The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-08-08

 Science: Its Assurance to a Trou- bled World" was given last night ! in the Scottish Rite Temple by Peter V. Ross, c. s. B. of San Francisco, Member of the Board Of Lectureship of The Mother Church. The First Church of Christ, Scian- tist, in Boston. under the aus pices of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Juneau. Mrs. Alice M. Coughlin introduced the lecturer, who said in part:
 Tn recent years the English speaking race, indeed western civ lization, has been stirred to its depths by Mary Baker Eddy in her discovery and presentation of Christian Science.
 Tn one place in her writings Science and Health, page 465) Mrs. Eddy defines God as Infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, ! Truth, Love- And in another (Retrospection and Introspection, page 59) she writes: Life is term used to indicate D;ety; and every other name for the Su- preme Being, if properly employed, has the signification of Life"
 From this point of vantage it is easy to see how God can be everywhere and All-in-All, for ob- viously Life, Mind, Principle are everywhere and all-pervading. No 1 place of purpose, then, remains for man but to abide in Life and reflect Life Paul, speaking on this issue with his used insensity, de- clares that in God we live, and move, and have our being and that God is above all, and through all, and in you all It is per fectly accurate, therefore, to de- fine man as the expression or manifestation of Life-Life without beginning or danger or disease or end.
 Disease Extinguished
 The recognition of this true status of God and man is the ba- sis of Christian Science practice. Treatment or prayer in Science, in the case of sickness, consists largely in realizing, as clearly as one may, the unity of man with Life harmonious and irrepressible, and the consequent imposstbility, save in belief or appearance, of inaction, inflammation, or mfr mity of any kind.
 Consciousness Continuous Man, far from being the physi- cal corporality he appears, really is an individual spiritual conscious ness. But consciousness seems not wholly spiritual, not wholly good, but a blending of the spiritual and material, of good and evil; and man appears to vacillate between righteousness and sin, health and sickness, life and death So that consciousness, mysterious in sub stance and swift in action, may che moment sound the depths Of Adam and in another second the heights of Christ.
 Life and Mind have always ! found expression, and always will find expression; and that ex- pression is spiritual man, individ- ual spiritual consciousness. Hence man coexists with God, without beginning of days or end of years. 1 Not in the beginning of ages but in divine Principle has God ere ated man. Therefore, were the midst of material existence lifted, it would be seen that birth and death are unlike unknown to man. l In this urassai1able truth lies the remedy for fear.
 1 Material consciousness m ay lapse at times, as when an anaes- thetic is administered or accident | or sickness overtakes the individ- ual. It may weaken or fade with advancing years and eventually 1 come to an end. If ones observa- l ton extends no further than these passing phenomena, one may conclude that man is mortal and that individual existence ends with the grave.
 1 And yet, were the entire struc- ture of material consciousness dis solved, there would remain the sublime structure of spiritual con- sciousnsss, which. like Mind, IS | from everlasting to everlasting. spiritual consciousness pre- de birth as certainly as it persists lafter death. Repeatedly does Jesus refer to pre-existence as well as to future existencc , Father, he prayed, 'glorify thou men with | thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was Also, I came forth 1 from the Father, and am come in | to the world: again I leave the | world and go to the Father l Not By Bread Alone
 Poverty in the presence of plenty-a strange paradox truly. Now that ingenuity has brought forth. machinery which all but abolisf1es physical labor, mankind