The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-12-13

! WHAT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HAS
ACCOMPLISHED.
May | tell you some things Christian
Science has accomplished I'm the fifteen
years last past? It has drawn to it's
! loyal support more than five hundred
thousand adherents; has organized
more than four hundred congregations;
has quilt during the last five years.
| many churches. ranging I'm cost from
| one thousand To two hundred thousand
L dollars; IL has more than ten thousand
| practitioners, devoted 10 healing the
| SICK u has restored to health, happi-
| ness and hope. more than seven hum
l dred and fifty thousand Of your fell
i loW-men ana mlnc most or whom had
l hopelessly exhausted the remedies usu-
l ally known 10 medical learning. The
\ membership OF the Christian Science
y denomination has been drawn from all
. the churches, Catholic. Protestant ana
| jewish and from all the respectable
l professions ana callings in life. There
is not religious denomination in the
! Wofld that mas in its membership
| larger percentage Of educated. refined
ana cultured people than Christian Sci
| entists have; and nowhere on earth. L
| am sure, ana say IL. not boastingy.
| but as "A simple statement OF fact. viii
| you nnd people freer from the cares
| and worries OF life. more contented in
| their business and their homes, more
| deNot q To the duties OF home st ta.e.
| church. prompter in discharging their
| oDiisations To neighbor and to Goi.
| stricter moralists closer observers OF
| the properties, more munificent
| abettors OF every good work, or people
| rcher in the graces and amenities c.
| pure manhood and Womanhood .hsn
| christian Science has given to the
| world.
j submit 20 the candid Judgment Of
4 Il.
| mat an organization showing such re-
| SUMS cannot fiippantly be ignored. and
| py all the tests of common candor. de-
| mands your serious. earnest thought
| 1 VIII not discuss the stock objections
urged against Christian Science. They
are ID Iact so contradictory that they
are self-destructive. For instance /
| noticed i'm an iconoclastic newspaper a
series OF interviews with prominent
people, respecting Christian Science a
prominent Doctor of Medicine said.
| christian Science is a beautiful relig-
ION II is spiritual. devotional. and up
lttlng ia its thought: but it is impo-
tent and imbecile as a curative of hu-
man Ills. Immediately following this
no less prominent Doctor of Divinity
sald' christian Science does effect
wonderful cures of disease: the evil
dence Of this IL too patent to be denisd;
Dut IL mas no sembanoe of .geligion."
me destructive clash OF these two
opinions has. to my mind forcible IL
lustratlon III lawsuit / had the pleas
ure or hearing when quite small boy
az my old home i'm Bloomington. Ill.,;
Mr. Lincoln, the great President. was
defending case brought upon a writ
ten guaranty of a horse. the guaranty
being that the horse had good eyes and
sound lungs. The plaintiff i'm his tacla-
ration alleged that the horseSs eyes
nd 10
sound. and to maintain his contention
introduced two Witnesses. Doc. Linday
ana Napt ferguson supposed experts on
an questions relative TO the horse
Llndlay first took the stand and tes-
tined: II know the hoss the suit is
about, and have examined his eyes ard
lungs. So fur as his lungs is concern
ed they are as sound as bIacksmtns
bellows, but sure as you're born the |
morse Is moon-eyed" 4"
NO questions We're asked this witness
on cross examination, ana Capt Fer
| guson took the stand and &c stiried Il
| know the horse very we'll think his
| eyes are all right. They are ,ust as gcoc
| as were ever put into a horsss head:
he can see in daylight and i'm dark and
n any of the moons phases. but his
wind is little shaky: he hant got
good lungs.
This witness also took his seat with
:
counsel.
Mr.. Lincoln introduced no witness
for his client, and went to ,he iury up
on the testimony of the plailtiff's wiz
nesses; and made the briefest and most
logical argument that was ever made
in court of justice in my state. This
Is what he said:
Gentlemen of the jury. IL these wit
nesses are creditable. then the plaintiff
has proven for my client by one OF
them that the horses eyes are good;
and for my client he has proven by the |
other that the horses lungs are sound; |
now II the witnesses are NOT creditsb BILE |
then the plantiff has not proven any |
thing for himself. or anything against |
my client. and i'm either event my cli- |
ent is entitled TO Judgment for costs"
lt is needless 10 say that the plaintiff |
paid the costs.
/ Will not offend your sense OF fair
play" of warfare lin the open." your
love OF Justice exalted character and |
high endeavor. by entering upon a Sc
ratim defence. in this magnificent
presence OF Christian Science. that has |
gladdened the word with such surcease
of Sorrow. or the beneficenr woman |
who in hope and prayer and love re- |
Vealed Christian Science, and applied II |
to the daily needs of men, against the
wanton assaults OF malevolence icno-
IdHtts VI EItth. Hfdut upon either. As
one OF the tens OF thousands of benefic-
iaries of metaphysical healing. with
love unalloyed | say OF Mrs. Eddy. than
time 10 its utmost bound will be too
brief for the world to discharge 10 her
It's debt of gratitude Her life OF deyo-
ton 90 God and humanity, her sacrifice
pf self for others, her ministrations TO
weary. suffering, dying men, her long
years of fearless and faultless associa-
ton with perfect good are her invinci-
bic panoply against every shaft of |
envy. ingratitudc or malice And OF tho |
science OF life, immortal life. she has
revealed. IL IL enough 10 know that If ! .
il is true. all the powers of earth and ,
hell cannot prevail against IL. No d.
raction can mar 10, and no euloey can
.ompsss the sum OF its infinite great :
iess. y
MORE LIGHT. V
In the opening splendors of this dawn u
n truth. shall we not with sublime
Ourage keen pace with the march OF >,
rood manifest today? Alas FOR him who :,
onstantly looks mOurnfully into the | -
uture and deprcciatcs the present. 7 :.
'tlicvc In the progress ot good In the -