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Show Bonatrositia of nnna tarsi existence. Christian Selene explains that sickness ia of ' a kindred anreal nature, and ia to ba obliterated by the same process, whereby everything that haa bo right to exist or continue ta to become extinct thxonsh Christ and Christianity. If insanity and sickness are real, then God, who iaelade all reality, must have made then. If Jie mad them and beatowa or aenda them, then it is a sin to try to get well or to want t get well. Complete Salvation Through Christ. ' Concerning the divine Christ there ii among men much conflict of opinion. Moat Christiana beliav He waa the Son of God, and waa divinely commissioned; that Ilia mission waa to preach the goapel of reform and regeneration, to aet forth the way and promise of salvation after deaUi, by reason of Hia mediatorial atonement. It ia believed be-lieved that, incidentally. H did many mighty works. It is also affirmed that He ia tha only Messiah, or Savior, and that Hia way is the only way of salvation. .- Christian Scientist beliav all this and yet their seas of Christianity differs from that of all othera. We know that Christ waa and ia divine: is onr Savior or Messiah; Mes-siah; ia the "Way," and we ean prove it. W ar eojifldent that when thia way is scientifically understood and becomes ecien-tincally ecien-tincally operative, it will manifest its aav-in aav-in g efficacy by transforming the race. . We believe that Christ Jesns waa tha representative rep-resentative of God to humanity that He waa the voice f wisdom and intelligence, and that He knew more aboat God, man, and the nnivers than all other people combined. com-bined. W believe Ha came to do the will of God and to fulfill law. What God. and what law? The God that is good end whose law U the law of life, health, harmony and holiness. We believe He came "to seek and to aav that which waa lost." and that Ha I found the sinner and the sick man. W believe that He came to "deatroy. the worka of the devil," and that He waa abonfHia Father'a business" while Ue wai doing it. Christ aa a Healer. Unless He waa destroying the works of the devil when He healed the aick, there mnst have been a time when He waa not in the fulfillment of His' mission, for He gave much attention to the cure of diseaa and Himself - declared that, such healing was part of Hia "worka." W believe thia healing waa natural and lawful; that all Hia worka were done in exquisite accord with the eternal law of a changeless God. We believe that the teaching of Christian Science Sci-ence through Mrs. Eddy removes the ministry of Jesas from the realm of mystery and bringa it within the range of law, order and a scientific modus operandi. We believe that God and Hia Christ are to wise to be unlawful or to procure or induce or make use of that which is in oentravention of law. We believe that the unlimited divine volition . does not need to upset or undo any natural law in order to be good. We believe that the Christ ministry is an object lesson in demonstration of the imminent im-minent ever-available power of Spirit, God, to destroy evil. We believe , that Jesus msnifestad the supremacy of spiritusl law which ia tha law of life, and ita power over the Bctitioua law of sin and death. An TJnmysterlouj Salvation. Christian Science teachea that this proof the deeds, the achieved results, tha mighty works is to illustrate the way of aalvation, and that Chrialian salvation is for the sick man as well aa the ainner. All thia ia different dif-ferent from tha belief that His work waa miraculous, meaning that it was mystrrious and in the way of intervention or of violation of law and nature. Jesus never intimated that Ilia work was mysterious. On the oontrary, He indicated the universal nature of tha divine animus by declaring: "These worka a'hall y du." The contrary beliefs of men which' nave filtered fil-tered their way down through the dark ages lead to the most absurd conclusions and tax to tha utmost the credulity of man. They presupposed pre-supposed that. after promising for 1900 yesrs that a Messiah should come to save a suffering world. God arranged and carried cut a plan of which all future generations should have a right to say: "It is an impenetrable im-penetrable mystery." They require people to believe that Jesus largely devoted Himself Him-self to mighty worka which were of no util-' ity .to subsequent generationa of men, and which have exhausted their service when people are induced to believe that it was according to -the divine natur of God to heal the sick man in one age and refuse or reglect to heal him in. a subsequent age. They require men t