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A Lecture on
Christian Science
Entitled
Christian Science: It's Practice
and Proof
by
Florence Middaugh, C. 8.
Of Los Angeles, California
Member Of the Board Of Leetureship Of the
Neither Church, The First Church Of Christ,
Scientist, In Boston, MASSACHUSETTS
Florence Middaugh, C. 8.
of Los Angeles. California

world IS ASKING 1or way Out Va ITO
difficulties, and it is asking for some
thing that only the understanding OF
God, Spirit, can give.
Christian Science is teaching man
kind the difference between material
development and spiritual growth.
When Mary Baker Eddy, the Dis
coverer and Founder Of Christian
Science, in the beginning of her text
book, "Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures" wrote pref, p.
viii, "The time for thinkers has
come" is there any doubt but that
she meant that spiritual thinking is
the only real thinking there is?
The aim of universities and col
Ieges is to train men and women to
think logically and consistently. On
page 1876 Of Science and Health we
read: Academies of the right sort
are requisite. Observation, invention,
study, and original thought are ex-
pansive and should promote the
growth of mortal mind out of itself,
out of all that is mortal" Here is the
standard by which one may decide
which academies are of the right sort.
Do they promote the growth of NOR
tai mind out of itself?
There is no element of progress in
exchanging one false belief for an
other, and whatever is learned about
matter or through material sense must
be exchanged for knowledge of God,
the spiritual facts Of being in Science.
Many of the vital elements Of
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 So
called miracles of Jesus.
Christian Science is fundamentally
based upon the Biblical declarations
in both the Old and New Testaments,
that God is the only creator, and that
everything He made is good. 1t pro-
claims and proves the allness of God,
good, and the nothingness of evil.
Mrs. Eddy explains that "the start
ing-point of divine Science is that God,
Spirit, is All-in-all, and that there is
no other might nor Mind,-that God is
Love, and therefore He is divine
Principle" (Science and Health, p.
275).
Since this Principle that governs
man is Love, then man has nothing to
fear, but every joy and happiness to
experience now.
When Jesus declared, "Be We there
fore perfect, even as your Father
which is in heaven is perfect" was
he not making positive declaration
that man is already as perfect as the
Mind that created him? Christian
Science makes it clear that perfect
God and perfect man is the basis of
demonstration and healing, and that
one needs to start, continue, and fin
ish with this perfect divine Principle
in order to know anything of the true
nature of God and man.
By demonstrating every step of the
way out of mortality into Immortality,
Jesus has given US an irrefutable ex-
ample for our instruction and guild
ance.
When he saw himself as a spiritual
idea, at one with God, he never again
recognized material man as real
ity, but consistently maintained his
divine Sonship, even until he rose
above all materiality.
The belief that Jesus was the only
one upon whom the Christ-spirit is
bestowed has certainly not been based
upon anything that he has said re-
garding it. During his ministry and
teachings he emphatically pointed out
that everything he said or did was to
enable us to follow his example, to
prove our divine sonship as he did.
"That where ! am, there We may be
also" describes in his own words the
import of his mission, and the thing
he suffered to give to us. Perhaps
his greatest sorrow was caused by the
thought that mankind might misinter-
pref his mission.
A number of years ago, in our own
time, a little girl experienced the
healing power of God, proving His
loving care and protection. Mary
Baker early began her search for
spiritual truths, and to learn more
about God. 1t was her persistence in
this quest that led to her discovery
of Christian Science, and the ever
present healing power of God, as
taught and demonstrated by Jesus.
She spent many years as an invalid,
but was restored to health through the
realization Of the power of Mind, and
was able to refute the fatality Of Sc
rious accident, which neither surgery
nor materia medica could reach.
One Of the familiar stories Of the
Old Testament is the rebuilding OF
the wall Of Jerusalem, by Nehemiah.
At a period when the average per-
son seriously considers retirement
from business activity Mary Baker
Eddy began her remarkable work OF
rebuilding the wall of Christianity,
which had been impaired by the
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