The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-21
SAYS THOUGHT
IS KING OF
THE WORLD
1t Rules Man and All
His Affairs.
A HEALER OF ALL ILLS
DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN SCI
ENCE EXPLAINED.
Lecture by Edward A. Kimball Of
Chicago on the Power
Of Faith and
Mind.
DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN SCI
ENCE EXPLAINED.

Edward A. Kimball Of Chicago lee
tured before large audience in Golden
Gate Hall last evening on the subject
of Christian Science"
After referring to the fact that he
himself and tens of thousands Of others
had been healed by this science, Mr..
Kimball said:
One Of the most important features of
Christian science is the exposition of
mental causation as the procurator of
disease.
In order to properly direct your atten-
ton wish to remind you of the fact that
thought governs humanity at all points.
All the strife and war among nations
affairs of the world are thus originated,
Continents are discovered, explored and
colonized; nations are founded; cities are
built; the earth is made to bring forth It's
products; goods are designed and manu-
featured and all of the vast, ponderous
transactions of the world are, procured
Thought establishes social relationships,
and, on the other hand, it murders and
commits suicide. 1t brings forth the
ton. and, again, it demolishes and de-
stroys Without thought all human activ-
ity would cease; the earth would become
depopulated; the wheels of industry would
abruptly stop crumble and decay and the
work Of mans hands be obliterated, and
mortal man and his affairs, which exist
because of thought, would be a nonentity
without it.
When you understand that thought
works out such tremendous impulslon
in the career of man you will find little
difficulty in accepting the proposition in
Christian Science, that thought which
does. everything else to a human being
can also make him sick.
Such an admission paveS the way to
the acceptance of correlative statement
that If evil and ignorant thought, fear,
hatred and passion, can make him sick,
true thought, that \, hich is natural and
scientific, can bring about changed con-
dition and produce healing influence
and effect.
Christian Science points out the posi-
bility of your obtaining complete mastery
over the sense of pain and disease, and
just in proportion as you gain this under
standing and thereby manifest the nat
ural dominion and control over bodily
conditions you will gradually lose all
conscious and unconscious fear and es-
cape its havoc.
fhe change of thought which must and
will transform the world will reverse all
of the purely material theories about dis
ease and show that many of the steps
that are taken to prevent and cure 1t but
aggravate and augment 1t. The new I'M
Outstanding of scientific law will annul
the laws of disease, will locate mental
causation and remove the consequences
of fear.
offspring in evil conversation about it,
and to-day the race is inflicting the most
appalling consequences upon itself as the
result Of insufferable and limitless talk
about sickness.
People who fear and avoid contagion
and infection will actually submerge
themselves in the introspection of self
and the inspection and comments of every
one else, not knowing that those things
are more harmful and do vastly more
damage than the others.
Medical records indicate innumerable
instances where illness has terminated
fatally simply because Of the fright and
encouragement that were projected upon
narrative. prediction or expressed fears
Frustrated the hope and courage and eX-
pectation of the sick man who, If undis-
turbed, would have recovered spontane-
ouSly.
Christian Scientists urge the avoidance
of the worldwide habit of overmuch talk
body, because as theme for conversa--
ton 1t is or should be unattractive and
offensive to people of wholesome sensi-
bilities Secondly, because nearly all such
conversation is among people who know
really nothing about disease; and lastly
because such conversations propagate
fear and plant the seeds of disorder and
disease, which unconsciously lodge, ger
inmate and consume.
Christian Science has reformed drunk
ards and the victims Of morphine and
ebriety is among the infirmities of man
which have been considered well nigh
hopeless.
Christian Science heals all sorts of peo-
pie of all manner of diseases At the
Worlds Congress of Religions 1t was au-
thoritatively stated that more than one
million cases of disease had been healed
by 1t up to that time and that many of
them had been considered incurable It
has cured diseases that have never been
known to be healed by any other means.
1t has instructed the infidel and agnostic,
who, unable to adopt any of the miscon-
ceiyed substitutes for Deity which have
disf1gured human thought, have been glad
to acquaint themselves with the under
standing of God which unfolds the very
substance and science of being, instead of
involving the believer in a labyrinth of
mystery which gives no promise Of yield
ing to anything but death.
Christian Science has purified and ex-
allied the motives, desires and aims of
men, Increased their wisdom, their exec
utive and business capacity; arrested the
havoc Of vice; refined character and ele-
waited manhood and citizenship. These are
indisputable facts, and they are indelibly
engraved on the annals of humanity. TO
dispute them now would be folly. leave
them with you without even entreating
you to give heed. but being persuaded
that the wise man will in due time as
Germ that happier destiny awaits adop-
ton by mortal man and with the conf
dence that toward that destiny the weary
sufferer will at last turn his footsteps
to realize the deliverance which has teen
the hope Of the ages.