The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-17
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK
Christian science further Defined.

10 the Editor OF The Journal
In recent issue Of The Journal
there appeared an article written by Rev.
Henry Lewis, a Baptist minister of Rich |
field, Minn.,s .criticising the as.lecture on
Christian Science delivered recently by
Miss Mary Brookins OF this city.
We are always pleased to have one adj
NIT, as our critic has done, that even part
OF the. teaching Of Christian Science is
true, especially the fact that Jesus "chief
aim was the complete salvation OF man."
not his soul only, but his body as WELL"
This Is just what we advocate, and we
do not believe he could have fallen so far
short OF his mission as to leave mankind
at the mercy Of an aching tooth or head
ache.
In view Of the fact that his whole crit
icism is based upon the way the lecturer
defines Truth ask you to kindly al
low me the opportunity of replying to his
article.
Now, let US first consider the word
'cognize,' as our friend asks us to do.
Webster defines the word "cognize'' to
perceive as we'll as to know All will
agree that perceiving is quite different
from knowing, and it was the sense of
perceiving rather than knowing that the
lecturer used the word "cognize";;. there
fore, her statement, ut is plain that the
senses do 'cognize" (perceive) matter"
and the only thing that can be known is
Truth" are correct statements and are
not 'deplorable contradictions. Indeed,
| Miss Brookins' statements regarding the
perception" Of matter and the 'knowl-
edge" of truth are absolute facts, and are
being proven daily in the practice OF
Christian Science in healing the sick and
reforming the sinner. If our critic under
stood truth to be God, and Christ to be
/ n q a hn ,1o iy,c he he
certainly would see the practical applica-
| ton of these words of our Master, Eye
shall know the truth and the truth shall
| make you free"
| Can 1t be true that one suffering from
| troublesome tooth or headache is free
Is our brother preaching the word of God
when he declares his convictions rest upon
the testimony Of the material senses,
when our Masters teaching was in direct
| opposition to mortal and carnal condi-
tons? Jesus made it plain that sin, dis
| ease and death were of the devil, evil,
4 and John said in his first epistle, For
this purpose the Son of God was manifest.
that he might destroy the works of the
devil"
We also read in our Bible-and let me
say right here that it the very same Bible
our critic calls his Bible-"It is the spirit
that quickeneth; the flesh profteth moth
| AA6, tllo WOIuS SPEAK uLtO you are
spirit, and they are life; and For to be
carnally minded is death, but to be spirit
ually minded is life and peace, because
| the carnal mind is enm1ty against God, so
then they that are in the flesh cannot
please Cod" And again, while we look
not at the things which are seen, but the
| things which are not seen, for the things
which are seen are temporal, but the
| things which are not seen are eternal"
Surely our friend must agree that Miss
Brookins' remarks were in exact accord
] with the above quotations. It does not
seem strange, however, that there are
some who still doubt the coming of Christ,
truth, here and now, when even John the
Baptist was in doubt as to the Messiah
ship until the Masters works were re.
vealed unto him.
This same truth that Jesus taught anc
demonstrated centuries ago is again re-
vealed to mankind thru Christian Science
and to understand this truth as explained
by the lecturer, would not, as our critic
puts it, reduce man in his present state
to nonentity,'' but will lift the maze
or the mist, and bring to consciousness
the real man--man made in Gods image
and likeness. -. q. ..- 49,.
Now, we all know that God is spirit
then it must surely follow that man made
after. his image and likeness must be
spiritual, mot a material dust man. II
I: John, we read Beloved now are We
the sons of God, and it doth not yet ap
pear what we shall be, but we know tha
when he shall appear we shall be like hin
for we shall see him as he isl Does thi:
not mean that In proportion as we be
come conscious Of God as our only spirit
life, truth, love and good, we are lik
, him? And does it not follow, that wheI
we shall see him as he is, we will be lik'
him? Surely 1T cannot be true that on
brother believes God would make maj
entirely unlike himself when in the thirty
, first verse of the first chapter Of Genesis
we read, ''And God saw everything tina
> he had made, and behold it was yer.
good" Frank G. Russell,
State Publication Committee.
Minneapolis, Mimi