The Cordova daily times., 1921-08-02
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE
 AT EMPRESS MONDAY NIGHT

them unto him." and he healed them.
 On page 3l3 of Science and | Health with Key to the Scriptures,
 Mrs. Eddy writes: Jesus of Naza.
 reth was the most scientific man that | ever trod the globe. He plunged
 beneath the material 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 appeared to him where sinning
 mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw i Gods own likeness, and this correct
 view of man healed the sick" The vision of Christ Jesus. therefore.
 was not some "far.off divine event" it was nigh, even at the door.
 THE VISION EXTENDED
 The workable knowledge of the omnipotence and omnipresence of
 God was not confined to the con
 sciousness of Jesus the Christ. He
 left witnesses of himself empowered
 to extend and to manifest the works
 of healing and regeneration which he have done. For long time after
 Jesus had vanished from sight, the
 divine command. Heal the sick, .
 raise the dead" was obeyed and full
 filled Like trailing clouds of glory" the laith and works of the primitive Christians were as a light shining in heather darkness. Witness the Bible testimony recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. that first book written on Christian church history. and without doubt the most reliable. The Acts brings Christian history down to A D. 6O..
 Between A. D. 5i and (not later than) 110, all that part of the New Testament, following the Acts of the Apostles. was written. These books, whose authors were Paul, Peter. James. John, and the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews. abound in expressions of the same confidence and victory displayed in the Act of the Apostles
 Thus we have the vision of Christ Jesus extended beyond the date of his ascension to at least A. D. 96 by credible witnesses who chonologi- Cally overlapped each other. Further the catacombs near Rome, those sub. terranean burial places for the primi. tive Christians, began to appear As the bodies of believers were placed in these rockhewn resting places, symbols and descriptions ex- pressiye of active faith and wonderful works were cut in the stone. In course of time it is likely that more than a million bodies were received in these catacombs. The Christian records in stone were corresponding ly numerous, and many of them are accessible to students. Burials in the continued for three hun dred years. Even further; when the were still in their infancy believers began writing down, in Greek, records of the won- derful works still wrought among men. through the power of Christ, Truth. If one would read this tes- timony, let him consult the transla. | tion of the writings of Justin. | Irenaeus. Tertullian, and Origen, 1 whose lives covered the years from A. D. IA to A. D. 254. Thus can he see for himself that the earnest fol |. lowers of Christ Jesus were repeat. l ing his wonderful works in casting put evil, healing the sick, and rais- Ing the dead This is what is meant . by the Vision Extended, Historcally | the chain of testimony has no missing link.
 THE GATHERING CLOUDS
 About A. D. 300 shades of the prison house began to close" upon the glories of early Christianity. ! Worldly minds like Elymas sought the Christly power form base mo- tives; their desire was never real ized. Rome ruled the then known world, and when the emperor be- church. practically the whole em' pire soon after passed under the