Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-12-19
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e way to absolute conclusion through
, divine revelation, reason and expert
. ment. The revelation of truth in th'
understanding came gradually, and ap
, parently through divine power. WheI
a new spiritual idea is borne to earth,t the
new spirit of the prophetic Scripture
, of Isaiah is renewedly fulfilled: Unto
, us a child is born, and his name shall
be called Wonderful. Z" Mr.. LahmaI
then says: 60 In view of these as
founding claims we are not surprised
upon reading recently that there is
a species Of worship ineipient among
Mrs. Eddy's followers, a sort OF
Mary Eddyolatry, as it has been aptly
called. One of these idolators indulges
in the following strain: 20, father love
and mother love and Christ love, trim
ity; Gods womanhood has brought all
! His true divinity Such blasphemous
claims on the Qne hand springing from
teaching distinctly pantheistic, and
inviting, on the other hand, such an
incipient idolatry, should give us
pause. Yet there are those who stick
to the feminine apostle with a tenac-
| ity that is phenomenal and peculiar.
There are those who are just as true
to Mormonism. We revolt at the
idea of such a system, and well we
may, but how much better is Mary
Eddy? To think of woman claiming
to be the feminine Christ, and yet
within her lifetime much married
woman, having had, according to her
count, no less than three husbands, one
of whom she was divorced from, and
at the same time teaching against the
doctrine and practice of marriage.
This is splendid for one who makes
claims to divinity"
Again Mr.. Lahman says: "Chris-
tian Science would have us discard the
evidence of the five senses regarding
the outer world and accept instead a
metaphysical dogma upon the ipse
dixit of Mrs. Eddy that stultiies sense
and common sense. If the outer world
be not real, our eyes and ears and
fingers are continually lying to us.
And are the eyes not realP If Mrs.
Eddy is right the lies are real lies;
and if so, then there is something real
besides the hypothetical principle, and
if mat be so, her god plan does not
stand alone, after ALL
eff all material things are but il
lusions, the illusions must be real il
lusions but how can real illusions APP
peal to unreal things9 The illusion APP
peals to me, and l take note of it.
What, then, must ] be9
"For Mrs. Eddy's own sake / argue
her back into reality, to whom this
Elusive outer world makes its appeal.
But if she is reality, why may not
the rest of us be likewise realities
And if we are real, why may not the
earth on which we stand be real9
els this Misrepresentation? Then
let me read from the creed of Chris |
tian Science: There is no life, truth, |
or substance in matter. All |
is infinite mind and its infinite mani |
festation, for God is all in all. Spirit |
is immortal truth; matter is mortal err
ror Spirit is the real :. and the eter- !
nal; matter is the unreal and the TEN.
poral. Spirit is God, and man is His |
image and likeness, hence man is spir-
itual and not material This is Mrs |
Eddy's scientific (O statement of be-
ing. 1t is enough to say the Bible
teaches no such thing as is here in
tended to convey.
''Let us compare this with Paul the !
greatest of the apostles. Roman S:13:
For if we live after the flesh ye shall |
die, but if ye through the Spirit do
mortify the deeds of the body ye shall
live. And again the account of John
in the raising of Lazarus. Mrs. Eddy /
goes here to prove that there is no
death, and quotes a part of the record,
which says: "He is not dead, but
sleepeth, If she had quoted the rest
Of the passage it would have been more
In accord with the principle of hon
esty: "Howbeit Jesus spake of his
death, but they thought He had spo-
ken of taking n rest in sleep. Then
Jesus said, plainly, Lazarus is dead. -
II he had been merely asleep, Jesus
would not have accomplished any more
than any one else. But the fact that
he was dead gave Christ the opportu-
nifty TO demonstrate His power, and
He took the occasion to do il. The
Great Teacher gave a demonstration
If His power over matter, even dead
natter. After His resurrection there
we're those who denied that He had
'isen from the dead. Thomas was one
# them. He said: j will not believe +,
i'll l see the print of the nails and
hrust my hand in His side docs
his not sound like Thomas used his
ense TO learn a great faetf) The
hallenge was made, and Thomas was !
convinced that Christ had risen in ,
'erson with a body like others-a ma !
erial body. When He appeared to !
thers after His resurrection they sup q
'osed they had seen spirit. But J
'hrist said: Handle me and see (the !
se Of the senses), for a spirit hath
ot flesh and bones as ye see me haye.' =
20 wonder John said; He that de- !
ieth that Jesus has come in the flesh =
} anti-Christ. - /.
More emphatic is the statement that :
he word was made flesh and dwelt !
mong men. Yet all this, with much =
lore, is set aside by this new apostle !
Interpretation. l ask, is it possi.
lie that there are those who have given n
srious thought 10 this question who =
re willing 10 believe that. Mrs. Eddy
as received such a revelation from n
eayeni that she has right to set q
hn MI