Arizona republican., 1920-11-08

Sunday afternoon at the Elks theater 5icknell Young, c. S. B.. of CbicaSo ni- aeiivered lecture on the subject L s christian Science to an audience lnas taxed the capacity of the theater.
 Ahe lecturer was introduced by IT, Vln deR. Miller. First Reader of the Said. "''O Friends: When. in Christian Science, we learn something of the everpresence pr God and of the changelessness of His laws. and are enabled to make practi- sal prooI Of the permanence of these avs Tn the destruction of some human belief of sin or of sickness: when we nave come to perceive that God is the only source of good and that His sup ply Is ceaseless and abundant to all his children. and have been able through this truth to overcome some phase of poverty or weakness, do you wonder that there Is a desire to tender this good news to all who will listen?
 Among the several ways that the wise Founder of Christian Science provided for teaching the truth about her dis covery, Is the Christian Science lecture. and we are fortunate today in being able to hear member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston. Mass. Mir. Bickneu Young, c. $. B. of Chicago, Iil., who will speak to us on the subject Christian Science, the Science of True Living"
 Mir. Young spoke substantially as follows:
 Under prevailing systems of educa- ton. and influenced by the daily stress and strain of ordinary existence, it is not strange that misunderstandings neNln Hnkw sn tions. It is not even strange that under such circumstances things of little val ue should be exalted and the great things of being should be unrecognized or ignored, and yet this audience and hundreds of similar audiences in var ious parts of the world assembled for the same purpose, indicate wholesome dissatisfaction with such conditions, and show that the higher and better views of life appeal to the human heart as nothing else can. come here to- day to speak to you on Science which rests upon the fundamental facts of being and which in the measure that it is understood is capable of improving and even of transforming, the life of every man. woman and child. Be- cause it can do this it follows that it can also reform the world. and I am prepared to show that 1t will do so, just as fast as you and the rest of man. kind understand and adopt 1t. In say ing this do not mean to imply that Christian Science is a kind of magic, or that it is a system which will work for the benefit of the race without any ef- fort on their part to conform their lives to its Principle and rule. But do say that it promises and provides health and peace to those who earnestly study and abide by it's teaching.
 To any one who thinks clearly oi endeavors to do so, it does not seem reasonable to suppose that the errors which produced trouble could be ex- pected to remove 1t. Ask stricken race if disease is less prevalent, less insistent, less fatal because of the cen turies of education in the use of ma ter5al remedies. and the answer, Il truthful. will be a universal Nol Dis eases are as mysterious and baffling as ever to material systems of healing Industrial unrest prevails. the high cost of living goes on, greed is rampant and in many parts of the world unparalleled conditions of crime arc unchecked and unresisted. From a material outlook what hope is there7 Humanity seems to be sailing a boisterous sea without chart. compass or pilot.
 Christian Scientists do not fall tc take cognizance of the difficultiei which beset the race as well as tho individual We are not engaged in any superficial, altruistic theory. We clain to have common sense. and the histor. of this movement shows clearly that as a class, Christian Scientists arr eminently practical. The advantag'