Article June 20, 1925 Issue

The Lectures

Introductions to Lectures

with contributions from Donald Angus Davison, Almon C. Binkley, Emil Hansen, John L. Lawton, Mathilda N. Windell, Evelyn L. Webb, Alexandre Louis James Dewette

Ancon, Canal Zone (Society).

Lecturer: The Rev. Andrew J. Graham; introduced by Major Donald Angus Davison.

The beloved disciple, John, tells us, "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God.... Beloved, now are we the sons of God." This is the message and theme of Christian Science to-day. Christian Science has given to the world an understanding of the Science which Jesus taught and demonstrated nineteen centuries ago,—the Science by which he instantaneously healed the sick and raised the dead, the Science which reveals man as spiritual, deathless, perfect, the perfect son of his perfect Father, God. In the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 475), Mary Baker Eddy writes, "Man is spiritual and perfect; and because he is spiritual and perfect, he must be so understood in Christian Science." Christ Jesus has pointed the way by which mankind will gain this perfect sonship, pledging us the Comforter for our help and guidance, and assuring us that "all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.... And, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world." The world is beginning to recognize this gospel of the perfectibility of man as the only way out of national and international difficulties. Only recently the head of a mighty Christian nation said in a public address: "There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man.... Peace, justice, humanity, charity,—these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of a divine grace."

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