The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-31
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
AND FINITE SENSE

1nefe was not as large an duuteuS'
at the Opera House Sunday Afternoon
when DR. J. C. Fluno delivered his
sense" as heard him Friday night
but the two hundred who remained L
hear his closing words paid close at
tention to the speaker during the en-,
tire discourse, and many of them pro.
nounced it infinitely more interesting
than his first lecture. Doctor Flunf
explained away many of the erroneous
views which those who have given nc
thought to the subject have pleasantly
entertained for so many years, and il
the course of his remarks paid a high
tribute to the elf-sacrifcing members
of the medical profession. Following
are some extracts from the lecture
which closed with panegyric on Mrs
Eddy and her famous book:
Finite sense has all things materia,
and nothing spiritual. Christian Sci
ence has all things spiritual and moth.
ing material.
Thousands of people today are tot
tering along under their crushing load
just able to make a living, working
out the belief placed there by so-called
friends, that they are very weakly
very delicate.
Christian Science, that judges not
according to appearances, but judges
righteous Judgment, comes to rescue
just such heavily laden ones. takes
their load of ills away, and they find
themselves free. both mentally and
physically, and they are made healthy.
strong and we'll
Christian Science comes to heal the
world of all error. It heals of sin as
we'll as of sickness.
1t heals of poverty-that dreadfully
contagious and loathsome scourge
that starts in individuals, spreads
through families. lays waste commu-
mites and finally devastates whole ma
tions.
The great resource and supply Of
all being is bountiful giver. No one
need to, or should ask sparingly,
when he comes to the fountain of all
good, whose very nature is to give.
Many suppose that the teaching and
practise of Christian Sciense is the
concentration of mind but that is as
far from Christian Science teaching
and practise as darkness is from day
light.
Christian Science, unlike every other
religion, admits of no error, either in
premise. or conclusion, in cause or eff
feet, in principle or expression.
1t destroys sickness and sin with the
understanding that God is all, and in
Him is no sickness, no sin; nothing
that defileth or maketh a lie.
Personally 1 have great regard for
the medical fraternity For the most
part they are an earnest, honest, self
sacrificing band of workers, who are
doing all in their power; all they know
how to do, and studying all the time
to find in what way and by what
means they can do more to help suf-
fering humanity and relieve their fell
low man.
Christian Scientists still live in
houses, ride in street cars, steam cars
and automobiles. They wear clothing
and eat food. They put on overcoats
and wear wraps when it is cold, and
sit by the fire to get warm, and take
a hot water bottle to bed with them,
and do many other things for their
comfort. They use common sense and
reason in all things.
They do not use drug remedies, be-
cause they have found by experience
and study that they are not a real
benefit, that they can do better for
and others in times of sick
Mind governs body. and that sickness
is not real fact of being.
If sickness, disease and sin We're
-,
not be destroyed or eliminated.
Christian Scientists as a rule do not
talk of their ills; their conversation
does not turn to sickness and suffer-
ing. and all the evils of the day They
talk about that which interests them
more. and which they find more ele
waiting and helpful to themselves and
others, namely, health. happiness and
peace. And this, not because of any
rule or bylaw, but because these are
the only things they find to talk
about
Christian Science reveals the fact
that this physical universe, so-caned.
this world of finite sense, is already
at an end. because unreal.
The material universe will one day
be rolled up like a scroll; that is, be
numbered among the things that We're
once thought to be true, but are now
found to be false
The problem of our own being IS Just |
IS perfect before our solution as it is
afterwards; hence man is just as per-
'ect now as he ever will be He only
needs to be scientifically understood
Divine Science is the key to the |
1ingdon1 OF heaven. Whatsoever you
bind to yourself on earth as being |
rue, according TO Christian Science, |
win be bound to you in heaven. And |
you find to be false, ac- |
;ording to Christian Science. viii be
oosed from you in the kingdom cf /
God
It is THE Lamb of God that taketh
away the sins Of the world"
1t is the veritable Christ, that has
come. The second time without sin, /
lnto salvation /
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