Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-06-28
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE
BY John Randall Dunn, Z. B., Mem.
ber of the Board of Lectureship
of the Mother Church, The
First Church OF Christ Sci
enlist, in Boston, Mass.

dress On Christian Science, by the
speaker named above. A large dele
cation was present from Twin Falls,
and other surrounding towns were
represented. Mr.. Dunn is pleasant
speaker and commanded deep inter-
est from his hearers throughout the
entire lecture. The speaker was i'll
troduced by k. 5. Feurtado, OF this
place, and spoke as follows:
l have chosen for the subject Of
my remarks, Christian Science: The
supreme Discovery OF the Age" 70
some OF you such classification may
seem arbitrary. may appear even pre-
sumptuous. But d few moments
consideration OF the great subject OF
Christian Science, its origin, its pro-
mise, and It's frultage, should not fail
10 convince the most skeptical that
the revelation OF this truth 10 the
world may well be denominaed The
Supreme Discovery OF The Age And
IL is not an eXtrayagant statement TO
say that II Is vastly more important 10
the human family than the most not
able achievements chronicled in the
realm OF natural science or human
invention, Tor 1t concerns you and ME
more than the discovery OF the thous-
| and and one maryels which on all
sides spring TO our service at the
touch OF button or the motion OF
d lever.
Material Achievement Inadequate.
The world has made marvellous
strides in the subjugation of the cleo
trio current, but mas ii made proper
uonate progress in the subjugaJion
OF animality, OF hate, of greed? Geo.
logists have laid bare the great min
eral heart OF the earth and from
its depths have taken an eyer-increas-
ing store of treasure. But has hu-
man ingenuity developed any inyen-
tion whereby fear and sorrow and dis
couragement may be extracted from
the human heart? The efforts OF a
sef-sacri1icing body of medical men
are bringing 10 light every conceiv-
able material theory for the alleyia-
tion oil human sunering. And yet
the underlying cause OF disease seems
untouched, and frightened humanity
is still confronted with a terrifying
list OF so-called incurable diseases.
The human mind has been taxed TO
discover new luAuries and new modes
oil amusement, to keep pace with
mortals' tickle and eyer-changing de-
mands. But can it be said that its
accomplishment along these lines has
brought TO the famished affections
anything that truly satisfies, any
thing that brings abiding peace and
happiness? Jesus said, What shall 1t
profit man if he shall gain the
whole world and lose his own soul?"
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1t should not seem unreasonable to
anticipate that an age which has
brought forth such material marvels
should also witness the breaking OF
greater spiritual light. To this
thought however, the average man
comes with more or less caution. He
willingly suplants his grandfather
candle with q modern incandescen,
lamp. unblushingly prefers an auto
mobile TO an ox-cart, and yet hesitat.
es to accept the thought that be
should expect advancement along the
line of spiritual embodiment as well
as advancement in the realm of ma
terial. He probably tells you that
the religion of his fathers is good
enough for him, and on this point he
will find no argument with a Chris
tian Scientist, for the religion OF the
fathers is good enough for him If by
the fathers he means the early Chris
tian fathers. The religion of Jesus
and the early Christians, the religion
which was evidenced by the healing
of the sick, the stilling of the tenn
pest, and the feeding of the multi
tude. is indeed good enough for all
mankind; in fact, ii is the only pan
acea that is good enough for the ach-
ing heart of man. And ii is TO this
selfsame religion of Jesus that Chris.
tian Science, this great twentieth.
century religious movement, turni
the sick and weary of earth.
Christian Science is not a modern
philosophy, not the product of fer
tile human brain" 1t is the revela-
ton of the spiritual facts of being
the revelation of the truth about God
and man taught by Jesus and the
prophets, and it is all to be found
in the Bible.
The Path Marked by Jesus.
Have you ever seen in the noun
tains "blazed" trail? A large piece
of bark is cleft from a tree, and this
operation is repeated on other trees
at frequent intervals throughout the
length of the trail. No matter how
the trees may grow, the "blaze" re
mains, and SO the trail is marked
out for generations to come. Wher
the world seemed immersed in the
materialism of Jewish theology anC
Roman paganism, there appeared on,
whose mission was to point the way
to spirituality, to deliverance anC
healing, and he "blazed" a trail tC
the Fathers house so plain, so sim
pie that a child could follow it. Bu
in after centuries fast growing weeds
of ritual and human doctrines, o
political power and ecclesiastical
worldliness, obscured the trail, anC
mortals seemed content to follow tn,
devious paths of creeds until in oul
time a woman-pilgrim came upon 4
and gave to her discovery the nam,
Christian Science. or the Science o
Christianity, and she rested not un
til she had written n book showing
you and me how to find il. Thii
guide-book is called "Science ant
Health with Key to the Scriptures,
and is the textbook which Christian
Scientists use In connection with thei
manual of life, the Bible.
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