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

He loves me-" Mrs. Eddy says, God
Is not a person, but an Influence; L
can't love whirlwind nor a thunder
storm, 1 can love only when there is
personality" Mrs. Eddy says no need
of sacrament These are mere delus-
ions of mortal mind Baptism and the
Lords Supper she laughs at, but listen
to a higher authority The Great
/ Teacher said, Go, baptiSe," but this
system knows nothing of baptism. He
said, This do in remembrance OF me"
but this system knows nothing Of
Lords Supper 1t is without a Heav-
erly Father, without prayers. without
sacrament without a sense of sin or
need of any atoing Christ. They have
taken away my Lord and 1 know not.
where they have laid Him.
Denies Christ's Suffering.
Christian Science denies To fact of
pain and suffering, hence it strikes the
futile blow at the very foundation OF
our religion. the Atonement: Christ
suffered the just for the unjust,
suffering Savior for a suffering sinner.
If Christian Science is true, no pain,
no suffering, the Atonement is farce.
Not only does this new old sect deny
the Atonement, but il denies the Diety
of my Lord. If Christ Jesus was not
I God, he is nothing. This deceitful play
in words. Christ was divine; but we
are all divine" Yes Mrs Eddy was
more divine than most of US, but Christ
had a larger spark of divine nature than
most men, but Mrs. Eddy has about
as much. I am often led to cry out,
oh. God. how long viii you permit
such sacrilege and bIasphemy?'
Occupies n Low Place.
If pain is only an illusion of mortal
mind. and Christian Science tends to
T diSpel that illusion, it follows that the
further one is advanced in Christian
Science the less sensitive he will be
TO pain Now, every school boy knows
that the higher the physical organism
the more sensitive ii is to pain. The
rude forms of sea life culver scarcely
at all under the knife The cruStacea
suffer more than the mollusca. The
rabbit suffers more than the lizard,
the horse suffers more than the rabbit,
and the mansOf refined spirit and high
y organized nervous system suffers
more than the Semi-brute whose mind
is as sluggish as a mud pond. Indeed,
as things go up in the scale of being
they go toward the possibility of pain.
1t follows then that the Christian Sci
enlist who is insensible TO pain occu-
pies very low place in the scale OF
being
Pain q Good Teacher.
We may we'll ask: Would this world
be as rich or as good as il is if there
were no pain of trouble? 1 believe
that pain is one of the best teachers
in the school of life. We may at times
vince under her instructions. but sheI
Instructions are valuable. The little
child lettering over the floor is at
tracted by the bright glowing Goals in
the CRATE; ii puts lis finger on one
of the bars and the bliStering pain
that nature inflicts teaches the
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sharp pains that follow ovevr-in-
diligence in eating teach the folly
Of gluttOny These thornS, called
pains and troubles, pierce our feet and
drive Us back into the smooth, safe
pathway of obedience TO natures laws.
As, yes" said a great musician. in
speaking of a beautiful prima donna
who had just appeared before the pub
lie, "Ah, yes, she has a beautiful voice,
but there is just one thing she lacks.
and that is trouble. If 1 were single
I would court her and marry her. and
abuse and maltreat and desert her. and
break her heart. and When she would
sob out her bitter. bitter sufferings.
then she would become the gre-test
singer in all Europe. We know that
BethOven's immortal music was pro-
duced when sorrow. was crushing him."
Sickness and Death Illusions.
Again in thF wonderful book. ION
page 1872. we Are told that sin. sick
ness and death are Illusions If this be
true. then crime. which Is only an
other name for sin, is an Illusion. be
lief of mortal mind 1t follows. there
fore. that allNthe criminals in the pen
itentiary are there, not because they
have committed crimes, but simply be-
cause they themselves or somebody
else believe they have. Can we bring
ourselves to believe that sin is only an
Illusion? Surely it was something
more than an illusion, a dream of NOR
tai mind. that David had when think
ing about hfs double crime of adultery
and murder, he cried. Against Thee.
Thee only. have / sinned and done
thus evil in thy sight" Surely il was
something more than an Illusion that
caused the conscience stricken Judas TO
fling down the price of his infamy in
the temple and cry: I have sinned IN
that / have betrayed innocent blood %
This teaching of Mrs. Eddy is very
soothing to the conscience of the sin
ner. for let him believe that sin is only