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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM TUESDAY, MA 13, 1919.

CATTLE ARMAGEDDON IS BETWEEN FLESH AND SPIRIT, SAYS DUNN

The - lapgest attended Christian Science lecture ever held In Richmond was given Monday evening in the church edifice at 1417 North A street by John Randall Dunn, C. S. The lecture was given under the auspices of the "Mother church at Boston. The church building was unable to accommodate all those who attempted to hear Mr. Dunn. 1 A summary of the speaker's lecture follows: , ': ' The widespread interest in the subject of Christian Science, in this and other lands, is traceable directly to the fact that enslaved - mortals are flndins in its spiritual teaching that

liberator graphically pictured by Isaiah

as sent "to preach good tidings unto the meek: . . .to bind up the brok

enhearted, to proclaim liberty to the

captives, and the opening of the pris

on to them that are bound. Tne at

tempts of some misinformed critics to prove that Christian Science is not this liberator, that the sick are not healed, the sinning reformer, nor the

sorrowing comforted through its min

istrations, are of course of little mo

ment in the presence of an ever In

creasing host of witnesses testifying to the fact that whereas they were bound physically, mentally, or morally, now they are experiencing through the teachings of Christian Science a greater measure of health, freedom, and happiness than they have ever known. What would those who fancy themselves opposed to this spiritual teaching have its students do? Would they ask the man who states, and whose family corroborates his statement, that he has been freed from the torments of alcoholism, to go back to his appe.tite and his bondage? Would they bid the infidel who through Christian Science has become a believer in and lover of the Bible, discard that holy

volume, and tread again his cheerless, godless road? Would they bring back

the pain and anguish wnicn in me cases of thousands of men and women and little children have been banished

by the touch of this healing evangel?! Surely this Is no time to oppose the coming to saddened humanity of a spiritual message the certain effect of which is the uplift and comfort of mankind. It might be recommended, therefore, to those who feel called upon to ridicule and revile the Christian Scientists, that perhaps the safest and most Christian attitude for them to assume Is to be found In Gamaliel's sound advice to the would-be persecutors of the apostles as recorded in the fifth chapter of Acts: "And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to naught; but if it be of God. ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." The Christian Science Monitor, the international daily newspaper published by the Christian Science Publishing Society, is conceded even by many

weeds of religious intoleranca and big

otry, sailed the Pilgrim Fathers. Ana when the freedom . of their descendants was at stake in 1776 and their

unity threatened in 1861, there stepped: forth a George Washington and an

Abraham Lincoln to meet the human

need. And now in this age, this ma

terial mammon worshiping age, which

in spite of its wonderful material in

ventions and achievements is so nun

gering after spirituality, after healing, bodilv and mental, in this age that

Love divine which "always has met

and always will meet every human

need" (Science and Health. Phas spoken again, proclaiming to the sons of men that there is balm in Gilead, and that Gilead is not afar off but within our very reach, here and now. And should it be surprising that it was the gentle voice of a woman that was appointed to bring this message, assuring the saddened and fearful children of earth, with all the tenderness of the mother, that God is indeed able to care for his creation, to heal and to save? ' We have only to remember the pure

Jewish maiden whose uplifted sense

beheld and brought into demonstration the fatherhood of God; the repentance and gratitude of the magdalen; the faithfulness of tho women "last at the cross and first at the sepulchre;" and likewise the fidelity and devotion of the woman-thought through all the centuries, jto that which points to faith and purity we

have only to remember these, snouia the human mind find it difficult to accept the fact that Truth has spoken to this age through a woman. Prejudice Against Mrs. Eddy. I regret to confess the fact that before I knew anything about Christian Science, before I had read a line of its authorized literature, or attempted to prove by demonstration its truth

or its error, I was one of that now rapidly decreasing number of persons

saved from sin all these years?" "No," she admitted honestly, "I cannot say that I have," "Have you been saved from sickness?" "No." she replied

sadly; "I have been a terrible sufferer for years'" "Did your salvation Include deliverence from "heartache, from fear,' from worry, from poverty "No," she said; "I suppose my salva

tion was reserved entirely forme ruture life." Jesus' Definite Instructions.

