The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-21
MRS. LIVINGSTON MINIS
TO DELIVER A LECTURE

! observation study and experiment out of
its old ignorance, bigatry and supersti-
ton, recognizes a divine order and reign
Of lava harmonious adjustment OF rela-
tons and movements. The great sun, as
well as the wonderful CONT (seemlng an
alien in the skies yet do and must obey
this newly discovered law.
1.-The joy from this emancipation from
old limits and superstitions caused great
upheaval in even the orthodox thought,
and for brief period material evolution
seemed to satisfy the human reason.
This theory however, fails. since it in
voives the Illogical conclusion that the
first great and only Cause or Creator,
the Supreme Mind or Intelligence of man
and the universe, produces opposite and
conflicting effects. That Is, it makes God
eternal good, responsible for evil and dis
cord as well as harmony and health. This
false conclusion is repeatedly exposed as
unscriptural by Hebrew prophets and
Christian apostles in familiar Illustrations
and positive declarations.
out of the mouth of the most high
proceedeth not both good and evil
Isaiah Can a fountain send forth at the
same time both sweet water and bitterY
Can you gather figs from thistles or
grapes from thorns?
/, by these homely Illustrations the pa
tient teachers in the scriptures point to
the sublime reign of the spiritual law
of life and love and harmony.
"St. James tells us that every good
fs,1
out of heaven, in Whom is no variable
ness nor shadow of turning.
IF l were asked to state in the
very simplest terms what is Mrs.
Eddys mission and work, it would be
this: To point with unerring steadfast-
ness and fearless persistence to Christ
Jesus as the way-shower and sclen-
tifc demonstration of the spiritual law
Of life in Christ Jesus, which hath
made us free from the law of sin and
death. Romans, VILE. While her in
spired books explain Him and show us
how to act and follow Him.
For centuries the Christian world
has talked and preached much ana
well about the words and doctrines of
Jesus, and those words shall not
! pass away" but will abide and bear
fruit as long as time endures. A little
more than thirty years ago Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy sent out a clarion note to
! the scientific, the philosopnic. the
Christian and religious thought of the
world, saying: Behold the works as
well as the words of Jesus Christ
1t was the works He said we should
do if we believe in or understand Him.
These works have been almost entire
ly ignored. To science she says.
'Ecce IIomo'-'Behold the Man. the
ideal man, or divinely natural man;
demonstrating His divine dominion.
illustrating the spiritual law that
transcends matter and the tyranny
of the flesh. that stills the tempest,
walks over the waves, rends the
tomb from which He rose out of lin
tied human vision into the radiant
reality of the spiritual realm where
man Is eternally one with the
Father'-as one with His divine prin-
ciple. BY the simple, straight line of
spiritual demonstration He arose SUI
perior to the devious doubtful and
dangerous ways of the so-called sci
ence that is the admixture of good
and evil. Mrs. Eddys teachings show
us IN Christian Science that the
mighty works were not contraventions
of law nor suspensions of law but
logical, divinely natural demonstra-
lions of unchanging principle. law,
good: that annuls a false and material
sense of law. To philosophy It reveals
the temporal unreality of this material
existence as the prophets and apostles
have declared 1t a "vapor dream,
a false sense of alienation or separa-
ton between God and man, principle
and idea, cause and effect Jesus
shows us how to dispel this mist and
attain our indissoluble unity with life,
love, good. 1t declares 'Awakei
thou sleeping one; now are we the
sons of God, now are we free,
through the understanding of the SON.
ship and heirship of God"