Article May 29, 1915 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from H. Cornell Wilson, Hiram W. Hayes, E. G. Lorenzen, H. M. Wright, A. A. Miller

Jacob S. Shield of Chicago, a member of the Christian Science board of lectureship, delivered a lecture Friday evening [May 21] under the auspices of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass., in the church edifice at Falmouth, Norway, and St. Paul streets. H. Cornell Wilson, first reader, introduced the lecturer. Mr. Wilson said:—

To Christian Science is allotted the task of reinstating primitive Christianity. In the light of the New Testament this means, if it means anything at all, that Christian Science shall reestablish spiritual healing. We see that Jesus left no room whatever for doubt as to the important part spiritual healing must have in saving humanity from sin and disease. Indeed, he taught and practised spiritual healing as an inseparable part of his mission. He instructed his disciples to "preach the gospel" and "heal the sick." He pointed directly to his own works of spiritual healing when John the Baptist inquired concerning his Messiahship, and used no other argument in reassuring John on this important point. The disciples of Jesus and Paul are reliably credited with healing everywhere.

Christian Science is successfully fulfilling its task of reestablishing spiritual healing. Men, women, and children may be found all over this earth, to the number of hundreds of thousands, who give grateful testimony and undeniable proof of this significant fact. Here let me read from page 150 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy's chief work on Christian Science, what she as the Discoverer and Founder of this Science has to say on the subject of healing: "Today the healing power of Truth is widely demonstrated as an immanent eternal Science, instead of a phenomenal exhibition. Its appearing is the coming anew of the gospel of 'on earth peace, good-will toward men.' This coming, as was promised by the Master, is for its establishment as a permanent dispensation among men; but the mission of Christian Science now, as in the time of its earlier demonstration, is not primarily one of physical healing. Now, as then, signs and wonders are wrought in the metaphysical healing of physical disease; but these signs are only to demonstrate its divine origin,—to attest the reality of the higher mission of the Christ-power to take away the sins of the world."

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