The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-16
Tells Audience at Lyric Theatre That Belief Gives
 Sought Virtues.
MARY BAKER EDDY
 L.AUDED IN SPEECH
Lecturer Tells of Religion, ? Its Achievements and
 Hopes For It.


 Lyric theatre Sunday afternoon, Will liam R. Rathvon. C.N S. B., 1ectured onSEhristian Science and gave one of the most complete and illuminating addresses on the subject that has been heard here.
 He told of the basis. of Christian Science. its achievements and what it is hoped it will achieve. The bright ness. progress and abundance of good that each one longs for is afforded by Christian Science. he said.
 MT. Rathvon's lecture follows:
 A Christian Science lecture, like everything connected with Christian Science, is constructive It is designr ed to build up, not'only to pull down. It takes nothing away from anyone without giving something better in its place So have not come to attack orr to 'ridicuIe any ones religious be- IefS, or any one's system of medi- cine
 Nor is it a part of my mission to point out to you in detail the dangers that Turk in certain mental systems that are sometimes c1assed with Chris ] tian Science hut which are no more related to it than darkness is related to light, such as will power. hynot- ism, mesmerisms, auto-suggestions thonght transferences te1epathy, spir- itl14aisxns or any aOf the cults or schools 
 inAuenca of one human mind or hu- man will upon another. Christian n Science acknowledges and admits the existence of but one Mind and this Mind is God, the source of all good in man and the universe
 Al Christian Science lecture. how ever is not to be regarded as com plete exposition of the whole of Chris ttaa Science. The limited time as- si&ned prevents consideration of many of Nhe essentials to right living that have made it the greatest protective, restorative, and reformatIve agency of modern times
 But all these things and more are fully set forth in it's text book Science and Health, With Key to the Scrip tures," by Mary Baker Eddy, and this book I would commend to every one who would learn for himself at first hand the 1eachines and practices of Cnristia1 sc1eneg. Copy may be, obi- taff1ed through any Christian Scien- tia3 How comprehensive and inclus- i've is that book may be seen when I name to you the headings of some of it's chapters, as follows: Prayer; Atonenent and Eucharist; Marriage; Christian Science vs. sg Spiritualisn; ' Animal Magnetism Unmasked; Science, Theology, Medicine; Physi- oIogy; Footsteps of Truth; Creation; Science Of Being; Some Objections A4swered; Christian Science Practice; reaching Christian. Science; Recapit- a1ation.
 All of Christian Science is contained in that book. and whatever I may here give of some of it's teachings As but a small part of what is far better ex- pressed in the book itself.
 Since the day it was first offered to waiting world, it has been quietly ! ninistering to the spiritual and phy- ; sical needs of those who read it with ansopen mind
 l No one who believes in the truth, inspiration, and authenticity of the i Holy Scriptures can consistently oppose the doctrines of Christian Science, for from beginning to end they are found ed upon the Bible of our forefathers.
 Tn referring to her authorship of \ the text book, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy has said the Bible was her i only guide and authority. That she adhered to it closely is shown by the fact that study of Science and Health leads to a study of the Bible. No other religious deno1nination com prises so large a proportion of Bible students.
 Toxthe Christian Scientist, the Bible is no longer a fetich but a friend; no . longer a mere household ornament but a personal necessity. No longer does it speak to him with voice of reproach but with welcome words of heIpfulness.
 It is perhaps unnecessary to inform this audience that the discoverer and woman. Mary Baker Eddy. You may know, too, that for years she Iabored alone and unassisted-but a1ways-un- daunted and undismayed offering to an unwilling and unbelieving world that which she knew from the first
  healing the sick, and5 reforming the sinner
 You may know. too that at the time of life when most women are enjoy ing the well-earned fruitage of earlier years, the blessings of home, family and friends. she was deprived of them. Instead she endured the jeers of the fncredI1ous, the sting of cheap wit, and the anathemas of the bigoted.
 You may know, too that from the ranks of these same skepticaI, scoffing, and intolerant men and women the healing touch of divine Love later drew 9. great throng of those who to- day devoutIy and gratefully acknowl- edge fealty to the divine Science which they once rejected, for Christian Science has always lovingly appealed tc every phase of shining and suffering humanity. It knows no distinctions, it makes no exclusions. Mrs. Eddy has written into her book, Science ard Health, these comforting words of truth, Love is impartial and uni versaI in it's adaptation and bestow- als-" (P. 13-2.)
 Few of the worlds leaders of great movements, spiritual or material, have lived to see the contamination offtheir worthy ambitions their greatness ac- know1edged, their niche in history as- sured. Mrs. Eddy was one of the few to whom these things were accorded while she was still visibly with us It can be truly said that they never were regarded by her as personal triumpbs, btu rather as '-the evidence of divine minds healing power and absolute contro1.o 6S- & H. 177-5.)
 Like most great thinkers. Mrs. Eddy lived in a world all her own, and while she was aIertIY. interested in the