Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-10
DELIVERS LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Virgil O. Strickler, member of the
board of lectureship Of the Mother
Church of the First Church Of Christ,
Scientist, Boston, on Thursday and
Friday nights, delivered lecture on
Christian Science at the First Church
of Christ, Scientist, in Rock Island.
MIR. Stricken in his lecture said:
"As it becomes more generally I'M
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. 1t is the purpose OF
this lecture 10 explain how Christian
Science does these things. There is
no mystery about Christian Science
healing. nor is it difficult to under
stand. It 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.
att is said that there are more than
two hundred different kinds Of the
Christian religion alone, not to men
ton the hundreds of other forms of
religions that are not Christian. 1t
is a fact that people do entertain
widely different religious beliefs, In
many instances the differences are If
reconcilabIe, and yet every one he
lieves with all of the sincerity OF which
he is capable that his own particular
beliefs are true. It must be conceded
that, in the main. all people are equally
honest and equally sincere in their re
iigious beliefs The only reason why
they are grouped together in different
forms Of religions is because they hon
estly believe that through their own
particular form of religion they viii
find the good which they SO earnestly
desire.
AS one considers the subject Of re-
iHgiOn from this broad viewpoint il be
comes 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 re-
/ 1igious beliefs are only so many de-
/ Iusi0ns that serve no other purpose
| than to obstruct spiritual growth
! Christian Science aims TO destroy
I erroneous religious beliefs by suhsii-
tuting knowledge Of truth in place
i thereof, and to destroy out of the hui
man mind all evil qualities by planting
good qualities in their stead 1t wages
relentless warfare against all wrong
mental qualities Ii seeks To substj-
/ tute love in place of hate, unselfish-
ness i'll place Of selfishness, honesty
/ in place of dishonesty, and truth in
+ place of error. 1t lays tremendous en-
phasis upon the necessity Tor bring
/ ing into captivity every thought to the
/ obedience of Christ" III Cor. x, 81 as
+ the bible commands. 1t shows that
the cause of all disease and sin is men
tai, and not physical. and that both
sickness and sin are destroyed by the
evangelizatiOn of the human mental
( ity with truth and love It teaches
without am reservation whatever that
/ the truth taught and practiced by