The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-26
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
 CONTROVERSY RENEWED Rev. MT. Brown Taken to Task For His Inter
 pretation. .STRAGE IMPEACHMENT Christian Healing Insensi-
 tive to Adverse
 Criticism.
Editor of The Journal-Courier:

his views of Christian Science.
 We note the gentleman's justifica- tion for his attacks upon Christian Science and his exception to the term 'self-appointed" as used by us. He says ''So far from being self-appointed to this task, I am under appointment of the Bishops of the Methodist Epis- copal church to whom as Under-Shep- herds of Jesus Christ, made promise in my elders ordination vows-'I will, the Lord being my helper, be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to Gods word; and to use both public and pri- vate monitions as need shall require. Does our reverend friend hereby wish to impeach as faithless stewards all of the good brethren, represent ing his denomination who must have taken like vows, and who are silent on the subject of Christian Science?
 By what authority does lie class Christian Science with Strange doc- trines contrary to Gods word, since the lives of its adherents are giving daily proof of their obedience to the teachings of Christ Jesus by precept and practice, and since this living is in perfect accord with the spirit of the Constitution of the United States, whereby man is permitted to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, providing he does not thereby encroach upon the rights and privileges of his fellowman.
 This form of government was special ly enacted to protect the people under it's rule from the bigoted sectarianism of the established beliefs.
 If in the pursuit of health and hap piness, one turns to God alone as the source of this good, as he is taught in Christian Science to do, and literally accepts and demonstrates the teach ings of Jesus-the- Way-shower, shall he be publicly derided and denounced be- cause he avails himself of his Consti- tutional right, and because his ideas do | not conform with the religious beliefs of other Christian denominations? We concede to Rev. Mir. Brown the right to his opinions regarding Chris tian Science CT any other doctrine or theory, but we deny hm the right to charge Mrs Eddy with the vagaries of his opinions.
 MT. Brown, i'll the course of his ser mon, claims that he would be glad to have any errors in Methodism point ed out to him eff such errors exist) but how much value would he place upon the opinion or criticism of one who had never attempted to conform his Christian life to the teachings of Methodism, but investigated this doc Urine merely for the purpose of dis covering inconsistencies and holding ur its sacred teachings for public ridicule
 In refutation of the absurd charges made by MT. Brown relative to the teachings of Mrs, Eddy regarding cleanliness, Mrs. Eddy says, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures page 9SS-"We need clean body and a clean mind-a body rendered pure by Mind as well as washed by wa, \ ter"
 The honest investigator can obtain bllSSE VIEWS Ol HIiOs I<uuy COllVGbly Dy a study of the chapter, Christian sci ence Practice" in Science and Health wherein he will find also the rejected context with which Mir Brown migh have thrown more light upon the sub l. jet in question.
 Furthermore, Mrs. Eddy most lov
 ingly enjoins upon her followers tn I.vnoaScitxy fN foJ
 as physical cleanliness, as shown |
 these words from one of her poems;
 "Cleanse the foul senses within;
 'Tis the Spirit that makes pure,
 That eXalts thee, and will cure
 All thy sorrow and sickness and sin
 Christian Science Hymna l This teaching of Mrs. Eddy COT forms strictly with Jesus injunction Matt. 2S:25-2S, Woe unto you, scribe ,,and Pharisees, hypocritesl for y make clean the outside of the cup an . of the platter. but within they al full of extortion and excess. ! Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse fir ; that which Is within the cup and pla lter that the outside of them may l !, clean alSo.
 3 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisee ,hypocrites! for ye are like unto whi O ed sepulchres, which indeed appe; r beautiful outward, but are within fu \ of dead mems bones, and of all u { rcleanness.
 ' Even so ye also outwardly appe, v righteous unto men, but within ye a full of hypocrisy and iniquity." T As to the question of denial brougl y forward by our critic, it is very pla g that he does not understand what pa n denial has in the teachings and pra | tice of Christian Science.
 ls Merely the denial of the existence
 evil, as an entity, will not deliver ol 70 from the effects of the universal ? individual belief in evil, but the req
 ization of the truth of existence whit includes no element or discord or al
 ease, together with a denial of u
 claims of error, and correspondil ; conformity to the truth in ones lii
 will effectually destroy inharmony
 mind and body,
 Jesus denied the existence of evil
 a reality in these forceful words
 ,''Ye are of your father the devil, al
 the lusts of your father ye will
 CHe was a murderer from the begi
 ming, and abode not in the truth, b
 cause there is no truth in him. Wh
 he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of h
 own; for he is liar and the fath
 of it." John 8;44.
 At this point our critic charg
 Christian Science with being respo' sble for much needless suffering, ''f