Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-05-17
UNDERSTANDING
OF GOD NEEDED.
SAYS SCIENTIST
Explains Doctrines
of Mother Church at
Murat Theater.
LIFE CALLED FALSE

Salvation can be obtained only by I'M
derstanding what God is. what true ex-
istence is. and the falsity of mortal ex
istence and its inability to satisfy mans
highest longings, declared John W. Door
u, C. S. B., in a lecture on Christian Sci
ence at the Murat theater Sunday after
noon.
The lecture was given under auspices
of the board Of lectureship Of the mother
church, the First Church of Christ, Sci
enlist. of Boston.
Mr.. Doorly was introduced by W. Cur
It's Day, first reader Of the Third Church
or Christ. Scientist.
Following is first installment of the
lecture in full:
- What salvation is and how it is to be
attained are questions that are forever
struggling in the human breast.
The ordinary mortal. however, does
not even seem to have decided from
what he needs 10 be saved or for what
kind Of a salvation he hopes.
In some indefinite way he believes that
there is A place which is popularity
termed heaven and which he hopes some
day to reach; but what heaven is. or how
he is going 10 attain 1t, he has very
How much Of a result could one ex-
pect if he employed as little intelligent
effort as this in his business or any
other activity of life?
Is a mans salvation of little i'm
portance that he can afford to give less
time and thought to it than he gives
to almost anything else in his life
Or has the majority of mankind seen
so little proof Of salvation through
spiritual means that it has ceased 10
believe in such salvation as a reality
or even as a practical possibility
Cd m r-az Re
any more time on so improbable a sub
1ect. but just to go on hoping bhndly
for the best TO happen in some extra
ordinary way?
SALVATION As EXPLAINED
BY CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
What on the other hand is the sal
Walton which Christian Science Offers
Christian Science offers TO men saliva
ton from sin Of every kind. from disease.
from hate, from poverty. from death. and
indeed from every i'll to which flesh Is
heir.
This salvation moreover, is not some
thing TO be attained at some future
time and in some inexplicable way, but
it is something that can be experienced
and enjoyed here and now.
Are you in bondage to sin. 10 hate. to
kinda Christian Science says that it IS
possible for you to be rid Of these things
at once.
Are you overwhelmed by some So
ing your happiness or the happiness Of
some member Of your family? Christian
Science declares that God never made
that disease and that you do not there
fore have to submit to IL any longer.
Are YOU laboring under deep sorrow?
Christian Science says that there is in
finite comfort for you IN the understand
- ing Of Loves ever presence and that this
understanding will entirely obliterate
from your thought that sense Of sorrow
Are you a failure in life. in business
or in your profession: Christian
Science declares that failure is no part of
Gods law and that IL can and should
be overcome by an understanding Of
divine law.
In fact, Christian Science insists that
every condition that is unlike God and
that claims to bind man through sin.
disease. or death. is wholly abnormal
and can and should be destroyed
through the correct understanding OF
God and Of Gods law.
ATTAINMENT OF
PRESENT SALVATION.
How then is this salvation to be at
tanned and is IL the salvation which the
Scriptures teachz Christian Science
states emphatically that such salvation
- can only be attained by understanding
what God is. what true existence is the
falsity OF mortal existence and its ina
bility TO satisfy mans highest longlngs.
This understanding must then be used
practically in daily life Let us see then
briefly what Christian Science teaches
about God, about true existence and about
mortal existence, and then We viii, I am
sure, be able OF see how the teachings OF
the Scriptures coincide with these con
illusions.
Christian Science teaches that God ia
Spirit as the Scriptures state. but IL then
EAes On to explain that SpiEt Is divine
61tSTnd, and Immediately this definition Of
God gives US a more intelligent sense OF
Him.
We have all known that God is Spirit.
but il needed the revelation Of Christian
Science TO show us that Spirit is not some
indefinite. indescribable and far-off alb
stracuon, but that Spirit is Infinitely def
mite and Intelligent and always available
to man 3 divine Mind.
Can any one think Of anything more
Intelligent, more definite and more scien-
tihc in its operation than Mind? Chris
tian Science also Acknowledges but one
God, or cause. and therefore but one
Mind. II mankind considers God 10 be
some great personality located IN some
place. IL will be difficult TO see how such
a personality can be ever present and
can direct His whole universe intelli-
gently. and humanity will be compelled 10
resort to the superstitious beliefs OF the
ages 70 support such a theory.
When. however. IL is perceived that God
is inhnite divine Mind. His ever presence
and His intelligent direction Of His uni
verse viii be naturally appreciated
Christian Science likewise teaches that
this divine Mind Is Life, Truth and Love,
and that He is also divine Principle,
that He is inyariabIe, and is the same
yesterday. today and forever. Thus Chris
tan Science declares one Infinite cause
or divine Principle. whom we call God
or good, who IS ever present divine Mind
and is also infinite Life, Truth and Love
WHAT TRUE
EXISTENCE IS.
Now how many differing effects can
be obtained from one infinite cause, or
divine Principle who is forever the
same.
Christian Science declares unswerv-
ingly. that from such q cause there can
ne but one effect which is infinitely like
that cause; consequently It teaches that
true existence must forever be. the ex-
preston or effect Of infinite Mind. or
Spirit, OF infinite good and of infinite
Life Truth and Love. Therefore true ex-
istence must be forever mental or
spiritual, since Il is the effect OF In
finite Mind. or Spirit; IL must be inf
nitely good because it is the effect OF
infinite good, and IL must always ex-
- press Life, Truth and Love because it IS
~$he expression Of life, truth and love
No amount Of human reason based on
the testimony Of the physical senses can
shake the fact that since God IS the
infinite creator, then creation OF trut.
existence, must he infinitely like Him
ard must therefore be wholly mental
nr spiritual. and wholly good. Also that
II must always express the nature OF
Life, Truth and Love. OF course such
q conclusion demands faith. or spiritual
understanding, in opposition TO the tes-
fimOny Of the human, or physical senses.
II demands faith in one ever present
God. the only creator