Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-01-23


ual conviction; it includes the e1e-
ments of trust, faith, reliance
hence, the repeated assurance of
Jesus, BY their works We shall
know them.
"What man says he believes is
not infrequently the very anti
podes of what he really believes
for instance, if man says he be-
lleves that, In God we live and
move and have our being, and
then resorts to a druggist, doctor
or climate for life and health, you
will know at once that he has mis-
taken his belief. Jesus came rec
ognizing God as the healer of all
our disease-as our life, strength
and redeemer; and, knowing this,
by the power of God He healed the
sick, bound up the broken-heart-
ed, gave hope for despair, song for
anguish, life for death these were
the works of the Master, the beau
tiful works by which Jesus the
Christ demonstrated His own di-
vinity and the power of God to
heal the sick. Christian Science
has discovered, re-discovered or
uncovered some thirty odd years
ago by the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy,
a native of New Hampshire, and
still an honored, loved and revered
citizen of that historic state.
''It may strike you as little
strange, and yet it is strangely
true, that one of the objections
urged against Christian Science is
that it is the product of a woman.
1t would probably be safe to say
to any audience of gentlemen in
the great cosmopolitan common
wealth of Georgia, that this objec.
ton had it's origin with some one
who in some wild and jagged
flights of fancy, thought himself a
man; but to you, and to every
gentle thoughtful man, it is evil
dent that if Christian Science is
the product of woman, that fact
inevitably carries with it two con-
illusions; one that it is absolutely
honest, and the other that it ia alb
solutely pure.
every gentle, thoughtful man
knows that from the worlds morn
ing until it's high noon of today,
woman has been the holy, patient,
faithful guardian of it's spiritual
thought; knows gratefully, low
ingly knows, that for 1000 years,
woman, not man, but woman, has
kept the religion of Jesus Christ
on this earth, and she will keep it
there, until the kingdoms of this
world become the kingdoms of our
God and His Christ. All of doc
trine, philosophy and practice of
Christian Science is given to the
world in Mrs. Eddy's book, enti-
tied "Science and Health, with
Key to the Scriptures, and may
be easily known and understood
by every man who has the energy
to read, snd the ability to think.
The latter part of the title of this
marvellous book to my mind is very
significant, for | can not avoid the
conclusion that great value, if
not the great value of Mrs. Eddy's
wonderful gift to men lies in her
clear, reasonable, and demonstra- (
BILE Interpretation of the Holy
Scri ptures, Gods revelation of
Himself to you and to me, for our
guidance to eternal life. The crit
les of Christian Science, and espe-
cially among our clerical brethren,
dwell most and with most pretense
of learning, upon Mrs. Eddy's
book as an exegesis and it's author
as an exegetist of the Christian
religion, and unfortunately, as
rule, these good people elaborate
their views in languages dead for
centuries before their auditors
we're born. Mrs. Eddy may, or
may not, be familiar with the Ian
guage with which Jesus spoke or
the language in which his speeches
and events of His life were report
ed but it must not be forgotten
that Jesus interpreted His own
gospel by his life in the universal
language of love and kindness,
language known to every weary
child of earth, and Mrs. Eddy is
| scientific master of that tongue,
master of the significance of the
pure, holy, gentle, Christ-like liv-
ing, and can and has told it to the
world; in all her loving search for
this great Truth she took as her
only guide the Word of God, and
as her only counsel the Great Low
in God Himself. l hesitate not
to say to you tonight as a man
among men and not fully lacking
in appreciation of the beacon
lights of history, romance and
song that have illumined the CEN
turtles as thew passed, that in my