Arizona republican., 1918-01-23
GIVEN UPON CHRISTIAN
 SCIENCE THEME

John Randall Dunn of St Louis, member of the Board of Lectureship of the First Church of Christ, Scien- tist, in Boston, last evening delivered at Mesa in the Majestic theater a free lecture on Christian Science. In part the speaker spoke as follows:
 BY
 JOHN RANDALL DUNN, c. S. Member of the Board of Lectureship
 of The Mother Church, The First
 Church of Christ. Scientist, in
 Boston, Mass.
 Entitled
 Christian Science: The Supreme
 Discovery of the Age
 Christian Science is not a modern philosophy, not the product of a fer tile human brain.' It is the revela- tion of the spiritual facts of being, the revelation of the truth about God and man taught by Jesus and the pro- phets, and it is all to be found in the Bible.
 The Path Marked by Jesus
 Have you ever seen in the moun- tains a "blazed" trail? A large piece of bark is cleft from tree, and this operation is repeated on other trees at frequent intervals throughout the length of the trail. No matter how the trees may grow, the blaze" re- mains, and so the trail is marked out for generations to come. When the world seemed immersed in the ma terialism of Jewish theology and Roman organism, there appeared one whose mission was to point the way to spirituality, to deliverance and heal ing. and he "blazed" a trail to the Fathers house so plain, so simple, that child could follow it. But in after centuries, fast growing weeds of ritual and human doctrines, of politi- cal power and ecclesiastical worldli- ness, obscured the trail, and mortals seemed content to follow the devious paths of creeds until in our time 8 woman pilgrim came upon it and gave to her discovery the name Christian Science. or the Science of Christianity and she rested not uItil she had written a book showing you and me how to find it. This guide book i: called Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" and is the text-bool which Christian Scientists use in con nection with their manual of life thu Bible.
 Christianity Is Exact Science Mrs. Eddy discovered that the re ligion taught by Jesus is as exact science as is the science of numbers that a Christian should be enabled t, | overcome sickness. fear, discourage | ment, poverty, or any other discord with the same readiness and certaint, of correct result that he takes to hi | problem in mathematics.
 The Mission of the Saviour A story is told of a shipwrecke, sailor who was cast upon a far-of | isle inhabited by semi-savage tribes One day he came upon a group O | Wrangling natives, and, inquiring tn l cause of the commotion, learned tha | there was a certain supply of cocoa nuts brought to the island to be equal | ly distributed among these men, an no one could decide as to the numbe l that each should have. The sailo | counted the cocoanuts. He found on | hundred. He counted the men. Ther were twenty-five of them. Withou hesitation he said, Each will hay four as his share" Imagine his sur prise when the natives straightwa ] flung themselves at his feet, called hir | a god, and proceeded to worship him | Try as he might, he could not persuad | the simple folk that his instantaneou | calculation was the result of an un derstanding of the principle of mathe matics and was in no sense miracu | lous.
 To the bewildered and heartsic children of men came a Saviour. Un derstanding the great Principle being, he solved their problems, bring ing instantaneous answers in healt and reformation and regeneration. H plainly said that of himself he di not the works, and that if they woul hut understand hisl mission and h Principle, they too could solve tf problems as did he. But they calle him a wonder worker, worshiped h personality, and crucified him.
 And the human mind has continue it's misapprehension down through u centuries, with the result that we sti