Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1915-11-17

Church OF Christ, Scientst IN Dos
ton, Mass.
A fair sixed audience assembled at
tho opera house Monday evening to
listen To tho able address OF William
ID. McCrackan, q. 8. b.. on tho sub
ject Of Christian Science. The speak
Or was introduced In an appropriate
speech by A. Wylborg. the first read
or OF the local church. who stated
tho tenota OF the church by scriptural
quotations.
Tho lecture In full follows:
There 10 much evidences 10 show
that the uncertainties OF human life
largely contribute TO its mistakes.
10 its ain, sickness, and sorrow. I'm
certainty causes humanity TO waver
IN Judgment. TO hesitate at critical
moments. and TO be apprchensive OF
the future. II ombitters many an
otherwise noble character. II sows
broadcast the seeds Of fear and
doubt. aud renders human beings
vaciiiating aud distrustful at tho
very times when they ought TO speak
10 evil with authority and dominion.
Hampered by the shackles OF uncer.
tainty. human beings dare not ad-
vance against the mental enemies
that spell disaster to their happiness,
health. and wholesomeness. but
either permit themselves to be over
ridden by these enemies or eise with
draw into . condition OF hopeless
inactivity.
II would scem a. though the only GER
tainties that are universally admitted
BY humanity itself are Ito own woes
and miseries. its sutierings and dis
asters. and It's own final collapse.
According to the testimony Of the
physical senses uncorrected by spir-
itual understanding. humanity seems
justified In this desperate point OF
view, According to this same tes-
timony II has every reason to re-
main In q state OF perpiexity. II
has good excuse for being incapable
OF deciding which way to turn for
safety and what measures TO take
In the attempt to avert the newt
able doom OF mortality. According
20 this testimony the child is no
sooner born into this world than II
prepares to leave Il. II In precip-
itated into career OF adventure
among hidden foes. which appear
from time to time as bad habits,
diseases. losses. lncapacities. and
mental. moral. or physical peculari-
ties. variously ascribed to Inherit
ance. environment. accident, and the
like
Al every stage In material growth
material testimony stands ready to
predict further dangers. and II by
the grace OF God the individual
should escape the grasp OF these de-
tanning fears and reach his full
powers, this same material testimony
provides for steady decline into a
helpless and perhaps graceless old
age. All that tho physical sciences
may appear TO do for the alienation
OF human misery Ia nullified by the
belief they inculcated that man Is
mortal, material being. whose In
evitable end can only he postponed
never altogether put of Nor Is pre-
valent theology any less merciless
toward man, because II teaches thai
he Is a miserable sinner, and holds
out no hope OF salvation In the pre-
sent, but only points to a future
state OF existence In which man ma,
perhaps fnd his real nature In the
course OF eternity.
From many u stricken heart ant
mind goes up the cry for an explana
tion OF ultimate certainty. Thos'
hungering and thirsting after right
eousness ask to be instructed hov
they may distinguish that which II
true from that which Is false. tha
which Ia essential from that which ]
non essential. that which Is real from
that which 10 unreal They ask for tn
understanding which will enable then
TO sort out from their lives that whic
10 genuine and truly worth while, Il
order to abide by 1t and make 1t per
manent. In other words, humanit
cries out for an absolute standar
by which It shall be able to recoG
nize the immutable. the unvaryinH
the eternal and indestructible fact
OF existence. II demands the trut
tho whole truth, and nothing but tn
truth, and Christian Science 10 !
q position to offer this truth whic
makes free, which saves, heals, re
generates, and redeems. H
Tho Real and Eternal
Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer an
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