The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17

 of Chicago, member of the board of lectureship, delivered the following lecture, Christian Science, Its Healing Message" in the Water bury Women's club auditorium last night:
 There is a message in Christian Science for every individual. There is not human need in the con- sciousness of man, woman, or child, in this company, but it can be met and satisfied through correct un- derstanding of God as revealed in Christian Science. There is no mys- tery or mysticism in Christian Sci- ence. It is the clear clarion-call to busy, practical age, inviting man. kind to consideration of the new old message of the Christ: It is cry ing in the words of the Master Christian, Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden. and I will give you rest" Its ap- peal is to the sick, the sorrowing, the unhappy, the dissatisfied. It comes to a world steeped in mate- rialism and in materialistic philos- ophies, to a people uncertain, con- fused, unhappy. offering light, hope, consolation, salvation-here, now, and forever. It is marshaling vast new army of thinkers. The outworn creeds and screeds and platitudes of unsatisfying religions are being re- placed by vigorous, vital truths, con- corning God and man; and great hosts of men and women every- where are being blessed and benefit ed through their acceptance of Christian Science.
 The Discoverer
 
 Christian Science, Mary Baker Ed dy, through years of study, prayer and contemplation, perceived spir- itual law of healing running through the experiences of the prophets, of Jesus, and of his disciples. She saw that the healing work accomplished by those consecrated men was 1n- stant and permanent, and without the use of any material means or medicines. Being in need, herself, of healing, she reached out in thought and prayer to God, claim ing the presence and the manifes- tation of Gods power just as in Jesus time. To the great amaze rnent of her family and friends, she was able immediately to rise from a sick bed and manifest a normal sense of health. She was not satis-  miraculous or unusual manifestation of Gods power for her own benefit, but she believed that she had re- alized the existence of definite, certain law of health and healing which was and is available for all who bring their thinking into con- formity with that law.
 God
 This revelation or discovery changed the whole trend of Mrs Ed dy's life, and her every ability and energy was wholly dedicated from this time forward to the elucidating of q practical, operative plan of procedure to give this truth to man. kind. She saw that the world need cd a more understandable concept of God; something removed from the realm of fancy and superstition and blind faith. She saw that man. kinds concept of God and creation needed changing from the material to the spiritual. She saw the need of spiritualizing the worlds view oi creation. The ordinary custom of praying, petitioning God to do some specific thing or to forbear doing some other thing, shows how God has been generally considered to be a great superman-one whom per- sonal appeals will, or may, influence to do or not to do something. One may say, such a concept of God is surely not entertained to-day by thinking people. Perhaps not so generally as it was fifty years ago, but listening to the average pray CT, one still hears much of the fer yid personal appeal. During the past fifty or sixty years Christian Science has been making its appeal to the worlds thought, and it is un- doubtedly true that millions, not calling themselves Christian Scien- lists, have been blessed and en- Eghtened through the spread of Christian Science.
 Christian Science teaches that God is above, and far removed from, imperfection, impatience, ignorance,