The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-25
Christian Science Lecture

go back to the old, material way OF
thinking and living, now the Mas
ter had left them. At another time
we find him filled with the Holy
Ghost, divine Science, teaching and
preaching and healing in the name
of Christ, Truth. Peter attained, at
times, the height of spiritual under
standing. This understanding was
the rock of firm foundation upon
which was to be founded the church
for the healing of sin, sickness, dis
ease, and death.
The idea of building on the firm
foundation of spiritual understand.
ing is illustrated in Matthew 1926
81, and in Luke 6:47-49. Here is por-
traye dthe value of building life's
prospects and hopes upon the rock
o spiritual understanding rather
than upon the shifting sands of
mortal belief. He who builds on a
matter basis is destined to fall
land it fell: and great "a the fall
of it," while he who builds upon the
rock, Christ, Truth, sets a firm
foundation and the line to the plum
met. THE end of that man is
peace"
The Bible story contrasting the
house or consciousness built on the
sands of belief with the one founded
upo nthe rock further illustrates
the necessity of practicing ones pre-
cepts, in other words, the necessity
of living Science in the daily life. 1t
is Science to do what M knows as
we'll as to know what n does.
Knowing and doing are but phases
of the same fact in Science, while
protesting and not doing is a serious
o%ffense. Our Leader speaks directly
on this issue. She says (Miscellane-
GUS Writings. p. 293): Truth talked
and not lived, rolls on the human
heart a stone; consigns sensibility
to the CLEARINGHOUSE of sensuality,
ease, self : love, self-justification,
there to moulder and rot"
Leading medical authorities are
coming to the conclusion that the
present great need-even dire neces
sity-in the treatment of disease is
a system or method other than AND
superior to any so far evolved by
the mind of These physicians
have exhausted material methods
with uncertain and unsatisfactory
results, and, in doubt, look to a new
and better therapy; but they know
not where or what. Many of these
doubling Thomases are, to be sure
being DETECTED into the byways Of
so-called human metaphysics, psy
Geological medicine, : thought
unity, mental science, psychoanaly
sis, hypnotism, %theosophy, spiritual
ism, O of which have any par
in or direct similarity to the purely
spiritual method of Christian Sci
ence. I take great satisfaction il
quoting, on this point, the late DR.
William Osler, my teacher in medi
cine and my friend, Professor O
Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Med
ical School; physician.in-chief a
the Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Maryland; subsequently Regius Pro
lessor of Medicine at Oxford Uni
versity, England. In an article en-
titled THE Faith that Heals" in tn,
British Medical Journal, June IS
1910, he writes: II feel our attitud
as a profession should not be hostile
A group of active, earnest, capabl
young men are at work on the prob
lem. The angel of Bethesda is a
the pool-it behooves us to jump in.
By way of answer to the learne,
doctors admonition that we "jum1
in" it may be said that Christian
Science has not only entered tn
pool and stirred it, but has baptize,
with water and with spirit the "grea
multitude . waiting for the mov
ing of the water" and is saying witt
the authority of spiritual under
standing, Rise, take up thy bed
and walk" Christian Science is dc
ing these wonderful works through
spiritual powers, the power of Mind
the power of God.
Cases of Healing Cited
t I shall at this point present
: series of cases of disease heale
through Christian Science. Thes
have come directly under my notice
= Case A. Congenital structure o
stomach in Observation-Disclosures d
: gestive symptoms presented then
selves in newborn shortly after dc
livery with diagnosis of pylori
%stenosis of stomach made by surg
cal staff of university hospital. SUI
gical procedure was urged, but rad
al stand for Christian Science takel
against the advice, warning, an,
threats of physicians. Complet
healing resulted.
Case B. Chronic ear infection
acute mastoiditis, abscess, deafness