Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-12-16
A Lecture on
Christian Science
Eat;tlcd
Christian Science: It's DiscOvercr
and Founder

Mr.. Paul A. H2rsch, C.. s. B.
Of TO'pdO OhiO


of TO.edO, Ohio.
Member of the Board of LccturcsIIip o.
The Mother Church. The First Church O
Christ, Scientist. in Boston. Massachusetts
According to Mr.. Paul A. Harsch OF
Toledo, Ohio, who lectured under the
auspices Of First, Second and Third
Churches of Christ, Scientist, Balti-
more, Md, Christian Science reveals
God, not as the author of sin, sick
ness and death, but as divine Principle
Supreme Being, Mind, exempt from
all evil. Because Christian Science
has thus revealed God to humanity,
and exposed the nothingness of matter
and all material beliefs, he held, it is
unquestionably the gift of God to a
world weary with its unanswered
prayers and questions, and its cease
less struggle for emancipation from
a bondage it has heretofore been un-
able to define or understand.
Christian Science is the full and
final revelation of divine Principle,
God, Mr.. Harsch told his listeners,
what He is and how He may be un-
derstood; it is Christianity itself
scientifically applied to human needs;
it is the scientific application of that
spiritual understanding which was
possessed in such fullness by Jesus
and used by him so lovingly and CON
vincingly.
Mr.. Harsch, who is member of the
Board of Lectureship of The Mother
Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts,
went on to explain that this spiritual
light or understanding of the Christ,
Truth, has always been present, and
that glimpses of it were caught by
spiritually minded men long before
the time of Jesus. He pointed out that
the Bible, on which ne said Christian
Science is based, provides many ex-
amples of this penetration of light
into human consciousness, but that it
remained for the great Master to re-
veal it in its fullness to the eyes of
men. After the resurrection and ascen-
sion of Jesus, he declared, this light
was lost from the world with the ex-
ception of occasional glimpses until
1t was regained and rediscovered by
Mary Baker Eddy after years of
searching for peace, health, and spirit
ual understanding.
During the course of his lecture, Mr..
Harsch pointed to the similarity of the
early background of the lives of Jesus
and Mrs. Eddy, and affirmed that they
both knew intuitively that men could
be convinced of the truth of their mes
sage only by demonstration. He said
that Mrs. Eddy recognized after her
discovery of the Christ-method that a
prOvable or demonstrable subject must
be scientific, it must rest on a solid
basis of fact; and she proved the cor
rectness, the Science and the Chris
tianity of her revelation by healing
others, and became convinced that the
method she was employing was the
method of the Master Christian; that
it was devine because it had in it no
human mode or process. She saw, he
pointed out, that Jesus perceived the
real mailman made in the image and
likeness of God, and this exact and
true seeing enabled him to heal the
sick. Mrs. Eddy was convinced, he
affirmed, that her discovery and the
method of healing resulting from it
were divine, Christian, and scientific
because it coincided so perfectly with
the Christ-method of healing.
Mr.. Harsch explained that Christian
Science declares that Jesus under
standing of the all-presence and all
power of divine law was the Christ,
and that this understanding of
divine law as utilized by Jesus and
now employed by Christian Science is
the expression or manifestation OF ON
nipotent God Himself. 1t is this God
power, this Christ manifestation, he
pointed out, which heals disease, dis
cord, and lack. God is Truth, and the
,>,rist expresses God as Truth in a
form which mort&ls can and do recog-
nize, he went on to explain, and when
this recognition dawns in human con-
seriousness, healings result, because the
very Christ, Truth, this ever-operative
ever-present divine law dispels the fall
sites of human belief.
Because Jesus knew that the Christ
has always operated in human con-
sciousness according to a definite law
or Science, Mr.. Harsch pointed out
his prayers were constant affirmation
of the ever-presence and all-power o1
this Christ-law, rather than petitions
to a far-off Father to grant him some
special favor. Mrs. Eddy, he said, saw
that God was Life, All; that disease
decay, death, being no part of divine
Life, did net, could not, really exis
as fact, but that they only appeared
to a false human sense to be real
She realized, and afterward taught
he went on to say, that the most effec
tive prayer consisted of deep, persis
tent, earnest affirmations of Gods all
ness, His goodness, His loving care o
His children, and that evil, sin, dis
ease, death, were unreal, powerless
and incapable of destroying the har
mony of being.
A Christian Scientist according {