The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-09
4 SCIENCE MILITANT MT. Browns Closing Sermon Provokes Sharp Final
 Reply. MRS. EDDY DEFENDED What Christian Science Has Done for It's Faithful
 Students.
IS. EDDY DEFENDED
3ditor of The Journal-Courier:

publish the closing sermon of Rev. Francis T. Browns series on the sub ject of Christian Science.
 We desire, first of all, to call atten- tion to the fact that the duty of the Christian Science committee on publi- cation is not to enter into a discussion or argument on any question whatso- ever, but to correct erroneous and mis- leading statements relative to Christian Science
 Therefore we shall continue to point out and correct the erroneous state ments made by this critic, whose mis- conception of Mrs. Eddys teaching is so markedly evident
 Mir Browns assertion that That particular error which makes sin, sick ness, and the physical universe mere delusions of the human mind, was nev- CT revealed by God to Mrs. Eddy, and has never had the slightest connection with the teachings of Jesus Christ or of His apostles;' is denied by the fact that the scriptures say John S:S. For this purpose the Son of God was mani fested, that he might destroy the works of the devil" Since sin, sickness, and death and the so-called laws of a phys ical universe were the conditions which Jesus overcame and He came to "des- troy the works of the devil" it is plain- fly evident that these conditions were not the creation of God, but were the effect Of false conception concerning God and His spiritual creation,
 If these conditions were not illusions, they would be eternal facts and hence Iindestructlble. Since Mrs. Eddy's teaching en1oins upon her followers the same works as those accomplished by Jesus and the apostles, and these works 1 are being manifested, with signs fol- lowing" it becomes a self-evident fact that shis truth was revealed by God to Mrs. Eddy
 That one who believes what so evil 1 dently savers of fatalism and agnostic- l iEm that There is a certain order of Experience which is as it is and it's Consequences are what they are and
 will be what they will be, whatever we may think about them" as expressed in the letter from the distinguished metaphyeician, which our critic quotes, l is confounded by the claim of Christian l Science to overcome physical effects by 1 the understanding of the omnipotence of the one God, the eternal good, is plain.
 Christian Science does not teach that creation is unreal but that it is not what 1t seems. We quote from "A
 Critic Anewered' by MT. Alfred Far l low. as follows; "The general mis-
 take of critics is that they do not un- derstand what Christian Science gives in place of that which it repudiates. The abstract statement, There is no matter does not signify that the uni verse is an illusion and that man has no body, but that these are not what they seem to the uneducated human mind, Ito that quality of understand ing which does not perceive creation as God made It and as it really is. Mat ter is the name which is applied to the material concept of creation To say that there is no matter is equivalent to declaring that the creation is not truly
 material, though it may so seem to
 the physical senses"
 In Christian Science 1t is not claimed
 that we can dispose of our physical
 needs by denying them, but Christian
 Science does teach that to realize that
 man has, by right of his spiritual in-
 herltance. as the child of God un-
 limited resources from which to draw
 his sustenance is to practically demon
 strate Gods care of His children. in
 the supply of every needful thing, be it food, clothing or the more spirltua
 benefits of love, peace, goodwill to- , ward men, thus literally proving Jesus promise Matt 6:31-S3. Therefore takt no thought, saying, What shall wt , eat? or What shall we drink? ol Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do tn, Gentiles seek) for your heavenly Fath
 CT knoweth that ye have need of al these things.
 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness; and all these : things shall be added unto you" } While Christian Science endorses ant , accepts all that the Scriptures teach Il reference to ordinances and sacraments
 it may differ somewhat from other de nominations in the interpretation of tn , word.
 It dscards the material symbols which commemorate the death of Jesus as Paul expresses it, Cor. 12:26, "A 7 often as ye eat this bread, and drinl this cup, ye do shew forth the Lord death till He come" only to manifes what to them Is a higher and nor spiritual communion than the breaking of bread. a communion which sisnife that the spirit of truth which Jesu
 said would come into the world, hal come to the understanding, enabling the followers of Jesus to heal sickness and sin. Therefore they believe thu
 time has arrived to keep the ordlnanc
 es in a higher and more spiritual sense
 The Eternal Christ the spiritual man whom Jesus represented, never sui
 fered. That Christ to which Jesus re
 ferred when he said, Before Abraham
 was, I am," is the divine idea of God inseparable from the divine Principl Wnlcn IL represents, put III oFueF U reveal the Christ or the ideal man
 made in Gods image and likeness, Je
 sus had to overcome the world, tn
 hesh and all evil that "by his stripes we might be healed This sacrifice wo for him eternal redemption from tn , ills of the flesh, and opened the way o
 salvation for all mankind. For this , only a like sacrifice of self on the par of his followers, can pay the debt o | gratitude due this wayshower of man ) kind, but to confne the ordinance c f communion to the commemoration C