The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-10-17
Judge Ewing Of Chicago Delivers
an Interesting Lecture on
Christian Science
PREJUDICE HlNDERs WORK
Former Chicago Jurist Gives Clear
Statement of the Beliefs of the
Followers of Mrs. Eddy to
a Large Audience

Rhode opera house was we'll filled
last night with representative citizens
Of our city, to hear lecture on
Christian Science. The lecture was
given by Hon. VIM. G. Ewing, C. S.
B., of Highland Park, Ill.
Mrs. Bessie NJ. Scott, First Reader
of the local church, introduced the
speaker with few appropriate re-
marks. Judge Ewing's lecture was
in part as follows:
Ladies and CONFERENCE.-The
Scientists do not shrink from any re-
sponsibility attaching to their re
ligious belief or its practice. They
do not invoke your sympathy nor
supplication and demand justice; Sc.
rene IN their purpose to be right, If
wrong, they would be righted; but if
right, they insist the good they have
belongs to humanity, and should be
distributed to its own. Hence their
efforts in the simplicity and sincerity
of brotherly love to tell you something
of the JOY that has sweetened their
lives and made them, as we would
say, not better than you are, but bet
ter than they we're, and that will make
you even better than you are.
Every Christian church has been
compelled to struggle for it's esta blish-
meut, and in the presentation of our
cause we are no more combated by
honest opinion than your church was,
whatever it's name, in its effort for
recognition.
PREJUDICE OF PEOPLE
And yet, it is because we realize
quite as we'll as you do that many of
our people, and especially many OF the
good people of the old churches, are
greatly prejudiced against what they
think Christian Science to be, that I
invite your attention for brief mo.
ment tonight. In fairness to myself
and in fairness to the good of the
people who challenge the spiritual au-
thority for my position, must say
that | am not surprised that you
antagonize what you think Christian
Science is; for if it were indeed what
you think, it would not be a very de-
sirable thing.
Your thought of Christian Science
is-jnst how you got it 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 conscientious in
vestigation Of our concept of God YOU
reach the conclusion that Christian
Science is in any degree inimical to
the religion Of Jesus Christ, then, in
my Judgment, it is not only your
privilege, but you duty, to antagonize
Christian Science, and never to allow
your opposition to it 20 cease until
either you cease yourself or Christian
Science ceases. My reasonable de-
mand is that you make the investiga-
ton before you make the assault.
PROMISES OF GOSPEL
I believe and you believe also, that
the religion of Jesus is of greater
value to the world, is Of greater value
10 you and to me, than everything
else that has ever been or ever can be
crowded into this universe; therefore,
whatever impinges upon that, what
ever lessons the sweetness. the love
and song of that, will meet with nv
earnest, consistent and persistent op-
position, and, in all conscience,
should meet with yours.
The physical benefits of Christian
Science, its medical virtue, its healing
power, are but incidents of what 1t is
of its reality, and yet these incidents
must not be underva1ued, for all the
world knows today that the healing
which Jesus did, the surcease He
brought to human sorrow, the hope
He rekirdled, were but incidents Of
the Astounding redemption He brought
and the sweet gospel He preached of
Gods unfailing love. Yet these ben
efactions to men, though but incidents
of mighty mission, proclaim trum-
pet-tongued, demonstrate indeed, the
divinity of the Messenger. And inst
as certainly the healing incidents of
Chris tian Science indisputably estab
lish the co-existent relationship Of
Christian Science and the teaching of
Jesus.
Repeatedly He said to His disciples
and when He spoke to them He as
certainly and directly spoke to YOU
and me-"By their works We shall
know them" AID Nth striking fidel-
ity and picturesque force, Jesus APP
piled this severe test to himself. In
a crucial period of His mission, one
Of His own raised the startling and
impious question as to whether He
was the Christ or a pretender.
Then your human Judgment and
mine would have said, now, now is
the suspicious moment, when this
Messenger of God, this master Of all
learning, all logic, and the master of
all minds Of men, too, may easily
make an argument that will satisfy
the learned and unlearned world alike
that He is the Christ, the son of the
living God. The world stands aghast
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