The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-07
DISCIPLES OF
MARY BAKER EDDY
Many Of Them Gathered at Grand
Opera House Last Evening to
Hear Or. Francis j
Fluno.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TALK
Teaches That AN is Mind, There is
no Matter; It Teaches There
is no Realty in


Dr. Francis ]. Fluno, NJ. d., C. S. D.,
of Oakland, Calf, member of the
Board Of Lecturship Of the First
Church of Science, Boston, Mass, de
livered lecture on Christian Science
before a fair sized audience at the
Grand opera house last night.
Dr.. Fluno said in part: Christian
Science is the law Of God ("Science
and Health, page 1872, line 20 known,
understood and found demonstrate.
1t is the science of being, the science
of life. 1t is the knowledge of truth
and true being, reduced to a system.
It's 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 promise or conclusion.
Christian Scientists are individuals
who have found this truth and found
II to be true; found Christian Science
and found it to be scientific, and are
succeeding in 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.
Chistian Science is not something
that Mrs. Eddy has created or invent
ed. 1t is what she has discovered
and given to tho world. Science and
Health" and the Bible, when rightly
understood, disclose 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
4 Mind. ~
Christian Science is not the mere
superficial idea of not speaking evil
or not talking sickness. but that sick
hess and evil are not the facts of be-
ing; they therefore are not only un-
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 part of the great
fact of being than the errors and mis-
understandings of mathematics are a
part of the sciene of numbers.
Christ. IN Science teaches "all 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 material
lty shall pass away but the divine
Mind and His idea shall remain for
ever.
Introduced by Roberts.
Nv irStuICI WIS introduced ny AL
torney w. ]. Roberts. who said:
Ladies and Gentlemen;
am not Christian Scientist,
neither am the speaker of the ev-
ening. Therefore, ] must be careful
about what say. and about the time
| take in which to say it. ! must be
consistent with my beliefs, and at
me same time must at least be re-
spectful toward those who have hon
bred me with the invitation to be
mere tonight. have therefore reduced
my brief remarks to writing:
while ] am not a scoffer at any re-
hgious faith, becarse am willing to
concede that anything is possible
with or to supreme power, yet
Wnen certain propositions do not APP
peal to my sense of probability, | am
sometimes inclined to indulge in at
lempts at least, at ridicule AS when
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