The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-27
CAPACITY CROWD AT
 SCIENTIST LECTURE
John Randall Dunn Speaks on Principles of Chris
 tian Science
Of Birmfnghann, Ala. Statement December 31. 1918
 

An audience that taxed the capacity of the Lyric theatre was present yesterday afternoon when John Randall Dunn of St. Louis made an address on Christian Science. Mfr. Dunn is member of the board of lectureship of the Mother church, First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, Mass, and one of it's most force ful speakers. He held the close attention Of his large audience as he propounded the doctrines of the Scientist, and dis unused it's outstanding features.
 MT. Dunn said in part
 The widespread interest in the sub iect of Christian Science is traceable directly to the fact that enslaved mor- tals are finding in it's spiritual teach ing that liberator graphically pictured by Isaiah as sent ito preach good tid- ings unto the meek; to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of tine prison to them that are bound
 "As to the reverend gentlewoman, through whose spiritual vision the sim pie, healing truths of the Bible are today made available for those who sit in darkness, I say this: Her char acter needs no defense at human hands. By her fruits shall she be known.
 Christian Scientists know that Mrs Eddy did not originate Christian Science; she discovered it, brought 1t to light. It is the simple, unadulter- ated spiritual teaching of Jesus and the prophets who preceded Him. Jesus
 
 had He taught the gaining of heaven through dying. The remedy lies in the simple rule He left, '"This is life eternal, that they might know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent" Salvation then is matter of knowing the truth about God and the Son of God, and as Jesus says in another place, when you know the truth the truth shall make you free.
 Science and Health thus sums up the remarkable discovery of the, truth of being The Christlike understand ing of scientific being and divine heal ing includes a perfect principle and idea-perfect God and perfect man as the basis of thought and demonstra- tion' (p. 259.) This teaching is founded squarely on the first chapter of Genesis. The record states that God made man in His image, after His likeness, and as God is Spirit the man of His fashioning must have been like Spirit. or spiritual No evil has been created, no sickness, sin or death Christian Science shows that the Adam or material man of the second chapter of Genesis. does not appear ui- til the first mention of discord-in the second chapter of Genesis. Surely this man, made from dust and this woman from a rib. depicting as they do the weakness, frailty, disobedience and lawlessness of materially. cannot pre- sent the deathless. perfect, spiritual handiwork of the Most High.
 Ignorance of God, Spirit, ignorance of the spiritual facts of being. is the mist which seems to go up from the earth. Ignorance of God, a mistaken sense of things. a material view, this is all there is to evil: this is the only devil there is. So Jesus came to de- stroy ignorance of God, to roll back the mists of error and to reveal the truth about God man and the uni verse-that great truth of spiritual be- ing which He declared would make man free.
 "Through Christian knowing, not carnal-mindeA suggestion, the sick and weary ones of earth are learning to lift their eyes from the Adam mist to the harmonious facts of being, that creation which a loving Father has pronounced 'very good"