The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-10-09

GEAR little Things We're porn without
eyes. She said 81 began immedi
ately to work Christian Science and
mental power on the dear little dogs
/ placed my hand on them daily and
used psychic suggestion, closing my
eyes TO concentrate all my power
Of mind on the little heads, and
you may not believe it, but in nine
days they all got eyes in their dear
little heads. Now, in face of such
facts, DR.. Bulsin, will you still doubt
the power of Christian Science? Oh!
how cruel you are"
Let the church rise to higher
ground and do her duty and give
The world the real Christ and Chris
ttan Science can not live. Neither
can men and women get few
heather theories together and put a
little of the teachings of the blessed
Christ within it and call it new
religion 1t will not be possible for
such things to exist; and with good
they will get no error. Let us earn
estly contend for the faith once
delivered to the saints.
In considering this new era doc
trine, | want to be reasonable, fair
and unpreiudiced. | must be Bib
lical and true to my oath as an
ordained Presbyterian minister
cannot pretend that do not feel
deeply upon the subject We are to
consider. | will even admit that 7
feel intensely, but such feeling as
! have is based upon clear intel
lectual perception of the pernicious
influence of this Mrs. Eddy, the
pretended discoverer and founder of
what is known as Christian Science,
upon domestic and religious life.
hold that Christian Science Is a
scheme of life-for it does not stop
with the religious activities Of its
devottes. but extends into all their
activities-is pernicious in the ex-
treme, but it is not my purpose
this evening to enter upon a consid-
eratOn of Christian Science as a re-
lision or a philosophy of life. It is
a sham and fraud and an impo-
Sition from beginning to end in
that it falsely pretends to be rev.
elation from God. This | must deny.
and if | believed that God had any
thing to do with it, I most certainly
would not open my mouth to con-
demn it, But believing as | do that
Christian Science is first, unscien-
tific; second, that it is not Biblical:
third, that it is not Christian, but
anti Christian; fourth, it denies the
atonement through blood: and, fifth.
and worst, it denies the deity of
Jesus of Nazareth, and there
fore has no right to live in the
name of Christian. Having declared
it TO be my conviction that Chris
tian Science is a humbug, a fraud
and an imposition, the greatest hum
bug, fraud and imposition of all ages,
it necessarily follows that it is my
further conviction that Mary Baker
G. Eddy, as the founder of Chris
tian Science, the leader and organ
izer of the sect, stands alone among
the charlatans who have misled and
deluded and defrauded mankind, be-
ing apart from and above them in
the proDortions of her audacity, her
and her greed.
The Doctrine of the Founder.
| shall first attack the doctrine,
then its founder This is but the
fair way of procedure. If the doc
trine be false, what of the woman
who claims that she received the
doctrine as a direct revelation from
God? If | were a child of God liv-
ing in the faith of my fathers and
the church, before allowing myself
to be carried away by any new
wind of doctrine, ! would at least
want to know something of the con-
tents Of the book containing its sup
posed revelation. This being the
speakers sole purpose to make
known the doctrine as stated in its
own revelation, it is to be hoped
that a fair and dispassionate treat
ment will deserve the respectful and
unbiased attention of all who are
here to listen.
Never, I believe, has the world
been in such a state of religious
ferment as that which exists today.
Pathetic, indeed, the struggle of hu-
man mind to know God and to un-
1erstand the issues of life, and Gu
'ious the vagaries and eccentricities
of thought into which its search
ngs have oft times eliminated.
There have always been plenty of
'oes of the faith. combating the
ruth with error, plenty of those
whom Peter calls "unlearned and un-
stable" who wrest the scriptures !
nto peryerse doctrines. The dis [
.iples and the early church knew /
what It was 10 battle against reli-
,ious untruth . In their day it was
Agnosticism and Neo- Piatonism and .
'ther theosophic speculations. and .
It no time has the truth flourish /
d unhindered by eccentric and per.
'erted forms of belief and practice,
mt II remains for this age to show
his tendency for new departures in
is strongest and strangest develop
nent
The Many Issues.
Spiritualism. Theosophy, Hypnot-
SIN, Dowieism. Faith Healing, Chris
ian Science. Mental Healing, Mag
etism. and many others are all
manifestations Of this spiritual fer
lent and uneasiness perVading the
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