The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-05-07
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
TALK ENLIGHTENlNG
| TO LYRIC AUDIENCE
q. s. Cook, C.S.B., Member
of Board of Lectureship,
Explains Faith.


mankind the Christian Science
church as an institution would have
no good reason for existence. In or
der to justify its presence among
men. the Church of Christ. Scientist,
must be ready to answer, not theor-
etically- but practically, the question,
What is Christian Science able to
do for suffering humanity?''
Better to appreciate the answer
which Christian Science makes to the
foregoing question, it Is we'll first to
gain some understanding of what the
teaching OF Christian Science stands
for and to know that first and last
1T stands for the fundamental fact
that Sod is good. that He is Spirit,
Mind, divine Principle, Life, Truth,
Love-. 1t also stands for perfect
spiritual man as the likeness of God.
It stands for the universal fatherhood
and motherhood of God, and for the
complete and perfect brotherhood of
| man., 1t stands for Christ as the
| spiritual idea Of God and for Christ
Jesus as the perfect disqualification
| of divine sonship. It stands for Jesus
of Nazareth as the model Christian
the master Metaphysician, and the
highest demonstrator of mans unity
with God.
| Christian Science stands for the
law of God and the government of
| God, and for the absolute supremacy
| of Gods law and government. It
| stands for the preservation and di-
rection Of man and the universe in
accordance with the law of God. 1t
stands for freedom from fear, for sal
walton from sin, and consequently for
mankind's deliverance from disease
and death. It stands for mental in
tegrity and moral purity; for fidelity
and faithfulness; for right relation
| ship. unity of purpose, brotherly love,
true charity, and real compassion. It
stands for the conscious harmony
which is heaven within, and for all
that makes fors the establishment of
the kingdom of heaven, or harmony,
among men.
Having told something of that for
which Christian Science stands, and
having indicated to some extent that
which it claims to do for those who
are in trouble, may it not be pertin-
ent to say something about what
Christian Science is doing to fulfill its
promises and something of the way
in which it Is being done?
Through the ministry of Christian
Science many thousands have been
A0dlCo VI ulS0dS0 anu T0QG0mGQ from
sin, and some have been turned back
from the very gates of death. Among
these thousands there are those who
have been raised from beds of un-
speakable pain, those who have beer
rescued from depths of degradation
those who have been freed from
the bondage Of poverty and incom.
potency. 1t is possible that some OF
these people would have recovered
, from. their sickness under Other
, forms of treatment. It is probable
that some Of them would have re.
formed by other means and that some
would have become prosperous in an
other way, but it is a fact that the
great majority were utterly hopeless
and apparently helpless in their mis-
cry until Christian Science showed
them way out of it.
How were these people healed o.
diseases which in many cases had baf
fled the most skilfull physicians? They
were healed by Christ, Truth, which
! by reason Of the knowledge that sick
| ness is unnatural to Gods man, ant
THAT therefore man need not endur,
lit. They have found that the fear O.
leyil is unnecessary, for the reason tina
: every phase Of evil is temporal and
= destructible.
Christian Scientists believe that the,
have demonstrated by results alread,
attained that Mrs. Eddy has sureI,
) discovered and correctly set forth tn,
} Principle and law by which Jesu
) healed all manner Of disease amonj
: the people of his time. Jesus said o
J. II his work. 'I can of mine own self d,
q nothing" The Father that dwelletl
: in me, he doeth the works." TIL
: Father referred to by Jesus as bein
( the Principle Of his works, was &C
lcording to Christian Science, the di
tvine Mind. Jesus further said to hi
followers, HE that believeth on me
| the works that do shall he do also,
i Christian Scientists believe that as fol
: lowers Of Christ Jesus they have
: right to do these works. They be
= lieve that divine intelligence is a
: available to man now as it was i
: the time of Jesus, and that 1t manifest
itself always through invariab1e Law
: They are. however, sensible to tn
fact that they have only begun t
understand and apply the Christ
method of healing, and they do nc
pretend that. they are always success
full in its application. Yet they d
know that Christian Science has al
ready proved itself to be efficacioU
IN the healing Of many thousands {
cases of disease, acute and chroni
functional and organic.
The teaching of Christian Sciene
concerning the cause and cure of di.
ease has to a great extent revised tn
worlds thought on this subject Man
observing physicians are willing to at
NIT much in the directions of til
mental cause of disease, more, IL
deed, than laymen who have less o,
portunity for observation. Christia
Science goes beyond the most progre
sive physicians and declares that a
disease is of mental origin. In SO d.
in 1t does not contend that every for
Of disease is due to conscious fear {
wilfuI wrong-doing on the part {
those who seem to be the victims ,
disease. 1t merely claims that som,
where back of all so-called abnorm
or diseased physical conditions thel
are erroneous conditions of though
According to Christian Science, di
ease is mental, the cause Of disease
mental, and the process which r,
removes the cause and changes tt
effect is mental, or scientifically spi
itua1. Christian Science says that
order to effect a permanent cure, q