CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 67, 21 March 1938, Page 9

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES.

I “Matter” was the subject of the; I lesson-sermon in all Churches of i Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, March 20. I The golden text was Psalm 114:7, !“Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, al the presence of (he God of Jacob.” Among the citations which con:-; prised the lesson-sermon were the fol- • lowing from the Bible, ‘Thus saith the ; Lord, What iniquity have your fathers! found in me, that they are gone far ; from me, and have welkcd after van-. ity, and arc become vain” . . They: have forsaken me the fountain of IL-. ing waters, and hewed them out cis-' terns, broken cisterns, that can hold! no water.” (Jer. 2:5,13). Also the following passage fro.'. : the Christian Science textbook,! “Science and Health with Key to thej Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy, ! “Mind is not the au.’hor of matter,! and the creator of ideas is not the! creator of illusions. Either there i ■ no omnipotence, or omnipotence is the; only power. God is the infinite, and I infinity never beg’.n, will never end, i and includes nothing unlike God. I Whence then is soulless matter?” (p. I