The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-16
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
REV. A. n. vOsBURGH RELIvERs LECTURE.
Explains the Doctrine Expanded by Mary Barker Eddy to Large Audience at The
 Theatre.

A large audience yesterday heard a lecture on Christian Science delivered at the Montgomery Theatre by Rev. Arthur R. Vosburgh of Rochester, N. Y. Dr. Vosburg Is a member of the Christian Science Board of Lectureship of the First Church of Christ. Scientist Boston, Mass.
 yesterday afternoon and lasted more than an hour. Dr. vosbursh was intro duced briefly by Captain A. T. Goodwin of this city. His subject was 'Christ- ian Science" He spoke in part as fol- lows:
 "AlI through the Bible the ideal 0. spiritual attainment fs pointed to as that which shall be achieved through
 Knowledge. The prophet looks forward
 to the time when God shall write Ills
 law on mems minds and grave 1t on
 their hearts. and no man shall say to
 his neighbor. Know the Lord, for all
 shall know Him. from the least even
 unti the greatest. Jesus taught that to
 realize eternal life is to know God and
 His Christ Paul holds out to us as
 the unity of the faith and of the know
 ledge of the Son of God unto perfect
 man, unto the measure of the stature
 of the fullness of Christ" Such know
 ledge must be nothing less than the
 understanding of God and of the divine
 law of cause and effect by which man can prove how Divine love holds man
 sion for every human need-
 All humanity is in entire agreement
 at a handsome problem to be solved
 that one point. and that is that there is
 there are questions unanswered burdens unified, wants that are unfui- filed; and in it's quest for good human
 hope and faith are more and more
 turning for assurance and reinsurance
 to Christ Jesus as the one who has
 solved the problem.
 Jesus came to establish kingdom "a Kingdom which he called the King
 dom of Heaven, or the Kingdom of God
 In this Kingdom there is to be no place
 for evil; in it there will be found nc
 sorrow. no. sickness, no sin, no death
 It presents thej very acme of possible or conceivable good. Its ideal is so high |-that it has seemed to be beyond any possibility of present or prospective attainment; and because of this 1t has come to be held that the entrance tc
 this Kingdom is beyond the grave, thai it is a paradise which we must die tc reach. But Jesus's assurance Is tha' this Kingdom of Heaven Is at hand John the Baptist's message was tha 'The Kingdom of Heaven Is at hand; and Jesus has taught his followers tt pray: "Thy Kingdom come thy VII be done on earth as it is In Heaven. we cannot conceive that Jesus woul' teach His believers to pray for wha never would be, and in the nature things never could be attained, an thence we are assured that this King dom of Heaven is to be establishe' upon earth among men. Such a king l dom constituted Jesus's ideal; an Christian Scientists have reached tn l full conclusion that the teaching an work of Christian Science, which i revolutionizing human thought, whicl | has already carried its message to tn four corners of the earth and to tn atsles of the sea is simply a rediscov cry of primitive Christianity and is t | usher in this Kingdom of God tha was proclaimed and promised by Jesus Christian Science adds nothing te takes nothing from the teachings o l the Master It is only a new discovery or a e-discovery by which added High | is thrown on the old revelation. b which human faith and understandini | find the way back to the ciearness an power of primitive Christianity an enter into the possibilities of the fait | once delivered to the saints.
 | .1t is a matter of common knowiedg tha Mary Baker Eddy is the discovere of Christian Science and that this dis l covery came about through her ow | healing. But all her previous expert
 enee had been preparing her for thi