Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1910-10-06
Christian Science Lecture
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: THE SCI
EMCE OF SALVATION.
Hy Professor Hermann s. Herring. c. 6
b., delivered in Hurley, Oct l.

In considering the subject of "Chri
rian Science: the Science of Sal,a
ton, ii is we'll to have a mutual III
darstanding as to the meaning of IT,
terms. Science means exact systema
tised and demonstrable knowledge of
facts, laws and causes, while ACCORDING
10 Smiths Bible Disrectory salvation
means deliverance from tcmporal
evils and earthly destruction" in othe;
words deliyerance from evil.-froG
sin, disease and death. Hence "Tie
Science of Salvation" means in sur
stance that demonstrabe knowlede
which affords deliverance from al
evil.
Salvation to be Worked Out.
ST. Paul admonishes us to work or'
our own salvation. This Scriptura
I command means far more than tn
common belief that salvation is .
sured by simply having belief or fait'
IN Jesus as the Son of God Sucl
saving faith is vitality necessary, bu
it is only the beginning of our salva-
tion-its spiritual basis.
Then must follow the working our
of our deliverance from evil on thi
basis our actual separation from sin
from the bondage of this world. fror
limitation. failure, disease, death
Working out our own salvation
means to secure. the mastery over i'll
of this world, to destroy them by thc
demonstrable knowledge of God re
lceiyed through Christ Jesus and te
establish harmony, health, happnes
everyday life. Hence our salvation is
not fully worked out until we have
dominion over all discord and every.
thing that causes it. This necessari-
| " includes dominion over matter and
its laws. to which we are in such bond
age, dominion over evil and its sensa.
tion, sin and sorrow, dominion ever
over death and its terrors. 1t means
to attain to perfect harmonious living
to bring about Gods kingdom on earth
Salvation Through Mind
In working out our salvation we
must first see that salvation or deliver
ance from sin is a mental process
takes place in mind: that it is a
Transformation through Mind and is
both ethical and philosophical
The Bible declares that "to be car
nallv minded is DEATH but to be spir
tually minded is life and peace"
All will admit that evil is primarily
mental: that evil aims and purposes
an misjudgment. hatred, envy, ieal-
lousy, are mental, and that the correc-
tion of these mental conditions mus.
|be mental through education and ey-
Derience, the awakening and establish
ment of right thought
We are all familiar with the physical
effects OF fear, anger and other strong
|emotiCns. Snch effects having men
tal cause obviously can be healed men
tally and Christian Science teaches
hat all sin and disease, whatever it's
name or nature. has mental origin
land is mental phenomenon, an ex-
perience of the mortal material human
mind, which is healed by the divine
Mind
In Retospection and Introspection :
Mrs. Eddy says:
During twenty years prior to my
discovery had been trying to trace
all physical effects to medical
cause; and In the latter part OF
1866 | gained the scientific certain
ty that all causation was Mind and
every effect mental phenomenon. /"
Regarding Mental Causation.
Christian Science teaches that mat
ter and material existence are phenom-
ena of mortal, material finite mind,
a concept of existence obtained
through the physical senses, a misal,-
prehension of reality held by human
consciousness when uninstructed by
Science, an appearance instead of an
actuality. 1t is simply an imitation
or counterfeit obtained from a finite.
dimensional, moral basis
Now it is not the appearance but
lonly the origina that has power, intelli-
gence and substance. The manifesto
ton of growth, action or being in mat
ter is but material concept of spirit
ual facts.
The objects, action and power ex-
pressed in a moving picture" are not
in the picture, but with the original
which the picture reproduces. Similar
ly, life, growth. action, power, sub
stance. law. ct setera, are not in mat
ter, physical existence or the mate.
rial onscicusness; but in divine Mind
the onlJ cause and Principle Of being
and should be SO thought Of