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Show CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE BY j. n. dm I John Randall Dunn, member of the board of lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, spoke to a large congregation in the Christian Science church edifice, Twenty-third and Monroe, last evening. 'He was Intro-ud Intro-ud by Jack' Littlefleld, and said: Christian Science Is not a modern Philosophy, not the "product of a fertile fer-tile human brain." It is the revelation revela-tion of the spiritual facts of being, the prevelation of the truth about God and man taught by Jesus and the prophets, and it is all to be found in the Bible. 1 nc Kain Marked By Jesus. Have you ever seen in the mountains moun-tains a "blazed" trail? A large piece of bark is cleft from a tree, and thiB operation Is repeated on other trees at frequent intervals throughout the length of the trail. No matter how the tree's may grow, the "blaze" remains, re-mains, and so the trail Is marked out for generations to come. When the world seemed immersed in the materialism mater-ialism of Jewish theology and Roman paganism, there appeared one whose mission was to point the way to spirituality, to deliverance and healing, heal-ing, and he "blazed" a trail to the Father's home so plain, so simple, that a child could follow it. But In after centuries fast-growing weeds of ritual and human doctrines, of political politi-cal power and ecclesiastical world-Hness, world-Hness, obscured the trail, and mortals seemed content to follow the devious paths of creeds until in our time a woman-pilgrim came upon it and gave to her discovery the name Christian Science, or the Science of Christianity, and she rested not until she had written a book showing you and me how to find It. This guidebook guide-book is called "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and is the text-book which Christian Scientists Scient-ists use in connection with their manual man-ual of life, the Bible. Christianity Is Exact Science. "Mrs. Eddy discovered that the religion re-ligion taught by Jesus Is as exact a science as is the science of numbers; num-bers; that a Christian should be enabled en-abled to overcome sickness, fear, discouragement, proverty, or any other discord, with the same readiness readi-ness and certainty of correct result that he takes to his problem In mathematics. ma-thematics. The Mission of the Saviour. "A story is told of a shipwrecked sailor who was cast upon a far-off isle inhabited by semisavage tribes. One day he came upon a group of wrangling natives, and, inquiring the cause of the commontion, learned that there was a certain supply of cocoa-nuts cocoa-nuts brought to the island to be equally equal-ly distributed among these men, and no one could decide as to the number that each should have. The sailor counted the cocoanuts. He found one hundred. He counted the men. There were twenty-five of them. Without hesitation he said, "Sach will have four as his share." Imagine his surprise sur-prise when the natives straightway flung themselves at his feet, called him a god, and proceeded to worship him! Try as he might, he could not persuade the simple folk that his instantaneous in-stantaneous calculation was the result of an understanding of the principle of mathematics and was in no sense miraculous. "To the bewildered and heartsick children of men came a Saviour. Understanding Un-derstanding the great problems, bringing bring-ing Instantaneous answers in health and reformation and regeneration. He plainly said that of himself he did not the works, and that if they would but understand his mission and his Principle, they too could solve the problems as did he. But they called him a wonder-worker, worshiped his personality, and crucified him! And the human mind has continued continu-ed its misapprehension down through the centuries, with the result that we still see thousands professing Christianity Christ-ianity and worshiping the personality person-ality of Jesus, but following him in practical demonstration of divine power not at all! The Sign of a Christian. "Do you know that Jesus once pointed out a very simple method of discovering a true Christian? The directions are to be found iu the sixteenth six-teenth chapter of Mark, and follow Immediately the well-known command to 'preach the gospel to every creature.' cre-ature.' His words are: " 'And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up Ber-pents; Ber-pents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.' "Christian, are we measuring up to this standard? Suppose we are traveling trav-eling in a distant land, and a would-be would-be convert says to us: 'Are you a Christian ' And upon receiving an affirmative reply, suppose ne next says: 'Oh, how glad I am that you came! I see by your Bible that signs are to follow the true believers. Now I am possessed by a veritable devil, I am a vicitim of the opium habit. Do, I bog of you, through your beautiful beau-tiful religion, cast this devil out!' What would we say - Would we recommend rec-ommend a well-known sanitarium famed fam-ed for its treatment of the drug habit, or what would we do? Supposo he then says: 'My old mother is very ill. I seo by your book that a Christian, Chris-tian, understanding the great power taught by Jesus, can cause her to recover re-cover Come, I pray you, and heal her!'' What yould we now say? Would we suggest a change of doctors, or recommend a now diet or climate or would we undertake to put our faith to the test? And if by chance we say to this hungering thought: Ah ruy dear sir, that was not meant for' our time! The days of healing are past.'do not bo surprised if he closes the Bible and hands it back with this statement: 'Very well! I have a religion to die by that is older old-er than youra" ' |