St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1904-10-12
Lecture on Christian Science.
BicknelI Young of Chicago ahe Speaker
Of ske Evening.


Of ske Evening.
Music Hall was well filled Monday
evening to listen to an address on Chris
tian Science by cknell Young of Chi
cago, a member of the Christian Science
Board of Lectureship. Mr.. Young was
introduced by Rev. A. F. Walch, who
spoke as follows:
Ladies, gentlemen, brethren of the
Christian Science church:
For the second time it becomes my
pleasant duty to stand on this platform
and welcome to the generous bearing of
a ST. Johnsbury audience a speaker for
the faith of Christian Science. do this
gladly because I believe good will come
from the full and free discussion of the
subject at hand. / am something like
the old lady, who said she thought the
doctrine of total depravity" was all
right if it was on'y lived up to. believe
our Christian Science brethren are trying
to live up to their doctrine, and that
they are succeeding is sufficiently proven
by the fact that their faith works the
most wonderful transformation in their
lives.
1t must be evident to everyone that
the religious world is in an unsettled
state. Men are eagerly and anxiously
asking deep and vital questions. This
questioning leads some to think that
they are growing irreligious. that they
are losing their sense of religion; but l
believe deeper and more careful study
Of the whole affair will convince us that
this is not the trouble at all. 1t is not
that men have lost their faith, through
losing their religious sense. but they
have somehow seen that there is some
thing deeper and broader than the
foundations upon which they formerly
built, and they are insisting that these
be given them. They feel that sometimes,
when asking for bread, they have been
given stone.
Now any one who has a strong faith
need not be afraid at such time, an age
of questioning is not a dangerous age,
''there lives more faith, sometimes, in
HONEST doubt, believe me-, than in half the
creeds." So for one | am glad to well
come any rson or body of persons,
who can help US to answer these deep
and vital questions that relate to our
best life.
Christian Science presents definite
program aud points to most tangible
results. They are at least possessed of
sufficient faith in Jesus Christ to take
him at his word when he said: He
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do, shall he do also, and greater works
than these shall he do, because go unto
my father"
| take pleasure therefore tonight in
welcoming to this community, and in
Producing to this audience, Mr.. Bicknell
Young, c. S. B., of Chicago, member of
the Christian Science Board of Lecture
ship, Of the Mother church of Boston.
who will speak on the topic: 'Christian
Science"
Mr.. Young said in part:
"Christian Science may be defined as
the science of all that relates to God, and
is science not only in relation to healing,
but as corrective in relation to all the
problems OF exis ence. Accepted theo-
ries of religion and science have scoffed
at the association of these words, but
reason and logic show copclusively that
science must relate to truth, and there
tore to God. since God is the cause and
basis of all that is true.
"Christian Science does not proclaim
new God nor new law, but comes de-
claring the same God, and the same law
that Jesus declared, the one infinite eter-
nal God, and His good and Interchangeable
law. 1t declares the omnipotence, omni-
science and onnipresence of God as do
all other denominations, and upon that
basis shows that evil has no power,
knowledge or presence; in other words
that it is unreal.
christian Science never ascribes evil
to God, or makes Him in any way re-
sponsible for it, but shows that evil
originates in belief of material existence
entirely apart from God, and unsupport-
ed ty science or truth. OF all people,
Christian Scientists believe most abso-
lutely in Christ. They accept the teach
ings of Christ Jesus without reservation.
They declare that His command to heal
the sick is as binding as that to preach
the gospel and that there is no evidence
that it was intended for His time only.
1t was scientific religion that healed the
sick in the time of Jesus and His disciples
and it does the same work now, and
must always do it. since His lite and work
were an example for all time, and His
method was an universal and imperish-
able heritage of man.
"The steps of salvation in Christian
Science are not unusual. AS in other
denominations, they involve the admis
sion Or conviction of sin, sorrow for
wrongdoing, Or repentance, and refor-
nation manifested in correct lite. Sal
walton in Christian Science, however,
includes exemption from sickness, want
and woe, as well as from sin. It is not
contingent upon death, but is way OF
life, way of righteousness. Christian
Science is founded upon the bible.
1.-The Christian Science text book is
commentary upon the bible. Other de-
nominations have commentaries, but no
other in the world has ever accomplished
as much as this one. Thousands of peo-
pie have testified that they have been
healed, some of them so-called incurable
diseases, through the perusal of this
book. In some instances this testimony
has been given in courts of law, and las
not been in the least shaken by cross
examination. Many of these cases in
volved the most terrible diseases known
TO mankind, such as cancer, tuberculosis,
locomoter ataxia, and in other instances,
such diseases as asthma, hay fever, St.
Vitus' dance and others.
cit is erroneous to suppose that Chris
tan Scientists deny the reality of
things. They affirm the eternal exist
ence of all things. and that they exist in
the divine mind in their perfect individu
atty and proper order 1t denies the