Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-06
LOOK INTO FUTURE
Mrs. S. n Minis Talks on Mans
Spiritual Supremacy Through
Scientific Research.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AUSPICES
Learned Address Heard by Large
Audience at Illinois
Theatre.

Every seat in the Illinois theatre
was occupied last evening by people
who had come from many quarters to
listen to Mrs. Sue Harper Minis, c. S,
d., of Atlanta, Ca, member of the
Christian Science board of Lecture
ship of the First Church of Christ,
Scientists, of Boston, Mass. The adj
dress was given under the auspices of
the local First Church of Christ, Sci
cntists, the subject being, MANS
Spiritual Supremacy, Through Sci
entific Research, the Religion or the
Future"
Mrs. Minis is woman of charming
personality. Her diction was pure and
simple, her delivery impressive, and
she held the attention of her vast au-
dience in remarkable manner. She
is easily the strongest and most inter
esting exponent of the Christian Sci
ence faith to which Rock Island peo-
pie have had the privilege of listening.
Some OF the main points in Mrs. Minis
address follow:
.sFhe aspiration to know and under
stand. the ways of God to men has in
spirc1 the long search and questioning
of the centuries. The attempt to re
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basis of an all-wise, omniscient, ON
nipotent and benevolent Creator, has
been the stimulus of vast systems
of speculative thought throughout the
history of man. This theoretical mind
has been ever the same since the days.
and before, when Socrates talked of
the Immortality of the soul, and Plato
dreamed, seemingly, Utopian dreams
of true republic, while the AleXan-
drian schools teemed with magnificent
hypothesis.
nineteen hundred years ago, i'm the
midst of the tumultCus thought of
that day, there appeared simple, ma
jestic figure, Jesus of Nazareth. He
spake as never man spoke. and He
proved the beneficent ways of God to
man, proved this omnipotent, infinite
God to be forever the destroyer of evil
and all its varied manifestations. 1t
was as he said. God is not a remote
abstraction, nor a PARKWAY ruler and
mighty king, but living presence.
eternal truth, divine environment, in
which we live and move and have our
being; the one source from whence
'cometh every good and perfect gift
God. Mind and Substance.
God is the mind. intelligence, sub
stance that includes all. that feeds,
clothes, sustains and governs man, re-
deeming him from the materialistic
law of sin and death, by the demon
stratiOn of the actual spiritual law of
life and harmony. He said. even the
birds and lilies teach you lessons of
the ineffable love and tenderness of
this father-mother God; for the same
intelligence that enables a growing
vine to rend a rock, in its travail of ex-
preston, is the same power that en-
abled Jesus TO rend the rock-ribbed
tomb, in the travail of his expression
of His indestructible, immortal indi
viduality. Today, in answer to sore
human need Christian Science APP
pears reiterating the words of Jesus,
and is, at least in part. initiating Him
and demonstrating the GOd-power to
heal, redeem and bless humanity. 1t
recalls and is establishing the practi-
cal christianity of Jesus. as he walked
humbly with the multitude, healing
every manner of disease. raising the
dead. spirituaizing and uplifting men.
IT is fulfilling the mission of the Com
forter. 1t takes His life and words,
and works and shows them to us, eX-
planning His modus operandi. Have
YOU ever thought how little is said of
Jesus works, yet He said. The works
that i do, ye shall do He taught how
God, divine mind. is the only medicine.
the only physician, revealing to man
His God-given dominion as the refec-
ton of his Maker. This supremacy
iS not throu0h the dominion Of the hu-
man will. but through the enlighten
ment. spiritual understanding of the
realities of being wherein infinite life,
harmony, immortal bliss. omniscient,
omHipotent good is the destroyer of
infinite corporal illusions. which limit
all things.
This declaration that man may re-