The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-10
NOTED LECTURERAT
 SCIENTIST CHURCH
Mrs. Corby Will Speak on Christian Science, the
 Revelation of Truth

The auditorium of the First Church or Christ. Scientist. was crowded to it's ca pacity last night when Mrs Blanche K. Corby, C S. B.. member of the board of lectureship of the mother church, Bos- ton, Mass. gave an inspiring lecture on Christian Science. the Revelation Of Truth" John Sporrow introduced the speaker. Mrs. Corby proved an eloquent and gifted speaker and held the close and rapt attention of the large gathering throughout the lecture. It was the con- sensus of opinion that in beauty Of thought clarity of expression and logic of deduction the lecture by Mrs. Corby surpassed any on the same subject that
 has been heard in the city. Mrs. Corby
 said in part:
 ',1he first step toward freedom from evil is generally taken through the de- sire for physical healing. The healing methods of Christian Science. the heal ing method used by Jesus, is unique put there is no mystery, nothing supernat- ural about it. It is the simple teaehihs of Jesus the spontaneous and naturai re- | suit of better thinking
 erhe physical healing in Christian Sci ] erce is not for the purpose or making a man more comfortable in materlalty' or enabling him to eat more lood Wl,nou' s l discomfort or to indulge moro freely III appetifes and passions without etfect, 1 but the safe physical purpose or heaiins
 is to reveal the truth about life. Chrls- | bon Science heals the sick to establsh 1 the fact of the reality of God or sood' and it hea $ the sinner to prove the uh- rea lifv of sin or evil. Christian science
 does not teach that sickness and eVil do not seem real to the human CONSCIOUS ness, but it does teach that the human l lconsciousess is a falAe consciousness that expresses itself according to its faise pe- llfefs in all the phenomena or evil ana sickness. and that healing through cor rection or overcoming is accomphshed
 only through the understanding or Gou and His law
 "christian Science treatment creates l :, desire to know and to do the will l of God. It is regenerating In it's ln- I fluence Mesmeric suggestion ana [ hvnnotism weaken the subjects ability
 to do what is right. His subjectlon to another mentality in the least de- | gree is in itself an evil. The reading | of the Christian Science teAtpooh' 1 Science and Health.' with key to the ] scripture. has cured thousands of sick
 ness and sin; 100 pages of the ooo< , contain testimonials of healing through inc reading alone. No mesmerlc sus- pestion is used in the book to accom- | plish such results. no human domlha- | tion or control is exercised. but the revelation of truth contained in these pages opens the understanding ana | healing follows as natural conse- quence. ,.. .ua
 "Throughout all time man has bowed | down to fear as to a false god, and Is
 confronted by it's suggestions in all tho activities of human existence Fear attends his advent into the world Land throughout his life he IS educated to he afraid: afraid of the food he oats inc air he breathes. and of the
 wfnd that blows: he is afraid or his brother man. afraid of his own body and afraid of God.
 1 "The crying need of the world IS tc knoy how to pray aright, to pray the righteous prayer which availeth much Science and Health with Key to the scripture. contains chapter on prayer
 which is accepted by Christian SCI entists and acknowledged by many other advanced thinkers to be the greatest treatise on prayer ever writ- ten. A ru.,, Mrs Eddy tells Us that the Bible vyas her only textbook She also says of Jesus that he was the most sci entiftc man that ever trod the globe He plunged beneath the material sur -