The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-01
GIVES LECTURE
ON TRUE S0NSHIP
Silas ]. Sawyer Expounds Doc
trines of Christian Sciencs.
INTRODUCED BY UNITARIAN
GOES AT LENGTH INTO TEACH
INGS OF THE SECT.

Silas J. Sawyer of Milwaukee. mem
Der of the board of lectureship in the
| Christian Science church and one OF
the most prominent Scientists in Amer
| lea. lectured to a large audience last
! evening at the Salt Lake theatre. He
1 was introduced by Rev. w H. Fish,
/ jr-, pastor of the Unitarian church
Mr.. Sawyer's subject was True Son
ship in Christian Science" He said:
L come before you TO state a simple
/ fact concerning lite and faith and expert
ence in Christian Science. 1t is the old,
1 old story old, but ever new-but worthy
! of consideration, for all must live the lie
set before them, demonstrating out If its
olIIlcUlueS, rising superior TO It's IalslIleS,
ana seeing the good there is in lie, 10
gain any happiness out Of il. 1t is
/ problem many OF US do not squarely face,
out seem to drift with the tiGe Of human
belief, letting the future take care or
itself, and feeling very dissatisfied ana
unhappy about the present; finding no
rSat cOinIOrI or Satisfaction IN me, SUI
tering out it's requirements rather than
governing the situation and establishing
ourselves Goa children, o. the
household of faith. and recognizing that
/ God has given Us dominion over the
works OF his hanGs, dominion over all un-
toward circumstances and conditions
l assure you, my tTlenos, that IN thus
drifting, we are not gaining our true re-
lationship as Gods children. The scrip
lures plainly declare US his children-
| Christ Jesus came in the flesh and es-
taDliShed forever the possibility OF man
/ rising superior to seeming surroundings
neither by affinity nor by infirmity TO
any physical law, nor TO the personal
sense of the people He walked the whole
wave of human belief He stood IN the
full realization Of Father and l are one
/ He did nothing of himself. but that
which pleased the Father, tie recognized
his sOnship in very truth. lie lived,
moved and had his being in the divine
mind.
Christ the Example
Jesus the Christ is our example We
deaVor to literally follow in his foot
steps. overcoming sin, sickness and death
/ through abiding in the christ tnouSht,
which attaches sense to soul and stands
( in its true relationship to God. And this
! is all the difference there is in our pres
ent faith and that OF the past, wherein
we were trained by a Christian mother
along the lines of truly orthodox tain
We wOrshiped in Willingness OF heart,
but not in truth, for we had DIVIDED
faith; we feared where we should nave
/ fully trusted; we doubted where we
should have fully believed; we suffered
where we should have risen superior 10
( the claims Of personal sense W e waded
through the waves instead of walking
over them as the Master did. We fol-
; lowed with divided faith, because
while We prayed 1erYentIy 10 De IKE
I minded. while we sought diligently, and
with tears. to reach the 'HOreb helSht,
vet we put our own Interpretation ana
limit on the possibility OF attaining the
good sought tor. With hopes and Iears,
with doubts and griefs, with sickness and
pain, with misery and death, as stern
realities and necessities forever forcing
themselves in our consciousness and
causing US to doubt the very God whom
we would trust, could we do otherwise
than faii2 Instead of living, moving and
having our being in God, the body seemed
to control the sitUation-llver complaint.
headaches. heart disease, bowel trouble,
functional qualities ana conditions don-
mated over man, mind became subject TO
matter, and our service to GOD became a
limited, divided service. instead OF resi-
izing in its verify and certainty that the
/ earth is the Lords and the tulneSS
thereof. the world and they that dwell
therein instead Of realizing and ae-
l1nOwledging that Ged rules all Things
and there IS no power besides, We We're
UncOnsciOusly trespassing on God pre-
negative by lack OF full acknoWled6-
ment of his ailness; through fears ana
/ doubts we were taking the government
out OF his hands, breaking our sohship
with him by entertaining Oelie1s. deeply
rooted. that life is physical, disease
reality, and death a certainty
Meaning of Christian Science.
The discovery of Christian Science by
the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy was not OF
faith. but OF the practicabinty OF IalIh;
not of life, but of the actual evidence OF
life: not of being, but Of the outgoing
reality of Gods everpreSence with the
world. which We all, as COD chlldren'
may take hold on and Drlng out as a
tangible evidence of our true relationship
to Cod
Having been educated along .he medical
lire of training, being by profession
dentist, and for several years t,rusSlstl
/ am prepared to say, with degree OF
authority. that Christian Science IS more
efficacious than medicine or any male
rial means of relief. Having tried roth
methods, L rejoice to give my testimony
on the side of the Christ method, rather
than on the side of matter or nc'Iiclns.
Isn't it rational and sensible for US 10
dare to trust the only power there ls-
I IL Ill hot n "a
nOunced it good, and there IS nothing
else beside Are we presumptu0us, VEN
turesome and visionary to trust the God
you all profess to rustE Is mere any
danger OF trusting him too much? Is he
God unless ne is aIl-in-aIl, and there IS
nothing else beside? There are not two
powers; either God be Co.. or ne Is no
Ne will quote from Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy's Science and Health her WORDS:
Il have never supposed TINS century
would witness the full fruitage or
Christian Science, or that sin, disease
and death would not continue for centu-
ries to come: but this [ do aver, that,
a result OF teaching Christian science
ethics and temperance have received an
impulse. health has been restored ana
longevity increased If such are the pres
ent fruits what may not the harvest De
when this science is more generally IN
derStOOdE
Strive to Go Upward.
Browning has said that whoever may
to love them brave enough TO strive tor
them. Christian Scientists find this pc
culiarly their own experience. " hen they
at first discern this more spiritual IDEA
thew feel their own uuWOrthiness. and
lind it is only through self-renOVauon ana
self-a bnegaIIOn that they have courage
to strive for the light of such divine pos
sibilities, but the love that IS born OF
this new hope and the good they would
attain unto causes them to persist and
stimulates them to strive against all odds
to recognize the fullness of the revela-
ton 1t is growth into the Kingdom;
where loves rules. and only good is round,
surely must "be good to be here in
toucn with all the better qualities of the
human mind, and in recognition of the di-
vine aIlness and supremacy Of good; 70
stand where we may bridge over the
cbasm of despair OF hate, of unrest. of
sickness. sin ard death for those who
are still in the darkness of the belief of
these as realities
This is not only religion Of healing.
but as a refOrnatOry measure nothing
equals il. a few years ago ] met a gen
tleman who vas writing work on how TO
handle the criminal classes of our large
cities He acknowledged many failures.
He said he reached the larger number en-
tirely through moral suasiOn: ne person
ally made friends with them gained their
confidence and influenced them as best he
could: but this necessitStedl much per-
sonal work and was TOO slow method TO
reach the general good. suggested:
why not gain the thought for God, and
leave the seemingly guilty one in his
hands and under mis- guidance He &C
knowledged that would indeed reform
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