ADDRESS BY CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURER

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30897, 2 November 1965, Page 11

ADDRESS BY CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURER

“No human language is adequate to define life,” said Mr James Watt in a Christian Science lecture. He spoke in the Horticultural Society’s building, and his lecture was sponsored by First Church of Christ, Scientist, Christchurch. “We are conscious. We can think. We are aware that there is a state of being, that we are alive, that we exist,” Mr Watt said. “But to know reality is the work of eternity. “We are constantly challenged by the question of what constitutes life the infinite consciousness that is God. Our Our understanding of what actually constitutes being unfold eternally as we seek to know what Deity really is. “Useless Warfare”

“The entire human race is more or less influenced by an utter misconception of man’s spiritual relation to the cause of his being, one of the results has been a continuous warfare between the generation—a useless, unintelligent warfare which limits and restricts both those designated as the young and those classified as old. “Youth is considered immature and irresponsible; the elderly are labelled for the scrap head. It is a senseless warfare, depriving the world of the potential of youth as well as seasoned thinkers.” Mr Watt quoted from a report written by e group of pro-

minent medical specialists some years ago; “Those who develop a time neurosis subscribe to the prevalent superstition that time is in some way a poison, exerting a mysterious, cumulative action. The obsession in itself may be the cause of definitely premature ageing.” “The antidote is to awaken to our spiritual identity—to glimpse the spiritually mental nature of life and the wonder of man’s true selfhood as life’s full expression.

Christ Jesus was the man who lived the science of life,” said Mr Watt. “Jesus knew God to be Life itself, the allknowing Mind, the only Mind there is, the only Life there is. He replaced the material concepts of power and time and space with the spiritual facts of being. “As this spiritual sense of being appears in our consciousness, it transforms our thinking from a material to a spiritual basis. It reveals the consciousness, or mind which was also in Christ Jesus. It is divine truth appearing in our thinking as our pure, conscious knowing. “In our true nature, we are the expression of the infinite consciousness which is Life, or God,” said Mr Watt. “Life is omnipresent, irresistible. It is all there is. We have no choice but to find this out and learn to live, and live eternally.”