The Washington herald., 1919-01-06
SPIRITUAL STUDY EXPL AIMED
BY NOTED BOSTON SPEAKER
John Randall Dunn, introduced by First
Reader of Third Church of Christ, Gives
Lecture at Theater Here

I
in Boston, delivered a lecture on
Christian Science. at Polls Theater.
yesterday afternoon.
Mr.. Dunn was introduced by w.
! L Post, first reader of the Third
Church of Christ. Scientist. of Wash
| ington. under the auspices of which
the lecture was given. The lecture
in full follows:
The widespread interest In the sub
ject of Christian Science, in this and
other lands, is traceable directly to
; the fact that enslsved mortals are
! finding in its spiritual teaching that
liberator graphically pictured by
Isaiah as sent Ito preach good It'd
| ings unto the meek; to bind up
/ the brokenhearted, TO proclaim liberty
to the captives. and the opening of
the prison to them that are bound"
/ The attempts Of some nisinformed
critics to prove that Christian Science
| is not this liberator, that the sick are
not healed. the SHINING reformed, nor
the sorrowing comforted through its
ministrations are of course OF little
moment in the presence of an ever
| increasing host of witnesses testify
/ ing to the fact that whereas they
were bound physically, mentally or
morally, now they are experiencing
| through the teachings of Christian
Science a greater measure OF health,
| freedom. and happiness than they
have ever known.
Must Not Object.
What would those who fancy them
selves opposed to this spiritual teach
ing have its students do? Would they
ask the man who Estates, and whose
family corroborates his statement,
that he has been freed from the tor
ments of alcoholism, to 90 back to
his appetite and his bondage? Would
they bid the infldel who through
Christian Science has become a be-
lever in and lover of the Bible, dis
card that holy volume, and tread
again his cherries, goddess road?
| Would they bring back the pain and
anguish which in the cases of thou
sands of men and women and little
children have been banished by the
touch of this healing evangel? Surely
I this is no time to oppose the coming
| to saddened humanity of a spiritual
message the certain effect of which
J is the uplift and comfort of mankind
In Science and Health Mrs. Eddy
states the basis of Christian Science
as follows:
The Christlike understanding OF
scientific being and divine healing in
cludes a perfect principle and idea
| perfect God and perfect man-as the
basis of thought and demonstration"
Cp. 259).
I This teaching is founded squarery
on the opening chapter of the Bible.
1 This chapter contains a record Of
| Gods creation. The chapter closes
with this statement: And God saw
every thing that he had made, and,
behold, it was very good"
No EVIL Created.
! What a wonderful record is this
| first chapter of Genesis, How thor
oughly in keeping with a good and
! loving creator. No evil has been
( created, no sickness. sin. nor death.
/ The record states that God made man
/ in His image, after His likeness. In
other words. man was created God
like, and as God is spirit. the man
of his fashioning must have been like
spirit. or spiritual This spiritual
man is not cursed, but blessed. As the
| textbook says (Science and Health
! p. 51S). His birthright Is dominion.
not subjectiOn. He is lord of the
belief in earth and heaven,-himself
I subordinate alone to his Maker"
! Ignorance of the spiritual facts of
being; ignorance of spiritual sense
which results in a material view of
| Creation-this is the mist which
seems to go up from the earth. And
from this ignorance, this false sense
/ or material view,-and never from
| Him who is infinite Love,-comes dis
! cordant materiality with its Adams
and Ewes, its wars and woes and
germs. its sick nations, sick men, and
| sick businesses. Thus q just and good
| God cannot be charged with the
creation of discordant materiality,
! sickness. sin, and death.
Ignorance Only Devil
As mistakes in a mathematical prob .
lem cannot be laid at the door OF
the perfect principle OF arithmetic. so
| the errors in the problems of being
cannot be. charged to the infinitely
/ perfect mind with whom is no vari-
| ableness nor shadow of turning.
/ ASilOi dhCS VI IOO, d mistaken sense
of things, a material view, this is all
there is to evil: this is the only devil
there is. And the Bible says that the
mission of the Christ is to destroy
| the works of the devil
| So Jesus came to destroy ignorance
! Of God, to roll back the mists Of
error and to reveal the truth about
/ God. man, and the universe-that
great truth of spiritual being which
/ he declared would make man free.
But, says some one, il you say that
| the man OF Gods creating is spiritual
where did this material sense OF
things come from? Why is it not
| correct to say that man Is both
spiritual and material? Christian
Science rests absolutely on the great
fact that there is one Greater and one
creation, one God and one man, and
that man spiritual, upright, and per-
rect. Let US here consider a simple
Illustration (although all material
comparisons are necessarily made
quate) in the effort better to UNDER
stand the great truth that there can
not be two men, one spiritual and
the other material.
Forgets His Antecedents,
Let US suppose that a child born In
the United States, whose parents are
American citizens, is taken to China
at an early age, and left there Living
for years under the hot sun in the
rice helds. the little fellow becomes