The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1904-11-23
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE EXPLAINED
LECTURE BY BICKNELL YOUNG
What One Must Believe in Before Be-
coming Member of the 0rganiza-
tion-The Scientists Greed.

to an attentive audience at the Yakima
theater Monday evening, Nov. 81. 1904.
In few well chosen words ne was
introduced by the First Reader of the
home church who said in part: THE
lecture which you nave been invited to
hear this evening is the third one of its
kind that has been given in this city,
and so long as the need remains for
telling others of this rcdeeming power
of God, and there remains gratitude
within the hearts of those VINO have
been benefited thereby, doubtless these
lectures will continue TO be given.
ITO fellow mortal who has rescued
us from impending danger we feel a
lifelong debt of gratitude and upon
every opportunity and fitting occasion
praise him. In like manner Christian
Scientists feel they owe a debt of graf
itude to God for what lie is and has
done for them. and they choose these
public lectures as means of paying
That debt. and thus praising Him before
men. The Mother Church in Boston,
the First Church of Christ, Scientist,
has established a board of lcctureship
of which Mr.. Young is member. The
fact that he is with us tonight as a
member of this board is proof of his
good work done and his fitting qualifca-
ton to tell us of this gospel
Mr.. Young was then introduced, and
said in substance:
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 existence. Accepted
theories of religion and science have
scoffed at the association of these words
but reason and logic show conclusively
that science must relate to truth and
therefore to God since God is the cause
and basis of all that is true.
"Christian science does not proclaim
new God nor a new law, but comes
declaring the same God and the same
law that Jesus declared, the one infn-
lite, eternal God and His good and I'M
changeable law. 1t declares the omnipo-
tence, omniscience and omnipresence of
God as do all other denominations and
upon that basis shows that evil has no
power, knowledge or presence; i'll 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 exist
ence entirely apart from God and I'M
supported by science or truth OF all
people. Christian Scientists believe most
absolutely i'll Christ. They accept the
| teachings of Christ Jesus without res
ervation. They declare that His com
mand to neal 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 relig
ion that healed the sick in the time of
Jesus and His disciples and it does the
|
it. since His life and work were an
example for all time and Mis- method
was a universal and imperishable heri-
! tage of man.
"The steps of salvation in Christian
Science are not unusual. As in other
denominations, they involve the adms
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wrong doing, or repentance and refor-
nation manifested in a correct life. Sal
walton in Christian Science, however,
includes exemption from sickness, want
and woe as we'll as from sin. 1t is not
contingent upon death, but is way of
life, way of righteousness. Christian
Science is founded upon the Bible.
"The Christian Science text book is
commentary upon the Bible. Other
denominations have commentaries, but
no other in the world has ever accom-
plished as much as this one. Thousands
of people have testified that they have
| been healed. some of them of socalled in
durable diseases, through the perusal of
! this book. In some instances this tes-
timony has been given in courts of law
and has not been in the least shaken
by cross examination. Many of these
cases involved the most terrible diseases
known to mankind. such as cancer tu-
berculosis, locomotor ataxia, and in
other instances such diseases as asthma,
hay fever. st. Nitu's dance ana others.
1T is erroneous to suppose that
Christian Scientists deny the reality of
things. They affirm the eternal exist
ence of all things and That they exist
in the divine mind in the perfect indi-
viduality and proper order. 1t denies
the materiality of things, including all
the discordant conditions that material
things manifest.
christian Scientists are in no wise
arrayed against those who believe in
materia mediea. They We're all belev-
ers in it themselves until they found in
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