Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-02

hdt'i''"u' ouHudy AFTERNOON ffO1eS
Isor Herman s. Herring. G. S. B., O
concord. n. H., delivered an interest
! ing and instructive lecture on Christ
ian Science, taking for his topic
1.-THE Science of Christian Healing.
Professor Herring. it may be paren
lthctically remarked, was engaged fOl
ten years in teaching engineering
mechanical engineering, including, o.
couf%i,i. electrical engineering. Fol-
five years he taught in the Johns
Hopkins University.
Having. in tie meantime, become
interested in Christian Science, and
having investigated ita underlying
principles, he severed his connection
with the world famous educatfona.
institution and has since devoted his
time and talents to the dissemination
OF information concerning the teach.
ings and practice OF Christian Science
For the past ten years he has been
in the lecture field.
Professor Herring ia a member of
the Board of Iectureship of The
: Mother Church. The First Church of
Christ. S~Gieftist. of Boston. Mass.
and his appearance here was under
tho auspices of The First Church of
Christ Scientist. in this city. The
following Is condensation of his
address, which, IL given" in full. would
probably occupy a space OF seven or
Ieight columns 1900 90. n ..r a. F.
Christ Jesus, the great physician,
1.-THE divine healer. has for all timeTset
the standard OF perfect healing be-
fore humanity, and that many dognot
yet believe in his gospel results from
q lack Of understanding Of the true
nature and philosophy of the so-called
miracles which he performed. His
ethical teachings are very generally
accepted even by agnostics; although
the spiritual records of the healing
work as a part of his divine mission,
meet with dissent from many of the
cultured people Of today.
The gospels record many instances
of the healing Of physical disease by
Christ Jesus and his disciples; he re-
stored a withered hand, he healed an
impotent mar and a man born blind;
he healed paralysis, dropsy, hemorr-
hage, leprosy epilepsy and violent in
sanity, and he raised the dead.
Furthermore he specifically com-
handed his disciples that they should
continue his healing work. ri a
Peter, John, Philip, Paul and other
followers healed paralysis, deformity,
insanity, lameness, and also raised
the dead, in connection with their
missionary work; in fact healing was
~practiced quite generally among the
early Christians.
All those who admit that Christian
healing is even desirable can but well
come a consideration of what 1t
would involve, what it would depend
p Let us consider, therefore,
whether there is a Science, a Prin-
ciple and law which can be applied.
and how this application can be made.
The fact hat Christian Science
heals can readily be determined by
any sincere investigator, and the sup-
cidence with spiritual healing, thus
proving this healing to be true and
possible today and establishing the
fact that Christian Science is Messi.
anic.
According to the S%criptural ac-
counts, the healing wrought by the
Master and his disciples, was accom-
plished through mental or spiritual
means gone, thus through some ac-
ton OF. thought, Christian Science
healing is brought about in the same
way. In both, the healing Principle
and law are mental, and we are thus
led to examine into the nature of
Mind and mind action.
Christian Science teaches that Mind
is that which thinks. that which
expresses itself in IDEAS. intelligence,
consciousness. Thus it is the basis
OF all manifestation, the Principle and
intelligence of the universe.
This divine actually is the scien-
titic basis ON which all Christian
healing is demonstrated, the divine
Principle whose unlimited power Is
utilized in the overcoming of sin and
sickness.
This then is n OF the initial and
ESSENTIAL steps in the Science of Christi
ian healing-the recognition Of the
nnreality OF all that which is unlike
God, that It has but q seeming and
not an actual existence.
The order OF scientific Christian
healing therefore is expressed first, in
the knowing OF perfect God and per-
feet man, followed BY the recognition
Of the nature of disease,