The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-22
r. 8. yesterday Says Honey
we'll Misunderstands
Their Theology.
STATEMENTS UNKIND
Declares Critic Has Super
ficial View of Teachings
of the Church.

In the Palladium issued January IL
appeared the following paragraph
near the conclusion of Rev. Honey
wells sermon which had been deliy-
cred on the preceding night.
There is no Salvation in Christian
Science, the most gigantic fraud in the
Twentieth century. 1t has just enough
Scripture in it to float the miserable
fallacy. You don't exist, you only think
you do. You are never sick, you only
imagine you are sick. Nothing exists
but God, hence Jesus Christ did not
and does not exist and so these Chris
tians rob our Christ of his divinity and
power. There is no salvation in such
a damnable doctrine as that"
These sentences were copied YER
batim from Rev. Honeywelrs manu-
script by a member of the local Chris
tian Science church. A copy of the Pal
ladium was mailed to the Committee
on Publication for the Christian Sci
ence Churches and Societies of Indi-
ana. of which K. Stanhope Easterday
is chairman by a member of the local
church. Mr.. yesterday sent the follow
ing communication to the Palladium:
utteranees Oerogatoy.
Editor,
Richmond Palladium and Sun Tel
egram,
Richmond, Indiana.
Dear Sir:
My attention has been called to the
report of the tabernacle meetings in
your issue of the 18th. in which the
Rev. Honeywell is reported to have so
far departed from the orderly preach
ing of the Word as to have uttered un-
kind and derogatory statements mis-
representing Christian Science teach
ing. We are sure that your readers
will be interested in a statement of
the facts on the points raised.
Nothing could be further from the
fact than cur critics intimation that
Christian Science but makes supercil-
ious and unreasonable denial in its
attempt to eliminate various phases
Of evil from human experience. Far
from denying that man does exist, that
individuals only Imagine" their suf-
ferings, etc, Christian Science, on
the basis OF the scriptural argument,
"Ye shall know the Truth and the
Truth shall make you free" and our
Lords uneQuivocal contention that all
phases of evil have their origin in
that which He designated "a liar and
the father of it," legitimately dis
proves certain commonly accepted but
very false conceptions of existence
and eliminates sickness by proving
that there is no place nor possibility
for disease in the Infinite, Divine econ
omy. On the basis of such logic Chris
| tian Scientists find themselves able
| to heal and reform themselves in con-
formity with our Lords command ito
preach" and "to heal
Views Superficial.
An evidence of our critics super
! fetal view Of Christian Science teach
ing and the superfciality of his own
arguments. is his questionable deduc-
tion that if nothing exists but Cod
then Jesus Christ did not and does
| not exist" More rational is the rees-
oning OF Paul in Five Corinthians, Is
! chapter, 2Sth verse, When all things
shall be subdued unto him, then shall
the Son also himself be subject unto
him that put all things under Him.
| that God may be all in ALL" In this
latter verse, Christian Scientists see
not only a rational reconciliation of
J tue IdCC Oh IOu dHu eAlSlSu~c
Of His Christ, the latter exemplifying
man in the image and likeness of the
perfect Father on the reflection of
| the allness of God. but in the idea
Of the subjection of "all things" unto
the Father, they see foreshadowed the
| absolute elimination of all forms of
! evil from human experience.
/ This, in short, is the theory of
Christian Science evidently much mis-
understood by our critic. 1t is this
theology, furthermore, that is today
accomplishing the healing work
among Christian Scientists that was
practiced for three centuries by the
early church and that Jesus should
be the only criterion of true diciple-
ship, and we must leave our brethren
fother faiths to reconcile their own
particular systems to this Standard
! Sincerely,
| r. STANHOPE EASTERDAY