Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-19
kAAUDS THEORY
OF CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE WORK
Boston Lecturer Declares
Church Is Carrying Out
Last Words of Master.

Interesting discourse on Christian Science
by John C. Lathrop, c. s. B., of Boston
ats the Murat theater Sunday afternoon
His lecture follows:
cit is the purpose of this lecture tc
show that Christian Science possesses
distinct value that it has distinct
mission to perform, and that in Its
valuable mission to mankind Christian
Science Is natural, simple, and practical
Christian Science is natural, inasmuch as
10 has come to a suffering world In the
ripeness Of time. in perfect order, and II
hRS appeared as inevitably as the dawn
ing of new day. A brief survey OF
Religious history and development Will
howsxthe natural order of the coming
Ncnristian Science.
From time immemorial men have
ught more or less intelligently saliva
bn from sin, sickness, and death. In
Id Testament times good people con-
N family craved a savior who would free
hem from the bondage of sin and heshly
Burdens The more spiritually minded
men or prophets Of those days discerned
the coming of a Redeemer or savior, who
would Iced and set free the followers OF
God THIS belief was but a craving for
the truth, then naturally taking the form
Df a personal savior. With this con-
stantiy increasing yearning in extraordi-
nary faith on the part of many people,
& was but natural that the answer TO
this prayer should appear In extraordl-
ary form. This expression came, not as
as expected, through q personal power
fifth splendor and physical force, but
trough the birth and development of a
eacher, who was more purely to reveal
nd demonstrate the doctrine of Truth
nd Love to mankind.
's& s1rThe advent of Jesus and the result OF
bis teaching were significant, for though
Nnany were called, few were chosen tC
berpetuate these spiritual teachings, and
t was but natural that the chosen we're
higher sight and hearing than the ma
kerfal senses, for said Jesus, speaking
10 those chosen ones, Blessed are your
ayes, for they see; and your ears, fol-
hey hear And again he said For
udment l am come into this world, that
they which see not might see; and that
hey which see might be made blind
n other words, that those who saw not
that the only real life and intelligence
Spirit would be taught TO see it, and
Ehey who saw life and intelligence to
be in matter would be made blind to
k.his belief, or would be shown that the
belief was false, and thus they would
believe it no more
1.-THE Bible records that before Jesus
nade his complete demonstration over
Material law in his resurrection and dis
appearance from material sight he said to
Is disciples, I have yet many things ia
by unto you, but We can not bear them
RT. Howbeit when he, the spirit OF
- is come, he will guide you into
truth AT another time when i'm
pssed by Peters recognition, of the
understanding of the Spirit OF
thu I will build my church, and the
ties of hell shall not prevail against
1t is of prime significance that
sus had withheld a higher teaching
m his disciples because of their
ntal unreadiness to bear Qt) now.
ich higher teaching would be revealed
the fullness Of time, through the
irit of Truth, who will guide you
Even the twelve disciples did not
mprehend Jesus; one doubted him. one
pied him, one betrayed him, and all
fsook him. This lack Of understanding
the part of the disciples of the subtle
rkings of evil and material law, to
ich Jesus evidently referred, showed
ef in subsequent years. After sew
centuries of successful resistance TO
ERE temptations through simple faith
early Christians, about the year 32j
D., succumbed to the artful promises
selfish designs Of the crafty Roman
peror Constantine, whose ambition to
the world must necessarily include
separate and fast growing body of
ristians, 1t is again noteworthy and
ural, that from this time forth the
yer TO heal the sick and raise the dead
spiritual means alone disappeared
ASswfthe Christian faith. And with the
itual power disappeared also faitt
BIS. Gibbon, in his History of the
line and Fall of the Roman Empire
ume /, p. $40 states, The mirac
rs cure of diseases of the most IN
. hate or even preteFnatural kind car
longer occasion any surprise wher
recollect that in the days of Irenaeus
ut the end Of the second, century
resurrection of the dead was very
from being esteemed an uncommon
II; the miracle was frequently per
og4nf hr~ "a
ng and the joint supplication Of the
kch of the place, and the persons thus
bred by their prayers lived after
Is among them many years. The
nd century was still more fertile il
cles than the frst.
LURE OF
lily CHRISTIANS.
tut what of Jesus promise that th'
lit of truth would come aud guide
all truth? When was this higher
Il to take placer When were these
" things which the disciple
,vn to the world? What was thes1
ferrous and spiritual nature" anC
d would the world be ready u
or understand it? Religious his
shows shows that after the loss o
spiritual power to heal the sick, dur
Il the fourth century and during th'
owing centuries, so complete was thu
render of the early Christians to ma
by periods of reform, beginning il
sixteenth century. to awaken arf
pare human thought for the cOmlni
~ the Spirit of truth. which was <
de into all truth. The truth hat
been coming like the ocean tid
ltly rising on a stern and rOck-bOunt
ST advancing and receding, wearins
lay here a stubborn crag, and Their
ersistent cliff, until finally after cen
rs of human effort this resiStless on
IT, do Of tr1fb al n -
& Ere it was least eXpected-a natura
between the. crags of time -honoref
M tenaciops human opinions plac
kptive and yielding-the exalted chr
II of a\noble woman of the nineteenth
This great fact that the Spirit 0
9TH has come and Is now leading th
&rld into all Truth has become his
#.ical For over fifty years it has beer
3nclusively demonstrated by counties
N III ses of mental reform and physica
W. aling. In the year 1866, Mary Bake
Idly. a New England woman of Puri
's.an forbearS, through purified state o
8ntal readiness discovered the diviu
inciple of being; an6 through turtle
spiration gradually developed tn
airitual rules, which assumed a metho;
system Of healing and reform which
IL was divinely led to name ChriStla
lawn physical recovery from an in
Bna1 injury which at endant physician
onounced fatal Left alone she turnet
her Bible, opened at the ninth chap
s kr of Matthew, read Jesus healing O
be palsied man, and Immediately tn
hep significance of the relation of sin
bar, and material beliefs, as the menta
use of all bodily ailments, dawned up
her thought. she suddenly awakened
l3#s from a dream, felt new life AM
frength. and arose from her bed instar
Hhneously healed
'She soon had an ardent desire to pu
Ter discovery into writing for the de
Vi Sfverance of a waiting world. She rea
rcd hnwarnr TINT tha liscnrnr.. mug