The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-19

Thought is then receptive of spir- itual aid, for mans extremity is Gods opportunity"
 From the time that Christian Science was first announced to the world 1t has been associated with Mary Baker Eddy. She is known as the one who discovered 1t, who first practiced and taught 1t, as the one who founded it's church and who is the author of it's basic liter ature including the Christian Sci- cnce text book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"
 Tn order to present, as far as a single lecture may do 50, a correct concept of the teachings of this Science, of its purpose, its accom- pliShments, and of it's discoverer and founder, let us make a brief survey or review of the development of religious thought through the ages and see the position that the Christian Science movement and it's leader occupy in the spiritual evo- luton of consciousness which has taken place as shown by the history of salvation.
 NEED or SALVATION
 The history of spiritual develop ment may be traced both in Bible narratives and in subsequent events We know that there are two records of creation given in Genesis. The first, called the Elohistic record, presented in the opening chapter and in the first three verses of the second, tells of the perfect, spiritual and finished creation made by the one infinite and perfect God, called Eaohim, in which creation there A no matter, no evil, and hence no need of salvation, there being noth- ing from which to be saved.
 In the second record, called the Jehovistic and beginning with chap ter two, verse four, 1t is the Lord God or tribal Jehovah, not Elohim who is credited both with creating all things on @ material basis, oul of dust = wherever that came from and with introducing evil.
 Obviously these two accounts are contradictory. Both cannot be true The second record predicates an entirely different concept of God man, and universe from that de- scribed in the first. Mrs. Eddy calls this second record the Adam dream" for Adam had fallen into "a deep sleep," and there is no indica- ton given in the Bible of his ever having awakened. With this Adam and Eve concept began the history of human evil and humanity's con- sequent need of salvation or deliV' erance from 1t.
 The talking serpent which, in this Adam and Eve allegory, was mater. ial sense asserting the reality ol matter and evil and that they arc good, was the sin which led to dis obedience, suffering, and loss in tht garden of Eden,-and still does and always will 50 long as there x the belief in material creation. Sal yation from thls Adam and Evt belief, therefore, requires an awak' ening from this Adam dream" tho belief in matter, to the consciousness of the real. spiritual creation as re' corded in the first chapter of Gen esis. Tn analysing this situation Il is helpful to think of the secone record as & kind of mist or veil,-- indeed, this second record refers tt itself as the result of a mist,-as 2 mental cloud which obscures tn' divine light, and which must Dc dispelled or rent in order that th' light of spiritual Truth may come tt human consciousness, to human understanding.
 PROGRESS OF SALVATION
 The Scriptures narrate how, a various crises in humanity'S history A saving thought found 8 hearint in some advanced mentality, through which as a channel 1t appealed t' the people of it's time, and in