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

entitled Christian Unity" in which
Jesus is represented as seated upon
stone holding the right hand of
standing woman. In the left hand
OF the woman is a scroll bearing the
legend, Christian Science About
the head of each figure, that OF
Jesus and that of the Christian Sci
ence woman there Is a halo, and
the picture is illustrative of these
lines on the opposite page:
"As in blessed Palestine's hour, 80
in our age
'"Tis the same hand unfolds His
power and writes this page"
Should l hold my peace because
this creature Is a woman? Knowing
these facts should permit her long
er to masquerade as like unto the
pure and holy Jesus?
Jesus and Finances.
Did anyone ever hear that Jesus
fixed upon a financial equivalent"
for an importation of the knowl-
edge OF the divine power that heals?
Or that Jesus sought to monopolize
His revelations from God for coin OF
the realm? Or that Jesus excluded
from access to the Father all who
would not pay tribute TO Him? Or
that Jesus made himself the auto
crat of an organization formed for
His own enrichment and glory? Or
that Jesus resorted to tricks and
devices to hoodwin His simple fol-
lowers? Or that Jesus, with satanic
zeal and hatred, sought to punish
His enemies by directing His friends
to employ their minds to cause dis
ease and suffering and death? Oh.
No! Now having looked at the doc
trne from the standpoint OF science
and philosophy it is weighed and
wanting. We look at it from the
standpoint of theology. and worst
of all, it is out OF harmony with
God.
Mrs. Eddy lays down four funda-
mental reversible propositions which
would not be understood if men
toned, and which to her are all
the more incontrovertible because
they make equal sense If read back
wards They certainly do; as for
instance: Good is Mind" and "Mind
is Good" She also proves her met
aphysiCs by the rule of inversion
as for instance, There is no pain
in truth and no truth in pain,
There is no matter in good and no
good in matter" but how much more
surprising and consequential asser-
tiors prove anything is too enig-
matical for me. The entire volume
appeals to one as a monotonouS re
% ltcinfptA1 =
meaningless propositions, much Of
which, as we'll as her fundamentals,
may be read in either direction with
equal ease and perspicuity, when
with a perseverance worthy of the
saints, one has labored unto the
end, he finds himself in possession
of only the general idea" which he
could have found on almost any page |
of the ponderous volume.
A Theory Of Health.
Christian Science, in a word, is a |
theory of health, using for its basic |
principle the old philosophic concep-
ton of the non existence Of matter. |
''Mind is all and matter is naught,"
and "erring mortal, mtsnamed mind,
produces all the organism and ac-
llOu vi lllt iultldll DOug. all ulo
ease, she declares, is an affectation
Of the mind, and the blood, heart,
lungs, brains, etc, have nothing to
do with life" and consequently food
neither strengthens nor weakens the
body. Any cure wrought apparently
through drugs is really effected by
the patients faith in the drug and
not by any inherent power of the
drug itself AS a system of thera-
peutics therefore it comes to this:
Believe yourself well and YOU will
be we'll" OH / wish it true, but
alas, 'tis not and Mrs. Eddy and all
her host fail to prove the theory.
Mrs. Eddy repeatedly disayows
Pantheism. but if Pantheism is what
all philosophical thought has always
reputed it to be, then the statement
that "all is God" is Pantheism Of the
boldest type. Certainly if Mrs Eddy
be permitted to formulate her
own definition. changing time hon.
ored and world wide accepted con-
cepts, she may be eXonerated from
the charge of Pantheism, and all
other religious untruth, as there re-
mains then no room for even the
irankest discussion. Consequently,
with Pantheism she denies the per-
sonality of God. God" she says,
is not a person who can say y, or
be addressed as Thou but the Bi-
BILE reveals Him as speaking in the
first person repeatedly, and as being
addressed in the second person.
Which is right? This book (Scence
and HEALTH, or this book Cthe
Bible)? God is more than an 1T"
Christian Science says God is love
and so does the Bible. How could
He love were He not a person, l. e.,
possess the characteristics OF per-
Accordingly Mrs. Eddy
says that prayer to a personal God
S a hindrance," and that pleading
with the divine mind as a person.
Atty is "an error which impedes
spiritual growth" The Savior said,
After this manner therefore pray
re; Our Father which art in
heaven, hallowed be Thy name"
Which is right (Christian Scicnce)
n this one (the Biblel?
A False Philosophy.
AS a philosopher, she is false. The ;
Id statement that the pendulum
wings from one extreme to the !