The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-20
Christian Science Lecture
 Deliuered Here Last Night
 By Miss Morrison, Chicago

Much interest was evinced in the lecture given here last evening in the Scottish Rite Temple by Miss Margaret Morrison, C.S., of Chicago, IIll, member of the Board of Lee tureship of the Mother Church. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in ] Boston, Massachusetts. A large au- dience was present. Miss Morrison was introduced by c. E. Harlan. | The lecture, which was entitled Christian Science Brings Enlight- ment for Mankind" in part, follows:
 The first command from God given in the Bible is, Let there be light and the record reads, There was light It further states that God saw the light. that it was good In this light that was good the entire creation of God was seen to be good and very good.
 "As in the realm of the physical senses light can only dispel darkness so in the mental realm spiritual un- derstanding only can dispel the darkness of materiality, or that mental ignorance which is called matter.
 Tt has been sa-t. Of Jesus that 1 first he wrought and then he
 taught (ChauceD. This may also be
 said about the Discoverer and Foun-
 der of Christian Science, Mary Ba-
 ker Eddy. For some years after her
 healing, which came about through
 the light of understanding thrown
 on a record of healing in the Bible,
 she studied consecratedly the words ] and works of Jesus of the prophets
 and apostles, and proved, by many
 works of healing, the truth of her
 discovery before she gave it to the
 world in the Christian Science text
 book, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
 "'In the beginning God created
 the heaven and the earth This is 1 the first statement concerning cau- sation found in the Scriptures. Logical Reasoning
 1 Reasoning logically it is incon- lceivable-nay absurd-to think of
 cause as having been at one time non- existent, and so as having to have something to start it. or be-
 ginning. What should we call that
 which might cause causation? Cau-
 sation, then, that which we are pleased reverently to designate as God must have always existed with
 out beginning and without end, therefore without time-without a past tense. May we not therefore lsay: Principle, which is causation or God, creates the heaven and the earth? God as Principle must be infinite and so incorporeal, Spirit or Mind, and His creation must be spiritual, expressed, not in material objects, separated from Him and left to their own devices; flung to take care of themselves. Rather is His creation coeXistent with Him, the expression of His own nature, consisting of infinite, conscious, di- vine ideas or spiritual objects of the divine Principle, Love-inseparable from Loves tender care and pro- vision, held in perpetual harmony by the indissolumble bonds of Science. God is thus truly seen as immutable Truth, supreme intelligence, the liv- ing Mother Mind, all-inclu- sive Love.
 Inconsistent Reasoning
 Tn no way is the inconsistent req soning of false theology more clearly shown than in it's reasoning about God and man, for while Christen- dom has agreed theoretically, to the fact that God is Spirit, it has de- ,clared man, the image and likeness of God, to be matter. Accepting the teaching of Christian Science. then, means coming out from the false concept of man as corporeal, linn tied, fleshly being into the fact of man as an incorporeal, spiritual, in- destructible expression of Mind,-a state of consciousness divine idea, not a material object. Man CO., existent with God can no more have a beginning or an ending than can God.
 "As man is not a material object but an idea of divine Mind, every thing that relates to him exists in Mind as idea. The idea of home, for example: Mrs. Eddy says in the Christian Science textbook (Science and Health, p. 254, Pilgrim on earth, thy home is heaven; '' She further says (p. 29D, Heaven is not a locality, but a divine state of Mind So we find that home is spiri- tually mental, not locality but a divine state of consciousness. No material conditions or circumstances can separate man from home It is an integral part of his being, an established fact in the kingdom of Mind, in which kingdom he lives. AS we cling steadfastly to this di- vine fact of home, seeing it unfold in our thinking in its God qualities of Harx,a,,x, ,1zoao sx.%oII;1~x.1 1.-<1