The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-18
Christian Science: the Lib
orator of Mankind, His
Theme
MEMBER OF BOARD
OF MOTHER CHURCH
introduced to Good Sized Audience in
Auditorium by Mrs. T. w. Putnam,
First Reader of Local Church, Last
Evening.

tian Science than that of previous adj
dresses given here was given last eve
ming in the Auditorium before q good
sized audience by John Randall Dunn,
G. S., a member of the board of lecture
ship of the mother church, the First
Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston,
his subject being Christian Science:
The Liberator of Manl+ind. The speak
er was introduced by Mrs. Fred W. Put
nam, first reader of the local Christian
Science church.
The widespread interest in the sub
! ject of Christian Science, in this and
other lands, is traceable directly to the
fact that enslaved mortals are finding
graphically pictured by Isaiah as sent
''to preach good tidings unto the meek;
to bind up the brokenhearted, to
proclaim liberty to the eaptives, and
the opening of the prison to them that
are bound. " The attempts of some mis-
informed critics to prove that Christian
! Science is not this lberator, that the
sick are not healed, the SHINING re
formed, nor the sorrowing comforted
through its ministrations, are of course
of little moment in the presence of an
ever increasing host of witnesses testi-
fying 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 happi-
ness than they have ever known.
Referring to the fact that on all sides
are evidences of the most terrific up
heaval the world has ever witnessed,
the speaker said: A Christian Scientist
cannot fail to read the signs of the
times and realize with courage and
without dismay that this mighty inter
national uPheaval means the blasting
away of the rocks and stumps of tyran-
ny and oppression and the preparing of
the soil of the human consciousness for
the seed of truth, the seed of scientific
Christianity.
Certainly it must be recognized by
every thinking person, the speaker said,
that the signing of a treaty of peace,
favorable to human interests as it may
be, will not alone usher in the millen-
mocracy, the ordaining of humanity good
governments, and the establishment of
equal rights and privileges among men
are absolutely necessary steps toward
the ultimate liberation of the race. But
, the great battle of Armageddon is not
ended for this battle is the conflict be-
tween the flesh and Spirit, between
Truth and error; the struggle whereby
/ mortals finally shall be freed from the
; bondage of material sense, from sick
ness, hate, animality, limitation, i'm
perfection, old age, death.
Now it has been proven true in the
world s experience, that every great
: human crisis has witnessed the appear
! ance of some courageous Godsprepared
teacher or leader proclaiming a remedy,
, publishing deliverance, or pointing a
way of escape.
Christian Scientists know that Mrs.
e Eddy did not originate Christian
4 Science; she discovered it, brought it to
light. The balm of Gilead which she
t has revealed for the healing of the ma
tons is not of her creating, nor is it a
! restatement of ancient or modern ma
terial philosophy. 1t is the simple un-
e adulterated spiritual teaching of Jesus
and the prophets who preceded him
e Is there to be found in his word a prac-
Z teal present day salvation for you and
= meP Then the speaker stated that sal.
: walton was matter of knowing the
e truth about God and the son of God
: and, as Jesus says, when you know the
truth. the truth shall make you free
Let us now consider the basis of
Christian Science; let us find the truth
about God and man which it reveals
that truth which is destined to liherate
the race. Science and Health in a few
words sums up the remarkable discov-
: cry of the truth of being. We read
+ ''The Christlike understanding of scien
T tifc being and divine healing includes
t perfect man,-as the basis of thought
/ and demonstration This teaching is
f founded squarely on the opening chap
t ter Of the Bible, the first chapter of
Genesis
s Now, had | been asked before study.
i ing Christian Science as to what was
n the first mention of man in the Bible
e | should promptly have referred the in
e quirer to Adam in the garden of Eden
= But Christian Science shows that tbs
h Adam, or material man of the second
l. chapter of Genesis, does not appear I'M
3 Ill the first mention of discord. in the
second chapter of Genesis Vietimizef
by ignorance of the true God and true
e man. the true Father and the true son
, mortals have accepted this materia
I Adam-view of creation. They speak tn,
o language of materiality They adopr
II the customs of the race of Adam in ex
- pecting and experiencing sin, sickness
trouble, imperfeetion, old age and death
As to a Christian Scientist s treat
4 ment of sin, the speaker said: Suppos,
le a man victimized by drink, or by tn,
n tobacco habit, seeks healing in Chris
Of tian Science. He is not condemned b,
as his practitioner, nor told how wicked
ne he is, nor is he urged to fight evil will