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Show THE CITIZEN 00 mini jjjB Auditorium last Sunday listen-pran- k afternoon a large audience H. Leonard of Chicago, r lecture entitled erbis Christian The Interpretation of V Mr. Leonard was introduced ' Clyde Price, Christian Science jjittee on Publication for the State . - who h, said: of mortal exice the beginning believed that, man cept has been ns' knowledge by way of one or Man the five physical senses. sought out learning by he does, or what he hears therefore, rwhat bst ch he sees. practices have so darkened his spiritual discernment that it been most difficult for him to of his a clear understanding of f except as the Truth, has from time to time presented to him through the relationship to. God, st, language. prophets of old in e caught clear Gods omniscience, omni-ic- e omnipresence, but it was until Jesus came presenting to ils the fullness of the Christ that and generally began to lay off pses of and philosophies based upon mat-sidisease and death, and to n, in the divine philosophy creates, constitutes and ms all through Spirit, Mind, lile there have been many, yes, of individuals in aps thousands tra times clothed with a brief ority" (No and Yes, p. 22), yet it ined for Mary Baker Eddy, whom bad been preparing for many to again present this Science bristianity as taught by Christ i, which she named Christian sstrate ein God ice. one with us this after-rh- o member of the Board Bctureship of the Mother Church, First Church of Christ, Scientist, wton. Mass., whose purpose it is resent the subject of Christian ice correctly, and to bear testi-have b is a F regarding the life its Discoverer and Found-lar- y Baker Eddy. ave the honor of introducing Mr. I H. Leonard, C. S. B., of Chilli., who will now address you. to the facts ork of Leonard I said: hear or think of that ition from John, And ye shall ;the truth, and the truth shall ?you free, I likewise think of Jstion asked of Jesus, What is And perhaps the most interring, so far as I am concerned, J enthe quotation, is the fact did not answer that ques-practically said: If in view girthing that you have known in Judea under my ministry still asking the question, to truth? then no words would tonrey one single item of infor-- J on that point. My conviction to well borne out by the fact ton John the Baptist again after he had admitted sns was the Redeemer who was aml sent to Jesus to find rt ether or no he was the one jw expected, Jesus did not He did many things, and Now, go and tell John (one then let him find out wi who I am; and on the basis iac accomplished, John he was the Redeemer. jt Upm1e is one Truth In my our n Europe, a very nt in the Lutheran Church fkedfh was dangerous to say is tJ he said, there because, io1 truths that it would be estfon Q &s to which one God is. lenever e 1 ul, ans-jtoctl- io .5 LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE A ice: 11 y. mu ,lllllllllll(lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIJ; AN authorized lecture on Christian Science by Frank H. Leonard, C. S. B., Member of the Board of Lec-- ! tureship, of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston, Mass. ruiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. That was a theological opinion, but it was not Christian. All the human opinions on the face of the earth as to what constitutes Truth may be wrong. There are millions of humah opinions, but when we begin to limit Truth, when we begin to say that there is this truth and that truth and the other truth, we are getting away from the Bible fact, which tells us that there is just one Truth, and that this Truth is God, the infinite One. In order that any one may be free from any kind of discord, he must know the truth that proves the discord untrue. In other words, nothing can really exist without Truth. Truth is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Truth never began and it never will end. Truth is always good, it is always pure, it is always lovely, and it always accomplishes just one result, and that is the fruitage of God. Humanly speaking we could not build this building if we did not have Truth, for, humanly speaking, nothing on earth could be accomplished were it not for Truth. Why, as a matter of fact, you cannot even lie until you know the truth. Have you ever thought of that? Because a lie is a misstatement about Truth. And so you see the whole of our investigation and research along all lines will lead us straight and absolutely to the contemplation of Truth. We must answer, each of us, to and for ourselves the question what is Truth? We must every one of us prove in ourselves and to ourselves and for ourselves the freedom from everything untruthful which a knowledge of the Truth that is God brings to us. Truth Comes to Human Consciousness. Christian Science came into this world as it came, not accidentally; it did not come under the impulsion of human opinions at all, but it came because away down, underneath with every one in this world is a desire and a hope for Truth. And so, naturally, sooner or later, Truth began to appeal to human consciousness, in a way it could apprehend uqtil Truth finally sprang forth arrayed in all its beauty and glory and majesty, the manifestation of God Himself, in order that Truth itself should be known, and our acceptance of it be justified by reason of what it accomplishes in the world. We have had a wonderful experience with Truth in our own day as it has been presented to us. It has been a marvel to those who have known it why or how any one could question the fact that Christian Science reveals the truth. This has been questioned because it has been questioned as a revelation. It has been questioned as a revelation because it has been questioned as having had a revelator; and the whole thing has been questioned because the world, until Christian Science brought the fruitage of Truth into it, has not comprehended Truth at all in its spiritual sense; because men have turned away from the teaching and preaching of our Lord and Master while he was on earth, and have gone away after strange teachings and divers theories and beliefs. Christian Science brings this Truth to us in such form and manner that the little children understand it. They understand it so well that they are every day of their