Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-27

Argues That Christ Was a Scientist
+ and Claims Theirs is the True
Doctrine.
An Intelligent Audience Hears the
Address Doctors and Law
yers Present.
Without doubt the strongest plea ever
advanced in this city in behalf of Chris
tan Science as religion was by Judge
William g. Ewing, the venerable Chi
cago jurist at the Odeon Thursday
night. The lower floor of the house was
comfortably filled, the audience being
an Intelligent one. Among his hearers
We're doctors and lawyers and people of
various church affiliations and others
with no religious connections.
Judge Ewing. for man of his years.
is very pleasing speaker, showing the
deliberate schooling he has had as a
lawyer and jurist. While his lecture
Is not one that would make converts.
and while he himself says he did not
come to proselyte, he makes a very
sctrong defense of the science and for
a better understanding of the scientists
beliefs. He argues from the standpoint
OF the Bible that theirs is the true re-
ligion, and that Jesus Christ was the
original Christian Science healer
Hon. j. L. Carney introduced the speak
err
Among other things, Judge Ewing said:
u am here to throw. If l can, ray
of light upon your pathway; to add, if
! may, something to the joy and sweet
ness OF your life, and not to lessen your
UNCONVENTIONAL strength, or add to my
own. IL you are happy, contented, sat-
isfied, in your present religious beliefs
God forbid that should disturb them
for / know of no power human or di-
vine, that can add a joy to satisfaction
In the early morning of the world the
psalmist sang as his highest eulogy Of
the glory and fullness of God: L shall
be satisfied, when / awake, with Thy
Now let me tell you in the most
general way something of what Chris
tian Science is, in the hope that upon
reflection and investigation we may
agree upon the essentials of Christ's re-
ligion, as Christian Scientists under
stand, believe and practice it.
christian Science was discovered
and revealed to the world some thirty
odd years ago by Rev. Mary Baker
Eddy, native of New Hampshire, and
now resident of Concord, in that
state. The whole philosophy and prac-
tice of Christian Science is published to
the world in Mrs. Eddy's book. entitled
Science and Health. with Key to the
Scriptures The latter part of the IT,
tie. With Key to the Scriptures, Of
this marvellous book is very significant;
for in fact the great value of Mrs. Ed
dy's work, or, as / believe and am
pleased to call 1t. revelation, is found In
the light she has thrown uponsthe real,
reasonable and dennonstrable meaning
of the scriptures, the divine revealment
of God to man; and 1t seems to me that
all merely captious objections by Chris
tian people to Christian Science should
be silenced by the fact that Mrs. Eddy
distinctly announces how in her search
after the truth she took the Bible as
her only guide, and am sure that she
does not announce any doctrine or
practice of Christian Science that she
did not find and that you may not find
in the Bible.
Let US, therefore, start out with the
distinct announcement that Christian
Science offers to the world no new
Bible, and no vague or mythical con-
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new divinity; but the one only living
and true God, SO long ignorantly wor
shipped; Him Christian Scientists re-
enthrone and proclaim unto you. In
deed, the very substratum of Christian
Science. It's initial principle, the
premise of all its reasoning, is the
declaration of and insistence upon the
patent fact that God Is all in ALL This
premise, venture to say, no intelli-
gent believer in God will assume to
question: and yet, if conceded, the
genius of Bacon or Locke could not inn
peril the logic of Mrs. Eddy's conclu-
sion-Christian Science.
1.-The older Christian churches urge
as an objection against what they con-
ceive Christian Science to be that 1T is
sheer impiety for any person to assert
that he is clothed with the power of
God to heal the sick. The striking
weakness of this objection is that
Christian Scientists do not profess any
such thing. AS it was in the time of
Jesus. so now the power that heals the
sick is the power of God.
"Christian Scientists assert that the
beneficent God of nineteen hundred
years ago, who so loved the world that
He gave His son to suffer whatever
might be necessary for Him to suffer
to reconcile man to God, to enable man
to know God, is our God today, with all
the power, all the tenderness, all the
love, all the sympathy for man that he
manifested nineteen hundred years
ago, and that it is the same power and
love that now makes the lame to walk
and the blind to see.
The only argument that Jesus ever
used to establish His divinity was the
one He sent to the questioning John:
Go tell John the blind receive their
sight and the lame walk and that Is
the argument we use today to establish
the divine origin Of Christian Science.
The lame do walk and the blind do
see, and all the logic in the world can
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