The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-01-25

Spokane, Wash, delivered a lectur
on the subject of Christian Science
Sunday evening at the Ideal theater
Judge Richards of Boise introduces
the speaker. DR.. Hubbard, who is
member OF the Board of Lectureshil
of The First Church Of Christ, Sci
enlist, in Boston, Mass, said;
There has never been time in hu
man history when men have moi
yearned for some sure way to be rio
of those conditions of body and mine
which have destroyed their happiness
or kept them from the full enjoyment
Of life and peace. They have turned
from one material method to another
in the vain search for physical relief
too often to be told that there was no
further hope. They have found il
impossible TO escape in any great de-
gree from sorrow or worry, discord
or despair, until they have come TO
believe that these conditions must in
large measure be endured. More and
more through this failure to be rid
of their sicknesses and woes have
men been turning away from mater
iality and cropping for something
more satisfying to meet their needs.
They have often prayed to God for
healing when in sickness or distress,
but only occasionally did the healing
come, and then it was thought that
God had set aside the existing order
of things for the one occasion and as
a special mark of favor. IL has only
been since the advent of Christian
Science that primitive Christian heal
ing has been restored to the world,
and we are learning through the un-
Outstanding of the Principle of
Christian Science and the application
of its rules, that we may confidently
expect healing in every case, and that
there is a spiritual law sufficient for
every material condition.
Christian Science was discovered
and founded by Mary Baker Eddy,
woman of unusual spirituality and of
deep religious sense. She was
consistent and tireless analytical stu
deut, and through years marked by
sickness and trials her deep religious
sense led her to strive to see and to
understand the divine Principle in
every benefit which she received. This
persistent search for Truth was re-
warded by the discovery of the divine |
laws of God, which she named Chris
tian Science.
For three years following her dis
covery Mrs. Eddy devoted all of her |
time to deep study of the Scriptures
seeking solution of this problem.
These are her own words (Science and
Health, p. 1897: 81 knew the Prin-
ciple of all harmonious Mind-action
TO be God, and that cures were pro-
duced in primitive Christian healing
by holy, uplifting faith; but | must
know the Science of this healing, and
won my way to absolute conclusions
through divine revelation, reason and
demonstration. The revelation of
Truth in the understanding came to
me gradually and apparently thro d.
vine power"
To have discovered Gods law of
healing as taught and practised by
Iesus and his followers meant that
Mrs. Eddy must have approached the
Scriptures with such a thought of God
Is Love that she saw it was imposs- /;
lie for God to do less than to provide
III good for His children, and such a
of God as Truth that {
he knew Gods truth was revealed.
Mrs. Eddy's study of the Scriptures
evealed the fact that the entire Bible
ecord teaches conclusively that
light understanding Of God has al
Ways brought dominion over all ma
erial conditions, and that when the
of Truth has been correct
Y applied it has always been attend q
d by healing and regeneration. The t
scriptures abound in evidence that q
o understand God brings healing. Es- =
ecially is the New Testament replete v
nth the statements Of the liberty h
hat comes thro "a right apprehension Y
( Him whom TO know Alright is Life il
ternal" (Science and Health, Pref, o
. viii. {
The fact that healing and the a
of Truth by which we are a
} get it has been passed over as not X
leant for this time or for all man G
ind, has been due to no fault of the G
ible in presenting it, but TO our at 9
tude of thought in approaching it.
eeause we had been educated TO be- d
eve that physical healing must be
rot about by material means, we had q
Of deemed it possible that God had n
rovided spiritual healing from sick II
sss and every form of error, so we II
studied the Bible with b.
lie view of substantiating our pre- ci
,nceived notions about what il ought &
teach. c,
We are led thro the study of Chris W
an Science TO try to stop viewing N
an as sick and SHINING, and to ac- n
pit the fact Of his righteousness and a,
which is insisted upon thru IL
1t the Bible, and to undertake to u
anifest this dominion over all things. e.
o most Of us the body, with its many u
rms Of sickness and error. seems 81
need most immediate attention az
rst, because il has such a vast num- M
sr Of sicknesses 20 which it lays
aims; and second, because the his al
ny Of material means for the allie n
alton Of these troubles shows them er
have been almost complete fail il
re. say almost complete failure, CT
.cause the latest remedy and the m
test method, the ones that have I'll
placed last years remedy and last en-
sar's method, have not as yet been an
oven useless: but the history Of the pi
lst hundreds OF years will repeat it.
II, and next years material means CO