The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-03-19
LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
DIR. Il. :. KimbaII spoke 20 700 People
Last Night


DR.. Edward S. Kimball lectured on
Christian Science in the Toler Auditorium
last night to an audience of 700 people
and held their close attention, while he
presented the doctrine Of Mary Baker
Eddy. He stated that the Christian scien-
lists had been accused OF holding many
doctrines which they do not. ana con-
tended that the system had saved many
men from lives of dissipation and drum
kenness. He said in part:
THE Bible says: Through sin came
death into the world AID death by sin.
and this. of course, should be understood
to mean that through sin comes sickness
of which death is the ultimate. We do
not understand this TO mean that the
word sin, refers only to crime. vice and
immortality. but that through all kinds
Of ignorant and destructive beliefs eTd an
evil and fatal misconceptior of life and
what pertains to it, the world has in
volved itself in mortality.
Christian science practice is demon
stratirg absolutely the verify of its own
disclosure which is that hatred, grief,
remorse, envy and kindred evils, rs well
as fear, will, If persisted in, inevitably
cause bodily disorder ard suffering. It
shows that the Bible statement that,
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
also reap is positively true.
Such evil and inflaming mental condi-
tions quickly disturb the nervous system
the circulation of the blood and The in
tegrity of organic action. Very many
instances of sickness have no other cause
and yet how much attention is paid TO
the moral or immoral element in tie pa
tent in the ordinary diagnosis Of dis
ease? None
Witness the man whose mind IS evil;
who for years has been animated by hat
red and other brutal propensites that
distorg and debauch mankind.
Witness his face, hard lepellent and
twisted Its very ofensiveness of out
line and shape IS itself an evidence Of the
disfigrred and twisted face has been
caused by a wicked and sinful mind.
Now ask you if such evil thought
can twist and dstort his face, don't you
suppose thas it car twis. ard distor5 his
liver? Such patient does not suffer be-
cause he ate ice cream or mince pie. but
because his very Being is wrenched and
torn by evil thoughts and motives. lie
needs not o change of diet, but the trans
formation OF mind
My friends. Christian science teaches
that God has already dore everything
for man that he requires and that we
nesd only lay aOlC upon the possibilities
OF lifo and find that in the mind which
was in Christ is health, life. prosperity
and dominion ever evil and to find that
this MIND, this savior. Is within.
You viii fra that professors Of a
speculative philosophy have formulated
an uDgodly theory that people ar. en-
gagged in a fratr1cidal and competitive
struggle for the survival of the Fttest
and that at the bottom Of the entire social
fabric is a law witch provides tia. sue
cess is wholly contingent on the caprice
Of fortune that only those who can outdo
or overwheln others car sUcead 7r have
the right 70 exist. You Viii find, indeed,
that nearly all men are Joined IN a mono
tonous reconciliation TO evil and TO d be-
lief that its fierce despotlsm ana procure
ments are resistless."
Nervous weakness or palpitation Of
the heart indicates disorder in the storn-
ach and indigestion. Prickly Ash Bit
tiers is a wonderful remedy in such cases.
It cleanses. strengthens and regulates the
stomach, liver and bowels. removes the
cause Of the heart symptoms and builds
up q strong and vigorous body.