The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-08

LAS thou knowest not what is the
way of the spirit. nor how the bones
do grow in the womb Of her that IS
with child: even so thou knowest not
the works of God who maketh all" Ec-
clesiastes, XII, ).
1T is sown natural body, it is rails
ed a spiritual body. There is a nat
ural body, and there is spiritual body.
And SO it is written, The first man
Adam was made living soul: the last
Adam was made a quickening spirit.
'Howbeit that was not first which is
spiritual. but that which is natural:
and afterward that which is spiritual.
THE first man is of the earth.
earthly: the second man is the Lord
from heaven" 1Cor XIV, A. 45. 46, Al.
Editor Palladium:
Friend yesterday certainly is to be
congratulated for his expertness in
"ducking the issues involved in this
controversy, and the glossy assurance
with which he begs the question; did
he exhibit a show of common honesty
in these efforts. he would have the
writer's deepest sympathy, for one is
more than up against it," as the boys
say. when one attempts to ignore
atomic matter, organic life or
material existence. positive philoso-
ply and the exact physical sciences,
the wisdom of the ages and holy writ.
Away back in the second century one,
Montanus, promulgated very similar
doctrine. his disciples were more num-
erous and erected more costly church
ediffces than Mrs. Eddy's have, they
termed themselves pneumatic, meaning
air-like, much more appropriate name
than christian science"
Evidently Mr.. Stanhope yesterday
presumes that your readers will peruse
only his articles. and hence he may
misquote and distort my language to
suit his own peculiar contentious. We
challenge his to point out to the Pal
ladium readers wherein the writer's
exposition of the complicated anatomy
of the human body presents weak
points, and wherein his bible quo
tations conflict" With Mrs. Eddy, he
denies that 1.-The Lord God formed man
of the dust of the ground, and breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life: and
man became a living SOUL If a chris
tian scientist could be induced to look
at some dust of the ground with a
modern microscope, among the atoms
of dead inorganic matter will be seen
hundreds of minute living organisms
with life history in no wise differing
from the world of larger sentient be-
ings-"Or speak to the earth. and 1t
shall teach thee: and the fishes of the
sea shall declare unto thee. Life
comes from antecedent life" is all
that man in his essentially material
state can ever know of the immaterial
life-entity or vital force itself; but by
observation and scientific study of the
through protoplasm or living matter,
one may learn something of the won
derful works of God who maketh all.
Thus only can one know that there is
absolutely nothing mystic" or super
natural about life, that the supernatu-
raj, superstition and mystery are born
of our own ignorance of the marvellous
" unerring and inevitable laws that
govern and control every phenomena in
the whole universe; and by candid
study of the physiologic "splendors of
the human body in triumverate man,
one may learn something of what is
the way of the spirit" and how the
bones do grow" What rational mind
will say that this is creature wor-
ship" But ask now the beasts and
they shall teach thee: and the fowls OF
the air shall tell thee: or speak to the
earth. and it shall teach thee: and the
fishes of the sea shall declare unto
thee Who knoweth not in all these
that the hand of the Lord hath wrought
this? In whose hand is the soul Tor
| life of every living thing. and the
breath (or spirit of all mankind joe
xii. Z, s, Q. 10.
1t Was All in His Mind, Says Mrs. Ed.
dy; insersoll Called 1t THE
Mistakes of Noses"
In her book. Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs Eddy
not only does away with all creation
but the entire material universe,
Wherever it does not agree with her
christian science" dogma, she does
not hesitate to give the lie TO holy writ
For instance. on page 522. in discussing
Genesis. she says: In this erroneous
theory. matter takes the place of spir-
it. Matter is represented as the life
giving principle of the earth. Spirit
is represented as entering matter IN
order to create man. Gods glowin2