Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-02
PERFECT HEALING
LECTURE SUBJECT
Christian Science, Speaker Tells
of Miracles Performed in
Biblical Times
TRANSLATES SCRIPTURES
Asserts So-Called Mind Which
Includes Belief in Evil and
Disease Is False

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Professor Herman S. Herring, of
Concord, n. H.. lectured on Christian
Science last evening in the orpheum
| Theater under the auspices of the
local Christian Science Church. He
| was introduced by Roy E. Bignall and
| for an hour and quarter held the
undivided attention of his large audi
| ence. The lecture in full follows:
| Christ Jesus, the great physician.
the divine healer, has for all time set
the standard of perfect healing before
humanity. and that many do not yet
believe in his gospel results from
lack of understanding of the true ma
ture 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 to-day.
The gospels record many instances
of the healing of physical disease by
Christ Jesus and his disciples; he re-
lstored a withered hand, he healed an
{ impotent man and a man born blind;
he healed paralysis, dropsy, hemorrh-
age, leprosy, epilepsy and violent in
sanity, and he raised the dead.
In St. Matthew we read
And Jesus went about all Galilee,
teaching in their synagogues. and
preaching the gospel of the kingdom,
and healing all manner of sickness and
all manner of disease among the peo-
Pile. And his fame went throughout
! all Syria: and they bought unto him
| all sick people that we're taken with
divers diseases and torments, and
those which were possessed with
devils. and those which were lunaticS,
and those that had the palsy: and he
! healed them
And, behold, there came leper
and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if
thou wilt thou canst make me clean.
And Jesus put forth his hand, and
touched him, saying, I will; be thou
clean. And Immediately his leprosy
was cleansed."
Furthermore he specifically COM
manded his disciples that they should
lcontinue his healing work, counselinS
them.
And as We go. preach, saying, The
,kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal
tthe sick. cleanse the lepers. raise the
dead. cast out devils; freely ye have
received, freely give"
Verify, verify, I say unto you, He
that believeth on me. the works that
/ do shall he do also; and greater
I I go unto my Father"
Peter, John. Philip, Paul and other
followers healed paralysis, deformity,
insanity. lameness, and also raised
the dead, in connection with their mis-
sionary work: in fact healing was
lpracticed quite generally among the
early Christians.
.ScTfpturaI Teachings Not Understood
! Many have always believed these
! TEACHINGS and works but they have not
presumed to understand them, much
less have they thought to even under
! take to repeat them. They have ac-
cepted the Bible blindly and evidently
have not practically appPehended it's
inspiring truth. From the inception
H of Christianity. however, some have
striven to obey it's teachings and TO
I manifest the Christ spirit which brings
salvation from both sickness and sin.
EThis spirit was strongly in evidence IN
1.-THE healing works which characterized
the early church, until the time when
/ Christianity was engulfed in ritual
ism and Journalism and its vital spirit
was quenched
Even a partial recognition of the
demands made by the Masters teach
ines upon our life and conduct re-
veals their redemptive greatness and
supreme Importance. and these ques-
tions must appeal to every thoughtful
Christian. viz: whether or not it is
possible to obey these teachings;
whether they are true or not; if not
true, where is the basis of Chris
tianity, and. if true, why are not their
demands fulfilled? May it not be be-
cause they are not understood?
Many thinking people are beginning
to see as they have not before that
the healing work of the early church
lis possible to-day, although this heal
ing work rebukes the generally ac-
cepted supremacy of material law.
They perceive that there is such a
thing as spiritual law, a law apart
from physics. and begin to compre-
lhend that this divine law is and should
be sovereign over so-called physical
law, that it has dominion over what
is termed matter; and that in spite of
the prevailing educational bias of
materialistic thought which declares
THAT any existence apart from the
material cannot be conceived, it is
high time that the church awakened
out of its sleep and asserted its right
to the freedom of the children of God.
To the materially minded, matter and
material law are supreme. and tneN
have little belief in any power beyond
and apart from physics and less un-
lderstanding of it. Metaphysical power
is thought of as belonging to the
supernatural which the majority of
intellectual people reject, associatinS <
it as they do with mysticism and
superstition Asserted believers in the
Bible, however, cannot ignore the fact
that Christian healing was accom-
plished in Jesus time. by himself and
by his disciples, and later by his fol-
lowers for several centuries.
Scientific Basis of Healing
Admitting that this healing occur
rcd we can but see that IL was effect :
ed through the operation of law. and
that there must have been Principle
and a Science back of 1t. Moreover it
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