The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-22
AS TAUGHT BY ST. PAUL.
Rev. George B. Days Lectures on
Christian Science at the
Opera House.
The Long Lost Thought Found
After the Lapse of
Centuries.
Man Is to God, Not rs the Created to the
Creator, but as Son to
Father.

Christian science and its teachings we're
explained to a good audience at the opera
house last night by Rev. George B. Day, of
Chicago, the leading exponent of the doc
trines of the sect to which he belongs.
1.-THE lost thought found" was the subject
of his lecture. History records" he said,
that 4 great many centuries ago a certain
travelling man started from Damascus and
travelled much. He made no exhibition of
his wares, carried no trunks. distributed 10
circulars and made no advertisements, yet
somehow or other the mans history made
an impression on the human race. Though
he had been known as Paul of Tarsus, the
world decided to.canonize him and call him
st. Paul. If anyone should inquire as to
what he carried to distribute to the world,
l should answer, he carried a thought.
This seemed to be rather intangible wares.
Men would rather have something that
appeals more to the senses. But he seemed
content with having distributed it to his
fellow men. He endured all n of
hardships and trials that he might simply
give utterance to that thought. If you ask
what that thought vast had in it a
power that lifted man out of his trials and
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last great enemy that all men dread. St.
Paul, through the power of his owl thought
never died, and the multitude who received
it let it blossom and found in it eternallife.
Up to that time men had thought of the
Creator as an implacAble being. They
could not grasp His purpose. They did not
know what awaited them. 10 tell the peo-
pie that man stood to him not as the
created to the creator, but as the son to the
father, was the grand thought of st. Paul.
Hence the thought that man is the child,
not the creation of God.
Man is a spiritual and not a material
being. Jesus did not think of himself as
Father, not bound by the narrow limits of
life ami death. He declared that He was
before Abraham, and the Christian world
declared that Christ is as much to-day as
1900 years ago. If once we become con-
sclous of mans spirituality, that good is
eternal and evil but temporary, We
of Jesus and St. Paul. Sin
and sickness and evil surround
us. The W they have is what we give
them. We are all wrapped up In thoughts
OF humanity. Men say that all is evil and
misery in this world. 1t was not SO 1880
years ago. There is no need for it to be so
now. The trouble with tn, gospel ministry
is. it holds that material man is the man
that God acknowledges as his creation.
They will never catch the thought of Jesus
and st. Paul until they come to see that
material man is the negative side and is
false. AS long as they hold to this doc
tr'ne, Robert lngersoll. is right in saying
that religion presented a false god who
made man unhappy and in calling on the
world to take this deity and hurl him from
his pedestal. But the spiritual world can
not exist with the man who holds all things
All he knows is what his eyes
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INFINITE wise God never made such matter.
lie never made a mind that was but the
action OF the brain, nor a life that was but
the movement of the blood vessels.
Instead of man being a dual nature. he
is a spiritual being, and his material nature
in the history of carnal man when he
will awake in the likeness of the Infinite
and look back on his past as on a dream of
his infancy. Christian science is not q
philosophy. All the philosophy about it is
this: Instead OF seeing the materially OF
things it sees the spirituality. Jesus and
st. Paul passed by every investigation into
the forces OF nature and rose simply to the
understanding that i'll spirituality
was Il power above all. Some have said
that Christian science appeared to them as
a rev religion. 1t is not a new religion.
Religion Is of carnal mans making. 1t is
something founded on the idea that man
is a material being. All this is different
from the thought of Jesus and St, Paul.
Christianity seems to take hold of physical
and intellectual NAH. 1t holds itself re-
sponsible TO" all the worlds enlightenment.
II has held the world in bondage. 1t saws
to us belongs the credit of the srownina
glory, of the century, The Christianity
that looks to the welfare of carnal man is
not the thought Of Jesus and st. Paul.,
lecturer elaborated the points set out
above and his metaphysical discussion of
the subject. though requiring close atten-
ton i'll those not familiar with the
he breaches, was nevertheless
very interesting.