Article November 6, 1909 Issue

THE LECTURES

CHEYENNE, WYO.

with contributions from John Charles Thompson

Wyoming Tribune

At the Capitol Avenue Theater last evening [Sept. 23] Bliss Knapp delivered an able address on Christian Science. In introducing the speaker, Gen. John Charles Thompson said:—

As you know, we are here tonight to listen to an official lecture by a distinguished visitor to our city, upon Christian Science, a comparatively new phase of the oldest and most important subject which has held the attention of the human race, viz., religion. Knowledge of truth, or the laws of nature, should be the paramount concern of every rational creature, and is the only valid basis of religion. Although truth has been the constitution of the universe from the beginning, its achievement by mankind as to religion has been as slow and arduous as has been the conquest of all other laws of nature. However, mankind has at last transcended that worst false conception of primitive humanity, that there ever was or is now anything super-natural (or above law) in the universe; and as a natural consequence the free and intelligent minds of the present age are being lifted out of belief in any of those old theologies which are rooted in barbaric superstitions.

Science, or knowledge of truth, is now the goal of civilization. About the middle of the century last past there occurred a most remarkable revulsion in both science and religion from the dominant conceit of both for centuries, namely, that matter was the substantive cause of life, phenomena; and a conversion to the truth that being and all phenomena connected with it is produced by Mind or Spirit; and coeval with that revolution in thought began what may be termed the second great reformation of Christianity. Great and devout scientists turned their attention to the discovery of the laws of nature, which they knew must be at the bottom of the philosophy taught and the phenomena of healing practised by Jesus of Nazareth, if there was any truth in the narratives of his life and deeds.

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