The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-02-25
A LECTURE ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Delivered by Bicknell Young,
c. S. b., of Chicago, in
Globe Theatre


Church, The First Church Of Christ,
! Scientist, in Boston, Mass, in Globe
Theatre, Boardwalk and ST. Charles
Place, last Sunday afternoon. There
was large attendance
| A briel report of the lecture fol-
lows:
| There lately fell into my hands a
newspaper clipping describing the
discovery of a new disease. About
sixty years ago Mary Baker Eddy
discovered Christian Science and
coordinately discovered that there
is no disease, either old or new.
This astonishing event, strange as
it may seem to you, had to do with
facts, not theories. 1t was purely
| scientific and ethical, and it's high
| purpose was not tainted by any per-
! sor.al ambition. Mrs. Eddy was not
seeking fame but truth. and she
found it in the mental realm where
truth exists primarily and exclu
| sively.
Our purpose is wholly benevo-
lent, our Science strictly Christian.
! The object we have in view is to
extend its immeasurable benefits TO
all mankind, and we solicit your in
terest only that you may understand
| it and put it to the test in your
daily lives.
Without study and investigation,
without careful observation and
| comparison, the chemist or physi-
! cist can make no scientific advance
ment. We are accustomed to this
/ fact and entirely reconciied to it.
| Prior to the discovery of Christian
Science, however, the world at
large, even the exceptionally intel
lectual part of it, was not aware
hat exactly the same rule applies
TO spiritual advancement. Mrs. Ed
dyo discovery that the works of
Jesus were scientific and sequen-
tial, instead of being as is general
ly supposed, mysterious and Spora-
die, came about in exactly the same
way that other great discoveries are
made, that is to say, through obser-
walton of ascertained or ascertain
| able facts, and the method of dis
covery entailed the same unswerv-
| ing allegiance to facts that has
1 characterized great scientific inves-
tigators frca. time immemerial
| Material existence Of Itself indi-
Gates nothing of the Immortality of
man, and yet religion as generally
/ understood, and the material sys-
TENS of healing generally accepted,
are at one in ascribing to material
existence a divine origin. Taking
this view, it is only another step,
and, according to that false prem
Use, logical one. for them both to
teach that the troubles of the huma
race must also have a divine origin.
Then we find these systems engag-
ed in the attempt to overcome afflic-
lions and diseases which they re-
gard as legitimate and inevitable
phenomena in the universe. 1t is
manifest that from this field of
thought springs no flower of hope
TO justify the Psalmist's assurance,
II shall be satisfied, when ] awake,
with thy likeness"
Mrs. Eddy's personal experience
had convinced her of the futility OF
material methods She read the
Bible in a new light and perceived
the deep scientific Significance OF
it's teachings. Thus she discovered
the Science of Christ, Christian
Science She tested ii by healing
the sick and reforming the sinner
and finally gave it TO the world in
her book, Science and Health witt
Key to the Scriptures" No one cal
deny the deep devotion and unself
ishness of her work. 1t remains fol-
us to carry it on by following the
teachings her writings contain.
Christian Science has given II:
eyes to see the real way and the I'm
derstanding to walk in it, but
would not give the impression tina
this way and this understanding
can cOnse TO you without any effor
on your part.
The thinking that resembles Goo
and thinking is the only thins
about human being that ever doe!
} resemble Gods the way, and th'
Z only way of deliverance.
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The Supreme Court, of Connect
cut has decreed that persons riding
on the back seat of an automobile
shall "sit still and say nothing.
, But there is yet another court to b,
baord from,