The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-21
CAROL NoRToN's LECTURE.
Christian Scientist Made Interesting
Talk Yesterday.
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Talk Yesterday.
Carol Norton, d well known Christian
Scientist Of New York City. lectured TO
an immense audience Sunday afternoon
in the Toler Auditorium. The house was
crowded and everyone who attended lis
tened to the discourse attentvely. Mr.
Norton is a very earnest and eloquent
speaker. In part he said:
rs Christian Science evangelical in its
attitude toward our Lord and Master?
1t recognizes in Jesus the fuihliment Of
the Mesianic prophesies and hopes Of the
Hebrew people 1t teaches His immacu-
late conception. spiritual incarnation,
baptism, and His reception OF the descent
of the Holy Spirit 1t accepts the rec
ord Of His power over the elements, the
genuineness of His divinely natural deeds
miscalIed miracles. His works Of healing,
Regeneration and divinely compassion
ate forgiveness Of sinners. It accepts
His atOnement as a revelation Cf the di
vine process Of at-onc-ment with God.
It bows in humility before His Geth-
semane struggle, and sees in the tragedy
Of Calvary the great climax of the drama
of atoning love. 1t believes in the truth
OF His Easter morning resurrection, and
teaches that He restored Himself, heal
ing His wounds and removing the wind
ing sheet from His own body and the
napkin from His head in the tomb. It
accepts the story of His post-resurrection
words and acts. as recorded in the Cos
pels and sees in His final ascension
above matter the scientific fulfliment Of
His 0wn prophesies and the possibility
of Individual Immortality demonstrated
Religion. according to Christian Sci
ence, is honesty, chastity and purity or
thought and act unselhshness, phiian-
thropv. a literal and spiritual imitation
OF the life Of Jesus Christ as the highest
manifestation in religious history OF
God-governed man. Christian Science
recognizes all that is true and beautlful
in the great religious systems OF the
world. but at all times and Under ali
conditions sees in the progressive career
OF Jesus Christ the manifestation OF the
spiritual idea the type of the perfect
man. Religion In the light Of Christian
Science. is spirituality as opposed to
Adamic materiality. Religion IS uniVer-
sal right. truth. justice. freedom, hoerty
and seIfess love operating on the minos
af men. Transforming, reforming, uppullo-
ing and hberating them from all that de-
grades. rnaterializes or begets human dis
cord. disease and ultimate death Ac-
cording to Christian Science. religion -
not necessarily embodied in the external
visible manifestations of so-called relig-
ION DUT aI al tunes ablA4N-' tNe eA-~ t-
ence of the Holy Spirit in human AFFAIRS
The veritabIe Emmanuel, or God. with us
bearing perpetual witness 10 the exist
ence of the Divine lmmanence-God IN
His world
Christian Science is essentially Scrip
tural religion In the language OF the
first of its six brief articles Of faith, ITS
textbook affirms: AS adherents of Truth
we take the inspired Word Of the Bible
for our guide to enternal life. During
its first third of century 5 existence
Christian Science has made the Bible the
chief book in the lives of over mil
lion individuals Next to The Bible it
places the Christian Science textbook.
Science and Health. with Key TO the
Scriptures by Mary Baker G. Eddy
Why Because through the prayerful
application Of the teachings of this text
book the Spiritual significance of the
Bible has again heen discerned. and its
physically healing Gospel. as well as its