New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-15
FORMER PHYSICIAN
LAUDS MRS. EDDY
Lecturer Calls Christian
Science the Century's
GrandeSt Gift.
DEFINED AS LAW
OF ETERNAL LIFE
Is New Discovery Of Old Truth,
F. J. FlunO Tells First
Church.

Francis J. Fluno, c. s D., who gave
up the practice Of medicine to become
member Of the Christian Science
Board Of Lectureship of the First
Church, OF Boston, spoke last night on
"Christian Science at the First
Church Of Christ, Scientist, West
Ninety-sixth Street He said in part:
christian Science is not discovery
Of new Truth, but a new discovery OF
an old Truth.
Christian Science IS the law OF
eternal Life-divine Principle; and is
therefore the Science of Sciences; the
Religion OF Religions and the Church
Of all Churches. 1t teaches the sclen-
tifc fact Of a perfect God and per-
feet creation, as the basis Of every con-
clusion.
~. takes nothing from the world, bur
gives all TO the world. In the place OF
war we find peace, and universal peace
is raised to the dawn of that glad day
When all shall dwell together. one
Shepherd and one Fold
"The sick are raised to health, ard
the healthy are raised to a standard OF
health far beyond their present con-
ception.
Health Laws Changeable.
"The so-called laws of health that
civilization makes and breaks, and yet
builds upon, are as changeable and un-
reliable as the wind that blows; and
are all built upon the shifting sands or
physical observation. conjecture, doubt
and fear; having no principle or foun-
dation in fact.
"The divine law Of health. which -
the law OF life, that i, the law OF COO;
il as changeless, immutable, pure ana
porfect as the eternal God himself.
"Christian Science shows that the
error of the ages is in having two
powers, one of good and the other OF
evil; and this belief beclouds the eye
Of reason. shuts out the true sense OF
being. and robs man of his God-given
inheritance.
"Christian Science is the wonder OF
the finite world, and the light of the
ages; it is the grandest gift OF the
Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth
ats donor, the Rev. Mary Baker
Eddy, whom we lovingly call our
Leader, is indeed a most wonderful
woman.
HonOred and Loved.
"As time goes on, and the great facts
of eternal life as taught in Christian
Science are more clearly seen and
more perfectly demonstrated, and
Christian Science-the Science of Life
is better understood and compre-
hended. the name Of Mary Baker Eddy,
The Discovcrer and Founder of Chris
tan Science will stand out in the
worlds great history like star of the
first magnitude; and she herself VIII
DO honored and loved for what she has
done for mankind and for the world"
christian Science is not essentially
iconoclasm. 1t does not break images,
tear down affairs and break up
churches, clans and societies. Neither
does il use the old as a foundation
upon which to construct the new. But
il educates out of the old into the
new: out of the lower into the high
err; out of the false into the true.
THE science Of Truth, ike the gar
ment of Christ, is a seamless robe,
woven throughout from top 20 bottom;
complete in itself; nothing can be
added to it, and nothing taken from
it, and nothing can be true that - not
included in it. In it mankind and
the world will find all his needs sup
Piled, and all his real desires fulfilled.
"But the laws of God are not the
laws Of mortal mind or OF matter. The
so-called laws of health are no more
the laws of God than the laws of evil
are the laws of good, or the law Of
wrong is the law of right"
Christian Science, ever loving, ever
gentle and ever kind, will never take
away one single thing that you hold
dear without returning more than 1t
took away, and that which you love
better.
christian Science turns the search
light on animal magnetism. mesmerism,
hypnotsm and mental suggestion, and
shows them TO be dealing entirely with
the mortal or finite mind. so-called,
which is but the negative of the divine
mind, or mind of God; and has no
more existence, compared with the di-
vine Mind, than darkness has COM
pared with light"
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