The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-04
MRS. MINIS SPOKE ON
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LEcTuRED AT JEFFERSON THE ATRE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON BEFORE A LARGE AUDIENCE. PORTION OF WHAT SHE SAID.

A lecture on Christian Science, the speaker being Mrs Livingston Mims' C. S. D. of Atlanta, attracted an audience 1 which filled the Jefferson theatre yester- traetive by palms and stands bearing flowers. As early as o'clock the crowds began to assemble at the play house to hear Mrs Mims, and when she was in- trodueed to the audience she was greeted with applause.
 Mrs Mims began her lecture with tri- bute to the state of Alabama and the 1 city of Birmingham. She then commenced the lecture, saying in part
 "In the midst of the gross materialism and commercialism of the day, threaten ing individual and national integrity. God l is speaking through the women and Mrs Eddy's fine spiritual intuition sees the danger, and points out the remedy in Christianity. St. John says: For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh. and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father. but is of the world, and the world passeth away, and the lust, therefore but he that doeth the will of God abdeth forever
 Mrs. Mims had the attention of her au- denee during the entire time of the lecture Among other things, she said:
 "One of the most expressive indications of the progress of religious thought is to be seen in the vast numbers of people who attend lectures on the subject of Christian Science. Before Mrs. Eddy made her discovery of the Science of Being the Science of Christianity no two ords in the English language seemed
 re irreconcilabIy separated than these
 ,ristianity and Science; and yet, since 0 himself is omnisclence, anything em-
 lg from him must inevitably be es- a ly scientific, since God and his laws
 ,reme, unerring and unvarying-
 yesterday, today and forever =
 ce being that which deals with HH8 If truth, there can be no more than that of these two words .nience You are here to listen on a science whose prln- Cad imself; whose laws are the ss#se. s of health, holiness, har-
 mortality; whose results re, the establishment of
 Sod on earth-the reign HHI .lst l universal righteous ae 0Hd appeared simple lfH#asf af ous thought of thai Has flsl apepared a simple n nsz=a. of Nazareth. He sp ..An spake before, and He oVe4 ,he beneficient ways of God tc be neither the creator nor the permittel of evil. It was as if He said,s God Is moi remote abstraction, not far-awsy ruler and mighty king, but a living pres ence, eternal tyrsh, divine being, tho one source from which cometh every good and perfect thing.
 Have you ever thought how little i' said by Christian people today abou Jesus works? Yet he said, The work. that I do shall ye do also. He taught that God is the only true physician, re vealing to man his God-giving dominion as the reflection of his maker. This su premacy is not attained through tho human will. but through the enlightened understanding of the realities of beint and of mans relation to God. Paul, wht had a clear sense of Jesus mission strove for this mastery of matter, or thu body and understood 1t as n primary step in Christianity I keep undqc ml body lest when I have preached to others, I myself should be $ castaway.' This conquest of material self hood and sense must bring Gas he teaches every thought, wish and desire into "obedience to Christ" to the demand' of a pure, unselfish love that seeketl not her own but anothers good"