The Florence daily tribune., 1899-04-03
" CHRISTIAN SCIENCE"
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in God. therefore all feeling is in
God Mans mind is reflection
from God; nothing else about him
is real, and because God cannot
feel pain or sickness or sin, there
fore man cannot So, of course,
sin. pain, sickness, sorrow, are all
unreal and only imaginative illu-
sions which have no existence.
To quote from Mrs. Eddy's
greatest book Science and Health
TO grasp the reality and order of
being, we must begin by reckon
ing God as the only life, substance
and intelligence. We must leave
sin. sickness and death out of the
account, regarding them as not the
reality of being"
Man should have no other mind
than God. In reality he has not.
1t is only delusion that he seems
to have another mind" Page %.
These extracts indicate the bald
est pantheism to the exclusion of
personal individuality, which is the
root principle of Christ's teaching.
Christ never looked upon sin and
temptation as dolusion, or the
forty days in the Wilderness would
have proclaimed no victory. Sick
ness was not mythical vagary
which could be vanished by the
| thought or will of the afflicted per
son. The will and power of Jesus
was necessary. Il will be thou
Glenn" Every miracle of Jesus
recorded in the gospels must be
seen to depend upon the exercise
/ of power by Him, and not alone
upon the thought or will of the re-
cipient.
If the woman who touched the
hem of His garment had not real
lied herself as sick, she had no
need TO apply the finger of faith to
draw forth his healing The man
waiting for the troubling of the
waters was not taught by Jesus
/ that his aiiliction was an illusion.
Can any truthful Interpretation see
personal illusion in the opening OF
the eyes of the man who was born
blind that he was not really blind,
but only deluded himself and
friends that this wis the case?
The next step in this ''delusion"
or argument is that Jesus was not
really crucitied, dead and buried
and resurrected. 1t was all de-
lusion. Mrs. Eddy says Jesus
never died, but was alive in the
tomb for three days. OF course
this destroys resurrection, the
cornerstone of christianity accord
ing to St Paul.
And this is the logical outcome
of the teachings of Christian Sci
ence. What travesty upon the
name Christian is such self-evident
absurdity rs this, and how malic-
ious must be the designing mind
which will use His holy name to
bolster up such anti-Christian
teaching.
There is no personal God, ac-
cording to Mrs. Eddy: the uni
verse of mind is God. There are
no prayers necessary, because sin,
evil, sickness and death are illu-
sions and unrealities, and hei ce
we need no Divine help against
them. How could Mrs. Eddy
think of the Lords Prayer and
still have the etfrontery to call
such a system Christian? But
leaving this metaphysical side of
this system of healing, let us look
at some of the claims it makes as
to power TO heal common sickness.
In Mrs. Eddy's directions to her
students she considers the dread
disease of consumption in the fol-
lowing confident and fiippant man
ner: IF the case to be mentally
treated is consumption, take up
the leading points included (ac-
cording to belief in this disease.