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PROMINENT SCIENTIST
DELIVERS LECTURE

After an introduction by Mayor Z.
II. Hart@ig, Frank II. Leonard,
member of the board of lecturship of
the Mother Church, The First Church
Of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass,
delivered lecture to a large audience
at the EHeilbrcnner hall last Tuesday
evening. September %. MIR. Leonard
spoke in substance as follows:
We read of the wonderful happenings
of the time of Jesus. wish they might
be possible now and then accept the
universal belief that the time for mir
acles has gone by. To say the time
has gone by for the power of the Word
to be manifested is literally taking
the name of the Lord in vain, " for he
said, 10, | am with you always. "
Webster defines miracle as ANY
j thing wonderful" What Jesus did
was in direct opposition TO what we
term natural law; but instead of our
accepting and elinging, as we have, to
so called natural law as the real law,
we should recognize that nc law is
natural or normal save that which
manifests in all ways and on all ocea-
sions good or God. What Jesus did
was not supernatural from the basis of
/ real or God naiuralnesa but in full ae-
cord with all the promises in the bible
as to the redemptive accomplishment
of acceptance of his work as the direct
manifestation Of the omnipresent pow
er of the Word.
We must accust0m ourselves to rea-
soning out the things OF Spirit and
cease believing they are hidden from
US until after the change which we call
death. The things of Spirit are eter-
nal and il is as much eternal now as it
ever will be, so now is the time when
we are to worship God ''in spirit and in
/ truth" and cease giving willing eal TO
the cry of carnal mind which is at war
whit Spirit and is death unto any pos
sible knowledge'0f God.
The Bible teaches "be We trans
/ formed by the renewing of our mind
and this means we are to be changed
in substance by the beginning again
with Mind.
Jesus the Christ trnascended all
material belief with the Words of God
and yet he said, 81 can of mine own
self do nothing, " indicating it was the
"Mind" in him, the father, God, which
did the works.
The world at large has had great
Imisapprehension as to the position ac-
corded to Mrs. Eddy by the Christian
Scientists.
| They have never looked upon her as
Creator but simply as a revelator.
who through conservation, self-abnega-
| ton and profound spiritual searching
of the Scriptures, discerned the great
| Truth of the life "hid with Christ in
God" which she transcribed in the
| Christian Science textbook, Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures, so simply that anyone who is
willing to study may comprehend and
/ know the Truth" which makes man
! free.
The Christian Science textbook,
Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures, Mrs Eddy's legacy to
suffering and sin-sick humanity, en-
ables one to find the spiritual truths in
the Biple, simplifies and elucidates
their teachings and makes practical
| the example of our master while on
earth. 1t does not supercede nor does
/ it take the place of the Bible, but
makes it moresdesired and studied than
| before.
The message Of Christian Science to
mortals is the message of hope, the
message of activity and the message
of Joy 1t is the glad tidings that at
| last we know how to worship God and
how to walk in the Spirit" that we
may not fulfil ''the lust of the flesh"
but "press toward the marx for the
prize Of the high calling of God in
| Christ Jesus. ''For of him, and
through him. and to him, are all
things. to whom be glory for ever. "