St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-08
THERE is NO DEATH.
Mrs. Edgecomb's Admirable Ad-
dress Before the Christian Scien-

Mrs. Edgecomb's Admirable Ad-
dress Before the Christian Scien-
lists.
The assertion There is no death, )"
made by the Christian scientists, and so
little understood by the materi alists,
was treated by Mrs. D. w. Edgecomb
at the Christian Science institute yes
terday afternoon, in bold and logical
manner, in the light of the scientific
and spiritual investigation that is open
ing up new era of religious thought
for this day. her text was based upon
Heb. ills, That He might deliver them
who through fear of death were all
their life subject to bondage"
''The child of earth is not an earth
child at all, and is in no way subject to
earthly conditions; he only seems to be
an earth child. subject to earth condi-
tiOnS. This is problem that so many
are working out from different stand
points, and not always i'll harmonious
way, but the agitation of the question
is an important sign of the times, and
somebody is sure to strike the right cal
culation soon. Some think that the ay-
erage age of the human being is really
increasing, so that in the far-oif
future our race may say There is no
death with certainty. But these are ma
terialistS. They are speaking of matter,
handling matter, and thinking entirely
of matter. They mean the matter of
man, pure and simple. The material
lists have held the reins of the world of
thought always, and now they can point
to their fruits. The great business cen
tiers of the cities are splendid edifices for
the sale of wonderful mixtures which
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the materialiSts gave Socrates when
their compounds were cruder. To get
rid of death has ever been secret long
ing, vague and persistent hope of the
human heart. which has resulted in an
ever eager quest for the great elixir of
life which should renew old age and
prolong life indefinitely.
"There is one Teacher who came
among men urging His thoughts upon
the attention Of the world, whose whole
theme was life; whose whole teaching
bore upon those ways of living and
thinking that would change the dying
practices of the world to the living
practices that frustrate death entirely.
He spoke Of a kind of flesh and blood
that would recuperate and reluvenate
the life forces if people would keep on
eating and drinking them till they could
say they were not sick any more, and
nobody should see death at all. The
materialists have quite ignored this
teachers words concerning eternal life,
because they have supposed that He
was referring entirely to the unseen
part of the human being, and did not
mean at all that the visible body could
be renewed and transformed and re-
cuperated out of the reach of death.
The students of science WHO now call
Lis teachings infallibie authority insist
that lie actually taught way of living
here and now that would, if followed
exactly. feed the body and recuperate
it into undylng health.
"The students of His teachings have
found out many things which can help
the world greatly. They have found
that His words have very different
meanings from those the materially
minded have been giving them for so
many years. No man of flesh is our
Father. aud urged each one of us to de-
clare God only to be our Father. No
substance in ouI bodies but spirit. He
said, for God, from whom we came
forth, is spirit. The words of truth
which He spake would be life to all that
would find them and health to all their