Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
ExP0UNDS PRINCIPLES
OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
DR.. A. r. VosBUReH SPEAKS AT
AUDITORIUM
Member Of Board Of Lectureship Of
First Church of Boston Gives
Address on "ldeaiism
of Jesus"

4 First Church OF Boston Gives
Address on "Ideaiisn
of Jesus"
Thousands assembled at Temple audi
torium yesterday afternoon to hear Rev
Arthur r. Vosburgh talk on the subject
OF Christian science. Porter B. Jordan
In presenting the lecturer, said:
"The First Church of Christ, Scientist
Los Angeles, cordially welcomes you this
afternoon to hear a lecture entitled: The
| Idealism of Jesus
! THE mother church the First Church Of
| Christ Scientist. in Boston has as one OF
its institutions a board of lectureship,
composed OF men and women who under
stand sufficiently well the teachings OF
| Christian Science to enable them to give
| the public a clear, concise and authentic
statement regarding this religion.
| 1--WE have with us this afternoon a
member of this board, who was educated
for the Presbyterian ministry but who
adopted Christian Science, Rev. Arthur
R. Vosburgh, c. s. B., of Rochester,
| N Y"
| Mr.. Vosburgh then spoke in part as
| follows:
"All through the Bible the ideal of
| spiritual attainment is pointed to as ina
which shall be achieved through knowi-
edge. The prophet looks forward to the
time when God shall write his 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 MIN
from the least even unto the greatest
Jesus taught that to realize eternal lie
Is to know God and his Christ. Paul
holds out to us as the ideal of fndividu-
al attainment that we are all to come
into the unity of the faith and OF the
knowledge of the Son of God, unto per-
feet man, unto the measure of the stat
ure of the fulness of Christ. Such
knowledge 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 pro-
vision for every human need.
"All humanity is in entire agreement
at one point, and that is that there is
human problem to be solved, that there
are questions unanswered, burdens un-
lifted. wants that are unfulflled; ana
in its quest for good human hope and
faith are more and more turning Tor
assurance and reinsurance to Christ Je-
sus as the one who has solved the prob
lem.
Jesus Ideal
Jesus came to establish a kingdom
a kingdom which he called the Kingdom
of Heaven or the Kingdom OF COD. In
this kingdom there is to be no place Tor
evil; in 1t thee will be found no sorrow
no sickness, no sin, no death. 1t presents
the very acme of possible or conceiVaoie
good, an ideal so high that 1t has seemed
to be beyond any possibility of press
ent or prospective attainment here; and
because of this it has come to be neld
that the entrance to this kingdom Is be-
yond the grave, that 1t is paradise
which we must die to reach
But Jesus assurance is that TINS
kingdom of heaven is at hand; Jonn
the Baptist's message was that the
kingdom of heaven is at hand, ana
Jesus has taught his followers to pray:
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done
in earth as it is in heaven We can
not 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 we are
necessarily assured that 1t was Jesus
intention, expectation and purpose to
establish this kingdom of heaven upon
earth among men. Such Kingdom
constitutes Jesus ideal
mo one questions the height, the
beauty, the. purity of this ideal OF
Jesus. 1t has enshrined itself in
strongest and tenderest
affection and is entrenched in its deep
est conviction. The only question
that has arisen is as to its possibility
and practicability for this world. We
stand face to face with the statements
of the Word and find there the promise
and the demand that this ideal shall
be practically applied, shall reach It's
fulhllment here; and before such an
ideal, humanity stands faltering be-
tween harassing doubt and trembling
hope, and asks. How can these things
be?
I'VE know what were the means and
methods by which Jesus and his early
disciples initiated this kingdom. When
the disciples bore to any. community
the glad tidings and healed their sick,
this was the assurance that the king
dom of God was come unto them. And
now, If these same works could have
thus continued; If ever since the Chris
tian era all the conduct of those who
have called themselves Christians had
been guided by the golden rule; IL their
every interest and activity, whether
individual, social. Industrial or politi-
cal could have found it's chart and
charter in the ten commandments and
the Sermon on the Mount and IL
through all these channels of human
interest and activity could have flowed
the same power that wrought in the
works of the Master and his apostles,
1t requires no stretch of the imagina-
tion to conceive that long ere this this
kingdom of God would have reached
it's triumphant consummation. And
all this the Bible teaching inculcates
and demands.
Gods Reflection
'If, then, the real substance of all
is mind, and the real power that is
manifested in all is a divine thought
force, what is mans relation to this
benefcent, embracing, all-sustain-
ing power? Just this-as Gods like
ness, the real man reflects the divine
mind, and as human thought recog-
nizes and understands this. all the re-
sources of good that are in divine
mind, all the treasures of limitless life.
truth, love, will be found humanity
available. Just in the degree that
mortals recognize and understand that
the real man is Gods likeness, that is,
Gods reflection, and that this indi9
Gates the scientific relation of God and
man. Just in this degree will they find
the way of release from the beset-
ments of evil and a fulfillment Of the