Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-14
THOUSANDS HEAR
CULT EXPOUNDED
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SHOWN
TO BE DEMONSTRATE
LECTURER GIVES PROOFS OF
DIVINE HEALING
Says Mrs. Eddy's Key to Scriptures
Reveals Spiritual Import of Bible
and Explains Apparent
Mysteries

More than 5000 persons gathered at
Shrine auditorium yesterday afternoon
/ to listen to the lecture of Frank II.
Leonard, G. S. B., who expounded the
tenets of Christian Science. The aud
itorium was crowded to it's utmost
capacity and many who desired to hear
the eloquent address of Mr.. Leonard
were disappointed at not being able to
kgain admission to the hall.
The lecturer was introduced by Sey-
mour Condor, and spoke in part:
1.-THE Christian Science Board of Lee
tureship, of which I have the honor of
being a member, has been organized
and instituted under the direction of
Mrs. Eddy, for the purpose of affording
those really DESTROYS of knowing what
Christian Science is, and what it
teaches and does for mankind, an OPP
portunity to get this knowledge through
an authorized channel.
1.-THE work of this board is supremely
educational, and is accomplishing the
uplifting of mankind to a plane of
thought wherein it finds it possible to
accept God as being Infinite Good, with
out making any reservation, either as
to Himself or His creation.
MANY people approach the study of
Christian Science, or demonstrate
Christianity, with a feeling that, while
it may do and has done much for some
of their friends, 1t cannot do so for
them because they lack any faith in it,
For the benefit of the skeptical, l am
going to tell you how absolutely with
out faith or even knowledge l was,
Science treatment; how absurd 1t
seemed to me- and what it did for me
| regardless of all this.
Is Freed from Disease
st was born with an incurable or
| ,,1,x
| sicians, and up to the time when Chris
tian Science was presented to me had
never known q day of freedom from
pain or suffering. [ had taken medi-
cine by the quart, the allopathic way,
and by the attenuated hundredth part
of a drop, the homeopathic way, and
| then alternated the two ways, and that
was eclectic, and the conclusion of the
| physicians was that dissolution was at
hand.
"At this point in my experience !
was told a new way of treating disease
was being used with wonderful results!
That people calling themselves Chris
tan Scientists were saying that Gods
Word had not lost it's power to destroy
sin, disease and death. 1t was sug-
gested, as everything else had failed,
that 1 try this new way, as it might
benefit me.
AZ had tried everything else and was
willing to try this, so went for my first
| Christian Science treatment without
the slightest idea as to what was go
| ing to be done to me.
my every night was filed with the
most awful mental pictures, pictures
which we call dreams, that it is pos
! sible to conceive of, and it had be-
| come necessary to give me q sleeping
potion in order to put me to sleep be-
cause I dreaded these so. When went
to bed that night intended to take my
| sleeping potion, but | didn't, and then
the first thing 1 knew L was opening
my eyes, and found 1t was broad day
| light! found that had slept the whole
night through without one of those
| dreadful pictures, and had awakened
with q feeling of refreshment, of
strength, of hope and joy that l had
never known before. The longest hours
ever spent were between my awaken
ing and the time set for my going back
| to that room. l continued to go there
| for three months, and then, upon his
request to be permitted to do so, our
| family physician made an examination
of me, and said 1 was as perfect a
physical specimen as he had ever ex-
amined. That was in 1885, and from
that day to this, Christian Science, as
revealed to the world through Mrs
Eddy, has met every diseased condition
! that has presented itself to me; has de-
stroyed it and left me free.
Has Absolute Proof
81 was not born in Missouri, but
might as we'll have been, from my ma
| ture, because I have always been one
of the kind that would not believe
anything until L had absolute proof
| that it was true. The Truth has been
cause, as a Christian Science practi-
toner, 1 have been brought face to
| face continually with the wonderful
healing work that has been brought
out by the use of this Truth as Mrs.
Eddy has given it to us. l have seen
cancers. tumors, locomotor ataxla'
drunkenness and immortality destroyed,
and men and women made whole
morally and physically just by the
| touch of Divine Love as understood and
demonstrated in Christian Science. For
this reason, and for the reason that l
am convinced, as the result of my
4 study, that Christian Science Is trans
cendentally and practically the highest
apprehension of Good the human con-
seriousness can conceive of, l am a
| Christian Scientist today, and thank
God His way has again been revealed
to human consciousness, and that
| have been here to receive its benefits.
81 have heard it said that Christian
| Scientists do not use the Bible; that
all we use is Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures, written by Mrs.
Eddy. No statement could be more UNI
true, because the disclosure of the
Spirit of the Word which maketh alive.
comes only as the result of the con-
| tinuous study of the Bible with the aid
of the Christian Science text book. AL
most every denomination has it's Bible
| helps prepared for the use of the lay
members in the church by those pre-
sumed to have the knowledge of what
lesson the Scriptures have for man
kind, in such a manner that Bible
study may be intelligently INDUCED in.
"Well, my friends, that is what the
| Christian Science text book is-it is
| our Bible help: it is the book that we
| study our Bible with; 1t is the book
! that has rent the veil of mystery from
top to bottom, revealing the spiritual
import of the Scriptures, opening to US
the Holy of Holes. wherein it is re-
vealed to us that God is no longer an
unknown God; no longer God to be
| ignorantly worshipped but a God to
| be loved; a God who is a Father to his
children; a God who never turns from
his children; a Father more tender,
more considerate, more compassionate,
more loving, than human CONSCIOUSNESS
can even begin to grasp.
1t Explains All
you have doubtless heard people
say, in speaking of Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures the text
book of Christian Science written by
Mrs. Eddy: I have reard that book
from cover to cover and nobody on