The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-26


 looking the fact that probably more than two-thirds of those who have been healed in Christian Science and who are to-day adherents of the Christian Science faith, turned in this direction as last resort, after years of mental and physical suffering and failure to receive help from any other system of religion or medicine. These people give willing and loving testi- n1ony to continued freedom through the demonstration of the principle of Christian Science and through obedi- ence to the Masters command to be- ware of making clean the outside of the platter only.
 Mir Browns line of reasoning that ''the truth of Christian Science" is the truth of Christian optimism and Sug- gestive Therapeutics, the error is "the Hindu speculation that the physical world is a subjective illusion,' is not new, since just such reasoning obtain ed in the time of Jesus Christ when the scrlbes and Pharisees denounced d. vine healing as impractical and impos- sible, because 1t was in direct opposi- ton to their established beliefs and practices, for to them, also, the physi- cal universe was the real and tangi- ble and the spiritual the unreal and intangible.
 When they were brought face to face with the healing work of our Master they attemtped to account for it by the accusation, '9This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils" Matt. 1924, but this in no wise discouraged his disei- plss, who made a practical demonstra- ton of Jesus teachings and thereby had the witness within themselves of the truth of what he had taught. ! For this same reason, no amount of argument nor adverse criticism can de- stroy the power of Christian healing as demonstrated by Christ Jesus, nor prevent His followers in this age from fulfilling His commands to preach the gospep and to "heal the sick"
 MT. Brown refers to the doctrine of free moral agency and claims that Mrs, Eddys idea of man denies to man the privilege of individual choice of action because she ayers that man ! has ill reality, no mind apart from God. tG
 Let us consider the Scriptures or this subject, Jesus said. Matt. 5:4s '+Be ye therefore perfect even as youi Father which is in heaven is perfect In confirmation of this we have Paul's words, Phil. 2:5, Let this mind be iF lyou, which was also in Christ Jesus" | Christian Scientists do not claim tha they at present, manifest this perfec, ton. but by following Paul's injunction "to put off the old man with his deeds through consecrated prayer, self-de Inlal. struggle and -immolatlon art lputting Ion the new man which is re IneweI in knowledge after the image O
 Him that created him Col. S.9, 10.
 Science and Health teaches that tn
 real and ideal man abides forever wit
 the Father. is inseparable from Hi
 divine prine pie, love, and in this di
 vine state of consciousness he coult
 never experience evil nor sinful be
 llefs, hut the mortal who has to hum
 an sense attempted to usurp the plac
 of this divine idea, needs the purify
 ing. cleansing, and exalting expert
 ences which destroy the beliefs of tn flesh, rend the veil of matter and re
 veal Gods image and likeness. The,
 man awakens to the scientific fac : that the real man never sins nor sui
 fers, that all that seems to suffer the mortal sense which denies God perfection and allness. Through thi : very suffering evil destroys itself an
 leaves the field to God and His idea . man.
 While we can not agree with ou ! reverend critic regarding the doctrir al points under discussion during tt
 past few weeks, and have found
 true that 'The best sermon ev,
 preached Is Truth practiced and d :, ,monstrated by the destruction of si i sickness and death" Science ar
 Health, page 2O1.), yet in conclusiC l. Live would say in the words of Abra l, kto Lot, Gen. 1S:S, Let there be $ strife, I pray thee, between me al e thee and between my herdman al q thy herdmen; for we be brethren" e ROSEMARY o. ANDERSON,
 Committee on Publication for Go st necticut.
 t. New London, Conn, Oct. 23, 1907.