The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-03
NOTABLE LECTURE
 ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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 and superstition. the life-restorlng light and warmth of His message, Have faith in God"
 Then He proceeded at once to prove to the world that His gospel and mes- sage were true and good, by His prac- tical works among the sick and suffer- ing multitudes, reforming sinners, com forting the broken hearted, cleansing the leprous, healing the sick. Per- forming His works without material means or methods, asserting the power of mind to be the supreme over all ma teral conditions. He demonstrated that His teachings were true. Thereby He sought to persuade mankind that His ministry was trustworthy, and good, and that God does eternally reign as an available and imminent -proyi- dence of divine loving kindness. In or der that His gospel might spread and be preserved to all future generations, He gave His followers of all times and countries His commandment to "preach the gospel" and to heal the sick" He said to His followers: If ye love Me. keep my commandments" He promised His followers of all the generations of men: He that be> lieveth on Me, the works that do, shall he do also he that followeth Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life" He declared: '"The kingdom of heaven is within you" And speaking of the Christ, or Christ truth, he promised: To, l am with you always, even unto the end of the world.'
 To forestall and remove all doubt in respect to the ability of His fol- lowers to perform works like those He performed He carefully explained that the works were of the Father, not him. self, for that of himself He could do nothing. He further explained that E!e came to fulfil the law. not to de- stroy it.
 The word miracle is translated from the Greek scriptural word which sign!aes wonder or marvel. Its later theological meaning by which 1t has be brought to signify something done in violation of law because of some higher power resident in the personal lity of Jesus, is not only opposed to sound reasoning based on God as om- impotence and cmniscence. but is also opposed to the expressed declarations of Jesus Himself. This later theological meaning injected into the word miracle is an invention of the medieval su- perstition and church-craft of the dark ages in order to promote the power of n7an-made ecclesiasticism. Profane history amply shows that for over three centuries after Calvary, the fol- levers of Jesus successfully healed the sick" using no drugs or other na- terial agencies, but following the spir- itual methods therefor, which was ex- ensplified and taught by the Galilean wayshower
 But the theological subtleties and dogmas of many, succeeding centuries have largely obscured the teaching and example of Jesus. Good men and wom- en who wish to be faithful Christians ! have been taught and have come to be- lieve that somehow one part of the command to preach the gospel' and heal the sick" is not to be obeyed. They have overlooked the inevitable result that to keep snly part of the commandments of Jesus is to betray Ill., gospel and pervert His message. They have lost sight of the fact that when Jesus said, If ye love me, keep my commandments" He meant all of them and not some convenient part of them selected by that wisdom of men which often Is foolshness before God, They have failed. because of the erroneous teachings of their sectarles to note the immense importance of the command to "heal the sick" for the purpose of preserving the Christ gospel by demonstrating it's trustworthness and truthfulness. in a practical way to mankind in every age.
 Why reject the method for so dem- onstrating it's trustworthiness, and em- Iployed by Jesus the Christ? He de- ciared. 'I am the way, the truth and the light; no man cometh to the Fla ther but by me- He demonstrated, as none other has, the supremacy of mind lover matter. He taught the way, he Iproved the way, He pointed out tC us the way, He commanded all whS believed in Him to follow in that way And they are just as constantly fall. ing into the ditch of failure. You can not deny that Jesus healed the sicl by relying solely on spiritual methods You cannot deny that he promised lthat all who believed in Him, that i! to say, all who accepted His teachings should be able to do likewise. Yol cannot deny that Jesus healed "al manner of sickness and all manner o disease" You cannot truthfully den.
 that "al manner of sickness and al manner of disease" are being over come right now through the mlnistr. of Christian science. You cannot den. tha possibility. you cannot deny tn
 probability of the practical realization
 of the promise made by Jesus withou disputing the truth of His promise You cannot doubt that his Drom!s
 was practical when He said "He tha
 believeth in me, the works that I q shall he do also" unless infidelity
 cor scious or unconscious, is lurking i your thoughts. You cannot seek t disc outrage the realization of His prom is, without betraying that you hay , no real faith in the truth of his prom
 is9 No matter what professions c
 faith your lips may utter, no matte t how thoroughly you may have brough
 yourselves to believe that those pro
 fessions are honest, nevertheless yo , are putting obstacles in the very wa