believe that God and Christ, who were willing to save that which was Inst limited that aalvation on the ainuer and discriminated against the aick man. They require ns to split the ministry of Jesus Christ in two; decide that the healing work was without arieutiSe or universal avail; that it waa nothing we can possibly understand and lastly that Jeus did not mean what He said when He declared that Christiana who understand Hi Christianity mnst preach tfie gospel and heal the aick and that they could do it. - Christ's Work. They require vs to repudiate the works of Jesus as the legitimate interpreters of His mission and Hia words. They require ns to believe that in saving "heal the aick" He shows the way which is contrary to His way. If instead of regarding evil as a mysterious myster-ious entity, men had understood the science which detects and correctly designates the phenomena of evil, such misconceptions of Christian aalvation would have long since been dissipated. Sin and disease are in immediate kinship. They are as allied as causo and effect. The Aa' audience that rilled every available avail-able seat in the Salt Lake Theater anT occupied every ehair that could be Crowded upon the stage listened attentively atten-tively for nearly two hours last uijrht to , Edward A. Kimball, a member of the . board of lectureship of the First Chureh rf Christ, SHenttst, of Boston. The . members of the Tirst Church of Christ, i Scientist, of 8alt Lake, oecupied the stage., The auditorium was neatly dee-oraned dee-oraned with ferns and potted plants. The theme of Mr. .Kimball s address was fear and its effects on mind, body and spirit. In a general way it covered .. the whole field of the Christian Science .- ..propaganda. Fear he denominated the . chief blight of humanity and the main-' main-' spring of disease and death. ' Mr. Kimball ia aa attractive speaker and held tho elose - attention of all throughout hia talk. He said : I In order that you may moat readily appre- elatev tho import of tbta address, you are asked to contemplate for a moment the seen upon which Christian Scieac) has made its en-I en-I trance. ' , " The history of the human raca may be classified aa a tragedy. If u were to be epitomized epit-omized : then one long enouotoe of protest - aeainet the miary, one pitiful appeal to God for reltfef. and one final moan of defeat would tell the story. f Thero are few flowers, a Bttl sunshine 4erhap, but beyond tba foreground la the Vista at the end of which 1 the grave mye. tery. . The people of earth, ejnreconciled to what weems to be aa intolerable fate, have turned Am evrr conceivable direction In their effort for deliverance from e-r1l, and they have failed thus far, to find the way. There are till tbe earn tear., broken hearts, beds of pia the same havoc of outrageous fortune. .. Men continue to live, sicken and die aoeord-ing aoeord-ing to a philosophy of doom which declare there is no aalvation this side of the grave. i no way out of the hell on- earth, but to die I out. Veed of s "Better Way, To this same stricken people, and In this - very age, come Christian 8-ioce to declare t. that tiey can get out,. naturally, lawfully, ecienUficaHj; it comes -as a mesaag of bop 'ft: dnd promise to a race which is la supreme . ieed. . f We submit tha proposition that humanity fsUltr-h, pray for different results should also consistently pray for and expect a different f way. and wo contend that Christian Science, ' which' promises and prod urea the prayed for results, cannot logically be rejected almply ecaus it also-disclose a different way. ' By means of litoratare, ' teachers and lecturers, lec-turers, explanation haa been mad concern-ing concern-ing the points, of agreement between Chris-- tian Science and other forms of reltgioua and ' aclantiAe- belief, bat it te my pttrpo tonight to empbaaixe the fundamental differences also and thus enable yon to make comparisons for yourselves. ' It ia aejf-evideat that certain things have existence. It is generally known that they - have cans, origin and basis, by reasoa of .which they exist. Some people declare the cause to be a blind force; others that it is some sort ef intelligence, and theology a A 'firms that it ia a conscious intelligence or entity which may be designated God. Enlightened Ballet Concerning God. A " consensus of enlightened belief concerning con-cerning God is that He ia on supreme, in- : finite, self-existent, all-inclusive, spiritual individual,' in-dividual,' eonscioas being -tha aole creator f all that has aeffra existence.. Also that God-irQood, Life, Truth, Love, omnipresent, jBinjBcient- and omnipotent;,. that Jle ia tha only -lawmaker and, holds