The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-19

denver lecture on Christian
Science. The speaker was introduce
cd by Geo. e. Perley. The follow
ing is DR.. Hubbard's address:
DR.. Hubbard is a member of the
board Of 'lectureship of the Mother
! Church, the First Church Of Christ
| Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
| In discussing the subject Of Chris
| tan Science, it Is my purpose to tell
! you something of it's Discoverer and
Founder, Mary Baker Eddy; some
thing Of my experience in changing
| from the practice of medicine to that
Of Christian Science; and to state
briefly some phases Of it's logical rea-
soning, and the results following it's
application.
Every advanced idea, every unfold
ment Of Truth, has come to the world
through the avenue OF some human
intelligence. Whoever has discovered
or presented Truth has done so only
because his fundamental qualities,
nodded by environment and educa-
ton, have made such a one q suit
able channel for the presentation Of
particular idea. 1t was not Shakes
peare, the poet, but Newton, the
mathematician, who discovered the
law Of gravitation; not Kipling, but
Edison, to whom the secrets Of cleo
mot Napoleon, but Lincoln, who
wrote, delivered, and lived theEGettys-
burg address. And SO 1t was not some
materialist, but Mary Baker Eddy,
who discovered Christian Science,
and the spiritual character of It's
teachings as we'll as the results fol-
lowing their application are of ne
cessity a correct index of the type of
thought through which they came.
Mrs. Eddy was peculiarly fitted not
only for the discovery of Christian
Science, but for It's presentation and
explanation. She was naturally and
inevitably the author Of the Christian
Science text book, Science and
Health with Key to the Scriptures"
From early childhood she manifested
a deeply religious nature. She was
tireless student and investigator. In
addition to these qualities, she was
possessed Of an ability as a writer SO
that from girlhood she was a con-
tributOr both in poetry and prose to
representative New England publica-
tons. Those who are familiar with
Mrs. Eddy's work, marvel at the i'm
mense capacity for independent think
ing and research which she manifest
ed. She tells us that she always felt
inpelled to hunt for the law Of heal"
years prior to my discovery / had
been trying to trace all physical eff
fects to a mental cause; and in the
latter part of 1865. ] gained the sol
entific certainty that all causation
was Mind, and every effect a mental
phenomenon" ("Retrospection and
Introspection," p. 24)
No wonder that this persistent and
unselftsh search for Truth should
have been rewarded by the discovery
of Christian Science!
How Discovery Was Made
For three years following her dis
covery Mrs. Eddy devoted all of her
time to a deep study of the Scrip
lures, seeking q solution Of LIES
problems.
This investigation revealed the fact
that the entire Bible Erecord teaches
conclusively that a right understand
ing of God has always brought do
minion over all material conditions,
and that when the knowledge of
Truth has been correctly applied it
has always been attended by healing
and regeneration. The Scriptures
abound in evidence that to under
stand God brings healing.
The fact that healing and the
knowledge Of Truth by which we are
to get healing has been passed over
as not meant for this time or for all
mankind. has been due to no fault of
the Bible in presenting it, but to our
attitude of thought in approaching it.
Because we had been educated to be-
lieve that physical healing must be
brought about by material means, we
had not deemed 1t possible that God
had provided spiritual healing from
sickness and every form of error, so
we unconsciously studied the Bible
with the view of substantiating our
own preconceived notions about what
it ought to teach.
Although the Scriptures declare
that man is made in Gods image and
likeness, and Is upright and holy we
have rather hunted for those state
ments which pictured a carnal man as
sick, and SHINING, and fallen.
We are led through the study of
Christian Science to try to stop view |
ing man as sick and SHINING, and to
accept the fact Of his righteousness
and dominion, which is insisted upon
the Bible, and to under
take to manifest this dominion over
all things.
No Healing in Drugs
To most of us the body, with it's
many forms of sickness and error,
seems to need most immediate atten- |
tion,-first, because it has such vast
of sicknesses to which 1t |
seems to be subject; and second, be-
cause the history Of material means
for the alienation Of these troubles
shows them to have been almost a
failure. I say almost COM
plete failure, because the latest rem |
edv and the latest method, the ones
that have replaced last years remedy |
and last years method, have not as
vet been proven useless; but the his |
tory Of the past hundreds Of years
will repeat itself, and next year a !
new set of material remedies will |
replace what will then be this years |
failures.
Now, the history of various drugs
and remedial agents, is practically |
Identical On the first appearance of |
a drug it seems to accomplish mar |
wells, because the belief in its ability |
to cure is limited to a small number |
who have enthusiastic belief in its eff |
ficacy. But as the remedy becomes |
more generally used, and by those |
who have less faith in it's virtue, it's |
administration is not always followed |
by healing, and sooner or later the /
failures far outnumber the successes, |
and it is discarded for some new med |
ical marvel which is destined to go |
through exactly the same procedure. |
Some years ago a new and sup
posedly wonderful remedy, was advo-
Gated for the treatment Of pneumonia, |
and the medical journals were full of
the records Of the almost instanta |
neous cures which had come about |
It's use. AS practicing ply |
stefan I prescribed this remedy, but !
with no result have since come to |
see that the remedy worked just so
long as 1t had some enthusiastic, opt1- !
mists believing in it's efficacy, but
failed to work as soon as it became
used by generally pessi- |
Y1ofsfiC rrOfassioY1. q profession grown |