The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-19
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE DELIVERED HERE

gone. Berin d ana cling 70 H. and
keep on ciinginR 10 the thought that
it does not make any difference 20
us what the calendar Eaya that we
know uat God i8 life and that man.
ihe inago ana iifcuess n God.
knows That lie % not q God u the
dead, but o God o. fhe living and
that mans hluhnght t. LIFE
Sow we Christian Scientists DO not
claim that 40 have yet reached the
point where we completely overcOme
what Is universally termed sin, dis
care. or death. but we 10 can atten.
ton 20 The fact according 10 the
returns or the 1910 ceusns-I have
not been able 10 get the figures yet
,of ls20-that during the twenty
five years preceding that time there
WA nn added increase of longevity
n sixteen years. ana that was the
first twenty-five year during which
Christian Science had become uni.
v~crEaliy known and was being
practiced the world over. III IN thu.
twenty-five years 81 this knowledge
OF tho alincas and the changelessneas
Of God as Lifo In our feeble grasp Of
II, u could have produced such q con.
dillon aa that, We know that, as We
come 70 q better. and a higher. and
a holior and a purer knowledge OF
God. We shall continue 20 grow IA
iongeyity until we shall again have
upon the earth the age OF the ante
iluvians. and then n that sense OF
Limitation viii pass away, we shall
know God and Jesus Christ whom
lie hath sent. ana 10 know Him a.
eternal LIFE as the Bible teaches US.
That age OF the nntedluyians has
been al unhappy feature FOR the
natural scientists. They could not
explain Il away. They could not set
around Il; but recently they decided
that they could get around Il.
for just before going 10 Europe last
spring a little magazine published
in New York was sent 20 me IN which
the editor expressed himself as dc.
lighted 10 think that az last the
scientists-not the Christian scien.
ugtA but the natural sclentists-had
found the explanation for the age Of
tho antedilvians. The magazine went
on 10 say that they had resolved. or
rather had d~etcrpined. after all these
ages OF research. that the only meas.
sure OF time the antediluyians had
wa the lunar measure OF time.
which would mean a month, and
that therefore in these stories Of the
age OF tho antediluyians. where
ever tho word year appears. there
should be inserted the word month:
and then II went on to give an illus
traiion. II said. for instance. these
stories tell US that Adam lived 10 be
nine hundred and thirty years Of age.
and the word month" being sub
siituied. and those months being re.
solved into years ~ tho division OF
twelve, II would show that Adam
lived 10 he about sev~enty-elght years
OF age, which was a rather close
approximation TO the theory OF three
score and ten being the natural life
Of mar upon earth.
Now. that sounds quite logical.
and coming from tho natural scien.
lists is bound to have a good deal
OF force. But there arc ono or two
little things that interfere with the
acceptance OF that theory and / want
TO call your attention 20 two OF them.
In the same story IN tho Bible where
they teach us that Adam lived TO be
nine hundred and thirty years OF age,
Il also tells us that when Seth was
born Adam was one hundred and
thirty years Of age. Cali that months,
resolve Il into years. and It shows
that Seth wns born when Adam was
ten and ono.half years OF age; and lie
already had two children.
II Is even worse with Methuselah.
because the Bible says that when
Mcthuselah was born his father
Enoch was sixty.five years OF age.
and reading that In the same way It
shows that when Methuselah was
born. Enoch, his father. was five and
half years old.
II is not Amazing that every at
tempt on the part OF human theory
TO explain away the almightyrcss OF
tho Word Of God and It's truth
always Stays itself. because Il Is not
and cannot be logical: but when il
is presented to us as it should be, the
logic Is clear TO us and brings TO us
the thought OF the old patriarch,
who cried TO us. ,,Turn vn turn vn