Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-07
WHAT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
 SEEKS TO ACCOMPLISH.
Boston Speaker Says It Aims to Des-
 troy Erroneous Religious Beliefs.


 Before a large audience Virgil O..
 member of the board of lectureship of
 the mother church, the First Church of
 Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass, de-
 livered a lecture in Buckingham Mem
 orta1, Friday evening, under the aus
 pices of the Christian Science Society
 of Norwich.
 Miss Sarah P. Browning introduced
 the speaker, MT. Stricker, who said in
 part:
 As is becomes more generally un- derstood that through the ministry of Christian Science people are being healed of sickness. sin, uphappineSs, worry, fear, and other discordant con- ditions, there is an ever-incrcasing desire upon the part of the general public to learn how these results are accomplished. It is the purpose of l this lecture to explain how Christian l Science does these things. There is no mystery about Christian Science healing, nor is it difficult to under stand. II can be stated without any | reservation whatever that every per | how to heal sickness and to destroy the desire to sin for himself and oth- CTS through Christian Science. In approaching the investigation of l this subject one should do so with an open mind. Christian Science is pre- | ducing certain very definite and very beneficial results, and it behooves- ev- | cry thinking person to try to under stand how they are accomplished. No progress will be made by closing ones eyes to the facts and blindly denying . their existence. Neither will it serve any useful purpose to attempt to min- imfze what Christian Science has al- ready accomplished. The honest in vestigator who desires to know the truth about the matter will take the
 case as it stands. He will waste no time in fruitless pickering over estab-
 lished facts, but will strive to under
 stand how the healing and regenera-
 tion are brought about.
 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-
 tioners those os 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 a few of them have left their
 pulpits to become Christian Science
 practitioners. These facts are worthy
 of serious consideration.
 If 1t is true that Christian Science
 is teaching people how to rise above
 slnfuI appet1teS and desires, and how to be healthy and happy, then surely it is the greatest and most vital thing that can engage human thought That Christian Science does these things to some extent at least is no longer an open question, and the proof of 1t is to be found in the practical benefits that have come to it's adherents. Many Different Religious Beliefs. Another fact that should be taken into account by every earnest investi- gator of Christian Science is that l there are many different kinds of re- ligions in existence at the present | time. It is said that there are more than two hundred different kinds of | the Christian religion alone, not to mention the hundreds of other forms of religions that are not Christian. l It is fact that people do entertain widely differing religious beliefs. Tn many instances the differences are ir- l reconcilable, and yet every one be- | 1eves with all of the sincerity of which he is capable that his own par l t1cular beliefs are true. It must be l conceded that, in the main, all peo- l pie are equally honest and equally | sincere in their religious beliefs The
 only reason why they are grouped to- l gether in different forms of religions | is because they honestly believe that | through their own particular form of l religion they will find the good which 1 they so earnestly desire.
 | AS one considers the subject of re- l lfgion from this broad viewpoint it l becomes entirely plain that most of ! the people in the world are beJieviOg