Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-09-13
More As to
Christian Science

Editor herald: Mr.. 0eutsch makes
oopious quotations from the Bible, but
Iii these do net disprove the irdict.
ment made ty y. that Mrs. Eddy
denies nearly all tho doctrines Of
Christ etc. WHAT Mr.. D. seems to
affirm and believe viz, the Chistian
truths) in mis- art cies are denied in
Mr.. Eddy's b3ok. His articles are
read,ble; Mrs. Eddy's book il rot.
Mr., D., a. the writer formerly
stated. makes libersl use of irrelevant
and plausible state eots which are
entirely foreign to or subject-Mrs.
Eddy's irrational book.
Our Christian Science friends. Like
the Ariane, Mancteans and othe:S of
old, always seem to fud loop holes
through which they ca7 escare That
peerless champion of true Coristianl-
ty. St. Augustine of Hippo " oeatu.
ry), found it extremely difficult to pin
his shifting opponents down to IN
ISSUE: They generally said. that
they did not mean to say thst''.-
g -en il ninety-nine out of . hundred
readers underst God it that way.
Our G. g. frie ds speak about, aud
q .ote the s1blimest passages from
Christ and the Bible but these do not
answer the spec'f, charges made
agsintt Mrs. Eddy's book. The
writer gave the obvious meaning of
her book, and no isolated passages.
Before entering the historical field,
Mr. D. should have read bote sides
then he could not have made such
serious mistakes, e. g., he would
know then, that neither Calvin nor
Knox was noted for tolerance OK
charity. The former burnt Serve.us
at the stake for heresy he would
further know that tbs rigors Of the
Irq 1isitioo were continually opposed
By the Papacy. Pope Leo K excom~
municated .e iuqu's itors O t Toledo
Spain. The victims of the Spanish
Inquisition were often protected by
TIE popes of Rome whittier many had
fed. However, In those troublous
times, when the fanatical Mcors and
other enemies Of Christianity, made
repeated attempts to overthrow the
Spanish throne, the monarch found it
necessary in having the Inquisition
established to guard against those
secret plotters. But the abuses Of
which it was occasionally guilty were
deservedly condemned by the Church.
But what has that to do one way or
other with Christian Science? Why
did Mr.. D wande. from his subj Ct,
and into a field about which he
knows bit one sids! We were lot
discussing the erits of Calvinism,
or any other ism; but Christi IN
authorized work,
Mr.. D. says that we have had eIgh-
teen ce1turi.s Of f-u tless discussi %
~, ~E IN
Such was done only by mall mum.
TIE ages of the Church's existence,
Master. Even the casual student Of
history knows what Christianity die
for MANKIND To mention but few
of its tblessings-it uprooted darl
heathenism it purified the home i,
ssnctified maria ge; it abolished poly
gsmy; it taught the equality of mas
ter and slave, the rich and the poor,
before God and Caesar; it caused the
abolition of slavery, etc. Or briefly
stated, Christianity reformed and re-
generated society, which at His ad
vent was ut the lowest depths o.
hesthenism and immortality. 1t wa
the divine Teacher who renewed al
things as no one had done before.
This divine Savior I desire to follow
and at the same time wish that al
were His tollowers-not by persscu
ton, but by the sweet forces Of per
suasion and conviction. The write
would use no ether force than s:
Augustine used in converting Eng
land; St. Patrick, in converting
Ireland; st. Boni{ace IN convertinl
GERMANY; St. Rem1Rlus in onvertin{
France; or Marc uette In converting
the American Indians. ~
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