in His grasp the destiay of all man. Christian Scientists subscribe to all thea postals tes without reserve, and - yet our religion" re-ligion" is in 1 some respects qnite different front that of others." Why f different if w agree on these essentials. - The dtffexenee i in the amplification and application: ' It ia ia thia respect that moat religious, sects and systems diverge from es'-h 61 her. There are hundreds of these sects. Thar are 140 Christian sects alone, many of which have been in the most violent antagonism toward each other. There ia therefore, no unity ef religions belief with which we can compare Christian Science, but I shajl explain wherein it is different from ail others.' In her. effort to enlarge the human con- - rept of the infinite God, Mrs. Eddy has added somewhat to the technical definition f deity, 'and affirms, among other things, that God ii diviae Mind and that thia Mind 1 good, I God is either mind or mindless. The Mind that ia God, and which includes all wisdom, tatelligea and science is good. This mind ia the antidote of what the Bible calls the "carnal mind," or that which Mrs. Eddy designates ""mortal mind," the mind of sin, which" is. entirely against God. .Mind Wkich Was in Christ. The science of Mind deelsree that to tha extent. that man ,is governed by the divine Mind, he -will msnifest perfection health -life. ' welfare, prosperity the amnlenesa and eomplctenesa of harmonious existence. It waa thia. Mind which waa also in Christ; which , canceled . temptation and ain, healed the aick. raised the dead, raised Jen-- from the dead, . and overcame "the world, the flesh and the devil." "To be carnally mind-, ed, is death." Sin and disease are the offspring off-spring of this carnal mind; they are no part i of the nature or of the procurement of the f divine Mind. God ia good in nature, design, V power, action, substance and operation. All & that -He baa made and done is good. His to believe we cannot trust God too much nor expect too much from Infinite Lore. "iVe are taught to i rely on the snpremscy of Spirit and to know that bo other reliance is acceptable ac-ceptable to God or of avail to mortals. "We are taught that the mission of Chriet is in demonstration of an uniiysterious aalvatinn. ' and that we may expect Tnore aad gain more through Christ than if we were to minimix the scope-and efficacy of His mission. If to b thus obedient, or to be too explicit ex-plicit in obedience, b dangerous, then w are indeed the most dangerous people that incumber the earth. Bead ail the books ' on -philosophy since f.ime began and they; will not equip you to enre one case of fibroid tumor. Read all the commentaries, - sermons and books on theology, and they will not enable 70a to heal one case of locomotor ataxia in its worst form. Read all the medical hooka and all ether books and yoa cannot as a result re-sult thereof cure one instance of malignant cancer. 'Thia book, "Science and Health," haa taught people how to cure hundreda of such eases, and they have done it. Man's Lawful Dominion. We differ concerning the nsture of men. The Bible declsres thst God made man ia Hia own image and liksneas and gave him dominion over all the earth. Do you know of any auch man! No. Ia there something wrong with God. or with men I ' Ths trouble is with man, and he confesses it by declaring declar-ing himself a fallen man (fallen from aoma high estate), and by hia ceaseless prayer and effort to get back. Theology and philosophy in general declare that ba cannot get back except through the door of death. Jesus's theology wss indeed divine. He wss Himself a consummate theologian. - He ushered Christianity upon the aeene of humanity hu-manity by meaaa of preaching and healing. Hia worka were in demonstration of His 1 theology. They were essentislly incidental te Hia Christianity and the. same works sre eisentisl signs ef Christianity now. . In comparing Christisn Science with other systems of curative endeavor, I reminded yoa first that there are many auch systems and much disagreement concerning theory and practice, for example, one school of medical practice advocatea the use on the average of 100,000,000 times at much medicine med-icine as is administered by other schools. Causes of Disease Little Known. The medical profession have practically united ia the admission that "concerning the essence of primary cause of disease little is known; indeedf nothing st all." It ia generally gen-erally assumed, however, that matter alone, ia causation. There is an ,exception to the rule in the case of homeopathy, which designs desig-ns tes certain abnormal and unrighteous conditions con-ditions sin, etc. as