Charlevoix county herald., 1912-09-07
ChristianScience.
+. II. Leonard Delivers Able
Lecture at Temple Theatre.


ard, G.. S. b., member of the Board of
Lectureship OF the First Church Of
Christ, Scientists. OF Boston, Mass.
The lecture was under auspices of the
local organization and was quite we'll
attended. Below is a short synopsis 8
OF the lecture given:
A Celt being asked TO define critic
responded, "a critic is one who is most
down on what he is least up on. "
No one has ever believed he has crit
iciZed Christian Science from the ba-
sis OF knowing what Christian Science
is. Ignorance OF this great subject
can no longer be excused on the basis
OF inability to gain correct informa-
tion as TO what il is, whence it comes,
and what it accOmplishes. Christian
Science lectures are given SO that
those who desire may become familiar
with it from the standpoint of those
who have studied Christian Science,
have applied and proved IL.
The Bible teaching, "Ye shall know
the truth, and the truth shall make
you free," is familiar to all. The
question arises. What are we to know
the truth about, and from what will
this knowing free US? We are To
know the truth about God, and this
knowing will free Us from all misap-
prehensiOn and false educational the
ory relative TO Him, which has held
humanity in bondage and misery,
wretchedness and woe, for unaccount-
able generations.
Mrs. Eddy, started her investiga-
tion with the realization that God is,
and that as cause and effect agree all
things that really are must be like
God In quality and character. So, in
spite Of the testimony OF the physical
senses, regardless of the wrong educay
tion OF the ages. she took her stand
against the things temporal though
seen, and with the substance OF things
hoped for but not seem and the result
Of this standing revealed TO her the
glory of God and the great Truth rela-
tive TO Him, which is the foundation
of all the redemptive and healing work
that is accomplished in the ministry
OF Christian Science-namely, that
God is infinite Mind.
In reasoning on this subject OF God
being Infinite Mind as against the be-
lief in personal God, let me ask this
question; Did You ever converse with
the body Of a friend? Did you ever
call on a friend, and finding him
sound asleep, draw your chair beside
the couch on which he reclined and
engage in an animated half hours
conversation with his body, and then
leave him, feeling edited by reason Of
what you had said and he had not?
Did you ever pray TO the body of God?
Don't you know, when yuu think Of
IT, that every prayer or petition in
our highest consciousness that has
been addressed Godward has been ad-
dressed unto that Mind which was
also in Christ Jesus? We know that
is where it has been addressed, when
we think OF il; for we know it is
Mind that knows. 1t is Mind that
thinks, 1t is Mind that guides,
guards, governs, controls and protects.
Christian Science. in teaching that
God is Infinite Mind, is not asking
that we worship new God. 1t is
simply an imploring appeal that we
lay of our morta! misapprehension
and humani2ed wrong belief relative
TO Him in order that we may know
the God who is unlimited. unconfined
aud everlasting Life. Truth and Love:
for not until we know God in this
Iufinite way can we possibly conceive
of His Infinite capacity, ability and
desire TO bless; and not until we do
conceive Of this, does it seem the
rational or normal thing To do TO go
TO Him in our everv hour OF trial,
whether that trial may seem To be
mental, moral, physical or financial.
IL is not prejudice that makes the
Christian Scientists stand like rock
against the suggestion that the rei-
gion Of Jesus the Christ does not heal.
IL is the knowledge that the Comfort
er of promise is in our midst, Script
ure is fulfilled, and the Word that
heals is doing its work individually
and collectively for all those who, in
meekness and humility, are willing
to lay self aside and let the Spirit Of
the Christ enter their thought.
To summarize the teaching of
Christian Science relative TO reality
and unreality,-it means simply
Life, Truth and Love are real be-
cause they are like Cod. ain Ia unreal