El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-11
IRA W. COLLINS REPLY.

with you that l am not a so-called
Christian Scientist
For the very reason that you say to
all those who think they dwell in a
material house that is subject to ma
terial laws that they do not serve God.
This is unchristian.
1t is the same old Phariseeis prayer,
which, thank God, he was not as other
men.
For, except your righteousness exceed
the righteousness of the Pharisees you
cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven
Now it is the desire of my heart to
enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and to
help everybody else to get there that
l can. So | am not Christian Scientist
for that reason.
believe also:
That, instead of mending the mate
rial body by mending the condition of
the spiritual mind;
That God mends the spiritual condi-
lions OF the mind by the application OF
his physical laws to this material body
the same as our Earthly Fathers did
and that he permits the infirmities of
our bodies for that very reason, and
that he does not always remove them
IN answer to prayer for that same
reason.
And that when he does remove them
IN answer to prayer that he always
does it through human instrumentality,
and by means OF natural physical laws.
You people seem to me to be pretty
good people, but you. seem to lack the
warmth of CHRISTIAN sympathy, and
you don't pay any attention to SCIEN-
TIFIC laws.
You remind me of an old western
Kansas farmer l met once who, with
his little old shriveled team and rick
ETY. covered wagon was going back to
his wife's people. | said, why, it seems
to me this is pretty good country if you
only had a little more rain" Eyes,
stranger" said he, this is pretty good
if you could only raise any
thing"
Now, if you people just understood
Christianity and the principles of sci
ence, so you could cure somebody, you
would be pretty good doctors.
You stood off and pointed your finger
at us Jobes, and said, There's kinks in
your minds" Il and my house are
serving the Lord" Yet God said, There
is none like him in all the world"
The Mrs. Eddys who hope to be car
ried to the skies on flowery beds of
ease, whilst others fought TO win the
prize and sailed through bloody seas"
to God, aren't trotting in the
same class with this poor Saint, as he
lay there suffering for hlImanity's sake
when it comes to UNPOLUTION from
sin.
Hello, Paul Did you know you had kinks
in your mind, is why you had that old
hob nailed liver of yours, and that if
you had gotten instructions from Mrs.
Eddy on spiritual relation with God
you would have gotten up in the holy
where she is, and that old
hob nailed liver would have faded like
the dews of the morning.
No, Doc, I'd have been exalted beyond
measure and might have become a
Pharisee. There might have been few
kinks in that old spine of mine, but
there wasn't any kinks in my spiritual
mind. 1t was my house of clay that
gave me all that trouble. It needed fix
ing, and God laid down laws of nature,
and gave us brains to comprehend them.
He needed one of his human agents
to fix that, or to set a shoulder or a
hip.
Speaking of hips reminds me of old
Jacob, the meanest old Sheeny that ever
swindled his father in-law out of a
nickel or beat his brother out of his
He thought he would go
back home and visit the folks. He SAYS
Il expect I'd better send few presents
20 Esau and kinder fix things up a lit
lie. 1t will make it a little bit more
pleasant. | expect he is poor and an
Easy mark. I stole about everything
ne had. He will appreciate these little
presents from me. I'm the smart ia
,ob. know how to fix these things up.
Pm diplomat" But the servants came
pack and said it wouldn't work. He has
yreat armies.
And, as the vast armies of Esau be-
gan to pour around him, I can just see
I'D Jacob now, as he began to sweat
md swallow and turn pale, and say
Gee, whiz, | wish I hadn't stole that
,irthright. He won't leave a grease spot
If me in the morning" Then he wisely
urned to God to make it right with
lim. for he knew that Esau was hui
nan. These troubles are a pretty good
hing. sometimes, But God didn't
ct him off so very easy THAT
lime. have an idea that an
nigel gave him some pretty plain
ak when they had that all night ses-
ion. I have an idea he said 'Iook
lere. Jacob, I have forgiven YOU and
orgiven you. till I've made a molly
.oddle out of you; nobody likes YOU.
-ou can't have any influence for GOOD