Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-02
OF Christian Science Made
By Frank Il. Leonard.
Brooklyn Lecturer Discusses
The Greed Of His Gull.


Frank H. Leonard, C. s. b., 0
brooklyn, N. Y. member of the Chris
tan Science board of lectureship of tn
First Church of Christ, Scientist. Bos
ton. delivered a lecture on Christian
Science "Demonstrable Religion Tues
tday evening at the Christian Scientis
tchurch.
| Many Of the popular conception
concerning Christian Science were as
serted by the speaker to be erroneous
/. The following is brief abstract:
There is nothing in the world tOda!
which is so occupying the thought o.
the people as Christian Science. anC
| there is vital reason why, regardless:
of all the misunderstanding and mis-
representation relative to the subject
peo,M should still insist on knowing
| the truth about it.
| People are awakening to the fact
that the one great problem in life j:
that of individual salvation, and the
more they think about salvation, the
more they are convinced that they
| want il now, and the less willing they
are to wait for it until after they have
| passed through the valley of the shad-
| ow,' with all the mystery and feal
| and doubt surrounding that passage
People want to live, they do not want
to die. and vet their whole teaching has
been that the first breath drawn by an
infant is the first step toward death
and the grave. UnconsciOusly we have
all fallen into the error : of thinking
that eternal life will begin for each of
us when our experience here has ended,
but thoughtful consideration makes us
know that eternal life never began and
will never end
TT is taught that the healing of the
sick without medical agency, as Jesus
healed, is miraculous, and that the
time for miracles has gone by. Shall
it be urged that we no longer need
proof that Christ is the Messiah? Or
shall we recognize the error Of our for
mer ways, and in humility study the
life and teaching Of Christ Jesus on
EARTH
The general belief is that one must
have great faith in Christian Science
before any benefit may be derived from
treatment by Christian Science prac-
titioner This belief is erroneous; all
the faith one needs to; have in Chris
tan Science at the inception of his de-
sire to be benefited by it. is sufficient
faith to find a practitioner and express
the desire for treatment"
The speaker denied that Christian
Scientists do not use the Bible; that,
Christian Science denies God and
Christ: that the Christian Scientist
conception of the relations of God and
man are but restatement of the OLD
PHILOSOPHERS He discussed the state
ment hy Christian Scientists that sin,
disease and death are unreal. Univer-
sal belief in an error cannot alter
facts.
III God is changeless, how could He
give life and at the same. time give
death? When life was existent, what
would become of death, and when
death was existent, what would be-
come of life? The Bible tells us that
death is the wage of sin. If God Gre
ated death he must have created sin.
Life is creative and death destructive,
so that God the primal and only crea-
tor, must be life and mot death. and
therefore death, which is measured by
the standard of perfection which is
God, is not real, but is the SUPPOSE
tional absence of or belief in the mega
ton Of life"
With respect to the passage in the
Bible, "Whom the Lord loveth. he
chasteneth," the speaker said that the
word '.paidcuo" in Greek, which is
translated "chasten" in the King
James version, means literally ito in
struci," and that the passage should
be translated, Whom the Lord loveth
he instrlcteth." The speaker declared
that temptation never comes from
God.
THE revelation of Christian Science
came to Mrs Eddy as the result of
lifetime spent in continuous search and
desire for the spirit of the word and
the things of God AS religious re-
former she occupies position unique
in the history of the World-unswerv-
ing i'm her trust in the goodness of God.
and unouestioning in her obedience to
His commands
"cbristian Science is the manifesto
ton Of that love which respects no per-
| SON. that knows no relationship save
the universal brotherhood, and which
brings to mankind the satisfying con-
| seriousness that God is love. In this
! knowledge of 1emonstrable religion
| Christian Scientists have their Salts
| faction. their Joy. Here we find relief
from-our pain. escape from our sorrow
| and tears; spiritual regeneration.
I'VE ask you to investigate. not
Christian Scentists,7% but Christian
| Science. and see how absolutely it re-
v.als the Cody standard wherein
what blesses one blesses all. Then
shall His will be done in earth as It
is in heaven: then shall we realize that
His is the kingdom, ana the pewes
and the glory forever see the full
lfruition of love. have no other God than
| our Father which are in heaven who
| is everlasting life. truth and love-" =,