CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURER
ADDRESSES CORDOVA AUDIENCE
C. I. Ohrensteiu of Boston addressed
a large meeting at Masonic hall last
night in the interest of Christian
Science. The speaker was introduced
by Mayor A. J. Adams in the follow
ing brief speech:
“Friends, w7e have met here this
evening pursuant to announcement to
listen to a lecture on Christian
Science. ♦
“To many people the term Chris
tian Science is of no more signifi
cance than the name Baptist, Metho
dist, Presbyterian, or the name of
any other of the many religious or
ganizations; but to the person who
has made a study of the principles
propounded by Mrs. Eddy and who
has accepted the truth thereof, there
is vastly more than the mere name.
Christian Science deals largely witn
the problem of being, the nature and
existence of God and the nature and
existence of the soul of man and its
relation to God, and is calculated
to affect out line of thought and con
sequently our happiness.
“After years of studious and care
ful research the founder of Christian
Science saw7 in the mathematics of
the vast universe only order, beauty
and harmony, and she reasoned that
equal order, beauty and harmony ex
tended to the relations existing be
tween God and man, that divine law
is eternal and unchanging, and is the
same today as it wras in the time of
the Galilean prophet nineteen hun
dred years ago. She accepted as
true the statement contained in the
last verse of the first Chapter of Gen
esis and the first verse of the second
Chapter, that ‘The heavens and the
earth were finished and all the hosts
thereof and God saw everything that
he had made and behold it w7as very
good;’ that there wras nothing further
for God to do to add to our happiness
either here or hereafter; that all!
principle is unchanging. The same
law of principle that governs the tel
ephone today existed with equal force
and effect in the time of Solomon,
and all that was required in his day
for the utilization of that principle
was the application of the law gov
erning that principle.
“Mrs. Eddy reasoned that the same
divine law that was demonstrated by
Jesus and his disciples in destroying
sin, healing the sick and raising the
dead is just as effective today as it
was nineteen hundred years ago.
“Mrs. Eddy did not promulgate a
system of reformation. She attempt
ed restoration. She did not attempt
to patch up the old, worn-out gar
ment of theology, but she discarded
it for one, that though ancient, was
without rent and as strong and beau
tiful as when first wrought out by the
hand of God. She planted in the
fertile soil of the nineteenth century
the same seed as was sown by the
Galilean prophet in .the first century.
She proposed a return to the apos
tolic standards and rules of conduct.
“C. I. Ohrenstein, C. A. B., a mem
ber of the board of lectureship of the
mother church, the first church of
Christ, scientist, in Boston, Mass ,
will now address us.”
Mr. Ohrensrein spoke in part as
follows.
“Probably no idea took possession
the human thought during re
con1 years hke that of the nea.1 of
preparedness, safety, and efficiency;
and certainly these factors are indis
pensable fer achievement or suezess
of any kind. E\ery activity h.v
been spurred by this idea. The tome
ibo school, the playground, the fa«'
tory, the office,—all have been and
are aflame v:th it. Preparedness,
safety, efficiency, may be said to
have been inscribed upon the mental
banner leading all endeavor.
“Now, let us look over history, and
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find its best prepared, safest, most
efficient character. Instantly, what
name comes to the thought of all?
Just one: the name of Him who was
indeed “armed and well prepared,”
armed with the sword that was the
destruction of every ill, every hard
ship, every wrong the sward of Truth
that meant life, freedom, peace to
.every living thing, peace in all trials,
all circumstances, a peace that still
passes mere human understanding:
the name of one who upon sea and
land, in turmoil, storm, stress, in con
tact with depravity, contagion, sick
ness, calamity, death, demonstrated
perfect safety and immunity; the
name of one who assuaged all sor
rows, healed all diseases, dispelled
all sins, fed multitudes, stilled the
storms, raised the dying and the
dead; the name of one whose one—
to his enemies—seeming failure was
but the forerunner of the crowning
achievement of ail efficiency—the
achievement of resurrection and as
cension, the demonstration for all
time of immortality. Would not all
in sacred reverence breathe just this
one name, the name of Jesus of Naz
areth, Jesus the Christ!
“What gave Jesus the Christ this
supreme preparedness safety, efficien
cy? Was it mentality, spirituality or
was it materiality, corporeality? Was
it not his Christianity, and was not
this Christianity his demonstrable
knowledge or science, that is, Chris
tian Science?— Either it was such
knowledge or Science or it was its
opposite, ignorance, superstitution,
illusive belief. Let those who will
take this view.
“The preparedness, safety, efficien
cy of Jesus were the result of demon
strable knowledge, the Science of be
ing which constituted his Christianity.
This Christianity was no mere cere
monialism or belief. It was the
science of living and of living more
abundantly; the science of health, of
peace, of blessedness; the science
Avhich he came to teach mankind. In
a Avord, it Avas the understanding of
God. the supreme poAver that is all
good and ahvays with us.
God
“Must not we then in order to he
Christians, to benefit by this Chris
tianity, gain this understanding of
God? Must not we ask who or what
is this God of whom Jesus had such:
intimate, exact knowledge or science?
“Going to this master Jew, this
master Christian, what do we learn
God is? Something different from
what was in the beginning? Not at
all.
“It should be remembered that Je
sus did not write; he spoke. He spoke
to his own people, the common peo
ple who heard him gladly; and he
spoke in their tongue. The only in
stance preserved to us of what he
said in that tongue is in the words
which preceded his giving up the
“ghost,” the mere semblance of life,
which he said he could lay down and
take up again, which he later proved.
These words, all will remember, were
‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?’ which
are translated, ‘My God. my God, why
hast thou forsaken me?” The word
Eloi, which Jesus used, is the Old
Testiment Hebrew word for what in
English is called God. It means
strength, or power, a meaning which
is entirely devoid of anthropomorph
ism or corporeality. According to Je
sus, then, God was his power, the
power upon which he always relied,
with which he accomplished every
thing. Nor did he leave us in the dark
as to just what this power is. In “
speaking to his disciples he said,
‘Call no man your father upon the
earth; for one is your Father, which
is in heaven.’ In other words, there
is one creator or cause, and the uni
verse including man is its product,
tlfe product of Eloi, the one and only
power.
“Again, speaking to the woman at
the well, Jesus said, ‘God is Spirit,’
which would certainly mean that his
power, the only power he ever used,
the true cause of all, and consequent
ly the cause of only that whch is true
was Spirit or Mind, not matter of any
kind or shysique. And looking at the
teachings of Jesus, looking at his
words and at his works—words and
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