Rock Island Argus., 1899-11-03

e. A. KimbaII Explains the Beliefs
and Workings of Christian
Science.
SAVING SINNERS AND HEALING SICK

Precisely as Those OF the Faith Claim 1t
Did When Jesus aud the Primitive Chris
tians Taught and Manifested 1t No 9th
er Influence Than That Which Destroys
EvII-standard of Right Living.
An interesting explanation of the
Christian Science faith was given last
night at Harper's theatre by Edward
A Kim ball. c. S. D., and a member
of the international board of lecture
ship. Mr.. Kimbal is graceful
speaker and held the closest attention
of his audience throughout his ad-
dress. He was introduced by Charles
Mixter ard spoke substantially as fol-
lows:
Christian Science is essentially
religion which includes the recogni-
ton and worship of one infinite God
and the divinity and Messiakship of
Christ.
1T also includes the highest possi-
BILE morality and standard of right
living. Applied, Christian Science re-
suits in saving sinners and healing the
sick precisely as it did when Jesus and
the primitive christians taught and
manifested it. Genuine Christian
Science never exerts any other influ-
ence than that which destroys evil.
Jesus Christ was the one perfect man
Hesitation of God to man. He came to
do the will of His Father and to de-
stroy the works of the devil. In the
performance of the mission He healed
the sinner and the sick man. These
are the works of the devil which He
came to destroy according to the will
of God.
Christian Science declares that
these works of Jesus are the true in
terpreters of His mission and that the
man-made theories concerning His
works which have relegated them to
the realm of impenetrable and una
vailable mystery are totally defective.
Jesus knew more about God and man;
more about the origin, substance and
continuity of being; more about law
and government and more about the
cause and cure of disease than all of
the people that ever lived.
Jesus Knew Best.
LAS the representative of infinite
wisdom He aid everything in the
best possible way, and He knew the
sick. The only absolutely natural,
lawful and scientific way. One of the
conspicuous points of difference be-
tween Christian Science and many
other religious systems is in this: If
the world should live up to
the highest teaching of prevalent the
illogical beliefs there would not be
even then harmony.
agony, tears, disease and death
would remain and the millennium or
reign of God on earth would he i'm
possible. These systems or theories
include the assumption that sickness
and death are Irresistible concom-
itants of Gods universe and accord
ing to His ordained law.
'.On the other hand, if the world
lived up to the highest teaching of
Christian Science, harmony would
prevail, because its teachings include
the determination of sin, sickness and
death as the abnormal and ulawful
paraphernelia of the earnal mind
These two divergent schools of re-
ligious thought, one governed by
philosophy of sickness and death,
and that other by the philosophy of
life, naturally disturb each other and
in consequence Christian Science
is being subjected to much hasty and
ill considered criticism. The qu6-
tion at issue is this: Has God ordained
sickness and death for man to submit
to or was Jesus right in denouncing
them as the works of evil which
should be overcome? Unless His
works of healing were a mockery
which misrepresent and belle His mis-
sion they constitute an object lesson
in the form of stubborn and satisfy
ing facts which are concurrent with
Christian Science.
Shall Know the Truth.
This science upsets the amazing
theory that Jesus mission was in su-
pernatural contravention of law when
He was freeing men from sickness.
His simple panacea was we shall
know the truth and the truth shall
make you free The christian
knowledge of the truth is the knowl-
edge which is explained in Christian
Science, and which is being demon
strated by its followers in accordance
with the express and oft-repeated
command that His followers should
heal the sick.
Like all other science. Christian
Science must be attested by demon