The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-10-31
A Lecture ON
Christian Science
Entitled
Christian Science Proclaims
the Gospel of Freedom


the Gospel Of Freedom
by
Margaret Morrison, C.S.
of Chicago, Illinois
| Member Of the Board Of Lectureship OF
| The Mother Church. The First Church OF
Christ, Scientist, In Boston. Massachusetts,
| Perhaps no saying of Jesus the
Christ is more familiar or more fire.
quently quoted than that ringing
| statement to his disciples given in the
Gospel of John: eff We continue in my
word, then are We my disciples indeed;
and We shall know the truth, and the
truth shall make you Free" The hui
man race has always been engaged in
| a struggle for freedom. Many have
been the wars fought in the hope of
gaining or maintaining this freedom
freedom Of the individual to worship
according to his conscience and to
work out his own salvation. But the
repetition Of history proves that
| freedom does not come through the
| devastations of war, but through the
enlightenment of Truth-that Truth
which was demonstrated by Christ
Jesus, discovered in 1866 by Mary
Baker Eddy, and later elucidated by
her in it's exact Science. On page 226
| of the Christian Science textbook,
"Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy, we read:
"The voice of God in behalf Of the
African slave was still echoing in our
land, when the voice of the herald of
this new crusade sounded the keynote
of universal freedom, asking fuller
acknowledgment Of the rights Of man
as Son of God, demanding that the
fetter of sin, sickness, and death be
| stricken from the human mind and
that it's freedom be won, not through
human warfare, not with bayonet and
blood, but through Christ's divine
Science"
There was a condition attached to
| Jesus promise of freedom-"H We
continue in my word" What is this
word of Jesus in which one must con-
tinue? Even this: "God is a Spirit"
or more accurately translated, "God
is Spirit "and they that worship
him must worship him in spirit and
in truth" This, then, is our starting
point from which to know that truth
which reveals the freedom Of man:
"God is Spirit"
Perhaps that word Esprit" may
seem bit nebulous, spectral, unsolid,
or impractical to those unaccustomed
to its use in Christian Science, SO let
us consider it in contrast to that which
is called matter, which seems to US so
familiar, practical, and solid. That
which is called matter is mindless;
Spirit is Mind. So-called matter Is
nonintelligent; Spirit is divine intelli-
gence. Matter is finite, limited; Spirit
is infinite, measureless. Matter is
inanimate, feelingless; Spirit is ami
mate, divine Love. Matter is sub
Shameless, liable to discord and decay;
Spirit is substance, immortal, indie
structible, conscious substance. So
called matter or mortal mind is the
medium of death; Spirit is eternal
Life. In other words, Spirit is causa-
ton, the one Supreme Being, immortal
Mind, omniscient intelligence.
God to be God must be one, sharing
His power with no other, and to be
creative He must be good; so we have
one infinite good God who is creative
intelligence or Mind. To worship Him
Sin spirit and in truth" is to honor
Him as Spirit with our every concept
Of Life and it's activities, to acknowl-
edge no life or mind apart from Him.
This is the word or teaching of Jesus.
Let us continue in this word and find
the simplicity and freedom Of Life,
indivisible in the embodiment Of its
own infinite being.
Just what does this mean to us here
today? Is it practical? Yes, my
friends, it is the most practical thing
you can know. Love is more practical
than fear or hate; it bestows and
maintains harmony. Joy is more prac-
teal than grief; it strengthens and
WHITES. Peace is more practical than
strife; it constructs and establishes.
Honesty is more practical than chi
canery; it prospers and succeeds.
To be thus spiritually-minded does
not cause one to drift into abstrac-
tions, into dreamy absentness from
activity. To be truly spiritually
minded is to be in an ever-increasing
degree alert, intelligent, resourceful,
industrious, persistent in good, wise,
kind, generous, aware Of omnipotence,
selfess, triumphant.
Accepting this true concept Of God
and man, we find man to be as free
as the "fetterless Mind" Of which he
is the expression. Man, in Truth, is
just as free from disease and all evil
as is God, whose reflection he is.
Jesus proved this irrefutably in his
healing works, and Christian Science
is, in degree, proving it today. Sick
ness and disease are the lies of that