Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-10-08
DELIVERS AN.
NUAL LECTURE
Good Sized Audience Greeted Judge
Clifford P. Smith at the
Armory Opera House
Last Evening
SPOKE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
Given Under Auspices of Local So
ciety--Speaker introduced by
Mayor Sparboe,
SPOKE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

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A good sized audience turned out
last evening to hear Judge Clifford
P. Smith of Brookline, Mass, who
delivered the Regular annual lecture
on Christian Science under the aus
| pices of the local church., at the
| armory, opera house. The speaker
was introduced to the audience by
Mayor Sparboe, one of the promi-
nent members of the local society,
who officiated in that capacity in his
usual neat and effective manner.
Without any preliminary waste of
time the speaker at once launched
into subject and was attentively list
ened to throughout his discourse.
Judge Smith spoke in part as fol-
lows:
"The history of the human race
shows that it's search and hope have
always been for a larger dominion
over adverse conditions and a great
err continuity of life. Eternal and
abundant life is the prayer of hui
manity; it is the goal of righteous
effort. For. this reason Christian
Science responds to the purest de-
sires and the highest aspirations of
mankind.
How should yon like to know
that infinite good is the Principle
the cause and substance-of all
that really is, and that this divine
Principle is always available to you
for the overcoming of any evil con-
dition?
How should you like to be sure
that in the reality of your being
you image and reflect divine Life
and Truth and Love, while the only
devil, evil, or hell is the Illusion in
human consciousness? ...
How should you like to be certain
that heaven and hell, health and
disease, happiness and misery, are
simply opposite mental states, re-
sulting from contrary modes of
thought, and that one of these states
is real and true and enduring, while
the other is a bad dream?
How should you like to learn that
there Is way by which you can
enter into the kingdom of heaven
on earth? f...-.
For the proof of the propositions
involved in these questions Christian
Science relies on four distinct
grounds of assurances: First, the
verbal instruction of inspired teach
ers as found in the Bible: second,
| the object-lessons or so-called mir
acles furnished by Christ Jesus and
his followers in the first three CEN
| turtles of the Christian era; third.
the evident spirit of Truth which
| pervades the works on Christian
Science written by Mrs. Eddy ;
fourth, the results of Christian Sci
ence in the experience OF the null
titudes who have sought its benefits
according to its own rules. With
this data Christian Science is able
| to satisfy the highest sense Of rea-
son, but not content with the ver-
dict of any human faculty, 1t makes
its ultimate appeal to the under
Istanding that IL spiritual and d.
vine.
When Christ Jesus cured the man
whose right hand was withered, de-
claring that 1t was lawful to do So
he proved two facts; he established
two propositions: First, that there
Is a Principle and modus by which
such healing is possible; second
that he possessed the understanding
thereof. One of these facts was per-
sonal to himself, but the other was
not peculiar to him at all. The
Principle of Christian healing Is
universal. the method is available
to all who understand it. The only
personal factor is the understand.
ing; and in the last analysis this Il
personal only in the sense Of being
| individual. not in the sense of being
human. It's source and power are
divine. .-
/ Whenever Christ Jesus overcamt
sin, disease, or death by knowing
the truth of being Gin accordance
with his scientific statement. "Yt
shall know the truth, and the truth
shall make you free') he provet
these evils to be destructible ant
| unreal; and he showed that the,
should be known as such by ever,
one.
4 Near the close of his earthly ca
j reer Christ Jesus said to his dis
ciples, BE OF good cheer; I hav,
overcome the world" Why shoult