Delaware gazette and state journal., 1900-02-01
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Lecture by Hun. william @. Ewing Of Chi
carn MT thu NnM- -t,rnInrY NInh.

Of Cook county, delivered an address
nt the New Century Club Monday night
on the subject. "Christian Sciences;
the Rslisiun Of jesus Christi" He
smoke, in part, as follows:
"I am here to talk to Christian
people about Christian Science, who,
assume are here tonight for the serious
purpose OF dispassionately learning |
something of the intellectual, moral.
religious and scientific equiroise OF
Christian Science. ] am not here to |
proselyte any one. My only argument
will be statement of facts. The sole
purpose Of inquiry in every court OF
Justice in Chiistendom is, and ever
has been. to invoke fncts; the world is !
weary Of theories, il longs for facts; it |
is surfeted with dogmas, arguments +,
and platitudes, and cries out for facts.
The great difficulty Of presenting any
new phase of religion 10 the world is
the peoples inherited religious beliefs,
the opinions of their fathers. No one
thinks it strange that We should dis
card our fathers Thought respecting
dress, habitation or form of govern
ment; yet the idea seems to be almost
universal that the child shall think Of
God, only as his fatherslthought. And
yet we know, indeed, that our fathers
questioned the beliefs OF their fathers
and made us happier by it; that their
fathers questioned the beliefs OF their
own fathers and made the world
brighter by 1t.
n want to, IL possible, remove from
your minds the prevailing rrejudices
of the old churches against Christian
Science, growing, perhaps not un.
naturally, out Of their ignorance of the
subject. There are many points of re-
ligious belief and practice upon which
the old churches and Christian
| Scientists are In perfect accord. You
| surely are in favor of whatever makes
men and women better. happier, more
| loving and lovable, So are we. You
burdens and SORROWS OF men, Danish
superstition and minimize fear. So
will We. You will encourage whatever
will destroy avarice, selfishness, and
lust; whatever will exalt manhood and
enthrone virtue aud love. So will we.
You helievo in one God and Father of
all, infinite in wisdom, justice, good
ness, mercy, truth and love, a divine
incorporeal intelligence. without form
or parts, beginning of days or end of
years, who fills all space, is omni.
present and omniscient, who made all
that was made and pronounced all that
He made good. You believe in, wor-
ship, love and adore such a God. So
do we. You believe in jesus Christ,
the only hegotten San Of God, the i'm
maculate conception of the virgin
mother, who taught in the temple,
preached the Gospel, healed the sick,
made the lame to walk, gave sight to
the blind, hearing to the deaf and
purity to the sinful. You believe In
this dear, compassionate, loving Jesus
as your Lord, your Saviour, your ex-
amplar. So do We. You believe the
Bible is the divinsly inspired reve-
lation of God to man. So do We. You
believe the Ten Commandments are
Gods laws Of requirement and re.
striction, to be resolutely and abso.
lutely obeyed, one not less than the
other. So do we. iou believe tina,
prayer is both privilege and duty.
So do we.
"May l now briefly tell you some
thing OF what Christian Science is, in
hope that, upon reflection and investi
cation, we may also agree upon th,
essentials of Christ's religion a.
| Christian Scientists understand, be
| lieve, and practice it'll Christian
Science was discovered and revealed
to the world some 30 odd years ago b,
, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, pativ,
/ OF New Hampshire, and now residen
of Concord, in that State. The Who'll,
philosophy and practice of Christian
Science is published to the world il
Mrs. Eddy's book entitled, 'Scienc,
. and Health, with Key to the Scrip
/, lures. The latter part of the title
with Key to the Scriptures of thi
! marvellous book is very significant, 70
a great value in Mrs. Eddy's work i
fonnd in the light she has throw
upon the real, reasonable and demon
strable meaning of the Holy Scriptures
In the great worB of her devoted an,
: herself, the Bible as her only guide
! aud she does not announce any prip
> ciple, doctrine, or practice of Christia
. Science that she did not find and tina
!. you, each of you, may not find in th
: Bible. Wherefore desire to announc
I distinctly that Christian Science offer
: to the world no new Bible or ,nythics
. construction OF the old one. 1t er
!, thrones no new divinity, but re
e epthrones and declares unto you 'th
I only living and true God, go Ion
: ignorantly worshipped.
:. "The older Christian churches ure
as an objection against what they cor
II ceive Christian Science to be that il
Il sheer imEiety for any person to nssel
ia that he is clothed with the power
God to heal the sick. The strikin
weakness of this objection is tn,
Christian Scientists do not profess ar
such thing, As it was in the time
= Jesus, so now the power that heals Il
y sick is the power Of God. Christia
y Scientists assert that the beneicei
!, God of 1900 years ago is our God todH,
81 with all the power, ell the tenderness
\ all the love. all the sympathy for me
!. that He manifested for man 1900 yea
?, ago. and that it is the exercise of th
y same power had love that today max
4, the lame to walk and the blind to Sc
y If, as Christian reiiGionists, you
!! lieve. that God by the word of II
= power created all, you must belle
20 that He has the power to keep II
~ creature, man, in the image 10 viii,
" he was created, free from sorrow, sic
"a ]. ness and suffering, as we'll as from 81
u you must believe that He who fashion
y, the eye and the ear, and strung to 9
III quisits harmony what you call t
marvellous association OF human nerv,
Bis B has the power to remove q film fro
~ the eye He created, or a thickns
ne from the drum of the ear He made.
e "But do you not come little tard
ne to the Great Physician with your ch,
ished sick? And do you not pray wi
medicine in your pocket and consult
physicians In the adjoining roomY Y