The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-24
GREAT AUDIENCE
HEARS LECTURE
Edward A. kimbaII of Chicago
Delivers Extended Address
on Christian Science.
SALT LAKE THEATRE FILLED
JUDGE J. w. BOWMAN PREsIDEs
AT MEETING.

Practically every seat in the Salt
Lake theatre was occupied last night
the occasion being the lecture on Chris
tan Science and it's principles by Ed
ward A. Kimball of Chicago Mn KIM
ball is one OF the twenty-three members
or the board of leotureship of the Chris
tian Science church, of which he has
Deen prominent member for many
years He is a deep student of matters
religious and a fluent and convincing
speaker.
Inc lecture began promptly at s
O'Clock, Judge Bowman of Salt Lake
introducing the speaker. Mr.. Kimball
said. in part:
nave existence. IT is generally known
mat they have cause, origin and basis
by reason of which they exist. Some
people declare the cause to be a blind
telligence, and theology affirms that It
Is a conscious intelligence or entity which
may be designated God.
Enlightened Belief Concerning God.
A consensus of enlightened belief con-
corning God is that he Is one supreme
infinite, self-eXistent, all-ineluslve spirit
ual individual, conscious beingT-the sole
creator OF all that has actual existence
Also that God is Good, Life. Truth. Love,
OlnnipTeSent, OmniSCient. and omnipOtent,
That he is the only lawmaker and holds
IN his grasp the destiny of all men.
Christian Scientists subscribe to all
these postulates without reserve, and vet
our religion is in some respects quite
different from that OF others. WhyG Why
different If we agree on these eSsentfals9
Inc dlfference Is in the amplification
ana application. 1t is in this respect that
most religious sects and systems diverge
from each other. There are hundreds
or there sects. There are 100 Christian
scots alone, many of which have been i'm
the most violent antagonism toward each
other, There is, therefore no unity OF
renElous belief with WHICH we can com
pare Christian Science. but 1 shall ex-
plain wherein it is different from all 9TH
ers.
In her effort to enlarge the human con-
cept or the Infinite God, Mrs. Eddy has
added somewhat TO the technical deffni-
ton OF deity, and affirms. among other
Things, that God is divine Mind and that
this Mind is good.
God is either Mind or mindless The
Mind that is God. and which includes all
wisdom. intelligence and science is good
Ihis mind is the antidote of what the
Bible calls the 'carnal mind" or that
which Mrs Eddy designates "mortsl
mind the mind of sin, which is entirely
against God.
The Mind Which Was in Christ.
The science OF Mind declares that to
the extent that man is governed by the
divine Mind. he will manifest perfection
health, life welfare. prosperity-the am
pieness and completeness of harmonious
existence. 10 was this Mind which was
also IN Christ; which Cancelled tempta-
ton and sin. healed the sick raised the
dead. raised Jesus from the dead and
oyeroame the world. the flesh and the
devil ITO be carnally minded Is death"
Sin and disease are the Offspring of this
carnal mind; they are no part OF the ma
lure or or the procurement OF the divine
Mind.
God is good in nature. design, power
action. substance and operation Ali that
ne has made aud done is good His laws
are good, and he has already done every
thing that is essential to the supreme
welfare of man.
Conversely we repudiate the effort to
solve the mystery Of evil by assuming
that any part OF IL has been instituted bV
God. or that he nee Is TO involve himself
in or with evil i'm any way or for anv