Show CHRISM delivered before a large ogden audience m the opera house sunday i afternoon 4 4 f i 1 tb fo iroini the lecturer of carol norton tho grand opera loiis sunday before an audience oll 00 persons mr dortoh eald in part christendom aas passed through th e twentieth century eha ideals of are coniing universal tho english lan guage ie last becoming tho language of humanity and hand in hand with this language go the truths of ane teachings of jesus christian enci is the mo thought of aspect of the christian ry ligion of carly haars hoars of the new century it is twentieth century christian ity what christian science accomplished is it at the present wh at has the race a right to expect practical operation during hc days that are to be these are pertinent questions to be calmly considered dispassionate discussed and prayerfully investigated blind prejudice is self imposed ignorance A dogmatic sense of religion is mental stolidity one sided or prejudiced point of view is a position without view or vista fixed ignorance of either religious or eciek tine truth is inadmissible in this age of enlightenment and impartial investigation ti wrong traditional influences are no part of a progressive mentality and thinking minds are always open to the light it cometh JESUS IN LIGHT OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE the religion of jesus has within itself the elements of universality it is a gospel of brotherhood fraternity fellowship social science and co opera tive progress jesus kingdom of righteous dominion is for this world but partakes not of its worldliness according to christian science jesus christ is at once son of lod and son of man his divinity or immortal selfhood is one with the divine nature that we call god his humanity is one with universal man i e god made manifest in the flesh this humanly divine manifestation is neither earthly nor sensual but illustrates the symmetrical proportions of sinless such character constitutes the eternal normality of gods man christian science looks upon jesus as the central figure of present and future religious history and spiritual conquest far above tha plane and action of a mere wonder worker it places the deeds and words of jesus referring to the works of jesus especially his healing of mental or spiritual processes matthew 41 this action of jesus however it may be amplified in the reports was real but it is not therefore as popular religion fancie i won der it not what people are fond of calling the but what i better called the it is on th contrary like the grace of raphael or the grand style of eminently natural but it is above common low pitched nature t is a line of lature not yet mastered or followed out ie christian science evangelical in its attitude toward our lord and master it recognizes in jesus the fulfillment of alie messianic prophecies and hopes of the hebrew people it teaches hie immaculate conception spiritual incarnation baptism and hie reception of the descent of the holy spirit it accepts the record of his power ovet the cle nants the of his divinely natural deeds mi miracles bis works of healing regeneration and di compassionate of dinners pin ners it accepts bia atonement as revelation ut eliy divine process of atonement at one ment with god it bowe in humility before his pic and in the tragedy of calvary the great climax in the drama of atoning love it believes in the troth of his easter morning resurrection a nl teaches that he restored himself healing his wounds and removing the w ind ing sheet from his own body and the napkin from his head in the tomb it accepts the story of h post tion words and nets ns recorded in the Goi pela and in his final ascension above matter the scientific fulfillment of hi own prophecies and the ability of individual immortality demonic therefore christian science accepts jesus christ as the dav t shower and in this acceptance lays fc r claim to being evangelical in i its attitude toward the personality in dividu allty and work of the savior docs christian science take a liberal view of the life and character of jesset christan Chri stun science the i ancient hebrew statement as to the nature of god hear 0 israel the lord our is one lord and therefore it reaffirms the words of jesus 1 my father ia greater than I 1 chri tian science in jesus and in his i ein leea ascending life a perspective ideal of our own possibilities jesul prayed that all men might be one with the father even ns he wae one he commanded men to be as perfect god wa perfect and ne if to comfort them with alie possibility of thia mar attainment said ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free christian science therefore chea that god ia ane a spirit mind or truth super personal yet personal g supreme individual being w rath and every one of iiii creatures cording to the of chr science life of jesus chaiet and r ine power t aili career manifesto v B and death en of man in tune i the infinite harmony called vl 1 mn illustrate the di mignel poe ability bof manhood jeub ia our brother of ae humanity arcati end and cavior in the lifilie af pf carje an tapa forth from the tomb winch he ha been placed by the in cation of hie personality and again the healer and reformer of galilee ks in spirit and in truth in artir nl dt a of the depraved of the bick and 