Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-23


 decreed what is good for us.' This is surely simon-pure christianity despite the fact that Christ said: Pray that ye enter not into temptation. If you ask the Father anything in my name, He will give it to you. Ask and you shall receive, etc."
 Mrs Eddy's perversion of Scrip ture is of a piece with the rest of her Christianity. According to Scrip ture, I find that God is true and every mortal mind is liar" Thus Mrs Eddy. The real words of the psalmist are: ''I have said in my ex- cess: every man is liar" Coupling this assertion with the other that "All is mind and mind is God" it would seem to me plainly deducible that God is a liar. To be consistent with her theory that "all is mind and mind is God" and that there fore we are one with God, she hy- phenates the word atonement so as to make at-one-ment.' 10 account for the darkness which was over the deep, she makes Adam read Adam or obstruction. This is Scripture exegesis with a vengeance. It hap pens also to be chronologically false. In regard to creeds Mrs Eddy pro- claims that Christian Science has none if we accept the term as doc trinal beliefs" St Paul, however, who was a fair type of Christian, tells us the contrary when he says: Though we or angel from heaven announced a gospel other than that which we have preached, let him be anathema."
 Mrs Eddy would convey the idea that her Christian Science is a new gospel. She calls it such. She is, believe, somewhat advanced in years, but she is not by any means as old as her new gospel" She asserts, for example, that there is no such thing as matter; but Bishop Berkley in the eighteenth century asserted the same. Again she insists very strongly on the Ego as the evoluting cause of everything, and seems ob- livious of the fact that her doctrine is the old German idealism of Hegel, only she goes Hegel one better with her big M" mind and her little I'm" mind. Hegel had only one ego; Mrs Eddy has two. Although matter does not exist. according to her, she makes all the material world as com ing from the devil, and here is the old Manichean heresy of the early Christian centuries. Again we are treated to a little spicy flavor of pantheism in the assertion that "in l science it can never be said of a mortal that he has a mind of his own | distinct from God" And pantheism ! is as old as the Hindu civilization. i Besides it is a little hard on God to ! make him responsible for all the l vagaries of what mortals deem their | mind. With Mrs Eddy Christ's suf- ferings were not real, but only ap- parent. It is the blasphemous declaration of Straus, who in turn ! followed one of the earliest heresies, ! that of the Docetal.
 As to the healing powers of Chris | tian Science, I must confess that ! am not sufficiently acquainted with | that feature of it to pronounce an opinion. But I do remember to have l
  when Mrs Eddy suffered from an ul- !. eerated tooth she called in the doc i tor. I don't vOuch for the truth of this statement I know also that l Christ gave his apostles the warning that they should suffer if they wOuld enter into glory. ''I have left you an example that as I have suffered, 1 you also should suffer" know. ] too, that the apostles "gloried in . their infirmities," for in these ih- . firmities virtue is perfected. The |. elimination of suffering is not, there ! fore, an essential of Christianity. I i, know that the center of Christianity i is the cross which we are bidden by 4 Christ himself to take up. If any I man will come after me. let him deny himself. take up his cross and 1 follow me"
 have already said that my knowl- . edge of Christian Science may be i'm !. perfect, but the citations which II have made are all found in Mrs Eddy's Science and Health" They i are the declaration of her opinions s and with them as a premise I cannot but conclude that Christian Science is entirely at variance with all that is scientific and that it is Christian only in so far as Mrs Eddy and her followers are aeta@tsd by Chris tian motive
 T. IL CROWLEY.