LECTURE.

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 21, 18 October 1928, Page 5

LECTURE.

Christian Science —Its Practical

Appeal.

(By W. Stuart Booth, G. 5.8.)

A lecture on the above subject was delivered in the Town Hall on Thursday 4th October. In spite of the inclemency of the weather, there was a fair and ap-

preciative audience,

In commencing his lecture Mr Booth briefly sketched the experience of Mary Baker Eddy in connection with her discovery of Christian Science, pointing out its scriptural basis and authority. He then explained somewhat the Bible teaching, emphasised by Christian Science, that the Christ is the expression of God's spiritual nature which was so fully understood by Jesus and so perfectly demonstrated by Him as to earn for Him the divine title of Christ Jesus. Christian Science teaches that one of the best ways to glorify God is to fearlessly face and obediently overcome all that is unlike God and His good creation. It is not Christian Science merely to say that sin is unreal, and then continue in sinful practice; but it is Christian Science to find that there is neither pleasure nor profit in sin, and thereby to strip all sinful habits of their false pretences and thus overcome them. Christian Science does not teach us to ignore sickness and distress any more than mathematical science teaches us to ignor mistakes and in our mathematical calculations. Christian Science, reasoning from the basis of God as the Father, the creator of all that is real and true, deduces the fact that sickness, not being from God, good, is an error of human belief which cannot be ignored, but must be considered and dealt with from the standpoint of God, spiritual Truth.

In dealing with the subject of fear, the lecturer said: —In Science and Health we read that. "The love of sin and the fear of disease are the sources of man's enslavement" (p. 373). Christian Science makes man free by mastering the sources of his enslavement, the love of sin and the fear of disease. Indeed many people have been healed of sickness when their fear of sickness was destroyed by the study of Christian Science, its logical, scientific reasoning being supported by Christian works, accounts for the marvellous increase from one Christian Scientist in 1866 to the present uncounted host of grateful adherents, all of whom are convinced by their own experiences that Christian ■Science is the Comforter of promise. And so to-day the Christ, speaking through Christian Science, as the Christ spoke through Jesus, reiterates this compassionate, healing message to all:— '' Come' unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me! for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto your souls.'' (Matt. 11; v. 28, 29.)