The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-04
FAILURES AND
 CURES OF EDDYISM
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 and cost just as much to get under one philosophical scheme as under an- other. It would be great indeed if we could dispose of our physical needs by denying them but unfortunately they are too insistent and imperative for that
 There is here an illusion arising from the ambiguity of such words as real" realty" and so on which has wrought a great deal of confusion, not merely in this minor matter of Christian Science which will pass away after, another generation or two have been buried, but in the great philosophical systems like the Vedanta philosophy of India. This seems to be little more than a verbal illusion arising from the am biguity of such words as being and reality"
 Cordially yours,
 BORDEN P. BOVINE.
 Before passing to the subject of the evening may l refer briefly to state- ment in one of the marked papers above mentioned to the effect that I have misunderstood the attitude of Mrs. Ed dy's followers toward the Sacrament of the Lords Supper. I am perfectly well aware that this cult observes what they call Communion service" but it is not the sacrament instituted by our Lord Jesus said as He passed the broken bread, "Take eat; this is my body which is given for you; this do in remembrance of me" And he took a cup and gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new convenant, which is shed for many for the remis- sion of sins Christian Scientists" discard altogether the clements of bread and wine whose symbolism the true Church of Christ has ever retain ed; the former do not take and ''eat' and drink" they do not "do" what our Lord commanded to "do in renem- brance' of Him. And more than this, they do not commemorate His sacri- ficial death in what they term their communion St. Paul wrote, "For fas often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye do sheW the Lords death till He come" The Christian Seien- tist' does not ''shew the Lords death"; i; instead of, 'The Last Supper" he cofn- memorates what Mrs. Eddy calls "the last breakfast'' when the risen Jesus met His disciples on the shore of Gal flee. "This spiritual meeting with our Lord in the dawn of a new light, is the morning meal which. Christian Sci entists commemorate. They bow before Christ, Truth, to receive more of His reappearing, and silently commune with the Divine Principle thereof" Again, she says, after calling the communion service of the historic church "a dead rite" If Christ Truth has come to us in demonstration, no commemoration is requisite, for He is Immanuel, or God with us; and if a friend be with us, why need we memorials of that friend?" Horatius Bonar, whose beau tiful communion hymn has been bor- rowed with some changes by the Christian Scientists,' did not write that hymn nor any other for the use oe q metaphysical meditation service by modern gnostics. People who say "Tae eternal Christ never suffered" cannot indeed commemorate the sacrifice of ''the Lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world" Dr. Bonar's hymns breath throughout a spirit with which Mrs. Eddy's denial of the exist ence of sin and suffering and of the suffering love of God, Is utterly incom- patible.
 In continuing the subject opened last Sunday evening we pass beyond the question of the hygienic value of a clean conscience and loving heart and enter the realm of physical cures wrought through the supremacy of