The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
SCIENCE Church
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COAST SPEAKER
Assurances Offered World
in Trouble Explained
by Lecturer.

Inc assurance Wn4cn Christian
Science offers 70 a troubled world
was explained last night in Cadle
Tabernacle BY Peter V. Ross. C s.
3. san Francisco. member Of the
Iecturesh.p board o. the denomina-
tons Mother church. the First
Church OF Christ. Scientist. Boston.
Mass.
Mr.. Ross spoke under the auspices
OF the Fifth Church q Christ. Sci
enlist. and was introduced b. Floyd
z. Toner. 2235 North Alabama
street. His lecture follows in part.
Christian Science insists that
spiritual man. true selfhood. was
never Jess than perfect. never less
than eternal Life expressed. and
that perfection IS mans real status
nov. Scientifically speaking, there
fore. man is not working toward
perfection: rather ne is working
from perfection.
Basis for Practice
The recognition OF this true
status Of Coo and man is the basis
OF Christian Science practice. Treat
meut 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 conse-
quent imposslbilty. save in belief
or appearance. q inaCtiOn. infiam-
nation. or infrmity Of any kind.
Man. far from being the physical
corporeality he appears. really IS an
individual spiritual consciousness
But consciousness seems not wholly
spiritual. not wholly good, but a
blending Of the spiritual and mate
nal. Of good and evil. AID man
appears 20 vacillate between righte-
business and sin. health and sick
ness. life and death.
80 that consciousness. mysterious
in substance ard swift in action.
may one moment sound the depths
Of Adam and In another ascend the
heights OF Christ.
Perfection Not Static
Perfection is not static. no more
than are Life and Mind. which IN
den.ably are in constant and per-
petual operation. Jesus sums this
up emphatically when He declares;
NV Father worketh hitherto. and
I work A state OF rest or compile
ton. without further work or con-
tinued capacity for embodiment or
higher heights 70 climb. would be
intolerable.
Eternal Life. Of which the Scrip
lures aver man is the image and
likeness. really can not be in pain
or jeopardy. Life knows no oppOsi-
ton and brooks no interference. but,
unfettcred and uncOntaminated, is
in operation throughout mans be-
ing. even where disease may seem to
hold sway.
Mind Abandons Limitations
There are those. it is true. who
are sse1tical about the New Tesla
ment biographies Of Jesus. and sin
cerely so. Yet how has any one
the right 10 question the acts as
cribed 10 Jesus until he himself has
reached the stature Of sinless man
hood? Who can say what potential
tiles reside in perfect man?
las man and nation accept the
teachings of Christian Science. the
human mind begins 10 part with its
limitations. Then individuals begin
TO recognize the universe more near
" as IL is and to enviSage the
health. abundance. and opportunity
which are the legitimate birthright
of man.
Thereby does mankind get
elimpses of that ultimate perfec-
ton which characterizeS reality. for
IL would be a bold man who would
a~o,,s that Gods. creation falls short