The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-06
SEELEY SPEAKS ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCEIN
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM

A lecture on Christian Science
what it is and how it works, was. de-
livered by Paul Stark Seeley, c. S.
B., member of the board of lecture
ship of the mother church, The First
church Of Christ, Scientist, in Boston,
Mass, at the high school auditorium
Friday evening. Mr.. d. C. Stott in
troduced the speaker, who said:
Christian Science brings a healing
message. 1t condemns nothing but
evil. 1t exalts nothing but good. It
IS not the dogma of a denomination.
II is the Word of Truth in which sci
ence and religion are seen as one,
and in this one is found true medi-
cine, even the healing power of God.
1t matters not where one may be on
life's road, Christian Science brings
to the listening ear message of help
fulness and love. To the sick it
shows the certain way to health, to
the one entangled in the meshes of
sin 1t adds moral courage to right
resolve, and points the road to free
dom and deliverance. To those
weighed down by burden and distress
it opens the highway of peace and
happiness through a fuller under
standing of the goodness and of the
love of God. To all who seek for
better things 1t is the dawn of a new
light, that supplants mystery with
reason, ignorance with intelligence,
doubt with confidence. and unkind-
ness with love.
: In early womanhood Mrs. Eddy be-
came convinced that Christ Jesus
healed by some certain law and that
the same law could be applied now
as well as then. Her high hope was
illustrated by this remark made by
her when invalidism seemed almost
too much for her to bear, 81 know
God can and will cure me, if only
could understand His way" To "un-
derstand His way" became the OBJ
jective of her life. Abandoned by
friends, forsaken by relatives, burden
ed by sorrow, sickness. and poverty,
this frail New England gentlewoman
pressed forward for twenty years in
untiring search for that law of heal
ing which is as eternal as the love
of God and as unchanging.
Shortly after Lincoln had accom-
plished his God-appointed task there
came to the waiting thought of this
pure woman, at a moment of extreme
physical need, clear perception Of
the law and method by which Christ
Jesus and the early Christians had
healed the sick and she was instant
~ healed from the results of what
had been pronounced a fatal injury.
But it required nine years of further
study and application of this law be-
fore the Christian Science textbooks,
Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures, was completed and given
to the world, This book corroborates
and explains the teachings of the BIZ
BILE. 1t pierces with the rays of spir-
itual Truth every human problem and
omits nothing that needs TO be known
in order to accomplish the full deliv-
erence of men from the bondage to
evil and mortality. Written in Lynn,
Massachusetts, in a lonely attic cham
Der, under a single sky-light window,
the rays of its healing message have
lightened the hearts of multitudes.
And its work is only begun.
In the world today we observe
many good ideas that are command
ing increased consideration. These
ideas pertain to the welfare and bet
terment of men, individually and col
lectiVely. We note the idea of indus
trial justice as between employers
and employees being given fuller CON
sideration than ever before. Indus
trial leaders are realizing that the
time is near when the great masses
of mankind must be freed from the
overburden of physical toll and the