The morning call., 1894-06-04
ILLING UNDERSTANDING.
describing the Vain Inaginings
of the Sense Judgment.
A SYMPOSIUM OF EXPERIENCE.
Many Persons Make Statements of
Their Reason for the Faith
That Is in Them.

The Congress of Scientists was brought
TO close at Golden Gate Hall last evening
after a weeks session. in which splendid
results we're considered to have been OBJ
tanned.
1n the morning services were held in
UniOn-sQuare Hall, 421 Post street, begin
ming at 1920 o'clock. After the usual
meditation Mrs. Mary d. Fisk of Denver
delivered an address on "rhe Loving
Kindness and Tender Merces of Our God. ="
In the process of experience the speaker
stated that it had been learned to close or
still the understanding to the world that a
world of understanding might be had. and
that the loving kindnesses and tender
mercies OF God are shown in the ways in
which truth is reve aled 10 thought.
Our work is to bring every thought in to
capti vity to the side of science and to cast
out all the vain imaginings of the sense
judgment"
The paper was a beautiful one, poetic 10
| its Imagery and seemed peculiarly appro-
pirate for the day and the occasion. Its
delivery was frequently interrupted by
enthusiastic applause.
A. Z. Barton OF Kansas City treated the
subject, Overcoming, eXtemporaneously
explaining in a brief and lucid manner
luc uIcbuUuo VI OuIlSbldH SCi6H tlStS IN
| bringing the mind to a shutting out of the
sense Of matter. The president, Mrs. NJ.
+. Cramer, spoke on Science Realized
treating it from the technical stand
point.
The afternoon session was held In
Golden Gate Hall. which was decorated
with fresh cut tiOwe rS. The audience was
a large one and the most of the session
was devoted TO a sympos SUM of faith con-
slstlng of short statements from delegates
as 10 reasons they had for the faith with
in them.
Mrs Jane Yarnell of Chicago said that
when she had learned The truth as God
taught her she found that the use of eye
glasses was real III e,essary and de-
termIned lay aside the Un1S she had
been using. 1t required three weeks To
accomplish this submission of her false
sight TO that which God had shown her
she possessed. Now she sees more clearly
without glasses than she ever did with
them.
Mrs. YarnelPs statement of this reason
for the faith within her drew out similar
relations Of experience from others. Sew
eral gray. haired men and women testified
TO the return Of natural vision after years
of artificial aid.
Mrs. Annie RiX Militz upon first accept
ing the principles of Christian science de-
sired no physical demonstrations OF faith,
being without Ills or ailments, as she
tnOughl. heallZlug, however, That an old
complaint-slck headache-sIill chung to
her. she began thinking seriously whether
or not this was really an ailment which
she must submit to until, like others of
her family, she should outgrow it. She
presently concluded that she would not be
annoyed longer by this unnecessary pain
and she succeeded in putting it aside for
ever, thus recording her first physical
dem on stratlon of the faith within her.
DR.. William Yarnell, w. B. Dunlap, W.
III. Dunlap and DR.. j. j. PlunAett spoke in
similar strains on their experience.
During the session the Fuhrer family
orchestra and Miss ROlenda NJ. Kline
Lost Chord" and Nj zart's Twelfth Mas
being among the numbers.
The evening session was devoted mostly
to fare addresses and congratulations
on the success, from many standpoints, of
The congress.