Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-30
IN FAITH LIES
LIES SECRET
CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST TELLS
OF W0NDROUS CURE
LECTURES UNDER DIRECTION OF
MRS. EDDY
Frank H. Leonard Explains in Detail
Principles of Health Before Inn
mense Crowd at Shriners'
Auditorium

Frank H. Leonard, c. S. B., delivered
lecture on Christian Science at
Shrlners' auditorium before a large
audience. He said in part:
THE Christian Science board of lec-
tureship, of which I have the honor OF
being 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 1t
teaches and does for mankind, an OPP
portunlty 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 1t finds 1t possible to
accept God as being Infinite Good,
without making any reservation, either
as Himself or His creation.
II was born with an incurable or
ganic disease, according to the ply
sicians, and up to the time when Chris
tian Science was presented to me had
never known a day of freedom from
pain or suffering. had taken medi-
cine by the quart, the allopathic way,
and by the attenuated hundredth part
of 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.
AL point my experience L WIS
told a new way of treating disease was
being used with wonderful resultsI
That people calling themselves Chris
tian Scientists were saying that Gods
Word had not lost Its power to destroy
sin, disease and death. 1t was sug-
gested, as everything else had failed,
that / try this new way, as 1t might
benefit me.
IT 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 going to
be done to me.
Throws Physic to the Dogs
when I went home I went to my
room, and there on the shelf was the
tonic the family physician told me it
was as much as my life was worth to
go without. I fully intended to take
some Of it, but didn't do it.
My every night had been filled with
the most awful mental pictures pic
lures which we call dreams, that it Is
possible to conceive of, and it had be-
come necessary to give me a sleeping
potion in order to put me to sleep be-
cause 1 dreaded these so. When 1 went
to bed that night intended to take my
sleeping potion, but 1 didn't, and then
the first thing 1 knew 1 was opening
my eyes, and found 1t was broad day
light! found that / had slept the whole
dreadful pictures, and had awakened
with feeling of refreshment, of
strength, of hope and joy that I had
never known before. The longest hours
I ever spent were between my awaken
ing and the time set for my going back
to that little room. 1 continued to go
there for three months, and then, upon
his request to be permitted to do SO,
our family physician made an examina-
ton of me, and said l 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
destroyed 1t and left me free.
IT 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 any
thing until l had absolute proof that it
was true The Truth has been very
good to me all these years, because, as
a Christian Science practitioner, 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.
I have seen cancers, tumors, locomotor
ataxia, drunkenness and immortality de-
stroyed, and men and women made
whole morally and physically just by
the touch of Divine Love, as undeN
stood and demonstrated in Christian
Science, For this reason, and for the
reason that l am convinced, as the re-
suit of my study, that Christian Science
is transcendenta1ly and practically the
highest apprehension of Good the hui
man consciousness can conceive of,
am Christian Scientist today and
thank God His way has again been re-
vealed to human consciousness, and
tn Z
benefits.
Must Study Bible
IT 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
untrue, 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 textbook. AL
most every denomination has its 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 manner that Bible study
may be intelligently INDUCED in.
"You have doubtless heard people
say, in speaking of Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures the text
DOCK OIL CnTlSlldH OcleIlCo WIlllOu Ny
Mrs. Eddy: I have read that book
from cover to cover and nobody on
earth can make any sense out of it.
Hand a textbook of algebra to child
Tell him to read it through from cover
to cover without any previous instruc-
ton as to how to read 1t, and then,
when he has finished it, ask his opinion
OF it. What will he say? Naturally
enough he will say: I have read 1t from
cover to cover and nobody on earth can
make any sense out of it, Then you
say to him. Take that textbook and
20 to someone who is a student of
algebra and let him tell you what it
means" He follows your advice, and
the result is that what appeared like a
meaningless tumble to him, becomes an
avenue through which he is enabled to
work out problems that he never could
work out before. Is that what people
do when they want to know about
Christian Science? No; generally speak
ing, 1t is not. They find somebody
that doesn't know that he doesn't know, |
and 1t becomes a self-evideAt case of
the blind leading the blind, with the
inevitable result-they both fall into
the ditch. And this is the kind of in |
vestigation that precedes alleged criti-
Ncism of Christian Science.
God Not Denied
zone allegation made is that Chris |
tian Science denies God and the Christ. |
In REPUTATION of this statement desire
to say that God is referred to over 1900
times and Jesus the Christ over 500