Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-05-09
A LECTURE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Entitled
GOD IS GOOD
BY
George Shaw Cook, c. S. B.
Member of the Board of Lectureship of
The Mother Church, The First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
A LECTURE

ne MOtner CnuTcn, l ne flTSt OnuTCn
of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
A lecture on Christian Science was
given in this city last Friday evening
at Mt. Sinai Temple by George Shaw
Cook, c. S. B., of Chicago. In intro
ducing the lecturer, Mr.. John E. Crit
fifth spoke as follows:
1.-The Bible tells us that God created
everything that is: that he created
man in His own image and likeness,
and He beheld that all was very good.
God is Spirit, so we know that all was
created in spirit; that there is a spirit
ual law which governs man. Jesus
the Christ-God's perfect idea-came
to demonstrate to man the perfect ap-
plication of this spiritual law, and
through his life we are taught that this
law was operative from the beginning
of man; is operative at present, and
will be operative forever, and through
a close observance of this law we will
enjoy perfect health, peace and happi-
ness. Mrs. Eddy, through her spirit
ual vision, gives to man a perfect I'M
derstanding of this spiritual law which
is comprehensively expressed in her
Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures.
I'VE have with us tonight Mr.. George
Shaw Cook of Chicago, who will speak
to us on Christian Science"
Upon first hearing of Christian
Science one will very naturally in
quire: what does it promise to do for
me?' Does it promise to heal me of
disease, and to save me from sin?'
will it give surcease to my sorrow,
| and lift from me the burden of carer"
Can it break for me the spell of pow
erty, limitation, and fear?' us it
able to say to the seething waves of
mortal tumult, BE still?"
Promises and Their Fulfilment
Those who have become acquainted
with Christian Science in it's applica-
ton to human needs are able to as
| sure the inquirer that it does all of
| this, and more. Unnumbered thousands
are bearing grateful witness to the fact
sands are bearing witness to the fact
| that they have felt the beneficent touch
of Christian Science in their lives and
because of it they are being redeemed
from the ills to which flesh it heir.
Weekly in the Wednesday evening
meetings of Christian Science churches
testimony is being given to the heal
| ing and redemptive power of Christian
| Science. Month after month, and
| year after year, a never ending, I'M
| interrupted stream of reliable evil
dence of the healing power of truth
is going out to the world through the
Christian Science periodicals. In
these ways, and in other ways, the
suffering, the SHINING and the sorrow
ing are coming to know that there
! is balm in Gilead."
Unmistakable and irrefutable proof
is to be found on every hand of the
| power of spiritual truth to destroy
human error. Any earnest seeker may
with comparatively little effort learn
that through Christian Science his fell
| low men have been thoroughly and
| permanently healed of chronic and
acute disease by spiritual means with
out the use of material remedies. He
| will learn as the result of investiga-
| tiOn that these cases of healing by
scientific, mental treatment include
many diseases ordinarily considered
incurable. He will find that those
| numbered among the beneficiaries of
| Christian Science have been healed not
merely of so-called functional and ner-
| vOus troubles, but in many instances
of those considered organic. He will
ascertain that frequently these cases
have been pronounced organic and in
| durable by reputable physicians, but
| that Notwithstanding such pronounce
ment they have been healed perfectly
and often quickly by Christian Science
treatment. He will find that some
| times physicians are quite willing to
| give Christian Science credit for these
| marvellous cures.
The investigator will also learn that
through Christian Science many have
been rescued from lives of sin and
vice. and that some have been lifted
from the very depths of degradation
and depravity. He will find that these
persons have been restored to their
rightful heritage of freedom from evil
and have thus become useful men,
bers of society. The seeker for facts
concerning the effect of Christian
Science in human experience will find
that many who were not able to sue
coed in the struggle for existence, be-
lieving themselves to be the victims
of environment and circumstances re-
sulting in poverty and distress, are
now finding their condition greatly i'm
proved because Christian Science has
given them a new outlook on the world
and new insight into spiritual
truth. He will find those who are
glad to acknowledge that Christian
Science has shown them how to be
more honest, just, humble. loving, con-
siderate-in a word, less selfsh-than
formerly. He will be told that the de-
pressing atmosphere of discourage
ment and doubt has for many been
transformed into an invigorating sense
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