Article February 11, 1922 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Joseph R. Curl, Bertha M. Fitch, Nelvia Ritchie

Wheeling, W. Va. (First Church).—A lecturer on Christian Science was introduced by Mr. Joseph R. Curl, who said in part:—

In the constitution of West Virginia one of the essentials for the preservation of free government is stated to be the "frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." If frequent recurrence to fundamentals is necessary for the preservation of free government, it is equally essential for the preservation of true religion. And has not that been the mission of every great religious leader? Moses labored for recurrence to fundamentals, and to keep those fundamentals ever and perpetually before his people he gave them the Ten Commandments on tables of stone. Samuel, Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, and the other patriarches likewise argued for recurrence to Principle, after materialism, creed, and dogma had obscured the great truths.

So it was with Jesus. He came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it, to uncover and reveal that which had been secret, undiscerned, since the foundation of the world—the beginning of materialistic thought. The so-called Middle Ages were brought to a close by the efforts of Wycliffe, Huss, Luther, Calvin, Knox, and the other great leaders of the Reformation, to lead the people back to fundamentals. To-day the same necessity confronts us, and has been and is being met by Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy, after both dogmatic religion and medicine had failed her in her hour of need, turned to the Bible, and there found the truth in divine Science she has set forth in her book "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." And she says in that book (p. 120), "Science reverses the false testimony of thephysical senses, and by this reversal mortals arrive at the fundamental facts of being." In short, man learns in Christian Science the final fundamental, if I may so phrase it, that God is in fact omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient—All-in-all. Can there be any greater ultimate basis?

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