The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-06-12

great as it was nineteen hundred
years ago.
"In order to correct false impres.
sions and that Christian Science may
be better understood, Board OF Leo
tureship has been organized. We
have present with us tonight a mem
ber OF this Board of Lectureship, of
Boston, Mass, one who Is thorough
ly qualified to handle the subject of
the lecture, 1t is with great pleas
ure, introduce to you Prof. Her.
man s. Herring, of Boston, Mass"
In presenting his theme, Professor
Herring spoke as follows:
in addressing an intelligent audi
ence upon the subject OF Christian
Science: The Science OF Salvation"
it is well, first of all, to reach a
mutual understanding MS to the
meaning of the terms. Science means
exact, systematized, and Demon
straIble knowledge or facts. laws and
causes, while according to Smiths
Bible Dictionary, salvation means
deliverance from temporal evils and
earthly destruction" in ether words
deliverance from evil. Hence, ''The
Science of Salvation" means In sub
stance that demonstrable knowledge
which affords deliverance from evil.
St. Paul admonishes us to work
out our own salvation with fear and
trembling. This Scriptural COM
man means far more than the COM
mon belief that salvation is assured
by simply having belief for faith in
Jesus as the Son OF God. Such saw
ing faith Is vitality necessary, but 1t
is only the BEGINNING OF our saliva
tion-its spiritual basis.
Then must follow the working out
of our deliverance from evil, our
separation from sin, from the bond
age Of this world, from limitation,
failure, sickness disease, death.
Saving faith" the recognition that
that he brought salvation 10 all man
kind includes not only the glad ac-
ceptance of what Jesus was and did,
but OF what he said we can and must
do. He said, IL am the way, the
truth and the life,'. and he also said
"He that believeth on me the works
that do shall he do also
Working out our own salvation
means to secure the mastery over the
ills of this world, 70 destroy them
by the demonstrable knowledge of
God received through Christ Jesus
and to establish harmony health,
happiness in every day life. Hence
our salvation Is not fully worked out
until we have dominion over all s.
cord and everything that causes 1t.
This necessarily includes dominion
over matter and its laws. to which
we are in such a bondage, dominion
over evil and its sensation, sin and
sorrow, dominion even over death
and its trrors. 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 commanded.
If mere faith or belief in Jesus is
all that is necessary for salvation
why are so many promises in Rev.
elation made to him that overcom-
eth" and especially
Tie that overcometh shall In
herit all things; and will be
his God and he shall be my
SOM" (Rev. 21:7.)
1t is our aim to show that Christian
Science is the Science OF salvation In
and through Christ; that It reveals
the Principle OF being and awakens
that spiritual understanding which
enables us to work out our own sal
vation practically and effectively:
that it diseioses the cause and occa-
sion of discordant conditions here on
earth, the nature of the bondage
that holds US to evil; that it reveals
the absolute truth of being, the
truth about God and His universe ,.
|iincluding man, and the modus OPP
erandi, by which, we can proceed to
free ourselves from evil and attain
true manhood and womanhood in
"the liberty OF the sons OF God"
I SALVAlTlION THROUGH MIND.
L In working out our salvation we
must first see that salvation or deliv-
erance from evil Is mental process,