The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-06
INTEREST WAS KEEN
The Lyceum Crowded to Hear Carol
Norton of New York, Discuss
Christian Science.
The Science Heralded as the Great
est Discovery of the Nine
tenth Century.

At the Lyceum theater yesterday after
noon Carol Norton, of New York, member
of the National Board of Lectureship of
the Christian Science church, spoke to
crowded house. He was most happily in
troduced by Rev. M. D. Shutter, of the
Church of the Redeemer who commented
upon the many things which the Univer-
salist church had in common with the
Christian Scientists. He concluded by
bringing forward Mr.. Norton as good
Universalist. Mr.. Norton said in part:
The religion of Jesus has within itself the
elements of universally. 1t is gospel of
brotherhood. fraternity, fellowship social science
and cooperative progress. Jesus Kingdom OF
RICH teous dominion is for this world but partakes
not Of its worldliness. According to Christian
Science, Jesus Christ, his divinity or immortal
selfhood, is with the divine nature that We
call God. His humanity is one with universal
man. alias "God made manifest In the flesh.
Such character constitutes the eternal normality
of Gods man. Christian Science looks upon
Jesus as the central figure of present and future
religious history and spiritual conquest. Ear
above the plane of mere wonder worker l.
places the deeds and works Of Jesus. Christia:
Science teaches that God is one as spirit; mln
or truth. Superpersonal yet personal as Sill
preme individual being to each and every ONT
of his creatures According to the philosoph!
of Christian Science. the life of Jesus Chris;
and the power that his career manifested owe
sin, physical disease and DEATH expresses
| illustration of man in tune with the infinite han
mony called God.
Religion according to Christian Science is ho,
esty, chastity and purity of thought and ac'
unselfshness. philanthropy. literal and spirtu'
imitation Of the life of Jesus Christ as IL.
God governed man. Christian Science recognize
all that is true and beautiful In the great II
ligious systems of the world but at all time
and under all conditions sees in the progressiv
career Of Jesus Christ the type Of the perfe<
man. Religion in the light of Christian Scien>
Is instructive spirituality opposed to Adam
instructive materially.
THE BIBLE.
Christian Science is essentially scriptura
ligion. In the language of the first Of its 81
brief articles Of faith, its text book affirm;
| AS adherents of truth, take the scripture.
| for our guide to eternal life.' During ii.
| first third of centurys existence, ChrstC.
Science has made the Bible the chief book in the
| lives Of over a million individuals. Next to the
Bible, it places the Christian Science text book,
| tures," by Mrs Eddy. Why? Because through
the prayerful application Of the teachings Of this
| text book the spiritual significance of the Bible
has again been dscerned. and its physically heal
Ing gospel, well its regenerative message,
has once again been proven capable Of practical
utility and daily demonstration In the healing
Of sickness and sin.
Health, Christian Science defines Wilderness,
or holiness. According to Christian Science, true
|
must Of necessity include a normal relationship
with the divine being we call God. Thus bodily
health Is made manifest in the quickening of
what is called 1.-The mortal body by the spirit
(mind), according to the teaching of scripture
and scientific law. If God is all in all divine
perfection. he has as intimate relationship with
| the sO-called physical health of man as with
his piritual harmony. If immortality is moral
discord, and materiality the reverse Of spiritu-
atty, physical i'll health is certainly bodily dis
| cord If the body is to be transformed by the
| Of ha heal ia tharaf
spiritual condition, and man in proper mental
harmony with the divine mind spiritual law
| can have bodily disease than can man
in harmony with the law Of God, good. express
moral defornity. Therefore. Christian Science
teaches the establishment of health through nlen-
tai or spiritual processes. 1t invokes the di-
vine aid through the prayer Of understanding,
| spiritual petition and mental communion with
the eternal law Sof nature, alias deity. 1t at
tacks all organic. and functional disease in the
realm Of causation namely, mentality, and
there conquers the disease germ in Its breeding
ground; that Is, the conscious and subconscious
mortal thought. Jesus came to destroy the works
Of the devil He spent his whole time In the
| regeneration of the depraved. in the healing of
the sick. in the controlling of elementary error,
and in the raising of the dead. Is not Christian
Science therefore, both logical and scriptural in
its assertion that SIM bodily sickness, elementary
error and death ore Of mortal, not deyine origin,
and constitute the works of the devil or evil in
human affairs?
In the realm of science it confirms it's claim
| to being scientific by Offering a definite series
Of evidences in the healing of organic and func-
tional disease through the sole power Of mind.
Being neither dogmatic speculative system
of mental therapeutics, it is at once exact in its
operation wherever rightly applied, under such
conditions as make demonstrations possible. AS
In music. one definite proof of harmony proves
the infinite possibilities of the laws of music,
and manifestation of discord in no wise
disproves the possibilities Of scientific harmony.
so positive cure through the application of the
proves the possibility of the most extreme claims
made for the system. The failures reflect not
against the principle, but against the lack of
' understanding on the part Of the would-be demon
| stratOr.
Real nature. according to Christian Science, is
. synonymous with the omnipotence, omniscience
and Omnipresence, called God. alias unchanging
good, the eternal positive. Nature Is divinity's
selfhood. The laws of God are Of necessity the
scientific laws Of nature. The miscalled laws
of nature are but the externalized manifestations
Of what is known impersonal mortal mind
, alias mortal or human ture. The self -destruc
tive forces of earth-hurrcane, tidal wave, pesti
lence, famine, drought. flood, extremes of heat
and cold, poisonous plants, reptiles, ferocious
beasts. contagious diseases. the evils of hypno
tsm, hereditary sin and disease germs. bacteria
death dealing electricity, fire, together with the
barbaric tendencies dOrman and aggressive, IL
, the animalized minds and actions of mortals
manfestng themselves in cruel warfare murder
bull. cock and dog fights, and. in all forms o.
human brutality-eXpress not the manifestation
of the nature of that God who is referred to il
the thirtysecond chapter of Deuteronomy al
"a God of truth, without iniquity. just ant
right
Jesus illustrated the power of the true laws q
nature when he Gained the tempest the Sc
of Galilee. 1t is recorded that in manifestin
:, his power over the eemnts he rebuked the storl
= and it ceased. Would he have rebuked that whic
: manifested the eternal love? Does the everlas
ing love ever express itself through DEATH ealin
= forces either elementary, physical or human?
= LAW.
y The great institution of civil law which ca
g be truthfully called the religion Of Justice
4 finds it's stancbest supporters among the belle
y | ers in Christian Science. They honor all RICH
b eous law. They recognize III all such law tt
d bulwarks Of mans individual liberty, freedo
! | and rights a child Of God. Against the apps
|! rently widespread theory that genuine Chri
q tian Scientist must OF necessity be provinc
: il, thought and painfully narrow in action, Il
: the words of the founder of Christian Scfent
h be quoted: 1.-The right teacher of Christia
Science lives the truth he teaches. Pre-eminel