causative and affirms that anger arrest digestion; that grief. Borrow, Bor-row, etc., impair or degrade the physicsl condition. According" to Christian Science the enigma of the case, namely. What Is the primary causa of disease! can be solved only by entering tha mental realm. ' Did you ever see a person turn pale because be-cause of fearf Have you known a person to turn red because of anger t Have yon ever heard that one has died because of fright I Do you not know that the thing which happens is this: That auch mental activities operste aa causation; affect the nervous and circulatory systems and induce congestion the evidence of physical impairment impair-ment or degeneracy! It must be. surely, that you know that mental conditions affect the body, and because be-cause you know this and should set accordingly. accord-ingly. I ask if there is any scientific relationship re-lationship between grief or jealousy as a cause and a mud bath as a cure f If you had a patient whose incorrigible hatred had finally rsused liver trouble, and the medical books prescribed a mustard plaster to the liver which is innocent of offense, or to the hatred, which is the sole cause i If the case ia to be cured at all, ought not the remedy reach the canse and cancel it! Do yon think that a plaster will do it I If not, then consider the mind. which was in Christ and which transforms man by means Of righteousness, tjonsidrs the curstive system sys-tem of Christ Jesus, which' clesrly recognised sin as a cause of sicknes. . There are two books in the world which entreat humanity to know that fear is illegitimate illegi-timate and can be "cast ont." These books are the Bible and "Science and Health." The latter, with much elaboration elabora-tion explains the fabulous nature of fear and gives the reason and rule for its elimination. elimina-tion. The matter physician declares thst the proper therspeutic or curative agenry is to be found ia matter er in the ufe of material means. The 'druggmg srgtraT "duT" not" fcrlginsteTh a civilized, enlightened or Christian age. According Ac-cording to its own history of itself, it is the offspring of paganism. Since it birth, forty centuries ago, men have endeavored to reduce re-duce the system and practice to a acicnee, and thry not only admit' they have failed, but dec'are that the pis tice is largely tentative, ten-tative, by way of expediency; is experimental experi-mental or accidental. No Element of Furs Science. In behalf of the drugging theory mankind lias literally swallowed everything on earth, hoping to paliate, piacate or obstruct disease, dis-ease, and ia atill sicker and haa more diseases dis-eases than ever before. Concerning the theory and practice of 4000 years, it is 10 be said that nearly all of it is condemned by the practice and theory of today, and if is prophetically expected by the physician of thia generation that his practice and methods meth-ods will he repudiated by the next generation. genera-tion. The "History of F(tur Thousand Years of Medicine" does not di"loe one single element of pure icience. Moreover, there is scarcely a postulate that has been allowed to remain unimpcached or undisturbed. undis-turbed. - Now romea the utterance of Christian Science, Sci-ence, which is the science of Mind. It declsres de-clsres that -everything you have or know; all that means religion, politics, art, music, sociology, education, finance, business, government, gov-ernment, the daily life and minutiae of your exiKtence; all is in consequence' of thought. Thought rupture" empires, wages war. obliterates oblit-erates nations. Thought is the greatest potentiality po-tentiality that the mortal knows of or is . moved bv. The stage of human existence which Oliver Wendell Holmes calls a "disorder" "dis-order" has been desolated by evil menial conditions and must beome normal and righteous through the "transformation of mind." Mindless matter is not equal to the task. It ha no intelligence of its own and an allwise God necdn not t filter Himself through non-intelligence in order to accomplish accom-plish for a sick man all that lie needs er to which he is entitled. God the Natural Healer. We think the Hiblc is to be credited wherein it indicates that God in the natural healer of ail our diseases and we know that this God ii Mind and no matter. How did Jesns the only perfect healer whom hif-tory afords how did He heal the sick! Medicine had been in use for twenty centuries. Was it mind or matter) Chrin-tianity Chrin-tianity would collapse in the admission that it w not Mind. It is urged that all this is transcendental Ijecause contrary to the senses. rto ia the hope of immortality; so is the