The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-05-19
new RELIGION IS
SCIENTIFIC and
ALSO CHRISTIAN
Says BiCkneII Young in Lee
ture to Large and Atten-
tive Opera House
Audience
GOOD FOR Chill LDREN AS ADULTS
Declares Christian Scientists are Law
Abiding and Aim Solely at Reliev-
ing Sufferings of Humanity.
View OF Evil

vitW VI CSll
A good sized attentive audience
Z .thered mt the Opera House Monday
evening to listen to Bicknell
Youn0s exposition Of the subject Of
Christian Science Judge j. s Ander-
son introduced the speaker with few
brief remarks aud very few left before
the close of Mr. Young's address
The lecturers appearance ana man
ner were pleasing. His voice was
excellent and held its richness and
power to the end There was not the
slightest trouble in hearing him from
the back of the hall He spoke quietly
and slowly throughout.
His audience, however, while atten-
tive was scarcely in sympathy with
him. This was evidenced particularly
at the close, when, without single
hand clap or sign of applause, the body
arose and passed ont.
In his Introductory speech Judge
Anderson spoke ~ follows
Ladies' aud Gcntlemrn when few DAYS ago
| was invited to introduce tn" speaker tins
evening consented with great deal ot pleas
nrc We are accustomed rishtfully snd Justly
to bnast that in our country thue" who are IA
favor of any project, who are advocates of any
idea ARE entitled Ia n fair and respectable hear
ing aud the consideration Of their follow citizens
whether We may or may not agree IN the uuiu
with what they have to adv Nucuto. and so hlrNa
ing !, A. said consented with great deal of
to introduce tho speaker upon this co.
casion consented and appreciate the INVITA-
tion for a further r"ason, and that Is this, l.'-
lievc it to h" the duty uf every man, who
caroa for good citizenship To place the signs
which IL calculsted to b" NJ good to his fellow
men and for the benefit Of good citizenship
aud no scot or cult which advnral.7 the morality
which Christ came upon the earth to teach, can
be very far away from that which constitutes
good citizenship in any country.
therefore take great pleasure IN introducing
To- You the speaker this evening, who II "A mem
ler Of the board of lectureshir of the First
Christian scicnccC Chmch in Bus'ton, or IA it is
called the Mother Church ofthrlstan Science.
Ladies' and gertlcncn, let mo Introduce to
you Mr. Bickuell Young Of Chicago, who will
address you this evening
Mr. Young spoke in part ~ follows
Christian Science may he briefly defined ~
the science Of all that rcf"rs to tiod II il To- he
attained through spiritual growth and under
IL implies sincerity nt purpose IA
we'll M The hest intellectual effort on the part
~ thoSe who would apprrhrud 1t, hut upon "A
higher plane Of thought and upon NOR" nu-
during basis than would hr demanded hy any
other subject We do not prstond therefore,
To giv" YOU here drmunstrahlV know ledge OF
thia vast subject For that yuu must seek the
pages OF its textbook Science and Health with
Key to the SCRIPTURES, written 10y the Discover
or aud Founder of Christian Science Rev
Ma EuL,tr 4 Eddy If btr,, | Ahui1 xu,tts,si
in correcting som" false views, or ia removing
some prejudice" II hope j." uplif,rd, aud cNpcc-
tatiun Frightened II some heavy heart II made
lighter or somo sorrow or sickness less painful,
il here and There someone touched hy the splr-
it of the hour should hr he'd away from those
thoughts which make for sin, diS,aSo and dcsth
tn those which disclus" holiness, health and
life. aud thus take better understanding uf
the way aud SCOPE Of all that is meant 10y tho
word salvation IA revealed IN Christian Sci
cnco the loving desires of thoSr who provided
this lecture will be- realized
Mr.. Young then gave short account
OF how Mrs. Eddy came to discover the
new religion, and continued
Nothing could Ia, happier than the name
Christian SCIENCE, which Mrs Eddy gavoto her
discovery. II IA at once eNhct. definite aud ap-
propriate. and II Just 10y more than thirty
scvon years ~ remarkably successful practice.
IL IL not true that almost anything In relation
tu mere material hypothesis may take the
name Of scicuc" unchal"ngrd How is II that
I those things which relnt" 10 tod. To- spirit and
His laws which must he ia-"d upon eternal
fn cta and must therefore ho unquestiouahly
scicntihc, and indeed, mm"aSurahly more 50
than all other things, arc rel"eated t" the
roulm of belief ANY question ~ tu the science
OF tho thristRn religion must u" forever settled
hy anyone who cares 90 look the matter square
ly In the face. Jesu- never failed in anything
tina hp ATTEMPTED. IIi- method reflected the
infalliblity ~ God Could anything Ia" morn
scinutinc than that That IT. was Christian no
one will dispute, TINT It was successful and
therefore scientific in the highest sen-r, th,
factS prove. II was then both Christian aud
scientific or Christian Science, and 1t must los
still the same,
Mr. Young went on To say that
Christian Scientists believe in prayer rs
did Jesus Christ He said that the new
religion did not come to proclaim n new
God nor new law but the same God
and the same law that Jesus declared .
He said that Christian Science simply
aftrms with clearer under standing the
omniscience and omnipreseuce OF God.
Regarding the Christian Science view
of evil Mr., Young said
Onc Of the popular theological ways of sc-
counting FOR evil especially when manifested
as sickness or death in III. Instances Of good
prnpln or hlanci's+ children. ~ u astrtbc IL to
tho lns,.rutnhle wisdom ~ God luscrutahle
indeed would he tho wisdom that j. infinite
Love and Life and that could cease His iutini-
" long enough "a utirt HIS children with dl
s,asc aud death Christian Science takes no
part in any such lame aud illogical attempt to
account fur evil. The fictitious mortal mind.
IA "a general belief or universal talsr claim, is
utterly Invested af MI supposed influence pow
or or law tp cnUse or p"rpotuatr disease, aud
Gods Wilderness, harmony and health to man
are established
Tho lecturer asserted that Christian
Scientists believe in Jesus Christ and in
decd give better proof of their belief
intn other Christians by acting up to
the commands of Christ, by striving to
do what he imposed upon them. Mr..
Young quoted the passage of Mathew
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise
the dead cast ont devils and claimed
thar this command was for all time and
applied Just as we'll today rs when
Christ WAS alive. Regarding salvation
Mr.. Young said
The process OF being saved involves progress.
The steps ~ salvation in Christian Science are
not unusual nor peculiar As in other evangel-
ical denominations there must lie. first, the
admission or conviction OF sin second, sorrow