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‘Thursday, October 25, 1945 On October 19, in the auditorium of Gorton school, Lake Forest, the following lecture was delivered by Mr. Paul A. Harsch C.S.B., of Toâ€" ledo, Ohio, under the auspices of the First Church of Christ, Scienâ€" tist, Lake Forest, Iilinois. Reader of that Church, introduced Mr. Harsch as follows: "I am happy to have the opporâ€" tunity of welcoming you as guests of First Church of Christ, Scienâ€" tist, of Lake Forest, under whose "There are numerous references in the Bible concerning giving. We read in Matthew that Jesus told the twelve disciples being sent forth to heal, ‘freely ye have reâ€" ceived, freely give.‘ * 7 "Christian Scientists all over the world as so grateful for a betterunâ€" derstanding of the reality concernâ€" ing life, health and happiness, that they feel that the most precious thing they have to offer their felâ€" lowman is an opportunity to learn something about the religion which they find so usable. ~ "Lectures given by members of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., offer such an opportunity. Our lecturer this evening is a memâ€" ber of this Board. «) ) It gives me great pleasure to preâ€" sent to you Mr..Paul A. Harsch, of Toledo, Ohio, who will tell us about ‘Christian Science: The Reâ€" ligion of Reality‘." universal boon. ‘This is not to claim that sickness is universal and that Inaimg thowsh in Ceubcat whhuge ‘The year 1866 was deeply signifiâ€" cant in world history. It brought to mankind the discovery ofChristian Science. In these United" States it mmmth promise, for there just hi brought to a close that specific effort of evil to destroy the unity of the states comprising the Union, which we know as the Civil War. The significance of the coinciâ€" dence of these two events should not be overlooked. < The Civil War years were most critical ones in our history. A New England thinker encouraging his felâ€" lows in that trying time wrote imâ€" illumingiting "the dim unknown" disâ€" elosed Deity to be indeed an everâ€" present and available reality, a conâ€" stant protection and a divine inâ€" spiration. God was no longer in the shadow." He now stood revealed. It has enabled them to leave behind, those accumulated beliefs which seem to result so often in disease, discord,â€" lack, and limitation. ‘This enabling light of divine Truth was Science. We have come together to pressively. One of his poems may be "Oft to every man and nation Comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with falseâ€" nmmlhhlkhtmmm to discern more clearly the about God and man. Discerning and applying this truth has enabled them in increasing numbers to live more ‘This religion of reality, this divine PBPECoe P0 t PACCET CORiml hmmufln:find inception 0# mortal discord. It shows ::n:::unlmflfin mony may be avoided or prevented. But this is mot all. If, from ignorance of the truth which Jesus said should make one free, sickness or suffering seems to be in evidence, Christian Science heals these conditions. It is, thereâ€" ”- . It should be stated at once, Pentingof Phynicer His are. by° mo means the whole of Christian Sciâ€" ence or even its most important purâ€" use Thigh Chritinn Supge mt mits that it is the true and absotute plan of saivation for all humanity, 2y U es is 0 " he declares that â€" * " .. . . behind the dim unknown Standeth God within the shadow Keeping watch above His own." I¢ was in that remarkable year of 1866 that the light of divine Truth Christian Science The Mother Charch, The First Church of ‘The lecturer spoke substantially as For the good or evilâ€"side." ‘Then, after referring to the fact A Universal Boon Because this is all true, Christian The "dim unknown" Revealed by" Paul A. Harsch, °C. $ of Toledo, Ohio Religion of Reality this lectureâ€"is being giver: In it he says, Second exempt from one or sinother of those diseaseâ€"breeding conditions, some of which have already been mentioned and which include fear, envy, disâ€" trust, tormenting lack, limitation, the belief of separation, and so on. Unless the presence of these mental conditions is detected (and frequently they are hidden deep in the subconscious mind) and then destroyed, physica} disease may and often does result. We shall consider and the necessity for casting them -:wâ€" illy Christian it could have had its i only in the Christ, Truth. through this avenue very naturally asks himself in the very beginning: "What do I know about the Christ?" simple words, "What is the Christ?" Suppose then we take a short jourâ€" ney at once in quest of an answer day in a conversation amongst Jesus and his disciples, said to the Master, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of were the conditions under which this Two of the Gospel writers tell us that it was in the neighborhood of hundred rivulets amongst the rocks and boulders at the foot of the cliff and then converging, reaches a small bodyof water known as Lake Merom. Some miles farther on it flows into the Sea of Galilee. . ‘There is an old tradition to the effect that after Herod had beheaded John the Baptist finding how it to destroy Jesus as well. A cohort of soldiers was sent to make the arrest. Learning of this, Jesus and his disâ€" ciples