The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-08
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
 HEALING EXPLAINED BY v. Q. STRICKLER
OFFICIAL LECTURER ADDRESSES AUDIENCE AT PLAZA
 THEATRE


 At the Plaza theater last night, vir- edl O. strickler, c. S., of New York, a
 member of the lecture board of the First chdrch of Christ. Scientist. in Boston. spoke upon Christian Science. Among other things the speaker said:
 It is undeniabie that Christian Sci ence has healed many sick people and has brought about the regeneration of many who were the victims of sin Among it's membership are those who have been healed of intemDsrance, or so-called chronic and organic diseases, as we'll as of ma1adies that were acute or functional. It has healed others Of sorrow, fear, unhappiness and similar diseased mental conditions that often cause more suffering and distress than physical disorders
 In every case of Christian Science healing, whether the disease was chronic or acute, physical or mental, the cure was brought about without the use of hypnotisrn, mental sugges- tion, drugs or any materisl means, ana entirely through the application of the spiritual and metaphy sical teachings of Christian Science
 The healing of the sick, however, IS not the primary purpose of Christian Science According to the teachings of this science all sickness and dis ease result from error and false be- lief. which are summarized as sin, and when the error of belief is de- stroyed by the truth which Christian Science imparts, the disease disap- iDears. Christian Science, therefore, teaches that the cause of all disease and sin is mental, and not physical. and that both sin and disease may be cured by one and the same meta physical process namely, by the suD- sritutton of spiritual truth in place of error and false belief in the human consciousness.
 IF is recorded in the sth Chapter Of the Gospel of St. John that upon one occasion Jesus turned to a. group of his followers. who were standing near and said to them, ''Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you 2rees.. In all Of the Bible there is no statement of greater importance to mankind than this utterance of the Master It prescribea the remedy for every human ill Knowiedge of a thing must come through the mental and not through the physical, hence, according to the words of Jesus. man kind win be delivered from sin, dis ease and death not by doctoidng the plsTaical. but by filling the mental VI ltla rxanklA. M
 Christian Science shows that 1t is the effect produced by truth operat- anm in the human mentality, destroy- ing superstition, false and vicious be- 1Iefs that must and will some day emancdpate mankind from bondage to sin. disease and death.
 There must be ultimate truth some where. and when 1t is apprehended by the human mind it will enaancipate fhoss wI1o apprehend 1t from bondage 1o evil Christian Science asserts that truth concerning God and man and their relationship is revealed by the Scriptures. and may be gained by every person when the Scriptures are rightly interpreted
 Some day all mankind will recog- | nixe the immeasuraaole service that I Mrs. Eddy has rendered to humanity I by her discovery of Christian Science and the establishment of the Chris I dian Science movement Through her r teaching she has elevated religious | understanding from a theoretical to a | practical basis She has taught the l world that 1t is the mission of relig | ion to heal people of sickness, sor- row, unhappiness and fear. as well as to destroy sin, and has so clearly de- lined the process by means of which | these results may be accomplished as to make 1t possible for every one to | prove 1t for himself and thereby to | heal himself and others. Christian | Science is applieA Christianity just as | truly as engineering fs applied nath- enatics. There is no mystery about l it. and when one does .tlis work cor rectIy, according to its rule, healing | and regeneration must follow.
 In the Bible CJoa1n xx:171 we read | that Jesus said to Mary, 'tcfo to my brethren, and say unto them. ascend | unto my Father, and your Father; | and to my God and your God.'' Also | in 1 John, iii:2, Beloved, now are we the sonA of God, and it doth not yet | appear what I've shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we | shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.' St. Paul also wrote | (Romans s:16, ID. sHThe Spirit itself | we are the children of God: and if | children then heirs; heirs of God, and | doint heirs with Christ.
 Christian Science demonstrates the 1 truth Of these inspired statements It | ma lesS available as present right | the son and heir of God by showing | that the real man created by God is | spiritual and not material; that his | Iife- continuity intelligence and har- | uony are tin spirit and not in matter; that all of his qualities and attributes | are derived from Spirit, and that ev- cry function. of the real man is gov- l erned by the divine mind. Man, there | fore, expresses the divine nature. and | hence he is the image of God, and as | such is perfect and immortal The ] material man is not the likeness of | God. for matter cannor be the image | of Spirit He Is the false concept of | man, and the sin. disease and death | involved in this false concept will dis appear as false mortal beliefs are ! dissoIved by truth. The material be- IIaK nnlls1 give place to the spiritual i fact in every case.
 Out of the amplitude of her own spiritual understanding Mrs. Eddy has translated into human language | .he truth about God and man, and
 
 feet divine Principle that governs mankind. and has proved that the truth taught by Jesus is scientific, and may be demonstrated today as of old Do deliver the sinning, sorrowing and sumering from their oppressors, to set an mankind free from bondage to evil,