The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-04-12
Rev. Arthur r. Vosburg Ad-
dressed Large Audience
THE IDEALIsM OF JESUS.
Was the Theme of Interesting and
Thoughtful Lecture Which Claim
ed the Entire Attention of
Auditors

the speaker. Rev. Vosburg, a grad
uate from an Eastern university as
we'll as from Theological Seminary,
natural student and deep scholar,
man of experience in the world and
in the pulpit and on the lecture plat
form, fluent speaker and a man of
charming personality, held the closest
attention of his audience for nearly
two hours as he reviewed the life and
works of the Master, told of it's great
uplifting influence and it's practic-
ability IN every day life to-day the
same as when it was taught and prac-
ticed by Jesus himself. The follow
ing is list of the out of town visitors
who attended the lecture. Mr.. and
Mrs. Merling, Ida Grove; Mrs. Hub
bard, Ida Grove; Mr.. and Mrs. Bus
kirk, Ute; Mr.. Torrey, Ute; Mr..
Smith, Ute; Mrs. Edgar, Rodney MRS.
John Gray, Auburn; Mrs. Sandahl,
Centerville; Mrs. Wilson, Chicago;
Mrs. Dahl, Kiron; Mr.; and Mrs.
Hall, Kiron; Messrs. L. j. and Robt.
Armstrong, Manning.
MIR. Vosburgh said in part:
All through the Bible the ideal of
Spiritual attainment is pointed to as
that which shall be achieved through
knowledge. The prophet looks for
ward to the time when God shall write
His law on Mems minds and it on
their, hearts, and no man shall say to
his neighbor, Know the Lord, for
all shall know Him, from the least
even unto the greatest. Jesus taught
that to realize eternal life is to know
God and His Christ. Paul holds out
to us as the ideal of individual at
tainment that we are all to "come
into the unity OF the faith and of the
knowledge of the son of God unto
perfect man, unto the measure Of the
stature of the fullness of Christ. "
Such knowledge mustIbe 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 provision for every hui
man need.
All humanity is in entire agree
ment at one point, and that is that
there is human problem to be SOL
ved, - that there are questions un-
answered, burdens untitled, wants
that are unfulflled; and in its quest
for COOL, human hope and faith are
more and more turning for assurance
and reinsurance to Christ Jesus as
the one who has solved the problem.
The Kingdom Of Heaven.
Jesus came t. 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 no sorrow, no sickness, no
sin, no death. 1t presents the 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 be-
cause of this it has come to be held
that the entrance to this Kingdom is
beyond the grave, that it is par
adise which we must die to reach. But
Jesus assurance is that this King
dom of Heaven is at hand; John the
Baptist's message was that the
Kingdom of Heaven is at hand;;" and
Jesus has taught his followers to pray
Thy Kingdom come, thy. will be done
in earth as it is in Heaven" We
cannot conceive that Jesus would
teach his believers to pray for what
never would be, and in the nature
of things never could be attained,
and hence we are assured that this
Kingdom of Heaven is to be establish
ed upon earth among men. Such
Kingdom constituted Jesus ideal; and
Christian Scientists have reached the
full conclusion that the teaching and
work of Christian Science, which is
revolutionizlng human thought, which
has already carried it's message to the
four corners of the earth and to the
isles of the sea is simply re-discov-
cry of primitive Christianity andIis to
usher in this Kingdom of God that
was proclaimed and promised by Jesus.
Christian Science adds nothing to,
takes nothing from the teachings of
the Master. 1t is only new discovery
or re-discovery by which added light
is thrown on the old revelation, by
which human faith and understanding
find the way back to the clearness and
power of primitive Christianity and
enter into the possibility of the faith
once delivered to the saints.
The Discovery and DiscOyerer.
1t is matter of common knowledge
that Mary Baker Eddy is the discov
erer of Christian Science and that this