The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-05-12
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Of SCIENTIST
IS SAL WALTON

A lecture on "Christlan Science:
The way Of salvation Which Christ
Revealed" was delivered last Sun
day afternoon in First Church OF
Christ. Scientist. by John Ellis
sedman. c. s., of Cambridge. Mass.
He il a member of the board OF
lectureshlp Of the Mother Church,
the First Church of Christ, Se1en-
fist, in Boston, Mass.
He was introduced by Emery J.
Thompson, first reader Of Fourth
Church, OF this city, under whose
auspices the lecture was given.
Is Source OF All
The lecturer said, in part:
zone OF the most important
things to understand concerning
God il that He exists always at
the standpoint of causation, ana
that He alone exists at that stand
| point. Man and the universe exist
| always at the standpoint OF ere II
or creation; they never exist at the
standpoint of causation. God IS the
one and. only cause ana creator,
who produces, sustains and governs
| the one and only real effect or
/
| spiritual universe.
From this great fact It follows
that man can possess no underivsd
| power, wisdom or ability. The
effect can do only what the cause
| inpels and empowers it to DO.
Jesus recognized this fact, ana
| acted upon 1t at every turn or the
waV. He said, The Son can do
nothing OF Himself, but what he
seeth the Father do: for what
things soever He doeth, these also
doeth the Son likewise The nature
| NJ God, the cause, must determine
| thA nature or the effect, or creA-
ton. which God produces. Like
produces like. The first chapter OF
| Genesis says that God created mar
in His own image, in the image o.
| God created He him.. That IS TINS
only way God could create man
a man In quality and KIND IKE
| Himself. A perfect GOO can creaIe
| only a perfect man. ana perlec'
universe.
A Perfect God
"Now mankind, theoretically ad'
nits that God is perfect, but is
very slow to grasp what that fact
| really implies. In the first chap.
tor Of Genesis. with its wonderful
account of creation, the state
| ment is made five times that Goa
behoIding His creation, saw tha'
n was good And the last verse
If that chapter declares that GOD
saw everything that He had made,
and. behold, it was very good.
Jesus taught and proved the per
lection of the everlasting Goo. ne
taught that God IL good, and all
/ that He produces is good. What
a 1ovful note John strikes in the
beginning Of his first epistle, where
he imparts to others Jesus teach
ing on this poirit, that their JOY
NAV be full. This, them writes
John, is the message which we
have heard Of him, and declare
unto you, that God is light. and
in Him is no darkness at ALL AS
John goes on with his epistle, ne
rejoices likewise in the unalter'
able perfection Of the man whom
God creates and sustains.
Jesus taught His disciples thai
all men should call God, Father
as he did, and look upon them
selves, in their true spiritual belng
as sons Of God. John. expoundins
Jesus true theology, makes TINS
remarkable declaration concerning
the true being of man: 'Whosoever
Is born of God doth not commit
sin. for his seed remaineth In
him; and he cannot sin. because
he is born of God Here we have
a plain, clear declaration, in the
inspired Word of the Bible, that
the man whom God creates never
sins or falls, but remains forever
unriSht, pure, perfect, spiritual.
INT. BIBLE STUDENTS