Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-07-17
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
The Editor Of the c. 5. Journal Of
Boston Outlines the New Teaching.

I
Boston Outlines the New Teaching.
The parlors at the capitol were
crowded by an attentive audience
last evening to listen to an address
on Christian Science, from Mr..
Bailey, Of Boston. Mr.. Geo. W.
johnson presented the lecturer, who
opened 10y saying that Christian
Scientists more than any other
Christians kept the injunction to
'pray without ceasing,n aud called
attention to the fact that in all
denominations the eyes were closed
I'm prayer-an admission that God
was not 10 be reached through the
senses. The audience was then
asked to join in silent prayer aud in
the audible repetition Of The Lord :
prayer.
Mr.. Bailey then commenced by
explaining the difference between
faith cure" "mind cure and
Christian science. Faith cure was
illustrated 10y the supposition that
nobody in the audience knew arith-
nletic and should be told that the
answer to question was so much,
and should believe the result because
they believed the lecture understood
arithmitsc. But they could not
maintain that the answer was cor
rect against anybody who denied it,
nor avoid accepting the state
meut of some one else that another
result was the true one. Now,
Christian science was like un-
derstanding the problem; Christian
Science healing was through under
standing God as good, and as having
all power and being all. This was
to be planted on a rock. mind
cure" was then explained and
shown to be entirely different from
Christian Science, because it worked
through the supposed power of the
human mind on itself or oU another
human mind, instead of through
the God power.
Thus the Christian Scientist
grows to have only the thoughts
that manifest God. He thus loses
sight of, is healed from sickness and
sin by the power of God. Thus
man becomes Godlike, "the image
and likeness of God" He is that
image now, but supposes he is very
different. Christian Science simply
destroys this error and gives him
the understanding Of man as the
likeness of God.
In reply to a question from - lady
ia the audience Mr.. Bailey closed 10y
declari"g that Christian Science had
nothing to do with Spirirualism; be-
liefs in electric or nerve forces,
or any other kind Of forces.
God is the only force or power
known to the Christian Scientist,
He may be known also 10y this--he
believes every word Of Jesus, Of the
apostles, the prophets and the Psalm
list TO be the word of God. He ac-
cepts the situation of Paul when he
cried out 80 wretched man that |
am" as the condition, in belief, of
every man and looks to God as a
means ofescape and relief from it..
He knows and acknowledges Sod
in every thought as well as act, and
thus does actually pray without
ceasing,'
1t wa, next explained that the
Christian Scientists begun by fore
Ing clear idea of God, as Spirit,
Love, Life, and then declaring that
since God "made all that was made"
that everything in His creation must
resemble him. \ thing not like
Him does not resemble Him or man
ifest Him. Sickness, sin and death
are opposites of, and totally unlike
love and life, thereupon they can
not be the creation of God and are
not.
Theu it was explained how the
Christian Scientist destroys in his
own mind the beliefs of sin and
sickness, testing all such ideas by
the above conception of God and
putting out Of miud by the power
of the Divine Idea above explained,
and through the understanding that
they must be uureal-all ideas that
are not like God, or do not manifest
Him,