Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-10-06

fence Thursday night at the Grand
Opera House by John Sidney Braith-
white, @. s., of London, England, mem
Der Of the Board Of Lecturship of The
Mother Church, The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
The lecture was given under the au-
spices of the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in this city. The lecturer was
introduced by J.. William Chambers, re-
Gently of Newberg, who said:
"After giving up all hope Of regain
ing my lost health, standing as it were,
on the very brink of an open grave,
being told by kind and conscientious
physicians, I'VE can do no more for
YOU Christian Science with its heal
ing message of truth and love came into
my life and gave me back health and
strength.
"Sometbing of this message will be
given you this evening by one who is
thoroughly qualified and authorized to
do so, not in any way with the thought
to proselyte, but rather to make clear
TO your minds what the teachings of
Christian Science really are, and to cor
rect the erroneous idea many good PEG
pie entertain as to what they think
Christian Science u.s."
Mr.. Braithwaite said:
1t can hardly be denied that if, in the
midst of the many cares and anxieties
with which we are beset, we are able
to give one hour to the consideration of
certain spiritual facts, that hour will
have been well spent.
1t is indeed doubtful whether any real
peace or satisfaction can come to us,
until the understanding of the facts re.
garding life has superseded our ordin-
AIRY opinions about it, and facts are
scientific things. Do you want to be in
possession of facts for the better gov
ernment of your life and to gain some
freedom from the trammels Of false OPP
inions2 Then which way are you to
turn? To Science, as you believe it to
bcg Or to Religion, as You think it isl
This is the dilemma that has confront
ed many people in all ages, for until re-
Gently the scientific and religious sys
TENS of the day have always been re-
garded as so irreconcilable in their point
of view, as to make the pursuit Of both
simultaneously a practical impossibility.
In recent years, however, the tendency
has been for the paths to converge, and
this may be due to the fact that the
words Christian Science have now been
before the world, welded together, for /
over so years, and have stood the test
of every kind of onslaught and attempt !
to break them asunder. 4
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND ITS !
DISCovERER. {
This is perhaps, the best evidence we :
can nave that the term ''Christian /,
Science was not a mere catch phrase, p.
but that it was the title deliberately :
affixed to ii by the discovcrer and {
founder of this teaching. Mary Baker /,
Eddy, after years of scriptural research, -
combined with abundant proof of its :,
healing and spiritualistic effect. In her A.
little POOL entitled ono and Yes :
Up. 100, she writes: ''The two largest >
words in the vocabulary Of thought are :
Christian and 'Science' showing =
that she was well aware of the signi- !,
Icance attaching to the title under !
which her teaching was henceforth to y
be known. 1t was, perhaps, natural that .
anyone, who dared to take up such a =
revolutionary standpoint as this, would =
meet with Misrepresentation, and every :
detail of Mrs. Eddy s life and charac- ?
Ter has been subjected to a crossfire of 8
criticism and caiumny, which criticism 1
has, however, only rebounded upon the
heads of the critics, for the facts regard q
ing the life and character of Mary a
Eddy will bear the closest seru- 81
tiny. BY nature, intensely spiritual in et
%leanings; by her own industry, bet IL
ter educated than most young women "
of her day and extraordinarily well g
read; by experience, brought face to hi
face with the stubborn hardships of ex- I'll
ill health and domestic sorrows, a
it would seem that there were abundant bl
reasons why she should have been chos- rs
en- as the channel through which this m
message should reach the world. There 81
is no doubt whatever that she regarded III
herself as the recipient Of a new reve- in
IatiOn of truth, and that she shoulder
I'd the responsibility implied in this in
idea with the deepest humility and sim 81
certify of purpose. 81 was n scribe un- &C
Ter orders Misc. Writings, p. 311), co
writes of herself, and this attitude W
lf being "umder orders is characteris. oy
lie, Throughout her long career, which fir
vas changed from Il life of invalidism Sc
and apparent uselessness to one of w
lbounding health and usefulness, she to
continued faithful in her obedience to So
The divine guidance, and pledged to the IN
of humanity. l suppose that TO
mere are literally hundreds OF thousands hi
n the world today who are bearing wit
ness to the value Of the work she ac- il
Who owe everything that he
hey enjoy in the way of spiritual I'M an
Outstanding of the Scriptures, their I'm
very health and wellbeing to her teach Ri
ng, and | count it a privilege 10 take nj,
NY own stand in the ranks with such a.
Is these. ~,
Suppose you were cropping your way in Gr
he dark through a dense forest, trying az
o find your way home, very uncertain ~
# the path, the lantern which you were N,
arriving having suddenly flickered and -
zone out. And suppose that just as you "
we're beginning to be very weary and
bruised through constant falls and col po
isions with unseen obstacles, someone ~
PASSED by and put into your hand an sn'
torch. Would not the way in w
become clear 60 you, falls and uii
Hollisions would be avoided, and il TN
be possible TO keep your undivid al
a attention on the path. You would
till have TO find your own way home,
Mt YOU would certainly feel grateful irr
o the one who, by giving yen the ms
orch, had made it so much easier to do. DO