Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-11-24
LECTURER TALKS
TO SCIENTISTS
VIM. ID. FITZPATRICK TALKS
AT CITY HALL ON
SUNDAY


''Christian Science-Gods Law" was
the subject of lecture delivered by
William D. Fitzpatrick, of Detroit,
Mich. G. S. B., member of the board
of lectureship of The Mother Church,
First Church of Christ Scientist, of
Boston, Mass, at the city hall last Sun
day afternoon at three.
introducing Mr.. Fitzpatrick, Miss
Mary Harger said: "In reply to the
question Which is the great command
ment in the. law Jesus said Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind. This is the first
and great commandment. And the
second is, like unto it, Thou shalt love
thy neighbor as myself
Welcome Opportunity
This same love, our leader, Mary
Baked Eddy, tells us, is the heart and
soul of Christian Science, and is that
which heals the sick, the sinner and
the Borrowing. We, therefore, well
come the opportunity this lecture at
fords of telling about Christian Sci
ence which brings this love to all"
Following is a part of the lecture de-
livered by Mr.. Fitzpatrick:
C0TlSCldu SCi61lCo has COiHc W nu-
manity to restore to it the lost art
of healing which the great Master
Christian, Jesus the Christ, declared
should exemplify the understanding
of those truths of existence which
he gave to the world some twenty
centuries ago. One can hardly read
the New Testament without firm
conviction that much of the vitality
given it by the life and works of Jesus
has been lost or eliminated through
out the intervening centpries. Jesus
taught that it was his understanding
of God and Gods government of His
universe which enabled him to do the
works of healing and regeneration he
so freely accomplished throughout His
brief ministry and of which he said in
no unmistakable terms He that be-
ieveth on me, the works that | do
shall he do also
"JeSus mission on earth was to eS
tablish with men that understanding
of God which would enable them to do
the very works he did.
Jesus taught that his works of heal
ing and regeneration were not of a
miraculous nature but were Indigenous
to the correct understanding of God
which he came to give us. In that
mighty prayer, given us in his Sermon
on the Mount, we find these words:
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be
done in earth, as it is in heaven. That
which enabled the disciples of Jesus
time to heal the sick, cast out demons
and even raise the dead was intended
for you and for me just as much as for
the disciples. otherwise the marvellous
works and teachings of Jesus are of
no avail as onr Saviour.
Explicit Command
''In the sixteenth chapter of ST.
Marks Gospel Jesus gave this explicit
command to all mankind, through the
medium of his disciples-'These signs
shall follow them that believe; in my
name shall they cast out devils; they
shall speak with new tongues; they
shall take up serpents; and if they
drink any deadly thing it shall not
hurt them; they shall lay hands on the
sick and they shall recover And is
it not glorious thing to know that
at last we have been awakened
through Christian Science, to the rec
ognition of the fact that that command
was for you and for me, and that
we have been given, through Chris
tan Science, that understanding of
Jesus teachings which makes the full
fillment of this command present and
immediate possibility, and that you
and | may know right here and now
to assist in establishing the kingdom
of heaven on earth?
'If you will carefully the life of
Jesus as given in the New Testament
and consider his works in connection
with what he taught you will discover
that what he did was merely to es-
tablish as a demonstrable fact what
he taught, and that what he taught
and did were said and done in ac-
cord with, and in explanation of, some
immutable ever present, universal law.
You will see, in other words and
works were looking to the establish
ment with men of divine, omnipo-
tent, spiritual law which will eventu-
ally rule all mankind to the complete
extinction of any so-called opposed
law and it's effects
And this law of God-this law, the
knowledge and application of which
Jesus said should make us free-is
what Christian Science has come to
re-establish with men. Those won
derful works of Jesus prove conclu-
sively that laws of matter are not
Gods laws and that Gods laws are
not only superior but are actually
laws of humiliation to so-called ma
terial laws and thereby prove that
material laws are the product of a
mortal misconception of what consti-
tutes true law.
Law Of God
I'VE find, with reinsurance. that
this law of God is a law of Life
not of death; law of health-not of
sickness; a law of abundance-not of
lack and limitation; a law of har-
mony-not of discord; a law of
peace-not of strife a law of love
not of hate. And oh! If we could but
comprehend what this law of love en-
braces. How sadly this old world
needs love, the love that Jesus gave
to the world and of which the apos-
tie spake when he said Love is the
fulfilling of the law What ministry
~ love wae that af JacuG IL was live