quickly left their homes and journeyed north up the Jordan valâ€" ley until they hed reached a point outside the jurisdiction of Herod. Here they were safe from arrest. ‘They then spent some days in that area, and no doubt talked much of the work which Jesus had done, how he had healed the sick, comforted the sorrowing, and in various ways demonstrated his knowledge of God It was at the close of these talks that Peter affirmed his conviction "the Son of the living God:" Peter aware of this ow more fully than expression of Life and that man could never be separated from Life. Peter also perceived that Jesus knew that God is Spirit. Happily we too are conscious now in increasing measure of this eternal fact. Peter‘s perception was not confined to this, however, because he must have seen that Jesus was proving, in all he did, that man is the expression of Spirit and, therefore, spiritual, eternal, and indestructible. Thanks to the light shed upon infinite being by Christian Science, â€"weâ€" humans, are perâ€" eelvlnclnn':&u,_ degree than ever before that man must be, that he is, Purthermore we know now, thanks :auamm Uimly y was = mmmm'uwwm'n know what John really meant when he said, "Now are we the sons of God." We know now that when the writer of the first chapter of Genesis said God made man in His own image and likeness he must have seen, even though dimily, that Spirit‘s creation could never be other than Of course, the world was told nineâ€" teen hundred years ago that God is Spirit. Jesus said it to the woman at the well at Sychar, and his words were preserved for posterity. Manâ€" kind has known of that declaration and the words which followed it, namely, that "they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Then, too, John, the beloved disciple, assured humanity that God is Love. And Love is Life itself. This was many years ago, but no one has .. EP OP Sn it was not until the last century that mortals were given that clear knowlâ€" édge of Deity they can now possess. tncretore mrouaty cwhet Lile and mmmm viduals thought of him. Let us inâ€" sist upon the fact that man is inâ€" deed spiritual, eternal, and indeâ€" structible. This is the reality, no matter what the physical evidence may appear to be. If we will do this for the brief period of this discusâ€" ‘l."flwhm feet on the solid rock of the ‘Truth. Seeing ourselves and others huu-mmn-ub- lishing dominion over the beâ€" Md:fl-fl“oh persistently assail morâ€" l un pregien on h-'-wfl ‘This, how» ever, is one of the very best ways in In the absolute sense, as Christian :â€":mmhtâ€"l‘u; 25 ang that man i the ks As Mrs. Eddy‘s discovery was esâ€" Peter‘s Enlarging Vision "Thou art the Christ" perr q K ieg anrer 4 4 this hour, then, let us u-hcflzhu“ of the soâ€"called one mortal -um-uun‘mu east but of thought; that by doing this freedom is established and man‘s that there is no intelligence or subâ€" the fullest sense, the religion of reâ€" ality, and in discussing it we necesâ€" sarily consider what the real is as too, it teaches, is reality, God, inâ€" exhaustible and ever available. Prinâ€" ciple, it teaches, is the only source of good and the source only of good. eclares that reallty is Glod, Himoel, declares that is God, Himself, very God, made manifest to humans as Life, Truth, Love, Mind, and Principle, as Soul and Spirit. Because we are thus ;!.hu: even in some degree this reality all things our lips should be willingly and joyously praising the Father of all and at all times. We might uss the very words of Peter when on too often as real but which m.uumhu.unml.u-‘ MWM This, then is the of Christian Science concerning reality. It teaches that reality is Life, God, immortal, indeâ€" structible, and eternal. It teaches that reality 4s divine Love, God, which never falters, fears, or changes. It teaches that reality is Truth, God, and can include no eleâ€" ment of falsity. It teaches that reâ€" ality is Mind, God, and that Mind must ever express itself in boundless and unfailing intelligence..Principle, mount of transfiguration declaring to his associates, James‘and John, "It is good for us to be here." Or we might say with the Psaimist, "O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph;" them we could well add what priceâ€" less knowledge it is to be assured that good alone is real, that Life alone is the fact, that Truth can never be altered, and that Love is ever about us, caring for and proâ€" tecting against all arguments of evil. Surely one must agree that this is glimpsing the real. ‘The interval between the year of 1866 when, as we have already seen, the healing Christ first appeared to Mary ‘Baker Eddy and when the people of these United States had begun to awakento a more earnest desire to perceive the reality about God and man, and this present year constitutes a lapse of just a little over three quarters of a century. Yet it is a fact that during that extraordinarily. brief period â€" the thinking of a large group of humans has experienced a remarkable transâ€" formation, a transformation so proâ€" found and so radical that few as yet perceive its full significance and still fewer recognize its source. theory and practice along almost all material lines. This change in thinkâ€" ing, we are convinced, has