River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-04-29


the Bible merely will enligbten and
sanctify, but its spirit, its real mean
ing. This is obtainable, not by con-
fusing definitions, but by simplicity Of
mind i'll accepting the words for what
they are and putting them together il
logical order.
Let US give Mrs. Eddy credit for de
string to be logical; but let US notice
that, whatever she thought, her Ian
guage was confusing when she said,
There is no death, no sickness, no
pain The most that can be conceded
by the most generous lOgician would
be that there should be no death, no
sickness, no pain, no sorrow, if things
were in right condition. But they are
not in a right condition, as the Bible
declares and as all can see. And
they will not be SO until the Savior
who redeemed the world by the sacri-
fee of Himself shall assume His king
ly office and right the wrongs which
sin has brought US. AS a result Of
His work. there will then beat the
close of the AIillennial Age-no sin, no
death, no sorrow, no pain.
But since Mrs. Eddy and Christian
Science fail to recognize and state
these facts clearly, it follows that how
ever attractive some of the teachings
may be to some people, they cannot
be relied upon, because they are off
the true fOundatiOn-recOg nei-
Their the facts of sin and death nor the
necessity for a redemption from those
conditions by the sacrifice Of Jesus, nor
approaching the necessity for the COM
ing Restitution.
Furthermore, Christian Science does
not clearly differentiate between the
Church, which has been in process of
calling and election for more than
eighteen centuries, and the world, which
still lies in the Wicked One, and which
will not be dealt with until the Church
shall be glOrifed, and with her Lord
shall constitute the Kingdom of Right
| eOusness.
Jesus prayed for His Church, "Sanc-
tify them through Thy Truth; Thy
Word is Truth" While Christian Sci
entists and people of other denomina-
lions, and some Of the heather as WE'LL
are, many of them, moral, exemplary
honorable, nevertheless few of them
surely, claim to be Sanctified. Indeed,
the Sanctifying features of the Truth
they ignore or do not see. We are not
to think of church attendance or of
rejection of profanity, liquors, ETC., as
sanctifcation. The putting away of
the filth of the flesh is indeed com
mendable, but is only a primary step
in the right direction.
God is now calling a sanctified class
"a set-apart peOple-WhOm He is test
ing under the promise, BE thou faith
full unto death, and | will give thee a
Crown of Life" This does not signify
faithfulnesS to a denomination or q
cult, but faithfulness to the Lord, to
the testimony Of His Word, to the prin-
ciples Of righteousness, to self-Surren-
der to God to walk in Jesus footsteps.
We will not discuss at length the sci
entific element of Christian Science.
To some it seems very unScientitic-in-
harmonious with the Truth. We be-
lieve that the only way that anything
scientific could be associated with it
is by adding to it the thought that
sorrow, sin and death are in the world
only temporarily, by reason of trans
erosion of Divine Law, and that they
are to be rooted out and destroyed as
nOXious weeds by MessiahS Kingdom.
Christian Scientists tell US that they
have received great benefit mentally
and physically from following Mrs.
Eddy's theory and denying that there
is any pain, etc. We quite agree that
the will is q powerful factor in resist
ing diSeaSe--that if we brood over Sor-
rows. difficulties, aches and pains, they
are increased by the operation of our
minds We agree, as do all physicians,
that the mind should be lifted as much
as possible from our diseases and
placed upon happifying subjects. This
is rational and logical; but it is illog-
ical, irrational and, above all, untruth-
full, to say that we are without pain
when we have pain. The lover of the
truth can never consent to this. Hon
eSty must be first with all right-minded
people, and surely is pleasing to God.
Let us then not go to the extreme of
untruthfulness or to the other extreme
of exaggerating our ills; but, Let every
man think sOberly.-Romans 1913.
A Very Pernicious Teaching.
There is one doctrine held by Chris
tian Scientists-and for that matter by
many of other denominations, who
state themselves less positively
is very pernicious, very injurious, very
untrue, very unscientitic, very unscrip-
tural This is the teaching that God
is omnipresent-pres in everything
and in every place. Nothing in the
Bible so declares; and when we at
tempt to be wiser than what is written,
we are surely making mistake.
Whoever thinks of God as omnipres-
ent necessarily thinks of Him as i'm
personal; and the more he thinks, the
more vague his God becomes, until
gradually he has no God, but merely
(as some Christian Scientists, including
Mrs Eddy oxDroSC itl bo1iavpc in y