The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-10-22
SCIENCE LECTURE
WELL ATTENDED
Five Hundred People Attend Christian
Science Lecture by John c. 81,
Lathrop Last Friday Evening
SPEAKER ANSWERS QUESTIONS
SSynopsis Of Talk Will Prove Interest.
Ing to Those Who Were Unable
to Hear the Speaker


attendance at the lecture delivered D1
John c. Lathrop, C. S. B., at the opera
house on Friday evening of last week
and everyone enjoyed the fine dis
course. Mr.. Lathrop was brought tt
Denison through the efforts of the 10
cal Christian Science church to deliv
CT his lecture on Christian Science;
Its Naturalness, Simplicity and Prac
ticality. The speaker is prominent ii
the Science church, being member
of the board of lectureship Of the
mother church at Boston. During his
address Mr.. Lathrop answered ques
tions in regard to Science and cleared
up many points that people had gen
orally misunderstood.
The Review is able to furnish the
following brief synopsis of his lee
ture: IT,. ... ~.
The Bible records that Jesus made
his complete demonstration over mate
rial law in his resurrection and disap.
pearance from material sight he said
to his disciples, II have yet many
things to say unto you, but ye cannot
bear them now. .Howbeit when he,
the Spirit OF truth, is come, he will
guide you into all truth" At another
time when impressed by Peters recog-
milton of the Christ, Truth, he said,
upon this rock (or understanding Of
thes Spirit of truth) l will build my
church; and the gates OF hell shall not
prevail against it." 1t is of prime sig.
nMicance that Jesus had withheld a
higher teaching from his disciples be-
cause OF their mental unreadiness to
bear (iD now" which higher teach
ing would be revealed in the fullness
of time, through ''the Spirit of truth
who will guide you unto all truth"
This great fact, that the Spirit of
truth has come and is now leading the
world into all Truth, has become his.
torical. For over fifty years it has
been conclusively demonstrated by
countless cases OF mental reform and
physical healing. In the year 1866,
Mary Baker Eddy, New England wo-
man Of Puritan forbears. through a
purified state OF mental readiness, dis
covered the divine Principle Of being;
and through further inspiration grad
ually developed the spiritual rules,
which assumed method or system of
healing and reform which she was
divinely lead to name Christian Sci
ence. ~..- a.
The material human will is the chief
obstacles in the way of mOrtals un-
derstanding Christian Science. The
natural spiritual fact of the allness
of God, or Spirit, and of spiritual man
and spiritual universe which the Bible
teaches, is most unnatural to the ma
a al Syh0 G
matter, whose man and universe are
material, and whose will or law is ma
terial opinion or belief Matter'is the
opposite Of Spirit in nature and eX-
preston. and being the very reverse
of God it cannot be the creation of
God, Spirit. u
One of the common beliefs OF lie
and intelligence in matter is the pow
er that is given to a drug to restore
health. This faith in matter, in the
form Of drug Is more important and
harmful than most forms, because it
shuts the door on direct faith in God,
Spirit, as the Immediate and only re-
storer of health and life. What
god some people make OF medicine
Thes drug Is said to be given to assist
nature to produce cure; but the drug
has no intelligence, it does not know
where to go, then how can it assist
nature in the cure Of disease? Nature
truly is the natural healer Of disease,
but matter is not nature. Nature,
rightly understood, is the manifesto
tion Of divine Principle, and Principle.
or Love. and the spiritual Life there
of are not expressed through a mega.
fiva fa1co ha1ipf 11aI Ynatfar
Looked at materially there always
will be something unsolved in regard
to vitality and health. but it is found
that Christian Science tiisentangles
these forces, sets them free from their
material complications. and reveals
health and vitality to be spiritual quail
tiles or forces. Christian Science
teaches that there is one and one only
real Mind, or divine Principle, which
is all life, intelligence, and substance,
therefore, must include all true ma
ture, vitality and health. Therefore,
when nature is healing the sick. it
does not mean that some mysterious
force is at work in matter, but 1t
means that divine Principle or divine
Mind is being naturally expressed
through spiritual thoughts, through
the good thoughts of hope. faith and
understanding, through the law OF
Life. Truth and Love; such thoughts.
destroy the false beliefs of fear, dis
ease and sin. ,'
This divine Principle of the uni |
verse and man is active. concrete
truth. and as such is capable of being
demonstrated in all human affairs.
Such demonstration is made through
prayer, according to the Christianity
scientific method of Christian Science.
The availability of the Christian Sci
ence prayer lies in its practical, work. |
able nature The Christian Science |!
prayer works, or avails, just in so far
as one understands and applies the |
divine Principle and rules OF Christian
Science to discordant mortal beliefs
Anyone can understand how Chris.
tian Science heals the sick, and any |
one can be practitioner and give |
treatment in the measure that one |
obstains this understanding.
If Christian Science is truly natural |