Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-15
is an extract Of lecture
X delivered by Edward A. Kimball, @

Science ia the religion of Jesus Christ, and
that this is being proved by doing the
works which the Nazarene taught Wouid
follow true belief:
Christian Science attracts the attention
of many people because of it's unlimited
promise. To the people who cry ana com
plain of the burdens of life, to them tnat
are acquainted with pain and the blight
of disease. to them that mourn and are
moor under the thraldom of incorriglpie
sin. it promises more than does anything
else that is known to humanity. IL en-
cages the confidence and affections OF men
because in operative practice IT fultills lts
own promise by answering the deepest
needs of humanity. 1t would be impos-
Eible to overthrow or onset tne stuteileii. , ~
that through its practice or application II
IS delivering men from every phase OF evil
that infests the race
Christian Science not only justifies 1t
self by it's reformative work IN penaiI OIL
humanity, but also by reason or its prl-
mary statement and scientific postulates
He who understands the fundamentai
declarations of Christian Science In lts
threefold ASPECT of theology philosophy
and science recognizes the fact tnat
thereby reason is irresistibly reconcileo 10
God and that the divine economy provides
every essential that is necessary to the
redemption of mortals from all evil. COR
cerning their eternal welfare ana Iellclty'
there is no phase of religious or pnlloso-
phic belief that so thoroughly covers the
ground upon which man may stanu anu
achieve his salvation and discover MS I'M
mortality. :.
As religion which is externalizing it
self in the form of a denomination IL
comes to announce its place and purpose
among the sisterhood of churches and 10
declare itself as being representative o.
ali that is actual and essential In the
name of Godliness, Christianity ana
morality In doing this the duty ana
privilege of justifying itself before the
world and in the esteem and commence
of mankind rests upon 1t and with IL.
For the reason that Christian Science is
rrinarily a. religion it is obviously appro-
nriate to describe all that is primary, ul-
innate and intermediate concerning 1t Al
though it is not possible to DO thls IN
the brief time devoted to lecture, shall
present a few of it's distinctive features
for your consideration and preface my
exposition with the remark that we re
gard this religion as being orthodox IN
the extreme.
In order correctly to contemplate the
vast scheme or problem of being it IS
necessary to begin at the beginning IL
cannot nationally be denied that con-
seriousness is, and that it is conscious OF
the phenomena of Being. All OF the
phenomena of Being exist at the stand
point of effect. Some noumenon neces-
sarily has been the cause or inducement
of those effects or things Philosophy has
puzzled itself with the irrepressible qlW
fion. .sWhat is the cause of the universe
including man?' and has made the
wretched mistake of concluding that some
blind, on-intelligent force is the cause,
or that these phenomena have obtained
existence by process whereby nothing
ness has evolved itself into state OF
somethingness. All these theories con-
cerning the omnific or creative energy as
resting on a materialistic basis are utterly
repudiated by Christian Science.
God Is AII-knowing
The fact that man himself is intelli-
gent requires the conclusion that the
cause thereof is likewise intelligent ana
Christian Science proclaims as its funda-
mental declaration that one conscious,
aII-intelligent individual or infinite entity
is the sole cause of all actual things
and is alone entitled to be called Diety
or God hence it's statement that one, su-
preme, self-existent, spiritual, deiflc IN
dividual or infinitely divine person is the
sole creator of all that has real existence.
In paralelism with the familiar state
ment that God is Omniscience, all knowl-
edge, Christian Science amplif1es the detl-
milton by asserting that this deific Creator
is Spirit or Mind and that God can be
more readily apprehended by humanity
when understood as the infinity of mind,
wisdom SOUL intelligence or science than
by any of the limited forms of definition
calculated to attract theconception OF
man toward the supposition that God,
who is infinite, Is possessed of any finite
or personal characteristics.
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. 1t asks mankind
to divert 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.
Christian Science teaches that the term
OmQlpOIence ACTUALLY means lldl GOu DIS
Mind or Spirit is supreme and that the
divine mind as mind, is the one chief or
exclusive potentiality of the universe, and
that as mind it is without equal, rival,
competitor or offset; moreover, that the
supreme power of God is not only ever
present, but is ever available to man. 1t
teaches that the divine law is the law of
life health holiness, completeness, per-
fection and immortality to man. and that
this law also is ever present and avail
able, ready for mans perception, adop-
ton government and deliverance. Spe-
officially considered, this means that all
by way of divine nature, plan, law and
mind necessary to the recovery of the
sick is wherever and whenever the sick
may be.
The effect of this definition on any
human being excludes any fear of God
The consciousness thus educated includes
no foreboding and no lamentation because
of the possibility that God may affIict
him or that he has ordained any law or
routine which may ultimate in the dis
comfiture of any one. Christian Science
seeks to eliminate the universal fear of
God. which for ages has been the cause
Of discord and bodily impairment
What Is Christianity?