Milford chronicle., 1938-10-14
CHRISTIAN SCIRNCEs ITS IS
DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER

/ F. Ilk1A0Ah1 " HuA n AAe-AoNhg -
Toledo, Ohio, who lectured under th'
auspices OF Milford Christian Science
Society, in Milford, Sunday, Oct. 8
Christian Science reveals God, not as
the author of sin, sickness and death
but as divine Principle, Supreme Be
ing, Mind, exempt from all evil. Be-
cause Christian Science has thus re-
vealed God to humanity, and expos
ed the nothingness of matter and
all material beliefs, he held, it is un-
questionably 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 I'M
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 I'M
derstood; it is Christianity itself
scientifically applied to human needs
lit is the scientific application of
that spiritual understanding which
was possessed in such fullness by
Jesus and used by him so lovingly
and conVincingly.
Mr.. Harsch, who Is a member of
the Board of Lectureship of The Mo-
Their Church, The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massa-
chusetts, 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
loSg before the time of Jesus. He
pointed out that the Bible, on which
he said Christian Science is based.
many examples of this pen
etratiOn of light into human con-
sciousness, but that it remained for
the great Master to reveal 1t in its
to the eyes of men. After
The resurrection and ascension of
Jesus, he declared, this light was
ost from the world with the excep-
ion of occasional glimpses, until 1t
vas regained and rediscovered by
Nary Baker Eddy, after years of
for peace, health and spir- h
tual understanding.
During the course Of his lecture, III
lr. Harsch pointed to the similarity
( the early background of the lives
f Jesus and Mrs. Eddy, and affirm
d that they both knew intuitively
hat men could be convinced of the
ruth of their message by demon
tration. He said that Mrs. Eddy HI
after her discovery of the Z
that a prOvable or
subject must be- scien-
fic, it must rest on solid basis of
let; and she proved the correctness,
lie science and the Christianity of
sr revelation by healing others, and
lie was employing was the method
! the Master Christian; that it was
wine because it had in it no human
lode or process. She saw, he point
/ out, that Jesus perceived the real '
amman made in the image and
keness of God, and this exact and
rue seeing. enabled him to heal the J
lex. Mrs. Eddy was convinced, he
firmed, that her discovery and the
lethod of healing resulting from il
ere divine. Christian, and scientific Z
acause it conceded so perfectly +
18th the Christ-method of healing.
Mr.. Harsch explained that Chris
an Science declares that Jesus I'M
of the alI-presence and !
l-power of divine law was the !
lrist, and that this Christ-under- =
anding of divine law as utilized by
,sus and now employed by Chris
an Science is the expression or
of omnipotent God
imself. 1t is this God-power, this
decentralization, he pointed out,
hich heals disease, discord and
ok. God is Truth, and the Christ
presses God as Truth in a form :,
hich mOrtals can and do recognize,
went on to explain, and when this
cognition dawns in human con-
iousness, healings result, because
e very Christ, Truth, this ever
erative, ever-present divine law
spells the falsities of human belief.
Because Jesus knew that the
lrist has always operated in hu-
an consciousness according to
finite law or science, Mr.. Harsch
tinted out, his prayers were con- 1
ant affirmations of the ever-pres-
ce and all-power Of this Christ
" rather than petitions to a far I
Father to grant him some spe-
Il favor. Mrs. Eddy, he said, saw
1t God was Life, All; that disease,
cay, death, being no part Of divine
fe, did not, could not, really exist
fact, but that they only appeared -
a false human sense to be real.
e realized, and afterward taught,
went on to say, that the most eff
tive prayer consisted Of deep, per
tent, earnest, afiirmations of Gods
ness, His goodness, His loving
e of His children, and that evil,
/, disease, death, were unreal,
werless, and incapable Of destroy
the harmony of being. o. ii
| Christian Scientist, according to
Harsch, listens prayerfully for
voice of God; he knows that God, Fl
mite Mind, does answer prayer,
! that by resolutely shutting out =
his consciousness every conflict
!, harassing, toTmenting evil and
Kind thought, he is preparing the
y for Truth to enter; that only
en- he is thus prepared can he
IT the voice of God. He made