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of My limited time will permit me to tell very little about Christian Science and I could not tell all about it had Iun- 1imited time, because Christian Science is the c0nstant1unfolding of spiritual ideas and knowledge that will'cease only when eternity ends and will be known in its completeness and full fngition only as we know God. Science the satisfying agent ivherebi iii ills that have presented themselves to men have been destroyed and I made we . Christian Science recognizes nothin as having reality that is not eternal; % trust you will clearly understand when in the course of my remarks the reality of anything Is questioned. I mean there by, it is not immutable and God like, is to be overcome and deStmyed hence is not eternal therefore not real. Starting from the fundamental basis that God is all in all led to the discov- ery of the Principle which actuated the Master and made possible his demon- strations of healing. and the overcomâ€" ing of the world, the flesh and the devil or evil, which were left by him for man's guidance in all ages. This dis. cove removes from the miraculous all that can: did, and reveals it as being so divinely natural that each of us may work out his individual salvation from this instant on the self-saine lines as did the Master. Christian Science teaches belief in the one indivisihle God. the divinity of the Christ, in the eternality of the Holy Spirit, and in the teachings of the in- spired ‘Scriptigre. h Ir. Frsnk ll. Loousrd. C. .s. B..of Brooklyn. New York.s member 0! tbs Chris“!!! Science Lecture Board. gs" s very interesting and lsrgely st- unned lecture st. the Christin: Science church Inst Tnesdsy evening. Hr. Locus"! Is I very earnest. Ind enthusi- sstio slasher. sud his loam held the class “union of his hesrors lie was lutmduoed by Judge Willism G: Ewing. '0! mi. city. Mr. Loonud's subject was “Deanna-able Religion." lid "10‘1an in full is given below. Luau AID szum :â€" I have told you this story 0! my heal- ing because I believe we are aIWayB 1n: terested to kno‘w, where one is gems to tell us‘ anything, whether He has proved the fundamental basis of his remarks by actual demonstration. I shall, however, endeavor to tell what it teaches about sin,‘ sicknesa, death and kindred evils in such a man- ner that all Hsliall be enabled to give Scientific Christianity intelligent consid- eration. Almhmfl.LmNARD,C.S B. olilmflyn.N¢vak.Mcf (In WWMdmedTb MM‘CUH. Stuntinhflatomflamm ‘ I was under treatment for about three months and at- :he end of that time was well for the first time in my life and ever since have found Christian Something over twenty years ago, I was dying from the effects of an or- ganic trouble I had suffered with from birth. when my” attention was called to Christian Science. I had never heard of it before and had no idea as to what it was. but ”when I was told it was mething that might heal me I was eager to try~it. I don‘t know whether I was more surprised or gratified at the result. I have done uh; {md shall talk to you from this standpoint rather than a theo- retical one. At‘ this {mint all similarity between CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “DEMONSTRABLE RELIGION.” we realize His inefiable lbvrerfofgllllls children, know that God’s man has never fallen and are at rest in the everlasting Arms. We‘have never had any legitimate right to _any such belief l The omni- presence of God destroys the possibility of His being personal. according to the a’ccepted definition of the word, and the fact that the Bible teaches “the King- dom of Heaven is within you” cer- tainly des‘roys the theorfly that heaven is a place. definitely set 0 in part of the infinite spnge for_ is occupgncy. : - I once remarked that no one could conceive of the love of God until he knew Him from the Christian Science standpoint because from no other could one realize the blessed assurance of His ailâ€"sufficiency. A lady challenged the correctness of my statement and said she was nOt a Christian Scientist, but that no one could have a stronger sense of the abiding Love which is God than she had. - A nutnbe'r of months later the same lady came to me and said that she had become a Christian. Scientist and was fully c'onvinced thét believing God to be the author of both good and evil pre- cluded the possibility of perfect unity with Him. which is the only basis of the upderstanding of