The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1920-02-23
ExP0UAOS DOCTRINE
Of CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

John Randolph Dunn, c. S. g.. of
Christian Science at the jefferson au-
ditotium last night. under the suspi-
aes OF the First Church of Christ,
Of Richmond The audience despite
the bad weather was reasonably
large. In the course of his remarks
DIR. Dunn sai1
Let me say at the outset that the
purpose of a Christian Science lee
ture is NOT to attack another's reli-
Ete1 nor dees student of Christian
Science ever wish TO force mis- views
upon his nsiSi otsr- 4-Qt, 49, sfps
-that-s,a presence Here -ttftiay ifas!-
sates desire on your part to give
this great subject an impartial hear
log. / am happy 10 assure you hat
my rleasant task is merely 70 tell
Won the truth about Christian Sot-
erce--thA truth about its Discovered.
its promise, us methods ana It's ac-
conlplismments. and thereby TO re-
move some of the popular II iscon-
ceptions of II. teachings which are
abroad in the land TO-DAY.
We hear. even at this enlightened
moment the most extraot binary
statements ABOUT, Christion Silence.
Just recently A man told me that he
understands that Christian science
teaches =, man in financial trauhle To
ina gine he has a million dollars"
ana his Worries will be over Then,
toe, there IL the WIDELY proclaimed
faliacy that the Christian sclantst
9oss absolutely nothing for a SICK
man. ana Ia addition 10 s,.h negii-
gente makes matter. worse by bid
ding the sufferer TO imagine himself
we'll and he Will be well one
hardly need say to g body OK taink-
inb he and women that such cen
o<pts are absolutely erroneous. and
found az absurd to the student 81
Christian Science as 70 the outsider
Our critics then turn their Atten-
lion TO the Discoverer and Founder
Of Christian. Science, if indeed they
have not begun their criticism with
objection TO her. Are no. the CAL
uninity. the abuse, and e-itiei ism that
are hurled at this Christian gentle
she was; Christian gentieworaan she
renained during all tia splendid
ninety years of her loving forgivirg,
helping pilgrimage Christian woman
must she have been to turn. thrc
her writings. an army OF mer and
women and children, to the earnest
study Of the Bible to End there the
tSAtAA@cd ioi- al lue iAiS Oh oar IN one
cannot help wondering at tee world S
dow reception of her message. at the
worlds reluctance tc ascribe honor
70 the woman who found the way of
Life
"But." says some. one, have we
not had nearly nineteen hundred
Fears OF Christianity. and are not the
great problems OF being still fer
from a solution ?' The only answer
20 such query is a definite, No.
We have not HAD nineteen centuries
of Jesus Christia nifty. Far from II.
II Is far cry indeed from the r.ac>
teal, ree@neratinE healing work of
I~sus 10 the inert. unfruitful con
cepr OF Christianity that most Of us
have had. Think you that this world
would have bean rocked by the con-
WILSON'S of great war. swept BIZ the
tsrrors Of an epidemic. or held in
ne clutches IF great unres, had
Christians all these yeara healed the
SICK. rr6a ~ 81 heaven at hand lo7 ed
as Jesus loved, and cast out demons
as be commanded? We suffer today
not because OF an inadequate Chris
tiaUitg. but from sheer ok OF Chrtx-
t1aniry
Science and health in bidding
lportals 20 be not afraid leaves them
ROT without star upon whfch 70
lean, Hear these clear statements
about God and man. the understand
ing Of. which begins al orce 70 undo
the letters OF fear. The Christian
Scientists argument rests on the
Christjanly scientific basis Of being.
The Scripture declares, The Lord He
is God good there is none else
hesida Him