The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-11-07
HEAR GOOD TALK.
Judge Ewing of Chicago Pleases
Large Audience.
Delivers Lecture on Christian
Science at the Theater.
WHAT 1T STANDS FOR.
Answers Charge That. 1t Is In
imicaI to Christianity.
Healing Powers But Incidents
of What 1t Is.
WHAT 1T STANDS FOR.

A large gathering assembled Sun
day afternoon at the Crawford thea
ter, completely filling the two lower
floors of the playhouse. 1t was the
occasion of the lecture on Christian
Science by Judge William G. Ewing, of
Chicago.
The audience began to arrive early.
1t was a much different audience
from the one which assembled in the
same place three hours after the lee
ture. Numbered among those who at
tended yesterday We're the lame and
the halt, the blind and the deaf, old
and young, rich and poor, members of
many different churches and many
who were not members of any church.
The lecture was one of the best on
the subject ever delivered in Topeka,
and it was listened to by many of the
most prominent people of the city.
Judge Ewing was introduced by Gen.
J. K. Hudson. Judge Ewing said:
Christian Scientists do not shrink
their Christian belief and its practice.
They do not invoke your sympathy
nor supplicate your charity; they court
investigation and demand justice. Sc
rene in their purpose to be right, if
wrong, they would be righted; if right,
the good they have belongs to human
ity, and should be distributed to its
own.
Every Christian church has been
compelled to struggle for it's eStab-
1ishment, and in the presentation of
our cause we are no more comba ted
by honest opinion than your church
was, whatever its name, in its effort
for recognition. Now, as then, it is
prejudice that braZenly confrontS eV-
cry new thought of God, every con-
cept of the Infinite Father born of in
dividual conscience and in the blaz-
ing light of the latest and best day
that has gladdened humanity.
Your thought of Christian Science
is-1ust how you got it I do not know,
and doubt very much whether you
do, but still you have the thought that,
in some way or other, Christian Sci
ence is antagonistic to the religion of
Jesus Christ. and therefore you an
tagonize Christian Science. If your
premises is right, if after conscientious
investigation of our concept of God
you reach the conclusion that Chris
tan Science is in any degree inimical
to the religion of Jesus Christ, then, in
my judgment. it is not only your privi-
lege, but your duty. to antagonize
Christian Science, and never to allow
your opposition to it to cease until
either you cease yourself or Christian
Science ceases. My reasonable demand
is that you make the investigation be-
fore you make the assault. 1t is much
easier to express an opinion after you
have formed it.
You have this thought of Chris
tan Science; that taken at its best, as
you understand it, for all that it's de-
voices claim, and still. is but an
purpose; that it is something for the
physical man, the man of clay and
nothing for the man fashioned in the
image and likeness of the Infinite
Father; that it is something for to-
day and today only, and nothing for
the unreasonable tomorrow of God.
If you are right, then Christian Sci
ence is a baseless thing. the SIRENS
song of peace, when there is no
peace But you are not right Won are
wholly wrong: I assert that there is
not genius enough in this world to
frame a statement respecting Chris
tan Science that would be wider the
mark or more absolutely barren of
truth than just what L have imagined
your thought Of it is.
"The physical benefits of Christian
Science, its medical virtue. it's healing
power, are but incidents of what it is
of its reality, and yet these incidents
must not be undervalued, for all the
world knows today that the healing
which Jesus did, the surcease he
brought to human sorrow the hone he
rekindled, were but incidents of the
Astounding redemption he brought, and
the sweet gospel he preached of Gods
unfailing love Yet these benefactions
to men, though but incidents of a
mighty mission, proclaim trumpet
tongued, demonstrate indeed. the diVin-
ity of the Messenger. And Just as GER
tainly the healing incidents of Chris
fian Science indisputably establish the
co-existent relationship of Christian
Science and the teaching of Jesus
Wherefore Christian Scientists have the
keenest appreciation of the prophylac-
tic and therapeutic virtue of their re-
ng1on, and earnestly contend, and in
deed many 90 US do know, know as
certainly as Paul knew, that his Re-
deemer lived, that Christian Science
does bring surcease to the heart-ache
and heart-break of men, gives roses
for ashes to men, peace for pain, love
for hate, hope for despair, health
(rosy- cheeked) for gnawing disease
gives life for death to men. Yet neither
of these benefactions. nor all of them
combined. is Christian Science in its
essence, its infinite good. They are the
results of Christian Science: they are
the inevitable product, the unavoidable
fruitage of Christian Science under
stood and lived; and understood only
when lived
q Christian Scientists believe that
their life is in God. that God is their
strength and Redeemer, and know
they believe it, demonstrate their be-
lief, by going to God and God only for
life, strength and redemption from all
sickness. sorrow and sin. You saw YOU
believe that God is the great physician
who heals all our diseases but do
you really believe it If you do not
go to the great physician, men viii
think and God viii know you do not