Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1910-03-17
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
lecture AT GRAND THEATRE
BY PROF. Herring.
Theatre Auditorium Is Filled With an
Attentive Audience Tue sday Eve
ming, to Hear About Christian Sci
enCe. Prof. Herring Explains Science
In Very Clear fianner.

Prof. Hermann S. Herring. M E..
c. S. b., of Concord, n. H., a noted
lecturer on Christian Science. deliy-
cred an interesting and able lecture
/ to large audience at the Grand
theater Tuesday night ons Chris
| tian Science, the Science oTs Saliva
ton" Prof. Herring is a logical.
forceful and eloquent speaker and
his address was closely followed by
all who heard him.
Prof. Herring was introduced by
Mr.. j. w. Clark, who spoke in part
as follows:
"The first weapon known to primi-
tive man was the bow. BY means
of the bow he hunted wild game and
thereby secured a livelihood. Two
bows, placed parallel with each 9TH
er, with cross-bars, formed the prim-
itive sled. The sled runner strik-
ing rolling pebble suggested the
| idea of the wheel. TRANSPORTATION
has proceeded in its evolution from
this order of things to the steam rail-
way, the electric car, the automo-
bile, and finally the conquest of the
air by means of the biplane.
Every phase of human achieve
ment has kept pace with the adj
vancement in the means of transpor-
tation, and the IDEAS of man, regard
! ing the mystery of life, have adj
vanced even as man has advanced
in invention. To the primitive man,
disease and death were greatly to
be feared. Modern man views them
with the analytical mind that has
marked his progress along lines of
invention. To overcome the ills Of
the flesh, and make life fulfill the
meaning Of the divine Architect,
who followed the bed of the ocean,
sprung the great arch of the sky, and
hung up the evening star, has been
the effort of thinkers from the begin
ming of time.
Il take pleasure in introducing
| Prof. Hermann S. Herring, Of
! Concord. n. H., who will speak
to you along a line of thought which
is comparatively new, but in which
| there are elements of progress which
mean much for the human race"
Prof. Hering's Address.
Prof. Herring, in his address, said
in part:
In considering the subject of
"Christian Science; the Science of
Salvation" it is well to have a mu-
tual understanding as to the mean
ing of the terms. Science means ex-
act, systematized and demonstrable
knowledge of facts, laws and causes,
while according to Smiths Bible
Dictionary salvation means "deliv-
erance from temporal evils and earth
| ly destruction" in other words, de-
| liverance from evil from sin, dis
ease and death. Hence The Science
of Salvation" means in substance
that demonstrable knowledge which
affords deliverance from all evil
Salvation to Be Worked Out
st. Paul admonishes us to work
out our own salvation. This Scrip
tural command means far more than
the common belief that salvation is
| assured by simply having belief or
| faith in Jesus as the Son of God.
| Such saving faith is vitally neces-
sary, but it is only the beginning
of our salvation-its spiritual ba-
| sis.
Then must follow the working out
of our deliverance from evil on this
basis; our actual separation from
sin. from the bondage of this world,
from limitation, failure, disease,
death.
Working out our own salvation
means to secure the mastery over
the ills of this world, to destroy
them by the demonstrable know
ledge 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 domin-
ion over all discord and everything
hat II rTbic
cludes dominion over matter and it's
laws, to which we are in such bond
age, dominion over evil and its sem
sation, sin and sorrow, dominion
even over death and it's terrors. 1t
means to attain to prefect harmon
ious living, to bring about Gods
kingdom on earth.
Salvation Through Mind
In working out our salvation we
must first see that salvation or de-
liverance from evil is a mental pro-
cess, takes place in mind; that it is
a transformation through Mind and
is both ethical and philosophical.
The Bible declares that " to be
carnally minded is death; but to
be spiritually minded is life and
peace"
All will admit that evil is pri-
marily mental; that evil aims and
purposes, all misjudgment, hatred.
envy jeaousy, are mental and that
the correction of these mental con-
ditions must be mental, through
education and experience, the awak-
ening and establishment of right
thought.
We are all familiar with the ply
sical effects Of fear, anger and 9TH
er strong emotions Such effects
having mental cause obviously