The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-05
LECTURER EXPLAINS
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE


no mere ceremonialism or belief. 1t
was the science of living and of
living more abundantly; the science
of health, of peace, of blessedness
the science that made Jesus the
Savior, deliverer, redeemer; the sci
ence which he came to teach man.
kind. In a word, it was the under
standing of God, the supreme power
that is all good and always with US.
GOD.
Must not we then in order to be
Christians, to benefit by this Chris
tianity, gain this understanding of
God? Must not we ask who or
what is this God of whom Jesus had
such intimate, exact knowledge or
science?
Going to this master Jew, this
master Christian, what do we learn
God is? Something different from
what was in the beginning? Not
at all
1t should be remembered that
Jesus did not write; he spoke. He
spoke to his own people, the COM
mon people, who heard him gladly;
and he spoke in their tongue. The
only instance preserved to US of
what he said in that tongue is in
the words which preceded his giving
up the ghost" the mere semblance
of life, which he said he could lay
down and could take up again, as
he later proved. These words, all
will remember, were "Eloi. Eloi,
lama sabachthani?" which are trans
lated, "My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me?" The word Eloi,
which Jesus used, is the Old Tesla
ment Chaldean word for what in
English is called God 1t means
strength, or power, a meaning which
is entirely devoid of anthropomorph-
ism or corporeality According to
Jesus. then, God was. his power, the
power upon which he always relied,
with which he accomplished every
thing. Nor did he leave US in the
dark as to just what this power is.
In speaking to his disciples he said,
Call no man your father upon the
earth: for one is your Father, which
is in heaven" In other words,
there is only one creator or cause,
and the universe including man is
its product, the product of Eloi, the
one and only power.
Again, speaking to the woman at
the well. Jesus said, "God is Spirit"
which would certainly mean that his
power, the only power he ever used,
the true cause of ALL and conse-
quently the cause of only that
which is true, was Spirit or Mind,
not matter of any kind or physique
And looking at the teachings of
Jesus, looking at his words and at
his works,-words and works due to,
impelled by, emanating from this
Eloi or power, Spirit, Mind, or in
telligence,-are we not bound TO
conclude that this power, Spirit,
Mind, was infinite Love, and that
this divine Love was the very life
of Jesus which nothing could de-
stroy and which was able to raise
him up at the last day? This one
power then, this one Spirit. Soul, or
Mind, this one existence or Life, this
one reality or Truth, this one in
finite Love, this divine Principle,
was all that constituted the Savior
who is the same yesterday, today,
and forever, with which is no vari-
ableness, neither shadow or turn
ing" who is with US Away. This
is just what Christian Science de-
fines God to be, as will be seen
from the following passage: "God
Is incorporeal, divine, supreme, in
finite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle,
Life, Truth, Love" (Science and
Health, p. 1861.
MAN.
Not only did Jesus illustrate, not
only does Christian Science teach
what God is, but in doing this Jesus
illustrated and Christian Science
teaches what man is.
Does not the father want the son
to be like himself, and does not a
son want to be like his father? So
true is this, that right in the Begin
ming we read that "God created
man in his own image, male and
female created he them" In other
words. He created them just like
Himself. Now, how do we know what