Arizona republican., 1921-03-30
4 LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

medical opinions Let the critic Of Christian Science who thinks that Christian Scientists are attacking his particular system, because they are declaring the Science of Christ, re- member that there are on earth today some millions of people who at one time believed that Christian Science was trying to take something essen tial from them through it's teach ings. but who now gladly acknowledge that they also have found in Chris tian Science more than they ever hoped for in the way of holiness, hap piness and health.
 God and His Creation as Understood . In Christian Science
 Let me then invite you to consider this Science of the Christ which ern- bodies, and Is based wholly on the idealism of Christ Jesus. As Chris tian Science pertains wholly to God and to His creation or to true being, it is of course necessary for us to consider what God is before we can proceed.
 Popular theology has regarded God as a distant being to be sought in times of need, through prayer. These prayers, in a few instances, seemed to be answered but in the majority of cases they remain unanswered. Material science has, with it's material theories, removed God even farther from the ken of mortals. and material, healing syst ms have educated | thought to consider God as a being
 who works through material pro-
 cesses. Christian Science takes ex- I actly the opposite view. Christian Science declares that God is an ever present divine reality, who is ever available to His own creation and is | infinitely knowable. His presence and power. Christian Science teaches, are
 essential to every right activity and consequently to all health. holiness or | happiness, and to all true existence
 God, Christian Science also teaches has nothing in common with mater
 iality, but He and His creation exist independent of suppositional matter and it's so-oalled laws. In fact Chris | tian Science teaches that God is the source and cause of all that is true
 and, therefore, of true existence.
 The Scriptures use several term!
 for God which all Christians have
 accepted but which few Christian! have understood practically and in.
 telligently. Mrs. Eddy has applied these same terms to God, but sh,
 has logically accepted the conclusion.
 about God which these terms indi
 cate. For instance, the Scripture
 teach that God is Love, but they als,
 teach that God is Spirit. consequentl. Mrs. Eddy has concluded that Low is Spirit and therefore that Love il
 not to be found in material con
 ditions. Also the Scriptures declar
 that Spirit or God is infinite ant
 Christian Science likewise logicall, concludes that matter. or materia
 existence, is not the truth of being . In the same way the Scripture
 teach that God is the only cause am , creator and Christian Science there
 fore accepts the fart that the onl
 real or true existence there is or cal l be. must be the emanation or ex
 pression of this one and only cause God. AS God is immutable and i ) without shadow of turning, His ere
 ation must be an emanation or ex , pression of immutable Spirit and mus
 consequently be wholly spiritual. t God as Divine Mind, and Creation Spiritual or Mental
 = It is evident to anyone who ha . studied the Scriptures closely tha f when Jesus declared God to be Spiri : he was not declaring God to be som : indefinite abstraction, but he was re e vealing and describing the most cer v tain, the most availa ble and the mos : stable entity that could possibly | Y imagined,-Mrs. Eddy has once an c for all taken thus word Spirit out s the realm of mysticism and superstl y ton and placed it in the realm 1t reason and science by explaining ths = Spirit is really divine Mind, or is tf 1t infinite Intelligence which knows, an If knows divinely or truly. It is certai n that.when Jesus used the term Spir q he meant divine Mind, for on one oC r. easion he explained quite naturally 0 his listeners the words that I spea IS unto you, they are spirit, ." (Joh ,- 6, 63) In fact infinite Truth, whic l. includes all divine mentality, is Spiri l. Christian Science, therefore, teach' is that God is divine Mind or Spir ly and that divine Mind is Love. 4 s. God Is everpresent and omnipoter 10 the divine Mind which is Love mu 1r therefore be the only Mind. Also q t. vine Mind and it's right mental a pr tiyiLy must be omnlpoient and i