Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1903-12-05
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Prof. Ezra ". Palmer Takes Issus
With Prof. Warman.
POINTERS ON TIVE SUBJECT

Editors Citizen.
In your issue Of November 5. APP
pears a report of the lecture OF Prof.
Warman, which discussed at length
some featufes OF Christian science.
Inasmuch as he professor was much
confused in his concept of Christian
science and made many erroneous
statements relative TO the faith OF
large number OF Christian people.
beg the privilege u correcting these
errors.
Christian scientists readily agree
with the professor that God Is In all,
through AL and back OF all" as your
article states. But hero their agree
ment ends. Christian science makes
a sharp and clear distinction between
Christian science healing and sugges-
lion and the statement or the gentle
man that IL Is impossible to divorce
the power OF suggestion from any
form OF materia medica or any system
IF healing is not true as applied to
'hrlstlan science. Christ healed all
manner OF diseases He commanded
all his followers to do likewise. The
Chriet method OF healing Is that I'M
derstanding of the pureness and good
ness OF God. his omnipotence, omni-
presence. omniscience. which cures d.
sease even as light dispels darkness.
and just as clearly and naturally.
Jesus used no suggestion, no hypnot-
ism, His disciples did not, nor did the
/ prophets who healed Nowhere within
the Bible is there any assertion that
! suggestion Is a spiritual healing agent.
| The gentleman has made the mistake,
| by no means rare, OF attempting to ar
que about spiritual things from a ma
terIal basis. He therefore misrepre-
sents Christian science when ne as
cribes its healing of disease to the
| power OF suggestion. Auto-suggestion,
! hypnotism. mesmerism. are simply
terms for the mortal, material mind.
the carnal mind warning against God
and Is the despotic control OF one
mind over another.
The distinction between the will of
man and the will Of Gcd, between the
carral mind and the spiritual mind,
is clear to all Christian scientists.
They know that suggestion or hypnot-
ism is not the will of God but the will
Of man and no loyal Christian scien-
fists ever employ such means, They
remember the solemn warnings In the
Old Testament against sorcery, nee
rocancy and deviation and they also
remember st. Paul's warning in the
sixth chapter OF OF Galatians, in which
| ,fgt ,ha Of 40
works OF the flesh. On the subject,
The position OF Science and Health,
the text book Of Christian science. Is
clearly defined and makes evident that
the use of hypnotism Is an evil.
The gentleman states that Christian
science Is neither Christian nor scien-
tiHc. Christian scientists follow lit
orally Christ's teachings In healing di
sease, overcoming vicious habits and
destroying degrading passions. They
study the Bible faithfully, earnestly.
! eagerly. for IL has become new book
to them, a book which means what IL
says. When man has been cured
of so-called incurable disease.
through the prayer of a Christian sci
enlist, he knows what healed him, as
did the blind man OF old, who exclaim-
ed, Whereas | was blind. now | can
see," and no fiippant charge can
change the understanding that God
has healed him.
The gentleman asserted that Chris
tian science II not scientific. because
II Is not In accord with well known
! facts, the existence of which cannot
, be truly denied. He referred to the
position OF Christian science regard
a ing matter as being unscientitic. II Is
: a significant fact that the trend or
: modern science teaching regarding
matter Is toward the position held by
Christian science. Huxley himself re
fers to matters as but hypothetical
states OF our Consciousness.
: Christian science is based upon the
fundamental postulate that God is ON
e nipotent omniscient, omnipresent.
From this, all its propositions are log
i lcally deduced It is harmony. through
d out, with the Bible, and makes clear
that only tnat IL clear which is eter-
: nal. which God made and all that Is
temporal, material or ephemeral, is
unreal and therefore not a part of the
Kingdom OF God The whole Bible
s teaching Is a protest against being led
!. by the outward appearance OF things,
: by the material senses, instead OF by
the spiritual dscernment.
For We look not at the things which
are seen, but at the things which are
not seen: for the things which are
I. seen are temporal; but the things that
I, are not seen are eternal" II Corinth
:, ians. AIS.
:, Very truly
EZRA w. PALMER
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