The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-12-19

n most dDDTecldtlNt VI
teen or fourteen hundred OF the represen-
tstive people Of Providence gathered I'm
Infantry Hall Monday evening TO lis
ten to an admirable lecture by Judge
Joseph r.. Clarkson of Omaha, Neb., on
Christian Science. The distinguished
speaker was introduced In appropriate
words by MIR. W. T. Hatch. who said
that events clearly indicated the unmis-
taxable growth in the interest In Chris
tian Science, not only I'm this community,
but throughout the world
Judge Clarkson spoke With the earn
estness of conviction and outside OF the
few who were Obliged TO take cars for
their homes, hardly a person left before
the lecturer had finished.
The lecture was given under the aus
pices of the First Church OF Christ. Scien-
list. Bowen street. Providence, and was
AS follows.
JUDGE CLARKsoNs ADDRESS.
Judge Clarksons address in full fol-
lows;
'If any man will come after me les
him deny himself and take up his cross,
and follow me" II am tho way, the
truth and the life; no man cometh unto
the Father, but by me-" "Whosoever
shall not receive the kingdom of God as
"A little child shall in no wise enter there
in" So spske Jesus.
n ultle tilllu uOts not, as d Tuits dSStlb
Its superior knowledge when informed
OF something II has not hitherto known.
IL accepts and TO it's little store adds
the preofrered Information. Rather diff
cult. you think, for the average human
egotist to accept. as does the little
child. what fails 10 accord with his pre-
viously formed opinions AZ 10 what is
and what Is not Yet Jesus did not scru-
pie TO say, and say emphaticaly. that
before entrances into the Kingdom OF God
could be compassed by men, they would
have to receive Information concerning
IL, as would a little child. they would
have to deny themselves their self-com-
placent. ignorant wisdom. and humbly
listen to- and meekly accept the teach
ings OF him who was the Son OF God and
still meek and lowly in heart
Why men should expect TO find Heaven,
the Kingdom of God. like anything they
have ever known. passes comprehension.
II II were not different, would II be worth
the seeking? DO they not hope TO find I'm
Il happiness, health. sinlessness. rest
harmony, power, peace and JOY?
Have their ceaseless, pitiahle unremur-
erative battles on earth. battles despair
ingly waged under rules In the human
manual OF arms, brough. men any such
respite from woe as Heaven is supposed
TO afford?
Why not end their useless, struggling
self-assertion, admit their ntter inability
from their plane of thought, their appre-
hension OF the Powers that be- to solve
the problem OF salvation, and wearily,
yet conhdingly. hopefully, ask Of the Al
mighty that He come to their aid; make
OF themselves 'littlc' children and hear
the sweet voice OF the Christ saying to
those who would hinder, Suffer little
children. and forbid them not - come
unto me- for of such is the Kingdom OF
heaven?"
why should we not, once for all, as
little children" throw ourselves into
the everlasting arms" and rest i'm that
safe abode? I'VE want to,'-mortals
say--"we want to, but do not know how"
"If any man will come after me. let
him deny himself, and take up his cross
and follow me-" II am the way, the
truth and the life; no man cometh unto
the Father but by me-"
Gods ways are not mems ways. The
bible says, There is no iniquity with
the Lord our God" That being So does
God create iniauity! Christian Scientists
maintain that he does not. They be-
lieve the Scriptures I'm their statement.
rThou art OF purer eyes than to behold
evil and canst not look on iniquity.'
Scientists regard the acts OF Jesus as ex-
planatory Of his words and as corrobo-
ratlve OF what he said relating to the all
power OF Spirit and tho oneness. the in
separableness of God and man.
To Scientists. Jesus teachings Joined
with his demonstrations point TO the OBJ
vious fact. that man. the real man. the
man made In the image and likeness OF
God, has an internal, harmonious exis-
tencc, I'm God. is the expression or mani
festation OF God and can no more actual
ly die he extinRuished. he sick suffer or
sim than can God. All that Is evil or
mortal will be destroyed, but the man
himself shall be saved.
That there being but one God and He
the only. the supreme Intelligence, the
actual man must have God for his intel
ligence his consciousness thus fulfilling
Paurs admonitlon. let that mind he
in YOU which was also I'm Christ and
God being OF purer eyes than To- behold
evil or iniquty. evil or iniduity cannot be
known by Gods man. because he has no
mind apart from God.
A. heat and light are the manifestation
OF the sun. so man Is the expression OF
God. and rs there must be heat and light
80 long as there s sun. so there must be
man az long as there Ia God
AS God Is Life and is All. and man is
His expression. man Is The expression Of
Iifc. and cannot he allied with death, or
really know death
The eternal universal power and pres
euce of God. who In Spirit. Life. Truth
and Love. az Jesus taught and showed
make n impossible for anything unlike
God 10 have an actual, immortal exist
ence.
Everything not God-like must be tenn
porai mortal. or human conception. hav-
ing It's origin I'm erroneous. Elusive.
mortal beliefs. founded upon the physical
senses. the human. mortal conscious
ness, which must finally retire before
the only real Mind, the only real Power.
the only real Love, the only real beins
the only real eternal Substance. the
only real Presence e-God.
The denial OF self a. the denial that
The physical cxistrnce d the rcnl eHIs-