SOLVING PROBLEMS THROUGH CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28958, 28 July 1959, Page 11

SOLVING PROBLEMS THROUGH CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Divine power was ever-avail-able to help man meet and solve his problems, W. Norman Cooper, of Los Angeles, said on Sunday. Whether a problem was small or large, individual or national, physical or financial, it could be rightly adjusted through spiritual understanding'of God, Mr Cooper said. During his lecture, he discussed the application of scientific Christianity as well as problems of sickness and physical disability. A member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, he spoke in the Church Edifice, Worcester street, at the invitation of First Church of Christ, Scientist. Christchurch. His subject was “Meeting and Solving Your Problems Through Christian Science." “When God is recognised to be ■omnipresent Love, infinite Life, unfailing Truth, we find that God can be understood and loved as the one and only God who is able and willing to take care of our every need,” the lecturer stated. He maintained that God was not a physical personality which blessed or punished according to His whims. “Rather,” he said, “is He unchanging good: and being good, as the Bible declares He is, He does not send sickness or any other problem to you; but a spiritual understanding of Him heals sickness and solves problems.

“Health, joy, and abundanceall that one really needs—is gained through awaking to, or becoming conscious of, the law that God made man spiritual and perfect.” the lecturer said. “Christ Jesus healed sickness and sin. By awaking consciousness, either in his or another’s, to the fact that God had already created man perfect” He called upon his audience to awake to the fact not only that God created man perfect, but that God has the ability to protect, preserve, and sustain the man of His creating. “Real salvation is waking to your birthright of perfection,” he emphasised. “No difficulty can withstand the all-power of God,” he held. "Any claim of power which boasts that it is equal to or opposed to the omnipotence of God, good, must eventually fall by the weight of its own falsehood.

“Man can never be separated from anything needful,” the lecturer said. He pointed out that Jesus gave the answer to loneliness when he said, “I am not alone, because the Father is with me” (John 16:32). “Like the Master.” he said, “we cannot be lonely when we realise that we are always at one with our Father, when we realise that we dwell in the spiritual universe created by divine Love and peopled with His ideas.”

Mr Cooper described how a problem of right employment was set through prayer after the worker awakened to realise that everyone in reality resides in the realm of infinite Mind, and in this realm there could be no strife or discordant conditions. Turning to the problem of age, he pointed out that many Bible characters proved that weakness and decrepitude could be met and mastered. “The accumulation of problems,” he said, “and not the accumulation of years, is one of the causes of old age. The challenge is to meet every problem every day as they present themselves ” He added: “Sometimes one ages because he is mesmerised by the belief that his work is finished, that he is no longer needed or wanted. But this cannot be true because the real man expresses God eternally.”