The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-13
Lecturer Asks Age to Review
Things Pertaining to Its Sal
vatiOn From False Gods.
DECLARES MORTAL MAN is
FALSE VERSION OF TRUE
Credits Eddy Faith With Re-
StoratiOn of Healing of
Jesus'S Time.

christian Science, a Religion OF Prog
ress," was the subject OF an interesting
lecture delivered in the Salt Lake the
ater Sunday evening by William D. Nc
Cracken. M. A. c. S. b. under the aus
pices OF the Second Church OF Christ.
Scientist, of Salt Lake City. There was
a crowded house and Mr. McCracken,
who is a forceful speaker. held the close
attention OF the large audience. In part
he SAID:
"The message Of Christian Science is
simple and straightforward and responds
to q universal need. Christian Science
does more than preach or promise-it
fulhlls,
Christian Science lives and grows In
favor with the needy OF the earth by
reason OF its fruits. Christian Science
tiate and so. in this day Of advance in
every department Of human activity. 1t
is demonstrating its right to be known
as the religion of progress.
Christian Science calls upon mankind
for a frank and fearless revision OF its
own beliefs about the unchanging God,
his man and his universe. This age;
OF the sun on filmy wings. is asked to
display the necessary courage to pass
in review the things which pertain TO
its own salvation from false gods.
The Real Man.
IL CTOd is spirit, tnen inc real man OF
his creation. who Is made in his image
and likeness. and. therefore, partakes OF
his nature. must be spiritual, 1 e. must
express and manifest spirit The real
must be spiritual. Furthermore. as the
image and likeness OF God. the real man
must be complete. happy, wholesome
and healthy. He must be eternal and
indestrustible now. the idenl man. the
son of God.
"But this conclusion, derived from,
the word OF God. is found to be at vari-
ance with the testimony Of material sense
and Christian Science provides the neces-
sary explanation by showing that mortal,
material man, the sport OF circumstance.
the prey OF discord and the victim of
death. is not the real man OF Gods crea-
,ion, declared In the Bible TO be the
image and likeness OF God
Christian Science teaches that mortal
man Is a false version of the true man.
a counterfeit attempting to resemble the
true. but nevertheless. easily detected
because of his unlikeness to God. who is
spirit.
"Evi has no origin in spirit no entity
nor reality. Of Gods making. and no eter-
nifty. but is always a false concept as,
such time as its lying nature is laid bare
and its futile. transitory pretenses cease
TO frtghten. Evil has no standing be-
Find Reconciliation.
'Thus it is that the two statements Of
the Bible, namely, that God Is love. and
God is spirit. find their reconciliation In
Science.
.'There is much comfort to struggling
humanity in the conviction that God does
not authorize the miseries of our earthly
experience. This conviction is the first
step toward the realization that these
very miseries, lacking divine sanction.
cannot have any real entity or exist
ence. and must perforce have fictitious
origin and an unreal nature. God be-
comes fully reinstated in human afiec;
tions at the same time that the so-called
law of sin and death loses Its supposed
hold upon human affairs.
Corinthians: For the wisdom OF this
world is foolishness with Cod and again.
in the same epistie. But the natural
man received not the things Of the spirit
Of God; for they are foolishness unto
him: neither can he know them. because
thew are spiritually discerned-
alton. God rejects the wisdom Of this
world upon which the natural man re-
les for. the. basis of his information, and
the II, a5 the 5s ehnEs
derstand them. What shall the outcome
be? One or the other must Yield, and
no Christian can doubt the issue for an
instant. Gods word must prevail. Spirit
must be supreme over matter. God must
rIle In his own universe. and God Is
spirit. not matter.
truth does not depend upon what our
physical senses report Science, In order
to be worthy of the name, must rest
upon unimpeachable evidence. The
knowledge OF that which Is unvarylng
upon absolutely reliable information. but
knowledge derived from the physical
''It will hardly be necessary here TO in
sist upon the fat that religion should
save the sinner. But there Is no such
agreement regarding the sick Jesus
healed The sick, his disciples and apos-
ties healed the sick. the early Christians
for come 300 years after the crucihxion
healed the sick. by spiritual means; but
during the intervening centuries the
world has more and more relegated the
healing of the sick TO special profes-
sion. using material means
"Since Mrs. Eddys discovery Of Chris
tian Science the healing Of Jesus's time
has been. reinstated. in accordance with
his unrnistakable injunction to his fol-
lowers. and today hundreds Of thousands
Of men. women and children in all por.
tions OF the globe rise TO bless the good
and brave woman 10, whom they owe
Mr. McCracken closed with a review
and culogy OF the life and work OF Mrs
Eddy.