stemmed from an improved concept of the real and of man‘s responsibility to his fellow man. This in turn is the spiritual nature, sons of God and therefore endowed with the rights and privileges of such sonship. . Dlmlyyet.uthrowhu% nevertheless with a growing of clarity, mortals in rapidly inâ€" creasing numbers are becoming conâ€" scious that man cannot possibly. be two beings at the same time. They are seeing that he is not material at ‘one moment and spiritual the next, or pérhaps a strange admixture of both matter and Spirit now. They are seeing with a clearer vision than before that man does express divine qualities and these qualities are real, undying, * indestructible. . ‘Conseâ€" quently they are seeing that this real man must be, ‘and is, clothed â€"with the dominion and authority of the son of a royal Pather. hoR result of a bettered understanding of creation and of the one and only perfect creator and the erisuing and inevitable realization that, at least ‘The inevitable consequence of this more accurate and therefore more spiritual thinking is that there is growing in human consciousness slowly, painfully, but surely the conâ€" viction that the spiritual universe alone is real and that man is spiritâ€" ual. It is this conviction which is grodudutbemmMId umanity. It is not being argued here that mortals in the mass have followed this line of reasoning or acâ€" cepted these conclusions and are actâ€" aummmw claim is that many thinkers are uneasily conscious that their longâ€" accepted are no tenâ€" dations are crumbling. Oftentimes they feel themselves swept away as by some fierce flood with no rescue in sight. But, notwithstanding this state of senilconfusion and uncertainty, the Openings in the clouds of material more often and for longer periods. As this conviction becomes stronger it takes hold of the individual, as truth always must, and becomes a more controlling influence in his entire thinking, and consequently in all his bUman relationships. It is this vital force which we now declare Centuries of slow and i».termittent mn:m-flmb this period of global unrest. Let us look back for a moment over the mmdofi“u Discoverer and Founder of Christian teaching that Mind is all and matter nothing. What was the state of conâ€" sciousness in our own United States in that year of 18067 What, at that period, seemed a vast and terrible war had just been concludéd. Afriâ€" can slavery in this country had been to be operating in human consciousâ€" Christian Science is, therefore, in Effect of Changed Thinking Truth‘s Irresistible Advance T H E PRES S legally abolished. One of the most significant strides humanity had made in its progress out of darkness into realityâ€"its recomnition of the truth about manâ€"hed been taken. Coincident with this great forward step, other links in the chaimâ€"of morta‘s‘ ens‘avement were broken Reli=ious. social, and economic theâ€" ories and practices long held, and in some instances even more deadening and destructive than physical slavâ€" ery. began to lose their hold. _ . concluded only when the reality of all things is brought toâ€"light and it is found that "man does stand as God‘s law of good, alâ€" mtnm.:o;:\.%m clearly .seef _understood.. The forward steps we are taking today are the inevitable result of the operâ€" ation of this law. Not that evil ever ‘esults in good. but rather that evil qushed to its extreme limit destroys itself, and the realityâ€"the good, the true, and the everlastingâ€"becomes more apparent to mortals as the mists of personal sense fade away. Again, truth, irresistible in its adâ€" mu,nnmmmmnm new crisis. Again we are deep in the throes of a mighty contest, the great »attle of mortal mind ‘to retain its hold on humanity. It is the battle of -mwrtht.dmom Truth, of human hate against Love, the battle which‘ can have but one ultimate result, namely, the romplete destruction of the soâ€"called No. §1). : 1ge * : _Mental Doors Must Be Open It honz"tun consciousness is opened to let in the sunlight of diâ€" vine understandirig, that is, Chrisâ€" tian Science, that the eternal reality away, as it were, just as the barnaâ€" cles that cling so tenaciously to the hull of the ship that has been long at sea drop off when the ship sails into have so long imprisoned many morâ€" fresh, sweet water. That Christian Science understood and applied does this is the substance of this discusâ€" sion. ‘Two brief quotations from the Christian Science textbook are here presented in support of our position. In the Preface of#her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the author, Mary aker Eddy, says (p.