Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-21
Herring EXPLAINS
FAITHS PRECEPTS
LECTURES TO A BIG AUDIENCE
ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
ENABLES HUMANITY TO WORK
OUT OWN SALVATION
Mrs. Eddy Loved for Having Brought
to the World Spiritual Under
standing of the Holy
Scriptures

Prof Hermann S. Herring, c. S. B.,
addressed a large audience in Temple
auditorium yesterday afternoon on
Christian Science. He said in part:
In considering the subject of Chris
tian Science: the Science of Salvation" 2"
it is well to have a mutual understand
ing as to the meaning of the terms
Science means exact systematiZed and
demonstrable knowledge of facts, laws
and causes, while according to Smiths
Bible dictionary salvation means de
liverance from temporal evils and
earthly destruction; in other words,
deliverance from eVil-from sin, disease
and death. Hence "The Science of
Salvation" means in substance that
demonstrable knowledge which affords
deliverance from all evil.
Christian Science teaches that mat
ter and material existence are phe-
nomena of the mortal, material, finite
mind, a concept of existence obtained
through the physical senses, a misap-
prehension of reality held by human
consciousness when uninstructed by
Science, an appearance instead of an
actually. IT is simply an imitation
or counterfeit obtained from a finite,
dimensional mortal basis.
When we recognize God as the only
Mind. the only cause, Truth is re-
fected in consciousness and existence
Is harmonious. When we believe eau
sation TO be material or in mortal
mind, we put our trust and dependence
in a shadow, a false belief, and exist
ence, so called, is discordant, liable to
disease, disaster death. In order to
work out our salvation we therefore
need to understand causation.
Matter a Sense-Impresslon
Everything that we know or see or
believe, all our thoughts, acts or ex-
periences go to make up our universe,
our sense of existence, our conscious
ness.
The ordinary human concept OF
mind is that which thinks, feels or
wills. the intellect, or the activity OF
the gray matter called brain. Chris
tian Science reveals the fact that
Mind Is divine Principle, the infinite
Life, Truth, Love, omnipotent, omnis-
cient, omnipresent, the all-inclusive.
eternal. unchanging, all-Wise being,
the only cause and creator.
This is a very different Mind from
that which is supposed to result from
the action of the gray matter"
Christian Science makes 1t clear that
material existence is not The manites-
tation of this divine Mind, but the
phenomenon of the counterfeit, called
mortal mind.
1t is this false concept of existence
that does all the wrong thinking; that
believes in sin, disease and death; that
claims there is life and intelligence in
matter.
Since God is Mind, this Mind is good,
and it's effects must always be good,
never evil AS real thinking is the
activity of the divine Mind, the only
real thoughts or ideas are good. There
fore everything that is evil, pertains
to evil or results in evil is not Mind
nor included in Mind hence is not
real. Human thought. will power,
hvpnotism, mental suggestion or mag
netism are all capable Of evil. and
hence are not Mind cr the activity Of
Mind, are not of God, and so are not
good but essentially and entirely eVll
The difference between the method
of healing through mental suggestion,
or hypnotism. and that of the divine
Mind, the Christ healing, must be
clearly seen.
When the effort is made to heal by
suggestion, the operator endeavors by
means of mental manipulation to make
the patient believe that he is not sick.
He attempts to change the belief. but
the cause of disease remains and IN
time manfests itself even in worse
forms. The patient is no better off, he
has not risen in the scale of being, he
has no more manhood, or moral cour-
age and does not know any more
about God and his Christ than before.
A cardinal point in Christian Science
healing is that it works from the
standpoint of the unreality of matter
and evil, and thus proves the allness
and supremacy Of God. 1t includes the
knowing and affirmation of Truth; the
recognition and denial of error.
Mrs. Eddy Loved and Honored
It is not to be wondered at-indeed,
It is inevitable-that Christian Scien-
lists should love Mrs. Eddy for having
brought to the world this Science of
Salvation, the true knowledge of God
and man, the spiritual understanding
of the Holy Scriptures which enables
them to know themselves and to dem
onstrate that Saving faith" which
alone leads to heaven.
We love her not only for the reyela-
tion of the demonstrable Christ Truth,
which is contained in her wonderful
book, Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures" and her other writ
ings, but for her conservation and de-
Votion in continuing to lead the great
religious movement she has inaugu-
rated. She has remained steadfastly
at her post of duty and continued to
instruct, guide, advise, admonish her
followers and to lead on her gerat
cause in it's stately progress.
Mrs. Eddy did not simply state her
discovery to the world; she first dem
onstrated it and then offered 1t as a
demonstrable science for all mankind
to profit by. This science overcomes
evil by giving a true knowledge of
God and his Christ; it enables all hu-
manity to work out their own saliva
ton and reach that pure consciousness
which Jesus called the kingdom of
heaven"