CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURER SPEAKS IN CHRISTCHURCH

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28906, 28 May 1959, Page 11

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURER SPEAKS IN CHRISTCHURCH

“The truth concerning man brings more happiness than anything else in the world,” said Mr Friedrich Preller of Berlin, Germany, in an address in Christchurch. Mr Preller, a member of The. Christian Science Board of Lectureship, was speaking in the Church Edifice, Worcester street west under the auspices of the First Church' of Christ, Scientist, Christchurch. His subject was “Christian Science: The Revelation of True Manhood.”

“When spiritually understood, the knowledge of man revealed by Christ Jesus enriches human life immeasurably—bringing true health, happiness, and dominion,” Mr Preller said. ‘‘Mankind’s greatest privilege is to know God aright and understand His being. The spiritual facts of the Bible regarding God and man are completely practical today and available to all.” Mr Preller pointed out the difference between the spiritual con-

cept of man as revealed in the first report of creation in Genesis and material concepts which would bind man to lack, sin, and disease. “The truth of man is his immortal beauty, his unlimited ability, his divine origin, his exalted state, his noble character, and his eternal coexistence with God,” he said. “Conjectures and fabrications which deny man’s actual being make one dissatisfied, sick, and weary, but the truth concerning man revives, uplifts, and enlightens.

“True joy depends upon spiritual rebirth—that radical change of thought which brings the truth of man to light,” he said.

“The greatest source of power on earth is the Christ, Truth. Today, every one of us has the Christ in proportion as he awakes to his spiritual selfhood, and in this proportion he is able to see the deception of the material, personal, corporeal senses and is able to let the Christ, spiritual sense, operate in all his affairs. “Man as the spiritual reflection of God, divine Life, Truth, and Love, is protected at all times by divine law,” he said. “The sinless joy—the perfect harmony | and immortality of Life, possessing unlimited divine beauty and goodness without a single bodily pleasure or pain—constitutes the only veritable, indestructible man, whose being is spiritual,” said Mr Preller, quoting from “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy. “Man’s divine heritage includes all the good that belongs to God. As the spiritual reflection of God, of infinite good, we are right now in full possession of our divine authority, our dominion, health, peace, strength, purity, and shadowless joy,” he said. “Let us open our hearts to humility, selflessness, and the simplicity that is in Christ, and then this heritage will become operative in our daily lives. This is the truth of man, of every man, and of you and of me,” said Mr Preller.