Article March 4, 1916 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from William H. Norledge, H. M. Cobbey, Eric W. Carr

John W. Doorly lectured on Christian Science in Washington Palace. He was introduced by William H. Norledge, who said:—

A few weeks ago a social reformer of the younger school in France was talking with me of some aspects of social reform in Europe. What struck me most was his statement that while the great thinkers recognized the unrivaled quality of French thought, they had come to deplore beyond all else the immense gulf that plainly existed between thought and action. This wide discrepancy between ideals and practice to which French thinkers are awakening as never before, is not however peculiar to France, but is really now the great problem of the civilized world. Lofty ideals have hardly ever been lacking, but how to bring these ideals into practical expression in common daily life has seemed to be almost beyond the possibility of mankind.

The bridging of this gulf, the meeting of this universal need of individuals and of nations for bringing action more in accord with thought, is preeminently the message of Christian Science to the world, for the very essence of this message is the demonstrability of the highest ideal that man has ever known. The message of Christian Science is not so much to tell mankind that ideal truth does exist, but rather to show how this ideal truth can be made available to human needs. A great modern writer has said that the wonder of wonders is that a man may learn to know God. Christian Science makes it possible for the individual to begin consciously to know the Mind that is infinite, the Mind that is God.

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