River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-02-10
LECTURES ABOUT
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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physical injury and had reached a
condition for which human know
ledge offered no relief. She was
wonderfully blessed in divine help,
and she knew that hers was not a
fortuitous healing nor a special dis
pensation of God, but that it was in
accordance with Gods laws and
therefore such blessing is available
| for all in need of it. She spent the
remainder Of her years in acquiring
an understanding Of Gods laws,
their application to human needs,
and the giving of this understanding
to others. AS a result Of her work
we have her discovery in Christian
Science.
Relief from physical distress may
be the first blessing Christian Science
brings to the sufferer, but it has
greater blessings for all, and this
evenings lecture will give some view
of these blessings.
Through experience and practice
our lecturer is we'll qualified to full
fill his mission. know we will be re-
paid for close attention to what he
has to say, and | am pleased to in
troduce DR.. Francis j. Fluno, C. S.
D., of Oakland, California, member
Of the Board of Lectureship of the
Mother Church, the First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston Massa-
chusetts."
DR.. FIuno spoke as follows:
The claims of Christian Science
on the modern world are the claims
Of Christian Science on the prehistor-
ic age, the ancient age, the medieval
age, the present age, and the ages to
come.
1T makes no new claims on the
modern world; it's claims are only
new to the limited sense, the finite
vision, and the Observation-Disclosures
perception.
THE average man, until awakened
by divine science, is mainly in his
swaddling clothes, whose horizon is
marked by the age in which he lives;
or, more limited in his life and living
sees only to the boundaries of. his
own few years; or, still more limited,
sees the way to live, and the ways of
life only in his own immediate bust
ness, church or creed.
IF anything new comes to him he
is apt to deem it some insane or fool
ish inconsistency; some infringement
upon the Scriptures, or some new at
tempt of the evil one to win him
from his God.
christian Science is not a discov-
cry of truth that never was known
before; on the contrary, it is redis-
covery Of truth that is ever new,
and yet is ever old.
1T is as new as theinfant thought,
and as old as the Ancient of Days. It
was, before Jesus was born in Beth
lehem. Before Abraham was, was
Christian Science; yea
Before the infant earth was Graded
in the sun,
The Science of being spoke, from her
eternal throne.
Twill ever be new, twill ever be old;
Twill ever be telling, twill never be
told.
The century bells are ringing it in,
Eternity's bells are tolling it on.
If one shall say, My religion is
the religion, because it is the oldest
religion on earth, and my church is
the church, because it is the first
church militant, then must Science
say, My religion is the religion, be-
cause it is religion itself; and is
therefore the religion Of heaven and
earth; and is as old as God the Faith
er is; and my church is the church,
because it is the church triumphant;
| the church of the everything God,
and the co-eXistent man.. "a
Continued next week.