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Show i THE CITIZEN iiiiiihii mil,,, HE SCIENCE 1 miiiiiiiiniimmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMmiiiimjii ................... no Christian before two in vivid light Second Science audiences, at W. Palmer, this city, Ezra of lec-0- f member of the board the Mother Church, the in lUrch of Christ, Scientist, the tenets of ass., was introduced March 23, by Miss and on Friday night, arwick A. Taylor. Thurs-t- , Sallie March mm111 mm mum,,,,,, UAj 4 .desire peace ol mind. The sfa been searching for it for years. in their endeav-,the problem of being and happiness on an enduring rtals have formulated many, and organ-erou- s vples of conduct, conflicting sects and e of fa 4 But iflons. to establish these various happiness have j the test of time nor have TSdered mankind immune from es of fear, sin, disease and ffhese creeds and sects have, measure, been predicated I teachings of the Bible, but e failed to demonstrate the of the Bible in saving men myriad ills that beset them, human jio find the relief from mortals for, (desperately longed from the Bible and j tjjrned iSlief in systems of healing b iased on the opposite of God, Vlnatter; and because these 2jhave failed them, they have degree accepted a theory that S tanan ills cannot be overcome, part of the and must be sf inevitable, a i erder of things, con;: ngu; e me ' Mission of n idnn Scienece is a demonstrable n 3,1 That is its reason for tbe s me Christian Science, exist-rGhristia- Is jus Science has come to s it says: here is a itself by its works, the sick and sinning, and JwH and OTIS bet relig-prove- world a full sal-V- i all ills mortal itallj right understanding of 3SS I f;fhe adherents of Christian t in t Ibave adopted no propaganda, no system of proselytism. uilts 3fd e i tic: from ia self-intere- st rjement has here d or personal actuated them. (9ve not been interested in Jonverts. Christian Scientists bitiil fric war with llso wof m other they feel them. denomina-d- o the slightest Their warfare is loyet a fown the strongholds of evil, Cf sick, free the sinner, bring f proc yknght of God. Th$ knowledge rice t of Christian Scientists is to ski the everpresence of God, "ErJf tiling fiJ, Itim d factiflt coott ' is the , to jd ills of mortality. How Science fared upon this as ProsPcred amazingly, space of fifty years it over the civilized woric, results have been needs of mortals in health have been met Ia tlle worlds history I? lar religious movement remarkable progress, progress of the ancient world in Vntver jfatary after the ascension. asked wiU Chris- )Jnparalk'led iloycr W m nablvDtne11. t0 Progress? Its Discoverer nd. the author of ook cai!d and Health to elco8 ton) re I irtntf V Eddy v - ScriPtures, , Uils to o. ; (k.SclC0 .,inw the j foretold s and apeutics on Mary that destined to only jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'j I ECTURE on Christian Science by Ezra W. Palmer, C. S. B., member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ Scientist, in Boston, Mass., delivered at Second Science Church, Salt Lake City, Thursday and Friday evenings, March 23 and 24. ( I mu Slmer spoke substantially as this planet. in ng OF SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING mxm intG iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiui imiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Miscellany, pages 266, 267. Mrs. biddys prophecy will be fulfilled, because Christian Science presents to mortals the exact Science of God and man, the infallible law of Spirit by wnich they can here and now un derstand the divine nature and repudiate and destroy all that is evil and wrong. The needs of men are very great and Christian Science has come to supply those needs. One has only to look about him to see that mankind is the victim of fear, disaster, hate, malice, disease and death, and that there is need in the world of a mighty redemptive power. Christian Science and Current Religious Teachings. Let it not be assumed that Chris-tioScience has nothing in common with current religious teachings. When we examine the teachings of Christian Science, we find that it has much in common with the best religious thought outside of the Chris-tioScience movement. Mrs. Eddy was for many years a member of the Congregational Church, and while a member of that church, and while under the instruction of some of the noted divines of that church, she began that profound study of the Bible, and that tireless search for a spiritual cause of all things wThich culminated in the revelation and discovery of Christian Science. There is, therefore, no gulf fixed between Christian Science and what is known as orthodox Christianity. Christian Science is the revelation and discovery of the allness of Spirit and the application of that fact to human affairs resulting in the annullment of human beliefs in sin, disease and death. It teaches a spiritual concept of God which orthodox Christianity has not attained. When we examine the doctrines and creeds of different denominations, we find much that is conflicting but we also find that practically all Christian denominations agree on certain great fundamental concepts regarding the Supreme Being. People agree that God is Spirit and that Spirit is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. They agree on these three great fundamentals because they are taught in the Bible, and because on no other basis can we conceive of a Supreme Being. We cannot divide Gods power and still have Him supreme, and if His power is divided, to whom will we assign the power taken away from God? If we assign it to another agency called evil, we divide the universe; the one God, the great I AM would no longer be supreme, and there would be two powers arrayed against each other, the powers of good and evil with the a universe of conflicting result forces, of chaos and disorder. Christian Science accepts and teaches these three great verities of Spirit, omnipotence, nomnipresence, omniscience, not theoretically nor . abstractly, but as living realities, and it teaches that in the understanding