Dr. Walton Hubbard, a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship gave an address Monday in the Masonic Hall. Dr. Hubbard has been on a lecture tour in Australia and the East, and will lecture in Japan on his way back to Boston. As is generally known, these lectures are organized with the object of keeping Christian Science Churches in closer touch with the central organization, and with the additional purpose of correctiong public misapprehension of Christian Science doctrine. For several years past such a lecture has been arranged by the Shanghai Society, and on former occasions the meeting has been held in the Lyceum Theatre, and has been very well attended by the general public. The theatre being occupied this week arrange ments had to be made to hold the gathering in the - Masonic Hall, where excellent accommodation was provided for a numerous audience, Mr, R. R. Hughes presided and introduced the lecturer.
Dr. Hubbard first advanced the proposition that Christian Science furnishes the rule by which the power that Jesus used in accom-pushing His wondrous works is made immediately available in every phase of our present material existence. The wisdom of the world, he said, had failed to heal not only from discord and sin, but from disease. His case for the failure of medical and surgical science was stated as follows Marerta, Meriops Criticizep.
Anyone who goes back into the history of material medicine is impressed by the fact that for practically every diseased condition there basi been a continual success sion of drugs, one following—the other; and it is always claimed for the last one, with the greatest enthusiasm and positiveness that it certainly does heal the disease. and in support of this contention there may be offered the records of many oases that have been cured. Human thought is not much given to re trospection along this line. If it were it would remember that all the drugs that have followed each other in the treatment of disease, and have been successively discarded, have had the same glowing record when they were first used. The reason for this is that it is not the drug but the belief in it which accomplishes the healing Those who discover and bring forth a remedy are strong in their belief that it will cure, because the remedy is the outcome of a definite conviction as to how the disease should be treated; so they obtain marked results, while those who Pave no such deep conviction, and rescribe the same drug later on
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