LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2504, 3 July 1915, Page 8

LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

'A lecture upon "Christian Science" was given in the Concert Chamber of tho U'own Hall last- evening by Mr. Virgtl.O. Stricklcr, C.S. In the course of . his' address, _Mr. Strickler said that it was undeniable that Christian Science had healed many sick peoplo. Among its membership were those who had been healed of intemperance, of so-called- chronic and organic diseases, as well as of . maladies that were acute or functional. It had healed .others ofsorrow, fear, unhappiness, and similar diseased mental cbnditiona that often cause more suffering than physical'disorders. "In every case of Christian Science healing, whether the disease was chronic or. acute, physical or mental, the cure was brought about without tho use of hypnotism, mental suggestion, drugs, 'or any material means, and entirely through the application of the spiritual and metaphysical teachings of Christian Science.

The healing of tho sick, however,-, was not- tlio'primary purpose of Christian Science. Accoi-dijin; to- the -teachings of this science all sickness and.;,disease result from error and-• false belief, which wero summarised as sin, and when the error of belief was destroyed by the truth .which Christian Science imparted. tho disease disappeared. Christian Science, therefore, taught that the cause of-all disease and -sin was mental, and not physical, and that both sin and disease may bo curcd by one and the same metaphysical process, namely, by the substitution of spiritual truth in placo of error and false belief in the human, consciousness.

"Christian Science showed that it was the effect produced by truth operating in the human mentality, destroying superstition, false and vicious' beliefs that must' and will somo day emancipate mankind from ■ bondage ■to sin,' disease, and death," continued the speaker. "Somo day all mankind would recognise tho immeasurable service that Mrs. Eddy had rendered to. humanity by her discovery of Christian Science and tho establishment of the Christian Science movement. Through her teaching she had-elevated religious understanding from a theoretical to a practical basis. She had taught tho world that it was the mission' of religion to heal peqplo of' sickness, sorrow, unhappiness, and fear, as ivell as to destroy sin, and had so clearly defined the process by means of which these results may be accomplished as to make it possible for every one ,to prove it for'himself and thereby to lieal himself and others."-