Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-10-22
A Reply to Doctor Woods.
TO The Editor of the Morga,

Upon TWO Inherent OtSdSlOTS vi
recent date. we we're treated in your
issues to attacks upon the faith of
Christian Scientists by DR.. Woods in
which he grossly mistakes its teach
.ngs. Speaking Of Mrs. Eddy he
avs: ''Shc denies any Panthcistic
teaching. but this is Just as illogical
!, to deny the reality OF sickness, and
then recommend a healer to cure it
:or so many guincas,' abiding to her
teachings a. Panthcistic as: Mrs
Eddy with her degenerate old dwarf
canned Christian Science"
Mrs. Eddy certainly denies that
Christian Science is pantheistIc and
gives in irrciutablc logic her reason
20 support this assertion. by caplain-
ing the process OF spiritnali2ing ones
thought to that degree Of Communion
With God that H. light dispcls the
human error in tie character Of man.
o that. in Bibical language. ''hc has
the witncS, within himscli' of saliva
ton through CMist from sin. fear and
mortality.
She ssys in her textbook: EVERY
jystem OF human philosophy, doctrine
and Mcdicinct is more or less infected
with Pan,hcistic belief that there is
Mind in matter; but this belief con-
:radicts a like revelation and right
reason" Again, she writes: The
doctrines that embrace pantheism.
p%olytheism. and paganism are adg,ix-
lures Of matter and Spirit, truth and
error, sickpcss and sin. lie and
death. They make man the servant
of matter, living by reason Of it. SUI
fcring because oi it.. and dying in
consequence Of H."
That the character Of God is pure.
absolutely good and infinitely so. was
the teaching, OF Christ Jesus who
said: '.Elcssed are the pure in heart
:or thcy ,hall see God.' also. 1T is
the spin that Iuickcncth. the flesh
PROTECT nothing. the words | speak
unto yo' they are spirit. and they
are lite" Mrs. Eddy writes: The
SCicacr Of Chri s~tianity is strictly
nonuthcism; = it has one ';od,' and
'.Sop1cr or later all shall know Him.
rccognize the great truth that Spirit is
j iinite. and fnG lie in Him in whom
We do live. move and have our be-
ing" Then shall all nations. poo
PIE and tongues, in the word Of st.
Paul, havc. one God and Father OF
all. and through all. who is al ,vc all,
and in us all Ephcsians. iv-vi.
The God OF human fancy is certain
" the ideal of our critic, winch
agrees with Wcbs,cr's definition of
panthcism. namely. THAT tkc doc
,.rine OF the universe conceived OF as
a whole is God. that there j. no God
but the Combirel forces and laws
which are naniies' IN the existing un-
VERSE; The sanlard Dictionary
says: 1t is the doctrine OF the dcif-
cation Of natural causes conceived a.
one pc,auniHcd 9,u.re to which the
religious sentiErnt is directed"
thoughtful comparisons nthcse auth
Oritative definitions show the i'm
lassiblc gull between Christian
Science and ~Parthc,Sm.
That the doctor quotes Scopls
Eriginla. an carry scholastic philoso-.
phcr. as saving: THAT God is every
ching ,doGs not az all accord with
Mrs. Eddy's definition o. l;od, made
rom an entirely different standpoint.
tie gathers 4 medley of words taken
!rom the contest O, the te textbook On
rhrisuan Science. Many Of them
re groups Ct ~ Z" three words
only. separated iIpm the authors ex-