Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-26
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GRAHAM !! / ! N GIVES ! ! ! !!
GO0DL|.ECTURE.
Rev. Andrew ]. Graham
Gives Annual Christian
Science Address at
Orpheum.
]: HOUSE 10 WELL FILLED
HOUSE WELL FILLED
II. M. Sparboe Introduces
Speaker to Large Audi
ence Present.

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Rev. Andrew J. Graham, G.. S., mem
her Of the board of lectureship of the
First Church of Christ, Scientist, in
Boston, Friday night delivered the an
nual Christian Science lecture in this
city at the Orpheum theatre. The the
atre was well filled and good sized dele
cations from Fort Dodge and other
nearby towns were present. H. NJ.
Sparboe introduced the speaker in his
well known felicitiOus manner.
Following is an excerpt from Rev.
Grohams lecture:
Christian Science not only teaches,
hut demonstrates divine aid, thereby
adhering strictly to the declaration Of
Scripture: 81 will shew thee my faith
by my works" Many thousands Of
written testimonials Of healing and re-
generation, covering the last fifty years,
are preserved and accessible \ current
testimonials Of redemption from sick
ness and sin appear regularly in The
Christian Science Journal, Christian
Science Sentinel and the Christian Sci
ence Heralds in French aud German;
each Wednesday evening in all Chris
tian Science meetings are heard the
living voices of grateful men and wO-
men testifying to the power of Chris
tian Science to heak and to save;
throughout the world, beyond broad
waters and behind lofty mountains, in
great cities and quiet hamlets, by the
domestic freside and in trench and
hospital, men and women, confident and
calm, joyous and active, are found
declaring that through Christian Sci
ence they have come to know, and in
some measure have been able increas
ingly to demonstrate, that God is sure
remedy for every Ill, here and now.
When one finds the correct answer to a
problem in matllema ties, he is. certain
the rule by which he works is true. So
when through the application Of the
principle of Christian Science one sees
the destruction Of disease and mental
perversity, he knows that the rule OF.
healing as taught by Mary. Baker Eddy,
the discOverer and founder Of Chris
tian Science, il true The test set up
by Jesus Christ is this: by their
fruits We shall know them"
On page 313 of Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures Mrs. Eddy
writes: Jesus of Nazareth was the
most scientific man that ever trod the
globe. He plunged beneath the mater
ial surface of things and found the
spiritual cause" Again, on page '476 of
the same book, she writes: Jesus be-
held in science the perfect man, who APP.
peared to him where SHINING mortal
man appears to mortals. In this per-
feet man, the Saviour saw Gods own
likeness, and this correct view of man
healed the sick" The vision Of Jesus
Christ, therefore, was not to him a de-
ferred fact; it was seen and known as
present:
y The Vision Extended.
The workable knowledge of the ON
impotence and 0mnipresence of God was
not confined to the consciousness of Je-
sus, the Christ. He left witnesses to
himself, empowered to extend and to
manifest the works. of healing and re-
generation which he had done. For a
long time after Jesus had vanished
from sight, the divine command: Heal
/ the sick, =. raise the dead was obey
ed and fulfilled. Like trailing clouds
Of glory the faith and works of the
primitive Christians were as. a light
shining In heather darkness.
The ardent faith of, the Christmas
which had thriven under merciless per-
secutions was caught in the insidiOus
snare of Journalism. Its light began
to wane, its vision vanished and 1t
sank approximately to the worlds lev
81, where it seemed to sleep for thou
sand years, while every phase of sin
and tyranny was practiced in its name
These centuries constitute what may
properly be called the Dark Ages. A
theoretical system Of salvation had
thrust itself between God and the indi-
yidual man. "And it was night
The Re-l)awfl.
In 1866 A. d., John Wycliffc, called
the Morning Star Of the Reformation,
was at the aenith of his influence. An
article in the Encyclopedia Britannica,
which gathers up the thought of many
scholars, says: ''He John Wycliffe)
may mt least claim to have discovered
the secret of the immediate depen-
Cence of the individual Christian upon
God, relation which needs no media
ton of any priest and to which the
very sacraments of the church. however
Desirable are not essentially ncccs-
saly." This spirit Of the Reformation
began to do away with serfdom and