Show WHICH PACKS e HOUSE HOUS LISTENS TO TAlK BY SCiENTIST ORATOR t I Virgil O. O Strickler Member of Board of I f Lectureship of Mother Church in Boston S Delivers Interesting Lecture to Throng Which F Fills ls Salt Lake Theatre on Principles Principles ples pies and Doctrines of That Faith i an audience which packed I BEFORE the Salt Sal Lake Lalee theatre yesterday t afternoon Virgil O. O Strickler o of ot Boston member of the tho board of or lec lectureship ec- ec oston of ot the mother church theS tho the S First Church of or Christ Scientist of or Boston delivered a lecture upon the S. S principles and doctrines of ot that tha faith The rhe speaker wa was Introduced b by Robert RobertS S B. B j Porter of ot Salt Sal Lake Mr 11 Porter i said said- Whether or not we arc are members o othe of oft t the o Christian Science church we must mustS S acknowledge that it I has been a tremendous tro- tro 5 force during the tho past half century centurI Whether hether or not we bele believe in Its teachings we se must admit It has had a wonderful Influence for good durin during that time I Every Ever new nev or organization ever every great movement must encounter hostile hostie critiS criticism S S from those who cism and often oren ridicule oppose It It The Christian Christan Science church has no not escaped this criticism or this ridicule hut but disregarding it i it It has hast t grown rown until the world yord has been forced forcel to acl acknowledge o Its Is mission Every err religion that gives hope and that makes men and women better heter etter that teaches them a hl higher her r re regard re- re 4 gard urd for all al things spiritual er e every re rel religion re- re JS l ligion im i'm that lifts ls men a little le It le above 4 where they stood before o has a right J to exist and should meet a responsive chord from every worker In humanity's cause everywhere The man who believes only In fn his hisS S own cause CRUS and refuses to listen to the j cause of ot others is a bl bigot ot narrow and of little use to his fellowmen The Theman Theman man who believes In his own cause but S. S who Iio also niso believes there is good in e cr everything Is a sage ageo broad and liberal i and a coworker co In all al great reforms Growth is Is Isa a law of nature as well vell wel as a command of ot God Growth Is de development de- de along right t lines Development Development Develop Develop- ment comes from rom contact with wih other men mon In sifting from all al things the good as the Individual Is IH able ablo to judge jude f the good and in paying heed to onos ono's Sc con conscience clen e ln In this spirit It I becomes m my duty lluY to 1 present to you ou as the speaker of the afternoon ono one of tho tIo gifted del men mep mel o of tho the F mother church one one of oC the chosen few feu to carr carry th the gospel of ot the thc church to all al p the people I take pleasure in presenting to you rou s Virgil O. O Strickler C. C S. S member of the i Christian Science board of ot lectureship I of ot the mother church who will rIhl wl speak SI to you ou on Christian Science S Mr ill Strickler address s in full ful was wasas wasas wasas as follows However However much people 1 may tiia a differ In their attitude towards Christian Sd once el c every ono one will wH admit admi that It I has I done lano many good bood things Entirely apart from the of ph physical healing it Is generally conceded that It I pr PI duces a a. happy happ and contented mentality that It Il destroys fear teal and anti makes people loving 10 and kind When we C add to this the fact fac that it has healed man many sick people who had previously ro been unable to find relief under other systems that it has lias cured man many of or tho the dru drug habit and ant of or the thc liquor habit has restored harmony In Inmany Inmany Inmany many homes th that t were dl discordant and i has given n hope and to people I. I who were discouraged It is easy to understand wh why Christian Christan Science clence has spread from flom one end enl o of tho the earth to the thc other with wih such wonderful rapidity It I has been heen truly said that every ery person person person per per- son son has a problem either physical or 01 t- t mental al a domestic or a business problem problem lem hem towards tho the solution o of which ho lie needs Gods God's help an l i if Christian Science Sd- Sd ence enco Is 13 a able ble to help people to be happy happ to be less ICES finding fault faul to he be healthy to have lets less fear ear and amI to have hoYe more love hove S then it Is something that every one de desires de- de sires Before becoming becoming Interested In Christian Christian Chris Chrls- tian Uan Science I was a member of or an orthodox ox church I had been len taught to read tho the Bible and to respect and venerate ven vj- crate erate its Is teach teachings Inks and I did BO so There ThereS S was ono one thing tiling however howe cl that I 1 was waH i nev never r able to understand and that was j why everybody who lived at the time of or c cans esus ms and witnessed Ills His wonderful orl s did not believe o In 10 him bun It I seemed to me that if Ir I had lived at that time S find and had been able to see ace Him Ilm heal lepS leprosy leprosy lep lep- S rosy blindness insanity