The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-29
.EASTERDAY UPHOLDS
CHURCH'S TEACHINGS
Answers the Charges Made
Against Christian Science
By Rev. Honeywell.
LENDS TO LONGEVITY
Cites Report to Prove That
Many Are Joining the
Church.
LENDS TO LONGEVITY

r. Stanhope Easterday, connected
Christian Science church, has sent the
following communication to the Pal
ladium:
In your issue Of the Path appears
excerpts from a retort by Rev. Haney-
we'll to our recent letter on the sub
ject Of Christian Science. In the crit
les latest effort he makes the all too
common mistake OF wrestling from
their legitimate setting in explanatory
context disconnected passages, which
so separated are usually meaningless,
and easily capable of being so juggled
as to prove almost anything. The eff
fort of our present critic has, however,
resulted in such vulnerable outline
OF reasoning as to hardly necessitate
a correction.
For instance, in questioning Mrs.
Eddy's explanation of the raising OF
Lazarus, the gentleman Inadvertently
refers to our Lords final statement,
plainly made, to the effect that Laza-
rus 'is dead" failing to surmise that
such reference could but call specific
attention to our Lords initial and
more correct statement in the words
"our friend Lazarus sleepeth," the
former statement having been clearly
forced from the Master by dullness of
ers Perhaps the critic did not note
IN
specific case, he must necessarily
call to mind the indubtitable fact that
while Jesus and others have raised
the dead by literally understanding
that (they) had never died." no one
ever yet raised one from the dead by
contending, as would our critic for the
reality and power of death.
Again our critics superficial deduc-
tions to the teaching Of Christian
Science relative to Atonement is re-
futed In the unequivocal declaration
in the fourth tenet of Christian
following words:
1--WE acknowledge Jesus atonement
as the evidence Of divine, efficacious
Love, unfolding mans unity with God
through Christ Jesus the Way-shower !;
through Christ, through Truth, Life,
and Love as demonstrated by the Cali
lean Prophet in healing the sick and
overcoming sin and death" (Science
and Health, PIP 497)
Other allegations of the critic as to
the purport of Christian Science teach
ing will also be found wanting if the
official statement of such teaching as
found in Mrs. Eddy's book, Science
and Health with Key to the Scrip
tures,' be studied by our readers. Its
teachings will also be found to be
founded upon and is absolute confor-
nifty with the Scriptures throughout
thus refuting the hackneyed and ridi-
culous inference that Mrs. Eddy cop
led from Hinduism or any other doubt
full source.
AS to our critics allegation that
Christian Science is not growing" we
can but call the attention Of our read
ers to facts which our critic could have
ascertained easily At the last annual
meeting of The Mother Church, The
First Church Of Christ Scientist, last
June in Boston, the report of the clerk
among other interesting facts, indicat-
ed that a new Christian Science church
had been founded on an average of ev-
cry three or four days during the year
just closed. If the gentleman will count
the number of official churches in The
Christian Science Journal Of the cur
rent month, and then go back and
count the number in the corresponding
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