The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-09

of Christ, Scientist, this city, V McCloud's subject was, Christian .alnment." His lecture in part was a
 What is it we are seeking! EIeIy- 'ouy, whether consciously 0; ui.c on- 'clouSly is seeking after so,lethlng Health, plenty, education, success happiness, culture, harmony peace these are only few 0f those aeedful things for which we, and those around us. are reach' Ig out ara hoping to attain. Amos. every .niilg-good or bad-is at times the aim or purpose of mankind. We NIen can ascertain t'e Sta.e cf oEr orogress-spiritually or otherwise 2y determining what is cl.: eoal ln consciousness.
 Paul points out the need Tor seek ing and striving after good III hlS epiStle to the Philippians wlelt !1p says, "Brethern, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this oIe thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, in reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark Ivr the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.'
 We. who are students of Christian Science, have come to know that God, the source and origin of all ic the constant and continuous Giver of good-and of good alone-to all His children everywhere.
 One among the many great scrv- ices rendered to the world by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discovered Of Christian Science; the FoundeB ot The Church of Christ, scientist. Its forever LeaLer. anc the authuI of Its textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" is her teaching that humanity na: the right always to an aUGdi..ncnt Of good-and good alone--bece Use God has created nothing else. and certainly has meant hem to have and to enjoy nodling less.
 Mankind's Need for Joy
 Jesus said, in teaching k.s GoG- urine, Your joy no man takeJn from you;" but, as one observes tl,a goings and comings of mankind, what is his impression as to the apparent greatest need of huma.4itJ : today?
 It is joy-eXpectant and confident joy! What worry fear, pain greed jealousy, hatred, malice, and li.n:ta . tion are seen pictured upOL thr faces of those who scurry or creep Dy uS-each seeking way out Of difficulties, but apparently looking ill the wrong direction for the at tainment of relief! There is nothing in matter or material IT.. .ai5 with winch to meet this demand Tor nelp. Alas. we know from ."..g e. pegience that that is not l;ce way out. We have tried all those i.atlS and found each only sEc" rough, uead-end street. from which ell have had to retreat in confusion. tusc llrniChrlshuh -
 Here we have this world of ol,ts groping in a mist of it's own making stumbling and falling, nursing :ts wounds, it's hunger for peace and coMfort, and all because 1t has con- fused material knowledge with dl- vine intelligence: it has been looh- ing in the wrong direction in itS efforts to evade this maze and mo- rass of misery.
 Christian Science is pointing the world to the one way out-comple, ,e and joyous reliance upon the Gcd and architect of the universe, who planned everything so differently for us all.
 The Bible, that precious vo.ulA9 which, with our textbook, Was O. dained by Mrs. Eddy to be me Jolnl pastor of the Church of Christ, Scientist Manual, Art. XIV. Sect D, teens with admonitions |! ue glad and rejoice, to look D G : With joyous expectancy of the at tainment of good-and good alol4 }
 Our Father Knows Our Needs
 An all-good God certainly Wou q not have counseled us to turn .o Him with confidence and expcct- ancy if He had TO plar1ed and been prepared to care for all oIr needs. Christ Jesus has 5o.d US God already knows what things Vt need before we ask. And ''e n25 Counseled US to pray, believing 5:at we receive what we need.
 What the world needs today .S this joyous confidence in answered prayer: in the home, on the pay ground. in business in school, oh the attlefield-Whether or land, on or under the sea, or ir the air On all sides We find evidences oi this aroused appreciation of the ef- fectivenesS of prayer-a fervant reaching out to the Giver Of good (and of good alone) for S. vatlIn from the encroachments of evil,
 Tie chapter on Prayer in tfe Christian Science teEt.oOf points out the proper way of approaching God. It shows that divine Love is ever available to all mankind urde all circumstances. It recommends silent prayer as most conducive to active results. It shows the right desire itself is prayer. It uemon- Strates that prayer must incluue an absolute faith in joyou. attain u.Cnt. It points Civ th., we should not attempt to use praye4 as a confessional, to tell God that which He already knows, or lgnOrdntly To seek to influence God by praise 10 increase His already bountif'l o,.,- pouings. It shows the error of pleading With God as one would plead with mankind; the erior of reminding God to oo what all eady is done.
 Mrs. Eddy has made the follow ing important statement In the Christian Science textbook ID. 24G) . Life and its faculties are no, neaS- urea by calendars. The perfect and immortal are the eternal likeness of their Maker"
 Mankind, on the other hand, seem 10 accept the false belief tha. .hey are destined by divine dectee to 8 short span of life, in which chen efficiency is lessened by infalioy, childhood, and adolescence at its beginning, and by waning towers