Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-12
TENETS OF CHURCH
LAUDED IN LECTURE
Speaker Describes Benefits
Obtained Under the Chris
tian Science Teachings.

"All persons desire harmony of
mind and body" said John c. Lath-
rop, member of the board of lecture
ship, of, the Mother Church. First
Church of Christ, Scientist. Of Bos-
ton. Mass, in lecture on Christian
Science, last night at the First Church
Of the faith here.
"All desire to escape here and now
the seemingly endless trials and sor-
rows, the sickness and suffering, the
fear, sin and death of mortal life" he
said. "All want salvation and desire
a present salvation from the ills and
torments of the flesh.
Described as Guidepost.
"Christian Science is the guide-post
pointing the direct way to this sal
walton. Christian Science is more
than the guide-post; 1t is also me
conveyance. 1t points and provides
the way out of disaster. and proves
itself to be what Jesus foretold must
come when ne said, I will pray the
Father, and He shall give you another
Comforter, that He may abide with you
forever
Evil and error and matter, fear,
sickness and death are outgrown by
waking up from false sense that
we believed was true, ana TINS 1aise
sense is changed by discovering the
true sense of God. of man and the
universe. Isn't 1t only by discovering
the truth in mathematics that you
get rid of the error?
Faith abolishes fear, and entirely
changes your point of view Chris-
tian Science calls matter error OF ma
terial belief, because matter is the
very opposite of spirit. which is all
in all. and God never made anything
unlike Himself, spirit. But whence
came this error of belief with all its
sin, sickness and death. to which we
are captives? Whence came the be.
lief that you couldn't float? But
when YOU find yourself quietly float
ing down the stream, gazing happily
up into the peaceful blue sky. you
never ask yourself what has become
of that belief. 1t will never trouble
you again. and you know 1t. Tor 1t
has vanished into that imaginary
join it's comrades-all those other
false beliefs, beliefs in something I'M
like spirit, God.
"MOst Appealing Claim"
1.-THE strongest and most appealing
claim of Christian Science is that IT
operates, that it works. But like an
automobile whose engine won't go
unless it is given the right mixture
of gas, Christian Science does not heal
ture Is right. Here Christian Science
differs radically from an automobile,
inasmuch as the oil or mixture used is
the pure power of Divine principle. Of
truth and love. spiritual under
standing that uncovers every valley
of sin. and lays low every mountain
Of disease. The human thought passes
through three steps or stages in &C
quiring this power. And they are the
same three steps taken in winning
any worthy goal. First. belief: sec
ond, faith, and third. understanding.
'Human knowledge comprises the
things within the limits of the five
material senses. Christian Science
reveals mans true sense to be con-
sciousness of infinite spirit and its
infinite ideas-a consciousness of the
unhealthy of evil and the material
senses.
This consciousness is spiritual I'M
ders1anding, which casts out erH0
and heals the sick. Thus Christian
Science has opened the way to eternal
harmony and happiness by supplying
mankind with spiritual understand
ing, and therein lies its supreme and
practical excellence as the comforter
leading into all truth"