Arizona republican., 1921-11-14

lecturer was introduced by MT. Elm cry Rays, who said:
 Friends. I greet you in behalf of First Church of Christ, Scientist. of Phoenix. Seemingly the present has for most people, more than the ordinary of pressing, and often dis tressing problems.
 To heal, and to help each one meet his problems. be they physical, men tai, moral, financial, or spiritual IS the object of this meeting. To help him to know truth, for Truths sake, to know that Loves work is done in Gods own way, even the way shown in the Bible, discovered by Mary Baker Eddy, and taught in Science and Health with Key to the Scrip lures.
 So. gladly I introduce to you a member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Bos- ton, Mass, pr. John M. Tut, c. S. B., of Kansas City. Missouri, who will address you on the subject, Chris tian Science: the Leaven of Spirit"
 Dr. Tut spoke substantially as follows:
 The world today is experiencing a
 
 Spirit. Public expression abounds with references to the spiritual needs of humanity. Materialism. even in its refinements, has failed to satis- fy human aspiration. Everywhere men are turning from matter to Spirit, instinctively confident that, >under divine direction, spiritualiza- ton of life will meet human need to- day and will justify the longing and the hope for a spiritual tomorrow. This standardization of thought and life is the peculiar work of Chris tian Science in human consciousness.
 I am sure that those of you who have observed Christian Science en- ter the life of friend or acquain- tanee, and there can be few, if any, who have not been witness to such a miracle, will testify to a deep. a fundamental change which has come over that individual: you will testify moreover. that the change is decided Iy for the better. Whereas. per chance. he was i'll. he has become we'll; wherein he was a bad citizen, he has become better one: for want he has acquired supply abundant for his needs: instead of gloom, he has come to radiate cheer; once depen- dent and fearful, he has become suf- ficient for his responsibilities and bold to meet them. What has hap pened to that man? He is being leavenedi His thought, and hence his life, are becoming spiritualized. He is beginning to behold the vision of man untrammeled by matter and is coming into his rightful sense of dominion over all. He continues in the world, though no longer of it. yet tenderly responsive of it's needs, and just as he himself is being leavened he com municates the ferment to his environ ment to the betterment of all with whom and with which he comes in contact.
 The purified state of consciousness for which Jesus prayed and taught all Christians to pray. How much . of this Kingdom of harmony can one experience here and now? Just the degree of his 1eavening. just the measure of his spiritualized thought Before one can go to heaven, heaver must come to him on earth. That 1: the import of Mrs. Eddy's great dis covery. Christian Science was God. response to her uplifted heart. th' reward of her unsettled devotion. l came freeing her from the limita tions of a frail body. opening the wa, to long delayed life work, and set q ting her eager feet upon the patl Of nearly a half century of loving service. To her the spiritual leavel came, as through her selfless minis try it has come to countless others "A divine influence. ever present il i human consciousness. coming now was promised aforetime, to preacl deliverance to the captives (of sense and recovering of sight to the blind to set at liberty them that ar buried" Science and Health, pre- face.)
 Whenever I see a life besmirchec degraded, besotted with sense grati fication, I try to think of the sweet tness and cleanness and wholesome ness of that life when Christian Science shall have done its wor therein, when the leaven of Lov shall have destroyed lust and hat and fear, when the leaven of Trut shall have eradicated the mass c error, when the leayen of Spirit shal have changed the belief of materia consciousness to the spiritual under ! standing of life in God. when tn leayen of Principle shall have taugh | lawless human sense that obendienc to divine law is true liberty.
 ? CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND ! HUMAN INTERESTS
 People generally are aware tha Christian Science has touched tn 1 lives of individuals and has worke in such persons profound change for the better in mind, in morals. i body. Have you ever considered tn l changes in general thought and Tiff since Christian Science began it reformatory mission? Not only hay I individuals been affected directly, bu ! the transforming influence has ex tended to the universal thought, s that those who have not yet come i know Christian Science have never $heless conformed to much of il basic teaching. Surely, though slow J ly. and oft times by devious by-path ! thought has come into agreemer with the great spiritual facts re yeaIed in Christian Science. Coin cidentaly basic changes have oc cured in human affairs, touchin ] ieal forum to higher, even to moi 1 spiritual issue. Science, theolog and medicine are so woven into tf ! warp and wool of human eXistenC f that they constitute it's motif. Indeed \ involving as they do salvation, bot here and hereafter, these are u X indispensable factors in human lii today, they are are basis of the hoI sof tomorrow Now the human min ' is finite; it's every sense Is. of cours limited. The human minds COT cepts of science, theology and med cine, never rise above the limits which the human thought is bounde for it can of itself rise no high' than itself. That self is materia and hence to the unenlightent thought. science, theology, and med cine seem material. Physical scienc