The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-01
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Rev. Mr.. VOsburg Discusses Crit
fcism of Christin Science.
Addresses a Large Audience at
Grand Opera House.
BACK TO BEGINNING.
Founding of Movement Marks
EpOc of Religious Reform.
Faith the Beginning of Healing
and Spiritual Life.
BACK TO BEGINNING.

/ Rev. Arthur Reeves 'Vosburgh, mem
Der of the Christian Science Board of
| Lectureship of the First Church of
| Christ of Boston, Massachusetts, deliv-
cred lecture on the "Idealism of Chris
tian science Sunday afternoon at the
Grand opera house. The lecture was
given under the auspices of the Second
Church of Christ Scientist, of Topeka,
it being a rule of this church that
lecture of this kind must be given at
least once a year. The audience was
large, nearly filling the building.
During his introductory remarks Rev.
Mr. Vosburgh said: Every great re-
ngious movement that has marked a
spiritual epoch has always been domi-
mated by some tranScending character.
There has always been some Moses or
Samuel or David, some Paul or Wesley
to go before and lead forth the people
of God. And every movement that has
brought humanity nearer to God has in
doing this elevated human thinking and
living into realms where they have be-
come more gentle and pure and good.
80 when such a movement as Chris
tan Science should come into the world
it was inevitable that there should be
divinely ordained one to reveal and lead
the way: and because that 1t is inevita-
BILE that the knowledge which is Divine
power shall come in gentleness, beauty,
purity and light, it was in the native
order of the divine fitness of things that
this one should be a woman"
In his lecture Mr.. Vosburgh says:
ut is a matter of common knowl-
edge that Mary Baker Eddy is the dis
coverer of Christian Science, and that
this discovery came about through her
through the touch of divine power.
when human resources could offer
neither help nor hope.
cit is by no means thing anon
alous and unprecedented in Chris
tian history that one should be healed
through faith, in answer to prayer. 1t
is a matter of authentic record that
spiritual healing was known in the
work of Wesley and his early follow
ers, among the Quakers. or Friends,
among the Scotch CovenanterS. Luther
healed his young friend Melancthon.
All down through the process of the
Christian centuries, after eliminating
everything that seems to bear the
stamp of fanaticism or superstition,
there yet remains in the Christian
church a continuous record of those
who came so near to God that in the
hour of need they proved that He is
one who not only forgiveth all our in
EQUITIES, but who hea1eth all our dis
eases. One of the great orthodox
thinkers and writers of last century,
one whom some have thought even |
the greatest. DR.. Horace Bushnell, has /
said this: The first thing arrived at |
by one who prosecutes this kind OF IN |
quiry apart from all prepossessions |
and saws of tradition, will certainly be |
that the clumsy assumption commonly |
held. of a cessation of the original. |
apostolic gifts. at about some date. is
forever exploded; for, as in fact they |
never consented to be stayed or con-
cluded by any given time, so in history
they persist in running by all time,
until finally the investigator
comes into the discovery that the
stream is a river, flowing continuously
tn rough all ages, and always to flow
For this quest of the law back or
her healing Mrs. Eddy had received a
along another line of ex-
perience. In her practice as a homeo-
pathic physician she had noted often
that prescriptions in which the drug
had been so highly attenuated that 1t
had practically disappeared, healed
cases that larger doses failed to reach.
Even utterly unmedicated water or
pellets frequently reached the same
result ONLY one explanation for this
appeared and that was that 1T was
faith in the prescription. and not the
prescription itself, which wrought the
cure. Out of all these experiences she
1ad become convinced that healing of
anv kind is always of mental procure
nent and through her own healing
she reached the understanding that
God. Divine Mind, is the true curative
Principle. Thus, she arrived naturally
1t what she has given as constituting
he central idea of her discovery-'the
scientific certainty that all causation
vas Mind and every effect a mental
THE public attitude of thought re-
-ardinp Christian Science is today one
# increasing frier dliness. The one OBJ
ection that constantly recurs is, You
70 too far But does Christian Science
70 any farther than the teachings of