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A Lecture on
Christian Science
Entitled
Christian Science PrOclaims
the Gospel of Freedom
by
Margaret Morrison, C.S.
of Chicago, Illinois
1Gaxnber of the Board Of Lectureship Of
$ke Mother Church. The First Church OF
CHRIST. Scientist, In Boston, Massachusetts

Perhaps no saying of Jesus the
Christ is more familiar or more fire.
uuently 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 hu-
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 its 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 a Son of God, demanding that the
fetter of sin, sickness, and death be
stricken from the human mind and
that its 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-"1f we
continue in my word" What is this
word of Jesus in which one must con-
tinue? Even this: "God is Spirit"
or more accurately translated, "God
is Spirit 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 a bit nebulous, spectral, unsolid,
or impractical to those unaccustomed
to it's use in Christian Science, so let
rus 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-
4ence. Matter is finite, limited; Spirit
is infinite, measureless. Matter is
inanimate, feelingless; Spirit is ami
mate, divine Love. Matter is SUBJ
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
m diligence or Mind. To worship Him
Gin spirit and in truth" is to honor
Him ~ 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 it's
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
Shsan 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.
10 be thus spirtually-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,
selAess, triumphant.
Accepting this true concept OF God
and man, we find man to be. as free
.as the "fetterless Mind" of which ne
is the expression. Man, in Truth, is
lust as free from disease and all evil
AZ il God, whose reflection ne is.
Jesus proved this irrefutably in his
healing works, and Christian Science
is, in a degree, proving it today. Sick
ness and disease are the lies OF that
carnal mind which is the father Of its
own lies. They are part OF the myth
"the atheism of matter" Keeping this
in mind, the spiritual healing OF the
most malignant and stubborn disease
is seen as a natural and norma
activity of the perfect Mind that is
God, and the only Mind that, in reality
has existence. Mrs. Eddy explains
l. Il, ~, "a 4nX