Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-06-01
SCIENCE LECTURE
GIVEN THURSDAY
CHAS. 1. OHRENSTEIN, C.S.B.,
AT THE CITY HALL
LAST WEEK

Charles l. Ohrenstein, c. S. B., mem
Der of the board of lectureship of The
Mother Church, The First Church Of
Christ, Scientist, III Boston, Mass, de-
livered a lecture entitled Christian
Science. The True Preparedness at
the city hall last Thursday evening
before good sized audience.
Mrs. H. H. Scholfield presided, in
PRODUCING Mr.. Ohrenstein who is an
excellent speaker and whose subject
matter was enlighteningly treated
from several points of view-God,
man, thought processes, the beginner.
at should be remembered that Je-
sus did not write; he spoke. He spoke
to his own people, the common peo-
pie who heard him gladly; and he
spoke in their tongue. The only in
stance preserved to us of what he said
in that tongue is in the words which
preceded his giving up the ghost,
the mere semblance of life, which he
said he could lay down and could take
up again, as he later proved. These
words, all will remember, were, "Eloi,
Eloi, lama sablachthani?" which are
translated, My God, my God, why hast
thou forsaken me?' The word Eloi,
which Jesus used, is the Old Tesla
ment Hebrew word for what in Eng
lish is called God. 1t means strength,
or power, a meaning which is entirely
devoid of anthropomorphism or cor
poreality. According to Jesus, then,
God was his power, the power upon
which he always relied, with which
he accomplished everything.
mot only did Jesus illustrate, not
only does Christian Science teach
what God is, but in doing this Jesus
illustrated and Christian Science
teaches what man is.
"Does not the father want the soE
to be like himself and does not son
want to be like his father? So true is
this that right in the beginning we
read that God created man in his own
image. male and female created
he them In other words, He created
them Just like Himself. Now, how do
we know what a man is like? DO we
not know it by what he expresses
Was it not the manifestation, the ex-
preston of the power, the Mind, the
Shirt, the Life, the Truth, and the
Love. which are altogether good, God
that made Jesus the best prepared
the safest the most efficient, the most
able or powerful, the most godlike
man that ever lived? Did it not make
him so godlike that all Christendom
has called him God, worshipped him
as God? 1t has done this, too, not
withstanding the fact that Jesus re-
buked the man for calling him, not
God, but merely good, saying, Ihere
is none good but one, that is God He
did this because he recognized, as no
one else ever has, that even all tnat
he manifested of God did not begln
to express, but only indicated the IN
finite good that is God.
"Let us take one who is learning
to know this Christ-way. and begin
ming to- walk in it. What effect has
this upon him?
"He has been believing, like every
one else, that he is material organ
ism with his life, health, strength, IN
telligence, and love all inside of him
that all that he is and all that ne mas
is limited by heredity and environ
ment. He knows it because he. has
been experiencing it. OF course he is
unprepared for any emergency, reels
unsafe, is inefficient. 1t is not strange
if he is discouraged, perhaps sick, DIS
sipated. Now, the unheeded Christ
the spiritual idea of being, the Truth
comes to such a one in Christian Sci
ence. He hears, and hears for the first
time with this new meaning, that God
is the only and all power; that God is
all his God: that God is Life,-his life;
that God is Mind. Truth, Love, and
that God, who is all this, is all his
God.
"If God is the all-enabling power
and God is Mind, the operation OF this
power must primarily be by way OF
ideas, thoughts.
"The schools are beginning, to rec
ognize, and in some degree to ack-
nowledge, that in Christian Science
light has come into the world, but
they are not able to see that it is all
light and that in it is no darkness al
all. Theology is beginning to teach
incorporeal God, but not one who is
the Spirit that is all Love, too pure
to behold iniquity, evil of any kind
to cause it or to permit it. The heal
ing arts are beginning to teach that
mind is at least in part cause, put
without recognizing that Mind is Cod
good, so never the cause OF disease
and death, but always the cause OF
restoration, of health, and OF life,
They call that mind which in very
large part is but false education, IL
fusion. suggestion, the ultimate cause
of sin, sickness, death. But the hui
man beliefs that still obscure cannot
forever hide the true light which
shines, and shines unto perfect day
when all shall be illumined by IL, and
there shall be no darkness, ignorance,
Elusive suggestion, disease, fear, and