The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-21
DR.. EDWARD A. KIMBALL OF 1OS-
TON DELIVERED INTEREST
ING LECTURE.
Claims That God Is the Natural Healer
and That Christian Science Is
Tangible.

At the Cumberland Presbyterian
church last night Dr. Edward A. Kim
ball of Boston was greeted by a large
audience who had assembled to listen
to his lecture on Christian Science.
under the auspices of the First Church
of Christ Scientist. Mayor Gilbert
Hunt presided and made a few re-
marks in introducing the noted lee
turer.
DR.. Kimball spoke in part as follows:
In order that you may NOSE readily
appreciate the import of this address,
you are asked to contemplate for a
moment the scene upon which Chris
tan Science has made it's entrance.
,, The history of the human race may
be classified as a tragedy. If it were
to be epitomized then one long mono
tone of protest against the misery, one
pitiwul appeal to God for relief, and
one final moan of defeat would tell
the story. There are a few flowers, a
little sunshine, perhaps, but beyond
the foreground is the vista at the end
Of which is the grave-the mystery.
The people of earth, unreconciled to
what seems to be an intolerable fate,
have turned in every conceivable di-
| rectiOn in their effort for deliverance
from evil, and they have failed, thus
far, to find the way. There are still
the same tears, broken hearts, beds of
| pain-tne same havoc Of outrageous
fortune. Men continue to live, sicken
and die according to a philosophy Of
doom, which declares there Is no SAL
walton this side of the grave, no way
out Of the hell on earth but to die out
Conflicting Medical Systems.
I shall speak Of several particulars
in which Christian Science is funda
mentally different from all other sys-
TENS.
the matter physicians holds to the
theory that disease is natural and in
evitable; that although he may in some
instances prevent or cure, neverthe-
less disease, per Sc, is sure to master
him and his patient ultimately. BY
way Of admission Of the inadequacy
Of the system to cope with disease, he
exhibits a long list Of fatal or incura-
BILE types thereof. He therefore ad-
vances to the conflict with sickness
with more or less uncertainty as to his
natural right or ability to successd.
Christian Science declares that dis
ease is unnatural and should be re-
sisted, and repudiates the theory that,
from scieti6c standpoint, disease is
incurable. Jesus, the only perfect
healer, actually demolished the theory
by healing the multitude of all man.
ner Of diseases.
The practice Of Christian Science Is
in it's infancy. No pretense is made
that such proficiency and efficiency
have been attained by practitioners as
to. preclude any failure, but already
this practice has resulted in the cure
of practically every disease that is in
In other words, Christian Science can
heal all diseases that drugs have ever
healed; hence the Christian Scientist
contemplates sickness as something he
has a right to cure and ought to be
able to cure.
Christian Science is Tangible.
Christian Scientists who have been
the first to heal malignant cancers,
know more about the modus than you
know about the circulation of the blood
or your ability to walk.
Why did it not come sooner? 1t did
come sooner Jesus understood the
healing Christianity; declared and
demonstrated it. the people did not
fully understand him and ne told them
they could not, but he prophetically
declared the time will come when I'VE
shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you Free Since then men
have prayed that it might be revealed,
and now we believe it has been re-
vealed.
Why did not everything come soon
err? Why did not Adam have a tele-
phone, a steamship, a piano, and the