God as Love and Love a one. Thousands, of years .of false educa- tional theories, handed down from gene- ratiOn to generation. have led us to form a conception of Godlmodeled on the lines of mortal man and to conceive of ’Him as being seated on a great White throne in some far off place, called heaven, presiding over the des- tinies "of man. When we know that God is love we have rea‘ched the unassailable heights of Life Eternal and are steadfast in its demonstration. Christian S c i e n c e. teaches us that God is {Love and that for us. his children, He has nothing in =tore but goodâ€"â€"all good; the, divine Love which is our protection and salva- tion is necessary wrath unto all things unlike Him, because it is, to them,‘ de- struction. God's idea about Himself. This means nothing so long as it is confined to words, but. when it is made a livable actuality and we know. through Chris- tian Science how to “heal the sick. cleanse the lepers" and “mst out devils." needing and using nothing save his word, separating religion from all sys- tems of. me'd'icine for tim_e and etefnity, All will agree that there must be a primal or first cause and all chri en- dom venerates it as God. the Giv r of all good. We have never had any ruli- zation of what God is and the relation- shig existing between him and man until Christian Science has taught us in a practical way that He in Love and that man iy: really, n95 aflegoriully, l‘_jv_ ' I its teachings and those commonly acâ€" cepted ccaae. because Christian Science reveals to us God as “an ever-present helg in trouble” now, without diacrimi~ man: as to the kind of trouble; while the ordinary teachings put of! the rom- i<ed help until an undesired uture after death, and even then for moat of us makes it rather doubtful. Christian Science tea'chea us to live and wignrhile theology has taught us we had to die to win. Christian Science teaches us what life is and how to live it and is worthy the most exhaustive investiga- non. The te'aching is 'very K'cleaf that the "an ever-present without discrimi- of Itouble; while put of! the rom- undesired uture Again, we are taught that‘the ".wages of sin is death;" if this is true, *then we have to admit that God, if He he the creator of~death, ‘ia the creator of sin. You annot escape this conclusion by saying that He only permits sin, for to permit it He must know it, and how can He know it when the Bible teaches us “God is of-purer eyes than to behold evil and cal-mot look on iniquity.” I: III‘ I , ,, e._.,_.-,. If “God is of purer eyes than to‘be- hold evil and cannot lookon inquity,” if He created death, and death is the wages if sin, then it logically follows that He created sin and that'it is not iniquity but is good; in the light of rea- son we cannot believe this! In, the light of logic we cannot sustain it! In the light of Love we cannot tolerate it and our whole heart leaps in joy at the glad consciousness that He neither created sin nor its ultimate, death. Christian Scientists are often con~ demned because they.refer to disease as sin, but are they not clinging close to the Scriptures in doing so? People accept it as a universal law that disease is the natural and necessary forerunner of death. The Scriptures teach us. death is the wages bf sin! Then in harmony with the Scriptures nothing can cause death but sin, and the teaching of Chris- tian Science relative to death is simply corrghofative of the_Bihle teaching we look for the origin of the belief in death and sin save in the mortal conâ€" sciousness? The moral consciousness _is to be put 05 with the "old man and his deeds.” As it is put off and is sup: erceded by the realization of immortal consciousness, man shall cease to know sin and death and shall manifest eternal Life, being “perfect ev_en as" his "Father which Is in heaven is perfect.” ' The universal belief about death is that it is the entrance to Heaven or the gateway to hell. The logical outcome God as a supposed creator of good and evil, of life and death, is not the God We ChriStian Scientists know, nor is he the God the inspired Scriptures teach ,us of. The Bible tells us that God is good, and that' he is omnipotent, om- niscient, and omniptesent, and the same yesterday, to-day and forever. This be- ing tvue, that which He creates 0: does must be slug 3 the same and alwa s flood. How, en (to be logical) ooud e give Life and Lite be good, and then ve Death and have Death be good? enl