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: sickness and suffering are unreal.
Meantime, the sickness is real, the suf-
fer1ng is real, and after prOtracted
suffering, the child dies, without the
turning of a hand to relieve its pain.
| II the adult prefers foolishness to wis
/ dom, If he prefers suicide to life, NE
may enjoy his preference; but no man
and no woman has any right. whatever
be the motive or the relation, to stand
silently by and permit a child to suffer
and die. "WhosOever shall offend one
OF these little ones, it were better that
milestone were hanged about his
neck and that he was drowned in the
/ depths of the sea- Again-In an IL
illustrated book called Christ and
Christmas" written by Mrs. Eddy, and
published and copyrighted by her in
1884, there is a picture entitled Chris
tlan Unity" in which Jesus is rep
resented as seated upon stone hold
ing the right hand of a standing WOO
I man. In the left hand of the woman
is a scroll bearing the legend. Chris
tian Science" About the head of each
figure, that of Jesus and that of the
Christian Science woman, there is a
halo, and the picture is illustrative of
these lines on the opposite page:
AS in blessed Palestine's hour, so in
our age
lis the same hand unfolds His power
and writes the page
should L have held my peace because
this creature is a woman? Knowing
these facts. should I ISave permitted
her longer to masquerade as like unto
the pure and holy Jesus?
Jesus and Finances.
Did any one ever hear that Jesus
fixed upon a financial equivalent for
an impartatiop of the knowledge of
the divine power that heals? or that
Jesus sought to monopoliZe His rev
citation from God for coin of the realm?
or that Jesus excluded from access to
the Father all who would not pay
tribute to Him? or that Jesus made
himself the autOcrat of an organiza-
ton formed for His own enrichment
and glory? or that Jesus resorted to
tricks and devices to hoodwink His
simple followers? or that Jesus, with
satanic zeal and hatred, sought to pun
lsh His enemies by directing His
friends TO employ their minds to cause
disease and suffering and death? Oh,
No, Now having looked al the doc
trine from the standpoint of science
and philosophy it is weighed and want
ing. We look a it from the stand
point of theology. and worst of all. it
is out Of harmony with God.
Mrs. Eddy lays down four funda-
mental reversible propositions which
would not be understood If mentioned.
and which 10 her are all the more in
controVertible because they make equal
sense if read backwards. They GER
tainly do; as for instance: Good is
mind" and Mind is good" She also
proves her metaphysics by the rule of
inversion" as for instance There is
no pain in truth and no truth in pain"
there is no matter in good and no
good in matter" but how such surpris-
ing and consequential assertions prove
anything Is too enigmaticaI for me
Inc entire volume appeals 10 one a. a
mohotonous rehearsal of disjointed and
oIttlrnes meaningless propositions.
much of which. as well as her furda-
mentals. may be read in either direc-
Ton with equal ease and perspicuitv.
When with perseverance wirthv of
the saints, one has 1abored unto the
end, he finds himself in possession of
only the general idea" which he could
nave found on almost any page of the
ponderous volume
A Theory of Health
CHRISTIAN Science, in Il word. is
theory of health, using for its ba,sic
principle the old philosophic concen-
non OF the non existence of matter
Mlhd Is all and matter is naught'
and erring mortal, misnamed mind
produces all the organism And action
OF the human body" All disease sha
declares, is an affectation of the mimi
and the blood, heart, lungs brains
ETC., have nothing to do with life" and
consequently food neither strengthens
nor weakens the body ANY cure
wrought apparently through drugs l.
really affected by the patients faith
IN the drug and not by any Inherent
power OF the drug itself As a system
OF therapeutics therefore II comes TO
TINS; Believe yourself well and Won
VIII be Well" Oh, I wish it true. hut
alas. It's not, and Mrs. Eddy and all
her most fail to prove the theory
MIS-. Eddy repeatedly disavows Pan
tbe1sm. but if Pantheism is what All
philosophical thought has always re-
puted 1t TO be. then the statement that
All is COD is Pantheism of the bold
est type Certainly if Mrs Eddy he
permitted to formulate her own defini
ZION, changing time honored and world
VIDE accepted concepts. she NAV be OK
onerated from the charge of Panthe
ISM, ana all other religious untruth.
as there remains then no room for
even the frankest discussion Con-
sfstently with Pantheism she denies
the personality Of God. God" she
says, Is not a person who can saw 7
or De addressed as Thou" but the
Bible reveals Him as speaking in the
Ilrst person repeatedly. and as. being
addressed quite as often in the second
person Which is right? This book
1Science and HEALTH, or this book (the
BloIe)? God is more than an 1T
CHRISTIAN Science says God is love and
so does the Bible How could He love
were He not person, i e. possess
the characteristics of personality? Ac-
cordingly, Mrs. Eddy says that PRAY
er to a personal God is a hindrance."
and that pleading with the divine mind
as a personality is AN error which
impedes spiritual growth" The Sa-
Vlor said, After this manner there
fore pray We: Our Father. which art
In heaven, hallOwed be thy name"
Which is right, christian Science)' or
this one (the Bible)?
False Philosophy
As philosophy. she is false The
OLD statement that the pendulum
swings from one extreme to the other g"
This is being proved today. few
years ago the enemies of our religion
said, material material, materialtt,
is everything and that it always ex-
listed and so the materialist had his
day. But EddyiSm swings to the other
extreme and false position. Spirit
mind is everything and no matter, no
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