and raise rise the tue lead dead It would have been very Ivery cas easy to believe e bele In Him People who witnessed tho those c works woral however hoc were not always impressed In Ills Ils favor because of ot them I Sometimes when he performed one o of Ills Ils most wonderful cures cures It Il stirred somo some of the people to rage For In Instance inc In- In c stance ce when he raised Lazarus from tho the dead one of ot the eyewitnesses S hastened has has- toned to report It to the authorities In I Jerusalem and the Jewish 1 t forthwith declared that Ho Ito must be It killed I cd because thc they said sid If 1 JUst they did not Him kill kUI ki Him all al tho the People would follow Since becoming a Christian Scientist T I fl M h r 1 1 A 4 HY LIW Ot Ut IllS HIS time were not convinced by the tho works of oC Jesus that Ho 10 was the true of ot God They hey believed ed bele that a Messiah would come but hut the they expected him hita to come in Iii a certain way and be because be- be cruse cause he did dil not come in that way the they L refused lo 10 o believe belee In iii Him It I Is the thie name anie quality of ot thought that prevents people at tho the present time from being convinced that Christian 5 Science is the truth by hy the tat works ChrIstan that It docs does All of or the churches I Al pray for tin the recovery ery of ot tho the sick The They do so because because be be- be lo cause the they expect that God Goe will heal wil r. r according to Ills His Ils promises es in the Bible J I but when ihen tho the healing comes COmOS through the i Christ Chrls Christian Ian an Science church and as the result re- re suit ault of ot Christian Science Christan prayer rayel some aro are arc ready cady to condemn It f Because tl thu tho healing Christ does docs not come In the wa wS way i. i thc they have o expected they are just jUt as ast r ready ad toda today as two thousand years t to declare that He Tie did Ills His ago n ago leclare le works through Beelzebub II 4 Let u us not nol rob roh our h s or of any good things because or of I or Christian Christan Is knockIng at the door or of this age with wih n a message jot or hope for tor every one it declares that the Ihie truth taught and by Jesus operating Is today and that thai it i ir IS ns as nsf available tr for us Ut as It Was for r who f lived In apostolic times i 4 Science healing The that has Caused the most of oC Christian ChrIstan ScIence is that it claims to heal the sIck without 11 drugs i spiritual means only tn through h or of and as this Is IR the hc phase ot of Christian ChrIstan Science In which the tu lc Seems V to b bo o most Interested I f take the ine lbert liberty of discussing the ther with ll s some n e particularity and antI r shall i F tf c that ifan have endeavor entea to tho the objections been Presented to healing b by c pr prayer er tel E t fhelt ar art two Vo classes of bf critics who x those Christian Science healing FIrtH First anti and holc i who V ba Say a l that at It Is Impossible for or Christian Chrls- Chrls tian ho be lan Science c to claim chaim that the sick ma may healed without dru drugs through tho the o oli li i ot of Prayer and second those ho claim i that It II Js is to toto tc to do so All 1 crl criticism m of ot I Christian Science healing falls under these two heads head tais Wih respect to the first class clas those who ho say a that It I is 18 Impossible it can only be answered that through Chris I CI tian tan Science all al kinds of diseases have been healed This cannot bo be denied Tho Thu entire Christian Christan Science movement is s made up of bt people who have been healed Most of ot them turned to Christan Christian Chris Chris- tian tan Science as a last resort after aftel hayIng hay hay- ing lag failed to get get relief through other channels channel Christian Science churches are built buit with wih rone money contributed as as a thank o offering to God by those who have havo been healed through Christian Science The person ierson In this Christan da day who denies that Christan Christian Science heals the sick is merely merey closing his eyes to what ho does not wish to see It I is 15 a fact tact that Christian ChrIstan Science does heal all al manner of disease and suffering and It Is a 0 fact tact for which everyone everone should bo ho I grateful With lh respect to the tho second class those who think that It Is un unscriptural scrIptural for fOI Christian Science to teach that the thc sick ma may be healed without drugs by spiritual means on oni only 1 through the med medium me- me d in of or prayer I will j fa say ay that It I I is difficult to understand how an any person person per per- son SOIl who has studied the Bible or be be- hieves leves In God can be troubled b by such sucha a question It I seems obvious that people peo pee plo who pray to God for tor everything the they desire desire might also be expected to pra pray to Him for tor deliverance from sickness sickness sick sick- ness as well wehl wel as aM from sin Christian Science declares without nn an any equivocation that the tho truth taught by JuSus eSus when hen rightly understood and I rightly applied Is sufficient without the tho aid of or an anything else whatsoever ese both to heal tho the sick and to regenerate the sinner Inner This