The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-23
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Doorly Says Humanity Should Pause in Material Flight
 at Jefferson


 headlong flight of materialisn long enough to consider where this pace is leading to-" declared John ". Doorly C. s. B.. of Boston Massa- chusetts. speaking before a large su- dience at the Jefferson theatre last night.
 Christian Science teaches that there is an exact science which is true to Christ and Christianity and utterly refutes the suggestion that Moses, Abraham, Luther or Wesley and other reformers were trying to bring to humanity some indefinite and impractical idealism. It declares without hesitation that they under stand tho only real science which explains Gods real nature and the relationshiu of true being to God"
 The text of the address follows;
 should humanity pause In It's headlong course of materiafism long enough to consider. calmly and dis passionately, where this course is leading it to. it would certainly be astounded and perhaps mortified to find how great a part material theories play in human calculations and conditions. and how small recognition or acceptance is given to snirituaI facts Our world of today accepts as science that which deals wholly with material things, and whatever thought enters into it's so- called scientific calculations, is ai- ways mortal or material. This world likewise accepts a theology which is supposed to be quite apart from science, and indeed until recently 1t was considered little less than blasphemous to couple theology ana science. It may well be asked: If science is not akin to Christianity or Christliness is it of any value to hu- manity and indeed Is it not anti Christian unless based on spiritual facts? Also if theology is not related to science can it possibly be true. for to be true it must be scientific, since the word science means only exact knowledge9 These material views of science and theology have natur- ally evolved a healing system which is b&sed wholly on material theories and which it's own advocates would hardly claim to be an exact science. Indeed many of it's most ardent ad- herents have themselves frequent ly denied that the material druggiag system is in any way an exact science.
 "The conscientious mortal then must face the fact that he is today basing his existence. his salvation and his happiness on three thtngsi ,sfirst on a science which only per- tains to material conditions and new CT to spiritual facts; second, on theology which does not claim to Dc scientific or exact, and third on healing system which is neither spir- ftual nor truly scientific. What nicture of materialisnf this is for hu- .manity to face after thousands Of years of human effort! It is true that many of the thinking people or today are deeply troubled at the eyi- oence that theology, or our systems of salvation, seems to save from 30 little and that the material healing exstefns have to stand helpiessiy by whilst men and women are devas- tated by epidemica and by host OF so-called incurable diseases, Also that the efforts of material science have il. many cases been utilized not for the benefit of men, but for tho destruction Of men through the most horrible methods of warfare. Is hu- manity never to stop and consider these indisputable facts seriously7 Shall men forever persist in their course of materialism, remaining content to believe that these things must be so and that there is no per manent and Fundamental remedy Tor human woes"'
 "christian Science, on the other hand. teaches that there Is an exact science which is true to Christ anu Christianity, that there is theology which is wholly scientific or true and that there is divine heaing method which is both Christltke ana scientific. These three, this science, this theology and this healing meth od Christian Science declares 70 pc eternal. ever-present, demonstrable facts of being. for they are the science of life, the theology of spirit, and the healins method of truth. Christian Science teaches that these gre the divine. systems which Jesus lived and labored to reveal to man. kind. In fact these are the systems which all reformers have perceived dimiy and have labored to reveal 10 men.
 "christian Science utterly refutes the suggestion that reformers sucn as Abraham or Moses, Luther or Wes- lev were striving to bring to hu- nauity some indefinite and imprac- ticable ideallsm. 1t declares without hesitation that they perceived and understood to some extent the only real science, the absolute science Of spiritual being, which explains God's true nature and the relationship of true being to God, the only true the ology. the exact, scientific. sayiag and redeeming effect of truth upon human thought, and the only true healing method, the infinite apliily of spiritual understanding or of spir- itual thinking to deliver sfrom the disease of mortal thought and ex- perienee. Christian Science teaches
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