CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1897-12-09
Christian Science.

The Christian Scientists of Canon
have enlarged their place of worship
and have now large, pleasant hall to
accommodate their growing congrega-
ton. The hall will be wired for elec.
trio lights this week ~
Many of the members of this church
have been rescued from lives of inval-
idism and despair by the healing power
of Christian Science. and by their earn
est, active lives prove that they are
working as well as praying for Gods
kingdom To come on earth as it is in
Heaven. This church believes that the
gospel of Christ Jesus believed and
practiced in its fnlness Twill bring the
end of all error; that keeping the Com.
mandments in their highest and broad
est sense as Jesus expressed them
Thou shalt love the Lord til} God with
all thy heart, with all thy soul, with all
thy strength and with all thy mind and
thy neighbor as thyself--wonld bring
ideal conditions on earth
The pastor of this church in America
and all other lands is the Bible, and the
Christian Science text book. Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures"
by Mary Baker Eddy. They have no
preaching. The Sunday service con
sists of Bible Lesson Sermon taken
from the Christian Science Quarterly.
The Friday night meeting is an Ex-
perience meeting i'll which some testi-
monials of the demonstrations over
sickness and SIN are given. The fol-
lowing is taken from the New York
Sun:
"The work of the Christian Scientists
throughout the land can be well likened
to single hospital in one of our great
cities that has been forced to receive
all the incurable cases, all the instances
that had proven failures i'll the othe r
hospitals Of that city; yet large pro-
portion of the people lave demanded
that the average of successful healing
should be as high, if not higher, than
the average of all other healing methods
combined. When it is remembered
that few people ever seek aid from
Christian Science until after the best
curative skill of Europe and America
has failed, it must be frankly admitted
that the percentage of successful heal
ing Is extraordinarily large, when it is
stated on good authority that the aver
age result in such cases is in the neigh
bOrhood of 70 per cent, and this per-
centage is being daily increased through
a greater mastery and understanding
of the therapeutical possibilities of the
system.
"A. A. Sulzer. NJ. D., of California,
writes in the San Francisco Call:
Healing in the primitive church is
misiDterpreted by the material world
today as it was misinterpreted in the
time Of the apostles Instead OF its be-
ing through the agency of power
supernaturally bestowed it was through
the understanding or an obviously
natural principle which Jesus taught
and demonstrated; a moral law of the
universe which cannot be changed or
annulled. Through an understanding
of that principle il is being demonstra-
ted every day that the power of healing
has come down to us. The gift of
healing was lost, not because it was
specially granted for a special epoch
and then denied to those Of later times,
but because the power of the ministry
the Christ pOwer-was lost. Restore
the one and the other is restored; they
cannot be separated. Neither can .l,af
power be denied without limiting oi,t
of the divinely given essential tests not
merely of discipleship. but of them riiat
believe. II proved the truth and divin-
lty OF the message then and it proves
the divinity of the message now" III