Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-11-01
SCIENCE LECTURE AT
THE OPERA HOUSE.

instructors were such well-known New
England educators of past generation
as Mrs. Sarah j Bodwell Lane, Mr.
Corser. of Sanbornton Bridge Academy,
and Prof Dyer H. Sanborn, author OF
Sanborn's grammar. This early train
ing has been supplemented by long
years of careful and thorough research
and study. She is, from every point OF
view, woman of sound education and
liberal culture.
HER RELIGIOUS CHARACTER.
1t may not be amiss for me TO say
that for nearly ten wears, as form er
First Reader in the Mother Church In
Boston and editor of the official
periodicals, | have had opportunities
which enable me to speak intelligently
of Mrs Eddy's life and character as
well as of her labors and literary attain
ments.
Speaking from this vantage ground,
| can truthfully say that, intellectually.
she is one of the most alert persons
have ever known that she labors
necessarily and unselfishly for the
cause TO which she has devoted her
life, and that, Notwithstanding her
years, she performs an amount of labor
each day which, if known, would seem
incredible, even if done by one yet in
the adolescence of life. As to her
religious character, | speak my pro-
foundest conviction whea / say
believe it to be in accord with the
highest standard Of Christian living.
Yet, Notwithstanding her highly
spiritual nature, she is withal an
inf hn
close watch of current affairs and
acquaints herself with the worlds do
iDgs. She is, moreover, patriotic
citizen of her native State and of her
adopted city, contributing generously
of her means toward their material
welfare and upbuilding
pass now to a consideration of the
precepts and principles OF Christian
Science
WHAT Is THE CREED OF CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
So far as Christian Science has a
creed, it is found in the Tenets of the
Mother Church, which constitute its
declaration of faith. All who become
members of this church must solemnly
subscribe to these tenets. They are as
follows
/. AS adherents of Truth, we take the
inspired Word of the Bible as our su11i-
cient guide to eternal Life.
g. We acknowledge and adore one
supreme and Infinite God;-we ac-
knowledge one Christ--His Son, Christ
Jesus the Holy Ghost or divine Com
forter and man us his image and like
ness
3. We acknowledge Gods forgiveness
of sin in the destruction Of sin, and the
spiritual understanding that evil is
unreal, hence not eternal. But the
belief in sin is punished so long as it
lasts.
4. We acknowledge Jesus atonement
as the evidence of divine. efficacious
Love, unfolding mans unity with God
through Christ Jesus the Wayshower.
5fWe acknowledge that man is saved
through Christ, through Truth, Life,
and Love as demonstrated by the
Galilean Prophet in the healing of the
sick and the overcoming of sin and
death. Also, that the crucifixion of
Jesus and His resurrection served to
elevate faith and understanding to
perceive eternal Life-the allnesS of
Spirit and the nothingness of matter.
g. We s0lemnly premise to strive,
watch, and pray for that Mind to be in
us which was also in Christ Jesus to
love one another; and to be meek,
merciful, just, and pure.
Copyrighted and used by permission
of Reverend Mary Baker G.. Eddy, the
author)
| will say with reference to the third
tenet that the sense in which evil is
here dehned to be unreal is briefly this,
that il is not created by God. He
never sent it into the world 1t has no
place in the eternal realm of infinite
Truth where all is pure and holy
Therefore Christian Science places it on
the human plane. On this plane it is
real. So real that the Bible was sent to
awaken the world out of its sinful con-
dition. So real that Jesus Christ was
sent to redeem the world by pointing
the way out of sin. Sin is real as "a
human belief but not as a divine fact,
1t is temporal because subject to de-
struction. If is were real in the sense
that it is eternal it never could be
destroyed, in which case mankind
would be in a hopeless plight. In this
sense and this sense only is sin here
defined to be unreal
Mrs. Eddy is the author of these
tenets. No one can read them without
y
subscribes to them adopts the Bible as
his guide and as the Word of God. 1t
cannot, therefore, be truthfully charged
that Christian Scientists are unbelieverS
in the Scriptures. The fact is, they
are ardent believers in the Bible, read
ing and studying it daily, and making
it their constant companion. An intelH-
gent perusal of these tenetS leads to the
following clear deductions: The abso-
lutte supremacy of God the divinity of
the Christ that there is but one Christ
the forgiveness of sin through the de-
struction of sin tie atonement for sin
and all of it's consequences through
unity with God the Father; or in other
words, through obedience to His divine
law salvation from sin, sickness and
death that this salvation is free To all
that the spiritual man, as Gods univer-
sal and eternal son, occupies relation
snip to God that can never, in any true
sense of that relationship, be severed or
destroyed that this man as Gods
image and likeness can no more be
destroyed than can God Himself be
destroyed that if this man could be
DESTROYED, he would not be the image
and likeness of God in any correct
sense of the meaning of these words,
God made man in HI vn image and
likeness would hence be a falsity.
The sixth and last tenet comprehends
Ill the preceding tenets. The solemn
admonition to strive and pray for the
Mind of Christ is a call 10 live the high
est possible Christian life. He who
attains to that altitude of living where
in he has in him the same Mind that
was in Christ Jesus is surely a Christian.
He who earnestly strives and prays for
that Mind is surely, TO that extent and
in that sense, leading a Christian life.
though he may yet lave to travel a
long way before reaching the high goal.
Step by step, he may climb the ladder
whose top marks the full measure of
the stature of manhood in Christ Jesus
This tenet is re-statement in almost
exact words of Paurs injunction to the
PHILIPPIANS, wherein he commanded
them to have in themselves the same
Mind that was also in Christ Jesus.
now wish 10 speak of Jesus teach
ing with reference to healing sickness
| He sent forTh the twelve TO preach and