The Monte Vista journal., 1916-04-29
.,sr1aN SCIENCE LECTURE

House. Monte Vista, tuesday
ope'' uo was introduced by Adj.
'' n seckner, second reader. who
said in part: a ra.rs
,-,.,ne people every where nave
irving to answer the great ques-
tion pt propOunded by PLATE What is
Truth ., uo
.,ort as thinking people, are still
.aor to learn more about the ans
ver.
...oduce to you a Member of the
po.rd of Lectureship of the Mother
c,rrcb The First Church of Christ
ccantist. in Boston, Mass
SYNOPSIS of Mr. Bells lecture
follows:
The healing of disease is incidental
IN and not the prime object OF Christ
ian science. But because this is not
generally M recognized outside the
SShristian Science ranks, and because
tho healing is the phase most prom
;nent in public thought with regard
IN christian Science, and because the
hoalings do constitute important
nroof of the correctness of it's teach
mos If is pertinent to refer briefly
IN some of the evidence that Christ
ian Science does heal all manner of
disease.
The extraordinary growth of the
movement is in itself an impressive
Testimonial to the efficacy of its heal
linz. Although the first Christian
Science church was established less
than forty years ago, there are today
more than fifteen hundred such bod
les in various parts of the world.
While the largest numerical repre-
sentation is in the United States,
where Christian Science had it's be-
ginning, its churches are to be found
quite numerously in England, Cana
da, and Germany, and also in France.
Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Holland.
Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland,
South Africa, Australia, New Zeal
and, China, the Philippines, Argen-
tina, Mexico, Panama, the West In
dies and Bermuda. From virtually
every quarter come reports of con-
tlnuing and substantial growth, cor
roborative evidence of which is found
in the fact that the demand for the
authorized literature is increasing so
rapidly as to tax the constantly en-
larging publication facilities.
These data are cited because Of
their significance in the light of the
fact that this movement, which in so
brief period has become world wide
has been recruited largely from
among those who turned to it for
healing. The proposition of Christ
Ian Science from Its beginning has
been to all men, as it is to you, name
ly, that nothing need be accepted
with regard to it that cannot be dem
onstrated to satisfaction in the indi-
Vldual experience of the student.
christian Science has no means of
attracting or holding followers ex-
ctept Its superior ability to meet their
human needs, and if it had failed to
40 this to any appreciable extent the
closing chapter in its history would
nave been written long ago. So,
laeh, the rapid, widespread, and
steadily increasing growth of the
aoVement constitutes inferential evil
aehce OF a peculiarly forceful char
sc'er that Christian Science healing
Is a fact.
thousands Testify to Healing
lhen there is a mass of evidence
VI direct and particular nature to
W, W. round in the individual testimon-
,ts ,ts VI healing in the official publica
nun Tuas OF the Christian Science church
ina ,ne christian Science Journal. for
l%'sahce, lx "ii, has been published month
th,aa s,ace 1888, being now in it's thirty
San a,sa year, The Christian Science
uneH.lhei, w. issued every week, is in
tS0.a n eishteenth year. Each issue OF
mes rnese publications contains state
.an men's OF from eight to a dozen per
beaIoa" VINO ~. testify to having been
nla'ea Ts -. through Christian Science OF
ran.o m onas cover virtually the whole
ow Vi human suffering. If we al
tes,,ra conservative average of ten
|tbonies tba "s per issue. we arrive al
twolro eonclusion that more than
40 INV. thousand persons have beer
Sciennppr pressed with what Christian
Of hnev mas done for them in the wa,
set a,'ng ga, that they have voluntarily
ana W.. ~, tneir experiences in writine
over tSneu tSn; that these be published
forma.u,esir ueir own signatures for the in.
r,,, ,'oh OF their fellow men.
healinae ehce h OF Christian Science
occasiern nas been accepted on variou.
mitted,u' IN courts of law, being ad
Course om maGcurate and reliable. o.
reouireS I'Iclal records are not reall,
who wia, oy the average individua