El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-05

and do her duty and give the WOrIC
! the real Christ and Christian Science
cannot live Neither can men and Wo
men get a few heather theories to-
gether and put a little of the teachings
! of the blessed Christ within it and cal
I ii a new religion 1t will not be pos
sible for such things to exist; and with
/ the good they will get no error. Let
US earnestly contend for the faith once
| delivered to the saints.
An Example,
Much that has been attributed to
! Christian Science in the way of cures
/ is like a dear English woman in Los
Angeles, not, however, wei posted in
| natural science. who tried 10 convert
me by the wonderful miracles she had
seen worked by the system: said her
! husband had a bulldog which had nine
little babies, and would you believe it.
/ the dear little things were born with
out eyes She said: Il began imme-
diately to work Christian Science and
mental power on the dear little dogs
1 placed my hand on them daily and
used psychic suggestion, closing my
eyes to concentrate all my power OF
mind on the little heads, and you may
not believe it, but in nine days they
all got eyes in their dear little heads
Now, in the face of such facts, DR.. Bull
gin, will you still doubt the powers of
Christian Science? Oh, how cruel you
are"
In considering this new era doctrine,
I want to be reasOrabI fair and I'M
prejudiced. I must be Biblical and true
to my oath as an ordained Presbyter-
ian minister. I cannot pretend that
do not feel deeply upon the subject
We are 10 consider. I will even admit
that I feel intensely: but such feeling
as [ have is based upon a clear intel
lectual perception of the pernicious in
fluence of this Mrs. Eddy, the pretend
ed discoverer and the founder Of what
is known as Christian Science. upon
domestic and religious life hold that
Christian Science is a scheme of life
for it does not stop with the religious
activities of its devOtees, but extends
into all their activitses-is pernicious
in the extreme. but it is not my pur-
pose this evening to enter upon a con-
sideration of Christian Science as re-
ligion or a philosophy of life. 1t is a
sham and a fraud and imposition from
beginning to end, in that it falsely pre-
tends to be a revelation from God This
1 must deny, and if 1 believed that
God had anything to do with 1T I most
certainly would not open my mouth to
condemn it. But believing as I do that
Christian Science is first. unscientific;
second, that 1t is not Biblical; third.
that it is not Christian, but anti-Chris-
tian; fourth, it denies the atonement
through blood; and. fifth, and worst. it
denies the deity Of Jesus of Nazareth,
and. therefore has no right to live in
the name of Christian. Having de-
clared it TO be my conviction that Chris
tan Science is a humbug, a fraud and
an imposition, the greatest humbug,
fraud and imposition of all ages. il
necessarily follows that it is my fur
Their conviction that Mary Baker G.
Eddy, as the founder of Christian Sci
ence, the leader and, organizer of the
sect stands alone among the charla-
tans who have misled and deIuded and
defrauded mankind, being apart from
and above them in the proportions of
her audacity, her irreverence. and her
greed.
The Doctrine, and Founder
L shall first attack the doctrine then
its founder This is but the fair way
Of procedure If the doctrine be false.
what of the woman who claims that
she received the doctrine as a direct
revelation from God? If 1 were a child
OF God living in the faith of my fathers
and the church, before allowing my
self to be carried away by any new
wind of doctrine, 1 would at least want
TO know something of the contents Of
the book containing its supposed rev.
citation. This being the speakers sole
purpose to make known the doctrine as
stated in its own revelation. it is to
be hoped that a fair and dispassionate
treatment VIII deserve the respectful
and unbiased attention of all who are
here to listen.
Never, l believe, has the world been
in such a state of religious ferment
as that which. exists today. Pathetic.
indeed, the struggle Of human mind
to know God and TO understand the
issues of life and curious the vagaries
and eccentricities of thought into which
its searching has ofttimes eliminated
There have always been plenty of foes
to the faith, combating the truth with
error, plenty of those whom Peter calls
''unlearned and unstable" who wrest
the scriptures into perverse doctrines
The disciples and the early church
knew what it was to battle against
religious untruth In their day it was
Agnosticism and Neo-Platonism and 9TH
er theosophic speculations, and at no
time has the truth flourished unhin-
dered by eccentric and perverted forms
of belief and practice, but it remains
for this age to show this tendency for
new departures in its strongest and
strangest development.
The Many Issues.
Spiritual, Theosophy, Hypnotism,
Dowieism Faith Healing, Christian
Science, Mental Healing, Magnetism
and many others are all manifestations
of this spiritual fermenf and uneasi-
ness pervading the religious life of
man to such an alarming extent that
one is almost tempted to venture the
Interpretation that such is a sign of
the times that are to precede the com
ing of the man of sin
Mrs. Eddy established what she called
the Massachusetts Metaphysical col
lege, which was an institution for the
turning out of Christian Science heal
ers. Her adopted son and husband,
with herself constituted the faculty
Of this remarkable Institution and the