The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-02
MINISTER ATTACKS
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
New York Pastor Says Faith
 Is Doomed
SCORES MRS. sTETsoN
Calls Statement That Mrs. Eddy Will Arise From the Dead "An Auda- cfous and BIasphemous
 PredictfOno

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 First Baptist church of this city, believes | that the "audacious and blasphemous prediction of Mrs Augusta Stetson that l Mrs. Mary Baker-Eddy will arise from
 the dead and walk hand in hand with her | disciples, will hasten the dissolution of
 the sect that Mrs. Eddy created-a dis
 solution which he says was assured by
 the destroying effect of her death. | Dr. Haldeman, who has been the pas
 tor of the First Baptist church, the parent
 church of the Baptist denomination in
 New York, for 26 years, is the author of
 two books attacking Christian Science, Christian Science in the Light of Holy Scripture and Mental Assassination"
 or Christian Science, Stern as Calvin"
 He does not hesitate to criticise other
 ministers of his own faith whom he says
 have 'gone on genufexing and closing
 their eyes to it's pernciousness and ad-
 hitting that there is good in Christian
 Science while he has fought it unceas- ngly
 "But now we can see the beginning of
 the end," said Dr. Haldeman. This au-
 dacous prediction of Mrs. Stetson of the resurrection of Mrs. Eddy is only in keep | ing with the blaswhemous promise that
 Jesus Christ was only way shower, | and with Mrs. Eddys unspeakable ef- frontery in placing herself In the same category with Him--her presumptuous
 claim that she was later development of Christ. fs 'It is easy now to see the crumbling of | the edifice that was occupied on the cred ulity and hysteria of unsaved thousands who seized at its offerings of health and peace in name which they had always heard and discussed with truth and right eousness. It is easy to realize their
 awakening now when it's last appeal to superstition and false emotionalism is made.
 These men in Boston are smart busi-
 ness men; they appreciate the commercial value of conservatism, but Mrs. Stetson | ie also very clever woman and she ap- preciates the value of play to the meta- physical tendencies of the devout of the cult. She is ambitious to become Mrs. | Eddys successor and she is in fair way | to have that ambition realized. Her au- daoity in making this prediction of the rising from the dead will undoubtedly at- tract many followers to her standard and will hurt her enemies in the directorate | of the mother church in Boston, but the fruits will be only of the hour. Dissen- sion of this sort will kill the sect With Mrs. Eddy no more breathing, | tangible personality; with the men to i whom sine left her mission as a legacy uri-
 able to dole out the consolation and reve-
 lation that is craved and with Mrs. Stet-
 son. the most picturesque and magnetic
 personality in the cult, failing to make
 good her prediction, these thousands of poor souls who have given their faith
 and money will awaken through doubt.
 Tn making this daring prediction Mrs. | Stetson in her reckless ambition to secure followers has gone her preceptor one bet ter. But her courage-bravado Is the
 better word-will only emphasize that Christian Science is not only a physical peril, but 1t is intellectual bankruptcy
 And more than that, it is moral bank
 ruptcy.
 Mrs. Stetson herself, a woman of strong metaphysical tendencies, under | stands how to touch the respondent chord | in the thousands who have sought peace | of soul in Christian Science She is in | the position of the gamester who stakes | everything on one wild cast of the dice. But she has gone too far In another sphere of life she might have been one | of the greatest women of history, but gamesters have no place in religion-they cannot lead souls for spiritual comfort. | She, I understand by her personal efforts
 alone, raised more than $1.O00,0O0. know of women who turned over their entire | financial funds, and woman of such
 magnetism may go great distance. but she has touched at that portal where to seek to enter Is sacrilege. She must fall and with her the house builded by the
 woman who, Mrs. Stetson blasphemously claims, was the second Christ" | eide except for the reckless. Moisant was the fellow who firted with death. He did not seem to care what he did in his machine or how he landed.
 "At Belmont park, after his Statue of Liberty flight, he, for no seeming reason, l came to the ground with his engine rac- | ing at full speed. Of course, the aero plane was wrecked, but he was not hurt, SC he did not care. He was noted among the aviators for standing up in his ma- chine while in the air to turn on oil. 'Ioxsey only had one serious accident | that I remember and that was not through carelessnes. He landed in @ big wind on the roof of a barn while ex- hibiting in Lincoln, Neb. He was badly bruised and when I spoke to him about | it he laughed and said oh, that was just spill. We must all expect them. I am not slip-proof.'
 Willard Talks
 | Charles F. Willard of the Curtiss camp said:
 "You know what goes up must come down. and everyone of us aviators ap- preciates that. The moment that our ma chimes leave the ground we know that sooner or later we are going to fall. l never think when I rise that this one | time can be the one that Is to be dis astrous.
 | we open the jackpot and never know what cards are to be pulled on us. It gets every flying man if he stays with {! the game. Everyone of us tries to save l himself from 1t and feels that he will stop flying before the time comes It is just question of time. Yes; you might call it scientific suicide.
 Aviation is fascinating, thrilling, but always perilous. In the air life Is a turn, a tilt. a motion of the muscle even. | and if treacherous current catches us we are lost.
 | Our minds are occupied in the air. but we never entirely forget it. I shudder | to have funeral pass me. I can't bear | to have anyone mention an undertaken and when anyone jests about death I
 wince I can't help 1t. because it Is al-