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LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, ;
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ing Him 10 do this, that, or some
other thing, or that God causes the
unnatural or supernatural to be
happening in the lives and affairs
is already perfect and complete. In
deed the Bible says that God saw
everything that he had made, and,
behold, il was very good"
The mission OF scientific Chris
tianity is to reveal the perfectness
and completeness of Gods work, to
enable us to overcome in our own
lives and experiences everything
and every thought that is unlike
God and His creation. Does not
this thought bring US back to that
rule of conduct which Jesus gave,
that we should do always the thing
that is in accord with the Fathers
will?
In Regard To Healing
Someone asks: What has this
to do with the healing of my sick
body, or sick business. or sick home,
or sick city? These are the prac-
tical problems that concern US to-
day. Christian Science does Lurn-
ish the solution for everyone OF
them. However serious your parti-
cular problem may seem to you,
however significant and burden
some, or however long you may
have had 1t, 1t Is not necessary that
God should do any specific or indi-
vidual thing in your life to solve
your problem. Too long we have
been seeking God in a purely ma
terial way, much as we have sought
a friend for a favor or a banker for
aloan, crying out in our ignorance.
supernatural or miraculo us way.
la. fhn
God would manifest himself in some
supernatural or miraculous way.
Then We begin to think there Is no
power in prayer because We do not
see this unusual or unnatural mani
festation. Jesus condemned this
style of prayer when he said: The
heather think that they shall be
heard for their much speaking. Be
not We therefore like unto them: for
your Father knoweth what things
we have need of before we ask Him.
"Our prayers are answered in the
realization that Love is always
meeting our needs. The truth OF
this comes to me in homely illus
tration from my boyhood. In child :
hood l lived on farm in Kentucky
time we always wanted tomato
plants to set out in the garden about
the middle or latter part Of April.
Accordingly in February father
would sow tomato seeds in box in
the house and then when the sun
came out he took the box out OF
the house and put 1t on the porch
in the sunshine, with a glass over
It, and as the suns rays beat upon
the glass they warmed the ground
the, seeds broke open, and the ten
der plants stuck their heads through
the ground. and as they were car
ried into the sun day after day they
grew, until presently they We're
large enough to put out In tn
garden.
Now the sun was not shining TO-
our box alone; it came down I
warm the whole earth and to bring
again the miracle of springtime
and growth, and when. we took our
bow out into the sunshine we saw
growth and life manifested.
Likewise with every human
problem. Because of evil hatred,
jealousy, injustice, envy, or secret
sin, our consciousness is darkened
and-we have a problem, which We
call disease, lack, sorrow, or death.
We need to bring the darkened con.
seriousness into the sunlight OF
Gods truth and love, then the dark
ness is dispelled and the trouble
disappears as mist before the morn
ing sun. ~
of the dark There is a way pro-
vided. Thet Bible and the Chris
tian Science text book help you to
understand divine Principle where
by you can bring this problem out
of the dark. If you will read she
last chapter in the text book you
will find many testimonials from
men and women from widely sepa
rated sections of the country, testi-
flying to how through the study Of
this truth they have been able to
bring their problems to the light
and find their solution.
eff it should seem to be beyond
your present ability to demonstrate,
there are Christian Science prac-
TONERS, consecratfng all their time
and thought to this work, and they
are ever ready, when the problem
is too heavy to be borne, to help US
to bring it to the light, to that right
understanding of God, to that rea-
lization, as Mrs. Eddy expresses it.
of mans at one ment with God.
Regarding Prayer
at is often asked, how do Chris
tan Scientists pray? In the open
ing chapter of the text book, entitl-
ed Prayer" Mrs. Eddy says: The
prayer that reforms the sinner and
heals the sick is an absolue faith
That all things are possible to Cod
a spiritual understanding of Him,
an unsettled love- (Science and
Health, p. 1:1-D. Is not this I'M
Outstanding of prayer reconcilable
with Pauls Injunction that we pray
without ceasing? Cannot we always
under all circumstances have this
absolute faith that all things are
possible to God, and the further as
surance that in the spiritual under
standing of His ever presence man
is safe? Then the thought of un-
selfed love, do we not find this in
accord with the Masters prayer,
1T is more blessed to give than to
receive? As we think of our
prayers are they not generally pc
titions for self, failing to realize
that the larger part of prayer is
giving?
81 was interested in this practi-
cal point in testimony Of which
! heard recently. A man went TO a
Christian Science practitioner and
said: I need help this morning;
cannot get my breath; and the
practitioner said In your own state
ment is the key to your difficulty.
You are always trying to get some
thing. This morning 1t Is breath.
II you had your breath you doubt
less would be wondering where you
could get orders in your BUSINESS,