The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-01-22
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(By Virgil o, Strickler, c. S,
a member OF the Board of Lee
tureship of the Mother Church,
the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, Mass,)

tle flTSl NNuTCu OF NNTlSl'
Scientist in Boston, Mass)
The largest crowd that ever heard
a lecture on Christian Science in Ard
more was present last Friday evening
at the High School Auditorium to lis
ten to the lecture by Virgil o. Strick-
ler The speaker said in part:
AS it becomes more generally un-
derstood that through the ministry of
Christian Science people are being
healed of sickness, sin, unhappiness
worry, feee, and other discordant con-
ditions, there is an ever-increasing de
sire upon the part of the general pub
lie to lea 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
ing, nor is it difficult to understand.
1t can be stated without any reserva-
ton whatever that every person VINO
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,
In approaching the investigation of
this subject one should do so with
an open mind. Christian Science is
producing certain very definite and
very beneficial results, and it behooy-
es every thinking person to try to
understand how they' are accom-
plished.
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 dc
not recover under medical treatment
while many clergymen are open-y de
claring from their pulpits that the
fruit of Christian Science are good
and not a few of them have left theil
pulpits to become Christian Science
practitioners. These facts are wor
thy 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 surel!
it is the greatest and most vital thint
that can engage human thought. Tha
. Christian Science does these things L
: some extent at least is no longer al
open question, and the proof of it Il
, to be found in the practica. benefit
that have come to its adherents.
Although the healing of phy sical an
: mental diseases By spiritual mean
was widely practced both in Old Tes
, lament and New Testament times, an
! was expressly commanded hy Jesu,
/; and, although Christian Science dul
: ing the last 80 years has actually heal
a ed in this way large numbers Of pee
e pie from all kinds of physical an
$ mental diseases, there are still grea
many people who honestly ind it di
! ficult to understand how 1t Is possibl
s for the sick to be healed without drug
and entirely by spiritual means. Eve
among those who profess to believe |
, the Bible and in the omnipotence {
God, there are many who have hol
s est doubts that the power Of God
u sufficient or available to deliver frol
II sickness, and these doubts often pre-
e vent the effort to gain an understand
=" ing of the way by which spiritual hea
L ing is accomplished.
q To all such IT can be said that Jesu
healed the sick without drugs, an,
o what is more important TO us, b
y taught other people how to do so, thu
4 proving that his method of healin
Is physical disease by spiritual near
could be taught to others, and unde
stood and practiced by them.
Later these same disciples taugl
y the principal of spiritual healing whiC
they had learned from Jesus to the
own disciples, and history shows thu
on down through a period of about te
: generations the healing Of the sic
|. by spiritual means continued to be
\ part of the regular ministry Of Il
\ Christian church, and that the dea
/ were raised during the first and SCI
5 ond centuries. Moses and the pr
I phets also healed the sick and raise
4 the dead and did many other wonde
\ full works in demonstration Of Il
power of spirit to meet human need
and the Old Testament is filed wit
such instances
Al 1t will thus be seen that the knor
} ledge of spiritual truth, and the met
K cd OF its application to deliver peop
= from sickness, sin, and every kind