The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-04-05

obtain the valuable experience OF others.
1t 10 more easy to see wherein our neigh
Dor excels in business affairs than it is
in education and religion, because dol
lars. the result of business. are more
easily computed than character, the re-
suit of education and religion.
Pestalozzi wrote some Bible when ne
said: "Tbere is in the child an active
power of faith and love, the two prin-
ciples By which under divine guidance,
our nature is made to participate in the
highest blessings that are in store for
u.s."
Caroline Faryl, commenting on the
book from which the above is good quo
tation, says: ut need not have been
put into English or any language into
which the word of God has been trans
lated, for it bellies it utterly"
Those who view PestalozzIs teaching
as out of harmony with the Bible have
in mind some human Interpretation
rather than the words of Christ, where
he says, 'Suffer little children to come
unto me and forbid them not, for of such
is the Kingdom of heaven" The Bible
story of how Eve was made from rib
taken out of Adam is doubtless true,
but the modern name of that rib is germ
cell. The material for our redemption
flowed from the side of Christ, the son of
God. just as naturally as Eve was de-
veloped from the original rib or germ
cell.
The side of the great Christ spirit is
today accessible to all, not because he
hanged upon the cross, but because he
walked and talked among men, and we
today have the record of his teachings.
The story of the creation of Eve is the
embryo of modern physiology. The
Bible as whole is the embryo of mod
ern science, which is Bible in process
of development.
The above was printed in local paper
last year and few days later in the
columns of the same paper one of the
bretheren of the stereotyped faith Gen.
sured it as a slam at Martin Luther.
jab at Paul, a scoffing at the disciples,
giving the lie to the story OF Adam and
Eve, and he alludes to science as the
DEVILS Bible.
We have a host of such men today,
hn ~
ly greater hindrance to true progress
than the rumseler. They are found
among the most gifted preachers who
denounce Unitariansm as darkest hell,
Christian Science as the devil in kid
gloves, and evolution as the invention of
satan.
With the majority of our preachers of
that type there is little wonder that only
5 per cent of the people on the Pacific
coast belong to churches. AS matter
of fact Unitarianism has existed since
the dawning of the Christian era, only it
failed to get the support of the Roman
Emperor, hence the true Interpretation
VI CldIllIy 1cll ulSICpuLe. CUEIS.
tian Science appears before the world
every Sunday with fine selections from
the Bible, together with Mrs. Eddy's
explanation of the same as arranged by
some leader of the church. Mrs. Eddy's
writings are SO extensive that any man
would be able to compile a good Sunday
service from her writings and the Bible.
The only just criticism that can be
brought against Christian Science could
also be brought against its critics, and
that is that the man who prepares the
service gets greater benefit than those
who listen, for the Bible says 'Be ye
doors and not hearers only" Evolution,
so often censured by those who know
nothing of it, is the fundamental princi-
pie of science and religion.
GEO. M. COLE,
Bellingham, Wash.