The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-12-31

4 Our New Store, lO7 E. I
1918 post paid, d book which could be
sold for 81 Is to 3l.5o at a profit and that
christian Science practitioners charge
"a fee, cure or no cure; and that as san tut
one .hundre pages OF The Key to the
Scriptures, IL ttake6 up with testimonials,i
most Of them claiming that the writer's
\ were cured BY reading the Great Book
the con tent Of which they claim were
S'Reveaied to Mrs. Eddy;' " would n It not
i be pardonablo for us to conclude that
there IS Z. big money in the business md
that after awhile the older ones may
retire to pniati homes ,3 n.
The Lord Jesus Christ, by whose power
SeChristian Scientists claim to cure, did
{ not make any charge He did not author
lie His followers to make any, nor 90
We have any account OF Gnrist or HIS
Apostles retiring from their life work
until rem owed by death J; not even Paul,
nv " fioF wrote several books OF the Scrip
stures to which Mrs. Eddy claims to have
Furnished "the Key; Z, and none OF them
from all accounts died other ma y 4 poor.
And now we will notice brief the see
Sond claim; that Christian Sci nce' saves We
sinners from their sins, and furnish us
with a Key to the Scrip tures A Altl
Ne rat Is say hat 4 claim that the bible
ETOld ana New Testanlents) rs (not con-
Gains. but Isl the ord Of the Living God
that t$is inspired Of g cd verbally n
8spired +: that All sscriptnr is given, q, oy y,
Inspiration Of God and y is i.apiis y,
Rthnt prophecy came not inss old tl1t y
nv the willgsof man, en- !, 81
9Ssoad ina ke# a q they were moved ~ the
SEIolv Ghost and further, = 1at g, no
gnronl1eoysof the Scripture is OF any 3 Rl-8
8yATE INTERPRETATIONS
M ~ then let us look. j first at Mrs.
rdd,.s exnosjtion 81 Genesis. After com ~
5nentinE on the first chapter and 70 - ~! .Le
close Of the fifth verse OF cha pie ,
author Here ne ' ~ ny IT, ia
finished. All that Is maj dc Is the work oLs
God md God has created oil and all,is
5sood. ~ Going on from this a Poiln IT, the
snthor proceeds to toll US to, turn our on
gaze to the spiritual rec ord q creaSvo!..s
"a recorded up to this point 81 ana nov
/. Ibai 4 nnosite error, material view&ofS
eationli set forth history g error OF
m ma ter-is the false history IN contra
distinction to the true = "A he clence 8oIs
the first record proves the
Of the second. for they are antngo,nisllo. s.
What that has any edhS S,,t van,
recognize that old lie Of of bout %
an thousand years ago HATE: iath I, = O.
said M Other Illusions n p he y divine
record are In this error Gus !. heory,
lnatt err takes the place OF
history 81 error In its externalized forms:
called life and intellig ence In matter. 81
lit re cords Panthesms,, In this err
5ror1eous theory Spirit 10 repre sented
entering matter. III o I'd to & create
man. = The second record VI cnroniG!es
man as mitable and mortal: as having e!
broken away from Deity, and as revolyg-ss
Ing Ii, q in an orbit Of his own, Existence
separate from divinity, science regards
as Impossible Coinmenting on Genesis,
%ii:7, we read is his ddition to- HIS
81 is i'm liz concerning man and God &
1t must be the tier, for God presently
/ curses the ground. again We read: Y
a,Here the metaphor represents God ,"isetc.3
E"Here the Ito represents GOD ms repeating
Screation,,n ETC. Here falsity. error !;
( Of hypnotic state in dam. in. order 70
PERFORM surgical Operation on him and q
thereby create woman !; this Is the first
re cord 81 hypnot ,sm.' tPages 52o-5so.l
81 How plain. 4 OF any honest read er y OF
Scripture that when Mrs. Eddy came e, 70
the account IN .''st y
not accord with her self-eyolye theory,l
Y she does not scruple 4 TO prom ounce the
divine d a record 70 llo,'' theory. ~
legend. - etc. f53 "A 5si Y
& To sum up In as faw w rds as pos slpl e
the prominent errors OF tho Science
swo notice the following: Tho inspi ton
& of Scripture Is denied, the real Deity
of Christ Ia denied. tho fall OF man "a
denied. that material CREATION 70 the work;
1 Of q God IS denied, the true doctrine OF
Trinity is denied the real death Of Christ
is denied, the efficacy of His shed blood
is denied, the Lords Supper Is set aside
audible prayer is condemned; man. in
stead Of, rs we are told being lost and
needing redemption through the blood sof
Christ, Is said to- pc eternal immortal'
divine; God Is sald TO be more properly
feminine masenline. o1r y, pa taef-
g And now 1t Is proposed to US to try
Christian science,' to heal our bod les, to
cleanse us from sin, and my friend d. Mr.
sPierst,p. would take as his nom de-
plume e "a Sinner Saved BY Christian
sclence.' But what saith the Scripture?
IS And they sung a. new song, saying
Thou vast slain. and hast redee med 8, ua
to- Cod by Thy blood, out gof every kin--l
dred and people and tongue and nation;
ana hast made us unto our God, kings
ana priests; and we shall reign on the
eaptli:Fand the number of them was ten
thousand times ten thousand and thou-
sands Of thousands saying with Q loud
voice, Worthy is the I.aSmb !, Amen
y ii s s. "A Sinner Saved by Grace.
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