The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-28

The Empress theater was filled last evening to hear the lecture on Chris tian Science by William w. Porter ot New York City, who is making tour of Alaska in the interests of the First Church of Christ Scientist. Curtis W Walker of Cordova introduced MT. Por ter with the following remarks:
 Nineteen centuries ago Jesus healed the sick, cleansed the leper and raised the dead by the power of Divine Love; and he promised that all those who understood his teachings should do these works which he did. These works were done by Jesus disciples or students, as that word is defined in Websters dictionary; as we'll as other Christians, for about three cen turies after the crucifxion. Then as materiality crept into the church, spir itually became obscured until il seemed entirely lost. But that it was only obscured, and not lost, was proven by one pure minded woman Mary Baker Eddy, when she was in stantly healed and raised from what was believed to be her death bed by the power of Divine Love revealed tC her consciousness through her tireless study of the Bible.
 "A life devoted to imparting this great truth to the world and suffering humanity resulted in so rapid ar awakening of mankind that today Christian Science or the Science o1 Christianity is known of in practically every part of the universe.
 "The world today needs a more ac curate knowledge of this truth which was taught and practiced by Jesus ir the first century, and one of the ways this need is being met is through g Christian Science board of lectureship Friends, I take great pleasure in in troducing to your kind attention MT William w. Porter, c. s. B., of New York City, member of the Board o1 Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, BOs ton, Mass"
 After a few introductory remarks about his delight at the wonders o1 Alaska as revealed by a trip through the interior of Alaska and out over the Fairbanks trail, MT. Porter de. livered his lecture, which, in part, is as follows:
 NATURAL DEVELOPMENT
 The demonstration of Christian Sci ence in the healing of the sick and the reconstruction of human thought on lines of right activity is today an accomplished and acknowledged fact It is evident that if the existing sys- tems of religion and medicine had been adequate to meet the needs and to satisfy the desires of mankind, no other system would ever have been necessary or even possible.
 Existing systems of religion and medicine represent and encourage the belief that evil, disease, discord, and death are real, that they belong to the natural order of things.
 These same systems then try to overcome and destroy the evils thus held to be legitimate and natural. If these evils are God created, hence legitimate, natural and real, why try to destroy them? On the other hand, if these discordant manifestations are not real, normal and legitimate, are not God created, let the facts present ed by Christian Science in regard to the unreality of matter, evil, sickness, discord, death, be approached and measured honestly and justly; and above all with the desire to be con- sistent in premises as well as 1n con- clusions.
 ORTHODOXY
 The objection is sometimes made that Christian Science is not orthodox Ths brings up the question of what is and what is not orthodox. Human oninions combine in a statement of belief, and then declare that those who differ from beliefs thus stated are rnorthodox. The amount of this is: If you believe as we do, you are ortho- dnx If unu dn not believe as we do,