The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-02
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE { LECTURE AT LYRIC
Noted Scientist Explains
 Doctrine of Mother Church to Large Audience

l board of iectureship of the mother church. First Church of Christ 1 Scientist. in Boston, delivered an address at the Lyric theatre yesterday in which the tenets of the church were explained. The house was well filled. Mir. Chadwick said in part:
 l Mrs. Eddy's vision of the Christ not only healed her of the effects of so- called fatal accident, but enabled her to reach purified mental height. where she could spiritually discern the deep things of God and give them to the world. Her whole earthly life, from childhood, was one continuous search after spiritual l things. She forsook all to follow Christ. and behold the result-a discovery which ! is bringing untold blessings to the en- ltire world. She named her discovery Christian Science. She was. to use her own words, "only scribe echoing the harmonies of heaven in divince meta physics (The First--Church of Christi Scienctist. and Miscellany. p. 115l con seauently, she had no excuse to offer for inditing the pages of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures The world owes profound debt of gratitude to this noble woman for what is contained in this most unique book. There are many thou sands who can testify that the Bible was | a sealed book before Sceince and Health | came to them.
 | Mrs Eddy, as the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, taught the good fight and bravely won her laurels. I xx,bir irl, hax al I,ar hav proved her one of the greatest of religious leaders and teachers.
 It was in the year. 1866 that Mrs. Eddy
 made the all-inportant discovery thas
 ''all causation was mind. and every ef- feet mental phenomenon" (Retrospec- ton and Introspection, D. 20
 By mind she means not the carnal or mortal mind which, lis enmity against God but the one infinite, supreme, gov erning intelligence of the universe. eter- nal and unchangeable.
 HEALTH AND DISEASE Christian Scientists are naturally a great deal more interested in the subject
 of health than in disease. They have found out that the right idea of health, when intelligently presented to humani- ty, is far nroye contagious than the
 thought of disease. They do not believe in falling sick and then having to be- come proficient in the human knowledge of disease before learning how to be well. They have learned that health Is the nor nal condition of man In Christian Science; and that disease is a mistake of the erring human mind, to be corrected by right understanding of health as an attribute Of God.
 If sickness and suffering are of God, Jesus would not have healed them; nor could Christian Science heal them today if they are a part of the divine conscious ness. The right idea or conception of God reveals them as human mistakes, or er- TOTS of mortal thinking; and only as the Christ-niind Is put on. and the carnal
 or mortal mind put off, can such mis-
 takes be corrected or destroyed. In other
 words, Christ is the one and only Savior of mankind; and Mrs. Eddy defines Christ
 as "the divine manifestation of God which cofnes@to the flesh to destroy in
 carnate error'' (Science and Health, p 5s3). Because Christian Scientists under stand the divinity of the Christ, they are
 enabled to heal the sick and to reform
 the sinner.
 l CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING
 Christian Science deals directly with the moral fault in the treatment of dis ease. If one Is receptive to the true Idea
 of God. ready and willing to be shown
 how to change his habits of thought,
 this idea will quickly supplant multi
 tude of erroneous theories and opinions.
 and often bring immediate relief from
 suffering.
 The greatest reform movement on earth
 today is Christian Science healing, be
 cause it means the coming of Christ 10
 individual, human copsciouness. One who
 honestly approaches Christian Science,
 even as remedy for some so-called
 physical ailment, will meet with the
 greatest surprise of his life.