The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-20
LIvERED AN EXCELLENT LEG
TURE LAST NIGHT.
Was a Mastery Effort and Was En-
joyed by Fair Sized Audience
at the Opera House.

last night Judge Septimus J. Hanna.
Of Chicago, a leading Christian Science
lecturer, delivered a lengthy and very
interesting address to a fair sized au-
dience, who listened very attentively
to the learned gentleman's remarks.
The speaker was introduced to the
audience by Mrs. Anna Osgood, of this
city, who is one of the leading MEM
bers of the Christian Scientists in
Walla Walla.
Judge Hanna covered only number
of the different phases of the subject,
and handled them in a mastery man.
ner.
In part, he said:
In appearing before you for the
purpose of speaking on the subject of
Christian Science, l deem it proper to
say at the outset that, in the space Of
a single discourse, l can only touch
some of it's leading phases. l can only
hint as it were, at its teaching, ITS
aims, and its purposes.
Il assume that you have assembled
here in no spirit of idle curiosity or
expectation of hearing that which is
sensational or queer. l take 1t TOR
granted rather, that you are here in
spirit of sober. serious inquiry. to hear
whatever is to be said, and willing
to give respectful attention and cOnSid-
Grafton. In this spirit l address YOU
The judge then gave q few remarks
touching upon the Christian Science
text book. He then took the question
Of the cure of sickness:
What is the cure for sickness, do you
TASK? 1 have already indicated the
Christian Science answer to this ques-
ton. l have in a general way, point
ed out the cause or causes of sickness.
There is no sickness without cause.
This is the simplest logic. Sickness
does not come of itself. There is
cause for every form of it. The true
office Of the physician, or the metaphy-
sican as the case may be, is to get at
and remove causes, not to doctor eff
fects. The best remedy for those forms
of sickness which are known to be the
direct result of wrong living. is to stop
the wrong living and go to living right
ly.
Suppose a stream or reservoir of
water which furnishes the supply of a
city becomes so polluted that many in
habitants are getting sick and dying
from drinking it? What is the sem
sible and effective thing to do? To pay
no heed to the water, but give all the
time and attention to doctoring the
sick and burying the dead? Would not
all sensible people say that the thing
to do would be to remove from the
water the poisonous elements and thus
purify it and stop the cause of the
sickness and death?
The Christian Science position is
that this same sensible rule should
be applied to all kinds of sickness, and
therefore the great aim should be to
seek out causes and destroy them,
rather than to tinker eternally with eff
fects. It is irrational and unjust for
men to go carelessly and thoughtlessly
on, dsregarding the conditions which
produce sickness and death, and then
when these calamitieS come, charging
them to the will and purpose of an in
scrutable Providence. They should
rather turn their attention as earnest
ly, at least. to learning how to avoid the
consequences of disobeying the divine
law, as they do to promoting their
worldly purposes. To the extent that
they do this they may be sure that they
will reap the due reward of their eff
forts, and relatively speaking, a much
greater reward than mere worldly
seeking can bring.
IF the cause of sickness is of such
Of it, then the Office of the physician,
or meta physician, is to ascertain the
cause, and apply the remedy. If the
cause is found to be mental-and this
is what the Christian Science prac-
ticioner always looks for-then the
work to be done is to regulate or re-
move this mental cause. The Chris
tan Scientist endeavors to awaken his
patient spiritually and point out to
him his true relationship to God. This
is prayer in the highest sense Of the
word. Not alone the prayer Of sincere
desire and supplication, but more the
realization of Gods all-presence, all
power and all-Life nay Life eternal.
And l say to you in conclusion, my
friends, that this God is your physician,
as we'll as mine. We can go to him
daily, hourly, momentarily, in sweet and
silent prayer, and if we pray Alright.
He will heal us of our diseases and
remove from us our infirmities. We
can know, in the very depths of our
being, that He is our physician, our
comforter, our life. our health, our all
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