The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-03-07
MANY HEAR BLISS KNAPP
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURER
ADDRESSES LARGE AUDIENCE
AT THE SECOND CHURCH.

Bliss Knauu, C.S.B., of Boston, lee
tured in behalf of Christian Science at
the Second church, Second avenue IS
and Eleventh street, last evening. The
audience filed the church to overflow
ing. Over eighteen hundred followers
of the church as well as friends to
whom Christian Science is still a closed
book, made up the audience, and ac-
commodate all, chairs had to be placed
in the aisles and in the rear of the
church. Corydon Jones of the church
introduced the speaker, and In few
preliminary remarks called attention to
the purpose Of the lecture, which, he
said, was to clear away erroneous i'm
pressions and to state the religious ten
cts Of the church and the interpreta.
ton.
Mr.. Knapp is graduate Of Harvard
college and is one of the younger lee
turers of the church. He possesses all
the qualities required of an earnest and
sincere speaker The audience followed
his words with close attention and his
simple. direct mode of speech In Civ
! ing freely of what he had received,
| was a most successful means of ex-
planning the fundamental teachings OF
Christian Science.
| dogmas,'' said Mr.. Knapp, but in
place thereof we have certain religious
! tenets-six in number-to which all
must subscribe their names upon join
| ing themselves to any church of this
denomination These set forth the pri-
NAL facts that we worship one God and
accept his Son, Christ Jesus, as the
! way-shower to life and salvation, and
that we establish our Christian conduct
on the guidance of the inspired word
of the Bible.
fTrue, there have been differing the
cries about Christ, and, therefore, about
| Christianity, because men have been
unable to answer the Masters own
question, Whom do men say that l
am?' Plenty of time and attention
have been given to this subject. But
/ in accordance with the purity of her
own faith, Mary Baker G. Eddy touched
the hem of truth and was instantly
healed. That was the falling apple by
which she discovered that Christ had
answered his own question in the
words, He that believeth On me, the
works that l do shall he do also, and
greater works than these shell he do. ,
As Newton first discovered grayitation
and then found its law, so Mrs. Eddy,
, having discovered the healing truth, OF
comforter, sought next for the spiritual
she has set forth in the Christian Sci
ence textbook, Science and Health,
with Key to the Scriptures. Her sue
cess endowed her with the wisdom and
understanding to bind up the broken
hearted and set the captive free. Truly
she must be. pureminded woman to
write the first book since the primitive
, Christians, the simple reading of which
. heals the sick.
: Thousands of good and intelligent
people have run the gauntlet of med
zeal practice and found relief in Chris
: tian Science after everything else hac
failed. Therefore, standing On tn.
; vantage ground of experience, they have
chosen Gods way, which teaches then
to look for healing, not in matter. but
) in the redemptive, power of the prayer
r of understanding; for the same mine
| which led the primitive Christians t
heal sickness and sin thru prayer is jus
e as true and efficient today