The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-27
JUDGEHANNA'S TURE
Interesting Talk on Christian Science
Before Large Audience.

The Crawford opera house was crowd
go Sunday afternoon to hear Judge
Hanna's lecture on Christian Science.
OF the origin and development Of
/ Christian Science:
There is in Boston a Mother Church
/ organized a number of Years since, hav-
/ ing membership of nearly forty thou
sand, composed Of persons residing in
almost every part of this country and of
other countries. This membership is in
ereasing at the rate OF about 5000 an
nuaily- The Mother Church has branch
churches and societies to the number of
nearly one thousand, also situated in
nearly every part Of this country and
Of other countries Some years since
the Mother Church adopted a set of
church tenets- These become also the
tenets of all Of her branches, and must
be subscribed to and adopted by every
person becoming a member either of the
Mother Church or of any of her branch
es. These tenets furnish a fair index
To the religious faith or belief of this
movement hence I shall refer to them
in substance. They acknowledge the
Scriptures to be the inspired word of
God. They acknowledge the supremacy
and infinity of God. They acknowledge
Christ and his divinity,and declare there
Is but one Christ. They iAculeate the
omnipotence, omnipresence and ON
niscience of God; that God is Spirit:
that mantle real. spiritual mans
IteuG III the image ana likeness OF Goa
according to the teaching of Genesis,
and that this real man must by the
necessity Of his relationship to God, re-
I fleet, or image forth, the divine charac-
ter The real and immortal man, there
/ fore, does reflect God. The mortal man.
OF the unspiritual man. does not refie 4
/ God, and is not therefore His image and
likeness.
1.-The last of these tenets enjoins upon
all who subscribe TO them the necessity
of striving, watching and praying to
have IN themselves the same mind that
was also in Christ Jesus, to love one an
other, and to be meek, nlerciful, just and
pure.
Surely there can be no higher stan
/ dard of Christianity. If there be a per-
son on this earth today who can truly
be said to have in himself the same
mind that was also in Christ Jesus, that
! person Is a Christian. If there are per
| sons who are sincerely striving, watch
4 ing and praying to have that mind, they
are, in that sense, leading the Christian
/ life. Those Christian Scientists who are
thus earnestly striving are true to the
church tenets and to their teaching #
there are those who are not SO striving,
/ they, like all others, have yet to attain
to a higher standard of living"
| In concluding Judge Hanna said:
"In the 18th of John we read: Verify,
verify, say unto you, He that believeth
on me, the works that I do shall he do
also: and greater works than these shall
| he do; because go unto the Father.
Marvellous words! When we think
/ of the mighty works he performed We
are almost overwhelmed by the deep
/ solemnity Of such an utterance. Jesus
| destroyed all forms of sin; healed all
manner of sickness; walked the waves;
raised the dead; and did many other
wonderful works. Yet in Eords start
/ ling in their pIafnness he declares that
those who believe on him shall do, not
/ only the great works that he had done,
/ but greater. Can this be? Is it possible
that the believers in the great Nazarlne
( are destined to do the mighty works he
/ our answer? If he meant what he said
/ and was q true prophet, ouranswer must
/ be, Yes.
ss,The Christian 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 sin
/ cere desire and supplication, but more,
/ the realization of Gods alI-presence, all
I power and all-Life-
This God is your Physician, as Wen
as mine. We can go to him daily hour
/ ". rnomentarily, in sweet and silent
/ prayer, and if we pray Alright, He viii
/ heal Us of our diseases and remove from
MS our fnfirmities We can know, in the
very DEPTHS of our being. that He is
orr Physician, our Comforter, our Life,
o,1r Health, our AI-in-all and in the
| fullest and most absolute sense, a very
present help in trouble; and that in Him
/ indeed we live and move and have our
/ being