The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-01-24
A LECTURE
ENTITLED
Christian Science
The Science Of Right Living

of the Mother Church, The First
Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,
Mass.
Since Christian Science, as discov-
cred and founded by Mary Baker
Eddy, is being so generally recognized
as an instrument for good, it viii be
interesting to know what this Science
teaches regarding the unrest, evil and
suffering so prevalent in the World to-
day and to hear what solution it has
to offer for them. We are deeply con-
cerned to discover the cause of this
untoward condition and to learn if
possible of an adequate remedy for it,
as well as to find what part each one
of US plays in the situation, to what
degree we are responsible for it, and
to what extent we can aid in alleviat-
ing and healing it.
At the outset it should be recognized
that the world is an aggregation of
individuals, hence world conditions are
but the composite product of the lives
and mentalities of its people, and of
their habits of thought, their ethics,
their ambitions and their resultant
conduct.
Thus the character of human living
is an essential factor in the worlds
condition and it follows that this can
be improved only as the lives of its
people are improved. 1t is this phase
of the question to which we shall give
especial attention by analysing the
Science of right living, together with
the Principle and law involved, in or
der to see how these may be demon
strated in human activities.
1t is evident that all which really is
has Principle, basis, cause, law, and
that right living involves obedience to
Principle, government by motives
based upon truth, Justice, equity. Since
God made all that was made and pro-
nounced it good, it follows that obedi-
ence to God, Principle, means ODE
dience to good. 1t is also evident that
in order to do right we must know
what. right is, and this cannot be
known without knowing what God or
good is. therefore, in order to obey
Principle, one must know God even as
Jesus and his disciples knew Him.
st. Paul writes: "For the law
of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus
hath made me free from the law
of sin and death. Rom. S:2).
The Bible contains many clear and
definite statements of the healing law
of the gospel in it's relation to every
form of evil thinking and living.
When looking, therefore, for solu-
tion of the worlds problems, need one
look further than to an understanding
of the teachings of the Master? Did
he not set standard of right living
upon a divine basis which he declared
he made it possible for all to follow?
Did he not heal all manner of evil and
disease through divine power and did
he not teach his followers to do the
same thing? Is it not evident then
that Christian living involves not
merely right ethical or moral condi-
tions, but right physical and mental
conditions as well; health, harmony
and wholesomeness in every direc-
ton?
We thus see that Christian healing
is undoubtedly an essential element in
Christian living.
The Bible declares, and frequently
implies, that God is our life.
The Bible teaches further that God
is the Creator; therefore He is Prin-
ciple for Principle is basis, foundation,
cause, origin.
Since God is Life, Life is Principle,
and is absolute, depending solely upon
itself, upon its own immortal being,
independent of all else and unaffected
by matter or by any condition, state
or belief of matter.
Even as mathematical truth is not
affected by anything which may be
done to the figures, SO the real life of
man cannot be disturbed by what may
be done to it's material appearing or
symbol. Life is therefore neither in
matter, nor of matter. It is Gods very
being and nothing else.
The Bible declares through st. John
that "God is Love-" therefore real
Life is divine Love, and thus we see
that there is but one infinite, eternal,
divine Life which is indestructible
Truth, absolute Principle, immortal
Love.
What said Jesus,-"This is life
eternal, that they might know thee,
the only true God, and Jesus Christ
whom thou hast sent" Therefore, ac-
cording to Jesus, knowing God is real
living, and since Mrs. Eddy has made
it possible for all to know God Alright
and to know rightly His Son, Christ
Jesus, we can begin here and now to
have in US the spirit of Life which
was in Christ Jesus, as st. Paul de-
clares, a state of consciousness which
is indeed needed so badly today.
The Science of right living is, there
fore, based fundamentally upon the
knowing of what real Life is and OF
the living of that Life. There is nj