The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-10-06

Christian Science
Entitled
Christian Science:
Pure Religion and Indebted
DR.. John M. Tut, C. s. B.
of Kansas CITY. Missouri

DIR. John nj. Tut, c. 3. b.
of Kansas City, Missouri M
Member Of the Board of Lectureship q
The Mother Church, The First Church Of
Christ, scientist. In Boston, Massachu-
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This lecture was given by First Church
Of Christ. Scientist, Baltimore, on Sep
tember 20, 1880, at the Lyric Theatre,
The lecturer spoke substantially %
follows:
1t is now generally known and
acknowledged that Christian Sci.
ence was discovered by Mary Baker
Eddy. One Of the purposes Of a
lecture on Christian Science is to
make it more generally known that.
after her discovery Of the Science
of Christ, the metaphysical truths,
upon which Jesus based his healing
and redemptiye ministry, Mrs.
Eddy herself put Christian Science
to the most exacting tests In an
amazing career as a public prac-
titioner; that from this vantage Of
practical proofs Of her theory, she
wrote the volume, Science and
Health with Key to The Scriptures,
called the Christian Science text
book. Il should be known that Mrs.
Eddy then established The First
Church of Christ, Scientist, in Bos-
ton, a reinstatement of primitive
Christianity, and that today
branches Of this Mother Church
. belt the globe: and that, In her de-
termination to make divine Science
available for the needs OF humans
ty, Mrs. Eddy created and estab-
lished every adjunct and activity
of the Christian Science movement.
1t is also the purpose Of a lecture to
show that because Christian Sci
ence is based on God, as divine
Mind or Spirit, Christian Science
is therefore a divinely mental or
spiritual not a material or
MORALLY mental-system; Christian
Science is not based on the human
mind, its psychology, pathology, or
suggestive therapy. Christian Sci
ence is religion, indeed, in both the
DRY and practice, the religion Of
Christ Jesus; it heals the sick, pre-
vents disease and discord, lack and
limitation, and saves the SHINING
solely through prayer - not the
prayer Of pleading with God to be
and do good, but rather the desire
and effort to see the good God has
already done. Christian Science
prayer leads to the knowledge that
Gods man can never be less than
Gods perfect likeness and image.
Such prayer denies all that opposes
itself to God and His creature, man,
and affirms the health, wealth, hap
piness, usefulness, the completeness
Of man. Christian Science Is both a
healing and saving, a Christly
ministry conforming to st. James
definition: Pure religion and unde-
filed before God and the Father is
this, to visit the fatherless and
widows In their affliction, and to
keep himself unspotted from the
world" Gas. 1:27)
AND FIVE OF THEM WE'RE
WISE, AND FIVE WE'RE
FOOLISH
"Then shall the kingdom of
heaven be likened unto ten vir-
gins, which took their lamps, and
went forth to meet the bridegroom.
And five Of them were wise, and
five were foolish. They that were
foolish took their lamps, and took
no oil with them: but the wise took
oil in their vessels with their lamps.
While the bridegroom tarried, they
all slumbered and slept. And at
midnight there was a cry made,
Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go
We out to meet him. Then all those
virgins arose, and trimmed their
lamps. And the foolish said unto
the wise, Give us of your oil; for
our lamps are gone out. But the
wise answered, saying, Not so; lest
there be not enough for us and you:
but 60 We rather to them that sell,
and buy for yourselves. And while
they went to buy, the bridegroom
came; and they that were ready
went in with him to the marriage:
and the door was shut" (Matt.
25:1) In this parable Jesus told
of the ten virgins, all were fur
nished alike, all we're Of one pure
purpose, they we're single of mind,
unadulterated, loyal. But only five
Of them were equipped with vital,
light-giving oil. All ten, shall we
say, had the letter of Christianity
they even had lamps-but only five
had also the oil of true spiritual
mindedness. And this lack Of spir-
itual preparedness was indeed "a
gaunt want" To say that five Of ten
are foolish virgins is but to say that
many are trying to enter the marri-
age feast Of Truth and Life and
Love with only empty lamps to
guide them. However complete the
furnishings of the letter, however
perfectly formulated the arguments
against error and for Truth, dis
cord, evil, can never be cast out, the
darkness dissipated and true har-
mony attained without oil-true
spirituality. The great need is oil
for the lamps Of the worlds foolish
virgins. Christian Science has re-
vealed the never-failing reservoir OF
this spiritual mindedness as not in
matter and the carnal mind, but as
only in Spirit, the pure, divine Mind.
The sick and SHINING are healed and
saved, the poor and needy are en-
riched. the depressed and woeful are
uplifted and comforted only by spir-
itual sense, that "sign Of Emmanuel"
that divine influence ever present
in human consciousness" Is. and