The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1910-05-12
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
DEMONSTRATE RELIGION
A Lecture by FRANK H. LEONARD, c. S. B., Of Brooklyn
New York Member Of the Christian Science Board
Of Lecureship Of the First Church Of
Christ, Scientist Of Bos-
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ways, and in humility study the life
and teaching of Christ Jesus on earth
| SO that we may be able to fulfil his
| promise and show to the doubter and
| unbeliever Of today that he was "the
Son of the living God"-The absolute
fulfilment of all prophecy and every
promise which the Bible holds out to
mankind?
There is no way whereby we can
demonstrate that God is true, other
than by doing His will and manifest
ing His supremacy in all things. The
Bible teaches us that God is "a very
present help in trouble" Mankind
say that He is in cases of sin, but that
II one be sick, he must turn to medi-
cine If he expects to regain his health
| There is nothing in the Bible that
gives authority for any one to say in
what kind of trouble God may be a
very present help, nor to say there is
a trouble that is beyond Gods ability
or desire to overcome and destroy;
and Christian Science teaches that a
man has just as much right to take a
sick trouble to God as he has sin
trouble, and just as much right to ex-
| pect freedom from one as the other.
The general belief is that one must
have great faith in Christian Science
before any benefit may be derived
from treatment by Christian Science
practitioner This belief Is erron-
eOus; all the faith one needs to have
In Christian Science at the inception
of his desire to be benefited by 1t, is
sufficient faith to find practitioner
and express the desire for treatment
To illustrate the truth of this state
ment I will relate my own experience
when / turned from medicine to Chris
tian Science to hnd health
Personal Experience.
was born with supposedly incura-
BILE organic disease; had never known
we'll day in my life; had taken all
kinds of treatment known in those
days, and had received no benefit.
had come to the place where the ply
sicians were unanimous in saying that
dissolution was at hand did not
want to die; / wanted to stay here
to live, and be we'll and able to do as
other boys did. About this time /
learned that In Boston. Mass. a body
OF people calling themselves Christian
to be presently enicacious for the de-
struction Of disease as it was when
Jesus was on earth; and that they
we're proving the truth Of their state
ment by healing people who had gone
to them for treatment after having
been pronounced hopeless and in
durable by their physicians. l ac-
cepted the suggestion that try Chris
tiRn Science, In the hope that 1t might
be OF benefit to me, and l went to a
Christian Science practitioner for
help.
The practitioner, woman, ushered
me into small room which did duty
as an office, and asked me to be seat
ed. she at the same time seating her
self In the opposite corner of the
room. After being seated, she asked
me what seemed to be the trouble with
me. / felt as though that question
added insult to injury, for to me my
suffering was most real and intense,
30 l told her that the physicians said
had an incurable organic disease,
telling her what they said 1t was At
ter few moments conversation, she
said she would treat me. had not
the faintest idea what Christian Sci
with good deal of curiosity for her
to begin the treatment, when to my
surprise she folded her arms and
closed her eyes. / watched her for a
moment or two, wondering when the
treatment would begin, when 1t dawn
ed on me that this was the treatment.
The absurdity of the belief that she
could do me any good, sick as was
with an incurable organic disease,
without even laying her hands on me,
was SO apparent to me that / could
scarcely avoid the discourtesy of
laughing aloud In her face.
In short time she arose and said,
II will see you tomorrow at the same
time" If she had been able to know
what l was thinking, she would have
known that I thought she wouldn't, for
did not then intend to return for an
other treatment; on the contrary, my
mind was fully made up to return to
the use of the tonic our family physi-
clan had told me it was as much as
my life was worth to go without. This,
however, | did not do. The disease
with which was afflicted was of such
nature and had reached so adj
vanced stage that 1t was impossible
for me to obtain any rest without the
use of an opiate, and / fully intended
taking my usual dose when / went to
bed; but the first thing of which I was
conscious, after my head touched the
pillow, was the fact that it was broad
daylight, and l realized that ! had
slept the whole night through without
any suffering or discomfort.
had awakened with a sense of
hope, strength, vigor, activity and joy,
such as l had never known before in
my entire life, and / believe the long
est hours / ever spent were those be-
tween the time of my awakening and
the time set for my next treatment.
continued to go for treatment for a
period of about three months, when
felt ! was perfectly well. Our family
physician, who was an old friend and
near neighbor, had known the treat
ment | was undergoing, and requested
the privilege of examining me- The
privilege was granted, and at the ter
mination of his examination he said a
miracle had been worked for me, for