Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-09-26
Frank Bell, Member of the Board
OF Lectureship Of the First
Church of Boston,
is the Speaker.
AT THE ARMoRY OPERA HOUSE
Mr.. Bell is introduced by Prof. S. W..
Mitchell Of the Duncombe
Schools.
AT THE ARM0RY OPERA HOUSE

good sized audience of interest
led people awaited themselves Of the
opportunity to hear the lecture on
lChristian Science delivered by Mr..
Frank Bell at the armory opera
house Friday evening. Prof. S. w.
Mitchell, superintendent Of the Dun
combe schools, introduced the speak
err in an able and felicitous man
liner. Mr.. Bell is good speaker and
held the close attention of his audi
ftors throughout his address. He said:
Christian Science is defined by
Mrs. Eddy on page All of her book
''Science and Health with Key to
4 the Scriptures as "divine Science
reduced to human apprehen-
fsion.'' The definition is of value
in two especial respects. In the first
place, if to any Of us the term Chris
tan Science has come to mean mere
ly the aggregated teachings of a
| particular TeIlSlOuS ocSI VI uShoiiii
nation, the term "divine Science"
may assist us toward consideration
Of the subject in its broad and true
meaning, so that when we refer to
Christian Science we shall be UNI
derstood as having in thought not
merely the. words of a book or the
doctrines of a church or the profess
sions or practices Of body of per-
sons, but rather the Science or
knowledge of being, of Life, Of
truth, of God; in other words Di-
vine Science.
| The second important phase OF
this definition of Christian Science
as divine Science reduced to human
apprehension, is that the broadened
scope Of the subject does not lead
| it beyond the range of our view nor
observe it's direct and practical re-
llation to our affairs. Divine Science,
or the correct knowledge of absolute
reality and the immutable law there
of, is according to this definition
capable of being apprehended by
man and applied to human needs.
It is the mission of Christian Sci
once to bring to light the fact that
mans true selfhood is not separated
from the intelligence that makes and
governs all, and 1t is the purpose of
this lecture to indicate in simple
and elemental manner some of the
ways in which that SURPRISING fact
may be demonstrated in individual
experience and is being thus dem
onstrated.
One Cause or Creator.
| Manifestly working knowledge
of divine law involves and requires
a correct understanding of the ma
ture and qualities of the cause or
source of all things, the infinite in
|telligence or divine Mind that is
God. In the light of Christian Sci
ence man begins to acquaint him
self with his Maker by processes as
satisfying to his reason as those by
which the mathematician is assured
of the basic elements of the science
of numbers.
| Christian Science makes it clear
that there is a God, and that the
Scriptural statements with regard to
Him are correct, namely, that He is
the one and only creator, having
made all that was made; that His
creation was and is spiritual and
perfect and good, as He is spiritual
and perfect and good; and that in
finite Spirit is necessarily omnipo-
tent, omnipresent, omniscient; that
is, the only power, everywhere pres
ent, supreme intelligence. In !
John it is stated that "God is love-"
and Mrs. Eddy, Oh page 14o of
Science and Health writes, "The
Christian Science God is universal,
eternal, divine love, which changeth
not and oauseth no evil, disease, or
DEATH"
| 1t is needless perhaps to add that
those to whom this definition of God
is appreciable do not think of Him
as in the nature of magnified hui
man being with material form, oc-
cuping great throne in the sky and
dealing with his children in a man
ner that would be considered repre-
hensible even in a human parent, be.
slowing rewards on certain favor
ed ones and furnishing others for do
ling things He is supposed to have
made them capable of doing. Chris
tian Scientists learn to question the
accuracy of any description of God
that does not conform to the high