Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-18
By Virgil O. Strickler, C. s. B. Member of the Board of Lee tureship of The Mother Church. The First Church
 of Christ Scientists.
 in Boston. Mass.
MT. strickler in his lecture said:

As lt becomes more generally under stood that through the ministry of Christian Science people are being healed of sickness, sin, unhappiness, worry, fear, and other discordant coz ditions. there is an ever increasing desire upon the part of the general public to learn how these results are accomplished It is the purpose of this lecture to explain how Christian Science does these things. There is no mystery about Christian Science healing, nor is it difficult to under stand It can be stated without any reservation whatever that every per son who is willing to do so may learn through Christian Science how to heal sickness and to destroy the desire to sin, for himself and others.
 Many Different Religious Beliefs
 It is said that there are more than 200 different kinds of the Christian religion alone, mot to mention the hundreds of other forms of religions that are not Christian It is "a fact that people do- entertain widely differ ing religious beliefs In many in- stances the differences are irreconcil- able, and yet every one believes with all of the sincerity of which he is ca pable that his own particular beliefs are true It must be conceded that, in the main, all people are equally honest and equally sincere in their religious beliefs The cnly reason why they are grouped together in different forms of religions is because they hon estiy believe that through their own particular form of religion they will find the good which they so earnestly desire.
 As one considers the subject of re- ligicn from this broad viewpoint it becomes entirely plain that most of the people in the world are believing as their religion many things that are not true.
 There is only one truth about any subject, although there may be many erroneous beliefs about it. This is as true of religious subjects as of others. If one believes enormously as to what is the law he will not be safe law yer, nor will he be an efficient engi- neer if his beliefs concerning the rules of mathematics are faulty. In each case erroneous beliefs must be dis placed by positive knowledge before correct results can be attained
 Everyone will recognize not only the desirability. but the necessitys-of-ex- changing false and erroneous beliefs about religious matters for positive truth. In no other way can he grow spiritually. Spiritual truth is the truth about spiritual things, put as long as one believes enormously about spirit ual things he is on false track and his erroneous beliefs will deprive him of the benefits that would otherwise come to him through a correct under standing of the truth He should re- member that Jesus proved that there is enough spiritual truth in existence that can be taught to and understood by human beings to enable them to heal the sick and raise the dead, and no one should be satisfied until he has attained to this understanding and demonstration
 True religion consists of spiritual truth and not Of erroneous beliefs: hence it follows that ones religion is limited to the amount of spiritual truth he knows, and that erroneous re- ligiOus beliefs are only so many delu- sions that serve no other purpose than to Cbstruct spiritual growth
 The trouble with most of US has been that we have DeI7eved erron- eOusly without knOFing it In my case it was not until Christian Science came to me and taught me the differ enee between spiritual truth and erron- eOus human belief that I learned how to disssct my own beliefs No one could more certain of the correctness of his religious beliefs than I was of mine at that time l had been believ- inc things that found could not possibly De true Many scales began to fall from ny eyes. and then commenced 10 learn and experience for the first time the real significance of the words used by Jesus in the eigth chapter of John, when he saii, 'Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you tree"
 Christian Science aims to destroy erroneous religious beliefs by substi- tuting e knowledge of truth in place thereof, and to destroy out of the hu- mand mi;-d all evil qualities by plant ing good qualities in their stead. It wages relentless warfare against all wrong mental qualities. It seeks to substitute love in place Of hate. un- selfishness in place of selfishness- honesty in place Of dishonesty. and truth in place or e-rOr IL lays tre- mendcus emphasis upon the necessity Tor bringing into captivity every thought tO the obedience Of Christi (II Cor 10-5). as the Bible commands it show that the cause of all disease and sin is mental and not physical. ard that both sickness and sin are destrcyed b. the evanEelizatiol of the human mentality with truth and lore. lt te1 1es without any reservation whaicvcT that the truth taught and practIccd by Jesus. when understood and applied, is sufficient without drugs or any material means to heal the s.ck and Tesenerate the sinner and Christian Scientists everywhere are engaged daily in jemonstrating and proving this to be true.
 Every student of religion should be inn fn --sr-