â€"vil), "Contentment with the past and the cold convenâ€" donality of materialism are crumâ€" »ling away." It may require courage and understanding to march forâ€" ward joyously when so many longâ€" theriched beliefs seem to be crumâ€" aling away. But at such times it is anly necessary to remember that nothing real, good, lasting, true, sub= stantial can crumble away or disapâ€" pear: It is only the false, the unreal, the unworthy, the base, and useless that ‘are thus disappearing. These latter are always the troubleâ€"producâ€" ing elements, whether we realize it 1t the time or not. We should never allow blinding tears of regret to obâ€" seure our vision and prevent us from seeing: the good which is certain‘to result from the crumbling away of the false and the outworn. A statement in the Christian Sciâ€" ence textbook is of particular signifiâ€" cance here (pp. 323, 324): "Willingâ€" ness to become as a little child and to leave the old for the new, renders thought receptive of the advanced landmarks and joy to see them disâ€" appear,â€"this disposition helps to precipitate the ultimate harmony." "To become as a little child"â€"what humility and confidence this reâ€" quires! Difficult as this step may seem to beâ€"atâ€" times,.it is always possible. For there is a peculiarly inâ€" definable something in humanâ€"conâ€" sciousness which renders such a step easier perhaps than at first glimpse seems possible: What is this something, this difiâ€" cultâ€"toâ€"define quality or condition in human consciousness? It is an imâ€" mortal, an indestructible, eternal something possessed by every indiâ€" vidual on earth, lying deep in the heart of all humani‘7. It is a vital, vigorous germ demanding light and air and the opportunity to grow and find expression. It is a deathless integral part. It is the seed of desire fiorahmknowbdaothhm- selfhood, real being. It swells within the breast of every mortal, ever ready to burst forth at the many are constantly asking whether this human experience is the ultiâ€" mate. Or is it, perhaps, they ask, a preliminary stage for something more real and important? Others, and these in increasing numbers, are integral part. It is the seed of desire mr.hrgmwmodhhn selfhood, real being. It swells within the breast of every mortal, ever ready to burst forth at the Responding to this inner urge, individual, to know m« & 4 self, his creator, and the creation of which he believes himself to be an the question in moré conâ€" m-. ‘They say: May it not be true that my present existence is the real? Am I not at this very moâ€" ment the eternal and inextinguishâ€" able expression of a perfect creator? May it not be true that I am only w from realizing this fact of my own false, erroneous, wmmw?mtnnun in the fullest, sense now, and may I not become conscious of that fact by refusing to entertain any longer, believe, or be governed by, the falsities to which I seem to have been in bondage for so long a time? ‘To these stirrings of consciousâ€" ness, these deep and vital queries, Christian Science answers positively ence in human consclousness of : ns reasun why _'a."“._n"’""'.q Awzerse understanding, this light of divine Science, that we now pursue our inâ€" vestigation of God and man. ‘This divine or Christian "Science is now an acknowledged, widely recognized, to develop a 27 & ‘Wdhflmfl It is in the sunlight of this new a word about religion ner se may be It at included here. Just what is religlon? We do not ask for a dictionary defiâ€" nition of the word, ‘but seek rather tor a clear and simple one that will take us to the very heart of the word Do P eP 7 L all that relates to true being, and conversely must exclude all that nart of true being. Anything calling tself religion, in order to establish its right to that name must begin at & point of absoluteness, that is, from the basis of one absolute principle, and must then continue logically to an incontestable conclusion an . be wovable at any stage of its developâ€" ment. This, of caurse, is pure science. It is also pure and absolute religion. wlence. His every statement, his avery act. was supported by demonâ€" strationâ€"by proof. nmnhom and absolute religion, for it only and always with that which concerned the true being of those to was Christian, because it was Messiâ€" anic, that is, itâ€"the teachingâ€"was the Seviour, that which saved and healed. â€" Any religious teaching to be scientific must follow this method of Jesusâ€"it must submit proof. To be Christian it must also be Messianic, healing, saving. These should be the true tests of any religious teaching that claims for itself a divine origin. Here a slight digression will serve to clarify the foregoing and at the same time explain an important point inâ€"the teaching of Christian Science. In the chapter in her textâ€" m\l to the relationship between and the Christ. These are her own words (p. 332) : "Jesus was born of Mary. Christ is the true idea voicâ€" ing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human Christ; he proved that Christ is the divine idea of Godâ€"the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing the divine m?n.un.un\lmhb_ln Again in the same chapter (p. 334) she points out that while Jesus, the human man, disappeared to the ma~â€" terial senses at the time of his ascenâ€" sion, "the spiritual self, or order of divine Science, taking away the sins of the world, as the Christ human Jesus was incarnate to morâ€" tal eyes." Because Jesus manifested the Christ so perfectly he has been rightfully . accorded the title "the Christ." ‘This Christâ€"manifestation or expression of God is the:â€" Messiah, Immanuel, or God with us. Once having felt the comforting presence of the Christ, one can never again be quite satisfied or whole or complete without it. Striving ever to remain in this Christâ€"light, as he journeys along the highway leading from sense to Spirit, the