The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-30
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REPLY

Salt Lake City. Utah, Sept %, 1903.
To the Editor Standard; Sept. 20,
the Standard contained a somewhat
ludicrous criticism of Christian
Science by Rev. Noble Strong Elder
Kin. pastor OF the Congregational
church of Ogden, which you say the
pastor chose for his regular Sunday
evening Editorial and read before
the congregation. This criticism did
not come to us until this morning or
we should have answered 1t sooner,
The reverend gentleman says he at
tended a Christian Science Wednes-
day evening testimonial meeting In
the Secoud Church of Christ Sclen-
tist OF Kansas City, Aug Is: that the
congregation consisted of from one
thousand TO fifteen hundred cultured
and cultivated persons from the boule-
wards OF the fashionable South side,
and closes his first paragraph with
the ungeneTous statement of very
doubtful wisdom. as follows; | sup
pose that | should rejoice that any
form of religion appealed to them
Is II becoming for a minister OF the
gospel TO ridicule cultured and cul-
tivated people" when they. too. seek
safety and redemption at the mercy
seat And Is II Christian charity to
condemn seekers Of the kingdom,
either for their possession or lack
oil wealth? Does not this critic OF
Christian Science welcome the "cul.
tured and cultivated from the boule-
Yards of ogden to his church? And
If he does. why should he critlcise
Christian Science for doing tt2
The critic then says that three
men and thirteen women gave test-
monies as to the benefits they had re-
ceived through Christian Science He
relates these individual testimonies
quito minutely He says one woman
said she had gone through the sum
mer hot spell without noticing it. but
that he noticed she famed herself
during the entire service" He made
similar remarks about other testlmo-
MES thereby, through sarcasm and
inuendo, casting ridIcule upon Chris
tian Science itself But his statement
about the woman tanning herself
leaves people who have had some eN-
perlence in such matters wondering
how one In such a large audience could
take the notes he reports and yet say
the woman famed herself during the
entire service" unless his statement
can be explained as a sort OF poetic
license" in prose.
Now. how Is II? Are not these peo-
pie who give their experiences with
Christian Science as honest as other
people? They surely know the facts
better than others do or can know
them, and is 1t according TO Christs
charity 10 riGicule and make sport OF
their testimonies? And. again, how
does this critic know, as he says, that
none there PRAYED that this religion
OF healing might be carried 10 the
West Bottomsy' Is PRAYER necessa-
rily verbal2 Does he c?rtinly know
what he said?
l agree with him in his Problems
Of Selishness." Probably there is no
more universal sin than sin of self
Will self-love and self-rlghteousness.
But when he says Men need today to
be turned not toward their own
! health" / can not agree with him.
| If the Kingdom of Heaven is within,
as Jesus declared. what kind OF n
heaven would a man he In II he were
sick? And did not Jesus give much
| time and attention to healing all man
ner Of disease and command His fol
lowers TO do likewise.
Yet healing lis not the end of re-
ligion.' as our critic says. aud that is
what Christian Science teaches. On
pago 10 of Rudimentol Divine Science
| Mrs. Eddy writes; Healing physi-
cal sickness Is the smallest part of
| Christian Sclonce. II is only the buglc'
call 10 thought and action In the
higher range of infinite goodness. The