The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-01-18

giving sins as to cure any bodily in
trinity. But He wished the people to
know that the Son of man, he himself,
had power on earth to forgive sins.
Christ came into the world to take
away sin, to save his people from
their sins. The carnally minded Jews
imagined that he would restore again
THE kingdom to Israel, that he came to
advance their worldly prosperity. He
assured them that his kingdom was
not of this world. He was born in pow
erty, he sought no bodily comfort for
himself, he is adored by grateful mil
lions as "the man Of sorrows" He
suffered, sorrowed and died.
All Christian Scientists insist that
belief in Jesus, in his teachings, in the
Bible, are essential for good Christian
Scientists. When they are reminded
that the rawlings of Mrs. Eddy, the high
priestess of this superstition, directly
contradict the teachings and the ex-
ample Of Christ, the answer is that
sufficient progress has not been made
in Christian Science to understand
fully the sublime spirituality of this
mysterious faith. What can reason.
ing being do with such people? When
you tell them that their vague asser-
tions are unintelligible, their reply is
that you are under the influence of
mortal mind" If you We're only suf-
ficiently spiritually minded, you could
comprehend all their weird and IRA
tional jargon! Jesus Christ, the
eternal Son of God, tasted and prayed
He tasted forty days and forty nights
and was afterwards hungry. He was
the man Of prayer. He commanded
his disciples to pray and to pray with.
out ceasing. He took special pains
to teach them what to say, when they
did pray. The sapient oracle of Eddy.
ism insists that fasting is a sense
less belief" She says that prayer is
wholly unnecessary, as the All-what-
ever she means by this-knows what
is good for us. She is blasphemer,
but does not know it. She does not
admit Of the divinity of Christ, and
travesties his sacred word.
The common sense of the Christian
world has commended the condemna.
ton Of the HISTORIANS of the fifth
century, who asserted that there were
two persons in Christ. Mrs. Eddy
1ourishes her mysterious Key-she
claims to have a Key to the Scrip.
lures, but refuses to tell where she
got it-and insists that old Nestori
GUS was right. '"There u.s." she says
"a dual personality in Christ, the seer
and the unseen, the spiritual and the
material. the Christ and Jesus.'
"Christ is eternal" she says, "Jesus
is mortal" Again she says, 'Christ
is the Holy Ghost, the Comforter
Here are few selections from hel
chunks of wisdom: Nothing that WE
can say about matter is true" 1.-THE
theoretical mind is matter, named
brain, or consciousness" "Let u!
remember that the harmonious an,
immortal man existed forever
Gender is a quality, character
istic Of mind, not matter" "a boil 1
not painful She says to mothers
1.-THE condition of the stomach, bow
els, food and clothing, and so forth
is of no serious moment to you
child" ''The daily ablution of an in
FAINT is not more natural or necessar,
than to take fresh fish out of waite
and cover it with dirt once a day, tina
it may thrive better in it's natural ele
ment" Similar disgusting and re
voting absurdities are scattered will
generous profusion all through the il
rational book published by Mrs. >Edd,
as the textbook of Christian Science
This shrewd woman, who SCOTS a
voluntary poverty, at suffering ant
penance for the love of God makes hei
superstition pay her very handsomely
She has amassed large wealth through
the business. The cheapest edition O
her senseless book sells for three dol
lars. Every believing Christian Scien
fist must have copy, Of course.
1t is disheartening and sad to thinl
that so many otherwise intelligen
and well-meaning people would be de
ceived by such cheap, second hant
rubbish. The sad fact only prove.
that when man goes away from Coo
he makes fool of himself yer,
easily. Christian Scientists are sin
cere, are desperately in earnest, o.
course. This fact proves nothing ex
cept the temporary success of the de
fusion. If earnestness and sincerit,
were evidences Of the truth of theo
ries advocated by even intelligen
people, the. inmates Of the insane
asy lum are entitled to our respect fo
their decisions. None are more desper
ately in earnest than they.
There never has been superstition
or theory. in the whole range Of tn
history of the human mind, that ha.
not had many men Of intellectual cul
ture as it's supporters. In the age O
Pericles, Plato and Socrates, thes,
men deceived themselves and deceived
the world when they attempted t.
solve the mysteries of supernatural