CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 117, 14 November 1930, Page 4

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

What the world is seeking, said Judge S W. Greene, in a lecture on Christian Science in the Town Hall last night, is a religion that tells the sick how to be well; that conies to the discouraged and despondent and lifts them out of despair and despond into the richness, into the fullness, into the joy, of a closer walk with God. Christian Science, he said, supplies this need, through the spiritual interpretation ot the Bible and the consequent spiritual understanding o£ God. ■ "\s a practical illustration, let us suppose a man lo be sick, and that he desires the help of God, and turns to Christian Science to be made well. Since Gods work is already done, there is no specific or individual action required. of God that this man's condition should be made right. The Bible says that God looked upon His work, and th "■ it was very good. The treatment or prayer of.the Christian Science practitioner is a clear, positive knowing and understanding that God has made all and made all good. God created man hi His own image and likeness, and as a necessary result of the law of creation, man in God's image and likeness must be Godlike. He must reflect the Godlike qualities, joy, peace, harmony, dominion, freedom, power. God, being good, lias not created, and from the very nature of goodness could not have created any fevers, pains, or aches of any kind; and since God is the only power, no other power has created them, and man cannot have them, because they do not really exist." To persons accustomed to the use of material remedies in case of illness, such a system", he said, might not at first be considered scientific or beneficial; yet the actual experience of anyone who will test it according to the principle and rule of Christian Science will prove that it is both scientific and beneficial.