belief in God and heaven. The senses testify to the ex- , tinctinn of man by death and the annihilation" annihila-tion" of his individuality and they do not afford af-ford an atom of evidence of God as Spirit. It is declared that Christian Scii-nce practice prac-tice is iutangilite and is objectionable because be-cause there is no visible or palpable a.'iiir.u or inoiliiH operand1. lo you know wli) the earth rcolvtp. why your heart beats, why you can wink your eyes, or do an) thing f So. Does any plivsical scientist tinderxtand the primary impulsion of your every aft! No: noii" on earth ever knew. I miphf spend year in bringing to your attention the every day things of life, and in proving to you that you do not understand Iho modus operandi of one in 1000. Mrs. Eddy's Plea for God. For a third of a centruy Mrs. Kddy has beea pleading with mankind for the recognition recogni-tion of ita ri-hl to life, health and liollinn according to the will uf God. Mie has initiated in-itiated that God is the natural healer uf the sick, and tbal disease is contrary to God arid His will. Jhe has discovered and made knov.n the science of Christian healinc and lias aet forth the rule wherchy humanity is to obtain mastery over dirae. On every one who has eves healed the sick Ihjough, and by means of divine power in attestation of ,the supremacy of spiritual law. the world hs bestowed the antagonism and hatred which materialism ever exhibits toward the spiritually minded, indeed, there has scarcely been a reformer since the riav of Abel who has not been hated, reviled, atoned or crnciti-il: a martyr to his own ministry and mission. In view of this inveterate propensity of the human mind to prosecute the prophets and to resist that nhich makes for ita own moral and rpirittiil welfare, it ia rot si range that with coiikisteut industry it lias given itself up to misrepresentation and detains tion of Christian Science and its works and of the leader of this cause. Charges Refuted by Her Life. F.very revelation rf truth, every scientinc discovery, has found ita 'way. to "humanity through some mjrti- wonts or child. Jt so. happened -ihut Clii;isti.iu..Ji ience 9 ia covered.' .siuiiUed 'anil disclosed by a wifin-j, wifin-j, oiid in which lucre h been utauy ob- i jectiona, all of which ean be congregated in one common belief that woman is not fit to know the truth. It ia not strange that thia barbarie belief that mental inferiority in-heree in-heree naturally in woman should have penetrated pen-etrated ao many centuries, but it is amaxing that this generation needa yet to learn the scientific fact that there is no reason, mental, men-tal, moral or spiritual, why woman may not know anything that ia true, and know it as soon as a msn and as well as a man. A Noble Womanhood. I feel that I need not stsnd long before an intelligent audience to debate the quea-tion quea-tion as, to whether or not its grand women constitute fit ministries of God to them that ain and mourn and suffer. I know it is expected ex-pected that a chivalrous man will apeak in fracious terms of gracious womanhood, but rejoice to know that the women I mean need not. nor do they thrive on. unnntritious compliment. Because of the aublimity of inspiration, in-spiration, fidelity. courage and character, they'll stand on exalted heights which they have achieved for themselves. Scriptural atatemoat through sin came death" is scientific. Every physician knows, I or oufht to know, thst snger will arrebt di- festion, that grief, revenue and envy- will impair the "integrity of the fcoiy. If Jesus esme to sare from one then He came to save from both. He could not pnr-aibly pnr-aibly ssve from one without savin r from the other.- He clearly indicated .this to those who heard, though they could not understand under-stand it. When Jesus healed the sick, did He destroy the work of God or devil I Was j it tha, uiision of Jesus to destroy thp work of God I - If sickness is the work of tha devil, then is U.id for or sgainst it I If God is against and contrary to it, are Hia lawa for or against ill It His laws are against it are they available to man 1 Has God created a man who is without .possible resource to His law and power! If he has, then why pray for an impossibility I Key to the Scriptures. Mrs. Kddy answers all these question and hundreds of others in her txt hook, ""Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures," and thereby reconciles reason to tind. and dispels the mystery which has obscured tho science of life, People throughout all the Christian centuries cen-turies have differed concerning the meaning of the Bible: indeed, in behalf of the quarrel, quar-rel, about