It is not strange, this seemingly uni

versal misunderstanding among pro

fessing Christians regarding the teacn

ings of Jesus upon this vital point? Many Christian denominations unite

in teaching the attainment of heaven and of spirituality through death, as well as the possibility of an eternal nunishment for those who have

strayed. Now the fact of the matter is that such notions have absolutely

no connection with Jesus' teachings

Before his coming the Jews believed that the faithful were gathered to Abraham's bosom. Jesus would have

brought no new . message bad he

taueht the gaining of heaven through

dying. The Chinese have always be-

lived in an after life, and even the

Indians have clung to a hope in

haDDy hunting ground. Let us exam

ine the instructions given by Jesus to

his students, as recorded in the tenth chapter of Mathew: "Go . - v to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.; And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom

of heaven is at hand. Heal tne sick,

cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast i out devils; freely ye have received, freely give. Provided neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, . . for the workman is worthy of his meat." . - "The kingdom of heaven is at hand!" In the Christian Science textbook we read that heaven is harmony.

Therefore the message of the Savior, which indeed is good tidings of great joy to the bound and afflicted of earth, is that harmony, deliverance, salvation, are at hand, and are to be realized in the proportion that we lift our thought from the material and lay hold on the spiritual facts of being. Eternal Punishment Unthinkable

The notion of a place of eternal tor

ment is absolutely foreign to tne

teachings of him whose keynote was Love divine. In the parable of the

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marks about Mrs. Eddy, the Discov

erer and Founder of Christian Science, and in laughing at the movement in general. I was quite sure that Christian Scientists worshiped Mrs. Eddy, and that her system of healing was based upon will power, or the human mind over matter. In fact my fund of information as to what Christian Science did not teach, reminds me of the man who was endeavoring to impress his pastor with his extraordinary familiarity with the Holy Scripture. "Why, parson," he exclaimed, "I know that Bible from Genesis to Exodus!" -Christian Science Not Suggestion, But when at last I read the Christian Science textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and when I had attended a few services, I found that which no impartial investigator could fall to discover, that Christian Scientists worship the su

preme and only God, and entertain for

non-Scientists to be one of the great the revered Leader of their movement

forces for righteousness in human af

fairs today. Its object, Mrs. Eddy has stated, "is to injure no man. but to bless all mankind" (Miscellany, p. 353), and it is ever the champion of lofty patriotism, good government, and high civic ideals. It is doing more to awaken humanity to a clear metaphysical view of the earth's problems than any. other news Journal on the globe. It is brineing to the very doorstep of the reader's heart the problems, the hopes, the trials, and the achievements oi his brethren overseas and over-continents. In other words, as it has been well said, the

Monitor is teaching mortals "to think in hemispheres." Thus it is laying a sure foundation for a truer co-operation and lasting fellowship among men

and nations: and when the smoke of

only sentiments bf affection and deep gratitude. I found, Instead of a system of material philosophy, dealing with the action of will power and suggestion, the purest Christian meta

physics, based upon a spiritual sense of the Scriptures. Well may we rejoice that Mrs. Eddy during her search after Truth had investigated so-called magnetic healing, and mind cure based upon hypnotic control, and found such systems not only devoid of spirituality, but positively iniquitous. And even a casual glance through the pages of the textbook must convince any fair-minded person that Christian

Science is as far from hypnotism and suggestion as is Christ from Belial. Mrs. Eddy. As to that revered gentlewoman, through whose spiritual vision the

the great conflict lifts, the Christian j simple, healing truths of the Bible are Scientists in all parts of the world! today made available for those who

will be found offering a cup of cold

water in Christ's name, as they have been offering it for the past generation to the receptive thought, healing the sick, comforting the sorrowing, and wiping out unhappy memories, enmities, and hates. Armageddon. Certainly it must be recognized by every thinking person that the signing of a treaty of peace, favorable to human interests as it may be, will not alone usher In the millennium. To

be sure, the yielding of autocracy to!

democracy, the ordaining of humanly good governments, and the establishment of equal rights and privileges a'jong men are absolutely necessary stps toward the ultimate liberation of the race. But the great battle Ar

mageddon is not ended, for this battle

sit in darkness, I may say only this

Her character needs no defense at hu

man hands. By her fruits shall she be known. History is replete with annals wherein are recorded the unreasoning and unfounded misrepresentation which has inevitably pursued the apostle of a new idea. Even the Immaculate Jesus did not escape. Think of it! Blind, perverted material sense said of him, "He is a winebib-

ber, a glutton, a friend of publicans i

and sinners!" Mrs. Eddy writes In Science and Health (p. 28) : "Remember, thou Christian martyr, it is enough if thou art found worthy to unloose the sandals of thy Master's feet! To suppose that persecution for righteousness' sake belongs to the past, and that Christianity today is

at peace with the world because it

wayward boy were not inflicted by the father, but the results of sin, and lasted only while the sin lasted. You remember, do you not, that the young man goes into a far country and there wastes his substance "with riotmis livinz " And we read that "when

