CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 282, 2 December 1935, Page 2

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES

‘•'Ancient and Modern Necromancy, Alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Denounced,” was the subject of the lesson-sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist on Sunday, December 1. The golden text was from Psalm? 138:23,24, “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me m the j way everlasting.” Among the citations which, cump’iscl the lesson-sermon were the following from the Bible, “And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be ? swift witness against the sorc?rers, aud against the adulterers, and against faise swearers and against thosd that opjress the hireling in his wag’is, Hie widow, and the fatherless, and fiat turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the 1 ord of Hosts.” (Mai. 3:5.) Also the following passages from the Christian Science textbook “Science and Health with Key to the S-’ip-tuits” by Mary Baker Eddy, “Christian Science goes to the bottom of mental action, and reveals the theodicy which indicates the righteius of all divine action, as the emanation of divine Mind, and the consequent wrongness of the opposite so-called, action —evil, occultism, necromancy, mesmerism, animal magnetism, hypnotism. Mortal mind is constantly producing on mortal body the results of false opinions; and it will continue to do so, until mortal error is deprived ot its imaginary powers by truth, which sweeps away the gossamer web of mortal illusion (pp. 104, 403).