Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1917-05-04
Christian Science Expounded
To Large Audience By
Virgil 0. Stricken
UNDERSTANDING, SIMPLE:
Teaches How One May Dis
place Error and Evil
With Truth and Love

Jul ny NH6ll ~. olIlChleT, vi view
York, member of the Board of Lee
tureship of The Mother Church. The
First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
Boston, Mass, explaining principles of
Christian Science and clearing up the
many false impression concerning it..
Mr.. Stricken, who was introduced by
Miss Elsie Mary Marion, said, in
part:
"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 de-
sire upon the part of the general pub
lie to learn how these results are ac-
complished. 1t is the purpose of this
lecture to explain how Christian Sci
ence does these things. There is no
mystery about Christian Science heal
1t can be stated without any reserva-
ton whatever that every person who
is willing to do so may learn how to
heal sickness and to destroy the de-
sire 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 under
stand 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 practi-
| TONERS those of their patients who do
not recover under medical treatment !;
while many clergymen are openly de-
claring 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 it's 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 benefits
that have come to it's adherents.
Although the healing of physical and
mental diseases by spiritual means
was widely practiced, both in Old
Testament and New Testament times,
and was expressly commanded by
Jesus, and although Christian Science
during the last so years has actually
healed in this way large numbers of
people from all kinds of physical and
mental diseases, there are still great
many people who honestly find it diff
cult to understand how it is possible
for the sick to be healed without drugs
and entirely by spiritual means. Even
among those who profess to believe
in the Bible and in the omnipotence
of God. there are many who have hon
est doubts that the power of God is
sufficient or available to deliver from
sickness and these doubts often pre-
vent the effort to gain an understand
ing of the way by which spiritual
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 do so. thus
proving that his method of healing
physical disease by spiritual means
could be taught to others, and under
stood and practiced by them.
Later these same disciples taught
the Principle of spiritual healing which
they had learned from Jesus to their
own disciples, and history shows that
on down through a period of about ten
generations the healing of the sick
by spiritual means continued to be a
part of the regular ministry of the
Christian church, and that the dead
We're raised during the first and second
centuries. Moses and the prophets
also healed the sick and raised the
dead and did many wonderful works
in demonstration of the power of spir-
it to meet human needs. and the Old
Testament is filled with such in
stances.
1t will thus be seen that the knowl-
edge of spiritual truth. and the method
of its application to deliver people
from sickness, sin, and every kind of
evil human condition has reappeared
upon the earth at many times, and it
is claimed for Christian Science that
it is the temperance in our own gen
Grafton Of the understanding of the
same spiritual law that was known
and understood in part by Moses and
the prophets, and which was perfectly
understood and demonstrated by Jesus
and by him taught to his disciples.