The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-05
DANGEROUS CREED
Brands Il a Destroyer Of
Christian Faith.
SOME OF HIS HEARERS LEAVE
Calls Christian Science a Pestilence,
But Thinks the New Cult is
Even Worse.

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Even Worse.
The Emmanuel Movement was dis
sected last night by the Rev. Isaac M.
Haldeman before his congregation in
the First Baptist Church at Seventy
nigth street and Broadway, in New
York-dissected and denounced as
the most dangerous belief that has
ever entered the creed of a church.
He branded it merely twin-sister of
Christian Science, and held it up as
even a more dangerous belief than
the cult of Mrs. Eddy.
There were several Christian Sci
entists and a few believers in the
Emmanuel Movement in the church
when the clergyman began his scath-
ing arraignment of the movement.
Some of them left the sanctuary be-
fore he had finished.
1t had been advertised that Mr.
Haldeman would preach on "Is 1t
Daughter of Christian Science-the
Emmanuel Movement" The church
was crowded to the doors long before
the evening service began. He be-
gan his subject by telling some of
the beliefs of the Christian Scientists
and of those who have embraced the
Emmanuel Movement.
"If the Emmanuel Movement did
not come in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, | would no more think
of discussing it than l would osteo-
pathy, or any other profession" he
said. He explained that the move
ment was healing by mind, or, as he
expressed it, healing by mentality
without salvation or redemption"
THE Emmanuel Movement protests
that if there never had been a Chris
tian Science it would have come into
existence just the same" said Mr..
Haldeman. Christian Science says
healing by mind and not by medi-
cine The Emmanuel Movement
says healing by mind in certain
cases. Christian Science says no
drugs The Emmanuel Movement
says no drugs Christian Science
says no physician The Emmanuel
Movement says up to certain time
no physician Christian Science
says there is no death The Emman-
uel Movement says death is as nat
ural as birth, and in the last analy-
sis death is only little removed from
birth
THE Emmanuel Movement and
Christian Science are almost twins
If, it is not a daughter of Christian
Science, it gives all the praise to
Christian Science which dutiful
daughter should give to her mother.
The Emmanuel Movement is more
insidious and dangerous than Chris
tian Science, for the latter is out
side the orthodox church, while the
Emmanuel Movement is inside.
christian Science is a pestilence
and a poison and an open sore. The
Emmanuel Movement is an ulcer, a
cancer, and canker. Christian
Science is a masterpiece of Satan,
with clothes partly off. The Emman-
uel Movement is that with all the
clothes off The Emmanuel Move
ment is Christian Science in the
church in disguise.
Wherever men in the pulpits are
preaching a doctrine that turns the
church into a hospital and the con-
gregation into clinic, they are
preaching Christian Science. The
Emmanuel Movement, when pushed
into the open, is directly against
every teaching of the New Testament
1t sets forth an absolute contradiction
to the word of God as to the founda-
tion of man. 1t makes him a psychic
being.
THE translation of psychic in the
Testament is natural The EN-
manuel Movement says that death is
as natural as birth; that the grave
is just as sweet as the cradle. If that
be so, why do the Emmanuel expon-
ents try to stop people from dy-
ing? Why not let them die?
There are on the occasions of chill
dren being born, congregations and
birth parties. Why don't they have
death parties and death jubilees?
when you see man put to death
in an electric chair at Sing Sing you
call that natural? 1t is punishment
Death is an enemy. 1t rObs the heart
the home. Jesus never came to re-
concile men to death, but to give
them hope across the silent gulf
But the Emmanuel movement tells
us it is as natural as birth. Between
the two there is lie.
THE Emmanuel Movement says
there is no such thing as virgin birth
In doing so it denies the divine birth
of Christ by the Virgin Mary, 1t
pulls the Son of God down from the
realm of deity and to the realm and
basis of naturalism. 1t eliminates
the diseases He cured. The leprosy
He cured, they say, was nothing but
a form of exzema, and they can cure
that to-day, they say.
"The object of the Emmanuel
Movement is to bring the miracles oi
healing of Jesus Christ down to the
level of mental suggestion. Is the
Emmanuel Movement Christian? Ii