The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-04-20
RATHVON LECTURE
OKLAHOMA CITY
Eminent Christian Scientist Has Rep
resentatlve Auditnce at overholser.

Oklahoma City, April 15.-William
R. Rathvon, c. S. B., member of the
board of lectureship of the First
Church of Christ, Scientist, of Bos-
ton, Mass, addressed an audience of
twenty-five hundred yesterday at $3.50
p. M, at the Oyerholser. DR.. Rathvon
for a number of years has been inti-
mately associated with the leaders of
that church, including Mrs Eddy, and
being thoroughly informed on all
phases of lis subject, as well as pos
sessing expository abilities of the very
first order, his address was a mastery
presentation of his religion and was
accorded the closest attention. AS
suming that he was addressing an
audience unacquainted in large meas
ure with Christian Science, the speak
er confined himself largely to an eluci-
dation of the fundamental principles,
leaving technical features for an after
development by those interested suffi-
GENTLY to prosecute the line of investi-
CATION suggested.
''Of the multitude of men and wo-
men who are indebted to Christian
Science" said DR.. Rathvon, the great
majority were driven to it under the
lash of disease or bodily deficiency.
For many it was their last resort all
alse having proved empty, fruitless,
disappointing. Others there are who,
witnessing in their own families and
among their own friends the pitiful
failure of drugs, and the ptiless trail
of the knife preferred to trust their
mindless drug or the cruel steel. The
sanitarium, the operation table, aye,
the very grave itself have been robbed
OF their destined subjects in such num-
bers as to force even from unfriendly
lips the reluctant admission that
Christian Science does heal the sick.
THE basis of Christian Scienco heal
ing is the infinitude and omnipotence
of mind. spirit God.
III personal evidence of the efficacy
Of Christian Science in healing every
class Of disease should be desired, let
me call your attention to this fact.
Since 1888 there have been published
In each issue of the Christian Science
official periodicals detailed personal
accounts Of the healing of all manner
of diseases through mind alone. In
this long list may be found cases of
every form of functional and organic
disorder that materia medica claims to
pie at one time held Christian Science
in disdain and tried it only after the
healing systems of their choice had
utterly failed to give them permanent
relief. Their names and addresses can
be had for the asking, as each par
ticular case has been examined for au-
thenticity and accuracy before publ
cation. They are from reputable citi-
zens, your neighbors and mine. and
such an array of credible testimony is
not to be swept asidbbv professional
sneer.
Discouragement.
christian Science brings the truth
to human comprehension, gives free
dom from whatever enslaves and thus
bestows mental, moral and physical
liberty. In the process of liberation
it sifts out certain pernicious practices
and propensities, generally regarded
as harmless, but which are to be shun-
ned as allies of evil. 1t shows us that
we have indulged in moods and in
clinations that we believed were guile
less, If not eommendable, but were in
reality neither wise nor harmless. We
find we have been warming in the in
cubator of our favor, the eggs of SER
pents that we believed belonged to
doves. Perhaps the most sommon OF
these disease inviting habits is dis
couragement. | daresay we have all
been on intimate terms with it one time
or another and while we have never
found it cheerful company, we have
not looked upon it as sinister visitor.