CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 9 October 1933, Page 2

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES.

“Are Sin, Disease and Death Real?” was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday. The Golden Text was from Matt. 10: 7, 8. “The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.” Among the citations which comprised the Lesson-Sermon were the following from the Bible: “And behold there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself, and when Jesus saw her He said unto her, Woman thou art loosed from thine infirmity. . . . ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo these eighteen years, to be loosed from this bond. . . .” (Luke 13: 11, 12, 16.) , Also the following passages from the Christian Science textbook. “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy: “If -sickness is true, or the idea of Truth, you cannot destroy sickness, and it would be absurd to try. Then classify sickness and error as our Master did, when" he spoke of the sick, ■'whom Satan hath bound,’ and find a sovereign remedy for every error in the life-giving power of Truth acting on human belief, a power which opens the prison doors to such as are bound, and sets the captive free physically and morally.” (p. 495.)