The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1919-05-01
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LECTURE Is GIVEN

A lecture on Christian Science given
by VIM. X. Porter, c. 5. B., Il member
of the board of lectureship of the
Mother Church, of Boston, last Sunday
was largely attended. A brief synopsis
of the lecture, printed by request, is
as follows:
The demonstration Of Christian
Science in the healing of the sick and
reconstruction of human thought on
lines of right activity is today an ac-
complished and acknowledged fact. 1t
is evident that if the existing systems
Of religion and medicine had been ade-
quate to meet the needs and to satisfy
the desires of mankind, no other sys-
TEN would ever have been necessary or
even possible.
Christian Science has been criticised
for its declaration that evil and matter
are not real. If evil and sickness are
real, the effort to escape their ravsges,
either through religion or medicine,
would be futile.
Christian Science declares definitely
| that evil and disease are not real, that
they do not and cannot belong to God
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in principle or truth. hence there is
neither truth nor reality in them. A
Fundamental desire for harmony and
good exists in the consciousness Of
every person. Because of lack of
education in pure Christianity, the
human or mortal mind has accepted its
own misconceptions of God, its own
misinterpretatlon Of man and it's own
mlsstatements of spirit or substance as
real. 1t is the mission and providence
Of Christian Science 10 clear away and
to destroy these misconceptions, misin-
| terpretatIons, mlsstatements, together
with the sin, sickness and destruction
that follow in their wake, and to re-
store to mankind the true reflection or
image and likeness of God, and the
true understanding of the nature or
character of causaton.
Christian Science unfolds certain
| Fundamental and primary IDEAS Man.
kind is conscious at least Of existence.
| This consciousness of existence implies
mind. In fact, without mind there
could be no consciousness, hence no
consciousness Of existence. When
speaking of mind in Christian Science
let it be understood that it lis not the
| limited human sense of mind which is
referred to but that mind which is in
finite in its being, wisdom and identi-
ty. This mind, then, without which
there can be no consciousness of exist
ence, must be the creator of all that
exists. AS it would be impossible to
think of any place where mind is not.
it follows that God who is infinite
mind, is incorporeal and everywhere
present as mind.
Christian Scientists have tender
regard, love and gratitude for their
revered leader. 1t would not be right
to assume that there is anything in the
nature of personal worship in this atti-
tude, but that it is in acknowledgment
of the broad universal service to man
kind which characterized Mrs. Eddy s
life.
From the time of her healing in the
year 1866 Mrs. Eddy's life was spent
exclusively in unfolding the facts con-
nected with her healing in such terms
and manner as would best be under
stood by the human mind.
The works of Christian Science re-
fleet the existence Of a definite law
The statement of this law, or Chris
tian Science, and the method of appli-
cation are found in all of the writings
of Mrs. Eddy, more especially in the
book Science and Health With Key to
the Scriptures, which is unfolding to
mankind the true idea of causaton, or
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