The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-27

Christian Science, the Open Door to Answered Prayer was the sub ject of lecture delivered last night at the Women's club by Cyrus S. Rogers, c. $. of San Francisco. MT
 Rogers is a member of the board of
 lectureship of the Mother Church of Boston.
 He spoke as follows:
 In all ages and amongst all races
 there has been d deep and abiding intuition of the existence of a high CT sense of intelligence and being than that presented through the phy- sical senses, and mortals have made endless supplication to this concept of a power above and beyond them selves. Yet how disappointing has been mankind's experience with prayer! What countless appeals have gone up to the silent and the invisible with apparently no reply. Why has this seemed to be the gen. eral experience of mankind? Chris tian Science. in revealing to us the spiritual and scientific concept of all things, including prayer itself, has given us the answer
 In that most enlightening chapter on Prayer, the first chapter in the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scrip lures. by Mary Baker Eddy, may be found this statement: There is some misapprehension of the Source and means of all goodness and bless edness, or we should certainly re- ceive that for which we ask"
 G0:23-26). To destroy this misap- prekension and thus to bring us into the realm of answered prayer is the mission of Christian Science. I am sure that every Christian Scientist, testifying out of his own experience. would gratefully say that there is no such thing as unanswered prayer in Christian Science. Think of the significance of this to us and the world!
 The first great misapprehension which Christian Science removes Is concerning God, the creator and pre- server of all. Christian Science takes away all sense of God as in any way resembling mortal man, as in any way corporeal, limited, outlined, or changeable. It presents the idea of God as pure and perfect Mind, or Spirit, unmixed with and untouched by the elements of the trGnsitory world of mortal sense, and dependent upon nothing but Himself. This divine Mind is the living Principle of all things, unchanging and un- 
 operating always in accordance with it's own perfect law. This universal and infinite Mind which is God fills all space and is eternally present with everyone, everywhere, as per feet being. He Is unlimited in power. and the greatest human need meas ured against that power is as noth- ing Christian Science has rent the veil of mortal appearances and re- vealed Mind as the very substance of the universe, the basis and fabric of all life, all consciousness, all iden- tity, in contradistinction to the gen. eral belief that blind. nonintelli- gent, and unconscious stuff called matter is the substance out of which all things are formed.
 Through the revelations of Chris tian Science the world is rapidly learning to take the picture of things presented through the material senses less seriously, is gaining new vantage point from which to view the universe, a spiritual perspective wherein all mortal things fade into dreams and illusions and forever pass outside the limitless circle of reality.
 Whatever is not eternal is not real in the present moment, as is now discerned and being proved in abso- lute Science. And this great truth corrects a multitude of misapprehen- sions which have blinded the prayers of sincere and devout worshippers in all past ages. God, Mind, Is all, the all-pervading divine Principle which creates, sustains. and governs all things. Moreover, Mind is Love: wholly beneficient. wholly good; con- ceives. sees, knows nothing but good, harmony, beauty. perfection.
 Divine Mind being all true sub stance, the ideas of this Mind are tangible realities to real conscious ness. and as this scientific spiritual consciousness is unfolded the uni verse of Mind and Minds ideas be- comes the great and enduring real ity, and the dream world of matter fades into shadow and insubstantial- ty. We are thus led into the correc- tinn nf ono nf tho 0raa faqf and