The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-14

Scientist, Waterbury.
 MT. Dayiss lecture follows III part:
 Many, no doubt, have come to this lecture with something in the nature of a problem. Possibly 1t Is lack or poverty. Possibly it is sick ness or sin, and the struggle to be free. If such be the case, what, my friends, do you think is the source of much of your trouble? In the light of Christian Science, we sec that 1t is the belief that man is separated from God. No matter what condition or situation any one tof you may be facing, the belief that you are separated from God is the root of the difficulty. Unwittingly, perhaps, we hold to the traditional concepts of Deity, and certainly if God is regarded as @ personal, re- ,mote entity, we have no definite assurance of present protection or safety. Christian Science declares that God is Mind, but that does not mean e distant Mind. It does not mean that the ideas or thoughts of the one infinite Mind come to man ,from some remote or faraway place. You and I cannot conceive of infi- mite Mind other than as omnipres- ence. Omnipresent Mind necessarily means all-inclusive consciousness. Indeed, the fact that you are con- .ecious, that you can think, that you express that divine power to reason and know, is the evidence that Mind is ever present. We even hear It ex- pressed in the phrase, "He had presence of mind"
 We see, then, that in Christian Science the inflnity and omnipres- ence of God or Mind is not accepted as e theory, but absolute fact, fact that may be intelligently and prac- tically applied in meeting the dif1- culties and problems of human life. We apply the absolute fact of Gods omnipresence to the relative or mis- taken belief which says that He is absent or far away.
 Then 1t may De asked: Where Is the practical connection between divine Mind and man? Christian Science declares that, since divine Mind is the one intelligent cause, all true thought necessarily finds It's origin there and only there-that all is infinite Mind and its infinite ideas or manifestation, and that man, de- clared in the first chapter of Genesis to be the image and likeness of God, must be the mental image or em- haaAASsa asak AZ NEtSaA TSAAnAA t1AA YAm- landic translation of Genesis puts it in just that way. And God said, Let us make man after our mind and our likeness; and God shaped man after His mind; after Gods mind shaped He him."
 What enables you or me to say, am, ! exist? What enables us to lpnw that fact? Mind. When think ing ceases, does not consciousness also cease? What Is man without Mind or ideas? A nonentity or non- existence. As e man "tllinketh {. SO Is he," and Msr. Eddy says on page 42 of Science and Health. "The belief that man has existence or mind separate from God Is Q dying error.' Divine ideas do no leave Mind; that Is, they are not separate or separated from the Mind in which they exist. They are forever one with Mind and partake of the char acter and substance of Mind. So we understand in Christian Science that man, being the compound idea or full representation of Mind, Is for ever one with Mind.
 It was his understanding Of God as the only Mind that enabled Christ Jesus to prove his sanship with God. He perceived that undeniable. abso- lute fact, the inseparabiiity of God and man. Never at any time did he disaSsociate himself from his divine source. He constantly declared his unity with God, his unity with Life and Love. He said, T and my Father are one" To him oneness with di- vine Being was not theory. It was Q fact to be lived and demonstrated He recognized quite naturally that God was actually his Mind, and he acted on that spiritual fact. Re- ferring to this, Mrs. Eddy says in Science and Health (p. 136), Jesus ~s'claiEned no intelligence, action, nor life separate from God"
 Naturally, if we live, move, and have our very being in God, as Paul declared, the oneness and eternal unity of God and man is established forever. This being the case, let us 1 see how this divine oneness operates in human experience. Suppose, for instance, that the so-called law of heredity has put upon an individual the cruel belief that he is constitu- tionally weak, lacink in strength, vigor and vitality; that he has no force or energy and is easily fa- itgued. What are strength, vigor vitality, and power? Are they ma terial? Did anyone ever see them9 No: they are wholly qualities of di- vine Mind. And how much of strength and power is there? Is it not infinite and immeasurable? And where is all this power and strength