The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-17
| CTURES. ON CHRISTIAN
 SCIENCE

in the Empress theatre by Prof. Her man s. Herring. c. c. S. B.. Of Con cord. N. H. The theater was crowded Prof. Herring, who is a member of the board of iectureship of the Mother Church. the First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston. outlined the foun dation of the science of Christian heal ing.
 Christ Jesus, the great physician the eivine healer. has for all time set the standard of perfect healing before humanity" he said, "and that many do not yet believe in his gospel results from a lack of understanding of the true nature and philosophy of tho so. called miracles which he performed. His ethical teachings are very gen, orally accepted even by agnostics: al though the spiritual records of the headings work as part of his divine mission meet with dissent from many of the cultured people of today"
 Judge E. F. Medley introduced Prof. Herring in welLchosen words. He said:
 "In the last half of the century a book, entitled Looking Backwards" |" was written by a famous Socialist. This book was presumably the experi- ences of a man who had. in some mi raculous way passed over a hundred years. of life into the latter part of the present century and the volume dealt with the wonderful changes in the manner of living of the people. They had so far advanced fin all ma terial things that they considered in amazement the habits and customs of the people of the present day. And we. reading that book, now would view with equal amazement the remarkable material progress which the book fore saw.
 1 About the time this book was written, a woman, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. was teaching along new lines of religious thought, looking at the Bible with a fresher vision than the older theologians, and spreading the gospel of healing through right think ing and right living. To the ordinary person of that time, Mrs. Eddy and her book, Science and Health" were far more visionary than Edward Bel lamy, the author of Looking Back wards" Yet, within a few short years l Christian Science as taught by Mrs. Eddy has become a living, vital force to over a million people in the United States alone, while we are almost as far away as ever from the wonderful things which Bellamy predicted.
 "I am not a Christian Scientist. nor can I pretend to speak with authority upon the subject. Rather should l be numbered among the large majority of our citizens who, while essentially fair-minded, have not, from a variety of reasons. sufficiently examined Chri- tian Science to either accept 1t or re- l ject 1t. But we all must admit the re- markable progress the teachings of Mrs. Eddy have made as shown by the spread of Christian Science all over the world.
 New things are looked upon ask ance by most of us. We are essential l ly conservative and prone to criticize those with courage enough to enun- ciate new truths. Yet if what they speak Is the truth in the end they must prevail. Jesus Christ was crucf 1 fled because he was looked upon as radical by the people of his day. Lincoln won a martyrs crown be- 1 cause of his heroic espousal of aboli- tion. Yet today slavery Is an abomi- nation in the minds of us all, and Christianity has revolutionized the l world.
 "Who knows but what in time Mrs. 1 Eddy will not be equally well accept ed as one of the great benefactors of the human race through the banish- ment of sickness and sin by her teach ings? In any event. the fact that a great mass of the thinking and intel ligent people of our own race are ai- ready following the path she blased, should at least lead us to grant the advocates of Christian Science a re- | spectful and impartial hearing. Christ said: "He that beiieveth in me. the works that I do, shall he do aiso." This is a simple statement and easily understood. Christ healed the sick. and even brought the dead to life. With the force of his example before us we should all listen with earnest ness and attention to the gentleman