St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-25
ON INSPIRATION.
An Interesting Talk by a Chris.
tian Scientist.

Before the Christian Scientists, in the
Hotel Barteau, j. w. Jayues yesterday
delivered all address on "InSpiration."
his text was John, vi, As: cit is writ
ten in the prophets, and they shall be
taught of God. Every man, therefore,
that hath heard, and hath learned of
the Father, cometh unto me-" He said:
The text we have selected for this MORN
Ing's discourse is divided into two parts.
The first is quotation from the proph-
cts and the second clause is an analysis
of the first. The Scribes and PhariSees
were highly educated class, and were
continually boaSting and parading their
worldly wisdom before the uneducated
as a thing of God. Especially did they
claim par excellence in the sayings of the
Sanhedrlm. They were the doctors of
the law, and wonderfully we'll did this
appellatjon fit them, for they doctored
the law to suit themselves rather than
to conform to the voice of truth spoken
by the prophets.
The arrogance and bigotry of this self
willed and self-rigbteous people is only
equaled by the royal dynasties of mod
ern ecclesiasticism. 1t was against this
class OF worshiperS that Jesus spe-
cialIy directed the words of the text. It
is written in the Prophets that all men
must be taught of God. God must re-
veal Himself to man; for who. by
searching, can find out God? A plain
contradiction of the ecclesiastical
methods of
Learning OF God.
In fact, God is circumScribed by the
law OF material sense by all classes that
look for an understanding Of truth. or
God through the ecclesiastical schools.
Probably Jesus quoted the prophets to
show them that their understanding of
what they taught was as defective as
was their understanding of how He per-
5 formed such work as the feeding Of the
multitude. For lie said. ''If We had heard
ana learned of the Father, we would
come unto me-" The feeding of the
multitude was to bring to their con-
seriousness the fact of the all-sustainlng
power of truth and love. When spirit.
mind is seen to be the multipler, the
supply is always equal to the de-
mand. He would teach them that
if they had been taught of
God, they would know Him as the only
substance, the only life, the only intel
ligence of the universe and man. For
the prophet has said that in the day
when all shall be taught of God, the
knowledge of the glory of the Lord
shall fill the earth as the waters cover
the sea, and In that day they shall know
war no more, but with joy shall they
draw water out of the wells of saliva
ton. The Master would teach them of
one God, one power, one law of lnspira-
ton that was the same yesterday, TODAY
and forever. Therefore, what the proph-
cts foretold were the possibilities of
man-Jesus fulfilled. What they proph-
eSied should come He demonstrated was
and always had been. The followers
OF Jesus 1880 years ago, and today, con-
firm the teaching of both prophet and
Savior, making a complete network of
unbroken testimony, thus establishing
forever the supremacy of mans domin-
ion, when illumined by the light and
teachings of
Divine Science.
The quotation under consideration.
with its companion statements, are oc-
cupying the thought, and controlling
the action of the religious world today
to greater'extent than at any previous
time in the annals CT religious history.
A demand for something purer. more
practical is going out from millions of
good and honest hearts, and this de-
mand is being met and answered by
better understanding of spiritual truth
and life. that prophet. Jesus and
apostle declared was given to them
from God, and not contaminated by
doctrine and dogma of meu.
The advent of new idea has always
brought a new light with it that has
made the world of thought more Christ
like, by separating itself from creed, and
thrreby gaining closer alliance to and
a better understanding of the teachings
of the Master.
Then the question may we'll be asked,
If Ic hot oI1
Yates the Christian standard, is it not
surely and truly the voice of God that is
heard in the hereSies. and can they be
said to he of the damnable sort when
they lead man up to better under
standing of himself, and that is making
mankind generally more Christ-like?
& Therefore the dissensiOns from the
churches, that are clamoring for such
radical changes in their articles of faith
and the church tenets, throw no dis
-paragment upon the teachings of the
Scriptures; but, on the contrary, it is a
breaking away from creed and dogma,
and bringing to the recognition of the
World a better understanding of the
teachings. and gives the assurance that
we have been with the Father and have
learned OF Him.
We as truth-loving, Christian peo-
pie ought to be thankful that our lot is
cast in this day and age of religious
progression: still it cannot be that it is
mere luck that we are contemporaries
with the most profound and sublime
Christian movement that has ever con-
vplSed the world OF religious thought.
No, it Is not possible. We are what we
are by advancing against and oYercom-
ing the giants, David-like, that have
sprung up in our pathway to
Retard Our Progress.
1t is a fact to the casual observer that