Montana labor news., 1946-09-19

The Lecturer spoke substantially as
follows:
In this representative audience are
many who have been earnest students
of Christian Science for a long period,
many Others who started the study
more recently. and some. perhaps.
have not before attended a Christian
Science lecture. Usually when people
take up the study of Christian Science
they ere searching for release from
pain or sorrow. little dreaming that
the underlying Principle of Christian
Science is regeneration through a
clearer concept Of God and His laws
Two questions come naturally to the
beginner: - What is Christian Sci
ence? tol How does Christian Science
accomplish its healing work?
am sure there are some basic fun
damentals upon which we can all
agree. For example, is il not true that
practically everyone in this audience
is willing TO accept the conclusion that
there is. there must be, a creative in
telligence. which made and controls
the universe including man? This
supreme intelligence or Mind we all
no doubt are willing to call God. We
cannot conceive OF human mind or
power as being capable Of creating the
universe. holding the earth In Its
orbit. or maintaining the life and
beauty expressed in what we have
been taught to call nature. So we can
agree that God is not a person: He IS
infinite intelligence or Mind, the only
possible cause or creator.
Jesus the Exemplar
Christian Science is the infallible
law Of God. demonstrating the rule OF
spiritual healing which has always
been available. Christ Jesus came to
teach mortals how TO make use OF
this unerring Principle. to show man.
kind how to rise above the ills. dis
cords. and disasters Of human living
through consciousness of mans atone
ment with infinite Spirit or Mind.
Jesus declared that his healing work
was accomplished through his utiliza-
ton OF divine power. He said. Il can
OF mine own self do nothing And
again he declared, The Father that
dwelleth in me. he doeth the works
Through an understanding OF the
ever-presence and availability OF the
one omnipotent God or father, mira
cles were performed by the ancient
prophets: but until Jesus taught and
illustrated the law Of healing. through
his comprehension of God as Love
only a few seemed able to utilize this
divine Principle successfully IN dis
polling the inharmonies OF human at
fairs.
A careful p~erusal Of the record In
the New Testament Of Jesus healing
work reveals the fact that he used nc
drugs. no manipulation, nor materia
hygience, though he healed all manner
Of disease and raised the dead. Hi!
disciples, obedient to the teaching o
Jesus. were successful in healing an
later many Of the early Christian
who had never seen the human Jesus
notably the Apostle Paul, did man
nightly works in the lame OF tn
Master.
The scientific method employed b
Jesus is recorded in the inspired wrf
ings Of the Bible. a fact which b.
comes more and more evident ate
the way has been pointed out, bl
this was not discovered until 1856
1t was then that Mary Baker Ed,
after a lifetime Of faithful Bible stud
and communion with God, d~iscovere
the divine laws Of healing whic
Christ Jesus utilized. She named h
discovery Christian Science. and,
the years which followed, spent In II
tening for divine revelation, she wro
down, and thereby made easily ava
able TO all, the scientific rules
Christian healing. Her book "Scien
and Health with Key to the Scrl
lures contains the complete stat
ment OF Christian Science.
II was really no 80 very lone al
that Christian Science became ava
able through its D%iscoyerer and Four
er. Mrs. Eddy. In a comparative
short space Of time 1t has been firm
established nearly all over the wol
as a workable system.