Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-03-28
LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE.
DR.. Francis ]. Fluno. N. D.. c. S. D., Of
Oakland, Cal, at the Christian
Science Church

A good sized audience attended the
lecture given by DIR. Fluno at the
Christian Science church last Friday
evening. Frank Pardoe, a member of
the local church, introduced the
speaker as follows:
Friends: There is no regular clergy
OF the Christian Science church. The
Bible and Science and Health, with
Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker
Eddy are the impersonal preachers
and teachers" used at all regular
Christian Science services which are
now held in almost every country on
the globe and in many of the islands
of the sea. ''The leaves of the tree
were for the healing of the nations
and the Bible further declares that
all believers "were made Kings and
Priests unto God"
The Christian Science Board of
LectureShip was established by the
discoverer and founder, Mrs. Eddy,
not for the purpose of proselyting on
other religions, but to disseminate
correct information, and to publicly
correct misapprehenSions or misunder-
standings which might arise regard
ing this "new," ''old" christianity
it is composed of men and women who
are deVoting their lives to this work
and who are eminently qualified and
the friend who will address us to-
night speaks under the authority of
the Board of LectureShip of the First
Church of Christ Scientists in Boston,
Mass. 1t is my privilege and pleasure
as we'll, to introduce TO you DIR. Fran
els j. Fluno, NJ. D., G. S. D., of Oak
land, California.
DR.. Fluno said in part: Christian
Science is the law of God ("Science
and HEALTH" page 4S2, line 27) known,
understood and found demonstrable.
1t is the science of being, the science
of life. 1t is the knowledge of truth
and true being, reduced to a system.
Its name defines it, for it is perfectly
Christian, because it countenances no
wrong, either in theory or practice.
1t is scientific, for it admits of no
error, either in premise or conclusion.
Christian Scientists are individuals
who have found this truth and found
it to be true; found Christian Science
and found it TO be scientific, and are
succeeding in a measure to demon
strate it upon themselves and others
who come to them for help.
The Bible and "Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary
Baker Eddy, are the textbooks Of
Christian Science. Christian Science
is not another religious belief; it is
science. And science is something to
be understood and demonstrated, not
merely believed. Christian Scientists
are studying to understand Christian
Science, but not trying to believe it.
Christian Science is not something
that Mrs. Eddy has created or invent
ed. II is what she has discovered and
given to the world. Science and
Health" and the Bible, when rightly
understood, discloses the fact that
God is the only Mind and the so-called
mortal mind is but the carnal mind,
that must be corrected by divine
Mind.
Christian Science is not the mere
superficial idea of not speaking evil
or not talking sickness, but that sick
ness and evil are not the facts of
being; they therefore are not only uG-
profitable topics of conversation, but
are not true, and if spoken of at all,
they must be exposed as errors and
not facts of being.
Christian Science teaches there is
no reality in sin; that God made all
that was made and all he made was
good; that God did not make sin,
therefore sin, sickness, pain and
death, evil, error and discord of all
kinds do not belong to God nor to His
creation, and are no more a part of
the great fact of being than the errors
and misunderstanding of mathemat-
les are part of the science of num-
bers.
Christian Science teaches sail is
Mind, there is no matter" And the
Scriptures declare "Heaven and earth
shall pass away, but my word shall
not pass away" What does this
teach but that all matter and mater
iality shall pass away, but the divine
Mind and His idea shall remain for