The Washington herald., 1906-12-03
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.


! I desire to answer Dr. Winbigler's re-
/ Joinder to my reply to his attack on Chris
! tian Science IN Mondays Herald. I trust
/ it Will suffice, for be will agree with me
/ that mere argument does little. If one has
/ a sincere desire TO understand Christian
/ Science he can gain it by careful study;
/ for our great Master plainly said, 'Ye
/ shall know understand the truth, and
! truth shall make you free" And until
one is ready TO thus receive it he will not
/ hear
| DR.. Einbigler speaks quite strongly Of
my "criticising his book without reading
it" did read it, and found the same
statements, so often refuted, concerning
/ Christian Science-the statements that,
despite the honesty and good faith Of the
writer's, evinced a wOefuI lack Of real
understanding of the subject. He must
remember ! was not replying to his book
as d whole. but the review which appeared
/ In The Herald. and which ne claimed
was a summary Of Science and Health.
The good doctor speaks several times Of
my rushing into print" TO defend Chris
tian Science. Surely. he would not deny
me the same right that he exercises-to
defend my faith from unjust criticism.
Christian Scientists would rejoice were
there no such necessity for they prefer
to spend their time being about their
Fathers business, instead Of superfiuous
discussion.
Christian Scientists have profound re-
spect for honest physicians. whose hu-
manity and Christianity far exceed their
theory and practice; but inasmuch as they
frequently lose patients with diphtheria
and other diseases. quite fail 20 see
where Christian Scientists are TO be con
demned and called heartless by trusting
IN God-especially since their understand
ing Of Him and His Science has enabled
them many times 10 heal diphtheria and
other acute and dangerous diseases; and
this, too, after materia medica had aban-
doned hope.
/ agree with our critic that the various
systems he mentions do cure sickness.
and it goes TO verify our statement that
the cause of sickness is mental, and can
be changed by changing the belief, and
heartily agree with his added statement
that Christian Science has little in COM
mon with them. II has nothing IN com
mon with them. But IN explaining that all
mental cures are the result Of suggestion,
the doctor Is lining himself up with our
Masters opponents, when they accused
Him of being magnetizer and casting
out devils through Beelzebub. He dis
claimed such by declaring the Father
within Him did the works-in other words.
the Divine Mind acting through spiritual
law, accomplished through Jesus wonder
fui understanding the marvellous works
recorded in the Bible Our Master
said, He that believeth on me. the
works that I do shall he do also. and
greater" and just in proportion To their
good living and clear understanding Of
theNprinciple and law are Christian Sci
entists to-day doing the same. They be-
ieve God the Divine Mind is as much here
as ever before. neither "a respecter Of per
sons, periods, nor places. and that He is an
ever-pveseut help I'm time OF trouble.
How can Christian Scientists admit (as
the doctor desires them that our faith
has aught to do with suggestive thera-
peUtics. which Christian Science is abso-
lutely antipOdal to it. and Science and
Health is a cEnplete refutation of such
theories? Would Dr. Winbigler thank me
were I to state that his church and Brahm-
tiileill dlt aliltus bA 4USlSL llidt ne
come out and call himself Mormon?
Yet, no greater difference exists In the
latter than in the former
our critic need not worry over Mrs Ed
dys skillful play upon the word Adam"
by which she points out the suggestion
that Adam" is an obstruction 10 true
manhood, by separating the word tc make
it read a DAM" and il she gives three
pages to meanings of the word devil The
means three Daragraphs}. It is but to ex-
plain how this adversary. the liar and
father of it." may be intelligently over
come and not submitted to- This was
Jesus mission. We are told. Ito destroy
the works OF the DEVIL" and surely His
followers should not be smitten for hum
bly, eudeavoring 10 do likewise
I assure our critic / am neither zig
norant nor mean TO deceive" when I repeat
that the charges he speaks of, that Quinn
by's writings were plaglarisms from Sci
ence and Health are a matter of court
record. And I am quite familiar with the
account of Eddy VS.. ATens." which he re-
fers TO IN his book
Inasmuch as DR.. Winbigler states twice |
that he is doing just what urge him to
do, follow the Masters Injunction. |
Preach the Gcsoel and heal the SICK
am bound TO take his word for il: and
as Of course he is doing it as Jesus did il. /
according to demonstrable rules and law
(Which He taught his followers. the Sci /
ence Christianity I congratulate DR. W-n- |
bigler upon being a Christian Scientist. /
welcome him 10 the fold, and cordially /
recommend that he read diligently his
Bible and textbook of Christian Science (
Science and Health" and thereby grow /
in grace in the true knowledge of the /
Truth
EDWARD F. NORWOOD. |
Washington. D. c. November %