Arizona republican., 1909-02-28

says on the subject We quote ex-
 tracts from sermon on Christian
 Science recently preached by Rev.
 w. H. Beynon, Baptist, in Freeport,
 Illinois;
 Among the more recent move
 ments developed in human experi-
 ence is a religio medico movement,
 called Christian Science. This move
 ment has been variously regarded.
 The diagnosis taken by any critic
 reveals immediately the school of his
 training The remedy offered for it's
 treatment marks the type of mind
 of the physician" With that fact fully recognized, but willing to be put on record in company with
 vast number of others, and perhaps
 all in this presence, we hazard our
 opinion. allowing you to make the classification.
 Christian Science has been sum-
 moned before the bar of public trib-
 unal more. perhaps than any recent movement It has been indicted, ac- quilted, but not convicted and sen
 tenced. The talent on the prosecu-
 tion has been the most brilliant of
 lay and clerical genius. But through
 out the trial. the prisoner at the bar
 has displayed wonderful genius, com
 placency, patience, persistency and
 faith. The witnesses for the prose- cution have evinced fear and dread, and deep anxiety for public good. Those for the defense have presented actual facts of permanent good to an ever increasing number of people.
 The phenomenal growth of Chris
 tian Science in one generation from one person and one church of but twenty-siX charter members is un- precedented. Today they number in the hundreds of thousands. They are adding to their number daily A growth attributed not to theories pro- pounded, but to facts realized. Facts are stubborn things. A man falling
 into a pool, and in danger of drowning because he cannot swim or tread water, will not stop to argue the philosophy of his environment, and satisfy his mind as to the origin of the water the character of the pool. the twig within reach, but will snatch at the slender twig which child could break, and save himself thereby. So are they who are cured by Christian Science. They do not stop to enter into the mystery of scholasticism and satisfy themselves on every point in the raging contro- Versy, but snatch at the tender branch of faith" within their reach, and in a majority of cases are saved by it It is a case of life against scholarship. And even the scholar like other people, prefers health and strength and a longer lease on life than an ever questionable knowledge l about changing things.
 The time has come when Christian Science will get it's due. It has un- questionably gotten hold" of a great 1 truth in it's affirmation that the best l way to heal the body is the mind. 1 This is the contribution of Christian | Science to the world today. It mat ters not about it's accuracy of | thought, of doctrine, of metaphysics. l These things are changing within the | ranks of science itself They are des- | tined to change with every few years | and succeeding generations. But the 1 fact of the necessity of great faith l in the healing process of the body | 'AAi AiNNNA iioiC bN lOob olSil OL Dy | mankind.
 Christian Science teaches also a re- ligiouS faith. in God and Christ-the | latter notwithstanding some critics. | What more profound faith can one see than when a poor decrepit indiv- idual in danger of premature inval- idism throws all her trust in God | and her Savior, Jesus the Christ l This is heroism of the first degree. the conviction of the Psalmist of more tha ntwo thousand | years ago: Tt is better to take refuge in Jehovah than to put confi- dence in man" Ps. 11S:S. There is no greater example of faith in God in all the world than is to be found within the ranks of those some times unwOrthily criticised. This fact remains that the Christian churches that have preached faith in God' do not practice it as strenu- ously.
 Christian Science as a social move ment has a place in modern life. That that has awakened so much thought and criticism and imi- tation and correction in the living of