Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-05-15
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A fine audience greeted Rev. Vos.
burg last night at the Grand Opera
House, and listened to his lecture on
the "Idealism of Jesus" He was in.
troduced by Mayor Rodgers, who
made a strong plea for the toleration
that gives a hearing to a new idea in
the religious world.
Rev. Vosburgh said in part:
Every great religious movement
that has marked a spiritual epoch
has always been dominated by some
transcendent character. There has
always been some Moses or Samuel
or David some Paul or Luther or
Wesley to go before and lead forth
the people OF God. And every move
ment that has brought humanity
nearer TO God has, in doing this, ele-
waited human thinking and living in.
TO realms where they have become
more gentle and pure and good. So,
when such movement as Christian
Science should come into the world
It was inevitable that there should
be n divinely ordained one to reveal
and lead the way; and because It is
inevitable that the knowledge which
is Divine power shall come in gentle
ness, beauty, purity and light It wasI
in the native order of the divine fit
ness OF things that this one should be
n woman.
The Discovery.
1t Is n matter of common knowl.
edge that Mary Baker Eddy is the
discoverer of Christian Science, and
that this discovery came about |
through her own healing-a healing
that came through the touch OF dl. |
vine power. when human resources
could offer neither help nor hope.
IL Is by no means a thing anomal-
GUS and Unprecedented I'm Christian
history that one should be healed
through faith, in answer to prayer.
IL Is a matter OF authentic record
that spiritual healing was known In
the work of Wesley and his early
followers, among the Quakers, or
Friends, among the Scotch Covenant
ers. Luther healed his young friend
Melancthon All down through the
process of the Christian centuries, s
after eliminating everything that {
seems to bear the stamp OF fanaticism !
or superstition. there yet remains I'm {
the Christian church continuous {
record of those who came so near 10 1
God that In the hour of need they
proved that He IA one who not only {
forglveth all our lnlquities. but who Y
healeth all our diseases. One of the I
great orthodox thinkers and writers a
of last century, one whom some have 4
thought even the greatest, DR.. Hor- I
ace Bushnell, has said this: THE d
first thing arrived at, by one who h
prosecutes this kind OF inquiry apart d
from all preposesslons and saws OF =
tradition, will certainly be that the {
clumsy assumption commonly held c
OF cessation of the original, apos- h
tolic gifts. at about some date, T. h
forever exploded; for as In fact they c
never consented To be stayed or con a
cluded 10y any given time, SO In his g
tory they persisted In running by all h
time, until finally the investigator n
comes into the discovery that the s.
stream Is river, flowing continu. v
ously through all ages, and always to {
flow" mature and the Supernat- {
ural) v
Aporclanded Principle.
Mrs. Eddy felt there was a law n
back of her healing. and that she I
must know what is was, Under this .
Divine impulsion she retired from II
society for three years. and giving Z
herself To a study of the Scriptures 8
sought the solution of this prob $
lem OF Mlnd-healing; as she herself 4
has put IL. devoted time and ener- v
gies 10 discovering "A positive rule. Z" I
(S. a IA. y. 1897 Through this a
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