Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-12-19
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are some Of the truths that Christia
Science maintains that gives it prom
nence and standingi
/. The teaching that one mind in
fuences another mind. This was tru
long before Mrs. Eddy confirmed it.
| 2. That the use Of our mental pow
ers will ward off trouble, sorrow, sick
ness (of some character), and will
make one contented and happy.
3. That association of ideas will
make people better and give perma
nence to life.
All this is true, and more, but thiI
is far from the right to claim miracu
lous power in mindhealing and SINH
lar things. There are thousands OF
people who would be as happy as it il
possible for people to be If they would
exercise the mental faculties God has
given them.
The human mind is wonderful safe.
guard in everything that goes to make
happy and prosperous people, if we
will but use the gift God has given us
for the highest purposes of life. ]
have made people better when the doc
tor had failed, because / used the God
given right TO brighten the sick room
and cheer the nthearted in their
distress and sadness. But that is far
from assuming that / had any partic-
ular power that others might not have
but for the use of the gift. / do not
believe that Mrs. Eddy ever received
any special revelation from God that
i have not received, or any other stu
dent of religious life, and the Book of
God. Now, let us look into her claims
awhile, and see if they be true or
false.
Here is passage that the follow
ers of Mrs Eddy claim mark her as
the new apostle of Christ on earth:
"And ] saw another mighty angel
come down from heaven clothed with
cloud, and he had in his hand a lit
tie book open, and he set his right foot
on the sea and his left foot on the
EARTH and cried with a loud voice, as
when a lion roareth. And there APP
peared great wonder in heaven;
woman clothed with the sun, and the
moon under her feet, and upon her
head crown of II stars; and she, be-
ing with child, cried, travailing in
birth and pain to be delivered And
there appeared another wonder in
heaven; and behold a great dragon,
seven crowns on his head; and his tail
drew the third part of the stars of
heaven and did cast them to the earth;
and the dragon stood before the wo-
man which was ready to be delivered,
for to devour her child as soon as it
was born. And she brought forth a
man child who was to rule all nations
with rod of iron; and her child was
caught up of God and to His throne;
and the woman fed to the wilderness,
where she had place prepared of God,
and they should feed her there,
two hundred and three
score days" "
Here is the claim of the Feminine
of the Messianic Expecta-
tion.p The woman clothed with the
sun is declared by a disciple of the
new cult TO be Mrs. Eddy (and she has
not denied it.) The devotees of this
woman maintain, and it is not denied
by her, that the man child born to the
Apocalyptc woman, is Christian Sci
ence. while the angelic little book pre-
reding this birth is Mrs. Eddy's "Sci-
ence of Health, With Key to the
Scriptures. Is Mrs. Eddy that wo-
MANI Is the moon under her feet
Are the stars-the IL stars on her
headP Is she antagonized by great
dragon ready TO destroy her revela-
tioni Is her Christian Science to rule
all nations with a rod of iron9 Was
this man child caught up into heavene
Was Portland, Me-, Lynn, Mass, or
Boston the wilderness to which this |
woman was to flee after her travail, |
W is tho desert TO be looked for in her |
Pleasant View estate at Concord, |
N H., whittier the prophecies of Chris
ian Science retreated some years |
lgol' These questions were asked |
several years ago in the Arena, and
nave not been answered yet.
God says that in these last days He
las spoken TO us through His Son,
whom He hath made heir of all things, |
~ whom He also made the world. L
10 not believe, therefore, that Mrs.
Eddy received any special revelation
rom God that, He has not revealed TO
ne. DO not believe she is the wo-
nan mentioned in Revelation.
Some reasons for this belief is in
she puts ON the world of
lod, to say nothing Of the absurd spec
lations she makes, that have no war
ant in the Scriptures nor in sound
eason and philosophy.
One Of the principle teachings she
efends, and which, TO her and her
isciples, has become hobby, is that
here Is no matter. That all is mind.
hat God is all mind, all thought, all
I'VE, etc, etc. That God is a princi-
le. These are the first and funda-
lental things the followers of this wo-
IAN must believe.
Are these claims trnel God is rep.
scented as a person. The Holy Spirit
represented as a person. Christ is ]
presented as a person. But this new
postle sets aside all these claims Of I
le Sculptures with dogmatism that !
truly dogmatie. God is represented !
, the Father OF the race. Fatherhood !
personality. That which i
presents relationship must have per n
'nality. And il cannot be avoided. I
Is unthipkable 10 associate God with /