The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-09
WHAT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is.
tNTBE NEW FAITH DISCUSSED BY
REV. j. ID. JORDAN.

Pointed Out-It Claims to Be Based
ON the Bible and Yet Is in Contra
JictiOn With Ii mt Almost Every
Polnt-He Holds That 1t Is Neither
Christian Nor Scientific and That
Ii Is simply Mere "JingIe-Jangle."
Christian Science" was the subject of
Rev. John D. Jordan's sermon at the
First Baptist Church last night The va
carries and Inconsistencies of the new be-
lief were plailny pointed out. The state
ments of Christian Science were contrast
ed with those of the Bible, showing how
utterly the two failed to agree, although
Christian Science claims to be an explsna-
ton or a development of the Bible.
The sermon was listened to and enjoyed
by a large congregation The Sunday night
congregations at the First Baptist are US
ually good, but the one last night was con-
siderably above the average DR.. Jordan's
text was from First Thessalonians, 5.21:
Prove all things; hold fast that which is
good" Christianity. DR.. Jordan said, had
always challenged investigation. This
being the case it was right that the same
scrutiny should be applied to all faiths,
whether claiming to be Christian Or in
opposition to it. II shall not abuse any
Christian Scientist" he said, but shall
simply examine the teachings of The be-
| lief
Concerning God" DR.. Jordan said,
Christian science says God Is All All
is God Then there is nothing but God
If this be true. then God is finite as well
as infinite, false well as true, bad as
well as good, hate as well as love, sin as
well as righteousness. darkness as well as
light, errors as well as truth, full of
change, decay and corruption.
The great fact is not, however, seen
to be supported by sensible evidence" re-
marks the author of Science and Health
| We answer, even so.
Christian Science would reply, while
God is All and All is Cod God is
Good and Good is God If then God is
All and All is Good there Is nothing
but good. Then the Bible becomes the
most delusive and contradictory book ever
printed. Science and Health not except
ed. The Bible says, ALE persons) have
sinned and come short of the glory of
God John the Baptist says: Behold,
the Lamb of God that taketh away the
sin of the word ST. Paul says: 1t is
a faithful saying, and worthy of all ac-
ceptation that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners of whom l am
chief
God is love and love is principle, not
person Up. rs, H. and s.. Therefore,
God is principle, and not person. Only
person can love; if, then, God be not
| person, God cannot love. Set this over
against John, 3:16 'God so loved the
world" The person God so loved the
world. Principle cannot love. One per-
son may love another person or a princi-
pie, but one principle can neither love
| another principle nor any person Love
without personality is inconceivable. If
God is AL" as Christian Science claims,
then there is nothing for Him to love
but Himself If God is principle, and not
person, then there can be no love in the
universe. but principle loving principle.
which is folly
Christian Science speaks of The Father
and Mother God" If there were a
Father and Mother God" they must
have. been persons, and their offspring
must have been a person or persons.
Christian Science" says Man has
neither birth nor death; is not old or
young" Then the Bible makes fearful
blunder 20 speak of the birth or death of
Moses John the Baptist. Christ and all
others, and 1.-The old and the young, -
| II tnk De true.
Christian Science denies that God Gre
ated matter Up. ID. H. and 81
Cen IL. I'm the beginning God created
the heaven and the earth"
Isaiah. As II, II: II have made tine
earth and created man upon it,
Exodus, 2o:11. In six days the Lord
made heaven and earth, the sea and al
that in them is"
Isaiah. 1928. The everlasting God, the
|
John, 1.3. The word was God" "Al
things were made by Him.
The Bible says, He Christ was
wounded for our transgressions, bruised
for our in.quities and with His stripes VT
are heaied." If "all is good and good
is God" there are no transgressions, no in
Equities save the transgression and iniqui-
ties of God
The Bible says. Thou shalt call His
name Jesus Matt. 1;2l, for he shall
save His people from their sins
Through the man is preached the for
giveness of sins" (Acts, 1889
Who His own self bear our sins In his
own body on the tree" q Peter, 2:2i)
If Christian Science be true all this
talk on the Bible about sin and sinners is
mistake. God and Christ did not under.
stand
Christian Science. to my mind. is bias.
phemous," said DR.. Jordan. Touching
herself and her vagares. Mrs. Eddy ap-
plies the Messianic prophecy, of Isaiah
Unto US child is born and his
name shall be called wonderful She
forgot that the prophet spoke of a,man-
child a son'-and that he was to be, The
mighty God The everlasting Father
The Prince of Peace
THE author of Science and Health
makes herself and her theory the fulfill
ment Of Christ's prophecy and puts her
self and book above and in advance OF
Christ and the New Testament"
DR.. Jordan quoted sayings of Christian
Science, and commented upon them as
follows:
Mature and God are one" What then
is nature and what is God? He is not the
God of Nature, or over nature, but the
God Nature"
Every calculation that begins with the
body begins falsely" Then God began
falsely with man for he first made his
body of the dust of the ground" Paul
declares that the natural body was be-
fore the spiritual
Heaven is not locality but state. "
You can have no state without a locality
and no locality without a state.
Christian Science says: 1T is fmproper
| to speak of souls" This means that no
man has soul of his own, which is Ut
terly false. Our Lord says: What shall
1t profit man if he shall gain the whole
world, and lose his own soul2"
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