The Daytona gazette=news. (Daytona, Fla.) 1901-1922, 1907-03-02
Synopsis of Lecture on
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
OR
Deliverance fr0m.Evil.
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BY Rev. William p. Mckenzie, <. ). B.. OF
Cambridge, nsss., Member Of the Chris
tisn Science Board Of Lectureship OF
The First Church OF Christ.
Scientists, in Boston,
Massachusetts.

Christian Science has for ITS textbook,
or instruction manual, u book first pub
lished in 1875 by Mary Baker c. Eddy,
and entitled "Science and Health, with
Key to the Scriptures. The author IS
now known to the world rs the woman
who has given to this age the true idea
of God, and as the philosopher and
thinker who has revolutionized the sense
of Christianity from theoretical to prac-
teal, so that the medieval belief of
Christianity as a scheme for a future
world salvation is changing to the prim-
tive conception of Christianity as 1
means to revealing to men on earth the
goodness Of God i'll healing and saliva
ton.
The question presented to every man
is really this: To what do you give
power?' Evil or good? Christian Sci
entists, by virtue of their experience,
are confirmed optimists. They havesecn
healing accomplished where human love
and human skill had given up hope,
They have seen apparently ineurablc
bad habits changed with such u change
in life as yearly takes place in the earth
when the barren cold yields to the be
neticent warmth of spring. They have
seen bitterness and cynicism and cruelty
melt away, and kindness and JOY and
gentle courtesy take their place. They
lind that their faithful application of the
teachings Of Christian Science to all the
problems of life have brought 50 many
solutions and proofs of the power of
good to overcome evil, that they can
foresee the ultimate triumph Of good
and forgetting the things that are be-
hind" they press forward in the direc-
ton of that goal
Some teachers who are seIfieSs and SIM
cere argue that moral evil and physical
pain are not only realities but beneficcnt
realities. Observing how u good deed
shines in 4 naughty world, they seem to
think that the good deed owes It's lustre
to the surrounding wickedness. They
infer that the patience of the bed-ridden
invalid is the product of his pain, and
that the moral courage of the world :
reformers is due to the wickedneSs they
opposed. But it is his vision of God that
inspires the saint to be meek and the
reformer to be fearless. and in that vision
physical pain and moral evil have Nc
part. The beauty of the vision of God
Was given to US in Christ Jesus, who
said: HE that hath seen me hath seen
the Father" l never heard it argued
that his goodness and powerto bless had
any other source than the Father-God
with whom he was one. He was recog-
nized as the expressed image Of Gods
character, but who would say that the
hypocrisy of the Pharisees, the envy OF
the priests, the treachery of a disciple,
were agencies in forming the Christly
nature? Why, then, will men argue for
the beneticent reality of evil9 If evil
works good, then its agents are our ben
etactorS; and why should the most act
I've doors of evil be restrained from their
benefcent activity by our prisons" If
physical pain is the teacher of fortitude.
why build hospitals and attempt to heal
pain?
1t ought TO be universally clear to hu-
man comprehension that evil in belief
constitutes condition of perverseness
or reversal from which conversion must
be gained, before what is true and nor
NAL can be known at all, or man I've APP
parent AS the likeness of God. Jesus
represents the Son of God. Judas pre-
sents the reversal of true manhood or
integriety, and in that condition of mind
mispresents both man and God. 1t