The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-02-26
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
LECTURE ATTENDED
BY LARGE NUMBER

DeIng present, virgil ~. Sbr1ckIer, u. |
S., of the board of lecturship of the
mother church the First Church of
Christ Scientist, Boston, lectured in
the Universalist church yesterday
afternoon at o'clock. He was in
troduced by Miss Kate McCord Smith
and his address, in part, follows;
As it becomes more generally an
derstood that through the ministry of
Christian Science people are being
healed of sickness, sin. unhappiness.
worry, fear, and other discordant con-
ditions, there is an ever-increasing
desire upon the part of the general
public to learn how these results are
accomplished. It is the purpose of
this lecture to explain how Christian
Science does these things. There is
no mystery about Christian Science
healing, nor is it difficult to under
stand. 1t can be stated without any
reservation whatever that every per-
son who Is willing TO do so may
learn how to heal sickness and to
destroy the desire to sin for himself
and others through Christian Science.
In approaching the investigation of
this subject one should do so with an
open mind. Christian Science is pro-
ducing certain very definite and very
beneficial results, and it behooves
every thinking person to try to I'M
derstand how they are accomplished.
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
practitioners those of their patients
who do not recover under medical
treatment; while many clergymen are
openly declaring from their pulpits
that the fruits of Christian Science
are good, and not few of them have
left their pulpits to become Christian
Science practitioners. These facts
are worthy Of serious consideration.
IF it is true that Christian Science
is teaching people how to rise above
sinful appetites 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 it
is to be found in the practical 'bene-
fits that have come to its adherents.
Altlo6gh the healing of physical
onl mental diseases by spiritual
means was widely practiced, both in
Old Testament and New Testament
times and was expressly commanded
by sesu5 and. although Christian
Science during the last fifty years
Eas actually healed in this way large
numbers of people from all kinds of
physical and mental diseases, there
ave stir a great many people who
honestly find it difficult to under
stapd how it is possible for the sick
TO he healed without drugs, and en-
fiycly. BIZ spiritual means. Even
among those who profess to believe
in the Bible and in the omnipotence
of God, there are many who have
honest doubts that the power of Goo
IS sufficient or available to deliver
from sickness, and these doubts otter
prevent the effort to gain an under
standing of the way by which spirit
ual healing is accomplished.
To all such it can be said that
Jesus healed the sick without drugs
and, what is more important to US
he taught other people how to DE-
so. thus proving that his method Of
healing physical disease by spiritua
means could be taught to others, and
understood and praeticed by them.
Later these same disciples taught
the principle of spiritual healing
which they had learned from Jesus
10 their own disciples, and history
shows that on down through a per
iod of about ten generations the heal
ing of the sick by spiritual means
continued to be part Of the regular
ministry of the Christian church, and
that the dead were raised during the
first and second centuries. Moses anc
the prophets also healed the sick anC
raised the dead and did many other
wonderful works in demonstration Of
the power or spirit TO meet human
needs, and the Old Testament is fiIleC
with such instances.
It viii thus be seen that the knowl
edge of spiritual truth, and the me
thod of its application to deliver PEG
pie from sickness, sin and every kinC
Of evil human condition has reappear
ed upon the earth at many times, an,
It is claimed for Christian Scienc
that it is the temperance in on
own generation of the understandin,
of the same spiritual law that wa
kpown and understood in part b,
Moses and the prophets, and which
was perfectly understood by Jesus
and by him taught to his disciples
There is no mystery about it, and tn
results produced by Christian Scienc
are the results which have Away
fnlIovad and must necaSsopil1, e.