The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-14
REV. ANDREW ]. GRAHAM, CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE LECTURER, SPEAKS HERE
Good. sized Audience Hears
Lecture nj Rex Theatre Last
Night-Dignity and Tender.
ness Stamp Speech and Ac-
ton Of Mary Baker Eddy.
Speaker Claims

The way leading to the wonderful
attainment OF demonstrating Chris
tian Science has been made plain by
one who aspired and attained COM
pleteiy." said the Rev. Andrew j.
Graham Of Boston, member Of the
Board OF lectureship OF the Mother
.:hurch, F:rso Church Of Christ,
Scientist, In speaking before good
1ized audience at the Rex theatre
las. night. Continuing. the Rev.
Graham said:
MRS. Eddy calls him the Way
shower. and If SO doing she displays
!. singular capacity for recognizing
the waymarks of primitive Christian
.ty For the common name applied
to the early followers of Jesus was
The Way" And that way was
altogether lovely. Through Truth
and Love he proved his right to
claim leadership. In him the Word
vas made practical. To the hearts
that were ready to receive him there
was something unusually winsomc
about the human Jesus, obedient to
the Christ. He was the highest
earthly expression of beauty and
Truth and Love. How quickly those
earnest, loving fishermen responded
to his call. 1t was not a mere sense
II duty that impelled them. 1t was
an instant recognition of the drawing
power Of the beauty of holiness.
With human eyes they began to see,
in Jesus, the King in his beauty;
later they carried his image in their
hearts, for the truest portraiture Of
the Way-shower is in the conscious
ness of those who lovingly follow his
example. Man, artists have sought
to depict his countenance. In our
leaders home at Chestnut Hill,
Massachusetts, is a picture of Jesus
as man. 1t is said by some to be
reproduction from Caesars
cameo The outlines of the counten-
ance are impressingly bold and yet
tender Perhaps no artist of modern
times has portrayed the countenancc
Of Jesus with such winning power
a. the aged HOFFMAN, in his painting
entitled THE Jesus Boy in the
Temple" In English this painting
IS known as "Christ in the Temple"
t represents Jesus. when II years
+ age, in the midst Of the learned
.octors, both hearing them and ask
ing them questions. One cannot
look upol. that face without exper-
fencing some sense of exaltation.
Jesus gentleness made him great,
and even his denunciation of sin and
hypocrisy was SO cOmpa ssionately
sincere that it must have impressed
even these who thought they hated
him. Such was the great demon
strator of the Christ. Our leader
speaks of him as that life-link form
ing the connection through which
the real reaches the unreal, Soul re-
Dukes sense, and Truth destroys
error" He brough to men the
Fathers message of love. The
activity of the Christ and the ex-
ample of Jesus gave the inspiration
which guided Mrs. Eddy in becoming
the discoverer and founder of Chris
tian Science.
Mary Baker Eddy
a loving message c..l be vitality
conveyed only through a loving
messenger. The very fact that
Christian Science came to mankind
through Mrs. Eddy proves that she
was q vessel meet for the Masters
use. It is not possible TO read the
story Of her life, with honest intent,
without recognizing and loving the
character Of the woman. 1t is dis
tinctly against her expressed desire
that the troubles and prosecutions
which beset her should be publicly
narrated, but one may be permitted
10 say that under all circumstances
dignity and tenderness stamped her
speech and action. Increase of in
fluence and popularity did not d.
mlnish her winning qualities. Multi
tudes who never had the privilege of
looking into her face have shed tears
Of gratitude on beholding her in her
writings. The reading Of the first
twelve words in the Preface to
Science and Health has speedily
healed many invalids, and the open
ing lines in the first chapter of the
same volume have done likewise,
II has often been observed that in
the twelfth chapter of her textbook,
that wonderful chapter explaining
the Christian Science practice and
healing, Mrs. Eddy has devoted the
three opening pages to a most ten
der, searching. and cleansing treat
ment Of the victimized Magdalene.
No harsh condemnation, no weak
compromise, but such clean chan
nei OF compassionate thought as
cannot help but cleanse the thinking
Vt those who earnestly see the truth
which she expresses on page IS of
her Poems:
lis the Spirit that makes pure,
That exalts thee, and will cure
All thy sorrow and sickness and
sin.
Eyes. we find Mrs. Eddy in her
writings, ever appealing to the best
and leading to the highest. There
10 on page q Of her published book
called 'Retrospection and Introspec-
tion.' : cluster Of thoughts, marvel
ous in comprehension and express
sion. That page is of the very es-
sence Of poetry. The thought is
creative and cumulative, the Ian
guage rich in cadence, and the
climax perfect. In previous pages
Mrs. Eddy had been writing Of her
ancestry, her childhood, her prog
ress, and earnest search Tor truth,
and then she pauses in the midst Of
the narrative Of human life to write
this wonderful page entitled 'Emer-
gence into Light part Of which
reads rs follow: Thus it was when
the moment arrived Of the hearts
bridal to more spiritual existence.
When the door opened, / was waiting
and watching; and 10, the BRIDE