The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-04-27
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the answer thereto or the fuDiftati"
Committee OF the Christian Scientist
are before your readers, ard hav
Thought II may be opportune to expires
the views Of one who recognizes tha
there is a great basis OF truth at tn
foundation of the system, as there !
in all systems of philosophy. and z
endeavor to get to the realities Whicl
lie iii neither extreme.
When little boy comes Eome fr
school and tells his mother that tWi-'
two Id four. both he and his mothe
are very proud OF his original discov
cry. For it is an original discover,
for him. He never knew it before
though his mother had made the samt
discovery for herself long before he
was bodn.
When Mrs. Eddy says she discov
cred that God is Love, that He Is moi
the author of evil. etc, she tells the
truth. for there must have been time
in her life when she did not know IL
and ii was an original discovery SO
far as she was concerned. But those
truths, as well as all theo ther truths
that may be found in her writings
were old truths to humanity long be
fore Abraham left Ur of the Chaldees
Pope's Essay on Man can be read to.
day as a logical dissertation on the
doctrinal teachings of Mrs. Eddy, yet
Pope died thirty-two years before JEFF
ferson wrote the Declaration OF lnde-
pendence. Our Aryan forefathers be
fore the dawn of history, in their
Vodic hymns. sang the same old story
in the outdoor temples OF Hindoostan.
Curtiss says: Words are the sym
solb of ideas, but numbers are the
symbols of Divine realities. spiritual
virtues, eternal in the heavens.
Words being the symbols of ideas may
and do deceive for the symbols do
not mean the same things to those
that see or hear them. Home, love-
God, wife, husband, child, mother,
father, are the simplest and most
common words in the English lam
guage, but to each person to whom
they come, these simple. common
words bring up entirely different and
perhaps entirely opposite images.
There is not a single theologic OF
philosophic truth which carried to its
ultimate and logical conclusion does
not become falsehood. The doctrine
OF prediestination is clearly taught IN
Paul's Epistle to the Romans. Vet this
doctrine carried to its ultimate and
logical conclusion becomes false.
hood 1t develops into fatalism and the
denial of the freedom of the will The
symbol of the pot and the potter, and
the latter's right to make any kind o.
a pot he likes. is not only taught in
the New Testament, but 1t is one OF
the fundamental truths of every relig-
ion that has ever existed Omar Khay
yam, the Persian poet, in his Rubaiyat
has several stanzas devoted to this
thought, and he gives expression to
the opinion Of thousands in every age
when he says:
eAfter momentary silence spake
Some Vessel of more ungainly
Make;
They sneer at me for leaning all awry
What, did the Hand then of the Pot
ter shaker"
The great doctrine of the immanence
OF God, found in every religion, is the /
palladium of the Christian Scientists, |
and in their attempt to drive it to its
ultimate and logical conclusion, they |
arrive at a position where they are /
at outs with every other religion.
Mathematics alone, drawn out to
fAD iHdLLCi what uCSiCCy dAO diN uJ .
true, hence numerals have always
been considered divine by the ancient
and language but the
imperfect vehicle OF ideas, often as
false as it is imperfect
There is but one criterion of human
teaching whether it claims divine ori-
gin or not. and that is What are its
'ruits?" Poor Cad Allard, whom so
many of us knew. was so sure he was
.ured by Christian Science Of the great
white plague. He told me so, and he
it. He left home and soon
.ame the word to US that he had die0
i consumption.
What are the fruits of Christian Sci
nee? Based on the theory that mat