Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1908-11-16
PRESENTED
CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE
TO LARGE CROWD
OF HEARERS

The Christian Science lecture Sun
day afternoon at the Grand opera
house by Bliss Knapp OF Boston,
drew a large and intelligent audi-
ence. Many Scientists were present
from Albany, Corvallis, Silverton,
Dallas, Independence and Portland.
The lecturer was introduced by
ex-Mayor Frank w. Waters, who
compared the present confession and
divergence OF religious views with
the times OF the tower of Babel.
Christian Science had come to bring
peace and order into human affairs.
How this was brought about would
be set forth by Bliss Knapp, a mem
ber of the Christian Science board OF
lecturoship.
Report of the Lecture.
Mr.. Knapp spoke of the vast fol-
lowing which this system OF religious
thinking and healing had secured In
the 40 years since its discovery and
PRONUNCIATION by Mary Baker G.
Eddy. He Claimed that this truth
meant life and healing for humanity,
He claimed that this was the dlstin-
gushing feature OF all Christianity.
What had made Christian Science
practlced and demonstrable? What
constituted the works" OF Christ
bat his healings and reformatlons
More space was devoted TO heal
ing I'm the Bible than TO any ono
subject. Whet was this power which
Jesus employed? He had heard
that divine power described In Cal
ifornia as hypnotism. But his heal
ings were mental, spiritual
of power What was
God but Divine Mind? II was every |
where available and open to use by |
everybody-this divine principle. He |
trac d the development OF this idea |
through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, |
Moses. until they demonstrated its |
absolute truthfulness and reliabil- /
ity on all occasions. Next came the |
revelation by Jesus of Nazareth of |
the Emmanuel. Jesus points John TO |
his works of healing and reforma- /
tion.
The teaching that God is love
still further unfulded the divine mys-
terry and established the fulflllment |
Of the lew. How could one fear in
finite love? The old teaching OF a
jealous and Gngry God was foreign |
to Christ's teachings. Divine love
was the benign power that healed |
and saved Christian Scinece pre-
sented this divine law I'm all its unity |
and order and system. This demons
trable divine law was Emmanuel or
God, with us. IL was tho only sign
Of truth made manifest TO this age.
Jesus taught this spiritual under
20 MS disciples by "open-
Ing their understanding" Scientific
right reason was the only line of /
progress by which to unfold the in
1iyidual into higher spiritual self
hood. Jesus began with easily un-
ierstood parahlcs. then with ad-
illustrations until he de-
stroved evil and healed the sick with
their higher understanding OF spirit
nal consciousness. Finally they un-
ierstood spiritual things I'm spirit
nal terms. HypnOtism was abso-
Iutoly the opposite of Christian Sci
ence
We showed how the mind affected
re piration, circulation, digestion
lnd all the functions OF the organs
life as understood even
from a material standpoint. Was
he individual governed by the earn
Al or the spiritual mind? The carnal
mind means disease aud death The
mind produces harmony
2nd health in the individual, de-
happiness and freedom.
TIL lecturer had the most profoand /
attention of very intelligent audi
ence