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

AT The revival meetings last WeeA
was voted to publish the substance o.
a series of sermons by Rev DR.. c.
Bulgin on Christian Science Conform
ing to the request of his congregation
DR.. Bulgin arranged last week to have
the article published in today's Herald
the matter being prepared before any
announcement Of the death of Mrs
Eddy had been made-l
Christian Science and Eddyism.
In considering this new sect,
good on Christian Science as well as
point out its errors. It would be very
unfair to say that it has done no good
at all, or to say that with its errors
It has no truth to teach. for such
would be untrue
I will say. however, that not one BIZ
of the good which Christian Science
has received and taught that they
could not have found in the. Divine
Christ and the church if they would
have worked as. hard at it and given
I'D to it and for it as they have Chris
tan Science.
It would not be possible for Chris
tan Science to have lived had it not
grated some good on its stalk. Let
us look at some of the good which
Christian Science has done and some
of the truths she has emphasized
The Fountain Of Faith.
It has brought again and most en-
phatically to the consciousness of the
church a function of its faith well
nigh. if not wholly extinct. Jesus
Christ was not a Christian Scientist.
not even in the philosophical sense of
that term, but, however falsely Chris
tian Science has interpreted His mir
acles of healing, ii at least declares
the ministry of healing disease TO be
an integral part Of the discipleship
of Christ. Jesus healed the sick: he
also gave to His disciples instruction
and power to do likewise, and no one
doubts for a single second that they
did and who for asecond doubts the
necessity of faith and its potency in
His case and in theirs. That the pow
er of healing disease was manifested
in the primitive church, Pauls let
tiers teaches that beyond all doubt.
But prayer for the healing of the body
was not always disconnected from
wise means TO the end The clay that
annointed the blind mans eyes and
the oil to anoint the sick in the Greek
was medicinal and not ceremonial. BY
its empashis of a long reco gnized
principle il has brought US into closer
sympathy with the power of mind
over matter. and although most un-
scientific. has been one of the most
prominent factors in urging scientific
investigation along psyschical lines Ii
is said people always believe the
mind influences the body. Yes, but
they do il now as they never did be-
fore Medical science must either SUI
fer from such Investigation or become
O more potent factor in health
through psychical as well as physio-
logical treatment The coming ply
stefan must be a student of psychol-
ogy Many people have been drugged
TO death-no doubt about n, and
abundant testimony can furnish any
one who will ask for II, but this much
IS certain-the medical profession
much come into a healthier recogn1-
ton and deeper appreciation of the
principle upon which Christian Science
is founded its church, and for the
impetus to scientific investigation
along this line Christian Science is
deserving of recognition.
Faith C6res,
I hold it as an undisputed fact that
Christian Science treatment has allie
waited pain and cured disease by. this
principle which it has been pleased
TO call the mind healing. but slight
tnVeSIlgdIlOn OF In6Se cures VIII AC-
veal some interesting facts. The first
fact is that almost all of these cures
are confined to disorders of nervous
or historical character and are nothing
more than faith cures" pure and sim
pie. Discriminate carefully here con-
corning the use of the word faith"
If we speak Of Jesus the Christ as
the Divine-human being. He under
stood perfectly the science Of mind, and
- fos
which He demanded, is always the same
In essence, regardless of the object of
that faith, yet the difference between
His cures and those of Christian Sci
ence is that His, regardless of the ma
ture or malignity of the disease, was
always instantaneous, while those of
Christian Science are gradual, except
perhaps in case of Imaginary or minor
nervous disease. 1t is absolutely GER
tain that many men and womea have
been cured of disease through the fun
damental truth upon which Christian
Science Is founded
Mind Over Matter
have spent much time looking up
thes socallled cures and / can positive
~ declare that In Chicago. and Des
Moines and Los Angeles and numerous
other places men and women by the
score that have been benefited by the
one principle which Christian Science
has revived and in all these cases the
patient was inclined to be hysterical
or hypnotic, and in anchoring the mind
to something and stopping drugs they
were cured
But why call this Christian Science?
Why not Mental Science? And let
everybody practice It and not make a
religious system founded on a mere
health psychic suggestion?
Let the church rise to higher ground