Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-06-12
GOD MANIFESTED HIMSELF
THROUGH
MARY BAKER EDDY

A Lecture on Christian Science
was delivered by John w. Doorly, C
S. B. Of London, Eng. in High Schoo
Auditorium last Friday evening, en-
titled Christian Science. The Science
of the Revelation of Gods Nature tC
Man. The lecturer was introduced b!
Miss Bertha May Doomey who said
Friends:
Many of us can recall our first i'm
preston of Christian Science, when
this great light of truth" was first
presented to us: and by reading oul
text book, Science and Health with
with Key to the Scriptures by Mary
Baker Eddy, many have been com
pletely healed.
Quoting from. the Bible, Isaiah 6Oth
chap, 1st., verse: "Arise, Shine fol
the light is come and the glory of the
Lord is risen upon Thee"
Christian Science reveals this light
of Truth, Life and Love; and just to
get a glimpse of this light, means ev-
cry thing to mankind seeing this light
discords Of every name and nature
light we are reflecting God, good ano
are thinking God, good.
We have gathered here to learn
something Of this truth, which Jesus
taught and demonstrated and gave tc
US as his rich legacy, healing, liv-
ing, practical way.
The Lecturer this evening is 6
member of the Board of LectureshiE
of The Mother Church, The First
Church Of Christ Scientist in Boston
Mass, and it gives me great pleasure
to present, Mr.. John w. Doorly, c
S. B. of London, England.
Mr.. Doorly spoke in part as fol
lows:
The greatest reformer in human
history since the Christian era is un-
doubtedly Mary Baker Eddy. What
does she say of her mission, which
has caused millions of men and wom-
en- to turn from material reasoning
and the darkness of material exist
ence to the reality Of spiritual being ?
She declares, "God had been graci-
ously preparing me during many
years for the reception of this final
revelation of the absolute divine
Principle Of scientific mental heal
ing" (Science and Health, p. 1919.
Mrs. Eddy also writes, "Whence came
to me this heavenly conviction,-a
conviction antagonistic to the testi-
mony of the physical senses? Ac-
cording to st. Paul, it was the gift
of the grace of God given unto me
by the effectual working of His pow
err" (Science and Health, p. 1857,
Again Mrs. Eddy writes, "The divine
hand led me into a new world Of light
and Life, a fresh universe-old to
God, but new to His little one !"
(Retrospection and Introspection, p.
20. The fact is that God was eX
pressing His nature in a wonderful
way through one of His ideas as His
nature had been expressed through
that idea from everlasting to ever
lasting, but Mrs. Eddy's longing to
know God and to be like Him enabled
her to perceive this manifestation or
expression of Gods nature. The net
result of her spiritual attainment was
that great healing and redeeming
which the world knows as
Christian Science. No one who has
studied Mrs. Eddy's writings can for
one moment doubt that she recog
nized clearly the fact that God had
spoken. She regarded herself as
humble disciple, but she also knew
that she was Gods messenger and
that as Gods messenger she must act
as one having authority. Through
her acquaintance with God she has
built up a church that has insisted,
more than any other church since
Christ Jesus ministry. upon the real
ity of spiritual things and upon the
temporal nature of material exist
ence. No one has ever taught more
definitely than has Mrs. Eddy the
fact that God is all, that He does all,
and that the only realities of being
are God and His creation, or express
sion, spiritual existence. Her teach
ings iterate and reiterate the fact
that God is Love, that He is therefore
the Mother as well as the Father of
the universe; consequently, that He is
forever sustaining, protecting, and
His creation in eternal
perfection. In fact, Mrs. Eddy has
made her spiritual discovery of Gods
allness practical in human experience,
and the Word of God has been made
flesh. One of the results of the heal
ing and redeeming work of Christian
Science is that humanity is no longer
questioning Mrs. Eddy's right as
Gods messenger, but it is accepting
both the message and the messenger
as of God, impersonal good. Chris
tian Science, then, teaches that every
right activity is God, divine Love,
operating through His creation to ex-
press His nature and also to support
and sustain His creation in its eter-
nal perfection; thus to redeem man.
kind from al that is unlovely, that is,
from mortality, sin, disease, and
death. The appearing of this revela-
tiOn is naturally in the age when men
,an understand and appreciate not
only the Fatherhood of God, but His
,ender Motherhood as well. AS a re-
suit of her consecrated thinking and
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