes or habits of thought which 19 | diagnosticlans, and many from ‘ many instances "have led to the 6Uf| ments associated with unethical or | tear ei fering. Moreover, on the other hand,|;,:oral conditions, Disease result-| we read, “there 1 when we bear in mind the world’s from socalled hereditary laws|death, netthe come wwential materiality which St. Paull (oy trom wrong edvironment, from | neither shall there be referred to when ho said, “The! ramiy and business ‘complications, |for the former th carnal mind 4s enmity against God.” | iiwy of occult influences, and evil| away.’ it is rather to bo wondered at that) ogee which it 1s obvious that| This period of perte ' fo much good healing in being ac-| PUrDOMe ee cannot porsibly | righteous Kovernient « ge oe |heal, have in numerous instances of man, When the disciples _ brought 10 | Welded to the Christ power of true ° : , a one whe bye nee Chr an SBetence work. i heal, he rebuked them and » of bee dies ate their “little faith.” He sid them | ‘Thousands business men and). ched after deat ; that prayer and fasting wero requis-| women, have received help in their! 1 ou Met Niki for such healing. Prayer here | bustneds troubles and resulting 111 pep stra pbs fe evident meant the » spiritual |and their activities have been estab 8 ASCLONS ED ; communion with God w hich Jesus so|lshed on the foundation of divine /**Piains the fallacy of t accepted belief very t cluded | Prinetp! C ing of hones plainly taught, and fasting included | Principle, under the rull t? arr gee abstinence from all material beliefs, | ty justice, etc. Thousands of dis- ener ore in other word leaving all for | cordant homes have been restored to} oe seh . a Christ | harmony thru the overcoming of the | me "i poring NT MOLL ITS SIMPLICITY [desire for Mquor and other stim-| | iM we prac to Unden Can anything be simpler than!/ulants, the influence of Jealousy, Christ Je i “i ur Master ne Apparent | impatience, anger, passion, etc eae hin mintatry og understanding Chris-| any who have been healed have | teachings were strict bevel. il gate complicated | awakened to a be sense Which| would be no more eichndl they impressions due to the strangeness of | made tt pfoasiblo for them to know] misery nor death upon eanh oie the point of presented re right, to unde nd and love| ¥ les pe arth. Itig ight, to understand ani | helpful at all times to think this om garding primary facts of the na Tine thug tap tad aka nk this over 1 t ns Lome & land to realize what a changed asg ture of reality and the apparent na-) man and a love for spiritual truth) wonderful world this earth ture of unreality, Wh and life 1# a characteristic of thone|se tne taithtul practice « would by nized ar f the faithful practice of Cherlatiag will be seen to be very nimple j It is evident that spiritual truths | can be apprebe: only spirttaally, | tan Science 7 ers for the wo ence of Christian! and Involves Scriptures tell us that spiritual) ‘he constant Mrs. E | Power, w anyone can understand ss must be spiritually discerned, lentific statement of being,” 88) and apply, we see why it hag bea j astronomical truth, including | read In the Sunday service 4 the) humanly possible for the worden astronomical pbenomen € al 1 loving thoughts 6f/ demption to begin, and the Milley amped pressed physte only understanding. Since we have been educated ma-| improving the terially and have learned to be tm-|the world's thought, and have alded| of Life, of Truth, of Love, in om and gov y 1 penses, a quired in our thought tn order to de who have been healed thru Christian | ¢. Science. olence were universal, ~ When, therefore, we grasp the fact that Christian Science ts th hod of Christian nee Furthermore, tho effect through astronomical ntists toward ail man-|ium to be experienced now, ‘The | kind, have had « great influence in| retgn of Christ means the relgn @ general conditons of} Principle, of Mind, of Spirit, of rned at ch the five| considerably in the world’s redemp-| sctousness as divine idea. If Chrigs ngo is re- | tion. | tan Sclence were everywhere accept It is very noticeable among falth-| ed and practiced, if even a majority velop thé spiritual senses, the dis-| ful Christian Scientists that they | of the people in the world were Chris. cerpment of spiritual truth and good,| have higher {deals, ambitions, mo-| tion Scientists and were suc namely ritual undemtanding. | tives, and di s than before they/ living up to its teachings, this spilt Th mpl of Truth ts j knew of Mra, Eddy's teaching and/ derful spiritual life, redolent with clearly see: that theso are not only of a more| true happiness, Joy, and satisf ITS ACHIEVEMENTS [ethical chaiincter but have a spirit-| abounding in heavenly harm The achievers of Christian | ual qualify which only the love of] divine peace, would be Science, during its comparatively} God and Christ Jesus can bestow. | da: Is this not an achi brief iste have been so wide-| ITS PROMISES worth striving for? spread in their effect: | thetr influences, se ele teach! their capno' Its en the healing of mortals from 7 SOD , that theso results and|of Revelation wo read of the reign| bein @50s, maine fT 2 < , | being reappearing in art in the world’s redemption bitten Re pe be adequately estimated mo; so unseen In| In the twentieth, twenty-first and| Mra, Eddy writes: ting in thelr| twenty.second chapters of the book| tanity 1s “Christ's Chris: the chain of sclentifig | jof a thousand years of peace with | taining its obvious correspondence — | Christ, commonly called the Millen-| with the Scriptures and unitng al” has | jum Js recorded that du this | periods in the design of God” (Sciengg. t conspicuous result dragon. that old nerp What Do You Get Out of the -Government at Washington? } Pp] ILED up in departmental and bu- Muy reau iibraries, laboratories and files are the answers to millions of A: questions that the average Ameri. ‘ean citizen wants to know. 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