The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-07-12

TIdCtlCe anu TIoOl, was SiVCh AChS last evening in the Scottish Rite Temple, under the auspices of the First Church of Christ. Scientist, of Juneau, by Florence Middaugh, CS., of Los Angeles, Cal, Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ. Scientist, of Boston, Massachusetts. The lecturer was l introduced by Mrs. Anna Larsen. The lecturer said in part:
 When Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christ ian Science, in the beginning of her textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures wrote (Pref., D. viD, The time for think CTS has come. is there any doubt but that she meant that spiritual thinking is the only real thinking there is?
 What Is Christian Science?
 Because of erroneous conceptions about Christian Science, some may hesitate to accept its teachings. One may have formed a false con- cept by accepting prejudiced opinion that would misrepresent the teachings of Christian Science either through ignorance or mal- ice Then, too, because the name is new, some may believe that it's teachings are new, and different from the Chritianity presented in the Bible, and taught by Jesus to his disciples. Many of the vital clements of this demonstrablc Christianity had been lost to the world, or considered impractical. Among other, things, Mrs. Eddy has restored the healing of disease, and has revealed that it was a natural. spiritual law which governed the socalled miracles of Jesus She proved, and students of Christian Science all over the world are proving, that this divine law, gov- erning every activity of man, is just as potent today. and just as operative as in Jesus time.
 Christian Science is fundamen- tally based upon the Biblical dec larations in both the Old and New Testaments, that God is the only creator, and that everything He made is good It proclaims and proves the allness of God, good, and the nothingness of evil.
 Christian Science teaches that since evil is nothing. claiming to be something, it is destroyed by a recognition of it's unreality. This recognition comes with a compre- hension that God is the only crea- tor, and that this creation consists only of good, It, likewise, accepts the Biblical teaching that man was created in Gods image and like ness, the likeness of Spirit, not matter. Christian Science is best understood by thorough study of its textbook. It invites you to ap- preach the problems that confront you from an entirely different view point and one. from which they can be solved. As one studies this textbook, the unreality of evil should become evident to him, and as the allness of God is unfolded, the revelation of Truth appears. Each one may begin at once to prove this for himself, with it's inevitable l good results. &
 When Jesus declared, Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is per- feet, was he not making posi- l tive declaration that man is al- ready as perfect as the Mind that created him? Christian Science makes it clear that perfect God end perfect man is the basis of demonstration and < healing, and that one needs to start, continue, and finish with this perfect divine Principle in order to xno V, anything of the true nature of God and man. Jesus
 Jesus began in early youth to prove and make practical the truths contained in the Bible As a young boy of twelve, he tarried in the temple with the doctors and wise men, asking and answering questions that astounded them. Of his life, from that time until his baptism by John we know little, except that he increased in wis dom and stature, and in favour with God and man It is recorded that when he came out Of the water, he heard a voice from heaven, saying, This is my be- loved Son, in. whom ! am well pleased and immediately after he was led into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil He must have recognized then the mission that was his, and he was tried from every angle as to the best way to fulfill this mission. One by one he rejected all material methods and means, and accepted Spirl. as the only power and authority. It was then he began lis three years healing ministry. ts'gia ige