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Show LECTURE IS ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Hl That Christian Science is altogeth- H r in accord with the teachings of 1 the New Testament, was the conten- H tlon of "William R. Rathvon, C. S. B., Hj who delivered a lecturo, under tho H auspices of tho Ogden Christian m science cnurch, in the Orpheum the- M ater last night. Tho theator was H! well filled and the audience, which 1 was composed larg'ely of church -go- m ing people, listened with rapt atten- Hl tion throughout the discourse. H Mr. Rathvon is a very ontertaln- 1 lng speaker. His serene manner of j address cast a calmness over the au- M dienco bo that only the Bound of his H clear voice broke the absolute stlll- Hp nsBs of the theator. Tho audience 1 from tho beginning to the end ap- H peared altogether devoid of restless- 1 ness which was indicative of the !n- M terest with which the message of the 1 speaker was received. Mr. Rathvon H was for a number of years a very F intimate friend of the founder of tho H Christian Science faith, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, and throughout his loc- turo paid many flowery tributes to H the memory of this remarkable wo- H"' man. Mr. Rathvon said Hj "Christian Science has but one B, textbook, "Science and Health with B key to the Scriptures' by Marv Bak- BB. er Eddy. It Is not a book to be BB quickly read or hastily thumbod over BB as one would a shallow novel. Nor BB! Is It to be approached with bias or Hi prejudice if one would share its BBr riches; but its truths may be proved BBr and In turn imparted by child or BBk sage who turns its leaves with an BBri open mind. Only the open flower it BB lo that catches the dew and yields BBh Its .honey to tho bee. K Not Above BIWe. BB' "It has been asserted that Chris- H tian Scientists place their toxt-book BBK above the Bible as tho guide to BBS? righteousness. No one can honestly BBS make this allegation who has read BBS the book carefully, for on pago 497 BBR. of Science and Health are prlntod BBjF these word, 8 the first of a series of BBJij tenets of our religion: BBtft, '"As adherents of truth wo tako BBjM tho inspired word of the Bible as our BBjV sufficient guide to eternal lifo.' Ih "What more emphatic and oxplicit BBm negation of such a charge could be BH" demanded? BBj 'The. truths of Christian Science BB do not originate in tho book Sclonco BH and Hoalth.N They find expression BBjl 4 thoro but their origin is in God. BBJ , They have always exiBtod and will BBr; forever exiBt. What effect, then, It BBflf may bo asked, does the study of this BH book "havo upon those who have pre- BB! vioiiBly been Bible students7 Does it BBta; supplant tho Bible In their roverenco BBi and admiration? Is the Book of books BBK- less precious to them than before? BBV Tho an3wer is, "No." On the other BBK hand Science and Health harmonizes BBI: many seeming incongruities in the BB? Bible which have long perplexed lay- BB . man and theologian; it explains ap- BBS parent contradictions, it discloses BB unexpected riches; It gives now slg- BBjg, niflcance to favorite passages, and BBJ , brings neglected ones into favor. H-f "It is often charged against Chris- BB' tian Scientists because they rely BBJ wholly upon mind that thoy do not BB "do anything" for the sick. When the BBv average man considers tho needs of BBflr a sick person, his thought at once BBag' turns to the medicine bottle and he BBD; , believes there 1b nothing being done BBS, for the sick man unloss he is made BBvt ,to swallow something. According to BB&- .hlg peremptory opinion, the sick BBS "' man should be treated with some- H i thing that he can taste or smell or feel, somcthng that the senses can perceive Otherwise nothing is being be-ing done for him. He may tell vou that attempting to change tho condition condi-tion of a man's body through mind alone is foolishness. And vet this same intelligent citizen will readily admit that a man's body commonly and frequently undergoes sudden and veray marked changes tjuo entirely to mental causes. He will admit that salt water will flow from bla eyes If ho is subjected to great grief. That sudden fear will cause the faco to flush or pale, tho heart to thump, the voice to change. Grief and Anoer. c Now grief, anger and the like -are obviously mental, but becauso their effect on tho body is of overy-day occurrence, as commonplace as" eating eat-ing and drinking, tho lesson they disclose dis-close is lost upon the man who hastens has-tens to censure Christian Science for achieving what ho styles the Impossible, Impos-sible, yet which has bqon a. part of him since the day when as a crying cry-ing Infant he on his mothor's arm shed his first tears. "Jesus proved for all time and for all Christendom that the origin of disease was mental and he healed It with mental medicine. He gave himself him-self no concern about physical symptoms, symp-toms, but he destroyed what caused them. He cared little about what the sick man hnd been eating but much what he bad been thinking. He said In so many words, 'It Is not that which goth Into a man which dc-fileth dc-fileth him. "When ho healed the sick he gave no parting directions, about diet and rest, hut on at least one occasion said, 'Sin no more lost a worse thing come unto thee,' thus indicating the mental origin of the disease. The sick were healed by him through spiritual understanding, not by human will. Christian Scl-once, Scl-once, similarly relying wholly upon dlvlno principle, has no relationship with will power, mental science, hypnotism, hyp-notism, mesmerism, auto-suggestion, thought transference, spiritualism or anv of the other cults or schools which rely wholly or In part upon the Influenco of one human mind or human hu-man will upon another. These are essentially adverse to the teachings of Christian Science, wherein tho human mind and the human will are made wholly subordinate and subservient sub-servient to the divine mind, the will of God. SncceBS In Christian Science Sci-ence Is only attained as fallible human hu-man mentality Is eliminated. This Implies self-denial, the denial of tho human senso of self, and the affirmation af-firmation of all good, and 1b a condition condi-tion to which all must come sooner or later. 'Ab 1 live, salth the Lord, every knee shall bow, and ever' tongue shall confess to God.'" |