Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-18
CHRISTIANITY
IS SCIENTIFIC
LECTURER EXPLAINS MEANING
OF NEW BELIEF
ADDRESSES LARGE CROWD AT
SHRINE AUDITORIUM
Declares Mrs. Eddy's Religion Is
Founded on Bible and That
Nazarene's Words Are
Basis of Faith

second NHuTCn OIL CuItSlt oblClllASbs u
this city, under whose auspices the
lecture was given.
Mr.. Buskirk's remarks in part were
as follows
"It is probably true that the ex-
traordnary growth and strength of
the Christian Science movement are
| largely due to it's evidential works in
| overcoming physical sicknesses and
! sinful habits and tendencies. Accom-
| plished facts are always persuasive.
The paramount question, however, Is
| now, and always will be, is the re-
ligious philosophy taught in Chris
tian Science true or false? This ques-
tion must be, and finally will be,
answered according to the standard
| of the eternal truths. 1t cannot be
| answered according to current creeds,
dogmas or sects which are constantly
| changing, more or less, as the years
| pass, and which are so contradictory
among themselves.
Using the word science according
to it's highest meanings, and stating
that Christianity is not scientific, is to
| stigmatize Christianity as untrue
There must be a Science of Christiani-
| ty or Christian Science, unless we re-
pudiate Christianity. Christian Science
teaches that the precepts and practice
| of Jesus were scientific; that they
were, in other words, in perfect ac-
cord with the eternal truths.
"Are the teachings of Mary Baker
Eddy, the founder of the Christian
| Science movement in such accord?"
One Supreme Power
1.-THE teachings of Jesus could not be
rightly measured by comparing them
with the Hebraic and pagan religions
of his day. The teaching of Calico
| could not be rightly condemned as un-
scientific or heretical by testing. 1t
with the Ptolemaic astronomy which
| taught that the sun revolves around the
earth. Christian Science, and it's text
book Science and Health With Key
to the Scriptures, by Mrs. Eddy, must
be Judged from their own viewpoint.
To select a sentence here and there,
apart from its context and without
considering Christian Science in its en-
tirety as a religious doctrine and prac-
| tice, cannot furnish the basis of in
| telligent and just criticism.
"Christian Science teaches that God
| is Omnipotence, or All-Power 1t
| teaches that there is but one Supreme
| unchanging. 1t teaches that God is
| Omniscience, or All-Wisdon. 1t
teaches that God is Omnipresence, or
| All-Presence. To be Omnipresent,
| "God is Spirit" as Jesus declared. A
corporeal being is an anthopomorphic
conception of God, which would limit
Deity to the dimensions of space.
God as Spirit, or the infinite Mind of
the Universe, is the creator only of
what is spritual-or. to employ the
words of Jesus. what is born Of
spirit is spirit" Therefore, all the
| government and laws, all the crea-
! tions and resultants of God-fn other
words, all that really has existence
outside of and apart from false hu-
| haIinfe ic horn Of eniTit and CniF-
itual. Gods omnipotence implies
! that the only real power Is Gods
power; therefore, that all other sup
posititious power exists only in hu-
man belief. If we believe in any
thing which is the opposite of the
divine nature, we must be believing
in what is a falsehood and not a
truth. Hence, the scientific value and
accuracy of the remedy which was
declared, exemplfied and proven to
be true, by our Galilean Wayshower
when he said, 'Ye shall know the truth,
and the truth shall make you free"
Matter Is Phenomenon
"Christian Science finds it needful
to classify carefully what is false as
differentiated from what is true, in
order to apply the divine Truth-cure
which was taught and practiced by
Jesus. 1t classifies all forms, phases
| anu appearances WHICH, illtl nave
grouped together as evil as belong
ing to that category of falsehoods
! from which the truth makes us free.
In the group are sinful practices and
thoughts, all kinds of physical sick
nesses, the so-called chronic and incur
able sicknesses included, all mental
and bodily sufferings, all vicious habits
and practices. Accurately speaking, all
these are falsehoods, because inconsis-
| tent with the divine nature, and i'm
| possible when we affirm Gods allness.
| when Paul wrote The things which
are seen are temporal, and the things
which are not seen are eternal he
stated one of the eternal truths Chris
tian Science affirms that the true, the
real, the eternal, are synonymous terms
| The transitory Is mere phenomenon
| or appearance, as opposed to noumenon
or entity. Christian Science has found
it necessary to hold steadfastly to this
classification, in order to successfully
| heal the sick as commanded ana
taught by Jesus. This Christian teach
| ing was formerly the subject of much
| misdirected ridicule. But the natural
sciences and philosophy are now teach
ing that what is called matter is only
| phenomenon, and not entity or reality
! The fogs of loose thinking in respect
to the true character of the material
universe are being rapidly dissipated
under the light of investigation ana
| logic
! "'God is Truth Therefore, all false
| hoods are of human and not of divine
| origin. If sin or sickness were of God,
| in other words, If they were a part of
the truth of mans being, they could not
be overcome by or through any human
effort. And to try to overcome them
would be to rebel against God. Jesus
sought to overcome them, and sue
ceeded, only because they were not OF
God. And he declared that his works
| in overcoming sin and sickness were
the works of the Father.
No Incurabe Diseases
| christian Science is not the inven-
! tion of a new religion, nor of new
way or new system for overcoming dis
cordant human conditions, such as sim
! sickness, etc. On the contrary, it is
restore to mankind the religion taught
by Jesus, in it's purity and in its en-
| tirety. Therefore, it teaches that good
| Christian words must be manifested in
good Christian works, that we need to
| do as Jesus taught us to believe; that
| the entire commandment which Jesus
| gave to all his followers of all times,
and not a mere convenient part of 1t,
is to be obeyed: Preach the gospel
heal the sick When Jesus said to his
| followers of all times-to you and to
me-if ye love me, keep my COM