The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-09-26

| EuuE AT SHoit intervals Tor upwards
of eighteen years and allowing for
the passage OF time, have never seen
her manifest greater vigor strength
or alertness than at this last visit.
is Being Prosecuted
Why Mrs. Eddy should be the OBJ
ject of such opposition, amounting TO
persecution. would be an anamolous
question were ii not for the teaching
of past history.
1t is historically true that every
great hero and patriot has been more
or less misunderstood, misrepresented
and maligned. We have but to re-
member that WaShington was denounc-
ed by his enemies as a hypocrite and
a traitor; that Lincoln was called a
! tyrant, an ignoramus. and boor: and
that Grant was maligned and con.
| spired against by the little men whom
he unwittingly consigned to obscurity
! by his oVershadOwing greatness But
| even more is this true of moral and
religious reformers. History fails to
| furnish single exception to the rule
that these reformers have been mis-
| represented and prosecuted i'm the de-
| gree in which their labors and efforts
were not understood. Until their mis-
sion was understood they We're regard.
ed as innovators rather than reform
ers and therefore as persons danger.
Gus to supposedly settled conditions
and institutions. Mrs. Eddy has, to
some extent shared and is sharing
the fate of her predecessors. The
enemies of advanced thought have
ever battered themselves that by strik-
ing down the leaders they could do
stroy the cause. The opponents of the
Christian religion evidently thought
that by crucifying its great Founder
they could prevent the spread of the
truth which he had come to establish.
But then, as now the truth they sought
| to destroy was the more rapidly ad
vanced by reason of such efforts
Christian Science is more firmly estab
lished in the minds of unprecedented
and thinking people than before the
recent unjust and malicious attacks
upon it and its leader. We know
that Notwithstanding all pretensions
to the contraIl the onslaughts are up
on Christian Science rather than upon
Mrs Eddy.
Early Church Records
The early raCOrds of this church
contain the following interesting and
significant item: AT IA meeting OF
the Christian Science Association
April 10, 1879. on motion of Mrs. Ed
dy it was voted, To organize a church
designed to commemorate the word and
works of our Master, which should
reinstate primitive Christianity and its
lost element of healing
We point to the twenty-eight years
intervening history in witness of the
correctness of that early declaration
During these years many thousands
have been brought out of conditions
of sin, sorrow, grief, woe, distress
disease and sickness, who without the
aid OF this scientific Christianity
would have remained in abandoned
and hopeless conditions We do not
hesitate to say, therefore, as matter
of current history that to a most
wonderful and gratifying extent print
tive Christianity has been reinstated
and its lost element of healing been
restored.
The Scriptural Basis
We boldly proclaim that there is
very plain. very specific. and very
abundant Scriptural authority for all
, that Christian Science claims, and
especially ior what it claims with ref
erence to the possibility of healing
sickness and disease through the di
rect agency and power Of Almighty
God. will endeavor to quote such
plain parts of Scripture as seem to
us to furnish unmiStakable proof OF
the correctness of the Christian
Science position Christian Science
teaches that God is in truth Almighty
If He is Almighty then surely He is
correctly defined by the other terms
OmnipOtent OmnipTesent, OmniScient
Supreme and Infinite. He who is al
ways powerful is all powerful He
who is Omnipresent is never absent
He who is allWiSe is never less than
that. could not be by the very neces
sity of his all-wisdOm. He who is su
premo. He who is infinite circum.
, sCribes not His own infnity. could not
do 50 by the very necessity of that in.
inity Christian Scientists accept
} these terms as correctly defining God
and His character. If they do cOrrec
tly define God and His character then
} God is everywhere There is nc
place in His universe where He is not
And where God is there is His King
) dom for His kingdom is of necessity
co-eXtensive with himself.
Definition of God.
) In confederation of this conception
of God and His power and presence
in His universe and His world, | de
sire to call attention to definition
of God given by the great Psalmist
) the sweet singer of Israel, in the 1890
Psalm Bless the Lord, O my soul
and forget not all His benefits: Who
healeth all thy diseases; who redeem
eth thy life from destruction, who
crOwneth thee with loving kindness
and tender mercies; who satisfiett
thy mouth with good things, SO tina,
thy youth is renewed like the eagles
This is either mere abstract poetica
sentiment or else it is a declaration
of eternal truth, a definition of the
eternal God. We accept it as the
latter. We believe in just such a
God as the Psalmist here sings of
A God who possesses the power tC
and who does forget all the iniquities
of His children, God who possesses