Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-08-30
Christian Science
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scourge, the fagot and torch, to the
refined cruelty Of intellectual sophistry
ard garbled mis-statenents.
1t is far from my purpose to offer
any wordy argument. plausible or
otherwise. That is the special DOMAIN
of our critics. Christian Science
presents the one unanswerable,
i1disputable argument-the Proof
ard JESUS SAID by their fruits 70
shall know them.'' Our Master also
said lie that believeth on me, the
works that do shall he do also. and
greater works than these shall he do.
Join 14:l3 Heal tho sick. cleanse tho
lepsrs. raise tho dead. cast out
devils. Matt. los. '.And these
signs shall follow them that believe:
In my name they shall Oast out devils:
they shah speak With nav tongues !:
They shall take up ssrpsnts; aud if
they drink any deadly thing, it shall
not hurt them they shall 10y hands
on tho sick and they shall recover.
Mark 10. 17:ls.
And the Bible Gays BIT let every
man prove his own work.. Gall. Ga.
<'Prove oil thlngs.'' 1. Thess. 5:sl.
BE ye doors of the word, not hearers
only. james / 40. And tho prayer of
faith shall save the sick. " James s rs.
1t is Of course easy for our friend to
take isolated passages from the
Christian Science text hook, Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
lures, by mary Baker Il. EDDY, and
separated from their connection, force
upon them his own prejudiced inter.
probation. The same thing has been
done and can be done with the Bible
or any other work OF authority, but
what is hoped to be accomplished
thereby, is beyond comprehension.
Words without works are dead and
but the cloak to hide the lack Of
deeds. We have eighteen centuries of
fruitless, dialectic discussion on the
Interpretation of the Bible and the
sayings Of our Master, and this will
continue as long as are those VINO have
nothing more profitable to do than to
whet their wits in prodtless academic
controversy. Bat the sick. sorrowful
and grooming world. aching with
pain, miserable with suffering, demands
bread instead of stone, healing as
we'll as preaching, and that is what
Christian Science is giving 10 it, the
bread of life-even as the Master
promised-which heals tho sick and
the SHINING, comforts the mourners
and sorrowing, and brings to all some
portion Of the relization that The
Kiudom of Heaven is at hand
Mrs. Eddy does no claim to be
infallible in her Interpretation of the
Bible and none need accept it who do
net so desire and none are asked to
accept it except go far as they can
obtain the proof OF it's correctness by
demonstration. We are willing to
make answer even as did Jesus, when
the disciples of John came.
"And said unto him, Art thou he
that should come, or do We look for
another? Jesus answered and said
unto them, 10 and shew John again
those things which ye do hear and see
The blind receive their sight, and the
lame walk, the lepers are cleansed,
and the deaf hear, tho dead are raised
up, and the poor have the gospel
preached to then,.'' Matt. XI. 3-5.
It is but kindness to our friend to
assume that he is mistaken when he
makes the bald, false statement that
Christian Science encourages sin by
deny ing its reality. If any of your
readers will take the trouble to read
in Science aud health, the chapters
on 'Epeayer' and "Atonement and
Eucharist" and the other passages in
which Mrs. Eddy deals with sin, it
will require no argument to disabuse
their minds Of any belief in the
truth of our friends statement. The
word "unreai' az used in Christian
Science is used in the sense of ''oot
eternal mot created by, or of
God.' In that sense, even our friend
will disagree with Us 10 the hope, at
least, if not the bslief, that sin Is
unreal. However, he chooses to take
the word thus used in it's technical
sense and distort it for the purposes
Of his argument.
But above and beyond this explaua-
ton, the fact that Christian SCIENTISTS
are recognized and admitted beyond
casil, to be a righteous, lswabidine
body of citizens, is q sufficient answer
to negative any such illusion as our
friend offers. Christian Science
condemns sin in every possible form
and Mrs. Eddy admits that it is the
worst form If error to ovarcon,o ond