The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-24

tons, which kind of fruits are to the
front IF it be admitted that the latter
class seem to have the advantage, or
even to hold their own, L ask whether
we have not for sufficient length of
time experimental with building up
constantly strengthening and expand
ing and terrorizing evil as the cause
for our failure to do Gods work and
to come into His peace; and whether
the hour has not yet come for us to
obey the injunctfons of Jesus, as given
in His sermon on the mount, and to
know and to insist upon as positive,
affirmative, al1-denying fact that what
Science and Health says on page 139 is
true. ttTruth, life and love are a law
of annihilation to everything unlike
themselves, because they declare
nothing except God" And whether
we ought not by this time to realize
that our methods have become too dis
tinctive1y human, when we consider
what Science and Health Says on page
364-"If the scientist reaches his
patient through divine love he will &C
comp1ish the healing work at one visit"
and on page 4O9-''If mental practice
is used for any purpose but healing
morally and physically, it's power will
diminish until the practitioner heal
ing ability is wholly 1ost"-and-"To
let Spirit, through the power of divine
love, bear witness without argument,
to the healing truth, is the more ex-
ce11ent way"
In defending Science and Health,
Mrs. Eddy, in the January, 1901, Jour-
nal, page 597, says: ''It was not my
self, but the divine power of truth and
love, infinitely above me, which die
tated Science and Health, with Key to
the Scriptures 1 have been learning
the higher meaning of this book since
writing it." Then, I ask, was not Mrs.
Eddy a mere scribe and should the
book ever have been changed, by her
or anyone else, from its form as origin
ally written, and logically, ought we
not to prefer the best thought of the
book to what she or anyone else may
say or do in derogation of the books
highest teaching, and ought not the
first edition to be reprinted and become
itself, our guide?
So far as the charges made for teach
ing at the college are concerned, I
have only to say do not believe money
should so directly enter, as it does, into
the teaching, any more than that there
should be made large money demand
upon the attendants Of bible class
conducted by an orthodox minister.
Some system of voluntary contribution
toward the support of those who give
their life to Gods cause can certainly
be devised and relied upon if the prom
ises in the bible are to be believed
1 call attention to the sixth chapter
of Matthew and ask whether the We'd
nesday evening meetings, the testimo-
malls in Sentinel and Journal, the work
of the publica ton committee and the
general custom of trumpeting what
one has done by way of demonstrating
Gods power and love, are not de-
parture from Jesus cautions as to
almsgiving and praying, and are not
decidedly pharisaica1 in their tendency?
Third-Plans.
of outline that cannot say what they
are. So far as I am conscious l have
no intention of starting Christian
Science or any other church. [ may,
through writing, preaching or 1ectur-
ing, aud shall, so far as l am able, by
living, express my conception of what
Christian science is and what it's prac-
tice should be. Whenever anyone in
this earth attains to a fitness to heal
as Jesus did, that one will heal, and his
power will be known to the whole
world inside of forty-eight hours. He
never can attain to such healing by
practicing on others. He must await
his own spiritual growth to the point
of power, in the meanwhile fostering
such growth by acting, as his best con-
ception of right tells him to act, with
reference to every life problem which
presents itself.
JOSEPH r. GARRISON.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.