The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-25
LAUDS.
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
George Shaw Cook, Lecturer
Of Mother Church, Makes
Address Here

A lecture on Christian Science:
The Science of Spirit was deliver.
ed in the Masonic Auditorium last
night by George Shaw Cook, c.
s. b., Of Chicago, Ill. Mr.. Cook
is member of the board of
lectureship Of the Mother Church,
the First Church Of Christ, Scient.
list. in Boston, Mass, and is an
able, speaker. He was introduced
by Congressman Laurence H.
Watres, Of Pennsylvania. The
lecture was under the auspices OF
Third Church Of Christ, Scientist,
Of this city.
The lecturer said In part:
The disoOvprer and founder Of
Christian Science, Mary Baker
Eddy, has, on page 5S7 Of her
great textbook, Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures" de-
fined God thus: 1.-THE great I am:
the all-knowing, all.seeing, all.
acting, all-wise. ALLOWING, and
truth; love; all substance; intelli-
gence." God is all.knowing and ID,
therefore, infinite mind, that which
knows, comprehends, and includes
all. God is all.seeing, the spirit
that discerns, or perceives all that
is real. God is all-acting, the Source
and soul Of all activity and power.
God il all-wise, the one infallible,
divine principle. God Is ALLOWING,
the only invariable, impartial, uni.
versal love. Thus 1t will be seen
that God IL infinitely good, the
basis OF all true goodness.
"A good cause could only be mani
tested or expressed in q good ef.
feet; hence we f1nd In the first
chapter OF Genesis first and thirty
first verses) these positive and
definite declarations: I'm the begin
ming God created the heaven ana
the earth" And God saw every
thing that he had made, and be-
hold, It was very good" For the
reason that effect must always be
like cause, 1t follows with equal
certainty that God being Spirit.
/ His creation must be spiritual
Since God IL mind. infinite con-
seriousness, that which thinks; He
| must of necessity be reflected by
thought. The universe or creation
OF God is, therefore, a thought
universe consisting OF perfect
spiritual thoughts or ideas. Thus
1t will be seen that the universe of
God Is not material. nor could 1t
have been evolved from a material
basis. The universe of God. OF
Spirit, is the limitless expression
OF Spirit. 1t is the infinite of truth,
the external activity of divine mind
as thought, or thinking, the sum.
total or true, or spiritual ideas.
The spiritual universe compris.
Ing all that exists by way Of crea.
ton must, OF necessity, include man
individual, spiritual man, created
In Gods likeness. And man be.
ing the exact likeness, the perfect
reflection of mind, or spirit. must
be and is. in his true nature, men.
tai, or spiritual. Thus it will be
seen that the real man is not black
or white or red or brown. Man
Is not something which Is so many
feet tall or so many pounds heavy.
Man" as Mrs Eddy says on page
Ats Of Science and Health, lis idea,
the image, Of love; he Ii not
physique" This man, the true spir-
itual man, created in Gods like.
ness, is a necessary factor in the
universe of God, necessary to its
completeness and its continuity.
Spiritual man, the real man, is,
then, eternally in his right place in
mind. He is eternally in his right
business Of expressing consciously
and perfectly the divine qualities of
health, happiness, harmony, activ-
ity, freedom, power, and dominion.
This fact insures mans immortal.
ifV and otorna1 RecurifV -