The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-21

| e~o6NN RSoA4C AAA9 GSll IS lulDDSSlUtG. And Mrs. Eddy offers such a self-ab- sorbed Olympian Egoist as the God of Biblical revelation who pitieth us like as Father pitieta his children, who knoweth our frame, who remem- 1 bereth that we are dust" as the God of Jesus evangel without whom mot a. sparrow falleth to the ground" and by whom "the very hairs of our head are all numbered" With such a distant and unsympathetic Principle on the throne of the universe. ignorant of our sin and suffering, our need and sorrow we can expect in Mrs Eddy's teaching no true Christian doctrine of the incarnation, nor do we find such. We'll did the Rev. Mr. Wiggin who re- wrote her revelation for her, write of it, Christian Science, on its theologi- cal side, is an ignorant revival of one form of ancient gnosticism, that Jesus Is to be distinguished from the Christ and that His earthly appearance was phantasmal, not real and f1eshly" Tn her booklet ''No and Yes" we read l Jesus true and CONSCIOUS being nev- CT left Heaven for earth. It abode i forever above, even while mortals be- i lieved 1t was here. The real Christ was unconscious of matter, of sin, dis ease and death, and was conscious only of God, of Good, of eternal life and harmony. Hence the human Jesus had a resort to His higher self and relation to the Father and there could find rest from unreal trials in the conscious reality and royalty of His Being-holding the mortal as un- real and the divine as real" Thus &C., cording to Mrs. Eddy the prologue to St. Johns Gospel is untrue. The Word which was God was not made
 flesh and did not dwell among us and
 John and his fellow disciples did not
 behold His glory as of the only be- gotten of the Father. And so she goes on to tell us that In Science Christ never died, In material sense
 Jesus died and lived. The feshly Jesus seemed to die though He did not" Jesus came to rescue men from these very illusions to which he seen- ed to conform; from the illusion
 which calls sin real and man a sinner,
 needing a Saviour; = From such
 thoughts-mortal inventions, one and
 all--Christ Jesus came to save men
 through ever present and eternal
 Good" Again Jesus bore our sins in
 His own body. He knew the mortal
 error which constitutes the material
 body and could destroy that error; but
 at the time when Jesus felt our in-
 flrmities, He had not conquered all
 the beliefs of the flesh, or his sense
 of material life"--"There could be
 no suffering in the Mind which is : God"
 Jesus students after His crucifix-
 ion learned that He had not died.
 This convinced them of the truthful
 ness of all He had taught" Was 1t
 calculated to convince them of the
 truth of what he began to teach them
 after his transfiguration as Matthew
 records It. And while they abode in
 Galilee, Jesus said unto them, the
 Son of Man shall be delivered up into
 the hands of men; and they shall kill
 him, and the third day He shall be
 raised up" Matt IT; 223. "Apckteino"
 means to murder human being.
 Jesus at that time commanded His
 disciples to "Tell the vision to no man
 until the Son of Man be risen from
 the dead" the word "nekros" in the
 singular means human corpse and
 in the plural, those who have died and
 passed to the spirit world, Thus in
 the denial of the incarnation, the
 death and the resurrection from the
 dead of Jesus Christ, we find the
 crowning example of that utter per- < version of the Scripture which every-
 where characterzes Mrs. Eddy's ex-
 egesis. She quotes St Paul as saying,
 For If when we were enemies we
 were reconciled to God by the (seenn=
 ing) death of His Son, much more, be- ing reconciled we shall be saved by
 His Life"
 Ah no! That agony in the garden,
 that Sweat as 1t had been great drops
 of blood falling down to the ground"
 that weight of the sins of the whole
 world crushing him to the earth that
 cup of which he prayed to One that , heard and knew 70 my Father, if 1t , be possible, let this cup pass from
 me"-these were no "seeming" sor- rows. That torture upon the cross, . that mockery and shame, that awful darkness of loneliness, that heart : break of love, that cry with loud
 voice as he ''gave up the ghost" "Fath- , er into thy hands commend my spir- ! Eit,"--these meant no seeming" death. ] For Mrs. Eddy, Sympathy with sin, sorrow and sickness would dethrone , God as truth;' the Christian faith sees , Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of 3 death, crowned with glory and honor; ( that he, by the grace of God should i taste death for every man. For it be- came him, for whom are all things , and by whom are all things, in bring tlng many sons unto glory, to make ) the captain of their salvation perfect | through sufferngs."
 For Mrs Eddy, eff knowledge of evil were possible to God 1t would low l CT His rank" But in the Christian , faith, the Son whom God gave in ' love to the world, humbled himself and s' became obedient unto death, even the 1 death of the cross wherefore God also } hath highly exalted him, and given him a name that is above every , name"
 , Tn the light of our study thus far 7 do we not see why the consensus l of trained and thoughtful Christian l minds has come to be that Christian g Science" Is neither Science nor
 Christianity? Let the profoundest Christian poet of the last century bear