The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06

S'.rh.,r. C. x F.. Member of 1h" Board of LectureshIp of The Mother Church. The First Church Of Christ, Scientist. ln Boston. Massachusetts For nearly TWO hours profound atten- tton was paid to the remarks Of the lecturer, showing the interest in the subjec, taken by the audience MT Smck.o~ was introduced by Mir. Guy B Erwin. who spoke as follows:
 Friends. you have been invited 10 listen this evening 10 lecture on Christian Science and il is in deed gratifying To see so many show Ing un interest in this new, yet old, religion
 "Thore Is no religion today that more closely adheres to the teach ings Of the Scriptures than does Christian Science. and especially that which the Master taught and com mandcd to His followers. Christian Science anirms that Gods Law is unchanEing. never held in suspen- sion, and k the same yesterday. to- day and forever hat God is, as the Bible declares. the Father above,
 With whom k no yariableness, neither shadow Of turning that W hat was true in Jesus time is true today and that the works He did may be done again and it is this understanding of divine Principle which heals today as it healed in the days ot the Master. and as it always will heal when correctly applied
 The world already owes much to Christian Science. for it's wonderful message bringing this ministry of healing and salvation to a people ln bondage to the creeds, doctrines and lme-honored systems of ma rcrial age. and the debt grows in proportion |. as the enlightenment spreads
 As earnest seekers after Truth, Christian Science Society of Fair banks welcomes you to this lecture, which is only one of the means adopted for bringing d correct state ment of Christian Science to public attention. and to give intelligent in formation concerning it. Christian Science does not ask more than a privilege 10 be heard for what it teaches and does, and each one who investigates with a desire to learn the truth about it can then judge for himself
 The subject we are to consider and the questions involved go to the very heart of human affairs, are vital to all mankind, and merit the attention of the most profound thinkers"
 Mir Strickler in his lecture said:
 As il becomes more generally un- derstood that through the ministry of Christian Science people are being healed of sickness, sin, unhappiness, worry, fear, and other discordant conditions, there is an ever-inCreas- ing desire upon the part of the gen eral public to learn how these results are accomplished. II is the purpose of this lecture to explain how Chris lian Science does these things. There is no mystery about Christian Science healing, nor is it difficult to under stand IL can be stated without any reservation whatever that every per son who is willing 10 do so may learn how to heal sickness and to destroy the desire to sin for himself and others through Christian Science.
 Many Different Religious Beliefs.
 It Is sH. that there are rlO"r than two hundred different kinds of the Christian religion alone, not 10 men ton the hundreds of other forms of religions that are not Christian It is fact that people do entertain widely differing religious beliefs. In many instances the differences are irrecOncilable, and yet every one be licves with all of the sincerity of which he is capable that his own par ticular beliefs are true. IL must be conceded that, in the main, all people are equally honest and equally sin cere in their religious beliefs, The only reason why they are grouped together in different forms of reli- gions is because they honestly be lieyp that through their own parlcu- lar form of religion they will find the good which they so earnestly desire.
 As one considers the subject of re ligion from this broad viewpoint it becomes entirely plain that most of the people in the world are believing as their religion many things that are not true.
 True religion consists of spiritual truth, and not of erroneous beliefs; hence it follows that ones religion is limited to the amount of spiritual truth he knows, and that erroneous religious beliefs are only so many de luSiOnS that serve no other purpose than to obstruct spiritual growth.
 Christian Science aims to destroy erroneous religious beliefs by Substi- tuting d knowledge of truth in place thereof, and to destroy out of the hu- man mind all evil qualities hy plant ing good qualities in their stead. It wages relentless warfare against all wrong mental qualities. It seeks to sub jtitute love in place of hate, un selnshneSs in place of SelflShncsS honesty in place Of dishonesty, and truth in place of error. It lays tre mendous emphasis upon the necessity for bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ, QI. Cor. X, 5 as the Bible commands II shows that the cause of all al seaSe and sin is mental. and not phy sical, and that both sickness and sir are destroyed by the evangelzatior of the human mentality with trutf and love It teaches without any reservation whatever that the truth taught and practiced by Jesus, wher understood and applied, is sufficient without drugs or any material mean: