The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-11-12
RELIGION OF
REALITY URGED
R. Stanley Ross of First
Church of Christ, Scien-
fist, Speaks Here.
MANY HEAR LECTURE

enee given at the Elks Club by Robert
Stanley Ross, C. S., member of the
Board of Lectureship of the Mother
Church, First Church IF Christ, Scien-i
fist, of Boston, when he spoke on the
subject. christian Science: The Re-
ligion of Reality" Mr.. Ross was in
troduced to the large audience by Miss
Jennie ]. Hastings, First Reader of
the Church of Christ, Scientist, of Ke-
nosha.
Mr.. Ross spoke in part as follows:
Jesus was no magician or occult
wonder-worker aiming to set aside or
null ify Gods law. He did not prac-
tice mesmerism, so-called mental
science, nor autosuggestion in the
hope of persuading sick people to be-
lieve they were well. He came to re-
veal and enforce fundamental divine
law; to illustrate its utility and
availability for his own age and for
the ages to come. He proved that
this law of God, this law of infinite
good, is the law of life, health, and
happiness to you and me and all man
kind He demonstrated the supremacy
of good, notwithstanding the seeming
presence and power of evil. He
brought to light out of the realm Of
spiritual reality the truth about God
and man in much the same manner
that heretofore unknown facts in the
material realm so-called have been
discovered and made available to man
kind.
Good Ever Available.
Christian Science is demonstrating
that it is the Christianity of Jesus
made practicable today. Now as of
old it is showing mankind how to
escape from all evil, No matter how
long one has been i'll, no matter how
deeply one may be involved in sin, no
matter how reavy ones burden of sor-
matter how heavy ones burden of sor-
Science joyfully points the way out
not through death and the so-called
hereafter, but her and now. The
hereafter, but here and now. The
God, the kingdom of heaven, is at
| hand, here, now; that now is the day
of sal alton; that now are we the sons
of God. Christian Science might well
| be called the religion of now! for, in
stead of exhorting us to wait until to-
morrow, or next year, or the next
world for salvation, it lovingly in
vites us to partake today of Gods in
finite goodness. All the possibilities
of being are always here and every
where. How could they be otherwise
| in view of the nature and ever-pres-
ence of God, infinite good? Conse-
quently, the only God about whom
Christian Science teaches is "God
with us,"-a God who is absent only
to those who believe He is absent.
Reality.
All of which is in accord with the
first chapter of Genesis. there we are
told that in the beginning, that is,
in the Science and truth of being, in
which God declared all reality to be
spiritual and good like Himself,-p
lection reigned universally, and all
creation shouted for JOY in the infni-
tude of health and holiness, where sin,
| disease, and death were unknown.
Early in the second chapter, however,
we are told that mist arose and hid
from view this ideal state of affairs,
| after which Jehovah is supposed to
have begun Immediately to recreate
out of the dust of the ground an al
ready perfectly good universe and
man. Owing to this so-called mist,
man is believed to have been sep
arated from his original perfection
| and to have become an erring NOR
| tai, subject to sin, disease, and death.
Now, if it is true that the mist arose
and that because of it man actually
| fell from his high estate as the divine
| image and likeness, then sin, disease,
| and death are of God, hence newt
| able; In which event man is their
helpless victim. But surely there is
nothing in the infnity, the allness,
of pure Spirit or Mind out of which
its very opposite, material belief mis-
called matter, could be evolved!
| Therefore, Notwithstanding all sense
| testimony to the contrary, Christian
Science declares with conviction based
on proof that matter and it's attend
| ing discords have no foundation in
fact or Truth, and that Gods spirit
ual, harmonious creation is now and
forever the only real creation, in
which there has never been any actual
departure from nor necessity of re-
| turning to health and harmony. Mrs.
Eddy makes this plain on pages 40
All of the Christian Science textbook,
Science and Health with Key to the
| Scriptures" where she writes: "The
relations of God and man, divine Prin-
ciple and idea, are indestructible in
Science; and Science knows no lapse
from nor return to harmony, but holds
the divine order or spiritual law, in
which God and all that He creates are
perfect and eternal, to have remained
| unchanged in it's eternal history"
Demonstration.
| Christian Science shows us that all
the sin, disease, sorrow, poverty, and
death in the world is due to the error,
based upon the supposed reality of
this delusion or mist, that God either
sends or permits evil. But even hui
man parent would not permit his child
to walk into the meshes of temptation,
infict an incurable disease upon him,
nor kill him in order to show his af-
lection for the child,-no, not even to
compel obedience. II rot, how far re-
moved from such inbumanity must be
| our heavenly parent to whom John re-
F! fers as Love, and of whom James says,
| "Let no man say when he is tempted,
am tempted of God; for God can not
! be tempted with evil, neither tempteth
he any man." Other Biblical passages
of similar import could 5e cited; but
the foregoing should be enough to
/ L. 4. 4.