Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-12-27

lngs. christian Science teaches one
Christ, even that saving and healing
Christ of which the loving Christ Jesus
was the embodiment.
Mrs. Eddy's Views on Marriage Mis-
represented.
The attempt to associate Christian
Science with MormoDism, and the in
situation regarding Mrs. Eddy's fair
name and character is also as unchris.
tian and ungentlemanly as it is untrue.
Mrs. Eddy's teaching regarding mar
riage is clearly set forth in a chapter
under that heading in her book "Sci-
ence and HEALTH and one in the least
familiar Herewith could not be guilty
of the statement hat her teaching els
against the doctrine and practice of
marriage"
bubble Over Words.
Our critics takes further exception to
another reference from the textbook
"Science and HEALTH and bases his
criticism on a detached quotation, in
which the author has made use of the
word "Adam," by dividing it into
~syllables, as suggestive of ga dam or
obstruction" however, this is not given
as a definition of the word, but rather
as a helpful illustration for the pur-
pose of awakening thought to the real
ization Of the character of the old
Adam-nature, which ever binders and
beclouds mans perception of the living
Christ. The sacred scriptures them
selves have at times been made to APP
pear inconsistent through careless or
willful detraetion by the removal from
their context of certain passages, conse-
quently it is not strange hat "Science
and Health" or any other work should
fare no better by such treatment.
Denies Unhealthy of Existence.
Further exception is taken by our
critic to the fact that Christian Science
denies the reality of matter, but had
the gentleman grasped the spiritual
meaning of what Christian Science pre-
sents he would have seen that this has
reference to the spiritual, and not the
mortal existence of man, and that il
does not teach hat existence is not
"real.' Christian Science uses the
word "real," as applicable to that
only which is i~ndestructable and eter.
nal, and because Christian Science in
terprets the nature of man and the
universe from a mental and spiritual
rather than a material basis, and this
in harmony with the Masters state
ment, cit is the spirit that quickeneth,
the flesh profteth nothing" it does not
deny that the evidence of the material
senses is "real" as a human expert
ence. However, it must be admitted
that this evidence is changing and tenn
poral, and consequently cannot be the
eternal reality of spirit.
Christian Science teaches that all
things in creation, be they great OF
small, are as real and eternal as their
%unchancing Creator, and it is not this
creation that is denied existence, but
rather the material concept
Of it. To the child, first noting the APP
pearing of the sun above the horizon,
and who is positive that he sees il
move, one would say that there is no
sun, although he might with profit ex-
plain that the sense of what appears to
be taking place is the reverse of the ae-
tual fact. so Christian Science does
not say TO suffering humanity,your body
is can illusion, " but it nationally ex-
plains that spiritual man is ever har
moniously existent and governed by
God. and this becomes evident in the
degree that mans true relationship to
his Maker is realized.
Instead Of denying that man has a
body or, as the pastors quoted au-
thority afirms, hat "outward world,
the eyes and ears and fingers, are not
real" Christian Science emphatieally
maintains that man, made in the image
and likeness of God, and thus given
dominion, has a body which 1t is his
God-given right under all conditions to
have perfect and healthfui, rather than
disease and distress, and it has been
that persistent contention
the diseords of mortal expert
enee. and the expectant declaration Of
man's right to freedom, because of the
ever-ehanging law Of God, does pro-
duee healhful and wholesome results
which amply justify the denial OF sen
sual evidence notwithstanding their APP
parent trus~tworthiness.
AS to Mrs. Eddy's Revelation.
Our worthy critic also finds much
fault with this doctrine being eonsid-
cred in any sense ga revelation" and
here let me say that Mrs. Eddy's dis