The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-25
LECTURES HERE ON
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Judge Smith Speaks at Jef- fersOn Theatre-IntrO-
 duced by Sparrow

Judge Clifford P. Smith, G. s. B., last l night delivered at the Jefferson theatre before appreciative audience a lecture on Christian Science, entitled Christian l Science; It's Truth and Value" Judge Smith is a member of the board of lec- tureship of the mother church. the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston. Judge Smith was introduced by John l Sparrow and was given close attention | during his lecture. At the close of the lecture Christian Science literature was distributed.
 Judge Smith spoke, in part. as follows: Christian Science is a way of living and thinking that finds it's chief inspira- ton, it's perfect illustration, as well as 1 it's complete proof in the teaching and | example of Jesus. It reveals, awakens, and develops the divine possibilities that exist latently in every one. It shows how to throw off the inabities, the disabili- ties, and the liabilities that have been imposed on men by ages of wrong think ing, and how to gain their true man hood
 ''The aim of Christian Science is not only to prepare people for a heavenly hereafter, but to transform their present experience into order and harmony. It declares that heaven, or harmony, is the present result of right thinking and right doing it is the mental state that always accompanies the supremacy of truth and love in man.
 Christian Science changes it's stucents into better men and women, not only by giving them true motives, pure desires, and absolute ideals, but by discovering to fh..,x 4I. pulses and the source and power of good thoughts. In like manner this science equips it's students for the cure and pre- yention of disease. It teaches them to analyze the conflicting elements of human consciousness and to maintain the true sense of being against the false sense of disorder, thus destroying the essential cause of disease and establishing the con ditions of health. So also the power of infinite mind. acting with true thoughts. or truth, is found to be available in every case of human need. As the psalmst said, His truth shall be thy shield and buckler.'
 Being compassionate, helpful and spir- itual, this Science is Christian Since it is methodical, and calls for exact knowl-
 edge and is based on principle, tnis
 Christianity is Science.
 Christian Science has now been taught and practiced long enough for it's effects to be observed in a very large number of cases. In this manner a great quantity of evidence has accumu- lated to prove that its effects are ex- lceedingly wholesome. Consistently prac- ticed. it is conducive to health, moral | as well physical, with correspond ing degree of happiness.
 Christian Science meets human needs: it docs so in the way that prom ises to deliver humanity from the bond xa f r4siI hot son can aid another to gain his vic tory and freedom.
 "Tne position of Christian Science therefore, with reference to what it de- clares to be unreal is perfectly con sistcnt. It does not deny that sin, dis ease, death, want, woe. suffering and all the phenomena of evil have rela- tive existence in human experience. But this science does deny that evil in any l form, has the reality of absolute sub stance or being; it declares that every phase af evil can be scientifically abated
 and abolished; and 1t gives to it's stu . | dents spiritual understanding that l lifts them more and more into the
 realm of the real.
 This is the way of salvation. The absolute knowledge oc the absolute truth, this and nothing else will make us free: and though we now see as | through a slass darkly. sooner or later we shall know 'eVenNas We are known. . , Then we shall be perfectly free from
 the illusion of evil; free from all that 1 is adverse to the welfare of man. 1 Meanwhile, by overcoming specific forms of evil we shall not only trans | form personal experience but advance
 the general progress And this we can
 do by living above false beliefs and
 correcting them with true ideas. In
 other words. by lifting thought above
 evil conditions as stetified by the phys
 ical senses. to the actual facts of being,
 as directly known to real consciousness.
 In short, by letting creative and deific
 mind, acting through true thoughts, or l truth, exhibit the real status of men"