The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-17
Healing Message
 Of Christian Science
Judge Greene Speaks Before Audience in Waterbury
 WOmen's Club

disease. pain, and death. It teach es that such material concepts of God and of Gods creation must necessarily be false, misleading, and unbelievable, from the very nature of God. The Bible says that God saw, that is, considered, all that He had made and that it was .very gcod." Is it not fair, then, to ask of every seeming condition of crea- tion or existence: Is this very good :? and if it does not measure up to that high standard, may one not be privileged to say, It is not of Gods creation and is not true? Such is the position taken by Christian Sci- ence. If it is not good, then it is rot of God and is not true.
 The Bible says that God made all and that without him was not any thing made that was made" It is rot difficult to interpret or under pie as "ABC," and yet, until Chris tan Science brought out the prac- tical import, has the modern world ever heard of such a teaching? And even now when the Christian Scien- tist tells his friend that such a teaching is practical for everyday consideration he may still be thought odd or ridiculous.
 Mrs Eddy says (Science and Health, D. 4S1), Human hypothe- ses first assume the reality of sick ness, sin, and death, and then as- sume the necessity of these evils be- cause of their admitted actuality." She then adds, These human ver- diets are the procurers of all dis cord"
 Manifestly, for one to assume the reality of sin, sickness, or death, he must assume that God, the infinite good, is not in control of His uni- verse, but permits some devil or evil to enter with discord and im- perfection. Christian Science de- ciares that God is omnipotent, om- niscient, omnipresent; that He is in- finite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love. What a glorious vision of God Is this-all that is tender, all that is good, all that is intelligent, all that is correct is of God, and there is no condition nor creation which does not proceed from God.
 AS Mrs Eddy worked and thought over this marvellous concept of God, she saw how poorly mankind had realized mans heritage and high es- tate as the creature of God, as Gods son, as Gods image and likeness As soon as she turned to the Bible she saw that the two accounts of mans creation, as told in the book of Genesis, had been confounded and misunderstood by the average Bible reader. She saw that man, created in Gods image and likeness, could never have been material or made of matter; that indeed matter with it's defects and imperfections has no reality as a product of Gods very good" creation. Then she Saw that the confounding of the ac- cause of much of the erroneous teaching about mans original sin, his fall, and his banishment from God. Christian Science teaches that man is spiritual because God is Spirit, that man is idea because God Is Mind, that man can never be sick or die because he is of God, who is Life.
 The apostle Paul surely had something of this concept of man when he wrote, For I am persuad- ed, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor municipalities, nor pow CTS, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
 The Textbook
 In her efforts to help others to see and understand these newly un- folded truths concerning God and creation, Mrs Eddy saw the necessity of written statements. Accordingly, she began in a small way to write concerning her discovery. As her understanding increased her writ ings expanded, until eventually she had produced the volume known as Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures also called The Christian Science Textbook" Natur- ally, a book propounding such Sur prising theories of God and His ere ation as does Science and Health