East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-10-25
AGE OF MIRACLES
NOT PASSED AWAY
TACOMA MAN SO
EXPOUNDS IN KANSAS
Clarence A. Eaton Says Bible Teaches
Bodily Healing by Spiritual Means
-UphOlds Christian Sclcnce.

Kansas City, Mo.-Before about
5000 hearers in Convention hah, Clar.
ence G. Eaton Of Tacoma Wash, a
member Of the board Of lectureship OF
the mother church at Boston, spoke
on the tenets of Christian Science. He
declared that the teachings of Mrs
Eddy reveal the only way whereby
men can win exemption from the re-
suits of sin. AS taught by Jesus, he
said prayer should be confirmative
rather than supplicative.
Mr.. Eaton spoke Tuesday night at
Hutchinson, Kas, and Thursday at
Sedalia. His address in part follows:
Recognizing as we do, that the be-
lief that evil as a verify is respon-
sible for the existence Of all that is
classed as sin, then logically, sin will
abound so long as that belief lasts
christian Scientists recognize the
Importance Of wagng a warfare of
determination of errors of thought Of
every name and nature, and thus
comprising the destruction of sin. All
false belief must be entirely obliter-
ated from the consciousness and be-
ing of every mortal man, woman and
child ere God and heaven can pos
sibly become their realization.
Offer of Exemption.
at Is not too much to say that
Christian Science reveals the only
way whereby men can, through know
ing the truth, win their own pardon
from sin and secure exemption from
the inevitable torment and suffering
which sin, not God, entails upon its
victim. 1t does this by presenting a
right God and a right man, and the
true and unalterable relationship eX-
isting between them as Father and
Son. Paramount to all else is a right
God, God with you; the God whom we
can love, honor trust and obey i'm
picitly, a God that is not afar off,
but ever present, and in whom all His
creatures live, move and have their
individual being.
"The Bible is as it is commonly
known of all men is the Bible Of
Christian Scientists. They accept and
have no other.
THE teaching of Christian Science
is in exact accord with the spiritual
import and application of the inspir-
ed writings of the Bible. All who
take up the study of this science at
once find themselves earnest students
of the Bible.
"The contents of the text book of
Christian Science awaken in the stu
dent a keen interest in the Scriptures,
because of the spiritual Interpretation
thereof. Through the study of this
textbook thousands have been turned
from an attitude of apathy and indif-
ference with respect to the Bible to
a love and a longing for it.
"An unreserved belief in the inspir-
ed word naturally implies a firm be-
lief in the divinity and the redemp-
tive mission of Christ, for Christian
Science argues that there is no war;
rant, much less permission, for our
taking from Or adding to the purpose
and plan of God. We recognize in
Christ Jesus the Divine Son of divin-
ity; the evidence of the oneness was
lttested by the teaching and works
which characterized Jesus ministry
and crowned with regal splendor the
life of Him who 'spake as never man
spake.'
"As followers of Christ we believe
n the atonement, the resurrection and
we believe in spiritual bap-
ism and regeneration, and the ulti-
nate reign of harmony and righteous
ness; in fact, all the essentials incor-
oorated in a pure Christianity enter
nto the teaching and the philosophy
If Christian Science.