The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-01-11
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a Most Eloquent One
Large and Delighted Audience Heard Former Chicago Jurist
Evening ct tie Local Church Of the Society

honest mind can occupy to examine
probably any question worthy Of
thought, viz, in the mental attitude
Of the honest Judge, who goes upon
the BENCH to hold with even hand the
scales Of justice. and allow his j1dg-
ment to be formed by the truth. and
by the truth alone. It is no part OF
my purpose to take anything from you,
but to add to the good you have; L
have no quarrel with your church; I
simply commend the sweetness and
love and song Of my own. and thank
God for the sweetness and love and
song of yours I believe there never
has been an association Of conscient-
ious men and women for the purpose
of building up Gods kingdom that
does not today rest as a benediction
on the world. My effort is not to make
you think less ofsyour church, but to
correct your thought respecting my
own. speak no word in unkindness,
but all in simple trust in the integrity
OF your purpose and my own.
talk tonight to men and women
who have the courage, the moral cour-
age, the physical courage. and, what is
more than either, the intellectual in.
tgrity, to take away from this meetina
whatever there is Of value in It that
meets the approval Of their best judg-
ment and rlpest conscience; and the
courage also to leave behind, far be-
hind, everything that does not receive
such approval.
Your thought of Christian Science
is-just how you got it I do not know,
and doubt very much whether you do,
but still you have the thought that,
In some way or other, Christian
Science is antagonistic to the religion
of Jesus Christ, and therefore you
antagonize Christian Science. If your
premises are right, If after conscient-
ious investigation of our concept of
God you reach the conclusion that
Christian Science is in any degree in
imfcal to the religion. of Jesus Christ.
then, in my judgment, it is not only
your privilege, but you duty, to an
tagonize Christian Science, and never
to allow your opposition to it to cease
until either you cease yourself or
Christian Science ceases. My reason
able demand is that you make the in
vestigatfon before you make the as
sault. 1t is much easier to express an
opinion after you have formed it. I
remember years ago asking a Juror
for the purpose of testing his qualifica-
ton, this question: "Have you form
ed or expressed any opinion of the
merits of this case?" He evidently
wanted to serve, the contest between
his ambition and his conscience, was
fierce for moment; then he turned
to the court and said: "Well, Judge,
it pears to me 1 have expressed an
opinion about it, but before God 1.
haint never formed any,"
Promises Of Gospel.
Through every chance and change,
anchor your hope to the promises of
the gospel of Jesus. If to do this,
contention with principalities or pow
ers must come, shrink not from the
struggle. l believe and you believe
also (your earnest faces makes pro-
clamation of the fact), that the re-
ligion ofqJesus is of greater value
to the world, is of greater value to you
and to me, than everything else that
has ever been or ever can be crowded
into this universe; therefore, whatever
impinges upon that, whatever lessons
the sweetness, the love and song Of
that will meet with my earnest con-
sistent and persistent opposition, and,
in all conscience, should meet with
yours.
You have this other thought of
Christian Science; that taken at it's
best, as you understand it, for all tina,
its devotees claim, it is but an
ephemeral thing, for an ephemeral
purpose; that it is something for the
physical man, the man of clay and
nothing for the man fashioned in the
image and likeness of the Infinite
Father; that it is something for to-
day, and today only, and nothing for the
Unreasonable tomorrow of God. If
you are right, then Christian Science
is a beseNess thing, the sirens song
of peace, when there is no peace"
But you are not right, you are wholly
wrong; 1 assert that there is not
genius enough in this world to frame
statement respecting Christian Sci
ence that would be wider the mark
or more absolutely barren of truth
than just what have imagined your
thought of it is.
The physical benefits of Christian
Science, its medical virtue, its healing
power, are but incidents of what it is
of its reality. and yet these incidents
must not be undervalued, for all the
world knows today that the
healing which Jesus did, the sur
cease He brought to human sor-
row, the hope He rekindled,
were but incidents of the Astounding
redemption He brought, and the sweet
gospel He preached of Gods unfailing
love. Yet these benefactions to men,
though but incidents Of a mighty mis-
sion, proclaim trumpet-tongued, dem
onstrate indeed, the divinity of the
Messenger. And just as certainly the
healing incidents of Christian Science
indisputably establish the co-existent
relationship of Christian Science and
the teaching Of Jesus.
Wherefore Christian Scientists have
the keenest appreciation of the pro.
phyiactic and the apeutic virtue of their
religion, and earnestly contend, and,
indeed many of us do know, know as
certainlv az Paul knew. that hia Re.