News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-06-21

''The Religion of Fulfllment" to a
Delighted Audience Thursday Night
At Universalist Church, M0rrisviIle
Those who failed to hear Judge
Samuel w. Greene, C. S., of Louis
vile, KY, at the Universalist Church
Thursday evening missed something
well worth listening to and worth
thinking over seriously, regardless of
creed or previous belief. Judge
Greene is member of the board of
lecturship of the Mother Church,
the First Church of Christ, Scientist.
in Boston"
We regret that there was not a
larger audience present, and give
below a brief outline of the lecture
for the benefit of those who did not
or could not hear it.
Christian Science is indeed the
new-old story of Life and Truth and
Love. 1t is the simple, sweet story
as it was taught and proved and
practiced by Jesus of Nazareth nine
teen hundred years ago. 1t en-
braces just the same thought, that
through the understanding of the
ever-present love and power of God,
humanity is healed not only of sin
but of all the results of sin-sick-
ness, sorrow, unhappiness, death.
GOD
Perhaps the term Principle is used
for God in Christian Science has
more than any other word aroused
an unusual inquiry in the average
orthodox thought, for men have
thought of God generally as just a
great superman, power to be feared
rather than understood and loved
sitting upon throne, waiting to Judge
men, and sending both good and evil.
The world needs to get away from
this view of God. 1t needs larger
concept Of God, which is embraced in
the use, of the term Principle.
In an eastern city after a lecture,
a woman came to me in seeming
mental distress and said "I want to
know how your God can be every
where at the same time" I was
grateful then for the thought of God
being Principle, as it afforded a
ready answer to her inquiry. In con-
sidering the principle of mathematics
manifest in addition, subtraction,
multiplication, it is easy to see that
this principle can be everywhere at,
the same time. The millions of
Europe, Asia, Africa or America, can
all have the multiplication table at
the same time with all of its power
and facility, without interfering in
the slightest particular with it's use
anywhere else in the universe. always
with one proviso,-that they do
understand the multiplication table
and apply it. F..
In far larger sense God being
divine. Principle, infinite, unfailing, is
everywhere present, able to solve
mans every problem provided man
understands Him and the availability
and application of His power,
Was not this the thought of the
Psalmist when, he sang: eff I ascend
up into heaven, thou art there: If I
make my bed in hell, behold, thou art
there. If / take the wings of the
and dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea; Even there shall
thy hand lead me, and thy right hand
shall hold me" Psalms 1897.
There is no problem, no condition,
that can come to us but Gods power
is ever available for its satisfactory
solution.
Continuing this same thought of
the multiplication table, ask a school
boy how long he thinks Fights times
eight have been sixty-four and ten
times ten one hundred" Doubtless
his answer will be always" How
long he thinks it will remain so?
Answer-"always." And that is
correct AS idea of Principle does
not change, so the multiplication
table, as idea of the principle of ma
thematlcs can never change Prin-
ciple does not change nor does it's
idea or image. Likewise divine
Principle is eternal, inviolable, I'M
always operating. Prin-
ciple is not moved by the breath of
praise or lattery, or by entreaty or
threat. In the thought or God being
Principle, Christian Scientists have
gotten away from the old belief that
God interiors in the affairs of men
because they are asking Him to do
this, that, or some other thing, or
that God causes the unnatural or SUI
oernatural to be happening in the
lives and affairs of men. IT teaches
Gods work is already perfect and
complete. Indeed the Bible saws that
God saw every thing that he had
made, and, behold, it was very good"
The mission of scientific Christian
ty is to reveal the perfectness and
of Gods work, to en-
able US to overcome in our own lives
and experiences everything and
very thought that is unlike God and
His creation. Does not this thought
,ring us back to that rule of>sonduct
which Jesus gave, that we should do
always the thing that is in accord
With the Fathers will?