Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-01-05
LEONARD TELLS
OF SCIENCE FAITH
BROOKLYN LECTURER EXPLAINS
RELIGION OF FIRST CHURCH
OF CHRIST
WAS BORN DISEASED
Christian Science Came to Him and
= He Became WeIl-An Outline
Of What the Scientists
Believe.

Il was born with an incurable
organic disease, according to the
physicians, and up to the time
when Christian Science was pre-
scented to me had never known a
day of freedom from pain or suf-
fering. and the conclusion of the
physicians was that dissolution
was at hand.
"Then Christian Science came
to me and told me mentally and
audibly that God is Love! That
there is nothing of God in these
things! That He has nothing to
dc with them, and it took away
NJ disease and my suffering! 1t
ok away my horror and my
bathing for God. Christian
Science came to me and gave me
God, and when tell you this l
am telling you the story of count
less thousands spread all over this
globe Is it any wonder that we
love the one who has been SO
selfless and so faithful in her
work that, through it, God has
come to us and salvation been
brought within our apprehen-
sion?"
From Mondays Daily.
christian Science, the Demonstra-
BILE Religion" was the subject of an
address given yesterday afternoon in
the Grand opera house by Frank H.
Leonard, G. S. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fully 500 Ottumwa residents and
many from out of the city were pres.
ent throughout the long discourse,
and listened with rapt attention to the
words Of the speaker, who in many
ways showed his splendid knowledge
of Christian Science. Mrs. Ira C. Nc
Crary in introducing the lecturer,
spoke of the board of lecutureship and
referred to Mr.. Leonard as one who
could speak authoritively on Science.
In acknowledging the introduction,
Mr.. Leonard took occasion to refer to
some of the so-called criticisms of
Christian Science, saying: "It is above
any criticism, and only needs to be
thoroughly understood to be explicitly
believed
MAN in One With God"
christian Scientists continued
Mr.. Leonard, continually repeat the
statement Man is One with God. This
statement has been used as a founda-
ton for discourses wherein it has
been said Christian Science is but a
re-dressing Of the Bramahnistic and
Buddhistic PHILOSOPHERS, wherein it
1T taught man reaches the most
ecstatic state of existence when he
forgets that he ever has lived, and
is absorbed into deity The teachings
of Christian Science intelligently in
struct us to know that man is one
with God, as the idea is one with the
mind that conceives it-no part of the
mind whatever, but inseparable from
it-and so it is with man, Gods idea
about himself: Gods image and like
ness! He is inseparable from God,
the mind, the creator which conceives
him, but in no sense is he any part
OF God, and in no sense is his individ-
ual1ty ever lost, but is as eternal as
the creator who created him.
Probably nothing has been more
misunderstood by people than the
statement made by Christian Scien.
fists that sin, disease and death are
not realm fact are nothing but a
false belief! When this statement is
understood it stands out in bold relief
as honoring God by recognizing in
deed, as we'll as word, His omnipo-
tence, omniscience, and omnipresence,
as good, wherein there is neither ele.
mental evil nor concentive passiyity
which seems to recognize evil and per.
init its existence. Christian Science
gives us but one standard of measure
ment, and that standard is God!
Whenever, therefore anything pre-
sents itself to a Christian Scientist, he
Immediately measures it by the stan
dard of perfection which God is and
ii 1t fails to measure up to that stan
dard, it is known to be un-Godlike:
and If un-Godlike, not eternal; and if
not eternal. not real
How do we know that sin, dis
ease and death are not Godlike; how
DO we know that SIM disease and
death have nothing to do with God:
never did have, and never will? Jesus
told us so and very plainly, too. He
said he came, doing the will of the
Father He also said he came. not to
destroy, but to fulfil, and Immediately
he went tc work to heal the sick,
cleanse the leper, cast out evil and
raise the dead with the word of God.
Do you think Jesus knew what he was
doing? Do you think he told the
truth when he said that he came not
TO destroy but to fulfill? If you do
believe he told the truth, then YOU are
forced to admit that it was nothing
that he destroyed when he cast those
things out, for not otherwise can the
truth of his statement that he came
not to destroy but to fulfil, be upheld
Heal the Sick.
Remember, the man who laid sick
of the palsy, to whom Jesus said:
Thy sins be forgiven thee; and the
man took UP his bed and walked.
Again, he said: If a man keep my
saying he shall never see deafh, IN