The Saint Paul globe., 1904-02-29
FULTON SAYS THEY
ARE PROSELfTERS
Pastor of Central Presbyterian
Church Replies to Letters of
Christian Scientists.

According to Christian science doc
trine my sermon of last Sunday eve
ming must have been good, for a fun
damentM principle of that faith is that
nothing in the world is sevil," said
Rev. John Mayhem Fulton last eve-
ming from the pulpit Of Central Pres
byterian church
Before his regular sermon DR.. Full
ton spoke briefly of some anonymous
letters he had received during the
week in reply to his arraignment of
Christian Science in his discourse Of
the previous Sunday evening. He
said:
I'm spite Of this optimistic teaching
the scientists do not appear to have
been pleased with my sermon and do
not appear to have relished what was
said, for 1 have received during the
week number of little missives TAX
ing me to task. These cemmunica-
tions arraign me more or less severely
and extensively quote scripture on the
subject of love and charity, as though
it, were to be supposed that / had no
Bible or had not studied the scrip
lures Some or the writer's expressed
surprise that a minister of the gospel
should say such harsh things as 1 had
said.
Didn't Sign Their Names.
But most OF my correspondents for
got to sign their names. In fact only
one of them did so. Now, my friends,
IL you have anything to say to a man,
say it to his, face, and if you have any
thing to write to a man, write 1t and
don't be ashamed to sign your name to
anything you are willing to write to
another. Don't be a snake in the
grass.
'tAs to the accusations and state
ments made in these anonymous COM
munications 1 will simply say that 1
cannot retract anything I have said.
[ meant everything I said in that SER
mon, and 1 still believe it all to be
true"
DR.. Fulton read from the pulpit one
Of the letters, which he said was about
the best of them all, and then stated
that it contained no less than thirty
two misspealed words and was written
without any regard for marks of
punctuation. s4.,sa -s}ta
Says They Proseiyte.
Continuing his remarks DR.. Fulton
said: >
I'm one of these letters Christian
Science is referred to as an innocent
and beneficant institution. I do not
believe it to be such. I have previously
uttered - a. number of accuse tions
against Christian Science and now /
am going to add one more. that of
prOselyting. Spurgeon referred to
proselyting by the very plain name of
'sheep-stealiEg," and that I charge
against the Christian Scientists.
I'm this city woman who is a
Christian sSeienHst invited a number
of women who are members Of a
Presbyterian church to come to her
home not long ago. While they were
there the hostess directed the CONVEX
sation to the subject of Christian Sci
ence and when the discussion had been
started in that channel she called upon
the reader OF the Christian Science
church, who was one of the guests,
to explain the truth. The reader
rather denaurred, on the ground
that perhaps some of the guests did
not care to hear q discourse on that
subject, but the hostess insisted and
for more than an hour the reader iec-
tured on Christian Science.
Some of those women who were
there as guests afterward made pro-
test against that sort of hospitality"