Article June 11, 1910 Issue

THE LECTURES

with contributions from Francis J. Hambly, W. J. Hill, Colonel Hobart, Jacob S. Shield

An audience that taxed the seating capacity of the Victory Theater listened for an hour and a half last evening [April 18] to an impressive address on the subject of Christian Science by Frank H. Leonard of Brooklyn, N. Y. The lecturer was introduced by Francis J. Hambly, one of San Jose's most prominent attorneys, who said,—

The large audience assembled is but another proof of the great interest there is in Christian Science, and of the desire of the people of the world to ascertain the actual facts and learn the truth about this great movement, from sources that can be relied upon. Since the days of Jesus the Christ, the Christian world has accepted as true the Biblical accounts of the healing of the sick by him and by his disciples, through spiritual means alone. It has accepted as true the fact that for three hundred years after his ascension his followers likewise healed the sick, and that down through the succeeding centuries there have been occasional healings as the result of an uplifted spiritual consciousness and prayer. In the year 1866, an American woman, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, was so healed,—raised from the bed of death when material means had failed,—and she came to the conclusion that her healing, and the healing work of the Master and his followers, were the result, not of the mere pleasure of an anthropomorphic God, but of a great spiritual rule or law, eternal, infinite, and universal in its application, and thereafter she devoted herself to the discovery of that rule or law, the method by which the healing work had been and could be done.

That rule or law was subsequently discovered by her, revealed to her, proven and demonstrated, and published and given to the world in her great work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the Christian Science text-book. That rule or law, through and by its Principle, God, heals the sinning as well as the sick. This, in part, has been the precious contribution of Mrs. Eddy to the human race. Through and by it the lives of countless thousands have been saved and blessed, and the great healing work goes on daily, and must continue to go on, redeeming human consciousness through the power and activity of Truth, until man's freedom from sin, disease, and death has been wholly demonstrated.—San Jose Mercury.

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