The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-03

accept this proposition as true con
tinue to act as if it were not true?
Why carry umbrellas and wear
rain coats, when it rains, since water |
is not real and therefore cannot wet? |
Why do they change their clothing |
with the seasons since there is Meth
er cold nor heat to affect that which |
they think, is their body? Why do
they sit at an imaginary table three
times a day and partake of various
kinds of imaginary food to support
and sustain an imaginary body?
How can really sane, sensible peo-
pie deny the existence of the heav-
ems above us with their myriad shin
ing worlds, some of which have flung
their contents into ours; some of
whose plains and valleys and noun
tans have been located, defined and
named? How can it be denied that
we have senses and organs through
which the light and beauty, the sweet
ness and harmony of such universe
as this in which We live may be re-
ceived and reveled in by which We
are permitted to view the landscape
and behold its wondrOus changes OF
light and shadow, the sunlight and
the stars; may hear the music of its
thousand voices and inhale the per
fume of flowers cast lavishly upon eV-
cry passing breeze? How can any
one deny that men, women and chill
dren, the animals about us, exist only
in our minds and are not otherwise
substance; that food has no taste and
is not necessary to support the body;
that generation is not a material fact
but mental concept; that neither
bone nor sinew, nor tissue of flesh
have any real existence, and that
nothing exists except universal, i'm
personal mind? That such an absurd !
proposition seriously engage the at
tention of honest and intelligent peO
pie seems almost beyond belief, and |
yet there are thousands who say that
they accept it as true.
The very first statement of the |
Bible is a positive contradiction of |
the first proposition of Christian Sci |
ence. I'm the beginning God created .
the heaven and the earth" That is
as plain as q fact can be stated. God !
created" them. The act of creation
is necessarily productive. That which
is produced must be something. That |
something is a substance of some
kind, and the substance of some kind
produced in this creation is the heav-
en- and the earth. That the earth is
not spirit; that an aerolite falling
out of the heavens and striking the
earth is not spirit is selfevident. AS
tie heavens and the earth are not
spirit and are substance, then they
must be substance apart from spirit,
and for the want of a better name
We call that which is not spirit,-mat-
ter.
Note the following quotation; "The
of this record (the Cen
esis record of creation) entertained
a false sense of being. They believed .
in the existence of natter Thus we
see that Christian Science itself in
testiies that the universe
is material. for the conclusion of the 1
author is that they believed in mat
ter from the record they gave of Gre
alton The record of creation as Civ
en- in Genesis is the expression of .
their belief in matter The declara- /
tion that God created the heaven and .
earth is their declaration that the .
heaven and the earth were a form of .
matter: that God created matter in /
form of heaven and earth. The rec |
ord of creation as set forth in Gene
sis, therefore, is a declaration that
matter exists and that it is a sub
stance. Is it not plain that the first
of Christian Science is a
positive denial of the first PROPOSE
ion of the Bible? But there are other
evidences of this fact which will not
1e given here.
A STUDENT.
ITO be continued)