The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-12-28
AN m. ADDRESS ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
DIR. FLUNO INTERESTS A LARGE
AUDIENCE III THE HAWAIAN
OPERA HOUSE.

AUDIENCE IN THE HAWAlIAN
OPERA HOUSE.
Dr. Francis j. Fluno had a good-siz-
ed audience at the Opera House last
night to hear his first Christian
! Science lecture. The second is to be
given tomorrow afternoon and will
complete the series. Owing to illness
| Judge oDle was not able to preside as
was expected, and the speaker was IN
troduced by Mrs Ranney Scott. He
gave a quite lengthy but interesting
presentation of Christian Science
| views and was listened to with atten-
ton. The address was in part as fol-
| lows:
IF you were going to take up the
study of mathematics you would not
want a book as a textbook that did
not teach mathematics, but taught
something like it! you would want
the science of numbers itself. if you
could get it and nothing short Of it.
| Likewise, to begin the study of
Christian Science you will need its
| textbook, Science and Health. with
Key to the Scripture, by Mary
! Baker G. Eddy, and also other works
Of this author and also other works
Science Publishing Society in Boston,
| Mass.
These books and publications. to-
gether with the Bible, are the only
ones that Christian Scientists recog-
nize as authority on the subject. or
as teaching Christian Science at all.
Mrs. Eddy, of celebrated English
and Scottish descent, is a native of
New Hampshire, and in the vicinity
Of Concord her family for many gen.
erauons has lived honored and re-
spected by all
And | rejoice and am grateful to
say that it has been my privilege to
! receive personal instruction from her.
and confirmation, as it We're, of the
! teachings Of our text book, Science
and Health
81 shall talk 10 you this evening up
on the subject Christian Science and
hits Mission. Christian Science has not
for its central movement or primal oB
iect the healing Of the sick. Christian
Science teaches men who are trying to
do well how to do better. 1t teaches
men who are living an honest life. so
far as they know how. how to live a
more honest and upright life than they
ever knew
The Sabbath day observer is taught
through Christian Science how to raise
the standard of the other six days as
well as the seventh far above the COM
mon universal religious idea of the
Sabbath day, of its keeping or o5serv-
ance. Instead of bringing sickness,
sin and death, it takes these away, and
in their stead it gives health. salvation
! full and tree and life forevermore.
Imagine if You will the text book
OF Christian Science, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures. by
Mary Baker G. Eddy. coming into a
home as an established factor of that
home, wnere that dreadful monster.
poverty had taken up its abode: and
one or more of the inmates of that
! home should read, once a day even.
just the nrst sentence of that book
/ Leaning on the sustaining infinite. to-
day is big with blessings, and see how
very soon that monster of starvation
would begin to seek other quarters.
ANA let the members of that family,
one by one, continue to read that book
until they came to that other sentence
Divine Love always has met
and always will meet every human
need And as fast as that is taken in
to the heart and the application made
to themselves, poverty, and need, and
lacy, and want could not keep its foot
hold longer, and would begin to take
its departure. No, poverty cannot
stay where science and health has
come to stay; they cannot dwell to-
sether; when one comes the other
goes. You will not find Christian
Scientists as a rule dressed untidy or
unneatly; they are always clean and
neat, and well dressed.
Christian Science has not for it's
mission to bring the poorest, and the
cheapest and meanest, second class
things and low prices. second class
men and small salaries, but to have
the best; the most substantial and first
class things with good prices. 1t has
for its mission not to lower the stand
ard and cheaper the prices below what
they already are but to raise the
standard and advance the prices far
beyond their present status And this
is not because of any law existing
among them, but because Of the pure
and perfect principal at its basis, that
is purifying in its tendencies and ele-
waiting in its nature and perfecting in
| its requirements
Christian Science has. for its mission
to the world, to sift the chaf from the
| wheat, to SeDaTate the false from the