Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1941-04-04
A Lecture on
Christian Science
Entitled
Christian Science: Its Practical
Availability
by

AvaIlaDlllty
by
Louise Knight Wheatley Cook, C.S.B.
of Kansas City, Missouri
Member of the Board Of Lectureship OF
The Mother Church. The First Church OF
Ohrist, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts
If anyone is under the impression
that Christian Science is difficult, hard
to understand, may l disabuse his
mind of that at the very outset?
Christian Science does deal with the
most stupendous facts of existence;
yet these facts may be set forth with
simplicity. Jesus, the Christ, the
greatest teacher the world has ever
known, did this. Those who followed
him came in many cases from the
humber walks of life, were unlettered
and unlearned, and yet so well did
they assimilate the tremendous truths
he taught that they continued to put
them into practice long after he had
left them.
Nearly twenty centuries went by,
and then one who had long been an
earnest searcher for Truth, a New
England woman, Mary Baker Eddy,
the Discoverer and Founder of Chris
tian Science, while reading in her
Bible of the healing of the man taken
with the palsy, was herself healed of
a physical difficulty said to be incur
able. With this healing came the
conviction that all the mighty works
Of Jesus were founded not upon his
human personality, but were based
upon an ever-operative, ever-available,
and exact science. For three years
she devoted herself to the discovery of
this rule, and eventually placed the
results of her Investigations in her
book, "Science and Health with Key
to the Scriptures. And then a sleep
ing world woke up.
The field which Christian Science
opens before us is inconceivably vast.
Human conjecture has, as yet,
glimpsed but a small part Of the
change which it is destined to make
in world sadly in need of some radi-
cal readjustment. And Christian
Science is radical. 1t upsets human
theories, breaks down pretense and
sham, skaters conclusions accepted
unthinkingly but never investigated,
and carries thought steadily and
surely from provable premise to prov
able conclusion. It's basis rests upon
the Scriptural authority that since
man was made in the image and like
ness Of God, and since God is Spirit,
man is, must be spiritual.
The cause of every i'll "that flesh
IL heir to" lies rooted in the almost
universal belief that man is material,
instead of spiritual. Upon this one
erroneous premise mortal mind rests
It's false conclusions, and when we
destroy this, it has nothing left. An
nul it with the counterfeit that man
il spiritual, he is not material. Mrs.
Eddy says (Science and Health, p.
369), "In proportion as matter loses to
human sense all entity as man, in
that proportion does man become it's
master" Arise from the false con-
seriousness which would persuade you
to say about yourself: / am sick. l
am poor. ! am alone. l am afraid.
am unhappy. / am discouraged. /
am wearying for something which l
cannot have. / am tired. / am cross.
am a failure. / am not going to try
any more.
Instead of dishonoring God by main
tanning that perfect creator made an
imperfect creation, and that this Gre
alton is a miserable failure, doing
nothing right, and everything wrong,
why not instantly assert the real
mans eternal atoneness with Spirit,
and know that he is all that is lovely
and good and true, for he lives, moves,
and has his being in God? AS Truths
reflection, man cannot know a single
one Of those Infamous lies, for Truth
surely knows them not! If Truth
knew them, they would be true. If
they were true, they would be real.
II they were real, they would be
eternal. II they were eternal, they
would be incapable of change, and
man would be like that forever.
Perhaps an important decision is to
be made, and we doubt our ability to
make it. We are still vacillating, un-
certain, hating between two opinions.
What then? Is Christian Science
practically available to help us in
this? Will an understanding of our
relationship to God free us from this
uncertainty? 1t certainly will, and it
already has, in innumerable instances.
Make your strong declarations of
truth. Nothing is hidden to the Mind
which already knows all, hence it is
not hidden to Minds reflection, man.
The right answer is at hand, just
waiting. It is bound to come. It cam
not help coming, any more than the
answer to a problem in mathematics
can help "coming" when one applies
the rule. Continue your work of
knowing that your affairs are not in
the hands of persons, but in the care
Of God. The requests of personality
and the demands of Princin1e NAV