CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20079, 27 October 1939, Page 2

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

VISITING LECTURER IMPORTANCE OF BIBLE A lecture on Christian Science, entitled “Christian Science: The Science of Christ-Healing,” by Mr. Colin Rucker Eddison, C.S., of London. England, member of the board of lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, was given under the auspices of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, at the City Hall last evening. Christian Scientists turn naturally to the Bible to learn about God, for no body of people holds the Bible in greater reverence. It was in the Bible that Mary Baker Eddy, the discoverer and founder of Christian Science, discerned the truths she afterwards set out in the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” and her followers find that the Bible grows more and more important to them in their daily lives as they study its pages in the light thrown upon them by Christian Science, said the speaker.

The way in which Christian Science enables us to know God is by helping us to understand more intelligently the life and work of Christ Jesus. Christian Science explains that there is a distinction between "Jesus” and “Christ”: the term “Christ” is not merely a synonym for “Jesus.” The human Jesus was the best and greatest man that ever lived. Ilis example remains forever as the standard for Christian living. He is the Wayshower, in whose footsteps Christian Scientists endeavour humbly to follow. It is impossible to exaggerate the debt which the world owes to the Founder of Christianity. He went about doing good—He healed the sick, fed the hungry, raised the dead. Our Master said, “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh (that is, matter) profiteth nothing.” When He healed a woman who is described as having been bowed together for 18 years, He said that Satan, the devil, had bound her—and elsewhere He said of the devil, or evil, that "he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.” That which lias no truth in it cannot be real. Christian Science therefore teaches that evil and all its manifestations are untrue, unreal; and the destruction by Christ Jesus of sin, disease, death—all manifestations of evil—confirms that conclusion. We read in the Book of Revelation, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and lie with me.” The Christ, Truth, is knocking to-day at the portal of human hearts and minds in the teachings of Christian Science.