The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1937-10-07
Large Audience
Listens to Lecture
Christian Science

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The Junior high auditorium was
filled Monday night by those who
turned out to listen to lecture by
Robert Stanley Ross, c. S. B., on
Christian Science. The lecture was
delivered under the auspices of the
Christian Science Society of Libby.
The speaker was introduced by
Mrs. w. A. Hills. I'm our Bibles,
said Mrs. Hills. Solomon tells us
in the fourth chapter of Proverbs,
| Wisdom is the principal thing,
! therefore get wisdom and with all
thy getting get understanding We
| have with us this evening one who
will speak on Christian Science-Its
/ Unlimited Possibilities. / take pleas
ure in introducing Mr.. Robert Stan
ley Ross of New York City, member
of the Board of Lectureship of the
Mother Church, the First Church of
Christ Scientist in Boston, Mass. MIR.
Ross
The lecture spoke substantially as
follows.
No doubt, all processing Christians
believe that, if they had lived in the
days of Jesus, they would have UNI
hesitatingly embraced his teaching
and become his followers. To have
seen him heal leprosy, blindness,
insanity, deafness, epilepsy and
raise the dead would--We now con-
fidently say-have convinced every
one. But did it convince everyone
in those days? II should have done
SO; but instead of ioyfully accepting
. the healings as unquestionable
proofs of divine power, some of those
who were witnesses became en-
ragged, declared the healings were
. the work of the devil, and FASTENED
, to report Jesus to the authorities
at Jerusalem. The latter, in turn
|, sought to put him to death, lest al
! the people should follow him. Tc
defend their theological beliefs, ever
to the extent of shedding innocen
: blood, seemed to be more important
, than to learn the practicable truth
about God and man.
} Love BIesses All
This reminds me of an inciden
, that occurred a year or two ago
: One of my neighbors, upon finding
a nest full of motherless bindings
: sought to feed them; but Wheneve
his loving hand would draw nea
!. enough to the nest, the open mouth
! would instinctively close. When h
tried leaving food on the edge o
the nest, they would not touch il
Had not my neighbor been thought
full enough to put the birdlings int
z an already well-filled nest wher
they were fed by the mother of an
/ other brood, those birdlings woul
have died Of starvation.
I have related this incident in tn
: hope that it will help to illustrat
9. why everyone did not accept jest
J as the true representative of Coz
They dearly longed, even praye
u for the promised Messiah, who, the
believed, would come in particl
u lar, predetermined, humanity -ou
II lined way. But because he can
quite differently; because he can
* meekly illustrating the power ,
impartial, divine Love to free Il
people from mental bondage to 81
G. disease, and DEATH instead of wa
like monarch who would free Il
er nation from political bondage
:, Rome, they misunderstood his 10
III ing mission and rejected the bles
ings he came to bestoW upon thei
ne 1t is this same mental attitu
which today prevents some person
even when in great need, from q
eepting the helping hand of Chr
Nv tian Science, Notwithstanding t
proofs of healing which it presen
Their preconceived notions abe
81 the manner of Christ's reappeari
would seem still to be more i
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