The Washington herald., 1907-12-16
EDDY DOCTRINE EXPLAINED
Edward A. KimbalI Tells Professors
of His Faith and GrOPers After
Truth His Church Has "Planted
Hope and Promise in Parched Soil
OF Each Human Experience.

Wttdl the lecturer ndQ 10 say Lnal might
help solve their doubts. There were a
great many men. but the majority Of
hearers We're women.
II. Cornell Wilson, OF Washington, re-
Gently Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy's secre-
tary. introduced the lecturer. Mr.. Wilson
said
The means by which Christian Science
has come to your attention, by which st
has engaged the attention OF the fore
most thinkers Of our day, is not 20 be
found in any claims Christian Science
makes for itself. but is TO be found in
the good results II has brought about in
the lives of relatives, friends, and ac-
quaintanees. Their health. their morals,
their business. their very aims have IN
dergone a reformation.
Science and Theology.
Science and theology have been at
work since time began in an attempt TO
correct the errors Of human existence.
Until the advent Of Christian Scierce,
these forces. so-called. were regarded in
the main as antagonistic. Now, on every
hand. We hear testimony from rich and
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the effect that through Christian Science
these two-science and theology-have
been successfully united on a working
basis.
About a month ago IN Chicago a Con-
! gregatlonal minister Of that city, in intro
ducing to-day's lecturer, said in the
course of his remarks:
There is another thing about Chris
! tian Scientists that appeals to me, and
that is that you look as though you had
found something. Other Christians he
said, are always seeking, but never find
ing. The most Of you looked saved
That item I saw reprinted from Chi
eago newspaper.
/ The Christian Science message, and
The one-Rev. Mary Baker Eddy-through
whom the message has been given 10 this
! age, are well known 10 our lecturer Of to-
! day. As a gentleman of broad experience
/ in the affairs OF the world. as a success
| fUl business man, until Christian Science
healed him and enlisted his time and
every effort. as an eminent eXpOUnder Of
! this Science Of Christianity, he is entitled
/ TO our earnest attention.
4 find great pleasure in introducing 70
| you Mr.. Edward a. Kimban. c. S. D.. Of
1 Chicago. member Of the Christian Science
| board Of lectureship OF the First Church
OF Christ, Scientist, Boston. Mass"
Audience Greets Lecturer.
When Mr.. Kimball arose. he was pleas
antly greeted. He spoke slowly and in
rather peculiar voice, which. however.
was heard. If not easily. in all parts OF
the theater. Mr. Kimban said in part:
Christian Science attracts the attention
OF many people because or its unlimited
promise. To the people who cry and
complain OF the burdens Of life, TO them
that are acquainted with pain and the
blight of disease. to them that mourn and
are poor or under the thraldom Of incor-
rigible sin, IL promises more than does
anything else that is known to humanity.
1t engages the confidence and affections
Of men because IN operative practice ii
fulflls its own promise by answering the
deepest needs Of humanity. It would be
impossible to overthrow or Offset the
statement that through its practice or
application II is delivering men from
every phase Of evil that infests the race.
Christian Science not only justifies it.
self by it's reformative work in behalf Of
humanity, but also by reason OF its pri-
mary statement and scientific postulates.
He who understands the fundamental
declarations of Christian Science in its
three-fold aspect Of theology. philosophy,
and science recognizes the fact that
thereby reason Is irresistibly reconciled
TO God. and that the divine economy pro-
vides every essential that is necessary TO
ha of oil all,
Concerning their eternal welfare and fe-
licity, there is no phase Of religious OF
philosophic belief that so thoroughly COW
ers the ground upon which man may
stand and achieve his salvation and dis
cover his Immortality.
Belief in the Deity.
The fact that man himself is intelli-
gent requires the conclusion that the
cause thereof is likewise intelligent. and
Christian Science proclaims as its funda-
mental declaration that one conscious.
all-intelligent individual or Infinite entity
is the sole cause Of all actual things and
IS alone entitled TO be called Deity or
God; hence its statement that one su-
preme, sef-existent, spiritual deiic indi-
vidual or infinitely divine person is the
In parallelism with the familiar state
ment that God is omniscience, all knowl-
edge, Christian Science amplifes the def
milton by asserting that this deifc Gre
ator is spirit or mind. and that God can
be more readily apprehended by humanity
when understood as the infinity Of mind,
wrsdbm, soul, intelligence, or science
than by any of the limited forms of def
milton calculated to attract the concep-
ton Of man toward the supposition that
God who is infinite. is possessed Of any
finite or personal characteristics
Novelty Of Christian Science.
The declaration that God is good nee
essarily means that he is the infinity of
good. and this excludes all supposition
that He is in any way evil or does evil
or co-operates with it for any purpose.
The teaching OF Christian Science at this
point is distinctively novel because its
entire theology is parallel with this state
ment concerning the absolute integrity of
God as absolute good. II asks mankind
TO divest itself wholly of every belief or
theory which would involve God, by way
of supposition or inference. in any form
OF evil. The declaration that God is life
is declared in Christian Science TO mean
that God is the procurator Of life only
and has not instituted death, nor pro-
cured any condition. nor instituted any
law nor provided any power that legiti-
mately can bring to pass the sickness or
death Of man.
Considering the fact that millions of
instances of sickness, sin. and vice have
been healed and that probably a million
instances of so-called fatal disease have
been cured, is 1t possible for any one to
recall more majestic transaction since