Milford chronicle., 1956-11-30
delivered at
Milford,
Delaware
GRANGE
HALL |
Sunday
Nov. 18th

The lecturer spoke substantially
as follows:
If were to ask each one of you
mere to state briefly your greatest
need, what would you say? One
who is in bondage to sickness and
suffering would probably say, 81
need to be free from disease"
One who is burdened with fear of
lack would say, 81 need freedom
from limitation and insuficiency."
Others might say that their need
is freedom from grief, loneliness,
fear, misplacement, domination,
lack. of adjustment, or from other
limiting phases of human expert
ence. My friends, all of these limi-
tations are proved unreal, and the
need for freedom is met through
the understanding of God and man
as revealed in Christian Science.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discov-
erer and Founder of Christian Sci
ence, states in the Christian Science
textbook, Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures" (p. 494),
"Divine Love always has met and
always will meet every human
need" Actually what is your one
great need? Your need is to know
God, to feel His presence and ac-
knowledge His power, to accept the
Christ into your consciousness, and
to recognize your true selfhood as
the child of God. Through the
revelation of Christian Science
every human need is met, and true
freedom can be experienced now.
Christian Science Meets the
Human Need for Freedom
The unselfsh motive of Mary
Baker Eddy in giving her discov-
cry to the world, founding the
great movement, and providing for
its permanence through the Man
ual of The Mother Church, was to
free mankind from the bondage of
sin, suffering, sensuality, and limi-
tations. An itinerant minister
preaching to his congregation in
lonely village, far removed from
frequented highways, asked the
pertinent question, why do suf-
fer hardShipS, and travel over dan
gerous paths to come and preach
to you?" He answered: Because /
cannot eat my bread alone. I must
share it." Mary Baker Eddy could
not eat her bread alone. She writes
(Science and Health, PIP. 226, 227):
81 saw before me the sick, wearing
out years of servitude to an unreal
master in the belief that the body
governed them, rather than Mind.
''The lame, the deaf, the dumb,
the blind, the sick, the sensual, the
sinner, wished to save from the
slavery of their own beliefs and
from the educational systems of the
Pharaohs, who to-day, as of yore,
hold the children of Israel in bond
age. / saw before me the awful
conflict, the Red Sea and the will
derness; but pressed on through
faith in God, trusting Truth, the
strong deliverer, to guide me into
the land of Christian Science,
where fetters fall and the rights of
man are fully known and acknowl-
edged"
''The land of Christian Science!
The purpose of this lecture is to
give to those of open thought and
receptive heart a glimpse of "the
land of Christian Science" to
point the way of spiritual freedom
wherein higher views of ethical,
moral, and spiritual values lead
mankind out of false beliefs to the
true freedom coincident with the
understanding of God as divine
Principle, and of man as His image,
unfettered, joyous, ageleSs, whole,
and free. During this hour we can
catch glimpSes of the glorious free
dom attainable through the study
and practice of Christian Science,
views which I hope will inspire
many to explore its vast wealth of
spiritual inspiration for themselves
and to seek opportunities to waken
others to its nature and worth.
Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Chris
tian Science was the elimination
of years of investigation, prayer,
and watching, and of an earnest,
tireleSs search for the rule of
Christian healing which she was
convinced lay behind the healings
of Christ Jesus and his early fol-
lowers. She was inspired and sus-
tanned by divine Love in her great
work.
Christian Science Is Based on
the Bible
When understood in the light of
Christian Science, the Bible reveals
the way of true freedom. A Chris
tian Scientist who had been invited
to give brief readings on Christian
Science at an event in which a