The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-04
rhe reachings of Christian science.


 To Editor of the Journal and Courier;
 In your issue of January 2S you print
 sermon preached by the Rev A. J.
 Haynes, pastor of the United church Of New Haven, which deeply impressed me by it's earnestness of purpose, It's unqualified fairness and breadth of Christian spirit It is, therefore, not my purpose or desire to refer to this
 sermon in any spirit of criticism, but
 merely to call attention to some state-
 ments of the Rev MT. Haynes which indicate that he has not clear com
 prehension of some of the essential
 teachings of Christian Science. The
 Rev. MT. Haynes says: The strength of Christian Science is in the affirma-
 ton of certain great truths of religious
 value. *N" Its weakness is in its denial alone-its denial of the real |ity of matter, the reality of disease, the reality of sin" Unwittingly our friend
 has reversed truth in his statement,
 for 1t is upon the unreality of matter and evil beliefs, as we'll as upon the allness of God, that the principle of
 Christian Science rests. So long as matter and evil are taught and believed to be stubborn realities, so long will it
 be impossible to demonstrate the all- ness and imminence of God-eternal good. Jesus injunction was, Let your communication be Yea, yea, Nay, nay, for whatsoever is more than those cometh of evil'' (Matt. 5:37). which may be nterpreted-affirm the truth and de- ny the error, His whole life work was a demonstration of the presence of truth and denial of the claims of evil. And this could not have been had He not understood that matter and it's false claims were but evil beliefs to be denied and cast out in order that the presence and power of divine truth might be manifested, It is self-evi- dent proposition and a scientific fact that two things cannot occupy the same place at the same time. If evil, there fore, is given place, power and sub stance in thought, there Is not an abid- ing consciousness of Life. Love and Truth. In order to overcome the claims of evil or material beliefs one must de- ny their existence as entities or reali- ties, and their disappearance as dis eased conditions and the restoration of harmony prove the denial to be scien- tific.
 The text book of Christian Science, Science and Health, 'with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, sets forth the teaching of Scientific Christianity, and the thousands who have been healed and blessed through the demonstration of it's truth give evi- dence that the denial of matter and evil, as well as the affirmation of spir- itual truth, is the essential teaching, the understanding of which delivers mankind from the thralldom of the ma terial senses, and sets him free to ex- press his God-given qualities and char 
 In the same issue of your paper you publish extracts from a sermon by Rev. pr. Brown, of the First Presbyterian church, your city, in which Dr. Brown refers to Christian Science and Mrs Eddy and claims that Mrs. Eddy had upon and developed and vital ized Christian Science) from the cue or foundation she had derived from the views and talks of MT. Quigley No doubt the reverend gentleman refers to Dr. Quimby This claim or suggestion has been denied and refuted so often over Mrs. Eddy's own signature that it seems unnecessary to repeat that Mrs. Eddy is the diseoverer of Christian Sci ence and the founder of the church which bears that name
 The doctors evident miscomprehen- sion of the teachings of Christian Sci ence is manifested in his suggestion that Christian Science has anything in