Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-08
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LECTURE.
Many of Our Citizens Listened to
Prof. Hermann s. Herring, c.
S. B, Thursday Evening, at the
Church Edifce.


Prof. Hermann S. Herring, C. S. B., /
lectured in this city ON Friday even
ing, at the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, and many went to hear the
gifted speaker. He was introduced
by Alexander Archie, as follows:
FRIENDS You have been invited
here to hear from an authoritative
scource something about Christian
Science, and it gives me pleasure to
welcome you in behalf of the Chris
tian Science congregational this city.
All human kind are at one in the.
desire for salvation, not so much now
adays perhaps from trouble and tor
ment in future world, but relief
from the ills that beset mortals here
and now, from the doubts and fears
the diseases and distresses that mar
the beauty and harmony of earthly
existence.
Multitudes of responsible people
throughout the civilized world de-
clare that they have been wonderfully
improved mentally, morally, physic-
ally and spiritually by Christian
Science; that their lives are healthier,
happier and cleaner because of the
new conception the study of this
Science has given them of the Crea-
tor, of Gods ability and availability
to meet every human need.
1t is in gratitude for the blessings
Christian Science has brought into
our lives with loving desire to ex-
tend these blessings to others and
with the hope that some suffering or
spiritually unsatisfied brother or sis
ter may here find the help and peace
that has not been found elsewhere
that has prompted the giving of this
lecture.
The gentleman who is to address us
is a graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania, from the department of
engineering. He gave up his profess
sion in 1899 to devote his entire time
to Christian Science work. He was
for three years first reader in the
Mother Church as well as in the Bal
timore and Concord churches, and is
a member of the Board of Lecture
ship of the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
| now have the honor to present to
you Prof. Hermann S. Herring, who
will speak to you about Christian
Science.
Mr.. Herring spoke upon christian
Science: The Science of Salvation"
and the PILOT gives brief synopsis
of his address, viz:
In addressing an intelligent audience
upon the subject of "CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE: THE SCIENCE OF SAL
VATION,'; it is well, first of all, to
reach mutual understanding as TO
the meaning of the terms. Science
means exact, systematized, and de-
monstrable knowledge OF facts, laws
and causes, while according to Smiths
Bible Dictionary salvation means
''deliyerance from temporal evils and
earthly destruction, in other words
deliverance from evil. Hence "THE
SCIENCE OF SALVATION" means
in substance that demonstrable knowl-
edge which affords deliverance from
evil.
SALVATION TO BE WORKED OUT
st. Paul admonishes us to work out
our own salvation with fear and
trembling. This Scriptural COM
mand means far more than the COM
mon belief that salvation is assured
by simply having belief or faith in
Jesus IS the Son of God. Such saving
faith is vitality necessary, but it is
only the beginning of our salvation
its spiritual basis.
Then must follow the working out
of our deliverance from evil, our sep
aration from sin, from the bondage of
this world, from limitation, failure,
sickness, disease, death.
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
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 discord and
everything that causes it. This nee
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 ,cork out our salvation, we
will not gain the victory over the
world. the flesh and the devil, as we
are commanded.
1t iseur 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 saliva
tion practically end effectively; that
it discloses the cause and occasion 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
AID His universe, including man, and
the modus operandi. by which, we
can proceed TO free ourselves from evil
and attain true manhood and woman
hood, in ''the liberty of the sons of
God"
In working out our salvation we