The Washington times., 1915-12-26
STRICELERL
0N.CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Speaker Declares That Faith
Has Healed IntemperanCe.
Truth to End Ills.


Virgil o. strickler. c. s., member OF
the board Of lectureship OF the First
Church OF Christ Scientist, Boston, de-
livered lecture on the subject OF
Christian Science at Polls Theater this
afternoon. The lecture, which was de-
llvered under the auspices Of the local
Christian Science churches. attracted an
audience which completely filled the
theatcr and was received with the
greatest interest. The speaker was in.
troduced by Senator Moses f.. Clapp OF
Minnesota.
In opening his lecture, Mr. StrickleT
asserted that it was undeniable that
chrlstian Science had healed many sick
people. and had brought about the re-
generation OF many who were the VIC
TINS OF sin. Among its membershiu
are those who have been healed OF in
temperance. of so-called chronic and or
2anic diseases, as well as of maladies
$hat were acute or functional II had
sealed others Of sorrow. fear. unhap-
Slness, and similar diseased mental con-
ditlons that often cause more suffering
and distress than physical disorders.
Cured Through Teachings.
Continuing he said: In every case
of Christian Science healing. whether
the disease was chronic or acute. ply
sical or mental, the cure was brought
about without the use Of hypnotism
mental suggestion, drugs, or .anv ma
terial means, and entirely through the
application Of the spiritual and meta
physical 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 disease re-
suit from error and false belief. which
are summarized as sin ana when the
ic 1,
which Christian Science imparts. the
disease disappears. Christian Science,
therefore,, teaches that the cause OF ali
disease and sin is mental, and not
pnysical' and that both sin and disease
may be cured by one and the same
metaphysical process, namely, by the
substitution of spiritual truth in place
OF error and false belief in the human
consciousness
Truth Basis of Cure.
1T is recorded in the eighth cha pter
OF the Gospel of John that upon one
occasion when Jesus was being harassed
by the lawyers and theologfans, who
were plying him with questions and
seeking to entrap him by his answers,
he turned to a group of his followers,
VINO were standing near, ana said to
them; 'Hc shall know the truth and the
ruth shall make you free In all OF
greater Importance to mankind than
this utterance of the Master. 1t pre-
scribes the remedy for every human i'll.
knowledge OF thing must come
through the mental and not through
the physical hence. according to the
words of Jesus, mankind will be de-
llrored from sin, disease. and death. not
ny doctorlng the physical, but by filling
the mental with truth. II this state
mcnt OF Jesus was true. it follows by
irresistible logic that the ensaving con-
dltlons from which humanity suffers
must be due to the belief OF something
which is not true. In other words II
the time Is ever to come. as Jesus has
declared that it will come. when the
khoWledge of the truth shall emanci-
pate humanity from it's bondage to sick
ness. sin, unhapplness poverty, old age
and death. such results can only be
brought about when the knowledge of
the truth shall have displaced and de-
stroyed Cout of human consciousne ss)
the belief of that which is not true.
There Is no escape from this conclusion.
What Church Does.
Christian Science shows that it is the
effect produced by truth operating in tine
human mentality. destroying supersti-
tion, false and vicious beliefs that must
ana Will some day emancipate mankind
from bondage to sin. disease. and death
Christian Science. therefore pleads
Tor a. rational and demonstrable, under
standing of God in place of theoretical
and speculative beliefs about Him"
The lecture will be repeated at
O'Clock Monday evening at First Church
OF Christ. Scientist. Columbia road and
Euclid street.