Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-01-24
CHRISTIANSCIENCE
Claims of New Doctrine IntelIi.
gently Presented by Ed
ward A. KimbaII.
LARGE AUDIENCE GREETs HIM
Sin Held Responsible for All Dis
eases Man is
Heir to.

gent people of the city last evening
on the occasion of the second lecture
here on Christian Science by Edward
\. Kimball, c. s. d., of Chicago, n
most earnest, interesting and polish
ed speaker, gentleman whom it is
a delight to listen to. Mr.. Kimball
who was introduced by F. c. Denk-
mann. said in part:
christian Science is primarily and
essentially a religion. AS religious
denomination which is manifesting its
| right of existence by destroying sin
and sickness lit is proper that we
should present it to our fellow men
and Justify it before this generation;
nevertheless we have no need nor dis
position to quarrel over religion or
engage in unseemly controversy. On
the contrary, we deprecate the evil of
religious strife and assault and de-
plore the facility with which sectar-
ianism denomces everything unlike
itself.
Our board of lectureship was in
stituted for the purpose. largely, of
establishing a complete offset to. and
refutation of the misrepresentation
that have been bestowed upon Chris
tian Scientists, and in this belief
these lecturers have stood forth
throughout the land and have told
you much of what we believe and
what we are doing.
"They have told you that we believe
in God; that we are learning to know
His will and are glad to obey it. They
have told you that Christian Science
rests upon and is fully sanctioned by
the Bible, and that we accept the
scriptures as containing the inspired
word of God. You have been told
that we accept the Messiahship of the
divine Christ and are endeavoring to
follow literally in the way which He
established by precept and example.
No Cause for Misleading Statements
at has been stated that Christian
Science purports to present the ac-
tual truth or science of Jesus mis-
sion, and that its aim is the re-estab-
Iishment of the primitive christianity
which was governed by His teachings
and works.
You have been told that we are
| striving to turn from and obliter-
ate evil TO live according to n high
moral and ethical standard, and that
the primary office of Christian Sci
ence is to effect moral reform.
1T has been explained that we be-
lieve in prayer without ceasing; in
the highest social and individual pur-
ity. and that the demands of Chris
tian Science are in strict accord with
the ten commandments and the ser
mon on the mount
''You have been told through the
influence of Christian Science vast
thousands have been healed of all
manner of diseases, and these people
are mistakenly bearing testimony as
to these facts and impressing the
world with the conviction that trans
forming influence is eXerting itself
for the salvation of men.
I'm this very city all of the preva-
lent misrepresentation have been
categoricaIly denied and refuted and
the opposite facts have been so amply
stated that there is no longer a
semblance of justification for false
and misleading statements.
Sin Responsible for All Disease.
"The bible says. Through sin death
came into this world and death by
sim and this, of course, should be
understood TO mean that through sin
came sickness, of which death is the
ultimate. We do not understand this
to mean that the word sin refers only
to crime, vice or immortality, but that
through allNkinds of ignorant and de-
structive beliefs and an evil and ia
tai misconception of life and what
pertains to it, the world has involved
itself in mortality.
christian Science practice is de-
monstrating absolutely the verify of
its own disclosure. which is that
hatred, grief, remorse. envy and kim
dred evils, as well as fear. will. if per-
sisted in, inevitably cause bodily dis
order and suffering. 1t shows that
the Bible statement whatsoever a
man soweth that shall he also reap
is positively true.
''Such evil and inflaming mental
conditions quickly disturb the nerv-
Gus system, the circulation of the
blood and the integrity of organic ac-
ton. Very many instances of sick
ness have no other cause, and yet
how much attention is paid to the
moral and immoral element in the pa
tient in the ordinary diagnosis of dis
ease? None. In such instances the
drugging system is absolutely obliv-
ious to the actual cause. No wonder
that il does not dominate disease.
People have been urged for hum
dreds of reasons to abandon sin.
Christian Science joins in this en-
treaty. and while it pleads this cause
because Righteousness is far better.
it also warns men to flee from sin be-
cause of the sureness of the penalty
which sin inflicts upon its victim
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