The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-15
Or. YOUNG HERE.
Delivers His Lecture on Chris
tian Science.
About One Thousand People
Enjoy the Discussion.
HIS ELOQUENT TALK.
Defines Christian Science and
Its Operations.
Gives Mrs. Eddy Credit for the
Advancement.
lis ELOQUENT TALK.

Despite the threatening weather. an
audience of about thousand listened to
a fine lecture on Christian Science by
Bicknell Young of Chicago at the Audi
| forum last night. Mr. Young is a
member of the board of lectureship of
the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of
| Boston, and is considered one of the
strongest men in Christian Science
work Introductory to the lecture Prof.
Z. Russell Sanborn, official organist at
the First Church of Christ. Scientist,
at Kansas City, played a prelude on the
pipe organ. Mr.. Dell Keller introduced
the speaker who said in part:
Christian Science may be defined as
the science of all that relates to God,
and is science not only in relation to
healing, but as corrective in relation to
all problems of existence. Accepted the
cries of religion and science have scoffed
| at the association of these words, but
| reason and logic show conclusively that
| science must relate to truth, and there
fore to God, since God is the cause and
! basis of all that is true.
| Christian Science does not proclaim a
new God nor new law, but comes de-
| clar1ng the same God. and the same law
that Jesus declared, the one infinite
| eternal God, who is good, and his good
and Interchangeable law. Christian Sci
ence declares the omnipotence, omnisci-
other denominations, and upon that
basis shows that evil has no power,
| knowledge or presence; in other words,
that 1t is unreal
Christian Science never ascribes evil
to God or makes him in any way re-
sponsible for it, but shoys that evil or
iginates in a belief of material existence
| entirely apart from God, and unsupport-
ed by science or truth. OF all people,
Christian Scientists believe most abso-
lutely in Christ. They accept the teach
ings of Jesus Christ without reserva-
ton. They declare that his command
to heal the sick. is as binding as that to
preach the gospel, and that there is no
evidence that it was intended for his
time only. 1t was scientific religion that
healed the sick in the time of Jesus and
his disciples, and it does the same work
now, and must always do it, since his
life and work were an example for all
time, and his method was a universal
and imperishable heritage of man.
''Those who believe that mentality
plays some part in disease and its cure
generally look in the wrong direction
and say that the cures of Christian
Science are effected by mental sugges-
ton, hypnotism, will power, mental
science which is spurious and not re-
lated to Christian Science. or to some
other erroneous or material belief.
Christian Science, however, declares
that it IS God who heals diseases
through Christian Science, and they of
all people know best.
1--WE scarcely dare to think what the
world would have been had not there
appeared from time to time a man or
woman good enough and great enough
! to be touched by eternal truth. and
brave and Self-sacrificing enough to
stand for it. Mrs. Eddy discerned and
proclaimed to the world the Godgiven
freedom of the race from all sickness,
sin, want and woe. She revealed the
science by which men may begin to
realize that freedom and enter upon
their heritage of dominion over evil.
Some time this knowledge had to
come. According to the promise of
Jesus it was to be the spirit of truth,
the Comforter leading into all truth.
Some one had to be good and pure
above all others in order to perceive it,
Any great discovery along given line
is always made by one whose thoughts,
desires, and studies, are reaching be-
yond those of other people.
THAT Christian Science has place in
the worlds thought today is due en-
tirely to Mrs. Eddy. There was time
when she stood absolutely alone with
God, and incurred the ridicule of ignor-
ance and the hostility of theoretical
forms of religion and material modes of
medicine because of her discovery of
Christian Science. Today the whole
world is uplifted by her teachings and
example, and because of it, human
thought is rising somewhat from the
depths of gross materialisnl. These are
the simple facts. 1 should consider it
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