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TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1932.

HUMANITY'S GREATEST NEED

LECTURE BY A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST.

The Great Burden of

Disease.

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ber of The Christian Science Board

entitled

In the Christian Science text- book: "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the Discoverer

remains.

A Dream Shattered.

THE CHINA

MAIL.

compassionate, always giving to and weighed down with a burden com-"And these signs shall follow them love which knows only man's pre-It is this false lying sense, the

been spent in the Far East, Chris-

tian Science has met my needs in many, a world of sickness and sor-up serpents, and if they drink any the persecutions of his enemies; by the truth about God and man.

from the roof of the house into his held that Christian Science healing spiritual and ever present, omnipre healing presence? What a priceless is a mysterious, process; that the sent, and there will of a necessity boon did the Nazarene bring to technique of Christian Science prac-be excluded from your thought all suffering humanity! How their tice is not easy to understand. And suggestions that the likeness of hearts must have leaped with the yet a little child will grasp its Prin- God, Spirit's reflection, man, could joy of expectancy as the great truth ciple and rule so completely as, to be sick! Error, called disease, can dawned upon benighted conscious-heal the sick, sometimes, as it were, never attach Itself to God's like neas, that it was the Father's good out of hand. pleasure to give them the kingdom, Three factors are fundamental in could not become diseased. No ness. Your reflection in a mirror the kingdom wherein sin and auf-spiritual healing namely, faith, more can your trus selfhood as the fering never enter!

anderstanding, and righteous pray-son of God, His perfect reflection. er; faith in God, that He is the ever Could a sick mortal be the likeness It is little wonder that they present and awakened from their illusion, their Mother, infinite Love; understand-

omnipotent Father-or God, Infinite perfection? Nover! ancient dream, with hearts aglowing of the divine nature; knowledge

Testimony of Material Senses. Mr. Albert F. Gilmore, C.S.B., alone, how great is the need effec-Saviour and Messiah! No event in fuvoking His aid, always available cult of accomplishment? with love for the Master,

This sounds simple, seems easy, their of the method through prayer of What sometimes makes it so diff- of Boston, Massachusetts, a mem-tually to lay this monster, ill health! all history is so fraught with glor- to meet our needs. These are made testimony of the material senses, The Appalling Condition. of Lectureship, delivered a lecture that we may well ask, Is there no with his blessed message of God's study all may acquire the method. false witness to disclose the truth

Of such magnitude is the problem the advent of the man of Nazareth, textbook, that through prayerful reliable?

lous consequences to humanity as a plain in the Christian Science nothing morel Is this testimony Can we depend upon a "Christian Science: remedy for this appalling condition? perfect love for all His children, Humanity's Great Need" last eve-Must mankind, perforce, stumble

Mrs. Eddy's cogent injunction, "At about man? Let us remember that It is sad commentary along under this mighty incubus of instability of mortals, that Jesus' (The First Church of Christ, no existence apart from the lie of upon the tempt nothing without God's help" the so-called physical senses have] ning, under the auspices of First disease and its penalty of suffering message so soon Church of Christ, Scientist, Hong and poverty? If, judging by the ance; that in so short a time the would be quiet innocuoua, had she They are false to every particular, lest its signific-Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 197), life and intelligence in matter. Kong in the Roof Garden of the history of the past, we were to look Christ healing was buried in its not shown the way, the perfect way, have no foundation in fact. Hong Kong Hotel.

wholly to material

means for graveclothes The lecturer was introduced by amelioration of these conditions, we dogma. In less than three centuries "Study thoroughly the letter and with all its accumulated wickedness of formaliam and whereby God's aid may be invoked. It was this false sense of man might well despair. Obviously, if the wondrous light waned, flickered, imbibe the spirit" (Science and that Jesus denounced so vehement- Mr. William H. Adler, who said: we base our judgment upon the and went out, to be rediscovered and Health, p. 498) is her instruction as ly. When heckled by the Pharisees, Friends: On behalf of First Church situation as revealed by the facts made available again to meet poor to the best means to insure pro-lhe told them: "Ye are of your of Christ, Scientist, Hong Kong, stated, the use of material means humanity's needs only when sixteen gress in Christian Science. you are welcomed here to listen to from satisfactory. After four thou-priately have the centuries between of healing has proved far, very far. centuries had passed. How appro-

father the devil, and the lusts of Love For Humanity. a lecture on Christian Selence,

your father ye will do. He was a which meets the needs of all man-perimentation with medical methods indeed, when the glorious light of its law, and of the practice of that there is no truth in him. When he The letter of Christian Science is murderer from the beginning, andį sand years' investigation of and ex-been termed the dark ages-dark, knowledge of divine Principle, of abode not in the truth, because kind.

