The Alaska daily empire., 1920-07-02
SPLENDID TALK GIVEN HERE BY
 6. s. LECTURER -N

William w. Porter, c. s. B., member of the Board of lectureship 0 the Mother Church. The First Churcl of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massa chusetts, delivered a lecture las Tuesday evening at the' Coliseum Theatre, under the auspices of tn. Christian Science Society of Juneau
 The lecturer was introduced b. Mrs. Charles E. Thompson, Secont Reader of the Society. who said:
 Christian Science is a practica and provable religion, available to all mankind through right under standing of God.
 Two thousand years ago Christ Jesus lived and taught amongst the simple fisher folk of Galilee; and his mission was to bring healing to a world filled with sin, disease and death.
 "It is as true today as it was then Chat the greatest need in the world is a knowledge of God. and Christian Science is unveiling God to mankind Is Life, Truth and Love, and is teaching us to love as Jesus loved and to think as Jesus thought, and by following Him as the way. the ruth and the life we, his children will come to understand God and his creation"
 The Lecture
 Mr. Porter in his lecture said. in part:
 "The demonstration of Christian Science. in the healing of the sick, tnd the ,reconstT1iGtion Of Human bought on lines of right activity s today an accomplished and ac Snowledged fact. It is evident that f the existing systems of religion md medicine had been adequate to meet the needs and satisfy the de fires of mankind, no other system even possible.
 Existing systems of religion and medicine represent and encourage the belief that evil, disease lscord and death are real and that they belong to the natural order of things.
 'These same systems then try tc overcome and destroy the evils thus held to be legitimate and natural If these evils are legitimate. natural md real. why try to destroy them On the other hand. if these discord- ant manifestations are not real normal and legitimate let the facts presented. by Christian Science n regard to the unrealty of mat ter, evil sickness, diScOrd. death, be approached and measured hon estly and justly; and above all with a desire to be consistent in prem ises as well as in conclusions.
 Orthodoxy
 "The objection is sometimes made that Christian Science is not ortho- dox. This brings up the question of what is and what is not orthodox. Human opinions combine in state ment of belief, and then declare that those who differ from beliefs thus stated are unorthodox. The amount of this is: If you believe as we do, you are orthodox. If you do not believe as we do, then you aret decidedly unorthodox. and-"do not believe the divinity of Christ
 That alone is orthodox. which proceeding from Principle, Truth, or God, brings out such fruits as health and righteousness, honesty and good will. This is the mission and the work of Christian Science.
 Underlying Desire For Good
 A fundamental desire for harmony and good exists in the consciousness of every person. Because of lack of education or instruction in
 
 mortal mind has accepted it's own misconceptions of God, its own mis- interpretations of man, and its own misstatements of Spirit or Substance as real.
 Thus mankind have found them selves the innocent victims of a mieoer nivad existence, expressing itself in e'r. sickness and death. IL is the mia ion and province of Chris tian Science to clear away and to destroy these misconceptions. mis interpretations and misstatements together with the sin. sickness, and destruction that follow in their wake and to restore to mankind the true raflection or image and likeness oi God. and the true understanding oi the nature or character of Causation
 "On page 465 of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. which is the text book of Christian Science written bv Mary Baker Eddy the following definition. of God ap pears: God is incorporeal. divine supreme. infinite. Mind, Spirit, Sonl Principle, Life. Truth. Love This definition of God is exact. and Is il accord with the definitions of Coo found throughout the Scriptures.
 Restorative Definitions
 Christian Science unfolds certau fundamental and primary ideas. On' such primary idea is this: Mankin' ie conscious. at least. of existence This consciousness of existence i'm plies Mind. In fact. without Mind there could be no consciousness hence no consciousness of existence