Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-20

| ing the SICK AS lie distinctly anu re-
peatedlv commanded His followers
to do.
| Reading of the Bible.
Il know of no Christians who read
the bible more hopefully. Hopefully
and constantly than Christian Scien-
fists do or who so generally pray
| without ceasing.
The natural and inevitable influ-
ence of Christian Science on the stu
dent who enters upon its study and
demonstration in good faith is this:
1t will make him happier under all
| circum stances than he otherwise
would be. 1t will make him a better
man, better friend. better citizen.
1t will improve him morally and
physically. 1t equips him with a
dominant control over circumstances
and conditions that he never before
possessed. 1t enables him to cope
more successfully with pain, disease
and sorrow 1t purifies the individual
and social status. 1t expands and
multiplies his knowledge, his mental
and physical capacity. 1t nationally
and satisfactorily reconciles him with
the true God who doeth all things
we'll 1t eradicates the dreadful fear
of God ..of death and of HE'LL
| After explaining at length the rea-
sons why. as he said, the practice of
medicine had not dominated diseases
or kept pace with it. and after show
ing the necessity for some more scien-
titic and efficacious curative system in
order to prevent the extinction of the
race, the lecturer stated that for the
reason that Christian Science pene-
trated more deeply into the causes of
remedy therefor it had healed can
GERS, inaccessible tumors, abnormal
| growths, consumption, epilepsy. To-
comotor-ataxia, blindness and many
other organic and functional diseases
that have always been considered in
cura BILE. He continued:
Ito accomplish the reform and de-
liverance of mankind from evil; to
turn men from blind faith in some
thing they know nothing of and can
not possibly understand to a rational,
faultless and demonstrate understand
| ing of God and man and their rela-
tions to each other; to establish the
true brotherhood of man; to quench
the fires of strife and tranquilize ma
tions-this is in part the mission of
Christian Science.
Work of Healing.
| Christian Science shows that the
works of healing done by Jesus, the
Apostles and other early christians
were not spectacular performances
done in contravention of law for mere
effect. but that those mighty works
were all done in accord with divinely
natural law and were scientific and
not supernatural or mysterious.
The discovery of the science of
Jesus words and works ushers in
again the era of christian mind heal
ing as taught and demonstrated by
Jesus, and is already a reestablish-
ment of the understanding of this
power and practice.
The use of medicine had been in
vogue for 1000 years when Jesus pro-
claimed a new dispensation and healed
disease by the power of spirit, thus
presenting an unfailing exhibition of
christian healing.
people try to account for the heal
ing in all ways but the right way.
Nevertheless, it is the operation of a
divine scientific principle, and no one
knows how the patients are healed but
the scientist, who knows enough to
| heal them.
1T would be utterly useless to at
tempt to make you believe in Christian
Science by means of lectures, but if
| there are any among you with heavy
hearts, who are struggling with grief,
sorrow or any of the vicissitudes of
what seems hard fate; if there are
hn IS
disease; if any who are under the
bondage of appetite or habit; if you
yearn for the relief and deliverance of
your brother man and have prayed for
the salvation of an unredeemed and
suffering people; if you have become
dismayed and perplexed because of
hope deferred and the miseries and
mysteries of life. then, 1 say, turn
reverently and hopefully, confidently
to Christian Science, this manifesto
ton of God, and it will wipe away all
tears; it will pillow the weary head in
peace; it will strike off the letters of
disease and bestow the balm of heaven
upon your wounds.
Believer VIII Be Satisfied.
..Or if. perchance, you have become
weary of the unanswered PRAYER; if a
long, wistful fruitless search after God
has left you with unsatisfied longing
in the midst of unbelief and doubt; if
all spiritual sense seems chilled and
shriveled for want of sustenance; if
the spontaneous desire for more
spiritual animus and more spiritual
experience has been ungrateful; or if
you have wandered through the mazes
of sectarian and doctrinal perplexities
in search of the peace of God aud
found in not, then say turn to Chris
tan Science whereby to acquaint thy
self with God and be at peace. 1t
will reveal to you the God that is inf
mite love; who inspires no fear. but
stills the tumult of dread and unrest
a. nd alarm Ii Mill Lad xal, haaIar,