The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-23
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE FAITH WAS
THEME or BRILLIANT LECTURE
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death, by the demonstration OF the actuai
spiritual law of life and harmony ne
said, even the birds and lilies teaeh you
lessons of the inefable love and tender
ness OF this father-mother God; for the
same intelligence that enables grow
ing vine to rend a rock, in its travail Oh
expression Is the same power that en-
abled Jesus to rend the rock-riboed tohp'
in the travail of his expression oil ms N
destructible, immortal individuality.
Has speculative philosophy gone FUR
Their today, or is it not rather faileh snort
of the old school? In his last days her
bert Spencer sums up his system by say
ing that since the brain evolves al tninss'
and the brain is material ana perlshapie'
that there is therefore no OASIS on winch
to predicate the immortality OF man. MOST
impotent conclusion. Is there nothing TO
still the immortal longings that stir the
heart of man?
Christian Science Appears.
"Todav. In answer to sore human need,
Christian Science appears reiterating the
words of Jesus, and is, at least IN part
initiating Him and demonstrating the
God-power to heal, redeem and bless hu-
manity. 1t recalls and is establishing the
practical Christianity OF Jesus as lie
walked humbly with the multitude. heal
ing ever, manner of disease, raising the
dead, spiritualizlng and uplifting men.
1t is fulfilling the mission of the Com
forter Tt takes Of Ills life and words,
and works and shows them to us, ex-
planning His modus operandi. Have you
ever thought how little is SAID Oh Jesus
works, yet lie said. The works that
do, We shall do lie taught how God,
divine mind. is the only medicine the
only physician, revealing to man his
| given dominion as the reflection OF
his Maker. This supremacy Is not
through the dominion of the human Will,
but through the enlightened, spiritual
understanding of the realities Of being,
wherein infinite life, harmony, immortal
bliss, omnicient, omnipotent good, is the
destroyer of the finite corporal Illusions,
which limit all things. The scriptures
| teach and the gospel demands this SUI
piemacy. The closing years of this cen
| fury are marked by most extraordinary
/ development along the lines of material
science, daily rising In new forms to
! greater power the more ethereal the
more potent. Time and space and matter
! itself. almost disappears Under the x ray
prophecy of the true science of God
which must finally dominate all else.
Growing this great Development there
must come with the centuries the spir-
| itual ascendency and dominion of man as
q Son of God. and joint heir with Christ,
OF His heavenly birthright.
I'm the spiritual account of Creation,
In the first chapter of Genesis. we read:
| And God said. let us make man in our
image and likeness, and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and
the fowl of the air and the cattle, and
over all the earth, and over every creep
ing thing that creepeth upon the earth
/ Gen 1-26.
Thou madest him to have dominion
over the works of Thy hands. Thou hast
put all things under his feet, sang the
sweet singer of Israel.
I'm Science and Health. with Key to
the Scriptures, pages 517-31, Mrs. Eddy
/ says, Man in the image of his Maker
reflects the divine might; he is the mas
ter of earth. not made to till the soil. His
! birthright is dominion not subsection
He is lord of beast, fowl, reptile and fish,
himself subordinate alone to his Master
This is the science of being She also
says: Think less of the enactments of
mortal mind, and you will sooner grasp
mans God-given dominion. Let us Danish
sickness as an outlaw. and abide by the
rule of perpetual harmony, Gods law
S. and H., p. 3S1-2l.
! This declaration that man may reflect
Gods power Is the keynote to the re-
ligion of the future Jesus illustrated
1t to its fullest extent In His life and
work as our way-shower. and as the
demonstration Of this law of infinite good.
life and love