The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-01-04
non. William G. Ewin Of Chicago
Talks to Large Crowd Yes
terday at the Grand
Opera House.
INTERESTING ADDRESS
Spoke at Length Upon the Sub.
lect and Was Listened to
With the Greatest
Attention.

At the Crane opera house Sunday at
ternoon, Judge William G. Ewing gave
a lecture on Christian Science and was
listened to by a large sized audience
wa1ich gave tn speaker the closest at
terest during his interesting dis
course.
The speaker was introduced by
Mayor w. q. Strimback, who spoke of
Christian Science as great movement
concerning which people wish to hear
authorative information. 81 am not a
/ Christian Scientist myself he said,
.but know some mighty nice people
who are. And as every world move
ment of this kind must have in it much
that is good, wish to hear what it Is"
Before beginning his lecture proper
Judge Ewing spoke of having deliv-
cred an address in Keokuk almost tif-
ty years ago during tt presidential
campaign of 1860. That was the year
the one President who arose to that
high office out of obscurity. Judge
Ewing stopped to pay Lincoln the high
est tribute.
A synopsis of the address follows:
Christian Scientists do not shrink
from any responsibility attaching to
their religious belief or its practice.
They do not invoke your sympathy nor
duplication and demand Justice; Sc
rene il their purpose to be right, IL
wrong they must be righted; but if
right, they insist the good they have
belongs to humanity, and should be
distributed to its own. Hence their
efforts in the simplicity and sincerity
of brotherly love to tell you something
of the JOY that has sweetened their
lives and made them, as we would
|say, not better than you are, but bet
ter than they were and that will make
you even better than you are.
Every Christian church has been
compelled to struggle for its estab.
iishment, and in the presentation of
our cause We are no more combated
by honest opinion than your church
was, whatever it's name, in it's effort
1or recognition. Now, as then, it is
prejudice that brazenl. confronts
every new thought of God every con-
cept Of the infinite Father born of in /
dlvidual conscience and in the blaz-
ing light of the latest and best day
mas gladdened humanity. Prejudice
Is the enemy of progress; it would
mock equity, degrade charity, traduce
truth. dethrone right, pollute justice.
HIS deYilish, it is predetermination.
Judgment without evidence, conclusion {
without reason, conviction without /
thought
Promise Of Gospel
through every chance and change, +
ahcaor your hope to the promises of
the gospel of Jesus If to do this.
contention with principalitites or pow
cts must come. shrink not from the
struggle. believe and you believe
also tyour earnest faces makes pro.
oianaton OF tae fact,) that the re-
iisloh OF Jesus If of greater value
70 the world, is of greater value to YOU
ana to me, than everything else that
mas ever been or ever can be crowded
.n'o THIS universe: therefore, whatever
'inpinges upon that, whatever lessons
me sweetness, the love and song of
that will meet with nv earnest con.
siseehl and persistent opposition, and,
~ al conscience, should meet with
yours.
lou have this other thought of
|.lristlan Science; that taken at it's
, Jest as you understand it, for all that
~ uevotees claim, it is but an
spnerlheral thing, for an ephemeral
purpose; that it is something for the
|pnssical man, the man of clay and
os'iiilg Tor the man fashioned in the
"ase and likeness of the Infinite
Aei' mat 1t is something for to-
80 ana today only and nothing for the
tomorrow of God. If
|.ou are right, then Christian Science
!. a oaseless thing, the SIRENS song
h.. peace' when there is no peace
n ~. you are not right, you are wholly
,,a zig u assert that there is not ,
.us enough in tlis world to frame
s'aeehent respecting Christian Sci
nse mat would be wider the mark
H.. more absolutely barren of truth /
Eha an Just what have imagined your
Thought of it is.
Eoia ae PHYSICAL benefits of Christian
'su'e' It's medical virtue, its healing