Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-01-24
San Francisco Man
Gives Lecture On
Christian Science

Ross, C. S. B., of San Francisco, in
lecture on Christian Science given
at the Lyric Theatre in Baltimore.
Mr.. Ross, a member of The Christian
Science Board of Lectureship Of The
Mother Church, The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, spoke
under the auspices of First Church Of
Christ, Scientist, of Baltimore, Mary
land.
Man an Exhibit of Life
"It is through man." Mr.. Ross con-
tinued, chat everlasting Life is made
manifest. Man therefore cannot do
otherwise than feel the constant ex-
uberance of life. Really then he cannot
know suffering because Life can brook
no opposition. The functions of Life
cannot be silenced or slowed down.
They are in perpetual and unlabored
operation even to the uttermost re-
cesses of real being. One who medi-
tates on these truths, reasons them
out, and assimilates them, will gradu-
ally prove the Christian Science
proposition that disease is belief, mes
tinguished from actuality.
Intelligent prayer consists, there
fore, not in apprising God of our needs
and beseeching Him to supply them
according to our views, but rather in
thankfully recognizing that in pro-
viding for man He has left nothing
undone. Jesus assures US, Your
Father knoweth what things We have
need Of before We ask Him. Is it not
time we began Fundamentally to admit
this glorious fact, instead of, through
doubt and fear, virtually denying or
questioning it?
"How touchingly it is illustrated in
the experience Of Hagarl Driven from
Abraham's home because Of Sarah's
jealousy, she wandered with her son
Ishmael in the wilderness Of Beer
sheeba. When their supply Of water
was exhausted, she laid the boy under
a shrub and sat down out of sight to
await events. What aileth thee,
Hagar?' called the angel Of God out
Of heaven. Fear not Then did God
open her eyes to a well Of water close
at hand"
Everlasting Life
"What authority have we for the
assertion that Life is God ?" questioned
the speaker. "The Bible! TN Him was
life and the life was light of men,
said John. The disciple was simply re-
stating what Jesus himself had de-
clared when, speaking with the Sa-
marian woman at Jacobs Well, he
said, God is a Spirit Spirit and
Life are essentially the same. The
words are different. The ideas iden-
tical.
Life is the one universal, undeni-
able fact. The most confirmed skeptic
never questions the presence Of Life;
never doubts that he lives. What is
man, after all, if he is not a mani
festation Of everlasting Life?
Admittedly we do not, through
physical sense, cognize Life in it's
perfection either in man, the tree, or
in the world at large. We see there
only hint, promise, Of the splendor
which will appear when physical sense
yields to spiritual sense. For it must
be borne in mind that there are not
two worlds, two creations, two men.
Really there is only one universe, and
that spiritual; only one man, and that
spiritual, in the image and likeness of
God. All suggestions and indications
to the contrary are of the ignorance
and mesmerism which would cloud our
vision and make us believe in those
two imposters, materiality and NOR
tality."
Challenge to Disease
"Yet on all sides is heard the argu-
ment that man is a mortal" the lee
turer continued. "Is it not deplorable
what a person will say about himself,
instead of insisting upon the fact that
man is the noblest work of God? The
argument for mortality has been car
ried on all down the ages. Even since
the human race has had a language,
people have pictured disease, with the
result that there has been built up a
universal belief or illusion or mes
merism of mortality.
"Today this mesmerism, like the
rain, falls down upon the just and the
unjust. One need commit no specific
wrong or harbor any particular fear
OF fault in order to become vulnerable
to disease. It is enough that he believe
in disease or expect it. And this liza
bility will continue until men and
women come more definitely into the
recognition Of perfect God and perfect
man. AS they advance in this under
standing, they will be able to chal-
lenge more successfully than before
the inroads Of mortality.
"They will be like David going out
TO meet Goliath. Goliath had expected
q man armed with sword or a spear,
He knew not how to defend himself
against David's sling. Today Christian
Science has put a weapon in your
hand which disease and evil know
nothing about. They cannot long re-
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