Norwich bulletin., 1913-12-08
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE. Willis F. Gross, c. s. B., from Mother Church Addresses Norwich Audience.

' Willis F. Gross, O. s. B., a member of the board of lectEreship of the mother church, The First Church of christ, Scientist, of Boston, was the speaker here on Sunday afternoon at a lecture given at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Universalist, under the auspices of the local Christian Science society.
 The service was at o'clock and the attendance was large when Rev. J. F. Cobb, Pastor of the ,Universalist church, began the service with brief remarks introducing MT. Gross. in which he referred to the search for truth in which the world Is engaged and its readiness to welcome every channel through which 1t might come.
 MT. Gross lectured for about an hour and spoke in part as follows:
 There is need of a religion which heals and a healing system which is thoroughly Christion in theory and practice. Christian Science recognizes no power apart from God. Its teach fngs are practical and found available in all the activities of life. It renders effectual aid at all tifes and Is proving itself to be the one universal remedy for human ills.
 Health and Holiness.
 Freedom from sickness and sin is not something to be looked forward to with joyous anticipation. Health and holiness is the divinely natural status of being It can be enjoyed today for it is the only reality of existence The Kingdom of heaven will never be more real than 1t is at this moment and it is at hand. To understand and obey the law of God, infinite good, is to gain spiritual harmony. More than obedience to divine law is not required and less will not avail.
 Christian Science declares there is no such thing as an incura'ble evil. It 1nterprets all things from the stand point of one God, infinite Spirit one power, one cause and creator, and brings more of hope, faith and courage into human experience. It gives pres ent proof of Gods love and power to help humanity in every time of need.
 Believers in the Christian religion have accepted the miracles of the Bible as demonstrations of divine power. Christian Science presented new view of those unusual experiences when 1t declared that they were not contradic- tions of law but the divinly natural result of the operation of law which is ever present and ever active. What ever God has accomplished for any people in any age was d1Vinely nat ura1, and it is not unreasonable to expect such a recurrence of those wonderful works as occasion may re- quire. Impossibilities do not occur. What has been done in the past can D0 dCCOIti RIlSIl6u lOOdN II IIic uIlClldIS ing law of God is understood and obey ed.
 Sickness and Sin.
 It is universally believed that sin is a quality of the Carnal mind, but it is not understood, as it should be, that sickness is from the same source as sin and can be effectually healed in the same manner. Sickness and sin can be dealt with as iltelHgently as can the dscords of music or mathematics, and they will be overcome as readily when the divine Principle of harmo- nious being is understood and the law of good inte1ligently obeyed
 Preventive and Curative.
 Conservation of health is a vital question and there is much discussion these days as to how this most de- sirable end can be attained. The un- derstanding of Truth protects and pre- serves all that is good Christian Science is a preventive as well as curative, and few persons realize how much Is being done to prevent disease and suffering. Thousands have been restored to health after they had been pronounced incurable, and there is no means of estimating how many have been healed before they reached the so called incurable stage, If the sick can be healed as the result of obe- dienee to divine law, then there is no better way to conserve health than to live in harmony with the law of divine Mind