Arizona republican., 1916-04-12
THE LECTURE

THE LECTURE
 Mir. DOorly said:
 Progress is recognized to be the law of God in all things. and Christian Science has come in obedience to this law, not to reveal a new God but to bring to humanity fuller sense of that one and only God whom to know alright is Life eternal" (Science and Health, Pref. p. vii). The mess age of Christian Science is always loving, compassionate, and tolerant. and recognizes clearly the right of every man to decide what is best for his own health and happiness, both in the matter of medicine and also of religion. The teachings of Christian Science are simple and direct and are easily understood by any unbias- ed thinker; even children perceive and use them with the utmost ease Being essentially Christlike they are universal and are the message of Truth knocking at the door of every human consciousness.
 Christian Science neither strives nor argues with those who do not accept it's teachings, but gently reas- ons, as did Abraham of old Let there be no strife. I pray thee, be- tween me and thee. for we be brethren Christian Science, how ever, does declare in no uncertain way that there is but one God and one Christ and that q correct, scien- tific, and demonstrable understand ing of the one and only God and of tEe divine Christ is essential to the permanent health, happiness. and sal vation of every individual Christian Science also points out definitely that it profits little merely to believe on God, for human belief is subject to change, while spiritual understanding abiieth forever
 The Prayer of Certainty.
 Christian Science therefore demands from those who would accept it's min istrations that they should so under stand God and His relationship to His creation. and His laws govern ing this relationship, that they should be able under all circumstances through this knowledge, to prove His presence ard power, and His infin- ite ability to preserve them intact from every form of evil. This result Christian Science teaches, and all Christian religions should readily con- cede. can only be accomplished through prayer: but as to what con- stitutes true prayer there are many human opinions.
 From time immemorial mankind has believed in some kind of God and has offered some prayer or offering to such a God. but the motives for these prayers and the results expected and obtained from them have differed ac- cOrding to a mans belief as' to the nature of his God. It has, however. always been acceded, and quite right ly, that the individual who obtained the most definite answer to his prayer was that one who understood most certainly and correctly the ma = ture of the one and only God The Scriptures are a record of how God was progressively revealed with signs following to those men of all ages who understood Him and obeyed His laws.
 Such men, it is recorded were not only able to save themselves through their prayers, from evil of every kind including disease and even death, but were consistently able also to help others; and this ability to prove God's presence and power has always been accepted at least in theory, as a proof of the correctness or otherwise of all religious teaching. Indeed this necessity for praying aright and un- failingly receiving an answer to such