CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2184, 24 June 1914, Page 4

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

SPIRITUAL & SCIENTIFIC HEALING

LECTURE BY PIiOFESSOIt BERING

There was a very large attendance tit the Masonic Hall last night to hear a lecture, • entitled "Christian Science Healing, Spiritual and Scientific." by Professor Hermann & (faring, C.S-B-nieniber of the Board of Lectiywlii}) of tho Mother Clmrcli of Christian Science, Boston. The chair'was omrapied lay JJr George Hogben, M.A., Ijispeetor-Genc-ral of Schools.

[lie chairman, in. introducing Uio speaker, said lie had acee-ptea the invitation to occupy the ebair, ffirt t)o----caviao he knew anything afcoin.- what Professor Hering was going te say; lm* because, like most people,, he was nU ways ready to assist to give his ttttppott lvhero tile search after truth -was thfi .objective. _ If there was oiio tiiug more than another that information was desired on at the present time, it ivas the truth concerning the relationship between mind and matter. Tho consisit.ittion of matter was not known, but wiis being diligently-investigated, fint Jifctie was also known about the of mind, but really more was kwwn about mind that wa.s known about IHO was one of thoso commoirplaco pfio-plo who believed in the reality of .both, kit lie would liko'to know more, abtsiit tho relation of ono to the other. Sis second reason for presiding was that' ho was interested in anything that wild Jinn*, flt humanity,' and if the ills of Jraniaaity could be cured moro easily by some other method than that now sfioptcd, ho was quite ready to hear what, tWt method was. He lyas also t-ulimonplaec enough- to ' desi.ro all the bg.nefi.ts ho could get if ho was ill, cither from .faith healing or from Christian stienee, whatever difference between the two there' was. iAt the same time! he shetsld say, .perhaps ..with sorrow,'-..that,.if he wasi ill ho should ?v doctor, as .he would like to combine iije Wise* fits; to be derived from the curative sources. His third reason for presiiling was. ono of comradeship vi-i-h the professor who, liko himself) ;kd beea a' teacher for a good many year,s. Professor ' Hering \had been . a.. teacher ill one of "the first .technical or : Ejiaiui-a-I instruction' schools in. Philadelphia, and; had also.been engaged on the stiff of the engineering branch of the Jotai' Hopkins University. His fourth reason was a personal oiie., He had bcc-ii so well treated. in America. o.n the oecasion of his visit to. that country a tow years ago, that when ho was uslved to introduce to a Wellington audience one who himself cottio from Anverica, iuid had been a teacher there, lie ftlfc he could not-possibly refiisc. M* m conclusion,.said that'Professoi H<*r ing camo to New. Zealand as the accredited representative .of the Mother Church of Christian . Science, with ftill authority to explain the ing.. He did not caro to prosfllo'tiso, bwt to clear away illusions from the/ minds of _ the . public . regarding CBiristtm ocioiice. . .

Professor Hering, in the cgiix-sc of n n address, ..which was vcfy- aU<-nt!ve!v listened to, said:— . There was no question of such general interost to mankind as the quo healing. The universal demand . andendeavour of humanity ■,was for a larger measure of health and happiness ilraii Was.:to-day attained, .and there \vas manifestly great need of some better, means of healing than that iij general use. ... Christ. Jesus .-.proved exfetisice' to : be ,wholly mental when lie waIM on tho,-tempest,- ai.i4.over--s?iftl:• conditions. Tho universe created' and constantly .sustained by, God must be , like Him,; 'fee like produces like, therefore the- real, universe _was not finite or dimo.qsitilpl, but infinite, not destructible bii£ indc4^'£ c >^' e^Jl - 0 A •piatorial,. I .,but.. .spiritii-ai. Terrect'Gb'd;;pe#ccV mlirf,' perfect 'being, was the basis of all Christiair Science 1 teaching, analysis, and practise. This was the standard by which Christian Science measures and tests all Inmian. phenomena and experiences iri'-.order to determine |licir true value. ..- Disease, ?in. death,;".'all digcorijs, were Ihorefore to\be classed as errors of mortal consciousness, 'as mesmeric, illusory mental- conditions. On this basis flicy could: te ..corrected with Trii'tli, while they could iiot bo corrected so lowg a-s they were classed as either physical or mental realities. Even according to psychology and philosophy tlicy were but objectified sense impressions. A,s disease was an untrue experience of the human mind, Truth must be ; brought to bear upon consciousness ; in crrdgr that'the wrong' bolief arid its Cjiuse Mft.j' be destroyed. When wo think riglrtlv of any-truth, .this-truth is present with uj, just aswhen wo think rightly of the multiplication tablo tho principle of .mathematics is with us in thought, ar wo could not think ma-tlicniatjeaJiy. Likewise, when wo think rightly <rf <[>"- yine Truth, Life, Love—Goti, -which Christian So-ionce makes possible today, Truth is'present with us in consciousness." God-with-'us. gt. Paul wrote to the Ephesians (4:6) of fte ono God-who is "in .yon all," omnipresent, lie has but to be known, and as by knowing Truth we reflect Truth, so -by •■knowing God we reflect .Him, and it was by this right knowing of God tliat divine Truth and Love were reflected in consciousness and brought to bear upon our problems. This definitely distinguished Christian Science from hypnotism, magnetism, or mental suggestion of any form. His acquaintancewith Mrs. Eddy for many years, ar.--} his association with her on many occasions enabled him to speak of Jier exalted Christian character. Fidelity to her highest concept of right, conspiration to tho work divinely demanded "of her, .spiritual wisdom in loading and directing the Christian Science movement, miJ. feigned love for God, for His Christ, and for. all mankind; tbeso were dominant traits of character in that great yet gentle woman who discovered and establishe'd Christian Science. The modern wise men should say of he.r, as was sind of old:- '.'Give her of tho fruitof her handslet her own works praise her in the gates." (Prov. 31-31.).