The Glenwood post., 1909-01-09
TO THE eLn,rwooD POST

TO THE 0LHNWOOD FO81
In your issue of Dec. 18th you pub
lish the sermon of Rev. Foote in which
he offers an explanation of Christian
Science and its progress. The follow
ing are submitted in spirit of broth
erly love, in obedience to the golden
rule.
1t is hardly fair to designate the
older churches of creeds and dogmas
that teach of God greatly to be fear
sd-who imposes evil as well a. good
upon His creatures, furnishing some
eternally while He rewards others-as
The Christian church, and not to desig-
late as Christian the Christian Science
church which without evasion or quail
fcation is striving to carry out in
their entirety the teaching of Christ
Jesus, teachings that recognize God as
perfect infinite Love, who sendeth only
good and always bestows the tender
est love upon His children.
Christian Science based wholly upon
the Bible teaches the vital Principle by
which Christ Jesus overcame all error.
It's textbook, Science and Health, by
Mary Baker Eddy is accepted by all
Christian Scientists as the spiritual in
depreciation of the Bible. Up to the
time that Mrs. Eddy discovered and
founded Christian Science, there was
no known scientific method of spiritual
healing True Christianity, as taught
and practiced by Christ Jesus, about
three hundred years after his ascension
became debased by worldly opinions and
human concepts, confused with pagani-
SIN and idolatry; the alteration of human
personality took the place of the wor.
ship of one infinite God, then the heal.
ing power possessed by the early Christ
ians by virtue of their pure, uplifted
faith was lost and Christian healing
was relegated to the dim and distant
past.
Jesus at one time said: "1 have
many things to tell you, but ye can
not bear them now" The people Of
his time even rejected the simple
truths he taught in genesalities and
parallels. They were not ready for
the higher, the Christianly scientific
way of healing sin and sickness hence
there was no definite rule left for them.
1t remained to be revealed to an age
ready to receive it. In response to the
earnest longings of humanity wholly
dissatisfied with the vanity and empti-
ness of worldly aims, disheartened with
their centuries of searching for happi.
mesa in material paths and finding it
not, demoralized by their false beliefs
of God and His universe, yearnine for
way out of their self imposed misery,
ready to accept a method that would
loosen their bonds of material servi-
tude, set them free and enable them to
destroy their sins and woes-came the
revelation of Christian Science. This
Science was unfolded to the mind of
one prepared to receive it and give it
to world in need of such healing
truth.
Our critic s statement that Christ
ian Science subordinates the body to
the mind, even absurdly so, but it de-
mands that the mind minister to the
BODY is quite misleading. Christian
Science healing is wholly of God teach
ing US to understand omnipresent good,
Alling all space as Spirit or divine
Mind, and that this Mind "healing all
our diseases. :" God, divine Mind does
minister to the body and heals 1t of
every disease, organic as we'll as func-
tional. Can it be disastrous to trust
God in every time of trouble, to rely
upon the divine Mind for the heaine
of every disease? The thusands who
have been healed of diseases many
pronounced incurable, vigorously an.
ewer "No."
Christian Ssience does not teach that
the human mind Or the influence of
mortal thought over the body heals
disease. The human mind cannot
heal disease, and such teaching is
wholly wrong. One who might seem
to be apparently cured by such false
method is placed in condition of men.