The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-09-19
LARGE AUDlEN(E HEARS FIRST
(S. LECTURER TO VISIT SALMON

Il ~ TIME in lha hisfaq. of
7,-5I-ioA Christian Science 1aast,r.,.
80 ~ hsre On Friday last "a evnn,,,a
H. tsilenlAgs Of that soeistv psl,ioh
.'@l taken remarkable boi5 in ~
~, y o. religious belief. ,The lac.
Su,ef thls 10 honor Saimon va,
Sonh ~ =. L8throp, C. S. B.. n,anohs,e
n i,'lS es's boafd OF Lecturership of The
ch,.l ,'ao.lltf Snnreh, The First Church Of
s,, s,.'ti,t, acleaust, Boston, Mass. The
n,st nySahe" round an audience that com
p,sseiE lilled the seating capacity of
oau reiioWs hall TO listen TO his dis
course MRS w. G. Mccormick in
troduced him in SIMPLICITY of
speech in keeping with the eptire
absence OF oratorical flourish that
marked the lecture, which was based
on the topic of Salvation Through
spiritual Sense. The points of tha
discourse are given below:
Christian Science was discovered
Dy Mary Baker Eddy fifty-two wears
ago. Thirteen years after the dis.
covery the first Church OF Christ
scientist, was organized in Boston
Mass. Since then nearly eighteen
hundred organized churches or SO
cleties have been established over
the world, forty-one cities each con
tanning two churcres or societies
and twentY-for other cities each
containing from thlee to eighteer
churches or societies At the Wed
nesday evening meetings held IL
these churches and societies ovel
ten thousand people each week pub
licly and voluntarily bear grateful
testimony to the healing and regen
erative benefits they have ,receivet
through Christian Science. Score!
of additional carefully authenticateS
testimonies appear weekly and ais,
monthly in the Christian Scienc,
Sentinel and the Christian Science
Journal. If these are some OF thu
present fruits of Christian Science
Mrs. Eddy asks in her book. Scienc,
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures, what will the harvest b.
when this science is more general.
understood"
Dscoverer and Founder
first met Mary Baker Eddy 2
years ago. when | was at the poin
of leaving the business world 10 en-
bark in the practice OF Chrlstlal
Science, she invited me 10 visit he
at her home in Concord, N. II. !
those days there were contlictin
stories afloat about Mrs. Eddy, an
so ! decided to keep on, as 1t Were
nv business spectacles, looked .
her through them, and thus not b
fooled by any possible personal II
fluence. Great was my relief an
satisfaction on meeting perso
( who did not at all accord with SON
things | had heard. found myse
in the presence OF person OF mar
, ed gentleness and Teilnemeh
whose manner was quiet moaes
and deeply sincere, who spoke VII
! great earnestness, continually
ferring to God, with such unusu;
trust and conviction that my thoagi
soon left her personality and dld NJ
ret,,rn 10 il. | discovered that u
/ etead of her human personail.
dominating me, something eh'lieI
! aboye the human was goFerhiil
, Nrs Eddy. and in turn strongly ~
nressing me. | remember she al
swered some difficult quesuohs' an
her simple unassumlng, stlohs' "a. ai'
certain manner convinced hie '.i' -,
, che was not depending upon =,
mortal self or human VIII loi - -
Lnowledge. but that her wlsuoni We
tha outcome of her implicit spirl.u'
sn;,h in God. Those who knew M
Eadv ~ hest never had but ore oplhie
aho,,t ber absolute reliance upon u
a;vine Mind for every daily move.
49, odd merely in the way OF ~
s;r,nat;on that in after years u ".
-, nr;vilege for a period OF liihe
ns nember of Mrs. Eddys nous
hold. when l possessed epT t,, habit
j unity of watching her CAM or
which I found TO be as hones ar
oonsistent in spiritual guloan. ,h,,
con st;oe as were the fruits In ANU
pa pc and beneficient results VIZ
: ua .han witnessed confirmed VIVA. nc &c
s,,a,,v en been formulating IN u
ssaasoiousness. namely. that spirlVu
non Tn.,,h has always been reVeaieu
@ liu.n Who were most splri'u.el
minded. ana lndb ~ ,axrs q
nral love of God and ms ls" ,eve
al ahIed ap her to understand ana what teve
so,S0 so,t, ,o this age. And SO VIVA wha'
,sen yoen saw answered conciusseH T.,
me me- an old question. Was hrs, N, ma, =
dv commissioned by GOD OF os ~ ni
os ,f hv God. can God make M
tale9 n Gratitude opens the Sers, aSer
sa eniriiral understanding "hehs' AZ
harsh sp, judgment closes TINS ms uC( wo,
cratitude for the lives OIL 'nsn !,a on,
oIs s doctrine. constitutes the or ~
anu anu 10 spiritual understanding, ~ ~,
torv shows that those VINO pa pa, i
lost roo through the unselfish anu orn, =
nohle [ lives of great men asa doen
noD.s nare those Iwho were sa,,,Se most GeeP 7
,nbed Wsly by sense of gratitude !. !,
.,,osa lives. Noble motives VIII -
nare rs ones thought for spir''sa, sa,es =
pa,e parery and thereafter the no. nohes =
ca eose yer;ty of Mrs. Eddys gfea' u
s-v anu viii never be doubted.
Rish, Viewpoint
There are in the worid Qua, S,v.
.,aara always have been, many or or
s;,iss of human opinions Oh 80
sltles "a n-oa euceeed in ehangl