The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-22
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LECTURE PLEAsEs
MEMBERS OF BOARD OF Lee
TURESHIP SPEAKS TO AUDI
ENCE OF MOSCOW PEOPLE

There was a fair attendance at the
lecture on Christian Science given in
the Guild hall last night by the Rev.
Andrew j. Graham, C.S., of the board
of lectureship of the Mother Church,
of Christian Scientists. The lecturer
was introduced by c. Nj. Priddy, of
Moscow, who said:
'It is to be our privilege tonight to
listen to a presentation of Spiritual
Truth; to hear a Scientific explana-
ton of the teachings of the Scrip
lures. The occasion is not an ordi-
nary one. Its purpose is to, enable
those present to gain a better under
standing of God and his relation to
man.
SIN the Prefac to Science and
page VII, Mrs. Eddy says: The time
for thinkers has come. Truth, indie
pendent of doctrines and time honor
ed systems, knocks at the portal of
humanity Current events bear out
this statement. A world that is sore
ly stricken with fear, strife and an al
most overwhelming sense of loss is
crying out for deliverance from evil;
is seeking to learn the way out of
the darkness of materialism into the
light of Truth. Thoughtful individu-
ais are beginning to reason as to
whether the generally accepted con-
cept of life is the right one; as to
whether their human experience of
sin, sickness and discord is in accord
with the true creation.
Christian Science declares that it is
not and comes with message of love
and encouragement for those who are
honestly seeking ''the truth that
makes free" 1t teaches, as did the
Master, that life is spiritual and not
material; that Ged, Spirit, is the only
reality; that truth overcomes and de-
stroys evil; that love annuls hate. It
demonstrates that Christ's promises
are true and thousands of its students
bear witness that Gods power to heal
and to save is as potent and as avail
able today as it was nineteen centu-
ries ago, when Jesus was here on
earth marking out the way for u.s."
Rev. Mr.. Graham, who is pleas
ing speaker, said in part: d
christian Science not only teaches
but demonstrates divine aid, thereby
adhering strictly to the declaration of
Scripture: 81 will shew thee my faith
by my works. Many thousands of
written testimonials of healing and
covering the last fifty
years, are preserved and accessible;
current testimonials of redemption
from sickness and sin appear regu-
larly in The Christian Science Jour
nal, Christian Science Sentinel and
the Christian Science Heralds in
French and German; each Wednes-
day evening in all Christian Science
meetings are heard the living voices
Of grateful men and women testify
ing to the power of Christian Science
to heal and to save; throughout the
world, beyond broad waters and be-
hind lofty mountains, in great cities
and quiet hamlets, by the domestic
fireside and in trench and hospital,
men and women, confident and calm,
Joyous and active, are found declar-
ng that through Christian Science
hey have come to know, and in some
measure have been able increasingly
20 demonstrate, that God is sure
remedy for every i'll, here and now.
When one finds the correct answer to
4 problem in mathematics he is GER
ain the rule by which he works is
rue. So when through the applica-
ion of the Principle of Christian
Science one sees the destruction of
disease and mental perversity, he
Knows that the rule of healing as
aught by Mary Baker Eddy, the Dis
.overer and Founder of Christian
Science, is true The test set up by
Tesus the Christ is this: sBy their
ruits ye shall know them"
One page 313 of "Science and
10 +ha
1rs. Eddy writes: "Jesus of Nazareth
vas the most scientific man that ever
rod the globe. He plunged beneath
he material surface of things, and
ound the spiritual cause" Again, on
age 476 of the same book she writes:
Jesus beheld in Science the perfect
IAN, who appeared to him where sim
ing mortal man appears to mortals.
n this perfect man the Saviour saw
iod's own likeness, and this correct
lew of man healed the sick" The
ision of Christ Jesus, therefore, was
OF to him a deferred fact; it was
cen and known as present.
The Vision Extended.
The workable knowledge of the
and omnipresence of God
as not confined to the consciousness
{ Jesus the Christ. He left wit
esses of himself, empowered to ex-
md and to manifest the works of
ealing and regeneration which he
ad done. For long time after
ssus had vanished from sight, the
vine command: "Heal the sick,
Use the dead" was obeyed and full
lied. "Like trailing clouds of
ory," the faith and works of the
'imitive Christians were as a light
lining in heather darkness.
The ardent faith of the Christians
hich had thriven under merciless
was caught in the insidi-
IS snare of Journalism. Its light be-
IN to wane, it's vision vanished, and
sank pproximately to the worlds
vel, where it seemed to sleep for q
ousand years, while every phase Of
a and tyranny was practiced in it's
me. These centuries constitute
nat may be properly called the
ark Ages. A theoretical system of
lvation had thrust itself between
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