The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-09-25
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A LECTURE
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ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
BY
EZRA w. PALMER, c. S. B.
Member of the Board of Lectureahip
of the Mother Church, The First
Church of Christ, Scientist,
in Boston, Massachusetts

Mr. Palmer spoke substantially as
! follows:
In addressing an audience made
up, in part, of persons who know lit
| tie of the teachings of Christian
! Science 1t is well to consider what
1 Christian Science. has in common
with other religious organizations
which accept the Bible, and the
Bible teachings regarding God. Has
| Christian Science anything in COM
mon with other denominations that
accept the Bible? Upon examination
it will be seen that there is much
in common. All Christian people ac-
cept the Bible They understand
that God is omnipotent, ommiscient,
omnipresent; meaning by this that
God has all power, is ever-present.
and is the creator and source of all
knowledge These immortal veritles
Of Diety have been accepted by all
Christians because on no other basis
can we conceive of God as infinite
and supreme, God of love who
sends only good gifts to His child
rem. Thus if you should ask a man
who accepts the Bible If he believes
that God is omnipresent, he Woull
undoubtedly answer you in the al
firmative. Ii you also ask him if he
believes that God is omniscient and
and omnipresent, he would likewise
answer you in the affirmative. But
if you press the matter further, and
ask him if he would rely upon the
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him should he be taken suddenly i'll
at the midnight hour, he would pro
badly hesitate and perhaps tell yoI
that such reliance was too vague
and transcendental for him; that he
preferred to pin his faith to some
'avorite drug or other material
means His answers to the above
questions. would probably he the an
swers Of many people who accept
the Bible and belive in the power,
goodness and love of God. But does
not their refusal actually to rev
upon God in a time OF sickness indl
cate a fatal weakness, distrust OF
God that accounts for the failure OF
modern religions to satisfy that hun
ger for righteousness which is char
acteristic of all men as sons and
daughters of God?
Now we cannot adopt any halfway
measures about our relations to God.
God is good, He is ever present, and
all powerful, and that fact eliminates
at once and forever any other power
of goodness. Since God has all
power, then evil, the opposite OF
God, has no power. The fact of the
matter is, that the Christian world
has for the most part theoretically
accepted the omnipresent goodness
of God and has not had faith in, nor
understanding Of, its ever-preselt
availability. What is controlling our
thought is determined not by what |
we say, but by what we do. If mon |
and women prefer to rely on drugs |
rather than on the power of God |
in time of sickness, 1t is because
they believe drugs are more potent
remedy; and all professions of conf
dence in God to the contrary are
mere lip service and cannot be ex
pressions of profound conviction OF
the heart.
Because modern religions showed |
this wide discrepany between reality
and practice, a re-statement OF the
eternal truths of the Bible became
necessary if the race was to be
saved from the myriad ills that be
set it. For this purpose Christian
Science came to the world. No MAJ
ter what hostile critics may say to
the contrary, Christian Science came
to the world in response to the
quenchless yeaIning of the human
heart to know if God, a yearning
that human wisdom can never sun
ply. No matter what the testimony
of the material senses may be to
the seeming reality of matter and /
evil, Christian Science holds firmly /
logically, and consistently, to the
eternal fact of the omnipotence of
God, which overrules and destroys /
all the asserted power of sickness,
disease. sin and death.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PRIMITIVE
CHRISTIANITY
By teaching reliance on the ON
ninotent goodness of God, Christian
Science has reinstated primitive
What is primitive Chris
tianity? In the past, Christianity
was too much considered to mean
customs, traditions, dogmas and
reeds of the early days Of the
Christian church. But if you will re-
all the words and deeds of the
sreat Bible characters from Genesis
o Revelations, you will find that
heir religion was something vital,-
living reality. They made no mere
Professions of trust in God; they
ad an understanding OF God, and
hey proved their understanding by
estroying sin. by healing diseases,
Y breaking droughts, by controlling
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