CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25327, 29 October 1947, Page 3

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

LECTURE BY MISS E. F. HEYWOOD “Looking back over the history of the human race, we see that the miseries and disasters which hav2 befallen mankind have been largely due to feeble, ignorant, or purposely evil governments,” said Miss E. F. Heywood, of London, a member of the board of lectureship of the First Church or Christ. Scientist, Boston, when she lectured at Christchurch last evening. Her subject was: “Christian Science —God’s Government of Man and the Universe.” “How did these evils arise? Because of the acceptance of a world separate from God. from good, the belief that man possesses intelligence and power apart from his Maker,” the lecturer said. “When in the judgment hall Pontius Pilate said to Jesus. ‘Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and have power to release thee?’ Jesus answered him, ‘Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above.’ “Christ Jesus recognised that power belongs to God alone. This understanding of the true nature of power preserved, directed, sustained him in e very P“ a ? e bis human experience. When it £5 learned that no supposititious mortal laws claiming to deny the supremacy of good, which

would rob men of health, of peace, of spiritual well-being, have any mandate or ability to enforce themselves in the presence of Christ, Truth, we lose our fear of them.”