The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-16
arge Audience Hears Christian Science Lecture
Well Known Lecturer Enthuses Hundreds Of Listeners
 At Waterbury Womens Club Auditorium Yesterday
Mrs Louise Knight Whealey Cook B. Of Kansas Ci Missouri
  Christian Law Applied Human Affn'

AA 0CACLlCC duO 11CdkOAAp Uut " @AA- swer briefly here I will say that it works" from the basis of perfect God, a perfect man, and perfect universe, as recorded in the Bible, in the first chapter of Genesis. This chapter, as you know, contains the account of creation, and from 1t as premise we draw our conclusions as accurately as a mathematician demonstrates his problem in geome- try. Since God made all that was made, and since God is Spirit. as the Bible declares, it follows that His. creation must have been, and is, spiritual. All was finished. It was perfect and complete, and then God rested" from His work.
 1, Christian Science maintains that nothing has changed, nothing will ever change this forever fact of a perfect, complete, spiritual creation. It still remains just as it was in the beginning" Later on, however, we are told that mist went up" from the earth"-and then the trouble started. For mist, as we all know, has way of making every- thing look different. In mist, one is confused. He does not see clearly any more. If any of our English friends are present, they could re- late many amusing stories of the odd things which often happen dur ing a proverbial London fog; how even the most ordinary and familiar objects sometimes assume such new and distorted shapes that one has been known to lose himself almost at his very door. If, at this moment, one of those dense fogs should set- tie over this room, the same thing would happen. The room would seem filled with confused outlines where the furniture had been. and we might, gradually, lose sight even of each other. After a while, we will say. the fog, or mist, lifts, and drifts away. Here we would all be, abso- lutely untouched, just as we were be- fore. The fog had changed nothing. It had just obscured our vision, for the time being. That was all. Sin, disease, and death do not change man, any more than the fog, or mist, changes the furniture. A Christian Science treatment only disperses the misconception of man by demon- strating his untouched perfection. It reveals him as he really is, not as he seems to be.
 Of course at this point clear dis tinction must be made between man, in Gods image and likeness, and the poor, suffering race of Adam. Chris tian Science does not claim perfec- ton for anything mortal or material. Far from it. It only says that where false material sense sees it's own misconceptions, it's own mistaken views of man, true consciousness, GOd-governed, sees the beauty and harmony and wholeness and com- pleteness of the real, spiritual man. This does not mean, however, that there are two kinds of men. No. Just one, the one God made. Just one table, both before the fog and after it. Not two tables here at all Never two tables. Just this one table, and our misconception of it. No matter how thick the mist may have been, or how long it may have lasted; there has never been but one table. We just failed to see it clearly. That was all.
 There was once man who lay in the mist" for thirty-eight years, waiting to be healed. It was at the Pool of Bethesda, very long time ago. One happy day, Jesus, our dear, loving Master, came that way, and stopped to question him. The man explained that he could not move by himself, and there was no one to carry him into the pool, that he might be healed. Jesus spent no time in arguing. He quickly saw what was wrong. Rise" he said, take up thy bed. and walk" And it was done.
 Perhaps, in this instance, the mist may have been the mans belief in the power of the water in the pool to make him well, just as some to- day believe in the curative prop critics of certain material remedies. Perhaps he was just enveloped in a cloud of self-pity. because of his in- ability to reach the pool by himself. Or perhaps, a certain bitterness was ranking in his heart because no one seemed to make any effort to assist him. But Truth does not compel us to wait for somebody. somewhere, to do something before we can be healed. That is not Gods way. The exact nature of the mist, we do not know, but the pure, spiritual vision of the Master saw through 1t in an instant. There was not even any period of so-called convalescence. Did you ever think of that? No wait ing for weak and unused muscles to regain their strength. The mist had SO completely vanished that not even the memory of it remained. Al- though for thirty and eight years he had believed that he could not move, he was able, at the Christ command, 1 not only to rise, but to pick up his bed. and walk away with itl Are we
 not glad and thankful that this same law of God exists todayl
 The dictionaries define Flaw" as 'a rule of action made by a power capable of enforcing it." Law, then,
 is not law at all, unless there is power back of 1t. For instance, sup
 pose some children playing on the sidewalk should decide among them selves that anyone passing by, who might happen to step on a crack
 in the pavement would have to pay
 them penny. Would that be law? Of course not. They might ask for
 their penny, and some good-natured
 pedestrian might toss them one. in
 remembrance of his own boyhood
 days, but could they compel him to do so? But how about the traffic policeman2 There he stands, in the midst of what seems to be a hope
 less tangle of vehicles, and gives his
 orders. And do the drivers obey | l,iYn2 They certainly doi He nnYa.