The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-07-26
Christian Science; It's Logical Interpretation Of Scripture, is
 Subject of Lecture Last Night

A lecture on Christian Science entitled Christian Science: Its Logical Interpretation of Scripture was given in Scottish Rite Temple last night, under the auspices of the First Church of Christ, Scien- list, Juneau, by William Duncan Fitzpatrick, c. $. B. of Detroit, Michigan, Member of the Board Of Lectureship of The Mother Church, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. The lecturer was introduced by Samuel E. Pope.
 The lecturer said in part: l Tn her various works on the subject, the Discoverer and Found CT of Christian Sciene, Mary Bak- CT Eddy, has included many wide and far-reaching predictions. His tory has proved and is constantly proving not only the verity of these predictions but the further fact that they evidenced a keen spiritual faculty, vision, and fore sight. In her book entitled 'Pul- pit and Press" (p. 22) Mrs. Eddy makes this statement: 'If the lives of Christian Scientists attest their fidelity to Truth, I predict that lin the twentieth century every Christian church in our land, and a few in far-off lands, will approx innate the understanding of Chris tian Science sufficiently to heal the sick in his name. Christ will give to Christianity his new name, and Christendom will be classified as Christian Scientists.
 This prediction was made rela- lively a short time ago. Very re- gently, according to reports ap- bearing in the press of the coun- try, one of the large Protestant church denominations in the Unit ed States, at it's regular, general convention, was presented with a report submitted by a joint con- nlittee composed of bishops and deputies of that organization, after six years of careful study and in- vestigation on the part of the com mittee, which report finds as fol- lows:
 1. That Christian Science
 healing has passed beyond the
 stage of experiment and it's
 value cannot be questioned.
 2. That throughout the
 world spiritual healing is no
 longer the hope of a few, but
 the belief and practice Of a
 large and rapidly increasing
 number of persons.
 3. That such healing is an
 experience of mankind that 1 can no longer be questioned.
 4. That while faith in any
 supposed remedy produces some
 effect, vital faith in God, as
 revealed in Christ, is followed
 by results which are more
 sure, more lasting, and of
 more evidently spiritual char
 acter."
 That report was signed and sub mitted not only by bishops and deputies of the church but by some of the leading physicians and sur eeons of the United States.
 God
 "The foundation of the entire revelation which Mrs. Eddy has given to humanity in Christian Science is the clear concept oi God and man which she gained though her ceaseless and prayerful search of the Scripture. Therefore it is to the Scriptures we all must 20 of we would know the true Goa l revealed in Christian Science. By way of deduction let us see if we cannot come to clear concep- of God. In the first chapter o1 Genesis we read this: And God said. Let us make man in our inn age. after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl oi the air. and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepetn upon the earth. So God created man ln his own image, in the image o1 God created he him.. and Goo saw every thing that he had made and, behold, it was very good Here we find man perfect image of God, pure, holy, spiritual, and upright.
 Now, turning to the very next chapter of Genesis, just six verses farther along in the Bible, we reac this: .Put there went up a mist from the earth. |. and the Lore God formed man of the dust oi the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul Here We have a second account of the creation of man diametrically op- posed to the first account in the first chapter of Genesis just six | short verses removed Then going on a little farther, the third chap ter of Genesis has this to say about this man made from the dust of the ground, this man who goes by the name of Adam. this man of flesh and blood and bones