The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-04

Trinity. In its creed, '1ife, truth, and
love constitute the Triune God" 1t
denies the Bible doctrine of sin in its
creed. The only reality in sin is in
the awful fact that unrealities seem
real TO human belief 1t denies the
doctrine Of Immortality, except III n
pantheistic sense. There is no place
in its creed for individual immortality.
This scheme scouts the doctrine that
the souls of believers are at their
death, made perfect in holiness, and
do Immediately pass into glory. 1t
teaches, on the contrary, that the be-
lief in good spirits belongs to the dark
ages, that the superstition that per-
sons are spirits is mistake, that
spirits are Authorizations
NO PLACE FOR PRAYER.
I'm this scheme there is no place for
prayer. Why should there be- If, as
this scheme teaches, there is not u
living, intelligent, personal God to hear
and answer prayer, it is, of course, the
height of absurdity TO pray. There is
no reason in offering prayer to a sense
less thing, which it calls "a principle
one might as we'll pray 20 chemistry,
and yet the victims of this deluslon
pray. Their only idea of prayer is
desire They reject with scorn, the
Bible idea of prayer, which is the Of
fering up of our desires unto God, for
things agreeable to His will in the
name of Christ with confession of our
sins, and thankful acknowledgment Of
His lnerCies.
Jesus says the sick need a physi-
clan. These deluded mortals say: No,
for all sickness is a delusion, and the
way to treat this delusion is to send a
healer or employ one, who can give
absent treatment 1t matters not
whether the case be Il headache or a
cancer, a gun shot wound or consump-
ton, this healer who has never stud
led medicine or surgery, and who is
entirely ignorant of the first principles
of therapeutics, can, ii is alleged, work
an efteCtual cure. While the adherents
Of this scheme, profess to take the
Bible as their text book, they do not
hesitate to twist the Holy Writings
into all sorts OF shapes to suit their
folly. They forget that there is such
thing as Wrestling Scripture to one'e
destruction, and that there is such a
thing, moreover, as being given over to
a strong delusion, TO believe q lie.
Here is a pretty fair sample OF
Biblical eXegisis, according to this
scheme, but 1t is bad enough in all
conscience: The name Adam is from
the Hebrew adamah, signifying the red
color of the ground, dust, nothingness.
In this way ought Adam to be thought
Of, as a dam, an obstruction, an error
opposed TO truth There you have it
in all its badness. Surely a scheme
that denies the fundamental truths of
Christianity: that spurns the doctrine
of Christ's atOnement, that scouts the
doctrine of sim that tramples upon the
Holy Scriptures while protesting u
reverence them; that denies facts that
stare US in the face, such as sickness,
disease, and death; that boasts that
this sinful world does not need a
Saviour; and that would rob us Of the
God and Father of our Lord and Sa-
vious, Jesus Christ-surely this scheme
IS q complete contradiction of Chris
tian Science. for what ever else it is,
it is not science and whatever else it
is, it is not Christian.
Scranton, Pa, James Mcleod.