The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-28

you about hospitals or poor children or heart-broken women, or earth's
 troubles Think only pleasant thoughts which is the quintessence of selfshness and the Quadruple extract thereof. It releases a man from any necessity of assisting the hospitals for consump- tives, or sacrificing to cure social ills, and help him to crawl into a silken nest and live on rose leaves. It would save some of us several thousand dol lars a year to accept the philosophy that there is no suffering or sin in the world and set us free to use all that money on our own pleasures Thus Mrs. Eddys Hinduism appears to the famous Congregational divine. More than one beautiful Christian home have l known to be broken up, more than one noble Christian man have known to be broken-hearted because of the heartless and pharasaic with drawal of Christian Scientist wife from the family life, the family sym pathy the family prayer.
 This tendency of Eddyism to cut off its devotee from the common world of human sympathy, to shut the mind against all reading and inter course outside it's own provincial limit, has not only divided hearts plighted in the most sacred troth, but does not cease until the scientist has disre- garded the dying command of the Lord and has withdrawn from participation In the holy communion as being but a
 dead rite"
 And yet intertwined with this er- TOT are truths which are part of our common heritage in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. To be sure these truths themselves are. often partially
 vitiated by the error with which Mrs.
 Eddy has sought to combine them but
 mighty truths they are, and the
 Church of the living God should ap-
 propriate them and conquer by them
 where again and again she has failed
 in the past. Among these truths are, the essentially spiritual nature of the
 universe-the absolute goodness and
 love of God, the immediateness of God, the duty and privilege of the
 Christian to know God directly, and moment by moment to lean upon His power and live by His life-the call of the Christian to unfailing love and joy and peace, and the tendency of the Gospel to make one who answers this call whole in body, mind and spirit. But these truths are not new discoveries: they have been obscured at times, and they have been practi- cally untested by multltudes of nom inal Christians, but in greater or less degree and extent, they have been ex- emplified by the church in all genera tions from the day of the Pentecost until now. It is clear that no Chris l tian need join cult that confuses er- TOT with truth, in order to practice the | presence of God, or to find Him our
 exceeding joy" and the health of our ] countenance."
 When Mrs. Eddy first conceived her
 metaphysics, group of men like ] Huxley and Tyndall and Spencer were ! teaching that in matter was to be found "the promise and potency of lIlife." An impersonal way of taking the world was regnant and religious 1 faith was numb and shivering in a l universe of matter and motion and
 law that expressed only an unknowa-
 ble energy. In his discourse on the
 Scientific use of the Imagination" de- 1 livered in 1870, Tyndall said of the hypothesis of Natural Evolution
 Strip it naked and you stand face to face with the notion that not alone the more ignoble forms of animalcular or animal life not alone the exquisite and wonderful mechanism of the human body, but that the human mind itself-emotion, intellect, will, and all their phenornena--wer once latent in
 fiery cloud. Many would assent to the position that at the present mo-
 ment, all our philosophy, all our po- etry, all our science, and all our art
 Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, and Ra- phael-are potential in the fires of the
 sun" Not all Tyndalls effort to in- vest matter, as 'the living garment of
 God" with nystiepotentialty, could re- deem such writing from philosophical absurdity. A nemesis of reaction was | inevitable; nothing can make one SC patient with Mrs. Eddy's impossible (Continued on Eighth Page)