The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-28
LECTURE GIVEN
LAST NIGHT In
SCHOOL KOUS
DELIVERED BY JUDGE FRED,
ERIcK c. HILL. C,S.B-..oF
LOS ANGELES. cALIFoR'
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Following are eXcerpts from
he lecture delivered last evening
It the High School by Judge
Frederick Hill, C.S.B., of Los An
eles, Calf, member of the
Beard of Lectureship of The
Mother Church. The First Church
of Christ. Scientist, in Boston,
Massachusetts, presented by
Christian Science Society of Key
West, the subject OF the lecture
-e!ng The Law OF God Demon
.trating Substance and Supply:
The history of the human race
as an unfolding record of man
kinds endeavor to grasp the
meaning OF substance and supply
and thereby acquire a sufficient
amount of, something to meet his
needs and demands. The results
of this endeavor have been the
establishment of laws regulating
the acquiring of property; the
ownership and the possession
thereof; and the universal belief
that substance is a material thing
needing an owner. The supply Is
regarded as limited. Some have
abundance; and some have moth
ing. Between these extremes is
a vast throng ceaselessly engag-
ed in laboriouS effort TO get some
thing and to hold it in possession,
upon the assumption that life,
sub stance and intelligence
(Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures, p. 43) reside in
matter.
Religion has been an import
..-. factor in the affairs of man.
4lu. and from canOnicaf writ
ings the fact is disclosed that sub
-iA.!ce ana supply are to be found
{ in the mental realm, and not IN
the material world. The Bibles
injunction is, Get wisdom: and
with all thy getting get under
standing, Honour the Lord with
thy substance, and in so doing
there is sure reward. so Shall
thy barns be filled with plenty,
and thy presses shall burst out
with new wine.
mo doubt the masses were just
as confused then as they are
now. Instead of knowing and
understanding what substance is,
mankind has believed and accept
ed something,-that life. sub
stance, and intelligence are in
matter,-and this believing has
separated him from God; hence,
the need for salvation, the need
for a redeemer.
THE greatest event in human
history occurred nineteen cen
turtles ago, when a child was
born in Bethlehem of Judea.
About thirty years later, that
child, now grown to manhood,
appeared as a prophet, preaching
the gospel, healing the sick, and
laying the basis for the redemp-
f, ton of mankind. AS result, the
/ Christian religion has come down
to us to use in the life which we
/ live in the flesh. The Christ,
Truth, is destroying that ancient
belief of big God up in the
skies and a little man down on
the earth, and is establishing
mans at-one-ment with God.
About the middle of the nine
teenth century, Mary Baker Ed
dy, through her clear. spiritual
insight caught the import OF
Christ Jesus profound saying, 1
am come that they might have
life, and that they might have it
more abundantly', and through
proof and demonstration there
came to her the revelation, All
is infinite Mind and its infinite
manifestation, for God is An-in-
all (Science and Health, p. 460).
Her revelation constitutes a chal-
lenge to the idea of the big God
and the little man. 1t brought
about religious revolution
throughout the world, and it fur
nishes a working basis for the
establishment. of understanding