The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-07-14

selves damaging to his argument in
many instances, and fail even to
bear out the old. and in sense true,
maxim that anything can be proved
/ from the bible. Arguing that the
mighty works cf-Jesus were but Gre
dentials pointing the divinity OF his
embassage TO earth, he inadvertently
quotes our Lords own words TO the
| contrary but no sign shall be given.
/ Contending for the realty and neces-
sfty of material body, he cites the
apostolic injunction TO sacrifice" this
same body, and that furthermore as
reasonable service" Proceeding
| further he quotes in unwilling support
of our own contention, For We know
that If our earthly tabernacle of this
house were dissolved, we have
building of God, house not made
with hands. eternal in the heavens
Just here let US note a few further
scriptural facts. The sacrifice of the
body above referred to is designed
to be a living sacrifice. Significant
ly did the sage prophecy, neither
wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see
corruption. Our Lords body escaped
the worms, the material merely giving
place to the spiritual, in the consum
nation of his earthly mission on the
mount of ascension, wherein the same
body that had been racked with pain
on the cross, and fed on honey comb
in the upper room. became no longer
cognizable to the physical senses of
his disciples. There is a natural
body and there is spiritual body"
"As we have borne the image of the
earthly we shall also bear the image
of the heavenly" Presence with our
Lord in his perfect demonstration of
life eternal entails as in Pauls time
absence from the body, "for our con-
versation is in heaven; from whence
also we look for the Saviour, the Lord
Jesus Christ; who shall change our
vile body. that it may be fashioned
like unto his glorious body, according
to the working whereby he is able to
subdue ali things unto himself"
Jesus signal victory over sin, sick
ness and death, precludes the posi-
bility that any one of this awful trial
of evils may or does prove a stepping
stone to immortality, while the last
culcates that the attainment of life
eternal results from conquest
Far from arguing, as our critic so
r1diculously intimates that the
Lords struggles and sufferings in the
flesh were not real, Christian Scien-
lists maintain that HE was tempted
in all points like as we are" and re-
calling his sublime victory over ALL
and his imperative and encouraging
command, "the works that | do shall
We do also" they press as did valiant
old Paul, toward the mark" of ideal
1stic but possible attainment 1t is
but just to state also at this point
that already they rejoice in progress.
for the healing of countless numbers
of all manner of disease attests the
efficacy of their Christian system of
spiritual healing and their own spir-
itual growth
Our critics quotation of the pas-
sage in the second chapter of Genesis.
worded. And the Lord God formed
man Of the dust of the ground. and
breathed into his nostrils the breath
of life. and man became living SOUL
raises an interesting question AL
ready in the first chapter of this same
book, 1t will be recalled, we have had
the account of the creation of man
lin the image of Cod, a creation
which was pronounced in the inscru-
table wisdom of God himself very
good In the passage quoted by our
critic, however, man is declared to
have been created by the Lord God"
and this time out of dust, which dust
was afterwards cursed for mans sake
and made to bring forth "thorns.' Is
IL not reasonable to conclude, as Mrs.
Eddy has so clearly pointed in "Sci-
ence and Health" that the first ac-
count is the authentic one, that God
Spirit is the author of creation and ALI
his work spiritual and good. while the
second account (for both cannot he
true) but sets forth the human mis-
conception of the true God and of his
creation including man in the image
and likeness of Spirit, not sprung
from dirt? Recall in this connection.
dear reader, the account in Eccles-
tastes of the common experience of
dissolution of this mortal body. espec
Then shall the dust return to the
earth as it was and the spirit shall
return unto God who gave it,"
Our critics exposition of the COM
plicated anatomy of the human body
presents weak points aside from con-
flicting scriptural quotations. He
maintains that some mystic force,
works "unerringly' in the construc-
ton and operation of the human or
gan1sm. Disease and deformity every
where in evidence seem to argue to the
contrary. 1t is true that he somewhat
apologetically maintains the "benevo-
lence' of those aberrant vital ac-
TONS but We doubt if his practice
holsters his assumption in his own Ter
sonal experience when pain attacks his
body. Jesus certainly argued other
wise. since he invariably healed such
conditions and his insinuation that
mans body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost was clearly bic