The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-11-11
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LECTURE ENJOYED
BY LARGE CROWD

d IHnUI UnUVU
The following lecture on Christian
Science was delivered at the high
school auditorium Monday night be-
fore a good crowd, by John c. Lat!2-
rop, c. S. B.. member Of the board
OF lectureship of the First Church OF
Christ, Scientist, at Boston, Mass.
From time immemorial men have
sought more Or less intelligently
saliva ton from sin. sickness and death.
In Old Testament times good people
constantly craved d savior who would
free them from the bondage of sin
and fleshIy burdens. This expression
came, not as was expected, through a
personal power with splendor and
physical force, but through the birth
and development Of teacher, who
was more purely to reveal and demon
strate the doctrine Of Truth and Love
to mankind.
The Bible records that before
Jesus made his complete demonstra-
ton over material law in his resur-
rection and disappearance from ma
terial sight he said to his disciples,
Il have yet many things to say unto
you. but We cannot bear them now.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit Of truth.
is come, he will guide you into all
truth" At another time when i'm
pressed by Peters recognition Of the
Christ. Truth. he said, Upon this
rock Cor understanding Of the Spirit
Of TRUTH l will build my church; and
the gates of hell shall not prevail
against it." 1t is Of prime signifi-
canoe that Jesus had withheld
higher teaching from his disciples be-
cause Of their mental unreadiness to
bear (it) now" which higher teach
ing would be revealed In the fullness
of time, through the Spirit Of truth
who Twill guide you into all truth.
This great fact. that the Spirit OF
truth has come and is now leading
the world into all Truth, has become
historical. 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
woman of Puritan forbears, through
a purified state Of mental readiness,
discovered the divine Principle Of
being. and through further insplra-
ton gradually developed the spiritual
rules, which assumed a method or
system of healing and reform which
she was divinely led to name Christian
Science. The discovery was made
through her own physical recovery
from an internal injury which at
1endant physicians pronounced fatal.
Left alone she turned to her Bible,
opened at the ninth chapter of Mat
thtws, read Jesus healing Of the pat
sled man. and immediately the deep
significance Of the re!a ton of sin,
fear. and material beliefs. as the men
tai cause of all bodily ailments, dawn
ed upon her thought. She suddenly
awakened as from dream, felt new
life and strength, and arose from her
bed instantaneously healed.
she soon had an ardent desire to
put her discovery into writing for the
deltverance OF waiting world. She
realized. however, that the discovery
must first be thoroughly proved, and
after several years of conclusive dem
onstration in healing, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures
was written, and became the textbook
Of Christian Science. In this in
spired work Mrs. Eddy makes this sig
nificant statement: Our Master heal
cd the sick, practiced Christian heal
ing, and taught the generalities Of its
divine principle to his students; but
he left no definite rule for demon
stra ting this principle Of healing and
preventing disease. This rule re-
manned to be discovered in Christian
Science (p. 14C.
The material human will is the
chief obstacle in the way Of mortals
understanding 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 mate
rial sense Of mortals, whose god is mat
ter, whose man and universe are ma
terial, and whose will or law is mate
rial opinion or belief. Matter seems
10 these material senses to be the
great and only fact. Honest thinkers
sooner or later learn that the so-called
law Of material belief, and its effect
called matter, is a contradictory, con
fusing, and false claim, and is wholly
contrary to spiritual law. They come
10 see that material sense is no law
nor lawmaker whatever. Matter is
the opposite Of Spirit in nature and
expression, and being the very re
verse of God it cannot be the creation
of God, Spirit.
'One of the common beliefs Of life
and intelligence in matter is the pow
or that is given to a drug to restore
health. This faith in matter in the
form Of drug is more important anc
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 a goo
some people make Of medicine, The
drug is said to be given to assist ma
ture to produce a cure; but the drue
has no intelligence, it does not know
where to so, 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
ton OF divine Principle, and Principle
or Love. and the spiritual Life thereof
are not expressed through a negative
false belief called matter, Physicians
say that you will get we'll if you have
o good constitution and enough vital
lily, and that nature cures you, bu
what are vitality and a good constitu
tipn, and what is health2
Health DeIiIcjope