Arizona republican., 1909-03-07
.DR. DIXON
 REVIEWED ArPaigRed For ArPaignnent of
 Christian Science CRITICISM OF [. ". WELLS. Writer Deplores the Evange- lists Lack of Christian Attributes, and Endeavors to Elucidate the Doctrines of Mrs. Eddy.
CRITICISM OF [. W. WELLS
Prescott. March 1. 1909.

To the Editor of The Republican,
 We are at a loss in our effort to l discover the reason for Evangelist Dr. Dixon's heated manner in pre- senting his subject in his sermon on last Saturday evening at his revival meeting in Phoenix, especially that part of his subject bearing on Chris ] tian Science Why should he be so | frenzied against Christian Science and | Mrs. Eddy, the founder of the Chris | tian Science church, and use express sions against each so full of malice | and hate. Have the Christian Sci entists something he has not?
 ' The writer has been a believer in | the Christian religion since his boy hood, and has been a student of Christian Science and it's textbook, Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures" its author being Mrs. | Mary Baker G. Eddy, for ten years, and is unable to understand wherein Christian Science teaching, or the | textbook or it's author, calls for so | incorporate allusionS and inuendoeS | from a Christian gentleman. at least 1 from a minister of the gospel whose precept and example should be gos- l pei of truth and love.
 His criticism of Mrs. Eddy is but a rehash of what appeared in a series of articles running in McClure's Mag aZine, supplemented by a New York newspaper. and a coterie of men who have been perusing her for years, seeking to destroy her influence and power in building up and spreading the religion she has espoused and made practical to every one through a rule of understanding discovered and taught by her.
 The contest was long and bitter Her prosecutors resorted to the civil and criminal courts of New Hamp- shire and Massachusetts and haunted the legislative halls of the two states But the courts eXonerated her and the legislative bodies protected her by turning out her prosecutors.
 Defeated on all sides, dismayed and disgruntled, their struggles have grown weaker and weaker, the last spasm being in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday evening last.
 The doctors criticism is that Chris tian Science is a religion of halluci nation.
 Christian Scientists maintain that it is the primitive practical religion of Jesus Christ, restored to this age. That they understand it as He taught it. and they prove it in the manner He practiced it.
 That Jesus Christ was the Son of God is not controverted by any one in the Christian world, and that He was a teacher come from God is ac- cepted by all.
 This, however, was in His time disputed by the Jews and denied by the scribes and pharisees, and they called for proof other than His per sonal claim.
 He responded by casting out devils, healing all manner of sickness, divers diseases and torments, gave sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf fleet to the lame and strengthened the crook ed, fed the hungry, and raised the dead, all by one and the same process and without material means or reme- dies of any kind. In fact, He over came every law of matter.
 He did these things in the name of His Father
 Their human senses comprehended these facts, for they were among those who were benefited thereby, and
  be what He claimed of Himself. These 1 acts excited their wonder because they were beyond ordinary human ex- pericnce, and they regarded them as supernatural and called them mira | cles. To Jesus they were perfectly ! natural and were the manifestations of His spirituality and spiritual un- derstanding, and of His obedience to l His Fathers comands.
 This understanding He taught to His disciples and explained to them | it's power "The spirit of the Lord 1 is upon me. because He hath anointed ! me to preach the gospel to the poor; He hath sent me to heal the broken | hearted, to preach deliverance to the l captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that | are bruised" Luke iv., IS.
 He commanded His disciples to go into all the world and preach the | gospel to every creature, and heal the ! sick
 Irenaeus informs us that this power | was practically universal among the | early churches.
 They possessed and practiced this | healing power for three hundred years after the crucifiXion, when they grad i ually lost it.
 For fifteen centuries the churches. | and for thirty years our critic, as he asserts it, have been the disciples of Christ, following in His footsteps, but | they have been obeying only one half of lis command. The Masters | command to heal the sick is as i'm perative as to preach the gospel. In fact, healing the sick as He healed | them is the convincing proof of their spiritual understanding.
 Why are they not fully the follow CTS of Christ?
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