The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-16
Lecture ON CHRISTIAN !.
science BY bOSTON|TE
WILLIAM W. PORTER, c. S. B.,
SPOKE LAST NIGHT
Introduced BY Attorney Jean A. Flittie,
The Speaker Delivered Very Enter
tanning and Instructive Address
Which Was Listened to AttentiveIy
BY Members of Church Here a nd
Elsewhere; Also Their Many Flends

William w. Porter, c. S, B., \oi
Boston, member Of the board of lee
tureship of the First Church of Christ
Scientist, Boston, Mass, addressed q
large audience on Christian Science
lat the, Mankato theatre last night
He was introduced by Attorney Jean
A. Flittie OF this city.
Mr.. Porter spoke in part as follows:
THAT it is the undoubted right
and privilege Of every person to know
the truth is a proposition with which
all will readily agree. Therefore we
may be assured in the outset that it q
right thing for us to be here seeking
to know the truth-seeking to know
something of the healing truth invol-
we'd in Christian Science.
1T is not the purpose of the lecture
to rudely challenge or compel the re-
linquishment of any cherished re-
ligious principle, or the abandonment
of any sustaining or upholding ideal,
opinion or thought, which may have
heretofore been source of c0mfOrt
and help to anyone.
Religion And Healing Defined.
"And here it may be stated that if
man is to attain to the full benefit OF
either religion or healing they must
be to him as simple and necessary, as
universally available and certain, as
that two and two make four
ut should be universally recognized
I'm hnf hoy Of OH CT
be good.
"There are hundreds of thousands
of men and. women and children in all
lands who have learned and are learn
ing~daily in Christian Science that
Gods will is-must be-good!
Whatever humanity has known or
believed concerning God in all ages
has determined the happiness, har-
mony, health, peace, prosperity, prog
ress and development of humanity.
"And right here is encountered a
fact the significance of which may
never be forgotten or lost sight of,
namely: That with the true idea of
God which Christ Jesus inculcated
came his many mighty works Of heal
ing and regeneration, as we'll as those
of his students and followers which
continued upwards of three centuries
thereafter.
Healing and Redcmptive Works.
"The healing and redemptive works
of Christian Science afford proof to
thoughtful persons that the results in
question are not fragmentary or hap
hazard in their nature and occurrence;
but Ny reason Of their magnitude,
multiplicity and permanence, they be-
long to and are rightly classified as
the effect of law!
"The term law may be and is var
iously defined, but in its true and
highest meaning law may be said to be
that which manifests or makes known
the enduring stability of Truth, the
perfect continuity of Life, the I'M
changing unity or oneness of Love-
in other words that which reflects or
manifests the authority or potency
of all-inclusive, creative Mind or God!
The Scientific Deductions
GAS early as the year 1856 the denial
of the substantially of matter was
made by Mrs. Eddy, and today, fifty
years thereafter, physical science has
announced the practical disappear
ance of any ultimate form or primal
state of matter cognizable to the ply
steal senses Law which fails to main
tain stability is no longer law.
Therefore, turning away from that
which has proved it's insufficiency and
instability,-in the language and
spirit of the great Apostle to the
Gentiles: forgetting those things
inI hnh ind
where.
when the sick man is healed in
Christian Science, something has
taken place. 1t cannot be said that that
which has destroyed a condition of
discord and sickness, and established
a condition of health, harmony and
happiness is-nothing. Effect implies
cause. Therefore, that which has de-
stroyed sickness and distress and
established health and harmony, must
be truly substantial must be the
evidence or law of perfect creative
Mind, or God
Making Application.
"Those who are sick and suffering,
ask themselves naturally, How may
avail myself of this healing and re-
generative law of Truth and Life and
Love? The answer here is simple, clear
and conclusive, and may not be in
volved in any manner, namely study
well the Christian Science textbooks
the Bible and Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures. and you
viii find as result of this Ndesire on
your part, as result of this study
and contemplation, that you are being
blessed, and healed, and your burdens
lightened; that you are being led in
green pastures and beside still waters
The Grateful Mutitudes.
"There are hundreds of thousands
of men and women and children
throughout the world who have been
healed of their sickness and pain
healed of their sorrow and grief
healed of their sin and misery, because
Mrs. Eddy has been a citizen OF the
world.
"And it is not strange thing that