The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-05-20
IDEAllSM OF
JESUS CHRIST
LECTURE BY REV. ARTHUR VOS.
RURGH.
AT AUDITORIUM THURSDAY
SPEAKER TALKS ON CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE RELIGION.

b., of Rochester, n. Y, member of the
Christian Science Board Of Lecture.
ship of the First Church of Christ
Scientist, Boston, lectured at the Audi
torium last Thursday evening. Rev.
Vosburgh was introduced by Rev. r.
Z. Olmstead, and spoke as follows:
Every great religious movement
that has marked a spiritual epoch has
always been dominated by some tran
scendant 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 think
| ing and living in realms where they
| have become more gentle and pure
ment as Christian Science should
come into the world it was inevitable
that there should be a divinely or.
dained one to reveal and lead the
way; and because it is inevitable that
the knowledge which is divine power
shall come in gentleness, beauty, pu-
rity and light it was In the native
order of the divine fitness of things
that this one should be woman.
The Discovery.
1t Is matter of common knowl-
edge that Mary Baker Eddy is the
discoverer of Christian Science and
that this discovery came about
through her own healing--a healing
that came through the touch of divine
power when human resources could
offer neither help nor hope.
1t is by no means thing anomalous
and unprecedented in Christian his
tory that one should be healed
through faith in answer to prayer,
It Is a matter Of authentic record
that spiritual healing was known In
the work of Wesley and his early
followers, among the Quakers. or
Friends, among the Scotch Covenant.
ers. Luther healed his young friend
Melancthon. All down through the
process of the Christian centuries,
after eliminating everything that
seems to bear the stamp of fanaticism
or superstition, there yet remains In
the Christian church a continuous
record Of those who came so near to
| in 10 ~ hnv
proved that he is one who not only
fOrgiveth all our iniquities, but who
healeth all our diseases. One of the
great orthodox thinkers and writer's
of last century, one whom some have
thought even the greatest DR.. Hor-
ace Bushnell, has said this: "The first
| thing arrived at by one who prose
| cutes this kind of inquiry apart from
all prepossessions and saws of tradi.
ton will certainly be that the clum-
sy assumption commonly held, of
cessation of the original, apostolic
gifts at about some date, is forever
exploded, for as in fact they never
consented to be stayed or concluded
by any given time, so in history they
persist in running By all time, until
finally the investigator comes into the
discovery that the stream is a river,
flowing continuously through all ages.
and always to flow." Mature and the
Supernatural)
Mrs. Eddy felt there was law back
OF her healing, and that she must
know what it was. Under this divine
impulsion she retired from society for
three years, and giving herself to a
study of the Scriptures, Sought the
solution of this problem of mind-heal-
ing" as she herself has put it, "de.
voted time and energies to discover
ing positive rule" (Science and
Health, page 109) Through this
search and research she came to the
point of understanding where she
unprecedented the principle
and rule of spiritual science and met
aphysical healing-in a word, Chris
tian Science" (Retrospection and In
trospection.)
For this quest she had received a
preparation along another line of ex.
perience. In her practice as home
opathic physician she had noted often
that prescriptions in which the drug
had been so highly attenuated that it
had practically disappeared, healed
cases that larger doses failed to-
reach. Even utterly. unmedicated
water or pellets frequently reached
the same result Only one explana.
tion for this appeared. and that was
that It was faith in the prescription
and not the prescription itself. which I,
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