The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-05-15
A LECTURE ON
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE,

A good-szed audience assembled at the Jefferson theatre last Tuesday evening to hear MT. Edward A. Kmball on the sub ject of Christian science. The lecture was given under the auspices of the First Church of Christ, scientist, of this city. MT Frank R. Pomeroy, second reader of the church, introduced the speaker. MT. kimball held the close attention of the audience through the entire lecture, and even those who were ignorant of the doc trines of Christian science were impressed by the justice, logic and forcefulness of his presentation of the subject Mir. Kim ball is eminently qualified as a lecturer, and speaks with the authority of years of experience as practitioner, reader and teacher of Christian science.
 Mir Kimhall said In part.
 'The science of mind declares that to the extent that man is governed by the divine mind, he will manifest perfection, health, life welfare prosperlty-the am- pleness and completeness of harmonious existence. It was this Mind which was also in Christ; which cancelled tempta- tion and sin, healed the sick. raised the dead, raised Jesus from the dead, and oyercame the world the flesh and the devil. TO be carnally minded is death. Sin and disease are the offspring of this carnal mnd they are no part of the na- ture or of the procurement of the divine Mind.
 God is good, in nature, design, power, action, substance and operation. All that He has made and done is good His laws are good and He has already done every thing that is essential to the supreme welfare of man.
 Conversely we repudiate the effort to solve the mystery of evil by assuming that any part of it has been instituted by God or that He needs to involve Him. self in or with evil in any way or for any purpose, or that He does so involve Him. self.
 God is not only life, but has ordained lite and is tho law of life and health for man. The theology of Christian science is consistently parallel throughout with this declaration. It also. declares that God has created man that he might have being, and not for the purpose of inflict- ing upon him inveterate agony and dis ease.
 We repudiate all assumption that His law is the law of sin and death. Sick ness is contrary to God and God is con- trary to it. God is the natural healer of the sick, and is able, willing and ever ready to save mortals from the evils im- posed upon them by an utterly perverted sense of existence.
 Ihe supposition that God has induced the bangs and horrors of disease and death engenders a fear of Him-a fear and alarm concerning the author and the law and the destiny of human life; fear concerning the very foundations of exist ence We Christian scientists are no lon ger afraid of God or of His heaven. which we are learning is within us to the extent that we are governed by the Mind which was in Christ.
 ''In Christian science there is no longer an unknown God. No longer do the dis torted graven images of human thought mask or hide from us the real God, who is altogether lovely. who is our dearest friend, whose help is ever available, whose grace is sufficient and who created man that he might have life and peace. Christian science promises to lead man