Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
DELIVERS MOST
ABLE LECTURE
MRS. MINIS SPEAKS TO VAST
AUDIENCE
Christian Scientists Gather at Audi
torium to Hear Old but Ever
New Story of Divine
Love

A large audience gathered in Simpson
auditorium yesterday afternoon to
listen to lecture delivered by Mrs.
Sue Harper Minis c. S. D., of Atlanta,
Ga, under the auspices of Second
Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city.
Mrs. Minis was introduced by Mrs.
Blanche X. Corby, C. S. B., who spoke
in part as follows:
Ladies and gentlemen of Los Angeles
and the stranger within our gotes:
Second Church of Christ, Scientist,
of this city has invited you and well
comes you to a lecture upon the ever
old yet new subject of Christian
Science.
"Since the official board of lectureship
was established by the mother church
of this denomination in Boston, some
six or seven years ago, many lectures
have been given to representative Los
Angeles audiences by able, distinguished
men who have given up their respec-
tive professions of law, materia medica,
the ministry and the business world to
devate their lives to this beneficent
work.
1T seems most befitting upon this oc-
casiOn that this wonderful and splen-
to the world by a woman, Mrs. Eddy,
whose enduring and lifelong devotion
to God and humanity is one of the
miracles of this age, should this after
noon be presented to you by woman,
one of highest and broadest culture.
1T gives me great pleasure to
present to you. Mrs. Sue Harper Minis,
c. S. D., of Atlanta, Ga"
Reiterates Words of Healer
Mrs. Minis said in part:
'In the midst of the tumultuous
thought of 1900 years ago there sud-
denly appeared a simple, majestic fig
ure, Jesus of Nazareth. The master
came fulfilling Gods law. He said:
L came not to violate the law, but to
fulfill it, In fulfilling the law of life
he raised the dead; in fulfilling the law
of harmony he stilled the tempest and
healed the Sick when he fulfilled the
absolute law of spiritual being he as
cended to his invisible unity with the
Father the spirit whence he came.
To-day, in answer to sore human
need, Christian Science appears reiter-
ating to a famishing world the words
of Jesus and is following him in demon
strating the God-power to heal and
bless humanity. 1t is establishing the
practical Christianity of Jesus as he
walked humbly with the multitude,
healing every manner of disease puri-
flying and uplifting human Thoughts
1t is fulfilling the mission of the COM
forter. 1t takes of Jesus life and
works and words and shows them to
us, explaining his modus operandi.
Brings Out Practical Points
"This brings us to one of the most
practical metaphysical points i'm Christ
ian Science. Tired humanity with
tragic earnestness, has during all the
long centuries endeaVored to put off
the deeds of the old man. the sin,
discord, disease, death, but these eff
forts have resembled those of an agrl-
culturist who attempts to get rid of a
tree by looping off the branches yet
spring reveals an added number Of
branches, the root not being touched
but in the divine metaphysics of the
apostle Paul we find logical
put Off before the deeds be de-
stroyed
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 moth
ingness
"Bor several centuries the application
of the power Of spirit TO overcome hui
man ills characterized the primitive
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 a high spiritual sense, called this
power divine love.
LESS than forty years ago, in sub
lime spiritual isolation, there stood
one woman, Mary Baker Eddy on the
mountain top OF ethereal vision, kissed
by the rising sun of Righteousness with
healing on Its beams. Solitary as thsl