of healing disease, the burden at Love, reflected through the words understanding; it is knowledge of speaketh a lle, he speaketh of his and works of Christ Jesus, ceased to the truth and how to declare it; how own; for he is a liar, and the father The Fabled Atlas.

illumine human consciousness! Manifestly, if relief is to be

to affirm God's allness and man's of it." Strong language! But not and Founder of Christian Science, brought

Prophecies Fulfilled, to suffering humanity,

perfection; how to deny selfhood to stronger than Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Divine

But the prophecies and expecta-error, to every false material belief; deny and denounce the false sense WAS necessary to other means must Love always has met and always spite of all the progress which the ty

be sought. Intions of the Founder of Christian-how to know its nothingness. The of man which lies at the bottom, will meet every human need." One exponents of material remedies for the

have been fulfilled In spirit of Christian Science is the at the very foundation, of all our of the names for God in the Bible disease claim to have made, the Eddy!

revelation of Mary Baker love for humanity which loves one's trouble. and in Christian Science is Love fact remains

Did not Jesua that society is still clare

de- neighbour as one's self; the love There can be nothing of good in Like father, like son! infinite Love infinitely tender and

in unequivocal terms: which reflects the divine Love; the the son of the devil-the evil one. parable only to that which fabled that believe; in my name shall they sent and eternal perfection; the love bellef in man as material, which caring for His own. During the

Atlas was supposed to carry upon cast out devils; they shall speak which enabled Jesus to endure must be met in its very stronghold, past ten years, five of which have

his shoulders. This is atill, for with new tongues; they shall take the cross and to rise above met and overcome by Christ, Truth, row, of misery and poverty, under deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; the love wherewith he loved us; When so met, through the realiza- all respects.

which poor humanity stumbles on, they shall lay hands on the sick, and loves all who name Our lecturer, this evening, has with shoulders bowed chosen for his subject. "Christian mighty weight of its voluntary command his followers, not for their

from the they shall recover.'

the name of tion that life and intelligence are Did he not Christ.

neither in nor of matter, the seem- Science: Humanity's great need"—; burden.

Now, let us be assured that healing strength of error is destroyed; I have the pleasure of introducingį

time alone, but for all time, to "healing in Christian Science is not ac-its claims But the situation is not hopeless. the sick," to "cleanse to you a member of the Board of A way has been revealed whereby and to "raise the dead?" Did he case as something, as an entity to

the leper," complished through holding to dis- ceases to harass and destroy.

are nullified, and, It Lectureship of The Mother Church, sickness may be healed. An effec-not also Mr. Albert F. Gilmore. of Boston, tus! remedy

utter the precious probe destroyed. Disease is healed

Deny Specific Claims, has been discovered, phecy: "Greater works than these through knowing its nothingness, Christian Science. Not difficult, if This is the method of healing in whereby mankind may be set free shall ye du; because I go unto my that it has no reality, no presence we set ourselves to follow the pre- from suffering and society relieved Father?" of the tremendous burden which it these

In Christian Science and no power apart from false be- cepts of its Discoverer and Foun predictions, these has so long and so patiently borne.mises of the Master, are to-day nothing else. If you say, But what'spirit. We may need to array the pro-lief Disease is a false belief and der, 'in both the letter and the The lecturer spoke substantially There again shines in the world the being fulfilled, wonderfully fulfilled, of the patient, the sufferer? Is truth about God and man against! as follows:-

light of spiritual truth which heals, in the demonstration of spiritual there not a sick man to be healed? the claims of error; we may need, If you were asked to name man-regenerates, and comforts mankind, kind's greatest need you might re-destroying

power over the claims of evil. Christian every form

Science answers of error. Again, throughout the civilised por-equivocally and emphatically; No!the specific claims which seem to un-in fact we usually do need, to deny ply, "To be healed of sickness, to whatever its name or nature, to tions of earth, the be relieved of the burden

of which mortals believe themselves to healed without material medicine; the man God created, who never is But when, armed in the strength sick are being There is in reality none other than attach themselves to a given case, disease which from the very begin be subject. Mankind is awakening the Borrowing are nings of the race has weighed to the monstrous imposition to the balm of perfect Love; the blinding.

