St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1915-10-27
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE
George Shaw Cook, @. $. b., Addressed
Large Audience at Pythian Hall.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE
George Shaw Cook, @. $. b., Addressed
Large Audience at Pythian Hall.
An audience of about 800 people.
including automobile parties from
Sherbrooke, Newport, Danville, Lyn-
donville, Bradford and Littleton gath
cred at Pythian hall last Thursday eve
ming to listen to a lecture by George
Shaw Cook, G. S. B.. member of the
Board of Lectureship of the Mother
Church, the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston. Mass.
Charles E. Peck presided and intro
duced the speaker who spoke on the
subject of God Is Good" An abb
stract of his remarks follow:
Health. according to Christian Sci
ence is universal 1t is mental whole
ness or completeness. 1t is spiritual
perfection. 1t is reflected by the in
dividual. 1t does not originate with
him, nor does it belong to one more
than to another 1t is like the light
impersonaI and universal. For one to
have it does not prevent all from
sharing it,
Real wealth or true substance is not
only universal but indivisible. For one
to possess it does not make it neces-
sary, or possible, that others should be
deprived of it. Even in daily expert
ence it is seen, from a purely human
point of view, that those qualities or
characteristics which make for true
success are intelligent activity, faith
full persistence, courage, honesty, fl
deity, etc. Christian Science shows
that these qualities. if enduring are
not personal, but on the contrary are
attributes of the one infinite Mind, or
TI,nrafOvo I
and may be reflected and manifested
by ALL Thus all may be conscious of
the only enduring substance. and to
be conscious of it's ever-presence is to-
reflect and manifest divine Love,
which, Mrs. Eddy says, lis impartial
and universal in it's adaptation and be-
stOwals." So real wealth, or album
dance, is as free as the sunshine and
as universally available as truth. Butt
the man sense of substance has often
been that which is finite and divisible
that which may be bought and sold,
borrowed, leased and lost
Christ Jesus, while understanding
the universal nature of good and that
man as the son of God is eternally |
supplied with all good nevertheless
recognized that mankind needs food
and raiment. But in pointing the true
way TO lDu SuI1clcuL LOT temporal
needs he said, Seek We first the king
dom of God, and his righteousness;
and all these things shall be added |
unto you Right thinking brings a
sense of abundance today as surely as
it did two thousand years ago. 1t is |
well, however, to remember that
Jesus did not say to seek first the
and the kingdom of God would
be added.
Christ, and Christ Jesus
Frequently students of the gospels
fail to make any distinction between
the terms Christ and Jesus. They Of
ten consider these terms as being
synonymous. Christ is the spiritual
eternal changeless, universal truth Of
God, which has been discerned to a
greater or less extent in all ages, but
which appeared in its perfection as an
Individual ideal in Christ Jesus. AS
the one who best understood and
most perfectly demonstrated the
Christ, Truth. in healing sickness and
sin, Jesus was the Wayshower and
Exemplar for mankind.
Prayer and Atonement.
Christian Science teaches its adher-
ents to pray with ceasing," and con-
of the true nature Of
God, and of man as His likeness. Fur
Lhermore, it requires the demon
stration of this understanding in right
and right living. Such think
ing results in the lessening of sin and
disease. This is the practical atone
ment to which Mrs. Eddy refers as
the exemplification of mans unity
with God" Christian Scientists be-
ieve that in no other way can they
realize the full import of what has
been mistakenly regarded as the vi
earious atonement Of Christ Jesus,
out which was in fact the perfect
demonstration of mans at-one-ment
with Cod and this rendering of the
word "atonement" is not used by Mrs.
Eddy alone, but is being given by
modern scholars as the correct trans
alton.