The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-11-28
Inclement Weather Kept
Many at Home.
For Almost Two Hours, DIR. BusIxirk
Held the Closest Attention OF the
Audience, Despite the Fact That
The Opera House Was Very I'm
comfortably Cold.


| open woods scene being very APP
propriate; the audience might easi-
ly have imagined itself sitting under
the trees on o bleak afternoon in No
vember. Hon Clarance A. Buskirk OF
st. Louis, was the lecturer of the
afternoon and he delivered a very able
discourse upon the subject of Christ
ian Science, taking up some of the
perplexing questions and discussing
them freely and intelligently. DIR.
Buskirk Is a very pleasing speaker
and for two hours he held the closest
attention of his audience despite the
uncomfortableness of the house.
Mr.. Buskirk spoke in part as fol-
lows:
''The text book pn Christian
Science. Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures" was first pub
lished N 1875. The growth of the
movement has been constant and
rapid and its church organizations are
now found throughout tn civilized
earth. This growth comes through
the grateful advocacy of the accum-
ulating hundreds of thouands who re-
ceive the benefits of its ministry in
overcoming sin, sickness and suffer-
ing its followers are those who have
experienced its blessings in their lives
and homes. while its opponents are
those who do not so test it's value, but
rely on their preconceived theories.
Every step forward in human think
ing has been confronted by similar
theories of negation.
leader whom the world has ever
known has had to confront fierce
opposition from established beliefs
businesses and institutions. Mary
Baker Eddy, the founder and leader
of the Christian Science movement,
could scarcely have expected to escape
a like experience. But the purity of
her life and the loftiness of her pur-
pose have rendered all attacks upon
her in vain and Intellectual. and she
stands already in the sunshine of an
assured triumph. She is a profound
thinker and reasoner, and has Great
ed a new epoch I'm modern religious
and philosophical lines of thinking.
The adherents of Christian Science
are earnestly seeking to restore man
ticed. exemplified and commanded by
Christ Jesus, in its purity and its
entirety. They are seeking to obey
the command of the Galilean way
shower to heal the sick" as well MS
his command to preach the gospel"
They understand that both these com
mands are equally binding upon all
the followers of Him who said, IF ye
love me keep my commandments"
They understand that the commands,
the promises, the teachings of Jesus
were all based on truth, and there
fore equally applicable to every age;
that what the Christian stood for in
the first century it tands for 1t in the
twentieth century. For truth Is eter-
nal and unchangingly. They un-
derstand that Jesus expressly
taught that he did not per-
form his works for himself, but that
they were the works of the Father,
which means that they were in ac-
cordance and in obedience to the i'm
mutable laws of God which govern
mans being just as they did nine
teen hundred years ago. The phrase
which Is used to excuse non-obe-
dience to the command of Jesus to
heal the sick, which declares that
"the days of the miracles have past"
is non-scriptural, and invented later
than the fourth century of the Chris
tian era, up to which time the early
Christians successfully heal the sick,
according to the Christian way there
for. The word miracle, first used In
the Greek Testament, from which
the English New Testament is a trans
lation, signifies a wonder or sign,
but does not not signify anything
supernaturally. Gods universe is a
universe of immutable laws. Hence
Jesus taught: "Ye shall know the
truth and the truth shall make you
free" and never taught that we can
be delivered through some melodra-
matte exhibition of personal pow
er contrary to Gods unchanging gov
ernment. We should consider the pro-
misses of Jesus, made TO his follow
ers Of all centuries and generations
alike: "He that believeth on me-, the
works that / do, shall he do also
This promise cannot be reconcilec
with the men-made excuse for dis
obediance which seeks to teach thai
"the days of the miracles have pass
ed"
Christian Science teaches that Goo
is good, is the principle OF harmony
is life, is truth, is love, is spirit. L
teaches that all the resultants ant
creations Of God and all his law
must be like him. 1t teaches, there
fore, that every thing which is unlike
God, like sin, sickness. suffering, in
harmony, death, are men-made, no
God-made. In other words that the,
are not "the truth" which when un
derstood and obeyed shall make u
free" If not the truth, they beloni
to errlng human consciousness and b
lief and can have no place in the di
vine consciousness. There Is no us
in denying mankind cherishes man
false beliefs and opinions. These ar
thet eonsequeneeF .pf false educatio
and ttffFgs1ife fffracter of ply
steal seassti5as- ! That Jesus did nc