The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1903-05-15
Edward A. Merritt, Of Cleveland, Takes
Exception 10 Statements Of
Canton Minister.
A STRONG DEFENSE OF The Faith.

In your paper of April 4th, appeared
q lengthy article as an attack upon
Christian Science, by the Rev. G.. G.
Schaub, and will you kindly allow
me little space in which to answer
some of his statements, which are
veritable misinterpretations Of the
teachings of Christian Science and are
very misleading.
In the first place, it seems very
strange that Christian minister
should send forth from his pulpit any
such announcement of fellow Chris
tians, who are endeavoring to follow
the Christ, but who, perhaps, happen
to be following with a little different
Interpretation Of the Christ.
Coming from Lutheran, does 1t not
remind one of the actions Of Martin
Luther in the 10th century, when at
Wartsburg, he began his own version
of the Bible? Does not this remind us
of the malice against him evidenced
in the papal bull OF Leo X, which was
issued against him in 1920? Did Lu-
ther teach his followers that when
another Interpretation of the teaching
of Christ should appear, that all Luz
therans or the representatives should
rise up against he new idea?
4 fe, tr,S hov ho Of Grd
as a common ground upon which we
can reason together. Christian Science
is based fully upon the Bible and it's
teachings, and no doubt the evangelist
Luther based his Interpretation upon
the Bible, which Interpretation his
followers have adhered to for many
centuries.
Christian Science teaches that there
is one creation which God created be-
cause God is the Infinite All, without
beginning and without end, and If that
be the case, then Rev. Schaub can
answer himself whether there was a
time when God created or whether
that creation is as eternal as God
Himself Surely one thing is a fact
in reality--that is Gods creation is
spiritual because God is spirit and his
statement that Christian Science says
that creation is a lie, is utterly false.
Christian Scientists believe that
there was just as much ADAM and
Eve as there are ,mortals today.
In reference to the personality of
God, Christian Science teaches that If
there is any personality God is the in
finite personality. There is no dis
counting the fact that Paul followed
the teachings Of Jesus, and Paul said
"As in Adam all die. even SO in Christ
shall all be made alive which is
doubtless what Rev. Schaub meant
when he states that the Lutherans
teach that by one man came sin into
the world for sin brings forth death.
Christian Science also teaches that
Jesus went about healing the sick.
When the teachings OF Christian Sci
ence deny existence Of sin, sickness
or death, that is an absolute statement
regarding the fact Of being for in God
there is no sin, sickness or death, but
these are mortal beliefs which the
CnrlSt came 10 ueStTOy.-
Christian Science does not teach that
sin, sickness or death are creations of
imagination, but that the world be-
lieves In these conditions until they
have learned through the teachings OF
Jesus that mortals are to be saved
from these conditions through the un-
derstanding of the Christ who stated
to his followers that Greater works
than these, shall We do Also"
Page 46S (225 ED In the Christian
Science Text Book. in reference to this
subject, Mrs. Eddy gives the following:
Sickness, sin and death being inhar-
monious, do not originate in God, nor
belong to His government" f
She also states on the next page
Jesus established what He said by
demonstration, thus making His acts
of higher importance than His words
Few, however, except His students
understood In the least His teachings
and their glorious proofs, namely
that Life. Truth and Love (the prin-
ciple of this unacknowledged science)
destroy all error, evil, disease and
0eath. -
Rev. Schaub states that scripture
was quoted to prove that in Christ's
time, sickness existed, and Christian
Scientists do not deny but that II ex-
lists just as much now as it did then
IL not more SO.
His statement that Christian Scien-
lists do not believe that Jesus is the
Savior OF the world, is false, in every
respect 1t is foolish and absurd fol-
any one to say that there is nothing
Z to be saved from. SO long as mortals
believe in crime, sin, sickness, disease
pain. but Christian Science does
teach that Jesus pointed out the way
to be saved froIn these evils, and The
way to be saved was to understand the
Christ. No doubt, Rev. Schaub In.