Arizona republican., 1909-03-07

It is plain and concise and needs
 no further interpretation.
 And this is the test of the under standing: And these signs shall fol-
 low them that believe. In my name
 shall they cast out devils, they shall
 speak with new tongues, they shall
 take up serpents; and if they drink
 any deadly thing, it shall not hurt
 them; they shall lay hands on the
 sick and they shall recover" Mark
 xvi, 17-1S. And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord
 working with them, and confirming the word with signs, following" Mark xvi, 20.
 Our critic says: Christian Science is a religion without a personal God" In the textbook, page 116, Mrs Ed | dy says: Christian Science strongly emphasizes the thought that God is not corporeal, but incOrporeal; that is, bodiless. MOrtals are corporeal, but God is incorporeaL If the term personality as applied to God means 1 infinite personality then God is in finite person-in the sense of infinite personality, but not in the lower sense"
 But our critic says he has read this textbook, "Science and Health" four times, carefully, and he does not understand it. He evidently read it in vain. To read it for criticism and fault finding, he could not expect to get the meaning of it's author. What results could be expected by one wanting to learn mathematics, who reproached the author of the arithme- tic he was attempting to study and denied the principle of numbers and it's rules?
 There are many thousands of peO- pie in all the walks in fife who daily read and study Science and Health" understandingly
 Then our critic animadverts upon Science and Health" and its author, Mrs. Eddy, as being inconsistent, un- believable and the embodiment of contradiction, and her teaching a re- ligion of hallucination.
 It is regarded differently by others Not many months ago the students of Harvard invited Mir. Edward Kim ball, eX-president of the Massachu- setts Metaphysical college and member of the Christian Science board of lectureship, Boston, to lec- ture before an audience of students and members of the faculty on the subject of Christian Science The lecture was given to an audience which crowded the hall to the doors.
 From a recent issue of the New York Herald, we clip the following:
 Works of Emerson, Huxley, Mae terlinck, Felix Adler and Mary Baker c. Eddys writings will be read and form the basis for classroom discus sion in a new course of study next year in the Yale divinity school on Christianity and Modern Thought. The course, under Professor Ambrose White Vernon, is to give the student an acquaintance with the modern views of the world which have be- come influential in the present time"
 In the Arena, for April, the editors head-note reads: "F. Edwin Elwell | the famous sculptor, who is the au- thor of the following paper, is not. | we believe, a Christian Scientist, but he is a man of broad spiritual vision l He sees good in all earth's great re- ligions. and even as a child he re- jected the then popular theology l which was so largely concerned with l a personal devil, who was regarded | as the rival of Deity"
 MT Elwell writes: Christian Sci | ence is remodeling the religious l thought of the day and doing a great | work in relieving humanity from the | awful fear that has resulted from the | dogmas of the almost Christless | church.
 Its work in this respect is not un l like that of the sculptor who takes ! again the clay that has been used. ! but from which new forms arise and l more beautiful images of the divine | love of God.
 Tt is difficult to conceive the i'm | mense value to the world of Mrs. Ed | dy's great work, embodying her new . of the blessed gift of | the Christ to mankind. The old ideal . had grown ponderous as the final . ending of the Egyptian church, which | went to decay before the dawn of l because it had drifted !. away from the great ideal that had | at once been a positive inspiration and which was embodied in the wor- ship of the virgin mother of the | and her son, Horus.
 Whenever mankind's spiritual vis lOn becomes DllDutu by lldlci lstilSiiii | or the vital soul of the people is lost in the rude cunning of mems baser | passions and desires, then the world . suffers until some one comes great . enough to deserve the trust to brush away the accretions of ages and re- veal anew the truth"
 We could fill the columns of your paper, if permitted, with like refer ences.
 Mrs. Eddy and her philosophy is prominent enough to reach the digni- ty of a place in the standard encyclo- pedias, in the list of early and modern authors and philosophers.
 Our critic asserts that Christian is a prayerless religion, with out confession of sin and without a savior, and that the Christian Science God will not answer prayer.
 Science and Health" teaches: "The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God 3 spiritual understanding of Him. an unselfish love.
 Prayer is not to be used as a con fessional to cancel sin. Sin is forgiv- en only as it is destroyed by Christ Truth and Life.
 If prayer nourishes the belief that sin is cancelled, and that man is made better merely by praying, prayer is an evil He grows worse who con-