The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-06
MANY HEARD HIM
Judge CIarkson's Address on
Christian Science.
AUDITORIUM WELL FILLED
Attorney C. V. Ferguson In
PRODUCES the Speaker

Judge Joseph R. Clarkson Of Omaha,
delivered a lecture on Christian Science at
the Auditorium last night. He lectured
in place Of Edward A Kimball, c. S. D.,
who had been SO extensively advertised,
but who found it impossible to reach
here. The audience was quite large, al
most the entire main floor being occupied.
Judge Clarkson is a lawyer and iurist,
having formerly been on the bench in
Omaha. He has taken up the Christian
Science work for the reason that he him.
self was cured by it, and he believes 1t
is a great boon to humanity His theme
last night was Christian Science and
Christian Scientists" He was intror-
duced to the audience by Attorney c. ".
Ferguson. Judge Clarkson's lecture, in
part was as follows:
There is an all-pervading inquietude
among mortals. They seem linked with
disease. misery, restlessness, dissatisfac-
ton, incontancy, feverish agitation over
trivialities, a despairng uncertainty of &C
ton, a vague, indefinite purpose TO do
some indefinable thing, the execution of
which they know not how to undertake.
They are inharmony incarnate.
They cry for something better-for
peace, for rest, for content, for health,
sfor happiness.
They grope blindly for the desirable.
They clutch only the unsatisfying.
What can they do? What can they do?
If one is in the shade and wants the
sunlight, he must step out into it.
If one is in the heat of the sun and
wants the cool and shade of the house,
he must betake himself inside.
If one wants the seclusion and quiet of
the woods, he must go to the woods.
If one wants the ocean breeze, he will
find it at or near the ocean.
If a mariner wants the benefit of the
trade wind, he must put his vessel in the
path Of the wind, not lie off a hundred or
two Of miles and expect the wind to come
to him.
If one wants peace rest, content, health
and happiness, he must seek their source.
If one wants something different from
his usual experience, and is shown the
way to something different, he must not
deInur because I'M his quest for Ehe diff
ferent he encounters a fundamental diff
ference between what he has had and
what he seeks; what he had and what
he gains. Jesus said: Eye cannot serve
God and Mammon."
For thousands of years men have striv-
en- to be well, whole; have unavailingly
sought happiness. Hither and thither
they have wondered in search Of what
they have not found. Every conceivable
material fount has been tapped in the
vain hope that its waters would prove a
panacea for f1eshly ills. Scarce a mater
ial product of the earth but that has
been brought into requisition to furnish
its supposed furtherance of the desired
end-the health and happiness of NOR
tails. With what effect? Have material
means made mortals we'll? Have mater
ial expedients resulted in the production
of happiness? Have material methods
banished disease, sin, misery, death?
Are not mortals born through suffer
ing? Do they not soon learn to sin and
to love sin? Are they not diseased, I'M
happy, tormented. racked, worried, fret
ted and annoyed? Do they not die-all
pretty much as they did thousands of
years ago, and that, too, despite of never
ending struggles to bring about a differ
ent order of existence? Has not the time
come for a trial, at least, Of different
remedies, spiritual remedies, remedies
which God has always prescribed, and
which, past all doubt, in the waning years
Of this century, He, once more, has
brought conspicuously to the notice Of
the human race?
Christian Scientists say and prove that
God, the Kingdom of Heaven, the Holy
Comforter is not a remote possibility a,
locality, a corporeality, a something TO
be sought in doubt and dependency, ever
keeping tantalizingly just beyond the
reach. never affording a satisfying assur-
ance that 1.-The kingdom of God is within
you" God is here, now, to be had, to be
enjoyed, to be obeyed, to be worshiped,
to be loved with all ones heart and soul
and strength. So long as men refuse to
obey specific instructions as to how they
may find God; so long as men persist in
disbelieving the positive, clear oft re-
peated promises of Gods helpful pres
ence to those who do His will; so long as
men remain stubborn in the belief that
they. better than God, know what Is
good for them; just so long men must
not expect to know God, must not expect
| His helping hand. If Jesus was God $
son-and Christianity is based upon the
fact that he was; if Christ is, always has
been and always will he Gods son-and
Christianity is based on Christ's eternal
soulship: If credence is to be given 10 the
Bible-and If the Bible is not Gods word
/ Christendom has not yet found that word
! then Christ Jesus was on this earth of
! ours for a purpose, What was that pur-
! pose? Was IT not, as the Bible teaches,
/ TO save, 10 destroy, and to fulfill? Save
/ whom? Mankind. Destroy what? Sick
ness. sin. suffering and death. Fulfill
/ what? The law-God's commands. Save