SAN FRANCISCO MAN LECTURES HERE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume LXIII, Issue 6521, 28 March 1939, Page 4

SAN FRANCISCO MAN LECTURES HERE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Health, abundance, and opportunity, were declared to be the legitimate birthright of man by Peter V. Ross, C. S. 8., of San Franscisco, in a lecture on Christian Science given last Sunday at the Civic Theatre, Christchurch. Mr Ross, a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston spoke here under the auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Christchurch. "Disease and danger," he said, "have their basis in the mistaken assumption that man and the universe are material. They are therefore beliefs which disappear with the understanding that really mar\ and the universe are spiritual. Eo spiritual, man in the unobstructed realm of Spirit there can be no perils, no impediments to health. "Thus it is seen that sickness is a mental rather than a material condition, an appearance rather than an actuality; and thus it is obvious that a correction in thought, an enlightenment of mentality, will externalise in improved health and longer life. "Inevitably will the transformation of the human mind result in a renewal cf the human body. And this change is wrought, with certainty, in one who accepts the truth of existance and rejects the deceptive semblance; accepts the facts that really the world is a place of security and that man is an indestructible expression of the everlasting Life called God." Man Cannot be Victimized Referring to Mary Baker Eddy,

• ' ' .' 1 Discoverer and Pounder of Christian j Science, Mi* Ross pointed out that j in her great book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she declares that God is divine Mind, Life, Love, Principle, fortifying her declaration both with reason and with revelation. Continuing he said: "In all the wide universe, then, there is only one Life and that Life, ageless and diseaseless as divine Life must be, is the life of the real man; indeed the real man is the tangible representation of that Life. Here is the truth which makes for exemption from disability and limitation. "Man, endowed as he is with divine intelligence and eternal Life, really cannot become the victim of disease. No more can he fall a prey to idleness or failure. He has some fine purpose to fulfill. That purpose lies in the line of wholesome endeavour and activity. It will not permit him to rest in ease or end in defeat. • "The ideal state or heaven is not a place from which problems have been removed. Rather is it a place where pain and stress, have been taken out of problems. Why his equipment of strength and ability, if there be no work for man to do, no adventures to run, no heights to climb? Satisfaction is not found in ease or repose but in service and achievement." Dignity of Work and Business The speaker emphasized the- gooc that Science is accomplishing 'in steadying the present buisness and industrial situation, showing hou Science helps people to find employment and to conduct business enterprises successfully. In this connectior he spoke as follows : "A person in need of employment will be greatly helped by keeping in mind the facts that he has been created for some useful purpose, that there is opportunity awaiting him, and that the divine intelligence operating through him will direct him; to where the work is and equip him with the capacity for doing it. He will not stop, however, with simply trying to realize these truths. He will act upon them, that is to say, he will prepare himself for work, he will look for it expecting to find it, and willingly accept it when found. "A person should remember that his business, if he is conducting one, has a legitimate and commendable place in the community, in that it affords needed employment and produces or distributes needed commodities. He should remember that Principle sustains and directs him in the enterprise, and nullifies unprincepled forces of alarm, depression, or rivalry calculated to undermine his efforts. He should realize that Mind governs him in his direction of the enterprise, governs everybody connected with it, and therefore that mistakes, confusion, inefficiency cannot interfere with the success of the enterprise. In this way he will bring divine intelligence to bear in the premises either to save the business or to guide those connected with it into new position of usefulness." Body and Consciousness The lecturer dwelt at length on the subject of immortality. He differentiated between material and spiritual consciousness, showing that the former is temporary and deceptive while the latter is genuine and enduring. "The continuity of individual life," he declared, "obviously depends upon j man being spiritual rather than material, an individual consciousness rather than a corporeal body. Life, in order to be endless, moreover, must precede birth as certainly as persist after death. The realization of life sternal, however, is not hastened by trying to recall the past or by attempt ing to peer into the future; but rathei by abiding in the facts of Science putting them into everyday practice :tnd thereby gradually awakening tc the present possession of that Lift whose joys eternal flow. 'Now are w< the Sons of God'. "Consciousness appears to be dual On the one hand is awareness o: heaviness, affliction, insecurity. This is material consciousness, deceptiv< changing, fleeting. On the other ham is awareness of Life and of Lift abundant, unimpeded, unimperiled This is spiritual consciousness, th< genuine consciousness God bestows which can never become unconscious for as Mrs Eddy says after definini man as 'the conscious identity o: being', 'We must hold forever th< consciousness of existence' (Scienc< and Health, pages 475 and 428). "Material consciousness may laps< temporarily through some mishap oi other circumstance. Then the in dividual is said to be unconscious, bui life still goes on. Material conscious' ness eventually will fade out entirely But spiritual consciousness, man's true identity, will persist as it always has persisted quite apart from the illusions of mortality." 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