Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-10-19
Man Governed by Divine Mind
Will Manifest Pert c.
ton.
ADDRESS AT The ILLINOIS
Audience That Fills the Theatre
Hears Doctrine
Expounded.

Christian Science. He was brought
here by the First Church of Christ.
Scientist. OF tnis city. He was ;nIo-
lGced by r. c. Denkmann Mir. Kim
sall, who is All ong2g NJ speaker. en-
tered extensively into his subject.
nligHtening those not of the faith on
many of the questions on which they
we're not familiar, and withal giving
IN address that ii was well worth
ones while listening TO. In part -,
Aimball said:
The Mind which Was i'm Christ.
The science OF mind declares that
. the extent that man is governed
y the divine mind, he Will manifest
perfection, health. life. welfare. pros
,er;ty-the ampleness and complete
less of harmonious existence. 1t was
his mind which was also in Christ;
"h;ch cancelled temptation and sin,
lea.ei the sick, raised the dead. raised
!esUs from the dead. and overcame
he world. the flesh, and the devil. To
le carnally minded is death Sin and
disease are the offspring of this car
1al mind; they are no part of the ma
urC or of the procurement of the di-
line mind.
God Good IN Nature.
God is good, in nature, design, pow
+. action. substance. and operation.
NJ that He has made and done is good.
His laws are good, and He has al
ready done everything that is essen
tial TO the supreme welfare of man.
Conversely We repudiate the effort
o solve the mystery of evil by as
Stunning that any part of it has been
instituted by God. or that He needs to
involve Himself in or with evil in
any way or for any purpose. or that
He does so involve Himself.
God is not only life, but has Ordain-
ID life and is the law of life and
health for man. The theology. of
Christian Science is consistently paral-
lei throughout with this declaration. 1t
also declares that God has created
man that he might have being. and not
for the purpose of inhicting upon him
:nveterate agony and disease.
sickness Contrary to God.
1--WE repudiate all assumption that
His law is the law of sin and death.
Sickness is contrary to God, and God
is contrary to it. God is the natural
healer of the sick. and is able. willing,
and ever ready to save mOrtals from
the evils imposed upon them by an
utterly perverted sense of existence.
The suppositiOn that God has in
duced the pangs and horrors of disease
and death engenders a fear of Him,
"a fear and alarm concerning the au-
thor and the law and the destiny of
human life; a fear concerning the very
foundations of existence. We Chris
tian Scientists are no longer 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.
Complete Salvation Through Christ.
Concerning the divine Christ there
is among men much conflict OF opin-
ion. Most Christians believe he was
the Son of Cod. and WIS divinely com
missioned; that his mission was to
generation. to set forth the way and
promise Of sal alton after death. by
reason of his mediatorial atonement.
1t is believed that. incidentally, he did
many mighty works. 1t is also af-
frmed that he is the only Messiah or
saviour, and that his way is the only
way Of salvation.
Christian Scientists believe all this.
AMI yet their sense of Christianity
differs from that of all others. We
know that Christ was and is divine;
is our saviour or Messiah; is the way
and we can prove il. We are confident
that when this way is scientifically
understood and becomes scientifically
operative. it will manifest its saving
efficacy by transforming the race.
Christ the Voice of Wisdom.
we believe that Christ Jesus was
the representative of God TO humanity;
that he was the voice of wisdom and
intelligence. and that he knew more
about God, man, and the universe tho
all othe~ pie combined. We be
re he came TO do the will of Cod and
to fulfill law What God. and what
law? The God that is good and whose
law is the law of life, health. har-
mCny. and holiness. We believe he
came to seek and to have that which
was lost and that he found that
which was lost when he found the
sinner and the sick man. We believe
that he came 10 destroy the works of
the devil and that he was about his
Fathers business while he was doing
il. Unless he was destroying the
works of the devil when he healed the
sick, there must have been a time
when he was not in the fulfllment OF
his mission. for he gave much atten-
ton 70 the cure of disease. and him
self declared that such healing was a
part Of his works.
Healing Natural and Lawful.