The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1915-05-20
TO SHOW NAN HIS OWN POWER
Well Known Kenosha Attorney and
Religious Student Offers First of a
Series of Lectures at the Guild Hall
on Tuesday Evening.


with revealing to man his own splen-
dor and power as an individual and as
the image of God, Judge Joseph r..
Clarkson announced the opening of a
new religious movement in Kenosha on
Tuesday evening when he addressed a
large company of people at the Guild
Hall Of st. Matthews Church. The
lecture was the first of series of talks
in which Judge Clarkson plans to make
public the result of long period of
religious study dealing especially with
the New Testament. The speaker de-
clared that his teaching was partic-
ularly the teaching for the individual
and that it was not brought out as a
substitute for any church dogma or be-
lief and that it was not in any way
interfering with the belief of any man
in the doctrines of the orthodox
church. For years the judge has been
close student of metaphysics, par
ticularly along the lines Of self study
and the appreciation of the power of
ones being His work has been along
deep devotional lines and he declares
that his message is one that will bring
closer to mankind the real possibilities
Of right living and the proper under
standing of the expression of the
Christ in mankind.
In his first talk the speaker gave a
brief outline of the proposes of the
course of lectures which he proposes to
give in Kenosha. He followed no
beaten path, but he showed willing
ness to accept the best things of vari-
GUS religious teachers and showed that
he had culled from his own study and
from the study Of others many things
of interest and comfort to the man
who studies himself as the "image of
Cod Judge Clarkson holds that man
has in himself the real powers which
were held by Christ and that the de-
velopment of these powers is the real
purpose Of the Christian life. He held
that the healing Of the sick and the
raising of the dead was just as posi-
BILE to the modern religious teacher as
it was in the time of the apostles. He
held that sickness and death were not
the creatures of the diety, but that
they came through sin and that the
elimination Of them was to come
through the development of personal
righteousness.
In his lecture there was reflection
of the long study of Judge Clarkson
in the field of Christian Science and
he had gathered from this field its
best thoughts and had supplemented
these thoughts with a further study in
to the meaning of the teachings of
Christ.
Theology and metaphysics are min
gled in this new teaching of Judge
Clarkson and his work will raise inter
esting questions for the study of men
capable of seeking the truths of the in
ward self along the higher scientific
lines.
Judge Clarkson has given printed
consideration of these views in a book
recently issued under the title "You -
This book has already attracted notice
in the religious world and it is certain
to have wide reading. The book
written in the peculiarly interesting
style of Judge Clarkson, opens many
new vistas of thought for the student
and it is daring work along new
line Of religious thought.
1t is the purpose of Judge Clarkson
to give other lectures in Kenosha and
announcement of them will be made
later.
For some time Judge Clarkson has
given much of his time to religious
study and religious teaching and he de-
clares that it is his ambition to be the
"Lay Billy Sunday