Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1925-05-16
Lecture on
Christian Science
Given by Charles /. Ohrenstein, c. S.
B., at the Ironwood Memorial
Building Thursday Evening.


Jesus purpose was 10 usher in and
to establish the kingdom Of govern
ment Of God. 1t was this kingdom
which he taught his followers to pray
for and to seek; and all will admit
that, if his teachings were practiced,
his spiritual healing would follow as
their natural result; want would be
unknown; strife and war would cease,
and health, peace, and blessedness
would reign throughout all Christ
endom
Mans Relationship To God
The Christian Science of Jesus
consisted Of knowledge of God. In
teaching this Science he taught the
universal Fatherhood or causality Of
God and defined God to be Spirit !;
thus Mind a teaching and definition
which quite naturally means that
man, as the son Of God, is the idea
or reflection of Mind, to
God, Mind, and that, in order 20
come to the estate of man-to rise to
the stature of true manhood-men
must be governed by God, Spirit,
Mind, by pure intelligence; that men
must seek first the kingdom Of God,
and his righteousness" and cease
from holding themselves subject to
matter, non-intelligence in any form
whatever To those who accept the
teachings Of Jesus to Christians
this in itself should be sufficient to
establish eonclusively the fact that
Christian Science, which teaches
Mind, God, to be the only cause and
man to be the reflection, the idea of
Mind, subject only to Mind, is truly
founded upon the teachings of the
Christ, especially so, since. like
Jesus, it demonstrates this doctrine
with all manner Of beneficent signs
following its application.
God Both Father And Mother
Recognizing the great fact that
God created man in his own
image, male and female created
he them" and also that God is the
all-compassionate, ALLOWING protect
or and provider Of all; that che
maketh his sun to rise on the evil and
on the good, and sendeth rain on the
just and on the unjust" alike.
Christian Science declares God to be
not only our Father, but our Mother
1t thus not only gives the world an
idea Of the tender relationship that
exists between God and man, but also
the highest concept of God that it is
possible to have.
The Christ
Jesus knew God 1t was his
knowledge of Godwhich enabled him
to do the healing and other mighty
works Of which his ministry consist
ed Like Christian Science. he de
clared God to be Spirit, Mind. The
only product of Mind is ideas, and.
no matter what we may take a thing
to be or what we may call it, every
thing must be an idea to US. Other
wise, we could not think any given
thing to be anything whatever.
Right ideas constitute Truth. and
right ideas being the product of Mind
Truth must be and is the anointed,
the approved of God, the only be-
gotten" of the one "Father-Mother,
God" (Science and Health, is,
Mind Jesus s,id "Ye shall
know the truth, and the truth shall
make you free, and so implicitly
obedient to Truth was he, that in
speaking of himself as the Christ, he
was able to say, Il am the truth"
and Before Abraham was, | am"
What say We of Christ, then? What
both Jesus and Christian Science
teach as He is ne spiritual, the
right idea Of being, Gods Truth, who
5 with us always; in whom there is
no variableness, neither shadow of
turning, the same yesterday, and
to day. and for ever"
Mrs. Eddy's Relation To Christian
Science
The right sense of Christian Science
Fan be gained only as we gain the
right sense Of Mrs. Eddy and under
stand her relation to this Science
and its movement. Mrs Eddy is the
Discoverer and Founder of Christian
Science She never made any but
this most modest claim for herself,
sivingGod who through the Christ.
Truth, is the sole revelator. the sole
author of all that is good-entire
credit for its teachings. The Bible
teaches that whom the Lord loveth
he chaSteneth In other words, it
teaches that whom the Lord loveth
He makes chaste Or pure: and Jesus
said that the pure in heart shall see
God God IS all-encompassing in !
telligeuce or Mind For this reason
Sod IS Love. rs we have seen that He
is, and as the beloved disciple de-
Jared Him to be; and surely God
who made all that was made and
made all good loves all. Only those
vho love God.good, are admissiye of .
and submissive to Him Mrs. Eddy
loved God For this reason She was
- chastened, made SO pure by Him.
that through the right idea Of HIM
she was able to see Him. to discover
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