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Show C1STI1 SCIENCE LECTUREJS HO George Shaw Cook Talks to Great Gathering1 at Salt i ! Lake Theater. j Exposition of the universality of health and wealth as essential principles of Christian Science, and explanations of the theological distinction between "God," "Christ" and "Jesus" was made yesterday yester-day afternoon at the Salt Lake theater by George Shaw Cook, C. S. B., member of the board of lecturship of the Mother church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Scien-tist, of Boston. Mr. Cook, who opened his lecture at 3 o'clock, spoke to an immense audience, hundreds beinr ujnable to gain admission to the building". Kvery seat was filled and the aisles crowded before the lecturer lec-turer was introduced bv W. Clvde Price, first reader of the Church of Christ. Scientist, Scien-tist, Salt Lake. Mr. Cook said in part: Health, according to Christian Science, is not personal. It is universal. univer-sal. It Is mental wholeness or completeness. com-pleteness. It is spiritual perfection. It is reflected by the individual. It does not originate with him, nor does it belong to one more thao to another. an-other. It is like the light, impersonal and universal. For one to have It does not prevent all from sharing It. Keal wealth, or true substance, is not only universal but indivisible. For Cine to possess it does not make it necessary or possible that others should be deprived of it. Even in daily experience it is seen from a purely human point of view, that those qualities or characteristics which make for true success are intellectual in-tellectual activity, faithful persistence, persist-ence, courage, honesty, fidelity, etc. Christian Science shows that these qualities, if enduring, are not personal, per-sonal, but. on the contrary, are attributes at-tributes of the one infinite mind, or God. Therefore they are universal and may be reflected and manifested by all. Thus all may be conscious of the only enduring substance, and to be conscious of its ever-prcsence is to reflect and manifest divine love, whicii, Mm. Eddy says, "is Impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals."' Christ Jesus, while understanding the universal nature of good and that man as the son of God is eternally supplied with all good, nevertheless recognized that mankind needs food and raiment. But in pointing the true way to find sufficient for temporal needs he said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God. and his righteousness; righteous-ness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Frequently students of the gospels fall to make any distinction between the terms Christ and Jesus. They often consider these terms as being synonymous. Christ Is the spiritual eternal, changeless", universal truth of God, which has been discerned to a greater or less extent in all asea, but which appeared in its perfection as an individual ideal in Ohrint Jesus. As the one who best understood and most perfectly demonstrated the Christ, truth, in healing sickness and sin. Jesus wa s the wayshower and exemplar for mankind. If we are to believe, as some have i taueht. that Jesus was God, then wc must also believe that God was born of Marv. that God was "tempted nf the devil" (Matt iv. 1), that God suffered suf-fered in Gethsemaffie. that God v.as i dead and v.as resurrected. Yet this 1 cannot logically be affirmed concerning concern-ing God if we accept the scriptural proposition that lie Is eternal life, that He "cannot be tempted with evil" ("James 1. 13). and that He is infinite, immutable noirit. truth, love as most Christians believe. Furthermore, Further-more, Jesus said. "Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thv name." (Matt. VL 3). Was he referring to j himself? Christian Science j teaches its ad-! ad-! herents to "pray without ceasing." ! and constantly to aeek a higher and ! better understanding of the true na- ture of God. and of man as Hif, likeness. like-ness. Furthermore, it requires the demonstration of this understanding in right thinking and right living. Such thinking results in the lessening of sin and disease. This is the practical prac-tical atonement to whu-h Mrs. Eddy refers as "the exemplification of man's unity with God." |