1 all who nit in dar kneM fishy christian science believe literally ae well epi ritually 01 it demonstrable power to heal di that chrict meant what aft f when he ave hi great promise to all yen tin work that do ye 11 01 these rather nill ye do because I 1 go unto my religion according tl fir istia science ia of thought and acar philanthropy anth ropy a tion Q ahe jicy of daus christas the highest manifestation in religious history of a god christian science recognizes all ahat truo and beautiful in the great deuis of the world but at all and under all conditions sees in the progressive gres sive career of jesus christ the manifestation of the spiritual idea tho type of the perfect man religion in the light of christian science is spirituality us opposed to adamic mateian icv universal kigiu truth justice freedom liberty and u lovo upon the minda of men transforming reforming jip building and liberating from all or begets human discord disease and ultimate death according to christian science religion is not necessarily embodied in the external manifestations of eo called religion but at all times abides as the presence of the holy spirit in human affairs the veritable emmanuel or god with us bearing perpetual witness to the existence of the divine immanence god in his world THE BIBLE Cli ristian science ia essentially scrip euial religion in the language of the first of its six brief articles of faith its textbook text book affirms As adherents of truth we take the inspired word of the bible for our guide to eternal life during its first third of a cen burys existence christian science has made the bible the chief book in the lives of over a million individuals next to tho bible it places the christian science textbook text book science and health with key to the scriptures by mary baker eddy why because through the prayerful application of the teachings of this textbook text book the spiritual significance ance of the bible has again been discerned and ita physically healing gospel as well as its regenerative sage has once again been proved capable of practical utility and daily demonstration in the healing of sickness and sin christian science inculcates cul cates a dignified and lofty faith in the teachings end promises of holy scripture it substitutes a common sense understanding of the spiritual interpretation terp of tho scripture tor the crude literalism that in its blind wor chip of the bible las done perhaps more than anything else to obscure ita real and practical meaning christian scientists are close and conscientious bible students remembered hat the christian science 1 churches with their thou banda of attendants have as an impersonal pastor two bucks the bible and the christian science textbook text book filom which a duly appointed man and woman read as church readers and that of anese two books the bible is given first pace cannot the following fuestion du estion be asked in simple justice to christian science has any body of christian believers ever paid a higher tribute to the great textbook text book of christendom than has the christian science church under the leadership of ita founder mrs eddy this great and growing body enters the twentieth century with personal preaching and per displaced by the word of god resident in the bible and spiritually in ter peteS in its scientific sense through the provable truths of the christian textbook text book the campio teach inga of jesus christ as one continued discourse recorded in the four gospels by ilia four students can be termed the constitution of the of israel the ic corded rules of life given by esus anro the city laws of the new jerusalem the kingdom of god or heaven ajesm taught camo not through material observation but through the acquisition of mental righteousness and inward spirituality it ii a well known fact that scholastic christianity is more pauline than jesua liec in justice to christian science should it not be admitted that the regenerative and healing works that have followed in the train of the teaching of the Cli ristian science textbook text book arp ample evidence that it hakea practical the promise of tho four gospels 1 thus christian is claimed to 7 christian add biblical HEALTH health defines aa wholesome or holiness according to christian spence true holiness christ ain graro and moral rectitude roust of necessity include a normal relationship with the divius being abich wo call god thus bodily is made manifest in the quickening of what is called the mortal body by the spirit dmd ac to the teaching of scripture and scientific law if god is in all asli vine perfection ho baa ae intimate relationship tion ship with alio physical health of man as with his spiritual harmony it immorality is moral discord and materiality the reverse of spirituality physical ill health is certainly bodily discord if the body is to be transformed by the renewing of the mind health is therefore a spiritual condition and man in proper mental harmony with the divine mind or spiritual law can no more have bodily disease than can men in harmony with tho law of god good express moral deformity therefore christian science teaches the establishment of health through mental or spiritual process it invokes the divine aid through spiritual communion with deity it attacks all organic and