The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-06-10
MRS. EDDY TAUGHT
SAME LAWS
AS.JESUS
Christian Scientist Lecturer Ex-
plains Spiritual Law
At HIGH SCHOOL LAST EVENING
knowledge of Spiritual Truth Delivers
from Every Evil Condition Claims
Virgil o. strlckler.


board of lectureship of the Mother
church in Boston, delivered an inter
esting address on Christian Science in
high school hall Friday evening to an
audience comfortably filling the audi
torium.
The speaker knew his subject. and
his manner of delivery was smooth and
cultured He came to Bennington un-
der the auspices of the local church
of Christ Scientists. For an hour and
a half he talked in easy, interesting
manner on the theories on which Chris
tian Science is based.
The main portion of his address fol-
lows:
AS it becomes more generally under
stood that through the ministry of
Christian Science people are being
healed of sickness, sin, unhappiness,
worry fear, and other discordant con
ditions, there is an ever-increasing de-
sire upon the part of the general pub
lie to learn how these results are ac-
complshed. 1t was the purpose of this
lecture to explain how Christian
Science does these things. There is no
mystery about Christian Science heal
ing, nor is it difficult to understand. 1t
can be stated without any reserya-
tion whatever that every person who
is willing to do so may learn how to
heal sickness and to destroy the desire
to sin for himself and others through
Christian Science
In approaching the investigation of
this subject one should do so with an
open mind. Christian Science is produc
ing certain very definite and very
beneficial results, and it behooves
every thinking person to try to under
stand how they are accomplished.
Both in the medical profession and
among the clergy there are many such
open-minded students, with the result
that some eminent physicians are now
sending to Christian Science practi-
TONERS those of their patients who do
not recover under medical treatment;
while many clergymen are openly de
claring from their pulpits that the
fruits of Christian Science are good
and not few of them have left their
pulpits to become Christian Science
practitioners. These facts are worthy
of serious consideration.
If it is true that Christian Science is
teaching people how to rise above sin
full appetites and desires, and how tc
be healthy and happy, then surely il
is the greatest and most vital thing
that can engage human thought That
Christian Science does these things tC
some extent at least is no longer an
open question, and the proof of it is tC
be found in the practical benefits that
have come to its adherents.
Although the healing of physical ant
mental diseases by spiritual means
was widely practiced, both in Ole
Testament and New Testament times
and was expressly commanded by
Jesus, and although Christian Science
during the last so years has actual!
healed in this way large numbers o
people from all kinds of physical ant
mental diseases, there are still a grea
many people who honestly find i
difficult to understand how it is pos
sibe for the sick to be healed withou
drugs, and entirely by spiritual means
Even among those who profess to be
lieve in the Bible and in the omnipo
tence of God, there are many who hav'
honest doubts that the power of Go,
is sufficient or available to delive
from sickness, and these doubts oftel
prevent the effort to gain an under
standing of the way by which spiritua
healing is accomplished
To all such it can be said that Jesu
healed the sick without drugs, ant
what is more important to us, h
taught other people how to do so, thu
proving that his method of healin
physical disease by spiritual mean
could be taught to others, and under
stood and practiced by them.
Later these same disciples taugh
the Principle of spiritual healing whic
they had learned from Jesus to thet
own disciples and history shows tha
on down through period of about te
generations the healing of the sick h
spiritual means continued to be pa
of the regular ministry of the Chri
ton church, and that the dead wei
raised during the first and second ce
turies. Moses and the prophets all
healed the sick and raised the dea
and did many other wonderful worl
in demonstration of the power of spil
to meet human needs, and the o
Testament is filed with such
stances
1t will thus be seen that the know
edge of spiritual truth, and the meth
OF its application to deliver peor
from sickness, sin, and every kind
evil human condition has reappear
upon the earth at many times, and
is claimed for Christian Science tn