The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-21

Lecture Delivered at Grand Opera
House Last Sunday by Carol
Norton, of New York.

the daily reflection of the Mind which
moves only in Loves grooves, and thus
governs all in harmony
Christian Science claims for it's basis
and operation, eXactness and practical
bility- AS Science it is logical and in
its varied applications, demonstrable.
This latter fact removes the system
from the realm of the so-called inexact
sciences, and places it virtually at the
head of all religious therapeutical and
social science. This science or exact
knowledge of God as divine Mind must
be the demonstrable understanding of
Omniscience. The practical application
of such Science must cover the whole
area of life and perfectly govern each
part, as in its fullness it rules the whole.
Deity or God being Mind or Intelligence.
the only Science that can reveal the ma
ture and laws of God must be a men
tai Science, or that Science which re-
lates wholly to mental laws of cause
and effect. Such a system is Christian
Science 1t goes to the logical ultimate
of metaphysical and psychological rea-
soning and affirms that pure Monothe-
ism alone is natural and real. 1t denies
the ditheistic or dualistic theory of two
opposing primary elements mind and
matter. And in this denial we are
brought face to face with the great
basic truth of Christian Science, name
ly, it's statement. All is infinite Mind
and its infinite manifestation, for God is
AL IA C1l. -NoClC4lCC anu k1Sct1l1, u. 4o4.J
By teaching the omnipotence of God as
Mind and proclaiming that the chang
ing and decaying forms of matter are
but the phenomena of the human mind,
it avoids the shoals of pantheism. 1t
thus reveals the fact that the belief in
the reality or divinity of matter as well
as Mind constitutes genuine pantheism
the theory that God is not only all,
but that all materially that exists is
God and His creation.
IS PURE MONOTHEISM.
For many years after the founding of
Christian Science, religious and scien-
tific critics persistently opposed its SCI
entific and philosophical basis, viz, its
teaching that All is Mind, there is no
matter The dual theory of two ele-
mentary forces, mind and matter, in life
or nature, had been so long believed that
a system that absolutely denied what
to the general mind was an automatic
truth was at once stamped as unscien-
tif1c, absurd and undemonStrable. Again,
the rapid development and elaboration
of the theory of evolution and its almost
worldwide acceptance, seemed to many
to be a positive confirmation of the
theory of dualiSm in nature; hence
organic evolution has been accepted by
a large part of the scientific world as
the true theory of the creation of the
universe and man. But as progress is
the law of Life, and as there are no per-
manent stopping places along the high
way OF truth S eIernal uuIO1OlnSs II Is
but natural that the ultimate statement
of true spiritual, and natural evolution
should be announced almost simultane-
ously with the first public deductions of
the worlds greatest evolutionists. In 1855
Mrs Eddy first gave to the world the
keynote of the philosophy of Christian
Science in the statement: All Causation
is Mind and every effect is mental
phenomenon
1.-THE present age is peculiarly in need
of Christian healing and consp1cuousIy
in want of an exact system OF mental
therapeutics. The practical results of
Christian Science prove that this need
has been met. A careful study of Chris
tianity as its Founder lived and taught
it. reveals that healing was to thOuS-
ands perhaps the greatest proof of the
divine nature of the religion Of Jesus
Release from bodily woe and suffering
prepared many hearts in that hour for
the acceptance of the truth that Jesus
taught Freedom from all types of
organic and functional disease has pre-
pared thousands for the Gospel Oh
health and practical Christianity that
Christian Science proclaims Healing
and moral spiritual reformation proved
the divinity and genuineness of Jesus
teaching. In this age the same evil
dences confirm the claims of Christian
Science, and establish it as an agent of
tive Christian healing Christian Sci
ence declares that all the commands OF
Jesus to his followers should be obeyed.
Chief among these is to be found the
command to heal the sick. Jesus estab-
ished the precedent for all healing,
namely divine or mental healing, with
out drugs. This healing was called by
the people of that age the healing of
the sect of the Nazarenes and of its
great teacher, the man from Galilee,
Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus and his fol-
lowers were Christian meta physicians
to whom the healing of bodily disease
was as natural as the healing of sin.
The union of spiritual and physical heal
ing has been re-esta blished in Christian
Science and in this age is known as
Christian Science Mind-healing. In that
age it's nature and spiritual character,
but not its science, were taught by Jesus
and his Apostles. Today, with the ex-
actness of a demonstrable and applied
science the mental therapeutics of
Christian healing are taught and scien-
tifcaIIy demonstrated. Therefore, this
healing is Scriptural and a necessary
accompanirnent of evangelical as well
as liberal Christianity.
There have been many prophets of
the good new days in which we live
Emerson with lofty optimism wrote: I
| believe that the laws of Nature which
are the angels of the Most High, are
rolling on to the time when the child
shall die a hundred years old; when
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