Show LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE from fridays standard the rev P of alast a member ot w christian board of lectureship of the first church 0 chrict in boston au ing lecture at the congregational charch last evening on deliverance from evil tho coealer 0 he evening was introduced trod toy pastor of tho congregational church ft ho broto 0 the being taken in the doctrines of science and of the ability ot mr mckenzie to discuss tha tonto previous to tha lecture miss dalrymple organist 0 ahe christian church played mr ead in part the text book ot science ww first in by mary baker G eddy and entitled science and healan with key to the scrip 1 turea the author is now known as the woman 0 the e who has given to the world the true idea Godf and as the philosopher who has revola the of fraai to so that the mediaeval media eval bellel ot Christ ag a scheme for a future world sal vaton ia ch ansing to the primitive conception gt aaa ine anfor revealing to men on earth the goodness 0 god in healing and salvation christian scientists are the question prevented to every man Is to what do rou give power evil or good christian scientists by virtue of their ro confirmed optimists they have seen healing where human love and human skill had given up hope they find that their faithful 1 application of the or christ tian science tb the problems of ste haa brought BO many proofs of tho power of good to come evil that they foresee the ultimate triumph of gaoa evil Is not a beneficent reality some who are selfless and sincere argue that tnora evil and physical pain alq not only realities tout beneficent observing now a good deed shines in a naughty world they seem to the good ased owes its anster to wickedness they infer that tho patience of the bed briddon saint is the product of his pain and thit the moral courage of the worlds leonus is iua to the they oppose but hl yla ion ot god inspires the saint to bs meek arid the reformer to SQ fearless ana in that vision pain and moral evil have noart the beauty at the vision of god was given to us in christ jesus but who would say that the hypocrisy of th pharisee the envy of the the treachery of a disciple were abe christly matuie it borica good chwi its agents are ou and why bould th babott active adera of evil be restrained brogi aber bene ficetti activity by our it physical pain ia the teacher ot fortitude why permit attempts to baal maln evil constitutes a of per or reversal from which conversion must be bained before what la true and normal can be or man be apparent as the of god jeaba re presenta the bon of godi judas the reversal of tra man hood or and in that condl alon 0 inan and god the process of evil with good is not merely a struggle with adverse environment but a contest with wrong habits ot thinking abr WB arc confronted with a condition which seems to toe a pact of mans history which theologians discuss under the name of sin but the claims of sin can be overcome and annulled as they were by the master what is sin it Is any belief thought or action which misrepresents the likeness of god what 13 righteousness but right action correct conduct truthful thinking whereby man as goda image the beauty of holiness why are defalcation and graft so ifie verely condemned because th breach of trust not only disappoints our expectation regarding the one man who is untrue but also poisons us suspicion of others and caltea us doubtful regarding manhood why ia it that a true man helps us and alvea us joy anal hope he lifts up again the alien ideal of man be expresses gods likeness and reassures us ot good christian science deals successfully with sin as with sickness healing both conditions of distress overcoming moral evil with spiritual good it reveals the faast that good comes accord ing to inflexible principle changeless from acty OL affa eater blessedness tor the the honest the chaste tho truthful the loveng deliverance Deliver anca from evil should thera be any misconception regarding the possible permanence ot error cohs lder the petition used universally ver sally toy christians to express their desire for divine guidance namely lead not into temptation where all other leadership than thane tallest us but deliver us from evil somo commentators read this petition as if i they thought it was customary for us to be swathed scathed by temptation at the hands of god but let no man say when be Is tempted I 1 am ot go for god cannot be tempted with evil neither temp teth he any man it god were tempted with evil or knew evil how could wa expect from god deliverance from U if evil con part of tho area of divine knowledge we should have to leara evil in knowing god jesus taught that to know the true god was life and peace then we are delivered from evil and find it to be neither actual nor real in proportion as wo know god then we au say thou art my god thy spirit is good lead me in ehg way of uprightness christian science teaches that ahe eternal principle underlying der lying all realley 19 good hence all forms ot evil are transient and false conceptions aira eddys elucidation of tho reality ot good and her teaching both by precept and example of the whereby sickness ia healed and evil of every kind Is overcome by good place her in tho forefront of christian teachers her consecration enabled her to discover christian science and her love for humanity impelled her to demonstrate it she expresses a verbal with the evident deai re that all mankind may toe weaned from believing in evil and taught to express mans true matuie in the likeness ot god who is love those who know her best know the ot her motives the integrity of her alms and the tireless industry of her life when others become awake to influences toy which they have been blessed hey will appreciate and love the one who has been the pati tiit and friend of man and ripe up and call her blessed jim the southern yard messenger holding no 3 won the gun rattled by prank |