The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-07-28
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
ETt1acts from u Lecture by Ed
Ward A. KinboU.

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| you are asked to contemplate for mo-
| ment the scene upon which Christian
| Science has made it's entrance. The
history of the human race may be
classified as tragedy. The people of
earth, unreconciled to what seems to
be an intolerable fate, have turned in
every conceivable direction in their
effort for deliversnce from evil, and
they have failed, thus far, to find the
way. Men continue to live, sicken,
and die according to philosophy of
doom which declares there is no saliva
ton this side of the grave, no way
out of the hell on earth but to die out.
To this same stricken people, and
in this very age, comes Christian Sol
ence to declare that they can get out,
naturally, lawfully, scientifically it
comes as a message of hope and prom
Use to race which is in supreme need.
We submit the proposition that hu-
mainly which prays for different re.
suits should also consistently pray for
and expect a different way, and we
contend that Christian Science, which
promises and produces the prayed for
results, cannot logically be rejected
simply because it also discloses a
different way.
A concensus of enlightened belief
concerning God, is that He is one su-
preme, infinite, self existent, all-inclu-
sive, spiritual, individual, conscious
Being, the sole Creator of all that
i good, Life, Truth, Love. omnipresent,
omniscient, and omnipotent; that He
is the only law-maker, and holds in
His grasp the destiny of men. Chris
tian Scientists subscribe to all these
! postulates without reserve, and yet
our religion is in some respects quite
different from that of others. Why?
Why different if we agree on these
essentials? The difference is in the
amplitication and application. 1t is
in this respect that most religious
sects and systems diverge from each
other.
4 The Science of Mind declares that
to the extent that man is governed by
! the divine Mind, he will manifest per.
| lection, health, life, welfare, prosper
ity,-the ampleness and completeness
of harmonious existence. 1t was this
Mind which was also in Christ; which
Cancelled temptation and sin, healed
the sick, raised the dead, raised Jesus
from the dead, and overcame "the
world, the flesh, and the devil. " "To
be carnally minded is DEATH Sin
and disease are the offspring of this
carnal mind; they are no part of the
nature or of the procurement of the
! divine Mind.
a God is good, in nature, design,
power, action, substance, and opera
ton. All that He has made and done
is good. His laws are good, and he
has already done everything that is
essential to the supreme welfare of
man.
Conversely we repudiate the effort
to solve the mystery of evil by assum.
ing that any part of it has been in
stituted by God, or that He needs to
involve Himself in or with evil in
any way or for any purpose, or that
He does so involve Himself
God is not only Life, but has or
dained life and is the law of life and
health for man. The theology OF
Christian Science is consistently par.
sllel throughout with this deolars.
ton. 1t also declares that God has
created man that he might have be.
ing, and not for the purpose of in.
flioting upon him inveterate agony
and disease.
We repudiate all assumption that
His law is the law of sin and death.
Sickness is contrary to God, and Goo
is contrary to it. God is the patura
healer of the sick, and is able, will
ing, and ever ready to save mortall
from the evils imposed upon them by
ence.
The superstition that God has in
duced the pangs and horrors of dis
ease and death engenders a fear O.
Him,-a fear and alarm concerning
the author and the law and the des
tiny of human life; fear concerning
the very foundations of existence
We Christian Scientists are no longe
afraid of God or of His heaven, which
we are learning is within us to TIN
extent that we are governed by tn
Mind which was in Christ
Christian Science promises to lea'
mankind to God through the high
ways of health and life instead o
death. 1t promises to humanity, il
the name OF God, not the doubtful
felicity of the grave, but a sensible
practical dispensation of good, now
1t promises to incline men naturall
and willingly to more spiritual life