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


17ths upon christian Science
Physician and Redeemer." On
the Eight before Judge Ewing adj
dressed a similar meeting in Ma
con, and the Telegraph contains
the following full report thereof,
the lecture there being similar to
that delivered in Americas. The
Telegraph says:
Judge William G. Ewing of Chi
cago, a member of the Christian
Science Board of Lectureship OF
the First Church of Christ, Scien-
fist, of Boston, Mass. gave a re-
markably clear, able and logical
address on Christian Science
Physician and Redeemer," last
night at the Academy of Music.
Judge Ewing spoke to a repre-
sentative audience, who was great
ly impressed by his engaging and
earnest manner and by his able
and logical presentation of his
subject.
Harry Stillwell Edwards intro
duced Mrs. Livingston Minis, the
wife of Mayor Minis of Atlanta, a
pioneer among the Christian Sci
ence Board of Lectureship. Mr..
Edwards referred to Mrs. Minis as
one who stands for everything that
is beautiful and good.
Mrs. Minis in presenting Judge
Ewing to the audience said:
SIN the eighth chapter of Ro-
mans, Paul very eloquently tells
us that the earnest expectations
of the creature or creation wait
eth for the manifestation of the
Sons of God, that it also shall be
delivered from the bondage of cor
ruption into the glorious liberty
of the Sons of God.
"The whole creation groaneth
and traveleth together until now
and we ourselves groan within
ourselves Waiting for the adop-
ton, to-wit, the redemption OF
the body. Redemption from what?
ST. Paul clearly tells in this same
chapter that it is from the law OF
sin and death through the law OF
the spirit of life in Christ Jesus
which makes us free. ST. John
calls sin lawlessness, and sin
brings death, so we clearly see
that this redemption consists il
the application of the spiritua.
law annulling the lawness law OF
the human mind. All creation II
waiting for this retention.
"Christianity means the re-
demption, through this law, Of
the human body and the universe
This is the one universal remedy
the one universal philanthropy
the work of Christianity.
Jesus work in the three brie1
years of his ministry were filled
with this redemptive work, anC
the disciples for centuries were re
quired to give this proof of thei
understanding of his mission.
He said: IF he drink an.
deadly thing it shall not hurt you
You can handle serpents and shall
not harm you. You will la.
hands on the sick and they shall
recover; that is, if you believe II
me, you understand the supremac.
of the spiritual law which redeem
man from the material law of Sill
and death.
"He came to bring to light It.
our apprehension the life and i'm
morality that is, and was, an'
ever must be, the fact of bein
God'ss,'law. The understanding
and demonstration of this lay
makes Christianity a Science, an
Science Christianity.
SIN our human conception o
the universe we see all thing
doomed to decay, from the matur
ity of the blushing rose to tn
splendid stars, to man himself
who in the plentitude of splendl
physical and moral and intellectu
al power, faces this same materls
law of decay and corruption.
lis this Gods law? Jesus raise
the dead in contradiction to thi
law and destroyed death as tn
work of evil. The universally c
this lawness law was forcibl
brought to my thoughts a fe,
weeks ago when l heard a fine /
Illustrated lecture on the origin c
worlds and their developments
through evolution, at the Lectul
Association in Atlanta.
"For astronomy presents dea
moon. dying Mars, a maturln
earth and a fading sun-the whol
creation a grooming and travelln
under the material law of corrul