functional disease in the realm of causation namely mentality and there conquers the disease in its breeding ground 1 e the conscious and subconscious mortal thought jesus came to destroy the work of the devil he spent his whole time in the regeneration of the depraved in the healing of the in the destruction of error and in the raising of the dead Is not christian science therefore both logical and scriptural tural in its assertion that sin bodily sickness error and death are of mortal not divine origin and constitute alie works of the devil or evil in human affairs SCIENCE the word science is clothed with definite spiritual significance through the cathings cach ings of christian science if the underlying principles of christianity are true they must ae true it scientifically true they are of necessity capable of proof it provable ocular evidence should bear witness to their truth more logical or intuitional proof i not sufficient for the men of scientific research it has been truly said that physical science is the religion of he theological chitica ave ajie light of christian to designate their scientific one capable of proof we arc all acsa acquainted with the oft repeated thit christian ii neither christian nor scientific but happily the philosophy of christian science is capable of confirmation in bogli these departments of its application in the realm of christianity for religion it provat its christian character by its reformatory edi in the realm ot science it confirms its claim to being scientific bv offering ft definite acrie r of evidences in alio scaling of organic and functional diseases through the sole power of mind being neither a dogmatic nor speculative system of mental therapeutics it 1 at once exact in its opera tion wherever rightly applied in music one definite proof of bar proves possibilities of the law of music and as one manifestation of discord in no wise disproves the possibilities ties of harmony a positive cure through the application of the mete physical healing law of christian science proves the possibility of the most extreme claims made for the system the failures reflect not against the principle but against the lack of under standing on the part of the demonstrator christian science elevates the idea of god as divine principle this principle is capable of demonstration in the destruction st of moral and physical error therefore by chis very promise christian science is removed from the list of experimental and so called inexact ecie and placed at the very head of demonstrable science in its demonstration of the supreme power of mind it thereby proves the nothingness of matter as a causative force if the scientific development of the nineteenth century proved one thing above another it was chist that all causation is mind and in the word ot huxley matter is but the name for the unknown hypothetical cause ot states of our own MATURE the miscalled mi laws of nature are but the externalized manifestations of what is known as impersonal mortal mind abras mortal or human nature the belt destructive forces of earth hurricane tidal wave pestilence famine drouth flood extremes of heat and cold poisonous plants reptiles faroe i y ions contagious dr feaste the i evils of y in and germ s death dealin electricity fire together with the a baric tendencies dormant and sive inthe minds and actions ot tills manifesting them in cmel warfare murder bull cock and dog fights and in all forms ol 01 human brutality express not the manifestation fe of the nature of that who 19 referred to in alio chapter of deuteronomy ns add of and without iniquity just and right jesus illustrated the power of the true law of nature when he the tempest on the sea of it h recorded that in manifesting his power over the lie rebuked taft beorn and it ceased lie have rebuked trat manifested the eternal love the everlasting love cvar express itself through death deal ing forces either physical or human the great institution of civil law which can b truthfully be culled the religion of justice finds ile at supporters aanon alie believers in caris tian science iliev honor all law they recognize in all mice laws the bul of mans individual freedom and rights as a child of god tho apparently widespread jhc thc ory that a genuine christian stence must of acce ity be provincial in thou and painfully lv narrow in let the words of the founder of christian science be quoted the right teacher of christen science lives tho truth ho teaches preeminent pre eminent amons men he virtually stands at the head ot all sanitary civil moral and reform MAX WOMAN christian science has already worked a revolution in the consideration of tho great question of sex equality at tho timo of its advent the scientific world of thought was undergoing veritable reign of philosophical excitement over the announcement of tho darwinian theory of tho origin of species and organic evolution simultaneous with tho of alio metaphysical or immaterial theory of creation as taught by christian science and side by side with it has advanced what is known as alie evolutionary theory of the survival of tho fittest alio via bora t ion of the theory of organic evolution belongs peculiarly culi arly to the eo called scientific progress of the nineteenth century Is it 1 lot significant that the practical |