South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-05-20
GIVES LECTURE ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
John C. Lathrop, Prominent
Boston Lecturer, Delivers
Address Here.

John c. IAthrop. c. s. b. OF
Brookline. Mass. delivered an in
teresting lecture on Christian Sci
erce AZ the First Church Of Christ
Scientist. here last night He is
prominent member Of the board OF
lectureship Of the Mother Church
First Church Of Christ Scientist, 1t
Boston. Mass
His lectuer I'm pat follows.
All persons desire harmony Of
mind and body. All desire to escape
here and now the seemingly end
less trials and sorrows. the sickness
and suffering. the fear, sin and
death Of mortal life. All want SAL
walton and desire a present saliva
ton from the Ills and torments Of
the flesh Christian Science is the
guide-post pointing the direct way
20 this salvation. Christian Science
ia more than the guide post; IL is
also the conveyance. Ii points and
provides the way out Of disaster,
and proves itself 20 be what Jesus
( foretoId must come when he said,
I will pray the Father, and he
I shall give YOU another Comforter.
that he may abide with you for
ever John xiv: 16).
The prophet Isaiah cried.
1 Awake. awake. Loose theyself'
&C.. Shake theyself from the dust
&C.. Put on thy beautiful gar
ments. 30 captive daughter Of
\ Zion Gsa Iii. 1. p The situation
/ with mortal belief is just the same
! today. Material belief still has many
I captives enveloped in dust blind
/ ed by an inherited. ignorant or ed
I ucated false sense of God and man.
4 o captive mortal, your eyes and
ears are still filled with dust,
/ namely. the antiquated belief that
/ life. intelligence and substance are
I in matter Shake myself from the
/ dust. Loose myself o captive NOR
\ tai Of today Loose thyself TO see
what Christian Science reveals 10
the world, and il reveals just what
the Bible reveals. namely. that God
il All-in-aH, therefore that He is
/ omnipresent and omnipotent; that
/ He is Spirit, hence Spirit is All-in-
ALL that He is Mind. hence Mind is
/ AH-in-all that this one Mind by
virtue of its oneness must of ne
Z cessity be Principle or Truth; that
I divine Princirle or Truth governs
! through immutable laws all God
creation. which are ideas or
thought; that these ideas or
thoughts constitute man and the
universe. all being spiritual indi-
vidual and perfect; that this perfect
and spiritual man is the image and
J likeness of God just as the first and
real creation in Genesis records. and
I as spiritual ideas. the real man re-
fleets God as the rays OF light from
the sun reflect the sun. and that
this true likeness or reflection OF
God is our real selves. in other
words the Christ man whom Jesus
beheld in himself and called the son
Jesus saw in others and thus healed
the sick.
Evil and error and matter. fear
sickness and death are outgrown by
waking up from a false sense that
we believed was true and this IA lse
sense is changed by discovering the
true sense OF God, of man and the
! universe. Isn't it only by discover
ing 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 O.
material belief because matter Il
the very opposite of Spirit. which
Is All-in-all, and God never made
anything unlike Himself. Spirit. Blu
whence came this error of beliel
with all its sin. sickness and death
to which we are captives? Whence
came the belief that YOU couldn'
, float2 But when YOU find yourself
= quietly floating down the stream
! gazing happily UP into the peaceful
blue sky, you never ask yourself
, what has become Of that belief I
Z will never trouble you again anC
, you know II, for il has vanished int,
- imaginary realm OF ignorance and
= illusion 10 Join its comrades
, those other false beliefs, beliefs II
something unlike Spirit. God"