The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-05-30
A LECTURE ON
.CHR|ST|AN.SC|ENCE
Bliss Knapp of Boston Was
the Speaker.
ATTENDANCE IS QUITE LARGE
Closest Attention Given at
All Times.
Mr.. Knapp OF the Christian Science
Board of Lecturers Proves "a Most
Pleasing and Entertaining Speaker.

|
Sunday afternoon, there was a large
audience at he Grand opera house to
hear Bliss Knapp, n lecturer on the
Christian Science Board of Boston,
Massachusetts,. The speaker was in
troduced by Mr.. Landy Shoots, of the
Marion church, who made few very
appropriate remarks, recting an in
Iteresting bit of personal knowledge |
of the virtues of Christian Science.
For a hour and half, Mr.. Knapp |
held the closest attention upon the |
part of the entire audience. In a
beautiful worded address delivered
in most pleasing manner, MIR.
Knapp began with the foundations of
the belief of the Christian scientists
and followed the deductions to con-
clusions in a most convincing manner.
Because of going 70 press at an
early hour, the Mirror is unable to
give full account of the lecture,
but the following is brief outline
of the address of Mr.. Knapp.
| christian Science does not claim to
amend the Bible, but it does empha-
size it's spiritual meaning and seeks
to interpret rather than to proclaim
a creed altogether new 1t is there
fore a system of spiritual teachings
that improves the health and morals
of humanity. Every Christian be-
lieves that spiritual teachings should
improve the morals of men, but we
have come to recognize in Christian
Science that these same spiritual
teachings, in their larger and more
scientific understanding, will so puri-
Ify the minds of men as to heal them
lof physical disease.
such a system of spiritual teach
ings that can bring surccase from
pain and sorrow must he truly Chris
: tian Indeed every sincere Christian
! has sought in prayer for that same
Christ-spirit to help the sinner ana
heal the sick. Christian Science de-
clares, moreover, that this Christ
lspirit acts In obedience to the laws
of God, and not the laws of men. In
other words, it. operates in obedience
to divine law with such precision and
accurancy. that ii may be understood
and demonstrated as did the primi-
, tive Ghristians!FTVo things therefore
We must understand vitality of
, Christian truth, and it's law of opera
tion. The one is Christian, the other
must be scientific; and, not only a
Christian but Christian Scientist
when a man is suffering a burden
, of disease, he wants to know directly
D how this law operates to meet MS
: particular nC2d--how II is that he
may have the. assurance that God is
indeed "A very present help in trou-
ble.' Now II student never prays to
1 4, 10,
work itself out, for this would 40
away with the spirit of understand
ing. lie has the problem and also
: the rule, but there must be a mental
= activity on his part. Moreover this
mental activity must be guided, not
by mere belief or desire which
would lead him into error, but this
mental activity must be guided by
the mathematical rule, and 10 that
degree his correct solution Is incyi-
table.
I'm Christian Science we have di-
vine law. We also have these prob
, lens of sin and disease. Then, we
TOO, must possess a mental activity
which must be guided, not by mere
whim or supplicatory desire that
might lead one into error; for this
mental activity must be guided by the
divine law, that is scientifically, and
to that degree Christian healing is
, absolutely inevitable. Mans inhar-
mony is due as much to ignorance of
the law as to wilful dlsobedience-tO
5 sins of omission as well as sins of
: commission. He must first understand
the law then obey it. What then Is
this obedient mind? 1t Is not the hui
: man intellect, nor the carnal mind,
but the eternal energy OF mans
{ spiritual consciousness
. "The prophet Zechariah voiced this
Christian idea when he said, Not by
: might. nor by power but by my
. spirit, saith the Lord. For the hour
cometh, said Jesus, 'and now is, when
the true worshipers shall worship the
Father in spirit and in truth What
then does this mean?
+ Surely it must mean they shall no
longer worship the father after man
' made doctrines or beliefs, for they
shall worship the Father in spirit and
=, in truth Then when our spiritual
sense, by which We worship God, is
guided by the divine law that is,
entifcally-Christian healing is in
, evitable.
a Mrs. Eddy's Discovery.
before Mrs Eddy discovered Chris
tain Science, she had been searching
i, for years along this line of mental
causation. She had been studying
, homeopathy and learned the mental
nature of disease, and that the higher
attenuaIions of medicine which contain
ed the least of the drug and the
most mind were the most powerful
She continued her Investigations be-
. yond homeopathy to a mental stand
lpoint, with the question ever before
2 her, whether matter or mind heals the
sick
I "In her subsequent Investigations of
mental influences she learned that
: the carnal will or magnetic healing
WAS absolutely opposed to her own
ideals of mental healing as practised
( by the inspired Christians, and she
turned from it. She possessed a splr-
itual insight that others failed to APP
4 lpreciate. Surely God was even then
lguiding her up to the right undes-
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