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Show CHHISTIRN SCIENCE US TAUGHT BY MRS. EDDY The Rev. William B. McKenzie of Boston lectured before a large crowd at the Salt Lake Theater last r.ight on "Christian Science, or Deliverance Deliver-ance From Evil." Frank B. Stephens, president of the Y. M. C. A., Introduced the speaker. In part Mr. McKenzie said: ' Christian Science deals successfully with sin as with sickness, healing both conditions of distress, overcoming moral evil with spiritual good. Men fall into sin because they seek for good from a wrong basis, 'christian Science shows that man's good is from Ood pri- marlly, and that man need not hurt nor destroy other men In order to find good. "Should there remain any misconception misconcep-tion in regard to the possible permanence perma-nence of sin and error, consider the petition pe-tition used universally by Christians to express their desire for divine guidance. When communing with spirit we aay to the Heavenly Father. 'Lead us not into temptation (where all other leadership than thine tnkes us) but deliver us from evil." Some commentators read this petition as if they thought it was customary for us to be scathed by temptation at the hands of God, and this was a prayer for special exemption exemp-tion from the regular process. But there is good sense in the words of James: 'Let" no man say when he is tempt id, I am tempted of God, for God cannot he tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.' If God were tempted with ?vil or knew evil, how I could we exne-"t from fJoii deliverance from it? If evil constituted part of the area, of divine knowledge, we should' have to iearn evil In knowing God. "Her elucidation of the reality of good, and her teaching both by precept snd example of the science whereby evil of every kind is overcome by good, place Mrs. Eddy in the forefront of Christian teachers. Her selfless consecration con-secration enabled her to discover Christian Chris-tian Science, and her love for humanity impelled her to demonstrate it. She expresses ex-presses a universal kindness, with the evident detlre that al! mankind may be weaned from believing in evil and tp.ught to express man's true nature in the likeness of God. who Is love." |