of these fundamentals lies the solution of all human problems. Thus if a Christian Scientist faces sickness, he relies on the n n 1 omnipotence of God to heal it; if he faces a condition where ignorance prevails, he turns to God and relies on the omniscience the infinite allknowledge of God to supply him the wisdom and light to meet the situation. If evil seems to hold sway, he knows that God is omnipresent, universal good, and that the divine presence is at hand to destroy evil. the other hand, the adherents of current religious teachings do not On as a rule rely wholly upon the all-powe- r, and of God. If sick, they will usually rely upon drugs or other material means and turn to God only as a last resort when hope of relief from other sources has utterly vanished. And so, likewise, the materially minded are prone to rely on human means for help when disaster appears instead of turning unreservedly to God. They rely on others, trust to human will and human ingenuity to aid them, although experience has proved time and. again that these material agencies afford no sure and genuine relief. Reliance on God Taught in the Bible. The teachings of the Bible are perfectly clear on this point. Over and over again, the Scriptures call men to rely wholly on God for every need. Put not your trust in princes; "Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; "seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness are some of the admonitions of the Bible. The great difficulty mortals have experienced in the past is that they have not seen clearly the difference between relying on Spirit and on human agencies. The adherents of scholastic theology and the materially minded have failed to grasp the real meaning of the First Command- ment, Thou shalt have no other gods before me. They have not made a clear distinction between matter and Spirit. Christian Science draws a clear and unmistakable line of demarcation between the eternal things of Spirit and the false evidences of tbe physical senses. God is Spirit, as Jesus declared, and man and the universe are mental and spiritual. But the five corporeal senses do not see spiritual things; to them, Spirit and spiritual things do not exist; thsy cognize the opposite of spirit- uality, the false belief of a matter Seeworld and a matter creation. ing only material things, the objectification of his own corporeal senses, the materially minded man relies on these instead of turning his gaze Spiritward and depending wholly on God. A man has made a great discovery when he learns to rely on spiritual sense instead of physical. Through spiritual sense, man learns that he is immortal and perfect. Spiritual sense gives man a correct view of the universe and of God. The physical senses give him a distorted view of all things. They tell him that man is mortal, physical, subject to sin, disease and death. This view is temporary and must yield to the eternal fact that God, man and the real universe are imperishable. all-presen- ce ge ........I... 1 Christian Science Primitive Christianity. By teaching reliance on the omnipotent power and goodness of God, Christian Science has reinstated Tbe great primitive Christianity. Bible characters from Genesis to Revelation did not rely on drugs, human strength, human will ,nor human intellect to guide or save them. Through spiritual understanding, they rose superior to the testimony of the physical senses and overcame them. Time and time again incidents are recorded in the Bible where the spiritually minded met and mastered conditions which the physical senses said could not be overcome. Storms, droughts, famine, assaults of enemies, hate, malice, sin, disease and death, all the myriad manifestations of evil were met and mastered by those great spiritual thinkers, those patriarchs, prophets, seers, disciples, apostles and early Christians. It is at once evident that when a man sees spiritually he sees differently, thinks differently and acts differently than when he accepted physical sense evidence. A study of the Bible shows that under given conditions the spiritually minded acted differently from those who accepted corporeal sense evidence. For instance, note the incidents of the attempted capture of the prophet Elisha by the Syrian army as it is recorded in the sixth chapter of II Kings. Tbe Syrian army had encompassed the city by night. The next morning the servant ot the man of God looked out from the walls of the city and saw the great host that encompassed the city. The servant accepted the evidences of his material sense of sight and, as the psychologists say, he reacted to that sense stimulus. He became fearful. He said to his master, Alas, my master! But the man of how shall we do? God saw spiritually instead of materially. He knew that In reality there was nothing to fear. He saw what the human eye hath not seen and the human ear hath not heard. Instead of being controlled by fear, he was inspired with strength and courage. His reply indicated his state of mind. He answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. Then the prophet prayed that the eyes of his servant might be opened. The servant undoubtedly believed he was actually seeing, but he was hot. The narrative states: "And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. No need of the man of God to fear the might of mortals, when close at hand were the of His presence to succor and angels . The narraUve later shows the great army in the hands of Elisha was as clay in the hands of the potter. Note also the Shunammite woman who held steadfastly to the fact that man never dies, that death is an illusion. Her son, to human sense, had died. She went to the prophet Elisha for help. In answer to his inquiry, is it well with the child? she answered, It is well. Brave mother! brave reply! That answer . JS in the face of the supposed finality of sense evidence has cheered the waver- ing faith of unnumbered thousands down through the centuries. Her vision had pierced the veil of materialism and she saw that man is deathless. Her steadfast reliance on God, despite the opposing evidences (Continued on page 10.) I |