The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-03
RIckneiI Young From Mother Church
in Boston, Delivers An Address
of Considerable Interest
Last Night.
NOT ASKING FOR BELIEF
Lectures Are Being Given Through
Desire to Help Mankind, Lee
turer Explains in His
Talk.

\ Al lue ElkS CluD last evening biCk
inell Young, G. S. b., member of the
board Of lectureship of the Mother
church, the First Church Of Christ
Scientist, in Boston, delivered lee.
ture
The speaker of the evening was in
troduced by James W. Lapsley, who
said Friends, on behalf of the mem
bers of First Church of Christ
Scientist, Keokuk, Iowa, bid you
welcome. Although l am not one who
! Is identified with the Church of Christ
founded on love and builded on faith
yet, can bear witness to it's practical
results and its ethical attitudes.
| From time lmmemorial mankind has
sought for some panacea for what the
human race has seemed to want to
call the wrath of God visited upon
them in righteous indignation for their
human errors. That we ought to get
more comfort and happiness out OF
life than we do, think we will all
admit
T; II life in the home, in the workshop
and on the street can be made better
and happier, 1t is a condition to be
most devoutly desired. The objection
usually lodged against Christian Sci.
ence is the fact that it's devotees be-
| lieve that physical ills as well as
spiritual can be cured by the power OF
God, that the objector would believe
in spiritual healing but not physical.
Having had strong convictions
along this same line, l can the more
readily grant that from a human
standpoint the ground is fairly taken
by the objector.
| believe that most all mankind
he desire to live better lives but
we are not always charitable enough
ono to another, and too often our la
bors are alor the wrong lines. How
ever, 1t is for these reasons Christian
Scientists have lecturers in the field
who state to the public the correct
views upon the subject of Christian
Science, and the gentleman who will
speak to you this evening, few
years ago, in an address removed
from my own mind some of the er.
roneous ideas had formerly held re.
gardine Christian Science. That he
may help some one here tonight to
learn a correct concept of this beau
Itiful religion is my hope.
take great pleasure in introducing
to you Bicknell Young, c. S. B., of
Chicago, member of the board of lee
tureship of the Mother Church, The
First Church of Christ Scientist, in
Boston, Massachusetts.
Mr.. Young's lecture was as fol-
lows:
"Or6inary systems of education &C
cent the evidence of the senses as to
mans being and destiny, and in so
doing tend to perpetuate the destruc-
tive conditions of human experience.
Ordinarily accepted religious views
also coincide with such teaching, for
they inculcate the idea that when evil
has finally overcome human being
and destroyed him, then he will be
Immortal None of these systems
hold out the hope that there will ever
be any present evidence of the de-
struction Of evil and the triumph OF
the human being, but on the contrary
ali agree In accepting the evidence OF
the senses which indicate the destruc-
ton of man and the triumph Of evil
"Now whatever may be thought of
christian Science from the stand
point of old education. it has the I'M
questionable advantage of being logi-
cal and consistent. It shows unmis-
takably that a human being, however
much Of sinner he may be, neeos
to be redeemed rather than destroyed,
and that 1t is the proper business OF
both science and religion to heal him
of his disease and to redeem him from
his sins so Enthusiastically that both the
healing and the redemption shall ap-
pear.