The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-12-18
IN his address on Christian Science
at Eggan's hall last night, Prof Her.
mann S. Herring said:

at EgganS hall last night, Prof. Her
mann S. Herring said
Christ Jesus. the great physician the dvn
healer, has for all time set the standard O
perfect healing before humanity, and that man,
do not yet believe in his gospel results from
lack of understanding of the true nature ane
philosophy of the so-called miracles which h,
performed. His ethical teachings very gen
the spiritual records of the healing work a.
a part of his divine mission, meet with dis
sent from many of the cultured people of to
day, H.. ..o.d 49,. ;as..u e =,
healing Of physical disease by Christ Jesus ano
his disciples; he restored a withered hand, he
healed an important man and man borr
blind. he healed paralysis, dropsy hemorrh
and he raised the dead.
In St. Matthew read:
an their synagogues, and preaching the gospe
OF the kingdom, and healing all manner OF
sickness and all manner Of disease among
the people; And his fame went through al
people that taken with divers diseases
and torments, and those which possessed
with devils, and those which were 1unatick
and those that had the palsy; and he healed
them
And, behold, there came a leper and wor-
shipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou
st tam make d me torohnd mnd JESUS put
thou clean And Immediately his lprosy
was cleansed.''
furthermore he specifically commanded his
isciples that they should continue his healing
work, counseling them,
And as ye go, preach, saying, The king
dom of heaven is at hand. heal the SICK,
devils; freely ye have received, freely give. .
Verify, verify, say unto you, He that be-
lieveth on me, the works that I do shall he
dc also; and greater works than these shall
ne do, because l go unto my Father
Peter, John, Philip, Paul and other fol-
lowers healed paralysis, deformity, insanity,
larleness and also raised the dead, in con-
healing was practised quite generally among
the early Christians.
SCRIPTURAL TEACHINGS NOT UNDER
STOOD
Many have always believed these teachings
and works but they have not presumed to
understand them, much less have they thought
to even undertake to repeat them. They
have accepted the Bible blindly and evidently
have not practically apprehended its inspiring
truth. From the inception of Christianity,
however, some have striven to obey its teach
ings and to manifest the Christ spirit which
brings salvation from both sickness and sim
healing works which characterized the early
church, until the time when Christianity was
engulfed in ritualism and Journalism and its
vital spirit was quenched.
Even partial recognition of the demands
made by. the Masters teachings upon our life
and conduct reveals their redemptive greatness
must appeal to every thoughtful Christian, viz,
whether not it is possible to obey these
teachings; whether they are true or not; if
NOT true, where is the basis of Christianity,
and if TRUE, why are not their demands full
filed? May it not be because they not
sin derstood'
Many thinking people beginning to see as
they have not before that the healing work of
the early church is possible today although
this healing work rebukes the generally accept
ed supremacy of material law. They perceive
law apart from physics, and begin to conlpre-
bend that this divine law is and should be
sovereign 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
minded, matter and material claw
arr supreme, and they have little belief in any
of it. Metaphysical power. is
thought of belonging to the supernatural
which the majority of intellectual people re-
ject, associating it as they do with mysticism
Bible, however, cannot ignore the fact that
Christian healing accomplished in Jesus
time, by himself and by his disciples. and later
by his followers for several centuries /
SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF HEALING
Admitting that this healing occurred, we
car but see that it was effected through the
operation of law, and that there must have
been Principle and Science. back of it.
Moreover it is very evident that if these were
known and applied To-Day, the same healing
effects would follow.
Non-believers in the Bible and in what
called miracles deny the possibility of spiritual
power over material things because they do
not understand spiritual law, the Principle and
-ule involved. Some good people believe that
! mere phenomenal exhibition of divine or
;uperhuman power, and therefore make
Effort to relate Spiritual power to present hum
IN needs. Could they but realize that there
operates according to law, and quite regard
ess of time and place, they would see that
he physical changes accompanying Christian
lealing are due to the operation of this Prin-
Principle, law and operation constitute Sci
nee.
It is evident that Christ Jesus considered
his healing work very essential factor of
lis ministry indeed he made it test of
Christian discipleship, for he sail, Gle that
elieveth on me-. the works that do shall he
christian shall be able. to heal spiritually
;urely every Christian must desire to believe
4 and to practice Christian healing and there
y to accomplish much more than drugs and
urgery now do, while, freeing men from the
ear, pain, and risk of death, to- often at
ending surgical operation and the use Of drug !
ostruIns .
Most right minded persons, too would like
overcome evil with good # they nlly knew
CIV; most of us would like to overcoire our S
alings: and be right toward neighbrr. E
What we have not Known is this, that such d
ssilts follow naturally the knowledge HAT
GOD has more power than evil. Few real
lat the logical, the inevitable, sequence of an i
understanding of the Masters teachings and r
rict obedience thereto would bring about a e
sssation of all sorrow and sickness in the p
Grid.
All those who admit that Christian healing a
even desirable but welcome consid n
alton of what it would involve what it "
ould depend upon. Let us consider, there s
IRE, whether there is Science Principle r
I'd. law which can be applied and how this II
,p1icaton can be made. Let us inquire also G.
tat we can and must do with the prevailing S
lief in matter that greatest stumbling block ic
belief in the Bible and the fulhlment of its W
omises o.
PHENOMENA OF NATURE
To the students of nature, it becomes very ST
,dent that there is an intelligence operating OF
rough law, which explains the marvels of m
neral vegetable and animal formation, that al
ere is power or creative force, which is ~
ateriay interpreted in adhesion, cohesion is
ID attraction; that there is a, law whose ac- pi
titles are intmated in growth, atomic ag
egation structural formation and other I'll
enomena of the world about us. To human tn
nse there is creative, governing controlling q
wer or influence, called force energy, and in
substance called matter, in which this force &c
ems to inhere and through which it acts or