The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-23
AN IDEALISTIC BASIS Rev. Arthur Vosburgh Explains Underlying Viewpoint of
 Christian Science.
EXPERIENCE OF MRS. EDDY
Bible and Text Book Go Hand in Hand and Latter is Not Supplement,
 But Interpreter.

At the Hyperion theater yesterday afternoon Rev, Arthur R. vosburgn of the board of lectureship of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, of Boston delivered an address on "The Idealism of Jesus" The lecturer was introduced by A. H. MacGregor, president of the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, of this city. In part he said.
 Every great religious movement that has marked a spiritual epoch has al- ways been dominated by some trans cendent 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 movement that has brought humanity nearer to God has in doing this. elevated human thinking and living into realms where they have become more gentle and pure and good. So, when such movement as Chris tian Science should come into the Ncrld it was, inevitable that there should be divinely ordained one to re- veal and lead the way; and because it is inevitable that the knowledge which is Divine power shah come in gentle ness beauty, purity and light, it was in the native order of the divine fitness of things that this one should bo a woman
 Tt is matter of common knowledge that Mary Baker Eddv is the discover of Christian Science, and that this dis covery came about through her own healing-a healing that came through the touch of divine power, when hu- i man resources could cr~er neither help nor hope
 'lt is by no means a thing anomal- ous and unprecedented in Christian his tory that one should be healed through faith in answer to prayer.
 Mrs. Eddy felt there was a law back of her healing, and that she must know what it was. Under this Divine lmpulsion she retired from society for Hthrce years, and giving herself to a study of the Scriptures, sought the solution of this problem of mlnd-heal- ing;' as she herself has put it, "de- voted time and energies to discovering positive rule. Through this search and research she cama tC the point of understanding where she iapprehend- |. ed the principle and rule of spiritual science and metaphysical healingin a word, Christian Science Retrospection and introspection)
 For this quest she had received a preparation along another line of ex- perience. In her practice as a homeo- l pathic physician she had noted often that prescriptions in which the drug had been so highly attonuated that 1t had practically disappeared healed cases that larger doses failed to reach. Even utterly unmedicated water or rellets frequently reached the same re- suit, Only enc explanation TOT this ap- peared, and that was that 1t was faith in the prescription, and not the pre- ,scription itself, which wrought the \ cure.
 4 "lnis brings us to the basic point of view of Christian Science, which Is that or radical and consistent idealism Its position, to put it a little different My, is that to find the true explanation the real nature, meaning and sub stance of things we must look to mind and not to matter. One of the funda- mental propositions of the Christian Science textbook is, There is no life truth, intelligence nor substance il natter All is infinite mind and it's in. finite manifestation, for God Is All il all. (S. G H, p. 46S.) This position is certainly radical and revolutionary but any system that will Interpret and demonstrate the ideal of Jesus can be nothing less. The kingdom of God cannot admit either matter or evil; anC Christian Science ellmiaates both a, either power or reality
 Jesus teachings and works set be. fore us al ideallsm that excludes mat ter and evil, and includes all good The Christian Scientist frankly
 squarely adopts this idealism, and h, meets every manifestation of evil
 whether of sickness, sin. poverty. sor row, disease, with positive denial oi its power or reality, and an afirma
 ton of the allness and goodness Q
 God and just in the degree of his spir itual clearness and understanding, h, supports these statements by demon. stration.
 "The public attitude of thought re garding Christian Science is to-day one of increasing friendliness. The ono objection that constantly recurs is You go too far. But does Christian 1 Science go any farther than the teach. ings of Jesus? Could any doctrine bt moro radical than that of the Master