Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-12
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
PHILOSOPHY is CLEAR
SPEAKER MAKES PLAIN THE
ETHICAL FACTS
Address Delivered Before Episcopal
Church Congress is Lucid and
Valuable Outline of the Sub
lime Teaching
III HERE, is but one fact in the uni


II That fact is God.
1t is a spiritual fact, for God is
Spirit.
It is an ethical fact, for God is Love
Truth, Wisdom, righteousness the
Supreme Source of all morality.
1t is an aesthetic fact, for God is Or
der. Beauty Sublimity, Harmony; the
Supreme Source of all art.
1t is a scientific fact, for God is ON
nipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent
Life. the Supreme Source of all Being
and all knowing.
The universe Is an outhowing from
and expression of the Transcendent
God-of His Life, Love, Truth, Wis
dom, Order, Beauty, Harmony. This
expression in the universe is spiritual
and not material, for Spirit could not
create anything less than itself or OPP
posite to itself. Man, made in the
Image of God, is also spiritual. and he
is given dominion over all things in the
universe.
Jesus Christ, Son of God, son of man,
came to save the human race by re-
vealing the truth that Is expressed in
the foregoing statements. If we
imagine a vast insane asylum whose
inmates are under one and the same
delusion, and that deliVerer volun-
tarily enters the asylum to lead the
inmates out of their delusion by the
sacrifice of his time, his talents, and
even of his life, we have an analog
which will help to bring the case be-
fore our minds.
The delusion of mankind was the be-
lief that the external universe is the
real universe. Jesus Christ came as
messenger from the real universe-the
spiritual universe-to restore the race
to it's normal condition of sanity. HUI
man as the son of Mary, divine as the
Son of God, He touched humanity on
both sides-the side of it's delusion and
the side of it's true being. He said,
1.-THE kingdom of God is In the realm
of your own consciousness. The law
of the kingdom is Love. Obey this law,
keep the commandments which grow
out of the law of love, and all other
things shall be added unto you; your
original dominion over the lesser things
OF the universe will be re-established."
Answers Great Question
But the Prince of Peace who came
to reveal the everlasting Father was
nineteen centuries too soon for the full
accomplishment of His mission. He
was not premature in me divine order,
for the seed had to be planted and he
came at the right moment for doing
that. Simple natures received the
truth at once, and have done so
through all the weary years since His
time. They were delivered from the
great delusion and were brought under
the law of spiritual life. But the or
ganized Church gradually lost the key.
Instead of studying and following the
law of Love, the Church occupied 1t
self in formulating theories which the
late Aubrey Moore characterizeS as
forensic fictions of substitution, I'M
moral theories of the Atonement, the
rending asunder of the Trinity, the OPP
posing of the divine Persons ike par
ties in lawsuit"
am to answer the question, What
is Christian Science?
Christian Science is return to the
spiritual ideals of Jesus Christ, and an
effort to reinstate His standard of life.
Christian Science is spiritual know
ing, or the knowing which is gained
the spiritual intuition, and not
through the intellect; the knowing de-
scribed by the divine Savior when He
said. This is life eternal, that they
might know Thee, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast
sent"
Spiritual science or spiritual knowing
is knowing that if God is infinite. If He
is Spirit, if He is Life Truth, Love, |
Beauty, Harmony, then there can be
no reality in the universe which con-
tradicts or opposes those qualities.
SpirituaI knowing or spiritual science
is knowing that the human race has
not wandered from God That would
be impossible, for each member of the
race is an individualized expression of
the supreme Creator, and lives. moves
and has his being in Him. He could
not be separated from Him for a mo-
nent. All man can lose is his CON-
sciousness of God; regaining that con-
seriousness is Christian Science. or
spiritual knowing.
What 1t Achieves
This Science or knowing is called
Christian Science because it is the con-
yiction of those who use the term
hat no other kind of science or know
ng was recognized by Jesus the Christ.
His appeal was addressed to mans
moral and spiritual nature. He paid
10 more attention to the brain and its
ways than if the organ had no exis-
ence. He recognized the material
world only in mastering its conditions
ind rising superior to its laws. In this
He. proved Himself to be the supreme
Scientist of the ages, anticipating the
discoveries and conclusions of modern
cience, which now admits that matter
las no objective existence. and that
Spirit or Mind is the only reality.
Prof. Borden p. Bovine of Boston uni
Iersity voices the opinion of a school
# philosophy when he says, "A thought
world is the only movable world; the
bought world is the only real world"
In the limited time allotted to me l
AN only give the foregoing condensed
tatement as to what Christian Science
S. 1t is an adaptation of pure Chris
ianity to modern conditions and mod
IN ideas. 1t is truth demonstrated.
t is Christian teaching revitalized and
educed to practice.
My remaining moments must tell
rietiy some of the things that Chris
ian Science does
Concerning the side of the movement
which the uniformed public regards
$ the most important and almost the
My feature, namely the question of .
ealing, 1 will say but little. On this ,
uestion the burden of proof does not
elong to Christian Science, but to its !
pponents. Christian Science does heal {
he sick by the Christ method of real Z
ling the omnipotence of God as Love. !
lbundant proof is obtainable showing :
hat Christian Science heals both or ]
anic and functional diseases and ham !
les with perfect ease and safety the I
'orst forms of contagious dieases.
low let the theologians bring one sem
snce from the Word of God to prove c
nat such healing should not be done. /
they cannot bring this proof then Z
It them say why they themselves are s
OF obeying the Masters marching or v
ers Preach the Gospel" Heal the O
ck. There is scarcely village or r
amlet In America that has not one
itness or more to the healing power n
christian Science in disqualification S
Christ Jesus words. "The truth shall n
axe you Tree, and the work is stead n
y growing in all parts of the world. Z
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And this is not the only challenge =
Christian Science to the churches. n
says 10 them, You have opposed O.