faithful and finds his pathway less arduous. It is true, of course, that an everâ€"busy mortal mind places many obstacles in his way. The unreality of these obstacles is quickly seen in the bright sunshine of the Christâ€"truth and The miracle to sense has occurred. Mrs. Eddy describes the process thus (Science and Health, p. 264): "As mhplnmm_flznot visible, will become a w â€" When this Christâ€"light or divine of creation, which before were inâ€" thought of the searcher for divine Truth, in regard both to his human and divine status. But he quickly realizes that the newly found light gleams brightly or seems to fade effort he puts forth to exclude from his thinking everything which is unâ€" like the Christâ€"truth. Failure to exâ€" elude such thoughts means a greater effort to reject them later. But to exclude or reject them, or both, is an indispensable condition of his adâ€" vance toward the reaim of the real and his eventual realization of his &dd;fl:fihfl:-ufi- in Science Health that to heal the sick one must "insist vehemently whols® ground, that ‘God, Bpirit, is Him" (Science and p. 421), It was this realization which healed rmuummnm is entirely logical to assume that the mortal experience should be hampered less by material limitaâ€" tions. It is then quite as logical a deduction to make that mortals :ndh:l‘ld.w& of ease ease from time to time, unless. and until they recognize the eternal fact that diseaseless perfection exists in the divine Mind alone and is reâ€" fiected eternally by its ideas and by very clearly or she could not have Bomg EEomE pensnunt SEnely PNpCCEE pain and mental suffering had been ality, the answer come. It kfl“hh?fi portant to her, to and io me Toan the healins. 11 brought a vision It is perfectly obvious that in this state of true being this real and perâ€" fect man cannot die nor can he be Divineâ€"Method of Salvation :.pmn“d':‘ba personal sense which so me. It was a pathway sh> faithfully for more than forty years. mhfid‘?hfll.'nl. Mn-u.l-“* m»mmflbu that it was only her own false and mistaken sense of a sick material body which had to be changed. It was then she saw that all belief of physicality, corporeality, materiality had to be put under foot and reso= lutely kept there. When she saw this and put that vision into practice, in other words, used the truth she had light. God is Spirit, immortal, impersonal, immutable, filling all space and leavâ€" ing no space to be filled by anything inferior. ‘We, too, may insist that %Mum-m-fl and immutable but m Christ. We, too, may insist upon the unchanging and unchangeable fact that that impersonal Christ is ever present, at our side, yours and mine, revealing to us the eternal fact about mmt’:n > indeed the sons of God s We will be aided in maintaining this position of scientific, that is, m,mun&‘uw-g-n frequentlyâ€" prayer of affiz« the sons of God and endowed with His fullness We may thank divine Life that we are indeed His children; that hence we must, in reality, exâ€" press only those qualities which manifest Life. Vigor, vitality, health, , peace, poise are surely expresâ€" :’fi-dmmmm um.m-mnmmmg cord, decay are no part of Life and have no part in God‘s creation, His one may affirm, and such affirmation w«nnmnm ness : the Father into a conâ€" sciously closer relationship with Him. Such affirmation is prayer; it is a and farâ€"seeing vision must be propâ€" erties of Mind and therefore be reâ€" prayer that heals and saves. It is at no matter what the need may be, is beginning to realize his true nature, that he is indeed the man of God‘s creating. The scientific statement of being* If, then, to these affirmativé declaâ€" rations the seeker for an understandâ€" ing of the real will add the words of our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, as they aré‘ found in the Christian Science textâ€" book in what is known as "the scienâ€" tific statement of being" (p. 468), he will be praying most effectively, for he will declare with her: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor subâ€" stance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is Allâ€"inâ€"all. Spirit is immortal mmtwrhmlm.m is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God, and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual." Everyone who hears this message is in reality such a man. To this real man, this man who is made in the image of the one perfect Mind, it can be accurately and truthfully said: "You are the finished, comâ€"= Wmm-muunupam ‘ou can lack nothing now or ever in the way of health, vigor, joy, peace, reaching out to divine Love for help, supply, for all these things areâ€" & part of your infinite completeness. Whatever is necessary to your wellâ€" being, whatever enables you to maniâ€" fest greater completeness, is already the truth about you. You accept this completeness, you declare it to be the reality about yourself. You refuse to accept any falsehood, any argument of mortal mind that this is not the fact abowi you. You are complete, whole, the reflection of the one and only creator, the infinite Fntherâ€"Mother God, which was, and is, and ever will be, complete, one, indivisible, inseparable from His perâ€" fect creation, man." 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