The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-03-31
THE COMFORTER OF PROMISE
Big Crowd Heard Frank Leonard
Tell of Great Movement Found
ed by Mary Baker Eddy
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ed Sunday afternoon to hear Frank II.
Leonard Of Brooklyn, n Y, lecture on
christian Science, The Comforter Of
Promise"
/. H. Patton introduced the speaker
in a few well chosen wards, as fol.
lows:
Friends: Christian Science is q 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 Interpretations
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 a 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
phenominal 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-
ceeds the accredited membership by
one third to one half and when we
consider that every one of these $780,
600 people have been healed of some
physical, mental or moral disorder
we may well 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
II. Leonard, G. S. b., of Brooklyn, II.
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 fer
practical Christianity or as he ex-
pressed II for a greater use of Chris
tain Science, (Christian Science tr
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 and
which they are entitled to have ex-
planned,
1t is my intention, in thls address
to confine myself chiefly to a discus.
sion of four fundamental teachings of
Christian Science, which when under
stood, establish the position Mrs. Eddy
occupies in the movement by reason
Of being the Reyelator of Scientific
Christianity to this age, and abs 'lutely
elucidate the Christ-like nature Of the
teachings of Christian Science, glorify-
ing and praising Cod 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 chief
purpose in the world
Its origin stretches back so far that
no man knows the beginning of It 1t
had its beginning when God began.
II is Truth which the Christian Science
movement is demonstrating, and il is
therefore, as eternal as is God him
self
What is its chief purpose, and what
VIII prove the statement l have just
n ade? It's CHEZ and overpowerng,
its all and only purpose is to glorify
God, and to do it by destroying sin in
the world! 1t has no other purpose
The things that are accomplished un-
der the ministration of Christian
Science are accomplished only in pro