The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-03-25

ed Sunday afternoon to hear Frank II.
Leonard of Brooklyn, N. Y, lecture Oh
Christian Science, The Comforter of
Promise"
/. H. Patton introduced the speaker
in a few we'll chosen wards, as fol
lows:
Friends Christian Science is a sub
ject of world wide Importance today.
and it is a subject much misunder-
stood and misapprehended and it is
with a desire to correct these mis-
understandings and misapprehensions
that you have been invited here this
afternoon, and | am pleased at the
interest shown in this subject as is
evidenced by the large audience pres
ent.
Christian Science bears the distinc.
tion of being the only religion ever
founded by woman, and its founder,
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, occupies an
enviable position among the worlds
most famous women.
Christian Science bears the farther
distinction of having had the most
phenomenal growth of any religious
movement, in forty years this great
movement has encircled the globe, and
today Christian Science services are
being held in every country on this
globe With the Bible in one hand
and the Christian Science text book
in the other it has gone about the
Fathers business" and followed the
great Masters command to Preach
the gospel and heal the sick;" it has
taken into its folt the sick, the sin
ming, and the dying, and made them
better, healthier and happier men and
women.
We are informed by the last United
States census that the membership of
the Christian Science denomination is
100000 in round numbers, with over
1000 church edifices, the attendance
at the regular services, no doubt ex-
eeeds the accredited membership by
one third to one half and when we
consider that every one of these &c.,
900 people have been healed Of some
physical, mental, or moral disorder,
we may we'll contemplate this move
ment with wonder.
The gentlemen who is to address
you on this subject is well qualified
to do his subject justice and l am
pleased to introduce to you Mr.. Frank
H. Leonard, G. S. b., of Brooklyn, n.
Y, member of the Christian Science
Board of lectureship of the Mother
Church, the First Church of Christ
Scientist in Boston, Mass.
Mr.. Leonard's lecture was one that
held the attention of the large audi
ence for more than an hour. His mes
sage was direct and earnest one f6I
practical Christianity or as he ex
pressed it for greater use of Chris
tain Science, (Christian Science q
common sense in our study of the
Bible.)
Mr.. Leonard said in part
"In approaching Christian Science
from the standpoint of honest desire
to know the truth about it, the average
person finds there are some things
about it's Leader and its teachings
which they do not understand an(
which they are entitled to have ex
planned.
1t is my intention, in this address
to confine myself chiefly to a discus
sion of four fundamental teachings o.
Christian Science, which when under
stood, establish the position Mrs. Eddy
occupies in the movement by reasGr
of being the Revelator of Scientific
Christianity to this age, and absolutely
elucidate the Christ-like nature of th'
teachings of Christian Science, glorify
ing and praising God with endless
Thanksgiving for His wonderful good
ness unto the sons of men.
First, one usually wants to know
the origin and purpose of the Chris
tian Science movement and its chic
purpose in the world.
It's origin stretches back so far tha
no man knows the beginning of It,
had its beginning when God began
II is Truth which the Christian Scienc
movement is demonstrating, and it j
therefore, as eternal as is God him
self
What is its chief purpose, and wha
Will prove the statement l h we jus
n ade? It's CHIEF and oyerpowarlne
its all and only purpose is to glorif
God, and to do it by destroying sin il
the world 1t has no other purpose
The things that are accomplished III
der the ministration of Christia