The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-02
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 BISHOP TO TASK
Denies that Faith of Mother Eddy is a Religion of Err TOTS and Negations.

Editor of the Farmer" Dear Sir
 Will you kindly allow me to call att tention to some of the statements made by Bishop Brewster in his article Healing and Christian Science and reprinted ill recent issue of your paper.
 In speaking of Christian Science, Bishop Brewster says. Doubtless cer- tain of it's -1rmations are true, how ever little originality it may rightly claim for them. It's error lies in it's negations. for example. it's denial of the virtue of the Sacraments, of the benefit of any medicines, and the like deniaIs.''
 The affirmations of Christian Science are based upon such statements as these. T am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me girded thee. though tbou hast not known me:
 That they may be known from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me, I am the Lord, and there is none else.''
 The positive affirma tion of this truth as set forth by Isaih, is in itself a = nial of all else which in any way lays claim to power or presence. Likewise, conceding power to inanimate drugs as having power in themselves-and to rely upon rites and ceremonies would be to deny God. than whom there is none else.
 The history of medicine itself shows it to be of pagan origin. and used by the pagan priesthood with incantations and in four thousand years. material medicine has not gone beyond the ex- perimental stage.
 The statement that Christian Science arrays itself against the Church of Christ" is erroneous. Jesus founded his church on the statement of Simon Thou art the Christ. the Son of the living God!" That is to say, thou hast declared the Messiah, the very spirit of God, of Life. Truth, and Love, there by eliciting from the Master the bene- diction. Blessed art thou Simon Bar iona; for flesh and blood hath not re- vealed it unto thee. but my Father which is in heaven Upon this found ation. the spiritual import of Jesus life work, Christian Science builds.
 The statement that psychology is a new science" is misleading, for sug- gestion, animal magnetism or Mes merism as it has been known since 1775. has been a belief with mortals ever since the serpent, as portrayed in the allegory of Genesis, said, ."Ye shall be as gods. knowing good and evil,' and for this knowing, ''the Lord God said, Behold. the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and live for ever: The Lord God sent him fort h from the garden of Eden. to till the ground from, whence he came.'
 The teaching and practice of Chris tian Science is based .1nflinchingly on the spiritual word of God. and the life work of Jesus the Christ, who came to destroy the works of the devil and he healed the sick,-and so did his dis ciples-without resorting to material medicine. The devil, (slanderer) typi- fled by the serpent in the allegory, was liar from the beginning, bringing is opposed to Spirit, God. Jesus gave knowledge of the Truth to a sin-sick world. which Truth makes free to-day according to his promise. Hundreds of thousands of people rise up and call him blessed, because of the healing Truth which has come to the world in this age. known as Christian Science. To-day as of yore. the sick are healed, the dying are raised from beds of pain, after the wisdom of man has failed, and material medicine has done ali within it's power.
 A spiritual unction, and the peace of knowing God alright even in a small degree, has come on earth. Christian Science does not cruelty abandon the victim of disease to his fate. but points upward to the living God, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning
 Sincerely,
 FREDERIC c. HOTCHKISS Committee on Publication for Connecti- cut