The daily Alaskan., 1917-08-20
A LECTURE 0N CHRISTIAN
 SCIENCE
By Virgil o. strickler, 0. s. B.
Member of the Board of Lecturship Of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Bos-
 ton, Mass.

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 gil O. stricAer, c. S, B., Friday night 10 the people of Skagway.
 MT, Strickler in his lecture said;
 As i: becomes more generally un- derstood that LhrousR the ministry. or Christian Science people are be- ing healed ot sickness, sin, unhap- p1uess, worry, rear, and other alS- cordant conditions, there is an sIer- increasing desire upon the part ot Che general public to leirn how these results are accomplished. IL is the purpose of this lecture to explain now Christian Science does these things. There is no mys- tery about Christian Science heal jug, HOT is iI difficult to understand It can be stated without any res erYati,n 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 him self and otAera though Christian Science. ..-....-
 Many Different Religious Beliefs
 It IS said that there are more than two hundred different kinds ot the Christian religion alone, not to mention the hundreds of other forms ofreIigions that are not Chris tian. l. js a fact that people do entertain widely differing religious beliefs. h many instances the differences are irreconcilable, and yeI every one believes with all of Che sincerity Of which he is capable that ais own particular bedefs are true. It must be- conceded that, in the main, all people are equally honest and equally sincere in their religious beliefs. The only reason why they are grouped together in different forms Of religions is be- cause they honestly believe that through their own particular form of religion they will find the good which they 50 earnestly desire
 As one considers the Bub1eC' or religion from this broad viewpoint it becomes entirely plain that most of the people in the world are be- ueYing as their religion many things that are not true.
 EYory one will recognize not only tho desirabiIity, but the neces- sity, Of exchanging false and er- roneous beliefs about religious mat ters for positive truth. In no other way can he grow spiritually.
 True religion consists of spiritual truth, and not of erroneous beliefs; hence it follows that ones religion is limited to the amount of spirit ual truth he knows, and that er- roneOus religious beliefs are only so many delusions that serve no other purpose than to obstruct spiritual growth.
 Christian Science aims to destroy erroneous religious beliefs by sub- stituting a knowledge Of truth in place, thereof, and to destroy out of the human mind all evil quail ties by planting good qualities in their stead. It wages relentless warfare against all wrong mental qualities. It seeks to substitute love in place of hate, unseltishness in place of selfishness, honesty in place of dishonesty, and truth in place of error. It lays tremendous emphasis upon the necessity for bringing into captivity every tho't to the obedience of Christ" (II. Cor. X, 5 as the Bible commands. It shows that the cause of all disease and sin is mental, and not physical, and that both sickness and sin are destroyed by the evangelical tion of the human mentality with truth and love. It teaches without any reservation whatever that the truth taught and practiced by Jesus, when understood and applied, is sufficient without drugs or any ma tsrial means to heal the sick and the sinner, and Chris tian Scientists everywhere are en- gagged daily in demonstrating and proving this to be true.
 Every student of religion should begin to give heed to what the Bible teaches concerning the i'm. portance of looking to the mental rather than to the physical for deliYerance from man discord. We read in Romans viii, 6, z, "To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind Is enmity against God; for it Is not subject to the law of Geda neither, \