The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-05-13

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they will not be so until the Sayio
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 result o
His work, there VIII then beat tn,
close Of the Millennial Age-no sin, NJ
death, no sorrow, no pain.
But since Mrs. Eddy and Christian
Science fail TO recognize and stat,
these facts clearly. Il follows that how
ever attractive some OF the teaching.
may be TO some people, they cannot
be relied upon, because they are OF
the true Notwithstanding mel
Their the facts OF sin and death nor the
necessity for "A redemption from those
conditions by the sacrifice OF Jesus, moi
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 glorified, and with her Lord
shall constitute the Kingdom Of Right.
eousness.
Jesus prayed for His Church, Sane
tify them through Thy Truth Thy
Word is Truth" While Christian Sci
entsts and people of other denomina
lions, and some of the heather as WELL
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
sanctification The putting away of
the filth of the flesh is indeed com
mendable, but is only 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 d
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 1t seems very unscientitic-in
harmonious with the Truth. We be
lieye that the only way that anything
scientific could be associated with 1t |
is by adding to ii the thought that
only temporarily, by reason of trans
gression of Divine Law, and that they |
are to be rooted out and destroyed as
noxious weeds by Messiah's Kingdom
Christian Scientists tell lis 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 a 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 Hog
ical, irrational and, above all, untruth-
full, to say that we are without pain
when we have pain. The lover of the
esty must be first with all right-minded
people, and surely Is pleasing to God.
Let us then not go to the extreme Of
or to the other extreme
If exaggerating our ills; but, Let every
nan think soberly. 1913
A Very Pernicious Teaching.
There Is one doctrine heldsby Chris
ian Scientists-and for that matter by
many Of other denominations, who
tate themselves less positively-that
S very pernicious, very injurious, very
Untrue. very unscientific, very unscrip-
ural. This is the teaching that God
$ omnipresent-preseDt In everything
md in every place. Nothing in the
Bible so declares; and when we at
empt to be wiser than what is written.
We are surely making a mistake.
Whoever thinks of God as omnipres-
mt necessarily thinks Of Him as i'm
PERSONAL; and the more he thinks, the
more vague his God becomes, until
he has no God, but merely
as some Christian Scientists. including
irs Eddy. express it, believes In a
rinciple of good, and calls that princi- !
lie God. Such wish TO believe In a su-
IRENE Creator. but by this erroneous I
they mislead their own in
diligence into the denial OF personal
,od Whoever believes in a God who
, everywhere believes in one who is
OF a person.
The Bible teaches a personal Cod
great Spirit Being. The Bible gives !
lin home. or locality, and does not
each that He Is everywhere. IL was 7
csus who taught US to pray. sour Fa
her, which art In Heaven" oh, how
ifferent this is from saying that God
in everything that has use or value
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