Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-05-24
Discusses the Healing Feature of
Christian Science to Baraboo
Audience Sunday Afternoon
SPEAKER SAYS THERE
ARE THREE MODES OF
HEALTNG--DEFINES THEM
Christian Science Heals Sin in the
Same Manner That 1t Heals Dis
ease, He Afirms

ON Sunday afternoon Professor
Herman S. Herring, member or the
board of lectureship of the Mother
Church, the First Church OF Christ
Scientist, in Boston, addressed Bar
aboo audience at the Al. Ringing the
alter. The speaker was introduced
nv District Attorney James III. Hill,
and the musical numbers were given
on the organ.
He asserted that healing was done
spiritually, discussed the klnetlc ma
+ura of matter, distinguished truth
from error, and explained the mentai
nature of existence. The speaker toid
of the healing as recorded in the
scriptures. ard as to Christian Science
healing said:
Scienctific Christian healing is
Christian Science healing and In
wolves the knowing Of spiritual
Truth. the recognition of material
error as error, and the application TO
the error of the specific, antidoung'
divine Truth which corrects and neais
If Therefore this healing is not
hvpnotism, not mental suggestlonI
not the mere influence OF one human
mind over another, not mental doml-
nation. or the exercise of the human
will commonly called will-power; and
for a right apprehension or chris
tian Science healing this fact must be
clearly seen. I will illustrate: When
a mathematician cOrrects an error III
computation it is not his will when
makes the correction, but the mathe-
NAUTICAL truth which he knows and
applies to the error through methe-
NAUTICAL understanding. The correct
ing power is inherent in the truth
itself. not in the will of the mathema'
tician. Will has nothing to do with
the result. and would stand in the
way if it were used So, when sin
or an ill is healed through Christian
Science it is not the will OF the Chris
tian Scientist that does the healing,
hut the divine Truth which he knows
and applies to the human error
through his understanding of Christian
Science. The correcting and healing
mower is inherent in the truth itself,
not in the will of the Christian Sci
enlist. WiIl-power has nothing to do
with the healing; it would stand in
the way if it were used.
Jesus said: eye shall know the
truth, and the truth shah make you
free" for by knowing the truth we
reflect Truth and bring it into action
in thought. This definitely dis
tinguishes Christian Science healing
from hypnotism, magnetism, occult
ism, or mental suggestion IN any
form. The, mental manipulation en-
deayors to secure control of the pa
TENTS mentality, to dominate it and
superimpose upon it or inject into il
his own thought, will, purpose or de-
sire: be it good or evil, right OF
wrong. This shows the great danger
of that method Whereas the Chris
tian Scientist, knowing the nature OF
God and the real man to be spiritua
and perfect, recognizes the diseased
and sinful conditions as false, mes
meric states of consciousness; and
he applies his understanding OF
divine Truth and Love as the healing
remedy; which is always safe ano
can never injure, for divine Truth
and Love can only bless. Surely this
infinite Love is adequate, is intelli
gent enough, loving enough and pow
erful enough to supply all our needs;
we have but to know it lin order tt
reflect it.
The Christian Scientist recognizes
and knows the unhealthy OF the ap
pearance called a sick man, as wei
as of any other discord, in precisel!
the same way as a mathematician
knows that two times two do no
make five, even though he sees i
written out; for he knows they maxi
four. regardless of the appearance
1t is his business to know this as ;
mathematician. So the Christian
Scientist knows that there is reall.
no sick man there to be healed, bu
merely an erroneous concept or stat
of consciousness to be corrected; an
it is his business to know this as
Christian Scientist, for Jesus sal
very plainly: Judge not according t
the appearance, but judge righteou
Judgment which means the juds
ment of Truth. Christian Scienc
makes it possible for us to begin t
do this, and we have never been abb
to do it before; for until Mrs. Edd
discovered Christian Science, we di
not know the nature of the divin
reality and of the human conscious
ness that we might differentiate a.
curately between the appearance an
the actuality. Christian Scientist
are frequently criticised for not b
lieying all they see. They happen
know better, even as the astronomt
who does not believe in all celesti