The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-02-12
A Lecture on
Christian Science
Entitled
Christian Science: Its
Restorative Mission
by
Earl McCloud, C.S.B.
of San Antonio, Texas


Member Of the Board Of Lectureship OF
The Mother Church. The First Church Of
Christ. Scientist. in Boston. Massachusetts
Never has the world been more in
need of restorative agency than to-
day. Material sense is shrieking that
destruction is stalking the earth and
bringing it to a state of devastation
from which it will never recover.
Encouragement and desperation
sit at the council tables of the nations,
crying to them: "Where is your
God?"
Those who consider themselves wise
in this worlds wisdom seek to answer
this query with some philosophy or
ism, forgetting that deeply significant
prophecy of Isaiah concerning the
coming of Christ Jesus, of whom he
said: 'The Spirit of the Lord God is
upon me; because the Lord hath
anointed me to preach good tidings
unto the meek; he hath sent me to
bind up the brokenhearted, to pro-
claim liberty to the captives, and the
opening Of the prison to them that
are bound; to proclaim the acceptable
year of the Lord, and the day of veng-
eance of our God; to comfort all that
mourn; to appoint unto them that
mourn in Zion, to give unto them
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for
mourning, the garment of praise for
the spirit Of heaviness; that they
might be called trees of righteousness.
the planting of the Lord, that he
might be glorifed."
In Luke's Gospel we are told that
Jesus read aloud in the synagogue at
Nazareth this prophecy, and acknowl-
edged its application to himself and
his work in these words: "This day is
this scripture fulfilled in your ears"
Works of Restoration
Later, in Marks account, as Jesus
is about to be separated from his dis
ciples, he tells them of the works Of
restoration he is intrusting to them in
these words: "And these signs shall
follow them that believe; in my name
shall they cast out devils; they shall
speak with new tongues; they shall
take up serpents; and if they drink
any deadly thing, it shall not hurt
them; they shall lay hands on the sick,
and they shall recover. +. And they
went forth, and preached every where.
the Lord working with them, and con-
firming the word with signs follow
ing"
And these were the tests our Mas
ter set for those primitive Christians,
the works of restoration they must do
to prove themselves in truth his faith
full followers.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer
and Founder of Christian Science, the
author Of it's textbook, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
and it's forever Leader, states as her
purpose in the Historical Sketch" in
the Manual of The Mother Church
Up. ~: ITO organize a church de-
signed to commemorate the word and
works of our Master, which should re-
instate primitive Christianity and it's
lost element of healing"
Amidst all the present-day confu-
sion of thought and action, what glo-
rious peace and freedom are enjoyed
by the Christian Scientist, who, with
singleness of vision, clings to God,
knowing that He, the only Cause and
creator, is the Saviour of the world
from its own false conclusions and
fears!
Right Sense of Deity
How grateful all should be for the
teachings Of Christian Science, which
|. have restored to the world right
sense of Deity! Not only God afar
off, but God at hand-"C Closer is He
than breathing, and nearer than hands
and feet" A God who is everywhere
present, everywhere all powerful,
everywhere all-knowing. A God who
knows no evil, who sanctions it not;
who says to the man of His creating:
"You are free, whole, perfect, strong,
intelligent, healthy, prosperous, pro-
gressive, and forever at peace with
thy brethren"
This God-the only God-the God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; of
Moses, Elijah, and Elisha; the God of
Isaiah, jeremiah, and Malachi; the
God taught and exemplifed by Jesus
and his disciples, is just as available
today as He was centuries ago. Now,
as then, He it is, as the Psalmist sang,
"who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
who healeth all thy diseases; who re-
deemeth thy life from destruction;
who crowneth thee with lovingkind-
ness and tender mercies." Not God
Of battles, not a God Of disasters,
floods, storms, and earthquakes, but
that God who speaks today, as CT
yore, through the "still small voice" Of
Mind. The God who loves all man.
kind and who, relied upon, will lead
all mankind in the ways Of Love, and
away from the ways of hatred, malice,
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