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A Lecture on
Christian Science

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Entitled
Christian Science: The
Science of True SelfhOOd
by
Thomas E. Hurley, C.S.B.
of Louisville, Kentucky
usmber of the Board of Lectureship of the
Mether Church. The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts,
The divine demand, "Work out your
Swn salvation" confronts each OF US
1Dday, and the method prescribed and
Used by the Master is as available and
% effective now as when he told his
followers, aye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free"
1he truth about what? The truth
about ones self-the Science OF true
eelfhood. And from what is this truth
y free us? Jesus did not say that to
1now the truth would free US merely
n some particular respect, such as
kom sin, but that it would make US
&ee-free in every respect-which
means freedom not only from sin, but
also from sickness, disease, death,
lack, old age, unemployment, unhap-
piness, inharmony, and imperfection
Of every kind. And he proved this lib
Grating power of Truth in his own
ministry. According to his statement,
II have given you an example, that
ye should do as I have done to you,"
Christ Jesus expected US to follow
him. This means that it is possible
to do so. Jesus marked out the way,
and Christian Science shows us how
10 follow the Way-shower.
The Final Revelation of the True
Nature of God
In her search for the true nature
of God, Mary Baker Eddy, the Dis
eoverer and Founder of Christian
Science, went to the inspired word of
The Scriptures. Through this concen-
trated study and an extraordinary
spiritual perception that had been I'M
folding in her consciousness since
early childhood, the Scriptures were
1lumined, and their spiritual signifi-
cation was revealed to her.
This final revelation Of the true ma
ture Of God and His creation, Mrs.
Eddy reduced to human comprehen-
sion and set it forth in her textbook,
Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" in such way that all
may read and understand. On page
S87 Of Science and Health, we read:
"GoD. The great I AM; the all-know-
ing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all
hving, and eternal; Principle; Mind;
Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love; all
substance; intelligence" Surely, this
b a God whom we can love with all
eur heart, in whom we can trust, and
I b whom we can go for the solution of
my problem, be it great or small.
Mantle Image Of Divine Mind
With this concept of God as the
basis of our thinking, let US consider
what man, the image and likeness of
God, must be. An image and likeness,
being the perfect reflection of its
original, must be exactly like it in
quality; hence man, in the image and
likeness of God, perfectly reflects
every quality of divine Mind, Spirit,
Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and Love.
Fer instance, as the image Of perfect
Mind, he reflects infinite intelligence,
understanding, wisdom, ability, capa-
hility, capacity, and so on. He knows
exactly as God knows, for he derives
his every thought from God, divine
Mind.
Gods thoughts, or ideas, express
lin, and so are Godlike. Whatever
does not express divine Mind, Spirit,
Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, and Love
o. not of God and so has no cause, no
existence, no power, no reality. It has
no presence in divine consciousness
which, in our true being, you and !
Individually refect-and there is no
ether real consciousness. The under
! standing that there is, in reality, no
! error in consciousness is the law Of
humiliation to the claim of error to
presence in individual human con-
\ seriousness. And when errors claim
10 presence in ones consciousness is
destroyed, its claim to manifestation
his experience as disease, lack, in
|rmony, and so forth, vanishes. In
lief, we remove the discordant effect
ON individual experience by dealing
18th and destroying its suppositional
cause.-The belief of wrong thinking
claiming presence in individual human
consciousness.
Nothing is more important on the
students part than the recognition of
the fundamental fact that, since Spirit,
good, is real, its opposite, matter, evil,
must be unreal. One cannot maintain
hat both Spirit and matter are sub
ance and expect to demonstrate
christian Science. This means that we