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A Lecture on Christian Science Entitled Christian Science: The Religion of Courage

by Judge Samuel W. Greene, C.S.B. of Chicago, Illinois Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts The greatest obstacle to health, happiness, and human welfare is fear. The most plaguing, insistent, tenacious, continuous human weakness is fear. Christian Science reveals to the human thought the certain and perfect antidote for every fear. The truth about God and God's perfect, spiritual creation is the antithesis of fear, doubt, anxiety, unhappiness. God The scientific truth concerning God as revealed in Christian Science brings to human consciousness a so clear, logical, and satisfying sense of Deity, the source of all creation, that tends at once to lessen and to limit the sway and power of universal fear. It is as though, through the raging torrents and storms of the carnal or mortal mind, one's inner consciousness seems to hear the voice of God speaking, "Fear not for I am God and there is none else." Could any sense of Deity be more comforting, more encouraging, more sustaining in its assurance than the truth that God is infinite Love? What a multitude of fears melt into nothingness before the comforting realization that the infinite source of being is Love! What assurance of health and life, security and wholeness are envisaged in the consciousness that God is Life! What rich blessings of peace and freedom and confidence are poured into our experience in the understanding that God is Life! How truly and how certainly are we lifted out of the finite realm of matter and materiality into the consciousness and understanding that God is Mind! With this understanding, we simply and naturally fall into the resolving of things into thoughts, and into the very definite realization that creation proceeding from Mind is not material but mental. How strong, how active, how altogether reliable is that concept of God which comes in thinking about the words of Christ Jesus to the woman at the well of Samaria, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." How tremendously important to human welfare, to all human hope, improvement, and progress becomes this profound revelation that God is Spirit and must therefore, be worshiped in spirit and truth! How completely our whole former concept of creation is changed as we conceive of God, Spirit, being expressed in perfect spiritual creation! What majesty, what might, what purity, what infinite wealth of wisdom are found in the true concept of God as Principle, as Truth! In this marvelous concept of the infinite, how truly the dark visions, shadows, fears doubts, and frailties of mortal sense flee away! How safe, how secure, and how profitable seems the way as we consider our eternal harmony under the government of divine Truth! What a wealth of being, of power, of wholesomeness, of satisfying reality is found in the understanding that God is Soul! How far removed from any supposition of materiality, is limited, or infinite or material concept of God is this conviction, and divinely inspired understanding, that God is Soul! How certain, how sure, how orderly, how definitely correct God being and power defined as Principle! What great satisfaction the realm of accident, luck, chance, mishap, instability, and disease disappears in our quickened sense of God's unfailing law and government as divine Principle. Thus does Christian Science reveal the nature and character of God as understandable, as available to man, making practical the realization of "every good gift and every perfect gift," the realization of health, happiness, harmony, and every desirable condition of being. God is defined in Christian Science by these seven synonyms: Life, Love, Truth, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Principle. Creation Christian Science through the teaching of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, is leading its students and followers into a new world, a new universe that is truly compatible with the account of creation as given in the first chapter of Genesis. Nothing could be more natural than to realize that God's creation is His expression, His manifestation, even His image and likeness. Surely no creation could be more satisfactory, even to our human sense, than this realization of creation as the expression, or manifestation, of Love, Life, Truth, Soul, Mind, Spirit, Principle--creation of which it can be truly said "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Thus is creation visualized in the words of the textbook on page 504: "Was not this a revelation instead of a creation?" Man Of immediate concern and interest to everyone is the query, What is man, and what is man's relationship to God? In accord with this concept of creation as revelation, Christian Science points out than is truly and certainly what the first chapter of Genesis teaches,--that is, created in the image and likeness of God. The answer to the inquiry then is, What is the image and likeness of Life, Truth, Love, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Principle? Any true conclusion reached from such a foundation would very naturally and correctly reveal man to be idea, to be spiritual, to be whole, to be perfect, to be Godlike. Accordingly, one can easily understand why and how the Christian Science textbook says (p. 475): "Man is spiritual and perfect. . . . Man is idea. . . . He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas; . . . that which has not a single quality underived from Deity." How poorly and how imperfectly human consciousness has discerned and understood what man really is! The pointed, explicit, and vivid description of man in the first chapter of Genesis is in need of not one word to emphasize or to call attention to God's concept of man. Nothing could be added to God's image and likeness. No power could be added to God-given dominion, which is the promise of the first chapter of Genesis to man. Also, it must be clear to all that nothing can be taken from man, God's image and likeness, else we would have the senseless proposition that something could be taken from God. Human eulogy has made various and vain efforts to exalt man's position, and all of them fall far short of this simple statement in the first chapter of Genesis: "So God created man in his own image." Only the Master himself has been able, in his description of man, to arrive at a full perception of God's creation in the words, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." From this standpoint of spiritual creation, how futile, how ineffective, how poorly adequate has been the human effort to achieve in man's experience the perfection known to God! Men have reached out for material possessions, fame, position, dominion, but how few in the annals of history have scaled the heights, surmounted the difficulties, and stood upon the spiritual eminence that is man's universal inheritance and God-given dominion! Jesus alone has walked the perfect way, has seen the perfect vision, has accomplished the perfect work, and he was qualified to describe his way. Truly man shall have missed the message and the mission of this marvelous character, Jesus of Nazareth, if he fails to observe in practical fashion these words: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." Surely the time approaches when Christian Scientists will be more generally accepted as pointing the way to this present, possible, perfect attainment. Healing All of this concerning God, and man, and creation becomes of great importance in the consideration of healing as it is taught and practiced in Christian Science. The actual process in healing in Christian Science does not involve dealing with matter or the material body. It does not depend upon symptoms, diagnosis, and material (Please Turn to Page Seven)

