Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-24
FRANK II. LEONARD'S LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

tired and wreathed and turn like weary
children to the outstretched arms Of
the father or else thru the scientific
| use Of the Word OF God as our Master
used 1t. we shall go on working on
the problem OF salvation until he have
accomplished It: for our Bible teaches.
| They shall all know mo (God) from
the least Of them unto the greatest Of
them" This is life eternal" (John
xviii 3)--to know God. I'VE shall know
| the truth and the truth shall make YOU
free.
Need Of Intelligent Faith.
What the world needs is real intelli-
gent faith. not blind faith. for blind
| faith leads one simply to the door Of
hope, closes 1t in ones face. puts a
question mark upon it. and leaves one
hopeless and helpless without light or
a guide in the darkness. We need faith
| that has q reason for it's existence.
Consider what our bible tells US faith
accomplishes. 1t tells us IL one has
! faith as a grain Of mustard seed" the
| smallest seed known in the seed king
DOM "he shall say unto this mountain,
go hence, and it shall be so unto him."
| (Matt. xxi. 21). Does the world at large
believe that statement is really true?
If one should be seen by the sons OF
men standing before q mountain with
| uplifted hand saving unto It, "In the
name of the Almighty God l command
! three: go hence" would those who wit
messed it raise their voices in n song
Of thanksgiving unto God that such
| faith had been found in all the land, or
rather would they look around to see
| if his keeper was in Sight'
When it comes to real abiding stead
| fast faith In the promises of the Bible,
we are very much like the old lady
who read the statement I have just
| quoted in her Bible and said. THAT fits
my case exactly, for in my back yard is
a sandplle that for forty years has
stood where I need a truck garden and
I am going to put that statement to
! test this very night So she got down
on her knees and prayed all night that
| the sand pile might be removed and
cast into the sea where it would harm
no one. When dawn came she arose
from her knees and going to the win
dow looked out and saw the sand pile
| in the same old place. and as she saw
it. said: There. that is just what 1
! cxpected" The painful point OF this
story is that no one in this audience
anticipated l would say: as she looked
from out the window she saw her faith
/ justified and the sand pile gone: show
| ing that every one Of us is tainted with
the same unbelief she manifested when
sho said: "There. that is just what
| expected"
When we come to the place where we
have grown intelligent enough to have
real abiding faith. it will move noun
l nlIynS
mountains of rock and earth. mountains
of sin. mountains of suffering or noun
tains Of woe, and will make straight
every crooked path, and plain the
"way OF the Lord F."
Christian Science Redemptive.
Christian Science is Theology. Science
Philosophy. and therapeutics The
question may be asked what relation
each of these phases bears to each
other and which comes first relatively.
The work Of Christian Science is re-
demptive and therefore elemental God
during all eternity has builded all
things that really are. No one phase
of Christian Science is greater than
any other and singly and collectively
its teachings stand with man inside
the door of hope, the changeless Word
Of God
Recognition Of God heals the sick.
The knowledge that God is Mind is
eternal salvation. The theology OF
Christian Science turns us absolutely
to God as the only. the omniscient ON
nipotent, and omnipresent. All i'm All.
The science OF Christian Science turns
us to God as the only Lawmaker and
Lawgiver.
The philosophy Of Christian Science
takes man beyond the human concept
into the shekiuah where Jesus has
passed before u.s." away from the finite
misconception and into the infinite
knowledge of God. The therapeutics
Of Christian Science heal the sick by
making ore realize that God is Good
and nothing can come from Good eX-
cept good for cause and effect most
agree.
Until one has been a Christian Scien :
fist and has felt fall from him the
shackles OF doubt and fear and unbelief.
until one has found and felt the cleans
ing from hate. malice. jealousy. rage,
self-love. sefwill self justification
and self complacency. one has never
known what it means 10 be free. To he
free and To know that God is. elimi-
rates the possibility of anything else
really helNS.
Christian Science teaches that ALI is
infinite Mind and it's infinite manifesto
ton" tScience and Health. p. 46S).
We are told to pray for the Mind
which was also in Christ Jesus. Chris
tan Science teaches that God is Mind.
Teaching that God is infinite Mind is
simply saving God Is omniscent.
To say that God is the source OF all
knowledge is to say the same of intel
ligence. and to say God is the source
Of all intelligence is to say that He Is
lall the Mind there is and no other
lconclusion can be reached logically. The
Christian Science teaching that God Is
the one and only Mind is not. therefore,
new being simply the complement of
the Bible teaching that he is omnisccnt.
DO not mistake my meaning to be
that what we term mortal or PERSONAL
mind is Cod for the belief in personal
mind is the cause OF all the wretched-
ness murder. hate, jealousy, malice,
war. dishonesty and untruthfulness the
| world has ever known in its history.
| This belief in minds many il the
belief in gods many and leads to a be-
lief of utter lack of individual respon-
sibilitv in all things the inability to
| hot {. an what evil