he had spent all, there arose a-mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him." It had been my privilege to address the prisoners in several penitentiaries this last year, and on each occasion I have read to the men this parable of

the prodigal son. When I have come to the words just quoted, I have stopped, and said to the prisoners, "Men, where was that man?" On each occasion, absolutely t unprompted, has come this one response, "In hell!" Yes, he was in hell. He was in the only hell there was, and those poor prisoners knew all about it. They recognized it the moment they heard

it. But, I said to them, here is a feature of Jesus' teachings which has apparently escaped many of us all these years: Here is a man who was able to get out of hell. We read that "when

he came to himself in other words, when he had suffered 'enough to turn him from his sin with loathing, he

said : "How many hired servants of

my father's have bread enough and to

SDare. and I perish with hunger i

will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have

sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy , to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father." Now had Jesus meant to teach the idea of a place of

everlasting punishment, of a torment or hell-fire from which ther was no possible escape, here would have been his opportunity to have shown the father's gate closed to the erring child, and the father standing there saying,

"No, son no! It is too late, too late!

The sin has been too grievous, the

stain is too deep. Depart from me,

depart from me ! ' And haven t we heard just that, just that, preached in the name of a compassionate Chris

tianity? But what do we find in the Scriptures?, "But' when; he was yet a great way off, his father, saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on

his, neck, and kissed him. And,. .

the father said to his servants. Bring

forth the best robe, and put It on him; and put a ring on his hand, and

shoes on his feet: . . . for this my son was dead, and Is alive again; he was

lost, and is found." -This is the God of Christ Jesus, the God of infinite Love

and compassion and justice, a God

who is not the author of suffering or

sickness or sin; and it is this God

which Christian Science is revealing

to the world after,', lo, these many, weary heartsick years! Have you ever heard the story that is told of the" man who was . such a never failing optimist that he met every, calamity recital with the comforting words. "Well, well, it might have been worse?" This custom of his aroused the ire of one of his friends, an avowed pessimist, who resolved to

put an end to it. Meeting him soon after, said the pessimist to his friend, "I . dreamed about you last night a most horrible dream and when you have heard it, I know you cannot say that it might have been worse." And then he told of his supposed dream.

graphically picturing his friend perishing in the torments of everlasting fire, and making the story as horrible as possible. When he finished, the other thought for a moment, and then

Baid, "Well, that might have been :

worse. "How might it nave Deen worse?" echoed his astonished friend. "It might have been true," said the other. And so we think about the theory of everlasting punishment. How terrible, unthinkable, it would be if it . were true. Christian Science, however, revealing an all-powerful creator who is ever-present Love, shows that such a concept is too bad to be true. "There Went Up Mist From Earth." Now, had I been asked before studying Christian Science as to what was

the first mention of man in the Bible, I should promptly have referred the

inquirer to Adam, in the garden of Eden. But Christian Science shows that the Adam, or material man of the second chapter of Genesis, does not

appear until the first mention ofdis cord, in the second chapter of Genesis

We have read that God's creation is

good, is finished, divine law and per

fection reign, and the creator rest

from His work. Then occurs this sig

nincant statement in the second chapter: "But there went up a mist of the

ground." And then came a man made

from dust, not in the likeness of Spirit j and apparently not given dominion j over all the earth. In fact, the earth; seems to have dominion over him, for he promptly yields to the enslavement of materiality, being loyally assisted by a woman fashioned from one of his ribs. Surely this man made from dust '

and this woman from a rib, depicting as they do the weakness, frailty, dis

obedience, and lawlessness of materiality, cannot present the , deathless,

perfect, spiritual handiwork of the

Most High. Far indeed is material

man from the image and likeness of

the One "altogether lovely."

What Was the Mist? In fact, as indicated before, this

material sense of man appeared only

with the coming of a mist. What was this mist? In the text-book we read

(Science and Health, p. 523): "The

creations of matter arise from a mist

or false claim, or from mystification, and not from the firmament, or under

standing, which God erects between the true and false." Mystification,

then, may be said to be the opposite of understanding, and the opposite of understanding can mean only this

ignorance. Ignorance of God, Spirit;

ignorance of the spiritual facta of be

ing; Ignorance of spiritual sense which

results in a material view oi creation this, then, is the mist which aeems

to go up from the earth. And irom this ignorance, this false sense or material view, and never from Him who is infinite Love, -cornea discordant materiality with its Adama and Eves, its wars and woes and germs, its sick nations, sick men, and sick businesses. Thus a just and good God cannot be ".charged with the creation

of discordant materiality, sickness, -sin

and death.

