The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-06

SHoiSHp ne TIESt CHuICH OL CnIlSt Scientist, in Boston. delivered lectur at the Lyric theatre yesterday afternoon to capacity audience on Christian Science"
 The lecturer was introduced by MT John Sparrow, first reader of Firs Church of Christ, Scientist, of Birming ham, in the following words:
 Ladies and Gentlemen; Friends Speaking for First Church of Christ Scientist, under whose auspices this lee ture is given, and for all the Christian Scientists of Birmingham, desire to sa! we are glad indeed to have you with u this afternoon.
 Jesus said; 'Ye shall know the truti and the truth shall make you free. Chris tian Science is the truth about God ant man. It liberates those who are grooming under the yoke of sin. It pours balm into sorrowing hearts. It restores tC health and usefulness those who believe they are suffering from incurable dis eases. It lifts the curse of poverty meets every human need and silences al the discords of mortal life. Its mission is to heal and save. It has girdled the globe with light and blessed all it has touched.
 ''You will now hear, from a competent and authorized source, an explanation ot the teachings of Christian Science. It is my privilege to present to you MT. Bick- nell Young, C. s. B., member of the board of lectureship of the Mother church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass"
 MT. Young, the lecturer of the after noon, said:
 When Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science in the year 1866 and gave to her discovery that unique and original name which promises to the human race all that the ldealsts had ever associated with religion and much more than they had deemed humanly possible to 1t, she lifted science out of matter into spiritual truth, and connected it with God, which beyond doubt is its original and natural place and it's prl- mary and final relationship.
 This discovery marked a new era. Prior to that time all scientific research was material. It had not occurred to less gifted and less original thinkers that ideal ity was justified by the universal long ing for peace and happiness, and that the realm of aspiration, inspiration, reve- lation, mentality, spirituality, offered a legitimate field for inquiry and experi- mentation.
 Her discovery glorified truth and eX- alted human ideals She saw that such ideals are not merely Utopian. On the cha ara6q nd m the highest human ideals but dimly in dicate certain demonstrable facts which are not only the most beautiful but also the most practical that can be grasped by the human mind. For the first time in human history her discovery gave tangible value to ideality.
 She originated and carried out a scien- tific system of research peculiarly high and uplifting. Her discernment, investi- gation and test of spiritual facts culmi- mated in her discovery of that which all the world needs and really wants-the science of life, which she so aptly named Christian Science, and which she declares sis not a search after wisdom, but 1t IS wisdom. ."-Miscellaneous Writings, p. S64
 In a certain very beautiful sense every one must eventually carry on the same scientific research in relation to spiritual truth, and must learn to test that truth in the practical experiences and affairs of every day life.
 For this reason you who have honored us with your presence to listen to a lec- ture on Christian Science are immediately placed upon different footing than you would be in considering any other relig- ious movement or teaching. We shall not ask you to believe in Christian Science, nor indeed in anything else We shall not ask you to believe at all. We have not invited you for that purpose. The only thing we ask of you Is that you shall think. and think clearly, consecu- lively and logically. Indeed it need hardly be said that without logic there is no real thinking going on Therefore the reasoning faculty, that wonderful gift which differentiates men from brutes, that faculty which is the active function in all racial progress-it is that which is required in the study of Christian Science, and to that we appeal
 DISTINCTIONS DRAWN BY
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
 Life necessarily includes the phenom- ena of life in all Its aspects Christian Science being the science of life, noth- ing divine or human is ignored by it's teachings, but on the contrary proper and adequate provision Is made for the observation, classification and disposal of all phenomena and experiences.
 All systems of philosophy and religion practically agree that effects could not exist without cause. Christian Science agrees with many of them as to the na- ture of cause, though even in this re- spect it is far moro practical than they, but disagrees with them all as to the nature of all socalled effects. They on the one hand declare with Christian Sci ence that cause must be infinite and eternal, and at the same time they teach that all effects. however material, de- etructible or destructive. must have their source in the same infinite cause. Chris tian Science shows that such conclusions ere logically incorrect. It establishes the 1ncontrovertible fact that there are true and permanent phenomena in the uni verse, and by means of them, when un- derstood, it reveals divine Principle which concusively enables one to first recognize and then step by step dispose of phenomena which are not permanent, and which, consequently, in the last anal ysis, are not true. Material systems are often forced by their own processes and through their own proofs to question the reliability of things which they assume to be natural phenomena. Christian Science Is never placed and cannot be placed in any such an inconsistent atti- tude. because 1t is not based upon ephe- neral things. but upon permanent facts These are spiritual ideas. and they are necessarily indestructible and eternal. When they are recognized and under stood they are seen to be the foundation of true religion and pure science. and then the reasoning faculty itself ascends to It's serene altitude and serves to &C., complish glorious mission for mankind