The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-11

his SO-called book being published.
| What 1 have read of this nondescript,
regret to say, is disappointing and
misguiding,-a conglomeration of
meaningless, mortal notions, half
mesmerism and half nonsense.
| 1T is not yet explained how Mrs,
| Eddy could have developed from the
| Quimby source "a system of thought
| radically different from it.. To pla-
| giarize is to publish matter as ones
own that was written by another. We
are thus confronted by an unheardo of
plagiarism.
| Christian Science is not Pantheism.
nor does it repudiate the personality
of God. Mrs. Eddy declares that GOD
is individual and personal, in a scien-
tlfic sense, but not in any anthromor-
phic sense
| Pantheism teaches that the Universe
/ is Identical with God; that taken to-
Igether as a whole it constitutes God;
Science teaches that man, the image
and likeness of God. is one with the
| Father, in the sense in which Jesus
prayed "That they may be one even as
we are one,' but not that man is God
OF a part of God The abstract state
ment, There is no matter" needs the
fuller explanation given in the Chris
| tian Science text book. Science does
mot teach that what we see is an illu-
sion and that man has no body, but
| that the human miSconception of these
| is false. 1t teaches that God is Spirit,
as the Scriptures declare, and, there
| fore, the Creation, his likeness, is
| spiritual. True, Christian Science diff
| ferS from other theories in it's teach
| ings as regards the nature of sin, sick
ness and death, but it recognizes that
| these exist in erring mortal existence
land must be grappled with and over
/ NV hnir INC "a Mt
such teaching is in exact accord with
| the Word of God, as may be noted
| from the following explanations:
| Sin, sickness and death are declared
| to be the works of the Devil: it is
said of the Devil: when he speaketh
a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he
| is a liar and the father of it," Here
the Master plainly declares the Off
spring of the Devil, his own, to be a
| lie or falsity. In reference to the
| damsel He said "The maid is not
dead but sleepeth," clearly indicating
that he had an understanding of that
experience called death which differed
] from his contemporaries. He virtually
| denied the reality of death, asserting
| it to be dormant mental condition
| from which it's victim could be aWak-
ened by the application of Divine
power. The Science does not teach
| that disease is not real to mortal sense,
but in his practice, a Christian Scien-
| fist seeks to be so conscious of the
/ Divine power and presence as to be-
hold disease in the sense in which the
/ Master did when he said Satan
/ hath bound her, 10 these eighteen
years" while he regarded Satan as
| having no truth in him and his work
| manship as falsity.
| Christian Scientists do not believe
that there is a personal devil with
horns and ho0fs, though they believe
! that some men make personal devils
| of themselves by getting out of har-
mony Mith the divine likeness. Far
/ from denying the truth of the Bible,
| this Science is based upon the Scrip
| tural teaching, God is Spirit; God is
Love-" Every statement contained in
| the Christian Science text book is a
consistent deduction from this basic
| lesson. Mrs. Eddy's statement, The
| word Adam is from the Hebrew
adamah, signifyng the red color of
| the ground" is in strict accord with
| the definition given in Smiths Bible
| Dictionary. Her statement, divide
the name Adam into two Syllables, and
| 1t reads, a dam, or obstruction. ana
| this suggests the thought of something
| fluid, a mortal mind solution" is not
| u part of her definition of the term
Adam, but a very clever play upon
| the word Adam in which she points
| out it's suggestion. Christian Scientists
! heartily endorse the quotation which
our critic makes: Let not sin, there
| fore, exist in your mortal body" ana
He shall also quicken your mortal
bodies by the spirit that dwelleth in
you" When the mortal body is quick
ened by spiritual growth the mortal
| will have been put off, and the
immortal put on
| Christian Science teaches that the
| resurrection consists of being llfted up
out of the false, fieshy life into a
spiritual condition. 1t does not teach
] that the spiritual mean, created in the
| image and likeness of God, does not
sin, but that sin belongs to the mortal
individual-the "old man with his
| deeds" which is to be put off.
"All mortals are sinners and come
| short of the glory of God; therefore,
mortality must be put off and we must
attain to Immortality through spiritual
| developments
should interpret the statement, "The
| eyes of the Lord are in every place,
beholding the evil and the good" as
being antagonistic to another scrip
turnal text, "God is of purer eyes than
to behold iniquity.' It should be UNI
derstood that when God beholds mi
guilty it does not appear to him as
/ 3, DuL lie SeGS IL III It's IL uc
light as an Illusion. The All-wise is
not deceived; He is of purer compre-
hension than to behold inquiry.
David said THE darkness and the
| light are both alike to thee which is
equivalent to saying "All is light, and
| there is no darkness" Human sense
beholds the darkness. Which view is
correct; the human sense or the Di-
vine intelligence? We answer, God
sees all things as they are" and ac-
Icording to the Scriptural declaration
| it is proper to say There is no dark
ness"
| We assert that the teachings of
| Christian Science are in perfect ac-
cord with the teachings of the Scrip
lures. Our critic asserts that All
| well-informed physicians use sugges-
| ton and admit that many ills can be
| cured thereby, but to go so far as to
| claim, as Christian Scientists do, that
| it will cure all forms of disease, is
| quite absurd and ridiculous 1t is
quite true that Christian Science is
more bold than any other theory in
| this respect, but those who do not ac-
cept it's assertions in this line have
never been able to draw the line and
say THUS far and no further" In
other words there is no way of dis