The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-05-18
or CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Tho Principle Upon Which II Is
Based and What 1t
Really Is.
Tt Ia as Abstract, and Absolute
as the Science OF
Mathematics.
A Large Audience at Odd Fellow
Hall to Hear Mrs. IlavIlall
HeathwOOd's Address.

There was a largo and Interested audience
at Odd Fellows hall last night to hear Mrs.
Havilah Heathwood's address on Christian
science. Mrs. Heathwood is a clear and
forcible speaker. Without any preliminary
she took up her subject:
1--WE are living in a wonderful age. New
ideas are flashing in upon us with lightn-
ing-like rapidity. Old things are passing
away. All things are becoming new. Let
there be light, seems to be the demand of
this nineteenth century. Standing as we
do in sublime sunlight of intelligence, let
US, for a moment, go back to the age OF
darkness, when mai was rude, coarse, bru-
tai, animal, materials recognizing no other
needs, possessing no higher aspirations
than the qualification of the animal in
stincts. The primitive man, bearing
the same relation to the man
of to-day that the infant does
to the man or the acorn to the oak, we fol-
low along through the centuries and per-
ceive him gradually rising, coming up out
of the gross, the animal into the moro re
fined, the intellectual, the spiritual and in
just the proportion that he gains an inlet
to the more ethereal, the more subtle, the
more hidden, does he lay hold on to a
force which enables him to not only let 90
of the coarser, the cumbersome, but also to
demonstrate a power hither to unknown.
sleeping in the limpid waters he finds an
energy which makes him master of the
ocean; saves physical labor. muscle, strength
and time. One step higher he reaches into
the very heavens takes hold of the light
ming and chains it to earth. He has now
step after step worked his way up from the
densest material substance on the
earth, on and up, through the
ated until electricity has been
reached, the most ethereal, subtle and at
the same time most powerful Of them all
the father of all forces. The lightning
fash, carrying death in it's wings; the
crashing thunder; the angry, tumultuous
ocean; the hurricane, sweeping its path
with desolation; the earthquake, showing
mercy to none, playing with life, swallow
ing up cities and men; all of these clements
are manifestations of this subtle, unseen
agent. The discovery of this hidden power,
which, like light shining in the darkness.
has been with men through all time, was
the stroke of the clock which signaled for
the race the dawn of a new day. Upon the
knowledge of electricity largely depends
the progress of this remarkable age. Phys
ical exertion is becoming less and
less hard; time and space are fading
together by ties invisible, through which
the people of one nation whisper to the
people of every other nation thus drawing
mankind nearer to each other; bringing
about the brotherhood of man; making of
the world a magnificent school house; the
earth a great playground.
and the deeper we dip into tn great in
visible reservoir, the more wildly are we
reminded of the declarations of the Mas
ter, All things are possible to him that be-
lieves, or knows, and that any and all
things that are asked for in the name OF
the universe the infinite intelligence back
of all appearances willingly surrenAers its
SECT cts when appealed to in the spirit oil
truth. Th lofty plane upon which we now
stand, the magnificent privileges which we
enjoy, the strides taken by the race from
the age OF darkness to the period of light
is due to science.
Let US bear in mind that physics, or
physical science, deals with visible pheno-
mena and their laws, deals with the
natural, external. material. But Newton,
Fulton, Morse, Franklin and our great Edi-
the first great cause back of all those non
intelligent forces, than did Our blind, I'M
lettefed ancestors, who lived in SO small n
circumference of light, that thought could
could not find the way to spring the narrow
bounds and cry out for more light TO reveal
the cause of this little life. Those great
discoveries touched and are rapidly climb
ing up the %loftiest heights to which it is
possible for physical science to carry them.
But history tells us that those same dizzy
heights have been scaled before by
men of ancient times. That other
men in the long. long ago
rolled up tho hill of difficulty this same
stone, only to see it rolled back again after
the summit had been reached; rs in Egypt, in
Rome, in Greece. And why? Why should
man, once having gained this lofty height,
opened his eyes on this brighter light, have
slid back again in darkness? Despair?
Why should he not gone right on? Pro-
not understand the great over soul; the d.
vine principle upon which all these subtle
elements depended; by which they were
governed. Consequently he was not rooted
and grounded in the cause. He did not
possess the knowledge of that truth which
is fixed, eternal, indestruotible. Physics.
or natural science could not
carry him there. 1t deals
not with causation, knows not
of divine principal (God). 1t
deals with effects, only manifestations of
the infinite underlying cause. Physics car.
ries him up to where the effect ceases and
the cause begins and there leaves him, then
he must, IN order to progress, to dip in
deeper, go up higher, embrace meta-phys-
les. Ihe word metaphysics was tirst en-
ployed by Aristotle, who defined it us the
scienoe of life, science of truth. science of
cause, science of mind. 1t is, therefore, the
science of sciences.
SIT carries the student above or out of the
range of pure physics, studies mind and its
laws of operation. About twenty five years
ago, Mrs. Eddy, of Boston, discovered that
the laws of mind could be applied to the
healing of disease. She. classified, mr.
ranged. reduced to II system the knowledge
obtained, and named it Chris
tian Science, Christian, because in
assuming the right of mind
to rise superior to sin sand sickness she
claimed it to be in accord with Christ's
teachings, and as science ia truth found
out, and when understood demonstrable
she held that it was both Christian and
science. Hence. the title, Christian
Science. Christian Science then, il the
statement of truth itself, or the form as
statement. in II through which God is re-
vealed. The science then, must be divine,
because that which is divine was not made
by man, nor by him can it DO marred.
Christian Science deals with unrevealed and
chanaeiess cause, and it's effects and their
relations to ench other. 1t differs from
physical science in this: CHI istian Science