As mistakes in a mathematical prob

lem cannot be laid at the door of the

perfect principle of arithmetic, so the

errors In the problems of being cannot

be charged to , the infinitely perfect Mind, with whom is no variableness

nor shadow of turning. Ignorance of God, a 'mistaken sense of things, a ma

terial view, this is all there Is to evu; this is the only devil there Is. And the Bible says that the mission of the Christ is to destroy the works of the devil. : So Jesus came to destroy Ignorance of God, to roll back the mists of error

and to reveal the truth about God, man, and the universe that great truth of spiritual being which he declared would make man free.

eastern side of the Adriatic, Mr. Wal

ters believes.

Not all the people In Italy are in

favor of the Italian claims to Flume.

At the time the Americans left Italy, a large faction of the Socialist party, which is growing in strength dally, did not favor the claims of the Royalist

party. , - Responsibility is the greatest sobering Influence. ..

SENIORS COMPLETE PLANS.

A meeting of the seniors of the Higly. school was held at 2:45, Tuesday aftT ernoon to make final arrangements for baccalaureate services which will be held Sunday afternoon at the First Presbyterian church and for the Senior play, which will be held on Thursday, May 22, and commencement which will be May 23. Tickets for commencement were distributed.

Soldiers Approve U. S.

Stand On Fiume Case

American soldiers who served in

Italy in the world war. are unanimous in the opinion that President Wilson's

stand in relation to the Italian claims

to the city ofYiume are just in every

particular. This is the opinion or Basil Walters, former Palladium . reporter, who has arrived at his home in Frankfort, Ind., after a year's service in Italy. Mr. Walters, as editor ot a camp newspaper, traveled exten

sively in Italy.

Since the armistice was signed ltaiy

has been trying hard to make Fiume

an Italian city and has flooded the territory with propaganda, but it is tho general opinion of the soldiers that the normal civilian population of the place

has no desire to become a part ot Italv. Unless Fiume is given to the

young Jugo-Slavic nation, there will be

much trouble in tne territory on tne

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is the conflict between the flesh and j js honored by sects and societies, is Spirit, between Truth and error; the to mistake the very nature of religion, stroggle whereby mortals finally shall Error repeats itself. The trials enbe freed from the bondage of material j countered by prophet, disciple, and sense, from sickness, hate, animality, j apostle, 'of whom the world was not limitation, imperfection, old age, j worthy.' await, in some form, every

deatn. uown mrougu me teuiunea pioneer ot trutn.

enslaved mortals have echoed Jeremiah's plaint: "Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?" The Coming of the Remedy. Now it has been proved true in the world's experience, that every great human crisis has witnessed the appearance of some courageous God-prepared teacher or leader proclaiming a remedy, publishing deliverence, or pointing a way of escape. The enslaved and outraged children of Israel yearned for deliverance, and a Moses, and later a Joshua, appeared

Mrs. Eddy's Discovery.

Chirstian Scientists know that Mrs. Eddy did not originate Christian Science, she dis-covered it, brought it to light. The balm of Gilead which she has revealed for the healing of the nations is not of her creating, nor is it a restatement of ancient or modern material philosophy. It is the simple, unadulterated spiritual teaching of Jesus and the prophets who preceded him. To this assertion some may say, "But I believe, and have been endeavoring to follow, the teachings of Jesus all my life." Yes, this is un

fortunately the remarkable predica

te lead them from bondage. Out of ment of christian oeooles today : hun-

the night of religious ignorance, su- ,jreds Qf differing sects acknowledge

perstition and error shone the light of

a Martin Luther, mm tne snores where then thrived the hampering

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Jesus as their guide and their king,

and then proceed to place their human interpretation upon his words and

works. This leads to endless diver

sity of opinion and the sad differences among Christians, causing one to say.

"I believe this," another, "My belief is that." Yet the plain fact of the matter is this: It matters not what any man or set of men believes about Jesus' teaching. The all-important

point is. What was Jesus' actual teaching? What did he believe and teach? Is there to be found, in his word a

practical present day salvation for

you and me? Salvation

I once asked a woman seeking help in Christian Science if she understood

the meaning of the word "salvation

"Indeed I do," was her response. . "I

was saved when I was eighteen

"From what were you saved ?" I ven

tured to inquire. "Why, I was saved,'

she explained. "You know Jesus died to save me." "To save you from what?" I persisted. "Have you been

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