CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18838, 13 October 1924, Page 8

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

LECTURE BY MR. J. W. DOORLY

The tenets of Christian Science were explained by Mr. John W. Doorly, of London, and a member ox the Board of Lectureship of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, U.S.A., at a lecture delivered at the Scots Hall yesterday afternoon. The first portion of the lecture was devoted to an elaboration of the Christian Science definition of God. Christian Science, he said, taught that God was divine Mind or Spirit, and that divine Mind was Love. As God was ever present and omnipotent, the divine Mind, which was Love, must therefore be the only Mind. Also, divine Mind and its right mental activity must be omnipotent and irresistible. The prayer of a Christian Scientist, Mr. Doorly declared, was constant, conscious, unremitting mental desire to live above the mortal and in accord with'the divine Mind (God), and so to utilise the truo science which inevitably delivered from gin, and the true healing power which always healed disease. The Christian Scientists' prayer was consistent daily and hourly affirmation of divine Mind's presence and power, and of evil's nothingness. It was his increasing knowledge of God and of absolute spiritual being, and before this the so-called carnal mind and its falsities of sense, material existence, sin, disease and death grew fainter, and finally disappeared. True prayer was one of the tenderest, inpst tain, most scientific, and most intelligent things on earth or in heaven. Mr. Doorly spoke in eulogistic terms of the accomplishments for humanity of Mary Baker Eddy. "It is not possible for me to speak as I would desire of Mrs. Eddy and of all that I owe her," he declared. "If there is to-day anything that is good, that is pure, that is healthy, or that is Godlike in my life, I owe it to the consecrated thought and life of Mary Baker Eddv, and millions are telling tha same story. ' Christian Scientists regarded Mrs. Eddy as God's messenger to this age, and they knew that through her revelation many of them had been delivered from sin and disease, and even from death., When more were emboldened to rely whollv on the divine Mind, sin and sorrow would vanish from men's thoughts, pain would be stilled, and the dread "of disease cast out, then would war cease and the reign of divine love be established.