The Washington times., 1924-02-29
TURN To
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
Universal Acceptance Is Near,
John c. Lathrop, c. s. g.,
Tells Audience.

Acceptances universally Of the
principles Of Christian Science is
imminent, John c. Lathrop, c. s. B.,
told a capacity audience in the
Masonic Temple auditorium last
night, when he Iectured on "Chris.
tan Science: The Religion Of Right
Resistance"
The speaker was introduced by
John II. Schaefer, first reader of
the Second Church of Christ, Scent
list, OF this city, under which
auspices the lecture was given.
Lathrop is a member of the
Board of Lectureship Of the Mother
Church, First Church, Of Christ.
Scientist, of Boston.
"A religion, a medicine and a
science which meet the universal
need cannot fail to receive universal
acceptance" he said. "The world
long has waited for that righteous
ness, purity and understanding-the
spirit of truth-foretold by Jesus,
that balm which is to heal all the
nations"
Belief Of Centuries.
Lathrop declared that for CEN
turtles men have believed suffering
| to come from God. He said:
THE purpose of this lecture is
to show that the time Of the end
of this error is at hand, that 1t IL
now within the power Of every
mortal to gain that understanding
which will purify thought and
make it white. revealing Christ's
religion OF right resistance or the
true method OF healing disease, sin
and death.
THE discoverer and founder of
Eddy, writes in Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures,
the textbook Of Christian Science:
We must learn how mankind gov
ern the body,-whether through
will power. We should learn
whether they govern the body
through a belief in the necessity OF
sickness and death, sin and pardon,
or govern 1t from the higher under
| standing that the divine Mind
makes perfect, acts upon the So
called human mind through truth,
leads the human mind to reIinQuish
| all error, to find the divine mind to
be the only Mind. and the healer of
| sin, disease and death Science
and Health, p. 251.)
Activity Of Minds.
The endeavor Of the human
mind to govern the body has in.
deed been pathetic. Beliefs, theories,
and rules have been multitudinous
! and conflicting. A cure which
seems effective today is abandoned
| tomorrow.
"A few statistics win show the
results Of faith in material ways of
computed that the average inhabi-
tant of the United States is on the
| sick list nine days each year,
making a total of 2,5OO,O 900 years
Of illness for the entire population
each year. The direct cost of this
| aggregate of illness for doctors and
medicine alone is 81 day a per-
son, amounting to at least $1,000
O00, 900 year for the whole popu-
lation.
Indirect Losses Great.
This is only the direct loss in
money. the indirect loss being
many times as great.
| "On the other hand, medical
| journals have estimated and have
/
40 per cent Of the people of the
United States decline to use drugs
and poisonous nostrums In the
| treatment of disease.
1.-The question of healing disease
or sin is the question Of the corr
rect government of the body. It
is the great question Of control
of right resistance. Shall the ma
tarial hodv control man or sho II
man govern and control the body
and all it's beliefs? This virtually
means: Shall man control matter,
or shall inert and mindless mat
ter control man? You see a snake
in a dream; but when you wake
up and see only q table, the snake
ceases to alarm you. It is Just
so with the beliefs about matter
and the material body. We should
wake to see the real man."