The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-20

Il love lHe IIOINs 4 hLSl lONOu nv"
MARI Guilbert, in Public Ledger
We have been reading now and then
for some weeks a work of 321 pages by
Rev. William p. McCOrkle, pastor of
the Presbyterian church, at Graham,
N c. 1t is entitled christian Science,
or The False Christ of 1866" 1t is a
book to be read with care. 1t is the
production of a thoughtful mind, disci-
piined and informed by study. 1t is a
lucid and conclusive exposure of the
most absurd and bottomless of all lat
ter-day SO-caIled religions. 1t is more
absurd if possible than Theosophy,
from which it borrows and which it re-
sembIes. 1t is incomparably the most
mystical, ridiculous, insane, stupid,
mOnStrouS sSaul upon Christianity
we have ever had occasion to eX-
&amine. 1t is a most dangerous
religion 10 q certain class OF
minis for while processing to be
perversion of the Eternal Scriptures,
and a wicked, bitter assault upon God,
Christ, all revealed truth. 1t is with
out method, without clarity of view,
full of mysticism and without logical
sequenc or true theological foundation.
1t is a far more unreasonable. destruc-
tive and Ontenable religion or Whatever
il may be called. than we expected to
find il 20 be. 1t is blaSphemOuS, oNerrun
with heresy, and immeasurably repel-
Iant and disgusting How any n
reared i'm a Christian country. with OF
binary intelligence and any desire to De
sincerely religious and faithful to God.
can tolerate this conglomeration or
wickedness, alteration, pretension, folly,
oIatr fanatacism. charlatanry, &C.
centricity, blind ignorance, platitudes.
MISREPRESENTATION and ~fallacies is be-
yond all understanding. Its ignorance
is childish, its theology a craze without
strengt consistency or any semblance
of real Biblical fundamentals. Mr.
McCorkle has done his work with
painstaking care, and has given 10 the
Christian world a scholarly,
vigorous refutation and exposure OF a
wicked attempt to destroy the religion
of the Saviour, and to make a wreck
of all the churches 1t is a satisfying,
earnest and timely contribution, and
shows wide reading II a thorough
mastery of the system or so-called
science he exposes with so mastery a
hand. 1t will prove an effectual cure
to any Intelligent professor of the re-
KiSiOn of Jesus Christ Who may nave
been something impressed with super
fetal and false teaching. and claims of
Afe uISClDlCS VI IhoI -AN'C-
Glover Patterson Eddy. now nearly
eighty years of age, who aspires to be
Goods Motherhood" 1t is a system of
false philosophy and with no genuine
Bible basis. Mrs. Woodbury. was once
and for years one of Mrs. Eddy's ablest
and most earnest adheTents and p
nents. she has learned better and
knows now of its cruel receptions and
Last December she pub
Iished in the Boston Herald some
s~tanzas. The first is this:
"Ffe, Dame. Christian Science.
We place no reliance
On all your Understanding stock
phrases and Cant,
Your creed a disease is
Like appendicitis
The poison and rot of eneffable rant.
The book of Mr.. McCorkle's is we'll
printed and bound and is published by
the Presbyterian Committee OF Publ
cation, Richmond, Va. We believe the
price is 81. so. Read ii n stand
amazed, shocked, Disguised at the poor
thing that is riddled.