CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. LECTURE BY PROF. HERING.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 116, 22 June 1914, Page 3

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

LECTURE BY PROF. HERING.

A lecture on Christian Science Healing, spiritual and scientific, was given in the King's Theatre on Saturday night by Professor Hermann S. Hering, C.S.B.

Mrs M. E. Simpson, who presided, introduced the speaker as a member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Boston.

Professor Hering said that there was no question of such general interest to mankind as the one of healing. Christ Jesus proved existence to be wholly mental when he walked on the water, stilled the tempest, and overcame other material conditions. Perfect God, perfeefinan, perfect being, was the" basis of all Christian Science teaching, analysis, and practise. Disease,. sin, death, all discords, were therefore to be classed, as errors of mortal consciousness, as mesmeric, illusory mental conditions. On this basis they could be corrected with truth, while they could not be corrected so long as they were "classed as either physical or mental realities. Even according to psychology and philosophy they were but objectified sense iriipressions. ' ' '

As disease was an untrue experience of the human mind, truth must bo brought to bear upon consciousness;in order that the wrong belief and its cause might be destroyed. When we thought rightly of divine truth, life, love—God, which Christian Scienc-e made possible to-day, truth was present with us in consciousness, God with lis. St Paul wrote to the Epliesians (4.6) of the one God who is "in you all," omnipresent. He had but to be known, and as by knowing truth we reflected truth, so by knowing God we reflected Him, and it. was by this right knowing of God that divine truth and love were reflected in consciousness and brought to bear upon our problems. This definitely distinguished Christian Science from hypnotism, magnetism, or mental suggestion of any form. His acquaintance with Mrs Eddy for! many years, and his association with her on many occasions enabled him to] speak of her exalted Christian char- j acter. Fidelity to her highest concept ] of right, consecration to the work divinely demanded of her, spiritual wisdom in leading and directing the Christian Science movement, unfeigned, love for God, for His Christ, and for all mankind; these were dominant traits of character in that great yet gentle woman who discovered and established Christian Science.