The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-31
TIE QUALITY OF
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE How to Be Convinced of Its Spiritual
 Origin. THE REV. MIR. BROWN Why Many Christians Have Become Christian
 Scientists.
THE REV. MIR. BROWN
Editor of The Journal-Courler:

Editor of The Journal-C Courier:
 In your issue of the twenty-eighth instant you publish a sermon by Rev. Francis T. Brown, the subject being,' Why no Real Christian need belong to the cult called Christian Science"
 From the statements made in this sermon, 1t would seem self-evident that MT. Brown does not intend nor desire to be either just or accurate, since he persists in retterating that Christian Science includes in it's teach ing certain doctrines of Hinduism, al- though his attention has been called more than once to the fact that Chris tian Science includes no element of Hinduism nor of any other human philosophy of ancient or modern times.
 In her textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mrs. Eddy emphatically denies her sympathy with or adherence to any form of material reasoning or human hypothesis, and states that when searching, for the Principle of divine Metaphysics. the Bible was her only textbook,
 We'll might she say in the words of Paul, Gal. 1:10-12, Tor do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
 But certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
 For I neither received 1t of man, neither was I taught 1t, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ"
 To be convinced of the spiritual origin of Christian ScienceI one must accept it's premise that Sod is all, omnipotent, omnipresent,' omnlscient, a truth which precludes the possibil- ity Of any other presence or power Then, if God be admitted to be Life, Truth and Love, as the Bible declares Him to be, the conclusion must log lically follow that there Is no room for His opposite, sin, sickness, and death
 The material senses do not bear testimony to this truth, but on this basis alone can one gain a percep- l ltion of the Truth of Christian Science flor this Truth is the cornerstone upon which tho whole structure Is built
 Tn the light of this spiritual fact evil can have but an iilegitimate and imaginary place, and the claims oi evil can and should be resisted and destroyed through the understanding of Gods eternal presence, power, and allness.
 Jesus denled the existence of matter by overcoming every material law through His understanding of the su premacy of divine Mind.
 If Christian Scientists would admi that matter Is real, and the basis ot creation; that evil has place and pow CT, they would be at peace with sect and societies but the understanding of the opposite fact-that God is all hence there is no place for His unlike Iness--is their salvation from sin, sick ness and the fear of death, Th' fruits of this understanding satisfy their hope and realization that thu Kingdom of heaven IS within man even as Jesus said that the reign o righteousness, health and harmony i a present possibility.
 Our critic claims that the doctrine of the unreality of evil, adhered to b! the individual, destroys his syn1path! for his fellow-being,
 Tn her chapter on Christian Sci l ence Practice" Mrs. Eddy enjoin upon her followers the need for tha tender compassion and love whicl Christ Jesus so richly exemplified | without "pitiful patience and tn spiritual love which removes fear ant sin. a Christian Scientist cannot hop to heal the sick or sinful.
 While realizing evil to be a non entity, having no foundation in Prin ciple, a christian Scientist knows tha if he is lacking in human affection tenderness, and sympathy whicl open the channels of his thought fo the Christ-love which heals and saves he cannot hope to have the fruits O