Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-10-16
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE
Days Opera House Was Well
Filled Thursday Evening to
Hear Bliss Knapp, c. S. B.

Bliss Knapp, c. S. B., member of
the Board of LectWeship of the
Mother Church, the First Church Of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, was
cordially received at Days opera
house Thursday evening by an appre-
ciative audience. He delivered the
following mastery address in his
faultless manner:
Not in contravention Of law, bat
in fulfilment thereof, did the man OF
GalfIee announce himself and forth
with present the only perfect system
Of healing known to humanity sys-
TEN which no one can improve, but
one that should be understood by
all. The method employed was By
mental or spiritual prayer. Conae-
quentIy the only perfect system OF
healing must be mental and in fal-
filment of law. The mission of Chris
tian Science has been to present the
meaning or explanation of the Christ
raw with such comprehensive sim
plicity as to effect a return Of Chris
tan healing.
In all that Jesus did. he made it
clear that the power he employed
was not of himself He specifically
declared, THE Son can do noshtng
of himself, but what he seeth the
Father do" His ability, therefore, to
obIterate disease and sin was the
result of what he actually knew
about God, the Father of US ali.
When he taught that same under
standing OF God to his disciples, they
were able to perpetuate his healing
ministry. Indeed Christian telling
was continued for a period of three
hundred years after the time Of
Jesus. The ability Of Christian
Scientist to heal the sick and sin
ming through prayer is wholly due
to a better understanding of God,
who is the devine Principle Of mans
existence. This is in agreement with
the Soriptmal command, 'Acquaint
now myself with him, and be at
peace. One who is sick is not at.
peace. One who is distressed eth
er in mind or in body is not at
peace. Nevertheless, acquaintance
with the devine nature endows one
with that peculiar intelligence which
inspires him with the power of
peace. and thereby rules out all dis
mrbance, whether mental or physical
Therein do you have presented in
the briefest possible statement the
precise method of Christian healing
acquaintance with devine nature
How then shall We acquaint cur
selves with Gcd?
DEVlNE ACQUAINTANCE.
One of the earliest ways OF gain
ipg an insight into the realm of God
was given by Moses in the Ten Com
mandments. He led people to think
Of the divine nature as manifested
not through q form but through well
defined laws. IdOlatry had its origin
in thinking of God as a form. When
men undertook to fashion what they
might conceive the precise form OF
God to be they became thereby idol
ators, against which we have the sec
ond commandment of the DecaIosue.
As divine Principle, manifesting His
power, Intelligence, and loving kind
ness through wen defined laws, He
can be understood
Jesus declared his relationship to
this same law in his Sermon on the
Mount; for there he said: Think
not that I am come to destroy the
law, or the prophets: I am not come
to destroy. but to fulfil Having
said this, he undertook to teach this
law, not 50 much Intellectually as
by direct appeal to ones moral or
spiritual nature. Not that intellect
ual training should be disapproved;
for, on the contrary, the right sort
of training is necessary to the prop
er conduct of everyday affairs. But
the one thing of special importance
in this connection is the fact that
Jesus addressed himself. not so much
TO the intellects of the disciples as