The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-24
YOUNG LECTURESON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Jefferson Theatre Crowded to
 Hear the Speaker 1T IS SCIENTIFIC IN BASIS Explains Misconceptions and Offers Mrs. Eddy's Discovery as Means
 of Salvation, Enabling Be-
 liever To Overcome Sin.
1T IS SCIENTIFIC IN BASIS

The Jefferson theatre was taxed to it's capacity yesterday afternoon to hear the lecture on Christian Science" by Bick- nell Young, c. S. B., of Chicago, who is a member of the board of lectureship of the First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston. MT. Young handled his subject in a masterly manner, and his oratorical ability and impressive delivery assisted him in making a deep impression on his hearers.
 Mir. Young was introduced by Mir Frank Harley Davis. second reader of the Chris tion Science church of this city. MT. Young said in part
 Christian Science attracts attention pri- marily because of its practical value. The manifold benefits accruing from a knowl- edge of it's teachings are more or less known and acknowledged. That it has healed many cases of disease, universally considered to be incurable by other sys- tems Of healing. that 1t improves people morally and spiritually while healing them physically, and that it has reformed thou sands of sinners and drunken and de- bauched people and made them useful Christian men and women. are facts gen. orally 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 accom- plished 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 reme- dies and regeneration with mere belief in God, begins to wonder how Christian Science can be justlfiably so called and how it accomplishes all the good works with which it is truly accredited.
 You are invited here today by the Christian Science church to hear some ex- planation of these points and others of importance relating to its teachings. No pretense is made that complete ex- position of the subject will be given.
 Truly Scientific In Basis.
 Because such a system is not gen. erally associated with scientific thought the question is often asked. how can cer- tain results be achieved through purely mental or spiritual method; and yet care ful consideration reveals to us unmistak- ably that all human experiences, both de- sirable and undesirable, are more or less the result of thought. Taking this fact upon the mere basis of ordinary need and it's supply. we see that the farmer clears his land, blows 1t, sows his crop and reaps and sells 1t, all because of thought. We see that houses and cities and roads and railroads are all built because of thought; that all the conveniences which surround us exist 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 in struments upon which it is performed are made because of thought.
 Basis of Christian Science Practice. That human thought has not always been correct in foundation Is self-evident when we remember that there are many contradictory opinions and beliefs con- corning God, some of them unreasonable, unnatural and even grotesque. If the right idea is to be gained, wrong beliefs must be put aside. Christian Science gives definitions of God which are found to be