the Bible and of the ronnfet of creeds, millions have gone down to violent death. Our tenets de-lare: "We lake the inspired word of the Hible as our sufficient guide to eternal life." Like many othera, we believe that the Bible haa nt been dictated dic-tated word for word by God. We bc'ieve with Paul that the things of God and the real substance of the Bible must be spiritually spir-itually discerned. Most people have commentaries, or he'ps to the study ef the Bible. U have a commentary, com-mentary, or key, in our text book. With historic, and characteristic instinct, the peo- File whose love is for their own alone do not ike ours, and even say it ia dangerous. I will not linger long to discuss the merits of this book now. Minee studying the Bi jle In its light, we have no desire to kill anyone any-one or quarrel with anyone about rliginn V have learned to love the right of every man ti strive for heaven according to his own inspiration. TVe are taught that it ia abominable, ia the sight of God asd a decent manhood to denounce, persecute, or molest a man who does not a;ree with oar religivus propaganda. What the Book Teaches. This book encourages us to live scrording to the commandments and the sermon on the mount, and in obedience t the highest ; conceivable moral standard. M tesches us to be loving, cherttable, merciful, meek and pure, and-as followers of Dirist Jesus to obey every mandate of God and Christ, even to the extent of forsaking sin, preaching the Oof pel and healiug thn sick. Ave are taught . to love and t reiy on mie iiifiuitely good God; ho is l-ove; and that we may tr.iM ilim to tu uit.iojval; indeed, we ac led r laws -are good, and He has slresdy done everything that is essential to tha aupreme welfare? of man. Conversely ' we repudiate the effort to solve the mystery of evil by assuming as-suming that any part ef it haa been inatituted hy OosV or that he needs o involve Hint-self Hint-self ia er with evil in any way or for any purpose, ' or that He does so involve Himself. Him-self. - God, Iho Law of Life. God is not only life, but has' ordsined life nd" U jhe Isw of life and health for man. Taer theology of Christfsn Science is consistently consist-ently parallel throughout with this declaration. declara-tion. It alao declares that God has created man that he might have being, and not .for ' tha-purpose of inflicting upon him inveterate agony and disease. ' We repudiate all assumption that Hia law is the. law of sin and death. Sickness is contrary to God. and God is contrary to it. God is the natural healer of the aick and ia able, willing, and ever ready to ssve mortals from- the evils imposed uion them by an ut-terlv ut-terlv perverted sense of existence. The supposition that God has induced the pangs and horrors of disease and death engenders en-genders a -fear of Him a fear and alarm concerning the author and the law and the destiny of human life: a fear concerning the very fouudation of existence. We Christian Scientists are no longer afraid ef God or of Ilia Iteaven, which we are learning is with , us to the extent that we are governed by the mind which was in Christ. God No Longer Unknown. v.Jn Christian Science there ia tin. longer an unknown God. No longer do the distorted graven ' images -of human thought mask or hid from ns the real God who is altogether lovely,- who ia our dearest friend, whose help is -ever avsilahle, whose grace ia sufficient, and who ', created man that he might have . life- and peace. Christian Science promises to 'lead roaukind te God through the high-ways high-ways of health and life, instead uf death. 1 It promises to humanity."-in the name of God. not the doubtful.' felicity of the grave, 1 l.ut a sensible, practicable dispensation of ' eod,-now. It promises t" incline men nst-"V"ursliy nst-"V"ursliy and willingly to a more spiritual life, which wfll satisfy them: and it promises that a? they wend their way" to a sure heaven this Christ-truth will be the Christ wsr shower through all the mszes and be-setments be-setments ef an evil sense and an evil age, until, with andeviating trust and confidence, Iney abide under .the shadow of the Almighty. Al-mighty. . Wo disagree with others concerning the nsture. of -evil. Mrs. Kddy knows full well that "whatsoever s man soweth, that shall .he elari reay." and that ia inevitably imposes im-poses buffering on ita victim nevertheless, s'te declares that sin, sirkness and kindred - evils are nhreal. mpaning thereby that they belong in the- realnr of the temporal, illegiti--mate.- abnormal. They are the paraphernalia or, mortal beiief of the carnal miud uu-laafui,- riu.pbtt:tas and unnecess-ry . ' ' ' . ' - ' . i |