The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-11-22
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE EX-
PLAINED BY MRS. .LIV.
INGSTUN MINIS
FRIEND OF MRS. EDDY
ScienceaS Cure for Material
ism and COmmerciaIiSm


ST. Paul. Minn, Nov. 22.-Before
.Iarge audience at the Peoples churci
Mrs Livingston Minis, Christian scier
tist, and personal friend Of Mrs. Mar
Baker Eddy. delivered lecture o
:, Christian Science Mrs. Minis ha
lpng been associated with Mrs Eddy
the founder Of the religion, and know
IN this large gathering OF the Twii
city Scientists were present to hea
h4r interesting exposition OF their re
ligion.
Mrs. Minis lecture dwelt with tn,
beliefs and philosophy of the Chris
tian Scientists, and the place Of theii
religion in modern life. She often al
luded 80 the miracles as acts or Chris
tian Science. and quoted the Bible to
prove her assertions. At the conciu.
sion Of her lecture proper she told OF
the home life and personality Of Mrs.
Eddy, and also briefly discussed the
utility Of philanthropy. that is financial
charity, in modern life She said in
part
Tired humanity, with tragic earn
estness. has during all the long cen
turtles endeavored to put off the deeds
Of the old man. the sin, discord, dis
ease. death, but these efforts have re-
sembled those OF an agriculturist who
attempts to get rid OF tree by lop-
ping or the branches, yet spring re-
yeals the added number of branches,
the root not being touched; but in the
divine metaphysics logical sequence
that the old man must be put on be-
fore the deeds be destroyed This
bringa us to see mind as cailsation,
and that only as the old man OF the
Adam concept in which all die'-the
Adam thought Of man as coming from
the dust. as subject to disease. de-
cay. DEATHS put on do we see these
discords as causeiess, having no origin
or right to exist.
Then the apostle turns our atten.
tion to the true concept, the Christ,
the spiritual ideal. when he says. put
on the new man. created in righteous
ness. after the image of him that
created him This is the immaculate
1 concept OF man as the divine ideal,
this true concept whcih is the Saviour
Of the world.
mrs Eddy points us to Jesus, who
came in the power Of the spirit. and
before this power every fort Of sin.
disease. storm and tempest, and death
itself, vanished into its native moth
ingness.
For several centuries the applioa-
tlon Of the power Of spirit to overcome
Shunan ills characterized the primitive
a Christian church To Paul. the meta
physician. this power was the mind of
Christ destroying the illusions Of the
mind Of the flesh. St John, rising TO
IA high spiritual sense. called this
power divine love. the love that is Sod,
that destroys all fear; that is life, that
makes perfect; and Ars. EDDY in
.science and Health. p. 140. G,shncs
God as the universal eternal divine
love, which changeth not and sendeth
no eyll and no sin upon man..
LESS than forty years ago. in sub.
lime spiritual isolation, there stood
Dne woman. Mary Baker Eddy on the
nountain top OF ethereal vision kissed
by the rising sun Of righteousness
with healing on its beams. Solitary
IS the great explorer. standing on a
lonely peak In Darien's unknown con-
inent. vast ocean on either side, she
saw on one side the vast sea Of hu.
man thoughts swelling and raging In
umuliaous struggle, and on the other
side the peaceful Pacific ocean Of
spiritual understanding and love; back
BIZ her the enforced, self-nhicted sor-
ow amt slavery Of men through hui
pan illusions, and before her the land
n spiritual Canaan. where man. free
nd fearless IN his true selfhood, may
transparent walk the earth like some
ioiy thing She saw the awful un-
'eaiity Of The finite senses, She dis
oyersd anew the spiritual laws Of
he and harmony. and their applica-
ion 10 human needs. as Jesus taught