St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-11-12

am not Christian Scientist because
OF it's sort OF science. Science, the sort
about which we have been taught, is the
knowledge of things, but Christian
| Science, so called, does not want to know
anything about things and cares for
nothing but its own mind, its ego, so
that there is no science but egolSm; ego
ism is all; and all besides, that may have
given us fuel, architecture, wealth, ltght,
power or comfort is all an Illusion which
we had better have known nothing
about.
am not Christian Sc enlist because
of its kind OF metaphysics. Were there
no science OF PHYSICS thetecould not have
been any metaphysics, which simply
means going beyond h. boundary OF the
physical into tie realm OF the invsltl
There can b no such thing as hardness
as an ahslrac quality existing in the
mind, without FIRST hardness is as'o
ciated with subs'a rce. There can be
no idea OF disease i'll the mind as an idea
without first there being disease as a
| part OF ap object. We come to knowl-
edge of the invisible and metaphysical
simply and altogethe by means of the
visibl and ma ural; as st Paul saws in
Romans 30, For the invisible things
OF him ON the 'oundation of the world
are clea ly seen b e understood by the
things that are made even his eternal
power and Go1head; SO that they are
without excuse"
| am not a Christian Scientist be
cause Christian Science would overthrow
Civi izaton. 1t cannot exist with the
church of ChristendOm; it cannot tol
crate our educational system; it has no
affinity with society; it is Obstructive to
science it an,agonlzes medicine particu-
larry. no matter what its benefits have
been; and if Christian Science could have
its way we should have on earth, it must
be admitted an angelic civilization, in
which we all got along without the con-
sciousnt SIS Of any exls ence but our own
incorporeal selves The world would
consist of nothing but thought; we
should think we were all mind and good
and spirit and gOdIike, we should be per
feet, our life would be a blissful dream
Christian Science is trying to lead such a
life as we hope to live in the next state of
existence, right here and now under this
present state, which is something like
caterpillar trying to be butterfly while
it is yet a caterpillar. When the frog
tried Obe anOx iteXplo |, d. The entgna
still remains as to where mortal m nj
came from that caused all tn trouble
Oh ~artb, AMI how do we know thai 1t
may not come again into somebody's
thought and upset it in the next world
and drag It down TO hell again Mortal
mind is here and is to lie reckontd with
You cannot scale mountain bv denying
its existence, nor can YOU save the world
from sin and sickness by denying that
such exist.
SIN, sickness and death will never bt
argued out OF existence, we need to unite
our forces in Jesus Christ and contnu" to
build up purer CIVILIZATION usng the
methods and language AMI powers at
hand, for lite is too short tor us to at
tempt TO overthrow this civilization and
commence another on totally dif'reut
grounds
We want aff'ctiona ely to invite all
our Christian Science fiieudS back to the
churches rom which they came, that are
suffering from the schism that has separ
ated them from the body of Christ.
Whatever YOU can do for human
will be heartily welcomed by the chu'cf'-'
es, for theirs is religion of works, and if
YOU have the gif, OF healing use it as Pat |
or Peter did in the Masters name and
We will rel DICE together.