Two-Toned

Long torso and draped bodice are the two new notes of this sophisticated silk jersey evening gown, designed by Kalmour and modeled here by CBS Actress Ann Eden. It is a two-toned model of apple green and smoke grey with a detachable floor-length draped scarf.

When You Build Insist on Genuine CURTIS

Entrances • Mantels • Cabinets THE FINEST MILLWORK AVAILABLE On display at Renuart Lumber Yards, 226 Alhambra Circle, or Miami Shores and Miami Beach. RE-NU-ART LUMBER YARDS, INC. Everything to Build Anything

Serving 71 Military Camps in Dixie

Seventy-one military camps and establishments, where more than 570,000 men will be in training, are located in the nine states served by Southern Bell. In 65 of them, this Company is providing and maintaining the telephone facilities. Necessary switchboards and other equipment and more than 66,000 miles of telephone wire in cables have already been installed. Additional equipment will be provided as required. Nearly $40,000,000 will be spent this year by Southern Bell for new construction and general expansion to meet the South's increasing telephone needs. New central offices, buildings and local and long distance lines are being put into service, and the net gain in new telephones is expected to reach 115,000 this year. Aware of the telephone's vital part in national defense, thousands of telephone men and women are devoting their efforts to supplying the increasing communication needs of government and industry.

Clipper Crowd-

(Continued from Grove Page) "hard cash" for Spanish lessons: A free course in Spanish is conducted by the Works Projects Administration in Room 405, Dade County Court House, each week night (Monday through Friday). Classes for beginners are given from 6-8 p. m., and classes for intermediate and advanced Spanish students are from 8-10 p. m. Anyone may enroll at any time; purchase of a text book may be required; optional attendance is permitted. Headed for San Francisco next week will be Roy J. Jensen, 260 S. W. 19th Road. Junior pilot Jensen has been "seeing the world"-or, at any rate, the Western Hemisphere-since he came with Pan American in August, 1939. In just a year and a half he has been stationed in Miami, Rio, and now San Francisco. More responsibilities are now on the shoulders of H. W. Toomey, Division Engineer for the Eastern Division, who has been appointed Assistant Manager, Eastern Division, and as such will act for Division Manager W. O. Snyder in the latter's absence. Mr. Toomey remains Division Engineer.

FEEL OLD? WE SPECIALIZE In Keeping You Fit MacDonald Health Studio

FEEL OLD? WE SPECIALIZE In Keeping You Fit This consists of mineral vapor baths, general and specific massage, infra-red baking and manipulative treatments for muscular, joint and nerve conditions. Director, C. H. MacDonald, formerly of the Roney Plaza and the Miami Biltmore Hotels. The women's department in charge of Mrs. Bess Robins, masseuse. MacDonald Health Studio Arcade Building Ponce de Leon Blvd. Phone 4-1253

MY HOME IS MY HOBBY... I Chose Coral Gables! CORAL GABLES LEADS

MY HOME IS MY HOBBY... I Chose Coral Gables! THERE'S an extra fullness in life here under the Florida sun... and in the few short years since its founding, Coral Gables has already become famous as a community of discriminating homemakers. More than half of the homes in Coral Gables enjoy automatic electric water heating, the service that keeps plentiful hot water on tap, instantly ready for use at the turn of a faucet. Automatic electric water heating is flameless, safe--dependable, day or night, good weather or bad. Ask your Electric Dealer for details of cost and installation. W. D. FULLER, Manager ELECTRICITY IS CHEAP! FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT SUNSHINE SERVICE COMPANY OUR TOWN IS BEST! CORAL GABLES LEADS 54 per cent of Coral Gables homes enjoy the time-saving convenience of automatic electric water heating--the highest saturation in your Florida Power & Light system. The average on Sunshine Service lines is 14 per cent.