Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-01-20
SCIENCE.
Edward A. KimbalI Discusses Its
Principles at Harper's
Theatre.
LIVING WITNESS OF ITS EFFICACY

Foundation and BELIEF of the Cult-Meth-
DDS of Treating Ms of Humanity. Num-
berless Cures Being Claimed-Audience
That Packs the House Hears the Lee
turer-Points From His Discourse.
Christian Science was intelligentlv
explained at Harper's theatre last
night by Edward A. Kimball, c. S. D.,
of Chicago. The house was filed to
Overlooking. The audience was in
the highest sense representative and
such an audience as was. indeed, in
itself great compliment to
the lecturer. Charles X. Mix
ter introduced the lecturer, who on
noticing that the theatre was already
taxed to its capacity, requested that
no more people he admitted to the
gallery. Mr.. Kimball said that in
stead of a lecturer he would rather
appear as a witness of the curative
power of Christian Science, which he
said rescued him from what he was
told by his medical advisers was
sure death some II years ago.
Mr.. Kimball began his address by
referring to the fact that Christian
Scientists formed a vast army of peo-
pie who had been rescued by this
saving science from all kinds of de-
plorable conditions and were now in
tent on making known the gospel of
healing and deliverance to all such as
had ears to hear, and he declared that
all the statements of Christian Science
rested in a demonstrate principle.
He referred at great length to the
fact that many utterly false concep-
tions of Christian Science and mis-
leading statements had given the pub
lie wrong impressions concerning it
and that it was the object of these
lectures to refute categorically all
such erroneous and unfriendly per-
versions.
Objections Met.
He met the objections that are made
to Christian Science because it is diff
ferent from what people have always
believed by saying that an enlight-
ened reason in search for the deliver
ance of the race should, if logically
directed. actually require a different
understanding of the science of life
and its modus operandi from any that
had been tried in vain.
Objection having been made to this
science because it was discovered and
founded by a woman, he said that
Christian Science itself disclosed and
| would fully establish the moral, men
tai and spiritual equality of the sexes,
thus revealing and manifesting the
scientific fact that women can know
| 1.-THE truth which leads into truth"
just as well and as quickly as man
can. Continuing, Mr.. Kimball said:
Many people object to what they
term mixing religion and science.
This comes strangely from people
who have declared for ages that God
| is omniscience-all science, all truth.
If God is omniscience then it follows
that any religion that properly repre-
sents the deitic nature must be scien-
tilic and in accord with ascertain
able and demonstrate truth, in
stead of being theoretical, con-
jectural and Proofless. If Jesus
Christ did the will of His Father
He must have done the will of omni-
science and must have done it scien-
titically or in accord with natural law,
and not miraculously, for miracles
of violations of divinely constituted
law are impossible to onniscience.
Jesus understood the sciences of be-
ing, and manifested this omniscience,
and it was this Christ knowledge or
Christian Science-this true operation
of mind properly and intelligently
directed-that healed the sick, raised
the dead and dominated so-called ma
terial laws.
Healing Not Miraculous.
Jesus never declared that His heal
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