comforted with sick and is never in need of heal-of Spirit, we do this boldly, we humanity down; to be made whole, which it has been subjected, and made to see, the lame to walk, the and firmly held to, inevitably and able Paul, be "more than

This understanding gained shall, in the words of the redoubt- in order to enjoy the pleasures, through this new understanding, is deaf to hear, and to the poor the invariably destroys the false belief querors." comforts, and activities of a normal throwing off the burden of disease. Gospel of God's abundance is being that man suffers from any type of life." None can gainsay that ill is abandoning its sinful ways, and effectually preached.

If we are sufficiently conscious of the most in consequence is being freed from Christ, Truth, the most-potent and The Method of Spiritual Healing. fection, of God and His universe

Again the disease. grievous burdens mortals have had fear and, happier than ever before the most practical of all healing

the presence of God and His per- to bear, and from the earliest his-is being ushered into a better and agencies, is being demonstrated as does not attempt primarily to heal can beal without the use of argu- A Christian Science practitioner of good as the only presence, we tory, to find relief from this en-more useful life. cumbrance has occupied the earnest

the one sure remedy for all human a sick body, Sick thoughts alone ment. But, it seems that in most Jesus' Ministry of Healing.. attention of untold thousands.

illa. How is this change brought;

are to be healed by changing belief cases healing is facilitated by both Sickness both entails great suf-about? Through adoption of, ad-

Christian Science the Perfect in sickness to a sense

Remedy, fering upon the afflicted, and also herence to, and practice of the

of health; knowing the truth about God and deprives him of the fullness and teachings of Christ Jesus as set Science, sixty-five years ago,

With the discovery of Christian falsity for truth. Belief in sickness which mortal mind is presenting aa belief in error to a better belief, man, and by denying the claims joys of life to which man is entitled. forth Often it plunges him into poverty careful student of the four Gospels tised so successfully by Christ Jesus God's likeness, is both spiritual and ments of error.

in Christian Science. The method of spiritual healing prac- it is learned that man, the real man, truth arrayed against the argu

the Is changed to a sense of health when real; that is, by the affirmations of || and squalor. It does even more can scarcely fail to be impressed, was restored, later was elucidated perfect, now and for ever. Is this materiality with all its discordant than this; it imposes upon society deeply impressed, by the part which by Mrs. Eddy and is to-day demon- so difficult? Why should this be conditions still seems to possess This is because a burden, the extent of which is healing the sick played in the minstrating the presence of God and more difficult of accomplishment some degree of reality. quite ineniculable. The Department istry of Jesus. While he demon the power of His Christ to destroy than the supplanting of any falsity holds some place in our conscious- of Commerce of the United States strated the power and availability every type of discord, every form with truth? You may say, Government recently stated, as re- of Spirit to destroy material sense of error, every phase of disease, cause sickness is so personal, seema ported in the Press, that thirty-six testimony in many directions, vet misery, want, unhappiness, which so real." Yes! It seems real bewhich so effectually destroys every million wage-earners in America standing out above all others are restricts and

What is this healing agency | lose two hundred and fifty million his healing works. Time

harasses human excause we hold to a false sense of type of error?. The Christ, Truth, days from work each year as a re-again, not the individual alone,.but istry, Christ, Truth, is agala meet-mortal? Or is man the son of God, truth about all things. The Chris perience. Through its healing min man. Is man desh and blood, a the truth about God and man; the sult of illness; and that for the the multitude was healed of disease ing mankind's every need. Do you His

reagon twenty-four million in all the varied forms which so doubt this? Then what of the spiritual?

