Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-09-11

at Christian Science lecture in Iron
River, Michigan, listened very atten-
lively Sunday afternoon August 81,
1924 in the Delft Theatre to Richard
r. Davis, C. S. as he delivered the fol
lowing lecture:
A Christian Science lecture is a
striking eveidence that there is deep
rooted in the heart of man real hun
ger to know Coda natural desire or
impulse for spiritual enlightenment. 1t
has been aptly said that no two men
come to God by the same mental jour
ney, but clear it is that they come,
some it would seem by rough and
rocky paths, with many seeming OBJ
structions in the way nevertheless
they come, drawn by that irresistible
attraction to gain what no man can
do without an understanding of God.
The perplexing problems of human
life today, its physical suffering, its
poverty, it's discordant relations in
business and the home, its bondage to
sin, all these are leading men to see
that life without God presents hope
less outlook. Men have come to realize
that to depend upon matter in any
form for salvation from these condi
tons is to lean indeed upon broken
reed. Under such circumstances, then,
it is not surprising to find thousands
Of people questioning, is there really
a God? and if SO, what is His nature?
Where is He and is He available? Is
there q God who can help me solve the
problems with which | am cOnfrOn-
ted?" In the words of that beautiful
solo from MendelssOhn's OratOriO of
Elijah" Christian Science declares
that God is saying to us to-day, :" Ii
with all your hearts We truly seek me,
We shall ever surely find me-" It de-
clares that God is available here and
now, right in our very midst. There
fore shall speak this evening, during
the time allotted to this lecture, Of
Christian Science and its teaching of
Gods. availability in human expert
ence.
The Great Discovery
In 1866 a gentle New England wo-
man lay upon her bed, suffering with
3 severe ailment which was the result
of an accident. A devout Christian,
educated and reared by her parents
according to the best traditions of that
day, this woman, Mary Baker Eddy,
had through her whole life been seek
ing more satisfactory understanding
Of God, God available to her own
human needs and those of her fellow
men. Experiment in medicine and
other healing methods had led her
step by step away from matter to a
consecrated study of the Bible and
the spiritual healings of Jesus and
his disciples. AT this point in her ex-
perience, alone and helpless, and near
ing what her physician, what friends
and relatives thought to be her death,
she turned unreservedly from medi-
cine to God, from matter to Mind.
She sent from the room those who
were with her and opened her Bible
to the account in Matthew of the heal
ing of the palsied man by Jesus. In
that hour of extremity she experienced
a spiritual revelation which raised her
up a well woman. She dressed herself
and walked into the next room, to the
CONSERVATION and amazement of her
friends. Face to face with God, the
sense of pain and suffering faded
away. She recognized her true heri-
tage as child of God and was free.
Fortunately for the world this was
the beginning, not the end of a great
experience, for she Immediately COM
menced to study and ponder the spiri-.
tual law underlying her recovery. BY
this act this loving woman has made
God available to all mankind through
Christian Science. Thousands are to-
day grateful for her life of service
and in the future millions will rise up
and call her blessed Turning after
her own healing to the Bible in her
search for the law which made that
healing possible, Mrs Eddy saw that
there must be an absolute Principle
back of the life and works of Christ
Jesus. She felt that there was spir-
itual connection between her own re-
covery and the healings wrought by
the Master, and her conclusions we're
arrived at and based solely on the
Scriptures. Her study resulted in the
discovery of what she termed "the
Christ Science or the divine laws of
Life, Truth, and Love- (Science and
Health, p. 1910. She declared that
these laws, the law of Life, the law of
Truth, the law of Love, could be clear
ly understood by men and that when
understood they could be applied
specifically to the myriad problems of
the race.
ScripturaI Basis
AT this point there may be those
here who will say, "You ask me to-
accept Christian Science on the basis
of the Bible. How can | do that
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