The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-06
Science

whether the modern methods are su-
perior to the our Lords and We know
of no better rule by which this ques-
ton may be decided, in this or in any
age than the test: BY their fruits shall
~ know them" Jesus and His disc;
pies furnished the important thing.
namely, good results.
Furthermore, if Christ Jesus and His
apostles were living in this age and
were to refer those who are organical
ly afflicted back to the physicians who
have failed to cure them, that would
certainly fail to demonstrate the full
ness and infinitude of Divine Power.
and their mission would in so far be
defeated. In the efforts to follow
Christ Jesus and heal the sick, men
and women today do indeed fall far
short of the perfect understand
ing and application of divine
power, but the remedy is not to
resort to an insufficient substitute, but
to strive the more earnestly to know
and utilize the perfect way. The rem
edy is not To bring our Lord down to
the level of those who are compelled
to depend upon material remedies be-
cause they do not understand how to
avail themselves of the spiritual, but
to plant ourselves unreservedly upon
the possibility of an effective faith in
and reliance upon God. and by our
sufficient striving to attain to the eX
our great Exemplar.
Rev. Albert B. Shield, rector of the
Church of the Redeemer, Boston, an
advocate of the Emmanuel movement,
in an address given in Hartford, Conn.
on May 3rd. 1908, declared that The
Old Testament prophets were psyche
therapeutics while Christ was the
greatest of ALL" We assume because
of the connection in which the gentle
man makes this declaration, that he
means to declare that Jesus was moth
ing more than practitioner of men
tai suggestion, according to the mod.
ern system. that He did not heal by
the direct power of God but through
the medium of human will: and yet
the Master said in His prayer, Not as
| will, but as Thou wilt He declared
''the words that I will speak unto you
l speak not of Myself, but the Father
that worketh within me. He doeth the
works" If we mistake not the Christian
world will object to having the word
psycho-therapeutics'' or healing by
human will power" applied to the ex-
allied and purely spiritual methods of
Christ Jesus.
Opinions Respecting Christian Science
In the book Religion and Medicine"
compiled by Drs. Worcester, McComb
and Coriat, and which for the sake Of
convenience we shall credit to DR..
Worcester further reason for the
Emmanuel Movement is suggested.
namely, that "I'he metaphysical basis
of Christian Science is too crude, too
contradictory to be accepted by the
normal reason.'' though he adds that
with all it's obscurities we find in the
Sacred Book of Christian Science great
truths
Either the Doctor must be laboring
under a misrepresentation. or else by
normal reason" he means the pecu-
liar interpretations of personal sense,
since otherwise he could not have
made this declaration. The metaphy-
steal basis of Christian Science is the
metaphysical basis of Scriptural teach
ing. The Scriptures admonish us to
compare spiritual things with spirit
ual,' for ut is the spirit that quicken
eth, the flesh profteth nothing" The
Master placed no reliance whatever up
on matter. He brushed it aside COM
pletely by declaring it to be altogether
Improbable, and 1t is certainly true
that his teaching that God is Spirit,
and the teaching of Christian Science
which is based entirely thereupon do
not conflict, nor does any part of
Christian Science contradict any other
part. Every statement contained in
the Christian Science text book is con-
contained therein, and no statement
contained therein is contradictory to
anything but material sense, that
which our Lord affirmed to be unpro-
f1table, not to be credited even in the
smallest degree.
1t is averred by critics that mental
suggestion has been employed in some
form or other during all the ages of
the world and that long before Mrs.
Eddy launched Christian Science, men
tai suggestion had been practiced. and
yet they say, IF the doctors and prac-
titioners had done their full duty
Christian Science would never have
f1ourished." Will some one of it's crit
les stand up and tell us why this ri
diculous Christian Science has -four
ished" to such an extent while this as
sertedly rational scientific" mind
over-matter," work-togethe w h :
medicine remedy adopted by the EN-
manuel Movement attracted no spe-
cial attention until the growth and in
fluence Of Christian Science made it
seem important to do something by
the way of competition and as means
of buttressing the old way? ~
1t has been said that the Christian
Scientist is inconsistent because he at
tempts to cure a disease after affirm
ing that there is none, and that Chris
tan Scientists differ from those who
are interested in the Emmanuel Move
ment in that they do not believe in
the reality of disease. In reply it may
be said that the fundamental teaching