perfect Ukeness, school children lose each year seven- commonly harassed

wholly tian Scientist prays not to the ty million days from school. But these distant centuries. Jesus' mis- given in the approximately twenty-fundamental fact of man's present tually. He utilizes His under-

in testimonies, thousands in number,! these statements relate only to the slon was to prove the presence ofị

Que necessity is to lay hold of the ing of Christ, Truth, He prays effec

Christ, but through his understand- comparatively healthy, the adults God, the loving Father-Mother, who churches every Wednesday evening, ing to the temptation to believe in fect universe of spiritual ideas, Ave hundred Christian Science and eternal perfection, never yield standing of God and of God's per- who work and the children who at-was and is tend shcool. What of the incapa- through His Christ to heal mankind the Christian Science periodicals? temptation, is a very important consciousness.

able and available and the other thousands published in man as matter. "Lead us not into thus establishing truth in his own citated, those who from various of all its diseases. He revealed the Do you doubt their authenticity? petition in the Lord's Prayer. true sense of being, error of every forms of disability are dependent regenerating truth which brings to Who knows better than the healed Temptation is too often our un type, every material belief, disap- As he gains "the, *upon others for support and care? mortals a state of health and happi- themselves of the freedom from the doing. The humorist recognised pears, and is no longer manifested

Toll of Disease.

ness. He showed the way into bondage of sickness which follows this when he declared that he could in physical inharmony. A prominent health insurance heaven, the ever present heaven of when the light of Truth illumines resist everything but. temptation. company has stated that the loss of health and harmony, the open gates productive energy from disease is at of which all may enter, here and

consciousness7.

Causation Mental, least forty per cent. of the produc- now.

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If proof of this healing be re- the tempter, our archenemy, per-of Christian Science healing, cau- Now let us fortify ourselves against In any explanation of the method quired from medical authority. It sonal sense, which declares man to sation plays a prominent part. loss of time and productive energy, How this golden thread of heal-may be asserted that many phy-be mortal. In this false beller Where medical methods of healing grievous as it is, is but one phase ing runs through those three mar-cessful healing ministry of Chris

sicians have acknowledged the sus-about man, this personal sense generally deal with effects, Chris- of the calamity. The vast economic vellous years of the Master's mini tian Science, and have given public so often voiced by the sick, "Why, cause.

man, lies the answer to the plaint tian Science denis wholly with problem imposed upon soclety, the try! What wondrous news he utterance thereto. To cite a single oh, why, have I not been healed?" hody and Its seeming conditions, necessity of supporting and caring brought to suffering humanity!

Instead of treating the for the sick and suffering, must for Beautiful, indeed, on the mountains staff of the Medical College at "Because of your bellef, your ly with the false bellets which have case: A well-known member of the Always and invariably the answer spiritual healing is concerned whol the greater part be borne by those were the feet of him who brought Harvard University stated publicly terribly mistaken belief, that man seemed to cause the discordant phy entirely innocent of any respon the most Joyous tidings mankind that he was convinced that Chris- le a mortal. dibility for its occasion. From one has ever heard. What was this tian Science heals both organic and standpoint, this burden is wholly glad news? That God is Spirit, the functional diseases. Others, equally a Healing Difficult? self-imposed. It is the result of divine All-Father. That evil is not prominent, have made similar state Hear Mrs. Eddy's words, Become called psychotherapy and its allied sical condition. If it be held that medical usage to-day recognizes the sufferer's wrong mental atti-real! That suffering is not neces- manta. It may be asserted, without tude, his belief in man as a material sary! That there is present-day the slightest fear of contradiction, conscious for a single moment that methods, it should be recalled that personality, to which error can at-salvation from every phase of sin that beyond possibility of refute Life and intelligence are purely Mra, Eddy makes it very clear that tach itself to his own mental mis-sad sorrow, from all misery, from tion, the case is proved that through spiritual, neither la hor of matter, the mortal or carnal min Beeds, as it were; to an act of will gaunt want no less than from phy: spiritual power alone Chris and consent which perhaps ignoreical suffering! Do you wonder Science heals disease in its antiy, but done, the leas surely, im- that the multitudes flocked about

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