The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Judge Samuel w. Greene Delivers an
Able Lecture on Above Sub
ject at the Armory.
Hereunder is Printed Lecture of the
Distinguished Speaker YER
batim ct Literatim.

Judge Samuel w. Greene, c.. S., of
Louisville, KY, member of the board
of lectureship of the Mother Church,
the First Church of Christ Scientist,
Boston, delivered a lecture on "Chris-
tian Science" at the Princeton armory
last Thursday night which was much
appreciated by the audience. Attor-
ney E. L. Mcmillan introduced the
speaker, who delivered the following
address:
Christian Science: The Religion of
Fulfllment:
The history of men throughout the
ages has been an unceasing search af-
ter some power or some remedy that
would transform and make harmonious
every untoward and unlovely condition
of human experience. History shows
this search to be one of disappointment
and failure until the discovery of
Christian Science. 1t has generally
been along material lines. The excep-
tional instances where spiritual teach
ing or inspiration has appeared and
been followed constitute the great
way marks Of human progress. Chris
tian Science accentuates this historical
fact and explains it. Today I come to
point you the way in Christian Science,
which when rightly understood and
practiced, leads to eternal harmony;
for it reveals the only true God and
man as. made in His image and like
ness, and the whole earth to be trans
formed by the power Of this Truth.
The promise made through Christian
Science as stated by it's discoverer and
founder, Mrs. Eddy, is "Divine Love
always has met and always will meet,
every, human need" (Science and
Health, page 494.)
Christian Science is not, as some
have imagined, patent cure-all, nor
is it faith cure. It is not the action of
will power nor the action of the human
mind. On the contrary, it teaches that
Z the human mind must yield to the Di--
vine Mind, to that Mind which was also
in Christ Jesus, and, in the proportion
that Christian Science is understood,
it makes the life, words and acts of
Christ Jesus practicable for all ages
and all people.
Try as men will to see the bright
side, they are always conscious that
there are the sick, the sorrowful, the
sin-burdened, until sometimes one is
constrained to believe that the whole
earth is joining in one mournful la
ment. Christian Science comes to such
with scientific explanation of the
comforting words of Jesus, "Come I'M
to me, all We that labor and are heavy
! laden, and will give you rest" "Be-
hold l give unto you, power to tread
on serpents and scorpions, and over all
the power of the enemy, and nothing
shall by any means hurt YOU"
Now just why do say that Chris
tian Science comes offering these as
surances? You may say of them, you
have read them and known them al
ways. But have they been realized in
your experience? Have you made
them of any practical import? Chris
tian Science teaches that the kingdom
Of God, the kingdom of heaven, is at
hand, is here and now Through the
study and practice Of it's teaching, men
and women in large numbers are being
healed of every manner of disease and
sin, and their lives are being made
brighter, happier and more satisfying.
The theory that eternal life and happi-
ness are to be had only beyond the
grave has always been a depressing
element in religion. Christian Science
shows that it is an incorrect theory
and that men do not have to wait for
death or a final Judgment day before
attaining an unending paradise. What
! is generally designated as paradise,
may be realized in some degree at
once, and progressively through the
study and understanding of Christian
Science
Jesus, by his life, taught and proved
bthe possibility of solving all of life's
problems here and now. He healed all
manner of disease; he provided food in
the desert place; found tax money in
the fish's mouth; forgave sin; raised
the dead; and finally after his three:
days in the tomb, reappcared to his
disciples, thus conquering the great
destroyer, Death.
One of the last things he said to his
disciples was, Gle that believeth on
me, the works that I do, shall he do
also; and. greater works than these
shall he, do, because I go unto my Fa-
ther." With such a positive promise
from Jesus, we must believe in the
present possibility of healing the sick,
OF casting out sin, and of raising the
dead, provided, of course, that we be-
lieve in him, that is, understand him
and his teachings, which is the real
meaning of the Greek word translated
by our word s'believe" in the new YER
sion. Does it not seem strange that
the world should have waited so long
for one to rise up and call attention to
this and other plain Biblical promises,
and prove the possibility of their full
fillment? And does it not seem even
stranger, that when a gentle, sweet,
pure minded woman discovered the
practical nature of these promises and
began to call attention, through heal
ings, to them, and their fulfl1ment
in her own experience, that she should
have been subjected to persecution at
the hands Of Jesus protested follow
''ers? Ignoring, however, the lack Of