The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1900-08-03
days camping-out trip on upper
Castle creek.
Judge Clarkson's Lecture.

City, the large ana appreclatlVe au-
dience which greeted Judge Joseph
r. Carkson OF Omaha at Library
hall last Saturday night should
serve to forever dispel that doubt.
The stage decorations were magnifi-
cent and the profusion of flowers
lent tone and delicacy to the sur
roundings. Judge Levi MCGEE in
troduced the eminent disciple of
Mrs. Eddy, Judge Clarkson speak
ing fer nearly two hours. His lee
ture was prefaced with the follow
ing questions and he spoke in part
as follows:
/ What is the kingdom OF heaven?
Where is the kingdom OF heaven?
How may the kingdom of heaven be
found?
No more important queries ever fell
on mortal ears. Why men shonld ex-
pect to find heaven, the kingdom Of
God, like anything they have ever yet
known passes comprehension. Were
it not different, would it be worth the
Iseeking? Do they not hope to find in
it happiness, health, sinlessness, rest,
harmony, power, peace and joy?
| Have their ceaseless and unremuner-
alive battles on earth brought men any
such respite from woe as heaven is sup
posed to afford?
To Scientists, jesus teachings, join.
ed with His denominations, point to
the obvious fact that man, the man
made in the image and likeness of God,
has an eternal, harmonious existence
in Colds God expressed-and can no
, more actually die, be extinguished, be
sick, suffer or sin, than can God.
!. That there being but one God and
He the only, the supreme intelligence,
the actual man must have God for his
J intelligence, and God being OF purer
, eyes than to behold iniquity, iniquity
, cannot be known by Gods Ian, because
he has no mind apart from God.
AS heat and light are manifestations
of the sun, are the sun expressed, sc
man lie God expressed, and as there
!. must be heat and light as long as there
l sun, so must. there BIZ man as long as
y there Is God. AS God is life and is all
Y and man is God expressed, man is life
: expressed and cannot be allied with
death.
We are spiritual, eternal, harmoni
Gus, because we nre co-existent with
God. We, the eternal sons and daugh
v tiers Of God, are all born Of Him, not o
g the flesh, are all brothers and sisters
children of the one parent as absolute.
ly understandable as the parent Him
= self, and as the different rays of ligh
u combined constitute light, so we, God
u various beautiful. spiritual children, a
y whole, constitute man, Gods uni
y verse, Gods creation, the Creator ex
ID pressed.
h II q more spiritual religion seems t
"A be the need, and a religion on spiritua
: lines is delineated, you will not TAX
Q offense because such religion clashe
with the materialistic, worldly views
4 Consider, too, why there Is q deman
a for a different religion. Is it not be
3 cause it is hoped that different relig
- ion will prove of practical, daily hel
= to men, and not will o. the wisr
~ which always evades ones grasp an
70 from which nothing out of the ordiu
5r airy eau be expected until one has en-
le tered into an uncertain s'bevond" wher
s are located promises innumerable, blu
ar which nothing one can now experienc
n signifies at ell likely. to be fulfilled?
~ A religion that does some apprecia
" BILE good to US now IL what is wanted
is it not? A religion that helps u
n. while We are here and points the wa
l. to something better. A religion tina
= proves iself an aid that is recognizable
= and proving itself such an aid nov
: leads us to trust its promises for tn
: future.
T. Christian Science makes stronger
u healthier, more unselfsh, more honest
* more cOntented. holier, purer, happie
re- people, and with perfect gertrude pro
u claims state of eternal harmony whe
n this mud encrustatioL-this physical
aeshly, mortal, material, temporal ex
istence, this "dust thou art and to dus
" thou shall return"-shall be cleare,
6 away from consciousness and man com
y out into the full glorious apprecia
= tion Of what he really is, always ha
g been and always will he-the imag
= and likeness OF God, Spirit.
Y Proofs! Give US proofs" mortal
3 insist. Our proof is actual persona
e experiences. No proof is more cogent
nj Through Christian Science there hav
Vi been, as near AZ can be estimated, tw
q million cases Of healing from sickness
In the majority Of these cases relief b.
other means had failed. In larg
d portion of the cases, perhaps the ma
3 iority, physicians had abandoned o
!, classed the sufferers as incurable.
The question naturally presents it
Y self, where can it be learned TIA
y Christian Science has done such re
. Imarkable healing?n The answer is
i'll From the men, women and children
g In your midst" You will learn If 20,
talk with them, il you venture to al
tend their Wednesday evening meet
h ings, If you will read such literature
. les they are only too glad to give you
q that in the opinions Of those best quail
i lick to judge, there is no disease ii
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