life was good what would be- 'come of death, and when death was good what would become of life? Let us look at it front another: point. Inn- e 1: God created both lite'lni death. and they are: part Of His finished cre- ation and therefore as eternal as their Crgatorn how cagl they’boghnexist eter- _“-J ----- w-u. v‘vl' nally, w'hen oneâ€"{s as certainly the anni- hilatjt‘on of the other as light ls of dark- nets Life is creative and death destructive. so that God, the primal and only cre- ator, must-be Life and not Death. and therefore death is not rea! but is the suppdsitional negation of or belief in the gbscnge of Life. Then where shall a definite location. but, from we stand- int of Spirit; teaches us that God’s se is Love and that we, the “temples oi the Living God.” are his or Love’t many individual reflections. -T he genenl belief is that everythin we see, hear at know. whether 3 bad or indifferent, is created by him for some mysterious purpose, an that in some unthinkgble way His ry is always manifested in ev‘erythmg. no maltte‘r. how hortible it may be. @510“! ,9! Heaven ,n .-...--.~ an I l we mean of. the laying “Glory “ti: God in ii: Highest. ee on earth, good will to- mgd llinen." F h ' e - nu writes, “ or t ere is no respect of persons' mth God.” Then if a man sic: of sin my turn to God for relief hmtttng' ' its 9-1 sibilines and prove its truth by t ir works? _ Hutnaneense cannot conceive of the indivxduahty of God. but to think of him as a person, deified, located in one s or place is indefensible, because e could not be omnipresent and be in less than all of infinite space. Even if God be such a person, is it not true that He must have a mind'that controls His body, and which must have pre- ceded it. From this viewpoint is not the Christian Science statement that God is infinite Mind, and that. there- fore, all is Mind and Mind’s idea, the most. practical, reasonable and logical solution of the subject? ‘ The contention that God is infinite Mind carries'with it the logical conclu- sion_ that the Infinite cannot think of finite things or have finite ideas! Every thought emanating from Mind or God must be either infinitely good or infinite- ly bad. There can be no dispute on this point, for one is the antithesis of the other, henoe all reality must be either ,absolute good or absolute bad, without qualification. * For the illustration of this point let us imagine all the white lead in the World gathered into one vast lake where it lies absolutely pure and unsullied. Take a pin, dip it into a bottle of ink, and sink this ink-covered point into the white lcarl. Mix in just that little speck of blackness: will the lead ever be absolutely pure white again? No; you may not be able to soothe stain. but it is there forever. ' be absolutely pure white again? No: you may not be able to sce‘the stain. but it is there forever. ' . If Infinite Mind ever had for one in- stant an idea. perception or conception of sin, in that very instant it ceased to be absolutely sinless.‘ You may unwell assert that an immovable object and an irresistible force can occupy the same place at the same time; that love and hate. truth and a lie. intelligence and non-intelligence are all synonymous, u to cling to the unseemly belief that the good God creates. permits} seen or of this belief would 1 us to kill the inaccem infant to ' e its going to Haven and to co d the action of the native women of India in throwing theit babes into the Ganges as based on gonad mm But the belief that death I. 3 friend is fallacious. Death in an enemy. Chyistptoved i.” unrealjty Ind have they yet reached the point where they can eve 'cue brought to them, but, like the in! Son, they have darted on their journey back to their Falha’s house and shall (Hmâ€" ...-. v,- -_..u\. IV curr‘ problem in mathematics 9 correctness of the principle the_ problem In attainm- hows sin. The Cliéi reached the come the u have they 3 chfnges, and, had it been to owed ab- soutely, the answer would have been eprrect. _This is true alga pf the ink!- ~~‘-J -Vvl was". and. had it "My, the. apswer lible i’rinqple of I When that is follow God. after He finished His.cmtive work. called it "very good" and rested. Look around you and see the. misery. shame. dishonesty. immorality; degra- 0m. law DIGod, the failure to pcrspn, I: it not true e a mind that controis rhich must have pre- ghis viewpoint is not cortecdy lolve prove the in- ; 933d" which