Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-21
LECTURES at ACADEMY
ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Large Audience Hears john sidney
Brnithwaite, OF the Mother Church
in BUston.

y large and intensely Interested audi
encc ut the Academy Of Music heard
John Sidney Braithwaitc deliver a lee
turc on Christian Science at s;G0 o'clock
last evening. Mr.. Braithwaitc, who is
member OF the board OF lccturcship
OF the Mother Church the First Church
OF Christ, Scientist. in Boston WAS in
PRODUCED by Benjamin T.. Chandler. Of
this city. and spoke on "Chris;ian
Science: n Light on the Path"
Throughout the speech the audience
listened with rapt attention. Mr.
Braithwaite spoke earnestly and at
length. In part. he said:
" An hour spent in the cons ideration
Of spiritual things at the present time
must surely be an hour we'll spent. 1t
is To help us TO realize that The spirit
ual facts regarding life are also scicn-
tiiic facts that Christian Science is in
the world TO day. Tho diScovcrcr and
founder Of this teaching. Mary Baker
Eddy. was a New England woman
whose life was devoted to the service
OF humanity. Her intensely spiriiua!
nature, her early studies. and the many
hardships that she was called upon to
race seem 10 have combined IN fitting
her TO be the channel through which
inns message was to reach the world
In Christian Science ii is found tina,
religion and Science are rcconcilcd ana
become intclligible to all BY way OF
reply to the criticism sometimes
launched nj Christian Science. that il is
not scientific, one may cite the re-
mark OF Professor J. Arthur Thomson
that The object OF scientific research is
the construction OF a perfectly clear
worh!n. thought model Christian
Science offers to its students Il clear,
working thought model, and. there
fore. II is scientific. The thought model
which Christian Science offers is not
however To be confused with that
thought model which results from re-
i!anc" on the material senses This
latter comprising. as /; does all the
beliefs OF coed and evil is entirely
lacking in any true perception or un-
derstanding Of life. Oar Master per-
ceivcd the frailty of this material
thought model and foresaw that while
everything founded on it would pass
away Ills words would stand forever
as the Evidence Of the divine principle
OF infinite mind, God.
He summed mp all law as--lovc. and
proved that this love. with its ac-
comranying truth and life. when an
phrd 10 the thought processes Of man
KIND was sufficient TO triumph over
every manifestation Of evil to heal the
SICK. and 10 east out fear in all its
forms In The sermon on the mount,
Jesus offers to mankind his wor';inr
''''"> ~ -''''''''' anu III IL ln:rc appears
not single trace Of natcrialis,n. .>uch
qualities rs humility. purity, sincerity
courage obedience. Kindness cheer
fn!nesS. faith. Justice, etc. were to Him
n" way in which tive spiritual facts
ne truth and lovc-tind their express
sion lin man.
"'hristian Science explains how the
. !Acts regarding the divin" mind. and
TN" proof Of The nothinrncss ana un-
reality Of evil ar. found in ;lc Ii,o
ana teachings Of the Master. and brings
| nom" I" Us hat his thought model is
ava 'lahi" to-day as much as il ever
/ was