Article September 11, 1920 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Clyde Morsey, Lillian Stough, Helen S. Green, Marie Hartman, Reginald Schenck, E. M. Quittmeyer, R. E. Smith, Alice E. Eaton, Fleischer, Nellie M. Keeney, Clara K. Ferrier, Rachel M. Pratt

Miami, Okla. (First Church).—Lecturer introduced by Clyde Morsey, who said in part:—

In 1866 when Mrs. Eddy lay upon a bed of pain, suffering from an injury which physicians pronounced fatal, Christian Science had not been named. Presently she became conscious of the fact that God is Life, and the results of this conviction have been heard around the world. Her physical condition responded to her illumined thought, and she has since reestablished hope in the hearts of suffering humanity.

Jesus healed sin and disease and said, "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." He also said, "These signs shall follow them that believe ... they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." For about three centuries after Jesus taught on the hillsides and at the seashore many persons took him at his word and healed the sick in the name of the Christ. Then came the time when darkness seemed more real than the light; materiality meant more to the people than spirituality; the church confined itself to the healing of sin, while it stood calmly by and took the diagnosis of materia medica as final in the case of bodily disease. Such was the condition of the thought of the world when Mary Baker Eddy began to search for all causation outside of matter. We frequently hear of pious persons, students of the Scriptures, who have occasionally healed themselves or others through the medium of prayer. These indications have always been hopeful. They demonstrate the fact that spiritual healing has been available to every one throughout all ages. The great difference, however, between those occasional demonstrations and the healing that raised Mrs. Eddy from her couch of pain was the fact that Mrs. Eddy alone, of all such persons, followed up her vision of the Christ with years of diligent spiritual search and gave to the world Christian Science.

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