Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-03
1000 PEOPLE HEAR
FAMED LEC7U RE
HUNDREDS TURNED AWAY FROM
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE
Auditorium Is Crowded and Vast AS
sembly Hears Impressive EIuci-
dalton of Vital Principles
of Great Religion

pie. including the most representative
in the city, were assembled, and more
than 1000 were turned away. Mr.. Young
was introduced by Hon. Lewis r.
Works, assistant city attorney, and
said In part:
"Christian Science attracts attention
primarily because of its practical
value. The manifold benefits accruing
from a knowledge of its teachings are
more or less known and acknowledged.
That it has healed many cases or as
ease, universally considered to be in
durable by other systems OF meaning,
that it improves people morally ana
spiritually while healing them physlc-
ally. and that it has reformed thou
sands of sinners and drunken and de-
bauched people and made them usetul
Christian men and women, are facts
generally conceded and easily verited.
1.-The thought of God as humanity per-
sonal has made His omnipresence seem
impossible but when we understand
that He is Mind, His omnipresence is
natural, reasonable, and real to us. In
fact. ii is clear that this constitutes
the actually of all true existence.
Christian Science therefore, in this
process of correcting human beliefs and
opinions, and giving a scientlhc basis
for religion, takes away the old per-
sonal thought concerning God and es-
IdDl1S16S a DttlSA OhSs
Accounts for Evil
Admitting, as all Christians do, at
least ostensibly, that the Ten Com
mandments originate in God, is 1t not
inevitable to conclude that they ex-
press truth or science? Practically the
first of them, Thou shalt have no other
gods before me- is all-inclusive. 1t
comedies with the omnipotence, ON
nfscience and omnipresence of God; that
IS. the all power all knowledge, and all
presence of evil. The average human
heine. however who believes that evil
is sure to happen and that it is far
more powerful than good, mas that
the statements of the all power, knoWi-
edge and presence of God seem at vari-
ance with actual experience. Yet he is
forced to admit that to acknowledge
Cod as the sole Cause and Creator Is
to conclude that there is only one pow
or God. Good, and that to admit any
other is to break the first command
ment. Christian Science reconciles the
average Christian to these statements
and others which he has said ne pc
lieyed. and enables him to actually pc
Iiave them. It shows that the first
commandment, ever declaring the one
COO. declares the one way of science.
describing sin, sickness and death 10
God has never accounted for them. On
the contrary, it has tended to perpetu-
ate them and to cause fear ana help-
lessness. Christian Science strictly de,
mands that the basis or Principle OF an
being shall be continually recognized.
and shows that at first the beginner
does not need to fasten his thought upon
evil and endeavor to account for IT,
Disease Is Mental
.'Those who are not accustomed to
associate thought with its effects may
not understand how the human BODY
can he made sick or well by the in
f1uence of thought, and yet materla
medica does recognize this to some ex-
tent. Only Christian Science, however
discloses the right method by when
fear and sin and their effects upon the
body may be destroyed. The average
person learning of Christian science
as a metaphysical method, is apt also
to confuse it with so-called mental
methods more or less prevalent today
but Christian Science is unlike them
all 1t involves no such thing as sug-
gestion or the exercise OF the human
will or hypnotism or mesmerism, or
the use of formulate. 1t shows that all
these methods may as readily De USED
for evil purposes as for good, Whlch
proves that they are neither CHRIST
like nor scientific. The power of Chris
tian Science lies in the fact that 1t Is
the Christ method, whereby the intiu-
ence of the divine Mind is recognized
and employed as the only power or
truth in the world and are due to
false finite, material, inadequate I'M
scientific and untrue sense of being as
existent in matter.
Belief in Christ
This separation of all evil from our
thought of God is unquestionably the
way of science, the way of the first
commandment. 1t is the way indicated
in the teachings of Jesus the Christ.
That Christian Scientists should be
misunderstood in their practical appli-
cation of those teachings by systems
and theories which do not pretend to
make any practical application of them,
is perhaps inevitable but whether so
or not the fact remains that practical
proof indicates scientific understand
ing The sick have been healed and
are being healed in Christian Science
through scientific thought and think
ing as indicated in the teachings of
Jesus. He clearly showed the necessity
for obedience to the first command
ment. He said: "A good tree cannot
bring forth evil fruit. Again he said:
There is none good but one, that, God,
and he indicated the nature of prayer
when he declared at the tomb of Laz-
aruS, / knew that thou nearest me al
ways No one should think that the
works of Jesus could be disassociated
from absolute truth and therefore from
science. His gospel is unquestionably
the gospel of truth and must therefore
be in the nature of scientific knowl-
edge.
Heaven
"Christian Science shows that only
by demonstrating the truth of being
can mankind hope for deliverance from
suffering. There is no evidence to show
that death either helps or binders sal.
walton or the attainment of the king
dom of heaven. Jesus said, If a mar
keep my saying, he shall never see
DEATH Would he have said that il
death We're necessary to salvation? He
knew all about salvation. The associa-
ton of death with the thought OF
heaven has darkened human belief tt
such an extent that people have hest
tated to think or speak of heaven. Ir
Christian Science all this is changed
and heaven becomes a natural topic OF
conversation. We recognize that IL
may be present and a welcome ex-
perience.
Probably Christian Scientists study
the Bible more than any other class OF
people in the world. The reason fol
this is to be found in the fact that our
text book, 'Seie-ce and Health With
Key to the Scriptures by Mrs. Eddy
makes the Bible the most interestins
and beautiful book in the world. Mrs
Eddy's book is perhaps more than What
would be generally known as a com.
mentary upon the Bible; because II