then gives gIves us a startIng startIng start- start Ing In point from which to begin to measure measure meas incas ure Christian ChrIstan Science with wih the Scrip Scrip- tures It I must be admitted that Jesu Jesus healed tho the sick by metaphysical and not b by physical means He lie did not admin admin- ister Ilter drugs nor recommend their use and yet ret he lie healed tho the sick In some somo n nl u- u ho 4 hn o V JH 1 UL n. n infallible Organic diseases yielded to his treatment as readily as those that were purely functional People who vho wore ero born blind and with crooked and andin in ml misshapen I ss ii a pe n P bodies od I Cs fo d ii d t themselves h e ins elves restored to normal conditions under his pathological pathologIcal treatment as readily as those who vho were suffering from fevers or Insanity The question Is is How low did lb Ho do it f and Is it I possible o for human beings s now walking the earth to learn his method so as to be able to produce cures in inthe inthe the tle same way Many Ian believe that Jesus was as able ablo to do his wonderful works orI because he hewa was wa divine divine and therefore that it Is Impossible to do the works he lie did and even cn c blasphemous for tor an any person to claim to do them This however will wil not explain the tho exercise of of oC the same ame power by hl hi his disciples and b by the early Christans Christians Jesus himself never ne said anything to Justify such a beler belief On the contrary he apparently took every overy precautIon to prevent ent such a theory from becoming prevalent pro In 11 a a. conversation with wih his disciples concerning this vcr very matter recorded In n the thc fourteenth chapter o of the Gospel of or John he said in the tenth verso thou not that I am In Inho ho the tho Father and the Father in me Tho The words word that I speak unto you I speak not ot of m myself but the Father that in me He lie the works This was equivalent to saying that God Gods is 11 s mind and that He lie le dwelt In mind and mind In Him so that He lie le of ot himself himsel did not do an anything but it was vas God oper operating tins through Him that dl did the worl Giving all al honor and power to the Father He said ald the Son can do nothing nothing of or himself On all al occasions Jesus denied that lie He lo had hind any power ower In or of at himself and declared al a always 8 that It was sas Gods God's Gals Gal's operating through Him that enabled him Urn Him to lo do tho the works He lie likewise de declared do- do that the divine power operating through h him was available to everyone and could be possessed b by everyone everon who vho accepted h his teachings and fulfilled their heir requirements In this connection It I is significant that hat Jesus never at nt nn any time sent out bus ils disciples to preach without telling them also to heal the sick There Thero is no Scriptural authority for tor preaching that does docs not have coupled with wih it the 1 command to heal Go yo ye O Into all al the time world and preach the gospel gospel and heal I tile Ins lw sick were ere his hit commands Lest Lost I there should hould be nn any doubt about It he lie said Verily Veril Veri verl verily I say unto you ou I lie He le that on me the tho works that I do shall he lie do also because I go unto my Father Almost Almot the last Jast words that lie ho 10 uttered before his ascension were These signs Igns shall follow them that b believe bo- bo leve lieve le e and among amon other things 5 ho enumerated thoy they should heal the time sick Not once once In all al the record did he ev ever r PrImitive Christian heeling u it Ll wua wu a u surprise c iu me lime as it ml t tU at It less cs will be he to somo of you rOi to learn loarn that hat the primitive church healed the sll sick ick and raised the dead This fact vaa wal one of ot the tho things s that first opened I ly thought to Christian Science conco and cau caused ed me inc to see sec that in healing tho tl SiCK Ick the time Christian Science clence church was not ot ani only obeying the commands o of Jesus to go o Into all al the time world an and the tho gospel and heal the lie tie sick Ick I lint jut was In fact establishing rc rc thu the work of ot time the primitive church History records that tho the healing or of f the tho sick was a part of ot the regular 1 church hurch ministry for years after the tue he crucifixion and that the dead w were ro raised during lUlng the first and second cen- cen tunes Afterward the tho healing power was fK ost lost and history shows 1 why You wil recall recal that tho the J Emperor Constantine Constan- Constan tine ine became a 0 convert to Christianity in iii i the third c century Tradition records re- re cords that he ho was healed of or an In- In incurable cort curable disease by some seine member of time tle ic Christian Christan church and that out of or gratitude for his healing lie he became an n ardent Christian He lie made tho the Christian religion the tho official religion of oC f his ills empire with wih the result that tho the church vet el very popular Multi Multi- udes tUlOS of ot people united with wih It I not be- be cause of their spiritual growth or be- be the they understood Is Its teachings but ut merely merel because It was the tho proper thing |