The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-11
Large Audience Attends Christian Science Lectur,

everlasting punishment bey0nf lhl grave, to realize the liberatiuE lnt duence that has been ct work
 In medicine, numerous instances might be cited to show the changed attitude of advanced medical Te- search toward the cause and treat ment of certain diseases. Speakina to a medical society, the late pr. Richard c. Cabot, distinguished Hcs- ton physician, said: @The body has supervision which is biased in favor of life, rather than death And itisa force that doesn't make many wrong diagnoses. What is this powerful force?" he asked. "It is G0d,S he replied. 'The healing power on which all of us depend In order to be here today" This eminent phy- sician declared that God supplies ninety per cent of the healing power. A writer commenting on this opin- ion says, 'If God is the force which supplies the healing power, there ig no room for any other healing force, since God is infinite, 0mnipotent. omniscient, omnipresent." ',But", ho asserts, it is an occasion for grati- tude when medical men demonstrate the perception to accord even ninety per cent of the healing power to God"
 The mental cause of a high per- centage of known maladies is now recognized. Some years ago, at . conference of representative Amer ican physicians, it was reported by one distinguished member that in sixty-six per cent of the medical cases which entered Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment, emotional factors were directly related to the illness, and in f1fty-five per cent they were the major cause"
 This marks step toward the rec- ognition of what has long since been proved in Christian Science; namely, that all disease is caused mentally through false belief, hence it is un- real, and no part of mans actual experience. It must certainly be dealt with, however, and never ig. nored. In dealing with the false claim of disease, this Science main- tains that the only cure for false belief is a strong potion of truth. No drug can reach and eradicate . false belief. Such beliefs as fear of hereditary disease, hatred, envy, re- venge can be overcome only by the truth which shows their unreaIity. and in this way supplants them in the patients thought. Divine Sci- ence always goes to the root of the matter. This is illustrated in the textbook by Mrs. Eddy's explanation of the Masters parable Opp. 399, 400). He asked, "'How can one en- ter into strong mans house and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man?' In other words: How can I heal the body, without beginning with so-called mortal mind, which directly controls the body? When disease is once de- stroyed in this so-called mind, the fear of disease is gone, and there- fore the disease is thoroughly cured" And the interpretation fol- lows: Mortal mind is the strong man. which must be held in sub- | jection before it's influence upon health and morals can be removed. This error conquered, we can deSpoil the strong man of his goods,- namely, of sin and disease"
 l Miracles
 ! Until the advent of Christian Sd. ence, it had long been thought o& the miracles = the most vital, the most significant part of Christian teaching that we did not know and we could not know how they were done; that they took place ages ago by means of some past dispensati0n. Christian Science has proved this to be untrue by healing all manner of diseases and sin in his name, or through the understanding of the divine nature. Divine Science makes clear that those works were per- formed for the purpose of making manifest Gods law, spiritual law, as the only law. This law, Christian Science shows, is eternally opera tive; it knows no bounds of time or place; it is no respector of per- sons, of mere human phil0sophies, or the established prestige of ever- shifting material theories.
 Miracle is defined by Webster as "an event or effect in the physical world beyond or out of the ordinary course of things, deviating from the known laws of nature, or transcend ing our knowledge of these laws" l Through her practice of Chris tian Science, Mrs. Eddy proved that what seems miraculous to human sense seems so only because the operation of spiritual law is not recognized, nor can be, by material sense. She found and afterwards stated in her textbook Opp. 134, 1851 that "a miracle fulfils Gods law, but does not violate that law {. The miracle introduces no disorder. but unfoldS the primal order, es- tablishing the Science of Gods un- changeable law" She perceived that it was in no wise supernatural, but, in reality, "divinely natural" "a phenomenon of Science" (p. 69I1, and that it served to make Gods law appreciable to human experi- ence.
 Here the DiScoverer of divine Sci- ence has made clear that the sacred
 work so long known as miracles
 are not wrought merely in the mama
 of Christ. But = far more deeply significant - she shows that such
 works are accomplished only through
 the recognition and understanding of the very character and nature of
 Christ, the spiritual idea of Truth born of God, which reveals man,E
 coexistence with Him.
 Safety and Salvation From 8 material standpoint Che