Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1904-01-27

Attorney General E. W. Wells in
PRODUCED the speaker with the follow
ing remarks:
Friends.-All around the world man
is controlled and influenced by his
beliefs. He does not rise above them.
His mental, physical and moral con-
ditions is due to them. As he thinks
so is he.
That human existence may be more
tolerabIe, ana man may rise above the
human sense of things is clearly illus
trated by what is regarded as the cen
trail Christ story as gathered from the
writings of the Gospels.
On day in the early dawn of the
Christian era, several prominent men
we're assembled in the temple in the
city of Jerusalem. They we're distin-
guished because of age, rank, intelli-
gence and knowledge of worldly
affairs.
They represented the learning and
thought of a hundred and more cen
turtles as taught by the schools of the
day.
Coming from without, boy twelve
years of age quietly stood among
them.
He at once engaged them in con-
versation, asking them questions and
answering theirs with an understand
ing which aroused their attention.
His quiet manner and force of reason
ing drew them to him. Gathering
around him the educated rabbi asked
him if he had read booksf He replied
by explaining the books of the law,
the precepts and statutes. What APP
peared to them mysterious in the
books of the prophets he cleared up
and brushed away. Through his I'M
Outstanding they caught glimpses of
creative mind in field of thought
their learning had not penetrated.
The learned astronomer present
asked him if he had studied astron
omy? He answered by numbering the
spheres and the Heavenly bodies, made
plain their harmonious action, their
progressive and retrograde motion,
the solar system and the many similar
systems throughout the Heavens, the
system of all systems-the one Mind,
the one Intelligence who holds crea-
ton in the palm of his hand, whose
infinitude is beyond being measured
by the endless plunging of the celes-
tial bodies through the skies on their
ceaseless tramp and journey through
space.
The venerable philosopher standing
by asked if he knew physics? He out
lined the material universe with its
laws of matter, force and motion ac-
counting for the phenomena presented
by bodies. He also explained meta
physics, the science of the first prin-
ciple of being, of the first principle of
knowing. He spoke of those things
which we're above and below the power
of nature.
He referred to the human body, its
composition, structure and dissolu-
ton; the bones, nerves, sinews and
flesh, the senses of seeing, hearing,
smelling, tasting and touching, the
sum of which makes up mortal mind,
human nature.
He then spoke of the soul, its rela-
ton to and operation upon the body,
the absolute dominion of mind over
matter. Life eternal, the nothing
ness of matter from the standpoint of
spirituality.
The doctors we're astounded at his
understanding.
The boy grew to manhood and wax
ed strong in spirit aud wisdom. At
his thirtieth year he was in the midst
of his ministry travelling through the
land teaching Life eternal, the COM
ing of the Kingdom of Heaven, now.
Demonstrating the principle he
taught in a manner most forcible and
convincing to human consciousness,
he healed the sick, gave sight to the
blind, hearing to the deaf, the lame
walked, lepers we're cleansed, the
crooked made straight and the dead
raised.
The multitudes marvelled. He re-
piled, "Verily, verify, l say unto you,
he that believeth on me the works that
| do shall he do also, and greater
works than these shall he do because
| 60 unto my Father"
"And these signs shall follow them
that believe: They shall speak with
new tongues; they shall lay hands
upon the sick, and they shall re.
cover" The signs following should
be the test of their belief, the under
standing.
In the year 1866, not a great dis
lance from the City of Boston lived a
woman, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy. She
was an ardent student of spiritual
study. The Bible was her only teach
er. While in the extremity of her
physical infirmity, her dissolution
seemingly at hand, she saw and real
! lied the full meaning of the Master 6
words, che that believe on me, y
when complete and perfect restoration
was upon her. She was every whit
whole.
From her spiritual understanding
of the perfect one, she worked out
way or system by which it is i'm
ported to and understood by her fell
low man. This system she named
Christin Science, because its principle
is demonstratable, scientifically &C
curate. She demonstrated it fully
before announcing it. 1t is simply
the teaching and proving the print
tive, practical Christianity taught and
demonstrated by Jesus of Nazareth
among the hills and valleys of Judea
nineteen hundred years ago.
Christian Science is spreading rap
idly throughout the Christian world.
Coming to its peaceful folds are per
sons in all the different walks of life,
the old, the young, the high, the low,
the rich, the poor, the prince, the peas
} ant.
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