Article July 11, 1908 Issue

After dinner and a brief siesta, I went to May's Opera...

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After dinner and a brief siesta, I went to May's Opera House to attend a Christian Science lecture by Mr. Bliss Knapp of Boston. The house was well filled by a splendid looking audience of adults, at least a score or more being from Sidney. It was a calm, Christian talk, with which no one, however orthodox, could find fault, and no collection was taken to give it a worldly air. I did not hear any doctrine in his address which did not comport with true Christianity, nor hinder a belief in it, and still be a consistent member of an orthodox church. Christian Science goes a little farther, that is all; and in doing so it does not transcend the positive teachings of Jesus.

Healing the sick, as well as preaching, was in obedience to Christ's command and was a part of the disciples' duty in the early times. Is it not possible that this movement is but a renaissance of the custom in the early days which will work wonders? Many orthodox, eminent preachers are making healing a part of their work, but they claim that they attempt to cure no ills except those largely mental, or susceptible to mental influence. "Do you thing," said a person to me after the lecture, "that Christian Science can heal a broken leg, remove a cancer or tumor, or perform in the realm of surgery?" I replied, "Do you think that Christ, who restored the withered hand, cleansed the leper, gave vision to the blind, and raised the dead, could do it?" "Certainly," said he. "But," I said, "did he not say to his disciples, 'The works that I do shall he do also; and greater... because I go unto my Father'?" I am apt to think that the "O ye of little faith" stands in the way, or handicaps the duplication of what is termed the miracles of Christ. I know it does in my case, but I hope to outgrow it, even if I have commenced a little late.

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