lives doing wonderful things to bring out the realization of Truth. I just want to tell you one thing that came under my notice. A little girl seven years1 of age had gone out to play with another little girl. She came in in about half an hour with a face which showed conclusively that she was not very happy. Her mother asked her what was the trouble. The little girl just shut her lips together and went right to her own room, sat down and played with her own things. She had been in there about twenty minutes when she came out with her eyes wide open and said, Why, I do almost think? what you mother, forgot that we are both Gods chilThen she went back to play dren. with her companion again. You see, she had analyzed Truth without human or personal distinction, and when she had done that, Truth appealed to her as belonging to every one in exactly the same quantity and quality that it belonged to any one, therefore she recognized that what she had been doing was to limit Truth in seeing only herself as Gods child. It then occurred to her if one of them was Gods child they both were, and as soon as she saw this the disturbance was healed, the anger and resentment disappeared, her thought had been cleansed and purified, and with the simplicity of a child she said so frankly and went back to her playmate. Now that ought to teach us how we may use the truth of being to bring about a cessation of discord and dissension, and to establish a universal brotherhood of man wherein there shall be no distinction, no line of separation, no difference of any kind, but we shall all be working for the universal good. That is the mission of Christian Science in this world. The only way the Christian mission can possibly be accomplished is by the spreading of the truth about God, about Jesus the Christ, about man and the universe, so that the whole world shall understand and comprehend the infinite God and the infinite capacity and ability of His children to go to Him in any of their misunderstandings, whether these are called want or woe, sin or sickness, and find for every one the help which the Bible teaches us God has for us. The Coming of Christian Science. One of the questions that has been asked very often is why we should assume that this revelation had come through a woman of whom no one had ever heard up to that time, rather than through some of the men or women who had consecrated years of their lives to the study of the Bible. Well, really, we cannot answer that question. Only God can answer that. But we can say as did Christ Jesus: I thank thee, 0 Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent and hast revealed them unto babes. Mrs. Eddy assuredly conformed to what a babe means in her loyalty to the teachings of the Bible, in taking them as being absolutely true. When other children were hearing I the little fairy stories and things of that sort to which we all have loved to listen, Mrs. Eddy was hearing from her mother the history of things recorded in the Bible, the stories of true events. Her mother did not tell her about what this or that one said; she was constantly telling her stories of their works, and what the Word of God accomplished, so that Mrs. Eddy was familiar when a young girl with all the activities recorded in the Bible; to her they were not mere historic accounts or events, they were real, living, actual facts, the proofs of Gods allness. She clung to them as she grew up; then when she had reached maturity she met with an accident which the doctors said would result fatally. All of her friends accepted and believed this, and her minister stopped to pray with her in the morning, believing, as they all did, that she would not be on earth to be prayed with at the termination of the morning service. After he had done his kindly loving work for her, s&e asked those with whom she was staying to give her her Bible and to leave her alone with God. They did as she requested, and when the minister stopped again later to see if he could be of any assistance, Mrs. Eddy herself opened the door to him, and stood before him for the first time since her girlhood perfectly well, normal and natural in every particular. The Bible tells us of many happenings of that kind. Yes, and there are many events of that sort about which we know that have happened outside of Bible times. But what is the difference between those and Mrs. Eddy's case? This the others all accepted their healing to be a manifestation of a special dispensation on the part of God, and the next time they had a pain they took a pill. They thought their healing was a special occasion and that a special privilege had been given to them to be specially made well by the Word of God. Mrs. Eddy did not accept this. We know in Christian Science that there is no such thing in heaven or in earth as a special dispensation, because if we believe what Jesus said, we know he said that if we believe on him, we shall all do the works he did. He intended therefore to say that it was not a special dispensation which had enabled him to do these things, but that it was a universal gift to men when they were willing to follow God in his footsteps as he had taught them to do. Mrs. Eddy did not accept her healing as a special dispensation, for she knew that she had been made well through the activity of the law of God, and that she had a right to her birthright, the knowledge of God and Jesus Christ whom He had sent, which would give her dominion over the earth and the fullness thereof, and take from her every sense of fear that God might be absent, or that there was another power to which she might be subject, therefore that God might not be omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Then she became a student night and day, week in and week out, month in and month out, year in and year out. She studied. And what did she study? The Bible. It was thfe only book she had to study. No commentaries would help her, nothing but a determined and consecrated effort to know the truth of being in its spiritual import would suffice to bring about the knowledge which she felt was her birthright and which she was entitled to have. So she studied and studied and studied, and then after a while her old theological belief, instead of being a cloud, became simply a mist, and then that grew less and i |