The Washington times., 1924-01-18
ADDRESS.
ON CHRISTIAN !.
SCIENCE
Miss m. M. Glenn, of Boston,
Mass, Lectures at First
Church Here.

A lecture on Christian Science
was delivered last evening at First
Church of Christ, Scientist, by Miss
Margaret M. Glenn, c. s. B., of
Brookline, Mass. The lecturer is
member Of the board of lecture
ship Of the First Church of Christ.
Scientist, in Boston, Mass, and
was introduced by Elmer !. Bald
win, first reader of First Church
under whose auspices the lecture
was given.
The lecturer said in part:
1.-The discoverer and founder of
Christian Science, Mary Baker
Eddy, writes, The specific quest Of
Christian Science is to settle all
points beyond cavil, on the Biblical
basis that God is all-in-all.' If we
accept this Biblical basis Of Gods
allness the logic and demonstrability
of the principle and rules of Chris
tan Science will be apparent.
Function of Science.
1T is the function of any science
to make known the nature, charac-
ter, and laws of It's subject. Chris
tan Science is no exception to this
rule, for it makes known the
nature, character, and laws of God
and His creation. 1t banishes all
speculation, mystery, blind belief,
and superstition with regard to God,
by revealing Him as infinite truth,
thus making Him knowable-for
only truth Is movable. Error or
falsity cannot be known, it can only
be believed. You cannot know that
two parallel lines meet because this
statement is mot true. You can
only believe that. Thus the very
fact that God is movable proves
Him to be truth.
II He were not truth it would not
be worth while striving to know
Him, in fact it would be impossible
to know Him. Divine truth must
be all-inall because nothing that is
unlike truth or, in other words, Is
untrue, could possibly have real
existence. Then evil, hatred, ignor
ance. discord, and mortality, which
are the antithesis of God-can these
be true? No. for two opposites can
not both be true.
God AS Mind.
christian Science teaches that
| we can know God as mind only
through the ideas that express
mind, such as ideas of love. Of
| life, Of strength, of beauty, and
| of holiness. The idea that God is
all, that He is one Lord, besides
| whom there is no other, this idea
| helps us to understand Him, for
we see that il God is the infinite
One. the Only, no conflict, no OPP
| position, no 'dissension exists for
Him. nor can these discords exist
in His universe which the one mind
alone governs. job perceived this
when he said, He is in one mind,
and who can turn him. The state
ment that there is only one mind
| furnishes basis whereby indi-
| viduals and nations can understand
each other and whereby they can
! solve the problems which today
confront them.
For how can we establish the
brotherhood of man until we are
of one mind, have the same mind
| of God? All the creations of the
one mind are necessarily atone
with that mind and therefore at
! one with one another. In the
oneness of the divine mind and its
creations all is harmony.
'The fact that God is in one
mind eliminates the possibility of
discord, friction, or irritation which
are always the resultants of the
belief in two or more minds. Be-
cause God is one He is all, and be-
cause He is all He is one.
God As Principle.
"Of course if God is conceived of
as person-like a mortal only
much greater, more powerful, per-
haps more loving and intelligent,
but nevertheless a person-dis all
ness would be impossible, for the
conception of God as personal, no
matter how extended that concept
may be, must be limited unless we
think Of God as infinite person.
atty" as Mrs. Eddy puts 1t.
Christian Science reveals God as
divine principle, the unchanging,
fundamental source of all law, the
| only cause of all phenomena. We
all admit that where there is effect
there must be a cause and also
that we are surrounded by effects.
The natural scientists look to mat.
ter for the cause of these effects,
whereas Christian Science points to
God, spirit, as the creating, govern
ing cause or principle"
The lecture will be repeated this
evening at First Church Of Christ.
Scientist, Columbia road and Euclid
| Straat