Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-12-19

! (the apostles) into all truth. If II
revealed all truth to the apostles thel
He has not revealed any truth to Mr.
Eddy today. If He revealed all trut
to the Apostles 1000 years ago, H
did not reveal il to Mrs. Mary, Ma
son, Baker, Glover, Patterson an
Eddy in these latter days. If tn
claims she makes are true, then tn
claims made by the apostles are no
true. One or the other is false. / pre-
fer to accept the teachings of the in
spired men
Now, is her claim true9 In the sens
of being divine, repudiate as false
as anti-Christ, and unworthy of the sc
rious thought of intelligent, thinking
people. Other systems have done al
that the school of Christian Scientist
have accomplished. Spiritualism
which they repudiate, in its palmy
days, had a hold on the people thi,
cult never had, and perhaps never will
have. They gave demonstration of life
after death by their peculiar methods
which were, of course, false, and theil
followers were legion, and are yet
They still have larger following than
Mrs Eddy.
Not only so, they made some
sort of show of truth by going be.
fore the public trying to prove their
claim. They possessed men of science,
of great learning, of undoubted integ-
rity, that believed the system was
true by witnessing what their eyes
saw.
And there are many today that hold
to that cult as though it were as true
as if Christ had revealed it.
1t has been exposed in every land,
city and country, until it is dying out
in many places, and yet the followers
of Mrs. Eddy repudiate it, except
some who, having heard of it, have
abandoned Christian Science for Spir-
itualism.
Emmanuel Swedenborg made thout
sands believe that he had received
special revelations from God, and that
in an especial way, he had revealed
to him a key to the Interpretation of
the Scriptures. He held to the immi-
nence of God, but maintained that
God was represented in different
forms, and that Christ was the en-
bodiment of all the Godhead. He
used with powerful effect Collosians
20. For in Christ dwelleth all the
fullness of the Godhead bodily. He
was in the beginning with God, and
was God. / dare say this is better
from the Scripture of the
Godhood of Christ than Mrs. Eddy
can give for her flimsy and foolish
philosophy and doctrine. And as be-
tween Swenenborg and Mrs. Eddy, if
/ had to choose, | would accept the
teaching of the former.
And yet / do not believe that Swe-
denborg received any special revela-
tion from God, neither do l believe he
was in the other world when he made
his revelation.
If Emmanuel Swendenborg received
a revelation from God which he
claims, then Mrs. Eddy did not. And
from God, such as she claims. Then
did not receive a revelation
from God, and if both of tehm received
a revelation from God, such as they
claim, 1 would not believe in God, for
God is God of order, and not a God of
confusion. / want, therefore, to go on
record here as against such foolish jar
gon as has been issued by these apos-
ties of anti-Christ.
Again. Is the claim that there is no
such thing as matter to the immortal |
mind truei The assumption of an inn |
mortal mind presumes also a mortal |
mind. There are, therefore, two minds. |
If there is a mortal mind there is |
logical assumption of a mortal body. |
And it has not been proven by expe- |
rience, reason or revelation that men
tality exists separate from some kind /
of organism. Mind operates from !
within without some organism.
It has not been demonstrated that |
mind does not belong to some organ, |
isms Mind and personality go hand
in hand. The human mind must have !
some base of operation, and if we are
mistaken in our senses, Christian Sci
ence has failed utterly to remove the
difficulty by anything but dogmatic !
statement that matter is non-existent.
Mrs. Eddy does not try to demonstrate
her theory that matter is non-existent. |
She merely states it dogmatically, as
though il was matter of absolute /
When Christ was on earth He gave
proofs of His power, His
livine nature. HOWE BY demonstration.
lie healed the sick, raised the dead,
'pened the eyes of the blind, unstop.
'ed the ears of the deaf. These were
demonstrations of Christ's claims in
lealing with matter. Not only so, but
when he had finished. His public min,
stry, He was tried, convicted, SEN
eneed to die on the cross. He took
hat cross, bore it till il crushed Him
y its weight, aud was assisted by an
ther. He was nailed to it and died
pom il bodily, suffered bodily, and
las buried bodily, rose from the dead
oddly, appeared TO the women, then
o some of the apostles, then to the
l, hen TO above 500 brethren at once.
'oes this sound like the nonsense of !
be founder of Christian Science when !
he declares that the fundamental prin. I
iple of her cult is, that matter is non. I
Is il possible that Christ !
ltended 10 convey the idea that He !
as without form, without substance, II
rat he was bodilessi Did Christ def In
id He live and MOve among men3 Did !