Article December 4, 1909 Issue

THE LECTURES

with contributions from C. C. Rice, T. T. Beach, E. W. Dickey

William D. McCrackan, M.A., delivered a lecture on Christian Science in the I. O. O. F. Hall, Oct. 21. He was introduced by C. C. Rice, Ph.D., of the State University of Idaho, who spoke in part as follows:—

Christian Science is a practical philosophy. The Christian Science church is a great and rapidly growing religious denomination devoted to healing the sick and reforming the sinful. The Founder of this denomination, Mary Baker Eddy of New England, declares that she has discovered the Principle by which the miracles of Christ were wrought. Her followers claim that they heal sickness and destroy sin by that divine healing power which their revered Leader discovered, applied in her practice, and promulgated in her remarkable writings. I am not regularly associated with this extensive Christian organization, but I am a Christian Scientist in the sense of knowing and appreciating Mrs. Eddy's life and works, and believing that the activities of her denomination are beneficent. The Christian Science church preaches personal purity and temperance with a sincerity and zeal which place it in the front rank among agencies in Christendom striving to destroy the works of the devil. Christian Science is a force operating against all manner of naughtiness and annihilating the thraldom of sensuality over the vitiated human sense. By turning our thoughts from the petty ills and fleeting pleasures of today to fix our attention on the eternal purposes of God, Christian Scientists are doing a real service to the Christendom of our time.

The watchword of Christian Science is not theological, polemic, or esoteric metaphysics. It is "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons." Christian Science is known to heal disease. This is done in a way similar to the healing wrought by Jesus and his apostles, as recorded in the New Testament. The doctrinaire critic or skeptical scientist may take this claim of healing disease to be superstitious, but in view of the numerous testimonies of physical healing printed in the periodicals of the sect, I think the claim should be admitted at least by Christians, who as such must acknowledge the truthfulness of the Gospel narratives on which the theory of Christian Science practice plainly rests.

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