St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1907-10-30
Lecture on Christian Science.
Bicknell Young's Address at Pythiar
Hall.

Hall.
Pythian Hall was filled Thursday even.
ming to hear the address on Christian
Science by Bickuell Young, c. S. B., OF
Chicago, member of the Board OF
Lectureship of the organization. Mr..
Young was introduced by Elisha B.
Seeley of Boston, who spoke as follows:
1t is statement with which you will
instantly agree when we say that every
man and woman present tonight would
rejoice to know that there has been
discovered remedy for all human ills
which is ever available, unfailing, sure.
1t is equally true that it has occurred
to every individual that there ought to
be, and that there is, if it were known,
an adequate means of relief from the
agonies of disease and bondage to sin;
also that such remedy must necessarily
be entirely apart from methods which
have wholly failed to alleviate these
conditions of misery, in any substantial
degree.
1t is apparent to every Christian
thinker and to every student of the
Scriptures, that Jesus the Master,
possessed knowledge apart from the
mortal sense of things which enabled him
instantly to obliterate from Individual
consciousness the sense of pain and
disease, and that this understanding had
for its foundation a clear, scientific,
simple and plain understanding of what
God is, of His creation, the perfectibility
and unchangeableness Of His law, and
OF His availability at all times and under
all circumstances.
am sure that no one wishes to hold
to false theories which involve, suffer-
ing for themselves and those dear to
them simply upon traditional basis, if |
there is at hand an understanding that |
will bring health to the sick. strength |
to the weak, abundance instead of |
poverty, happiness instead of misery joy |
in place of sorrow, and for this reason l |
ask you to put aside all argument and
IN openness of thought, in a receptive
attitude to truth, to follow closely what
nay be said upon this most profound
subject, and promise you as result of
such listening and reasoning, that you
will have advanced toward the realiza-
ion in your own experience of the
Kingdom of Heaven which Jesus said is
at hand" and which the understanding
IF Christian Science reveals.
In order that the public may have an
opportunity to know authoritatively
somewhat of this subject, and to correct
erroneous statements regarding Christ
an Science and it's beloved Discoverer
and Founder, Mrs. Eddy, there has been
established in connection with the ed
lcational work of this organization,
Board of Lectureship, composed of men
and women who through years of prac-
ice have proven for themselves and for
others the healing efficacy and spiritual
ruth of its teachings, and whose privi-
eye it is to present this subject to the
public in so far as this can be done with
n the limits of an evenings address.
We have with us tonight member of
his board. One who is universally
Dyed and honored by Christian Scien-
lists, and to whose message, ask your
arrest attention.
| take pleasure in introducing Mr..
'icknell Young, c. S. B., of Chicago, ILL.,,
member of the Christian Science Board
f Lectureship of the Mother Church,
first Church of Christ, Scientist, in Bos-
on Massachusetts.
Mr.. Young covered many of the salient
oints Of the teachings of Christian
cience. Recognizing that the world has
OF generally entertained any scientific
lew of religion, the speaker dwelt upon ]
his point, answering objections that t
ave been raised in relation to it. He
bowed that religion and science both
ater to absolute truth, and are not in ,
erently antagonistic-are not two, but :
ne. He spoke, in part, as follows: :
Jesus, the founder of the Christian re- :
gion, taught and illustrated in His \
forks an exact, unfailing knowledge of =
cd which is in its very essence scientific. =
Lis method, admittedly Christian, must
acknowledged as pure science by any
ne who cares to look the matter .
luarely in the face Christian Science. L
1eretore, is name which, given to this
lethod, designates it accurately and G
atisfactorilv. t
STATEMENTS ARE RECONCnED,
In Christian Science the seemingly