Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-12
NOTED SCHOLAR
GIVES LECTURE
PROFESSOR Herring SPEAKS
TO LARGE AUDIENCE
SHOWS HOW TEACHINGS CAN BE
DEMONSTRATED
Former Student Of Physical Sciences
Explains Why He Discarded
the MateriaIlstic
Theory

To an audience that cOnpleteiy hioN
Shrine auditorium yesterday Prof.
Hermann S. Herring of the Christian
Science board of lecturers delivered an
address on christian Science: tne
Science of Salvation" Prof. Herring
said: ,4 ,a,-
ence upon the subject OF CnrlsLlan
Science: the Science of SALVATION, u
ia well, first of all, to reach a mutual
understanding as to the meaning Oh
the terms. Science means exact, sys-
tematized and demonstrable knowledge
of facts, laws and causes, wnile aG-
cording to Smiths Bible dictionary sal
walton means "deliVerance from tein-
poral evils and earthly destruction; IN
other words, deliverance from evli.
Hence 1.-THE science of salvation means
in substance that demonstrable knowl-
edge which affords deliverance from
evil . a..
ST. Paul admonishes us to work out
our own salvation with fear ana
trembling. This scriptural command
means far more than the common pe-
lief that salvation is assured by simply
having belief or faith in Jesus as the
son of God. Such saving faith is
vitality necessary, but 1t is only the pc
ginning of our salvation--its spiritual
basis.
Then must follow the working out
of our deliyerance from evil, our sep
aration from sin, from the bondage OF
this world, from limitation, failure
sickness, disease. death.
"Saying faith" the recognition tnat
Christ Jesus Is the son of God and that
he brought salvation to all mankind,
includes not only the glad acceptance
of what Jesus was and did, but or
what he said we can and must DO he
said, 81 am the way, the truth and the
life," and he also said He that Dellev-
eth on me the works that do shall he
do Also"
What did his disciples, his immedi-
ate followers, learn from these and
similar sayings OF the Master? Their
saving faith in Jesus as the son or
God enabled them to put into practice
his commands to Heal the sick,
cleanse the~lepers, raise the dead, cast
out devils' They literally followed
his example and did the works. which
he was doing, and which he COM
manded them to do. Their faith grew
into an understanding of the principle
and law taught and demonstrated by
Jesus, and they had thereby begun to
work out their salvation from sin, dis
ease and death. This same teaching
and demonstration is available to all
today, and our Christian duty as TWEEN
tieth century disciples is to apply his
rules and get his results, as was done
in his day and for 300 years after.
Working out our own salvation
means to secure the mastery over the
ills of this world, to destroy them by
the demonstrable knowledge OF God re-
ceived through Christ Jesus and to
establish harmony, health. happiness
in every day life Hence our saliva
ton Is not fully worked out until we
have dominion over all discord and
everything that causes it. This neces-
sarily includes dominion over matter
and its laws, to which we are in such
bondage, dominion over evil and its
sensation, sin and sorrow. dominion
even over death and its terrors. 1t
means to attain to perfect harmonious
living, to bring about Gods Kingdom
on earth.
Unless we work out our salvation
we will not gain the victory over the
world, the flesh and the devil, as we
are. compounded.
Gained by Spiritual Growth
Few men would presume to say or
think that they are ready for heaven,
fitted to enter the presence of God;
and we can never reach spiritual ex-
istence. the kingdom of heaven, until
we are prepared for ii by overcoming
materiality, all evil. This overcoming
is growth. the gradual unfolding of
spiritual sense in the human conscious
ness until we attain to the full stature
of manhood in Christ Jesus.
Jesus said repeatedly THE kingdom
of heaven is within you," that is, not
a place but state of mind. Can this
state of mind be reached by death, as
so many are taught to believe, or must
IL not rather be gained bv spiritual