The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-04-21
DISCUSSES THE SUBJECT BE.
FORE LARGE AUDIENCE.
pemonstrable knowledge of Christ
Truth Which Affords Deliv-
erance From All Evil.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Professor Hermann S. Herring,
c. S. B., delivered lecture on
Christian Science" at the Mankato
Theatre last night. He spoke to a
large audience. The professor was
introduced by Judge w. l.. Com
stock, who made some pleasing re,
marks relative To the subject
Professor Herring spoke in part
as follows:
1t is evident to all thinking people
who note the misery and wretched-
ness still existing all about us in
spite of the efforts made for their
alienation, the failures that occur
in all the walks and vacations Of
life, and the prevalent bondage to
materaity and evil, that humanitys
great need is a more effectual inter
probation and application of the
Bible teachings, actual deliverance
from the evils of this world, free
dom from its bondage. salvation
from its sins.
The Bible declares that Christ
Jesus came to destroy the works of
the devil. And the record of his mis-
sion shows that he actually destroy
ed sin, disease and death, and taught
his followers so 10 do, saying he
that believeth On me. the works that
| do shall he do ALSO that he came
10 bring full salvation from these
evils
What Would the World Be.
IF we think for a moment what
this world would be with this mis-
sion of our Saviour fulfilled in it.
with all men living strictly accord
ing 10 His teachings, and thus with
all sin and misery removed from the
earth. then we would realize what a
great blessing His salvation would
be TO us, how far short we have fall
Ell in awaiting ourselves the OppOr-
tunities our Blessed Master labOred
and suffered to afford us, and the
great need of IA present day saliva
zion, a salvation here and now, for
the Bible declares behold now is the
day OF salvation
Salvation in order to be effective,
must have its science, and exact, de-
mOnstrable knowledge of the Christ
principle. Salvation according 10
Smiths Bible Dictionary means de
liverance from temporal evils and
earthly destruction or deliverance
from evil.
Therefore the science of saliva
~. ,s,t haf do
monStrable knowledge Of the Christ
truth which affords deliverance from
all evil
Salvation to be Worked Out
EST Paul admonishes us TO work
out our own salvation. The Scriptur-
al command means far more than the
common belief that salvation is as
sured by simply having belief OF
faith in Jesus as the Son of God.
Such saving faith is vitality neces-
sary, but il is only the beginning OF
our salvation-its spiritual basis.
Working out our own salvation
means TO secure the mastery over
the ills of this world, to destroy
them by the demOnstrable knOw-
edge Of God received through Christ
Jesus, and to establish harmony,
health, happiness in every day life.
Hence our salvation is not fully
worked ont until we have dominion
over all discOrd and everything that
causes il. Ii means TO attain to per
feet harmonious living. TO bring
about Gods kingdom on earth.
Salvation Through Mind.
I'm working out our salvation we
must first see that salvation or de-
liverance from evil is a mental pro.
cess. takes place in mind; that ii is
a transformation through Mind and
that it is both ethical and philo-
sophical.
THE Bible declares that to be
carnally minded is death; but to
be spiritually minded is life and
peace All will admit that evil is
primarily mental: that evil aims, and
purposes, all misjudgment, hatred,
envy, jealousy, are mental, and that
the correction of these mental cOndi-
lions must be mental, through edu-
cation and experience, the awaken
ing and establishment of right
thought.
I'VE are all familiar with the
physical effects of fear, anger and
other strong emotions. Such effects
having mental cause obviously can
he healed mentally and Christian
Science teaches that all disease.
whatever its name or nature, has a
mental phenomenon, an experience
of the mortal material human mind,
which is healed by the divine Mind.
Objection to Giving UP Matter.
This leads to the troublesome
question, What shall we do with
matter? The world has always re-
sisted strongly the idealistic teach
ing of the supremacy OF Spirit over
matter, which is taught everywhere
in the Bible; and one of the leading
objections to the Bible today is this,
that many of its statements are Wis
ionary and impractical; in fact, the
endeavOr has been made 10 discredit
Bible records OF spiritual demOnstra-
ton and to explain them materially,