The Cairo bulletin., 1909-11-29
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE
ATTRACTS LARGE AUDIENCE
Mr.. Bliss Knapp Of Boston, Mass, Gave Fine
Discourse at Cairo Opera House

promise and SO firm faith as to
destroy some of the bondage of ma
terial imperfections This seed of
faith in the Almighty continued until
the law, when God gave to Moses
The ten commandments.
Moses began to recognize that this
divine power was operative, through
law is not confined to holy places
Or special occasions, but is every
where present and ever available for
mans use. He began to recognize,
moreover, that this power as opera
dive through law has a healing and
saving effect. BY means Of this pow
er, and guided by IT'S law, Moses
healed serpent bites and leprosy,
brought deliverance from the plaques,
from the Red Sea, and from the ter
rors of the wilderness, until its reli-
ability and truth were absolutely es-
tablished. Therefore the Scriptures
have added to Abranam's recognition
Of God as the Almighty, the Mosaic
declaration that He is "a God of
truth and the psalmist adds, Thy
law is the truth" Nevertheless,
when these people had the law, and
lived by the law, and were delivered
by the law, there was yet one thing
needful, because they were continu-
! ally breaking the covenant. They
expected final revelation that woull
make all things perfect, and to this
end they were continually looking
for Emmanuel or God with us"
The Jews have continued to look
for Emmanuel to this day, because
they needed final revelation, and
expected one. This final interpreta-
ton was to bring the very presence
Of God to their understanding and
when Christ Jesus took up the thread
of this progressive revelation and
carried it on to completion, an UNI
broken highway to the Fathers king
dom was established on earth, and
also new covenant
The Old Testament might lead one
to believe that God is an angry God
visiting all manner Of affliction upon
His people for their purificaton. This
led them to fear God and keep His
| commandments, but whenever they
became less fearful the laws were
broken. Now, instead of affecting
the people with disease the New Tes-
| lament teaches that God heals them
of those very diseases. This brings
out more loving sense of God
| Spiritual affection has displaced their
fear, They are led to obey not only
in tho letter but in the spirit They
have added to their righteousness
! brOtherly kindness This is the re-
suit of the new covenant by which
God put His laws into their minds
and wrote them in their hearts, there
by uniting justice and affection IN
| the gospel of Love.
The Scriptures imply that what the
| Esraelites lacked was the Christian
teaching that God is love" for SUP
pose they did understand the fact of
the divine power, and suppose they
understood the further fact of how
this power operates through law
even though they might understand
all that, the beloved disciple has
said "he that loveth not knoweth
not God for God is love" Moreover
! Paul declared that love is the full
filling of the law and must there
lore fulfill the covenant made to Abra-
| ham Thus we learn that divine Love
is the benign presence that heals the
sick, reforms the sinner, and fulflls
the law 1t is the understanding of
God as divine Love that enables the
| Christian Scientist to heal the sick
todas.
Scientific Discovery.
have briefly presented this ia of
divine law, fulfilled in Love, by way
of anticipating that frequent remark
that Christian Science is neither
christian nor scientific What does it
mean to have a science? You well
know that a science implies classified
understanding; it requires law
which must be presented in its unity,
order aYd system This is precisely
what Christian Science does. 1t pre-
tsents this divine law in its unity, or
der and system, with such precision
and accuracy that Christian healing
prevails by way of proof 1t is there
tctc eminentN scientific, moreover IT
" Caristian because this law is not
uaysjtM Int divine, compassionate
and helpful
Everyone would enjoy to have the
power for good that Jesus had;
everyone would be glad to under
stand the divine law well enough to
neal ana reform men as did the primi-
tive Christians; and when one does
understand this law in its spiritual
sense, he is indeed Christian Sci
enlist AS truly as one who under
stands the mathematical law is a
a5Hematical scientist The ability
Nm ,tp tho xgpVIr pF last