Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-05-09
MRS. MINIS LECTURE OF
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

N- co. hao oNOi gdlHcI0u IL THIS city 10 near
Christian Science lecture. Mr. Alex
ander Archie, First Reader of First
Church of Christ, Scientist, in this city,
introduced the lecturer in a most pleas
ing manner, substantially as follows:
DEAR FRIENDS :-Believing as | firmly
do, that Christian Science holds the
universal and perfect remedy for all the
Ills to which flesh is heir" it gives me
much pleasure, in the name of First
church OF Christ, Scientist, of this city,
to welcome you here this evening, for
feel that even the little that can be SAID
In the short time allotted to our lecture
about so Infinite theme as Christian
Science. may be the means of bringing
to some hungering heart a measure of
the peace and hope it has brought to
me and to thousands OF others
In answering a criticism of Christian
Science, writer in one of our periodi-
Gals recently made this statement
mat 1t were well TO carefully consider
wherein lay the greater danger, in
too great or In too small trust in God, +"
and l think that anyone who is tempted
to attack Christian Scientists because
of their reliance upon God in their
times of trouble, would do well to care
fully weigh this point before doing so.
Jesus admonished his disciples to
have faith in God" and surely no one
can look upon the sin, suffering, sick
ness, poverty and despair in the world
today and deny that there is now need
for faith such as He understood and
practiceG in his brief ministry among
men, faith that healed the sick and
the sinner, that fed the hungry, that
caused the bliuG to see, the lame TO
walk, the deaf TO hear and the dumb to
shout in praise and thanksgiving to
God, and surely no one with love for
men in his heart would iG any way
oppose the spread of a religion that
gave reasonable assurance that it was
restoring such practical faith to men.
Friends, the multitudes that have
been healed from every variety of sick
ness and disease, and the multitudes
that nave been reclaimed from every
form of sin and degradation in the still
very brief ministry of Christian Science,
gives abundant proof that it is restor-
ing this much needed Christ-like faith
to the world
Christian Science teaches no blind
supersGitious faith in some mysterious
power, but it gives us faith whose
foundation is reason, whose super
structure is demonstration. The proofs
that we have of the allness of good, OF
God, as we work intelligently in this
science, assures us that our faith is
built upon the Rock, Christ Jesus.
Our lecturer for the evening was
healed by Christian Science after being
an invalid for Is years. She was in
structed in, its teachings by its discOv-
erer and founder, our beloved leader,
Rev. Mary Baker &. Eddy, and has
through love for this cause travelled
many hundreds of miles from her south
ern home to bring its message of truth
and love to US.
1t now gives me much pleasure to
present to you Mrs. Livingston Minis,
of Atlanta, Ga, who will speak to you
about Christian Science.
Mrs Minis is a southern lady who
for many years has been engaged
in active Christian Science work.
Her voice is clear and strong, and her
stage appearance dignified, graceful
and charming. She is thoroughly con-
versant with her subject and received
the earnest attention of the audience
throughout her discourse.
Mrs Minis said in part:
You are here to listen to a lecture on
science whose principal is God HIM
self, whose laws are the immutable laws
of health, holiness, harmony and i'm
mortality, whose results must be, and
are, the establishment of the Kingdom
of God on earth-the reign of individual
and universal Righteousness.
In the midst OF the tumultuous thought
nineteen hundred years ago there APP
peared suddenly simple majestic fig
ure, Jesus of Nazareth. The Master
come fulfilling Gods law. He said,
concerning the law, that he came not
to violate it, but to fulfill it. In fulfilling
the law of life he raised the dead. In full
filling the law of harmony He stilled
the tempest and healed the sick. When
He fulfilled the absolute law of spirit
ual being, He assembled to His invisible
unity with the Father, the Spirit,
whence he came.
Mrs. Eddy points us to Jesus, who
came in the "power of the Spirit, and
before this power, every form of sin,
disease, storm and tempest, and death
itself; vanished into its native nothing
ness" For several centuries the APP
plication of the power of Spirit to over
come human ills, characterized the
primitive Christian church. To Paul
the metaphysician, this power was the
mind of Christ, destroying the illusions
of the mind of the flesh. st. John,
rising to high spiritual sense, called
this power Divine Love, the love that is
God, which destroys all fear, that is
Life-that makes perfect.
Less than forty years ago, in sublime
woman, Mary Baker EDDY, on the
mountain top of ethereal vision, before
her, the land of the spiritual Canaan,
where man, free ana fearless in his
true selfhood, may transparent walk
the earth like some holy thing" She
saw the awful unreality of the finite
senses, including sin, disease and death,
''that deceiveth the whole world" and
she saw also the omnipotence and reali-
ty of God, good, and the infinite posi-
bilities of man, endued with a true
knowledge of God. She discovered
anew the spiritual laws of life and
harmony, and their application to hui
man needs, as Jesus taught and proved.
She named the discovery Christian Sci
ence because it deals with eternal laws
that always were, and are and will be,
the laws of God and the universe.
What then do we not owe to her who
has so bravely stemmed the tide of
human opinions and held aloft the
banner OF primitive Christianity and its
demonstration of the power of the
Spirit, which can work no i'll, and
which is eternal and unchanging good
that law of love to which every knee
must bow. 1t is my dear privilege to
speak of Mrs. Eddy from my own per
sOnal knowledge of the beauty OF her
life, the inspiration of her presence, the
exquisite grace of her personality.
Born of an old and intellectual family,
environed Ii a high spiritual atmo-
sphere, associated intimately with the
most scholarly men of her native state,
she was adequately fitted for her high
destiny OF Ter philanthropy and her
unselfish love for humanity, words are
inadequate to express IFS fitness. No
one person, perhaps, in all this modern
world, has so lived and loved that
many thousands have been lifted out of
sin, disease and poverty as they nave
been through her sweet ministry. As
the veil of misconception that blinds
the world of sense to its great
spiritual leaders is removed, her
life will shine out in radiant light
that will command the admiration of
the world and the ages VIII call her