The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-23

Shristian Science movement. one ID
Liberal in the deepest sense, teaching the
Liberalism Of Christianity as a religion OF
Love. universal, practical. scientific. but
she is never.other than the true Evangeii-
cal, for she proclaims to this age the
vital truth that genuine Evangelical
Christianity means through divinely
natural, mental ana spiritually demon
stable methods the restoration OF the
religion of the Evangelists Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John, i. O., the religion
that heals the sick rs well as the sinner.
reveals all true Science as divine, and
and genuineness.
The age is rapidly discerning the mag
Ditude OF the work OF Christian Science,
It's value to the present and future well
fars Of the race, and millions now send
forth their thanks for their deliyerance
from dread diseases, pain, error. hopeless
ness, and spiritual darkness through the
operation Of practical Christian Science.
Its teachings reveal the promise of and
the highway TO the evolution OF n new
and higher order OF society, literature,
government. sociology, and the coming Of
a new man and new woman OF diviner
any that tho world has yet seen. The
watchword cf tho career of tho Founder
of Christian Science is unselfish service
to the race, purity and honesty in all
things, and iinpersonality. brotherhood
and union are the keynotes Of her system,
and individual perfection for man and
woman rs Gods image and likeness its
goal, yea. the revelation Of the Kingdom
of Hoaven within.
For many years after the foundation OF
Christian Science religious and scientific
critics persistently opposed its fundamen-
tai, scientific, and philosophical basis,
viz, its teachings that ''All is Mind,
there is no matter. Tie dual theory OF
the two elementary forces, mind and
matter, In life or nature had been so long
believed that system that absolutely
denied what to the general mind was an
axionatic truth was at once stamped as
unscientiiic. absurd, and undemonstrable.
Again, the rapid development and elabor-
nton of the theory of evolution and its
almost world wide acceptance seemed to
many to be a positive confirmation of the
theory OF the idea of dualism in nature;
bence evolution has been accepted by n
large part of tho scientific world as the
true theory of the creation OF the universe
aud man. But rs progress in tho law of
Life. and as there are no permanent stop
ping places along the highway of Truths
eternal unfolding. il is but natural that
the ultimate statement of true. spiritual,
aud natural evolution should be an
nounced almost simultaneously with the
first public deductions of the worlds
greatest evolutionists. In 1856 Mrs Eddy
tisrt gave TO the world the keynote of the
philosophy OF Christian Science in the
statement: "All Causation il Mind and
every effect a mental phenomenon.
Causation in matter or material atoms
Mind emanating from organism and spir-
ituality from materiality Christian Science
deems an iinpossibility. Its teachings af-
firm lnitJ "all atomic action is Mind,
and the imperfect decaying forms and
evidences of material life that we see
about us in So called nature are solely the
evidences OF personal sense or morta;
minds vision, and that above this vision
here now exists to the spiritually illu-
mined thought the spiritual or eternal
original Of the visible universe and man.
Universal Mind manifests itself in in
finite form, color, symmetry. order. indi-
viduality and glory. Evolution has olas.
81 fed and with scientific accuracy traced
the gradations of life in form and iden-
tity from very low types up to very high
ones. Christian Science admits that the
Infinite Mind manifests itself throughout
timo and eternity In an infinite creation,
and that ideas as things are ever revealed
in an Ascending order but it never leaves
its scientific platform, which states that
life ever evolves life, and ever aflirms
that decayipg forms, sin, sickness. and
death are not the manifestations of the
one Good the Perfect First. Cause which
we call God.
1.-The growth Of the Christian Science
lea of matters unreal nature or its
mental character, and the idea of Mind