Arizona republican., 1908-02-10

NIT. BiclInell Young of Chicago. a member of the board of lectureship of the First Church of Christ, Scientist appeared before the church in this city last Friday night Mrs. Marion Dick iSon. a member of the local Christian Science church. introduced Mir Young saving in part:
 Friends. we have in the world to- day, many churches and many relig- ions. each with its own belief. its own lines and methods of salvation. The Christian Science church is one of the youngest of them and still has a vast , following, and from all parts of the world come testimonials of healing, mentally, physically and spiritually. In the face of these facts, I am sure you will all agree that until we fully understand what the Church of Christ Scientist, stands for, what it believes, what it upholds and what it teaches. no person has any right whatever to criticise it's followers, judge its doc trlnes or discuss the subject pro or con.
 We have with us tonight one of the authorized lecturers of the Christian Science faith who is a member of the Christian Science board of lecturship of the First Church of Christ, Scien- tist. of Boston, Mass, and a gentle man with whom many of you are ac- quainted. having met him when he was here two years ago. He will talk 10 us tonight on the subject of Christian Science. IL is indeed a great pleasure tonight for me to be able to introduce 10 you MT. Bicknell Young, of Chico go MT. Young said:
 Christian Science attracts attention primarily because of its practical val ue The manifold benefits accruing from a knowledge of its teachings are more or less known and acknowledged. That il has healed many cases of dis ease. universally considered to be in- curable by other systems of healing. that it improves people morally and spiritually while healing them physi- cally, and that it has reformed thous- ands of sinners and drunken and de- bauched people and made them useful Christian men and women. are facts generally conceded and easily verified. When to these are added the further facts that Christian Science employs one and the same method for both regeneration and healing and that both are accomplished without the use of any drugs or other material remedies and without manipulation or physical contact of any kind, the investigator, accustomed as he is to associate the word science in healing the sick with the use of material remedies and re- generation with mere belief in God. begins to wonder how Christian Science can be justifiably so called and how it accomplishes all the good works with which it is truly accredit- ed.
 You are invited heer tonight by the Christian Science Church to hear some explanation of these points and oth CTS of importance relating to its teachings. No pretense is made that a complete exposition of the subject will be given. If I shall succeed in correcting some false views or in re- moving some prejudice: if hope be up- lifted and expectation frightened; if some heavy heart be made lighter or some sorrow or sickness less painful; if here and there some one, touched by the spirit of the hour, should be led
 
 make for sin, disease, and death, to those which disclose holiness. health and life. and thus gain a better un- derstanding of the ways and scope of all that is meant by the word salvation revealed in Christian Science the loving desire of those who provided this lec- ture will be realized.
 S. TRULY SCIENTIFIC IN BASIS Because such a system is not generally associated with scientific thought the question is often asked, how can cer tain results be achieved through a purely mental. or spiritual, method; and yet careful consideration reveals to us unmistakably that all human eX- periences, both desirable and undesir- able. are more or less the result of thought. Taking this fact upon the mere basis of ordinary need and its supply. We see that the farmer clears his land blows it. SOW his crop. and reaps and sells it. all because of thought. We see that houses and cit ies and roads and railroads are all built because of thought; that all the conveniences which surround us ex- ist because of thought: that the books which we read. including both the low and high forms of literature all prose. poetry. and fiction, exist because of thought; that the music which We love is composed because of thought; and the instruments upon which it is performed are made because of thought; and even the human voice it. self. said to be the most perfect of all instruments, is but the response to the artistic mental call of the singer
 Not only this. but history and ex perience both show that evil thought tends to manifest itself after it's kind also. Differences of opinion in busi- ness or in relation to politics, govern ment. science. and art are manifested as hatred, malice, jealousy. envy, and revenge. all producing untold misery for mankind Even the gospel of the Prince or Peace has often been so misunderstood that various factions have sprung up in its name. and, be- cause of differences of thought and opinion. have involved the race in mis- cry and war, sometimes desolating the civilized world.
 In view of the fact that thought is doing everything which we know about it should not seem strange that it is also doing a great many things which we do not know about. Unquestion-