The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-24
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LECTURER IS HEARD
BY LARGE CROWD
Religion of Christian Science"
Discussed by Representative
of Mother Church.

Mr.. william D. Fitzpatrick. c. s. B.,
Of Detroit Michigan, member OF the
Board Of Lectureship of The Mother
Church, The First Church of Christ
Scientist, in Boston. Mass, delivered an
interesting lecture last night to a large
and attentive audience at the High
School Auditorium. He was introduced
by Mr.. A. c. Binkley, a we'll known law
yer Of Pensacola. The subject of the
lecture was THE Religion CT Christian
Science" He said, in part:
Christian Science comes to you. my
friends, an open book. 1t has nothing to
conceal but volumes to reveal. It's story
is simple and sweet. 1t Is a story of
love and compassion; one of hope and
happiness; one OF comfort and good
cheer. Christian Science is the great
angel of peace come to earth to heal 1t
of it's sorrows and its woes, its sickness
and its sin. 1t is the everlasting foe CT
fear and unhappineSs and disease and
poverty and misery. 1t is the day-star of
the Christ guiding into paths OF peace
and 10y and plenty. It bids you doff the
sa ck-cloth and the ashes of grief, despair
and grave forebodings and don the gar
ments of contentment and happiness. 1t
will lead you into paths and pastures you
know not of and holds for each one of
you a God crowned promise laden with
blessings rich and precious. 1t comes to
bring peace to q struggling world and
its troubled hearts. Again we hear the
voice of the Christ crying in this age to
tired humanity:
"Come unto me. all ye that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest. Take my yoke upon you,
and learn of me; for I am meek and
lowIy in heart; and ye shall find rest
unto your souls. For my yoke is
easy and my burden is light
who are struggling under a load Of care
or sorrow; If there are those who are
bowed down with the weight of years
and unremitting and fruitless toll: If
there are these who are shRckled with
the bonds Of sin and misfortune, we
have for you a glorious message. And
when you leave here today we trust and
pray 1t will be with lighter heart. with
more Of the hope and the joy and the
peace and the comfort which is the gift
of God tc every one of you.
Christian Science The Religion OF Jesus.
Christian Science is primarily and ex-
the religion of Jesus the Christ.
1t is a return to the teachings of print
tive Christianity and as such 1t must
include the practice Of heal
ing which exemplified the life, not only
of Jesus, but the lives, as well, Of many
Of the early Christians, even the lives
Of those who had never been taught CT
Jesus. We have been prone to think
that the healing Of the sick, the manned,
the halt and the blind by Jesus and by
his disciples and apostles was the out
come or result Of a special dispensation
from God to Jesus which was. in turn,
passed along by him to his followers inl
some mysterious or occult manner. That
is, we have been taught to believe that
the healing works accomplished by Jesus
were the manifestations Of a superhu-
man power with which Jesus was espec-
tally endowed to distinguish him from the
rest Of mankind; that this power was
something mysterious and that it Is in
no wise the heritage of all who obey
God.
This IS a very erroneous concept of
Jesus and of the import of his holy mis-
sion and it is n concept which has robbed
of the very essence CT that
for which Jesus struggled and for which |
ne permitted his crucifixion. In this
mistaken concept, that the power to heal
he sick and to raise the dead by spiritual
means alone ended on the cross, do we |
ind the blighting limitation from which |
must be freed. This wrong |
that spiritual healing was a |
special dispensation from God bestowed |
lpon Jesus alone and for a limited period |
If time, has for centuries deprived man. |
xind of those wonderful blessings which |
Christian Science has come to restore.
Miracles Of Jesus Scientific.
Jesus did not heal the sick, walk the
waves, multiply tho Ioaves and fishes, /
.aise the dead and many other wcnder-
'ul things simply for the qualification
II the multitude; nor were those works /
lone for the mere purpose of showing
mankind what he personally could dol He
lid these things to show to the world, to
you and to me, what are the fruits of /
| right understanding of God and mans
citation to God. He did these works to
show humanity what 1t means to be a
rue Christian. Jesus said:
These signs shall follow them that
believe; in my name shall they cast
out devils; they shall speak with new
tongues: they shall take up serpents:
and IL they drink any deadly thing it
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