The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-15
CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS REPLY.
MY. DIR. JORDAN's SERMON SUM-
NED Up by L. ii. CARAVAN.

,ce Movement as Formulated by
Ncthcr Mary Baker G. Eddy.
rev DR.. j. D. Jordans sermon at the
4>rst Baptist Church last week on Chris
.- science" has excited considerable
.orr7ent. DR.. Jordan spoke plainly of the
be1ef calling it mere "Jinglej angle. ,"
Dr5ss'i.m without an idea or ideal; Chris
,..rt " without Christ; science without
% scientific fact stated or demonstrated:
-bselosical without theology. confessing
=. he scriptural, it denies all scriptures
. rere alton without revealing anything
s1eepl Jingle angle;' claiming to be a
,erela.ion from Col, which shrouds God
in darkness and wells Him with mysti-
cal nonsense"
The leaders of Christian Science in Sa-
vannah. when asked about Dr. Jordan s
sermon. had little to say Mr.. Edward
Il Csrman of Atlanta, who usually re-
Mics 10 attacks on Christian Science, has
this 10 say in reply to DR.. Jordan
DR.. Jordans text, on which he bases
his sermon against Christian Science,
prove all things, mold fast 10 that which
IS good" is one of the favorite texts of
many Christian Scientists, because from
the teachings of Jesus, explained and
mamned by Science and Health, with
Key to the Scriptures. by Mary p. C.
Eddy they are enabled to prove that
Jesas meant what He said, when, Just
before the ascension, or disappearance TO
human sight He said, as given by Mark
Sixteenth chapter, seventeenth and eigh
teepth verses). And these signs shall fol-
low them that believe, understand; in My
name spirit shall they cast out devils;
they shall speak with new tongues; they
shall take up serpents and If they drink
any deadly thing, it shall NOT nurt them;
they shall lay hands on the sick, and
they shall recover"
This command has never been revoked,
and stands to-day as a command to all
true believers, just as truly as it did the
day 1t was given, and believers are to be
known by their fruits. Like the doctor,
the writer. when he first read Science
and Health" said 1T is all. nonsense, or
1lngle-jangle" Unlike DR.. Jordan, the
writer reached his conclusion from the
very opposite standpoint Being an in
fdel and materialist, he said. The system
OF Christian Science is founded on the
miracles of Jesus, and miracles of any
therefore, ii is nonsense"
Three years after this conclusion was
reached, one of the believers and pracu-
toners of this new-old religion, believing
that she understood sufficiently the words
Of Jesus when he said: The works that
! do We shall do John 14:10 healed one
near and dear TO this inadel. of diseases
pronounced incurable by eminent physi-
clans, thus far proving all things, holding
4s.,r.
that the day of miracles was not past.
The doctor quotes from the Bible: "All
tpersons) have sinned and come short of
the glory of Cod" and Immediately fol-
lowing this quotation he dwells at length
on the personality of God. If all persons
have sinned and come short of the glory
Of God, and God is a person, then God
must have siuned and come short of his
own glory Tor characteD. If this is true
then all must finally end in confusion.
The doctor says, "If God is principle and
not person, then there can be no love in
the universe but principle, and loving
principle is folly
Mrs EDDY says: DO l believe in a per-
sona God? | believe ia God as the Su-
preme Being. I know not what the person
of omnipotence and omnipresence is, or
what the Infinite includes, therefore /
worship that of which l can conceive,
first as a loving Father and Mother,
til n, as thought ascends the scale of Be
ing TO Divine consciousness. God becomes
to me- as to the apostle who declared it,
God is love"-DlVine principle, which ]
worship and after the manner of my
father. so worship l Cod" This is the
uus sense of worship, for says John, God
is spirit en-. VI, and they that worship
Him must worship Him in spirit and in
uuth and net as a person. What is spir-
IT. Webster defines spirit. as substance.
LEX says THE true import of the word
(suostance) is in pain English, standing
under or upho' ding" Dr.. Hampden has
said In is lcgi-al and metaphysical
Sc ,se is that ma ure of a thing which
may he conceived 10 remain when every
other nature is removed or abstracted
from it, fleming says: "Undsrlyirg all
causes we conceive of one universal and
absolute cause, ons substance in itself
persistent. ard upholdng all hings." Then
II q d S love. and Goa is spirit, and
spHlt is substance, the substance of spirit
must be the real and only substance. filI-
nag tAe universe. for all that the human
mlnd calls subst ance is subj ct to di5cord,
ue az ma dea h. is not real in the eter-
MAJ spiritual infinite sense. Thea God
mus be all in alias the Bible declares.
lie Doctor quotes from the first chap
created The heaven and the earth" In
this same chapter We read: Let us make
man IN our image, after our likeness, and
~ MN have d mnion over the fish of
lie sea. and over the fowl of the air, and
over ivory living thlrg that moveth upon
UIe earth. Gen. 1 Chap. % verse.
so God created man in his own image,
'H tle image of God created he him; male
ana female created he them That is, He
oppressed in this act of creation the two
qualnes of thought. Truth and Love,
@H''a made in His image must ever re-
HeNN TO nave power and dominion. Gen
ss's I--t) And God saw everything that
ue mad made and behold it was very
eooH Gen. 1-31) If everything is good,
whence comes evil?
, MS statement of creation Christian
oleHae accepts as the true statement of
C,rauon' and from this basis reckons The
H'ls' as the ideal man whom God created
IN power and dominion. and that this
,t.a manifested itself to the human mind
."rrV1kh the man Jesus, who tells us that
Deiore Abraham was l am thus prov
"s 'hat he antedated his own birth as
y image of His perfect principle God
=. aui realized the same fact when he said
rs III Adam all die so in Christ all are
made alive"
through faith we understand that the
Wi 'aS were formed by the word of God,
,"al things which are seen were not
'"1p' OF things which do appear"
,"esus said: These things are hid from
b, wise and prudent and revealed unto
he Again, Except We become as
IL. II ehlld We cannot enter the kingdom OF
g asen. Again. THE Kingdom of heaven