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not be new creation or re-crea-
tion, but simply as above quoted,
the unfolding of that which al,
ready is. The changing phenomena
of mortal beliefs as indicated by the
strata of fossils" to which Mr.. Met
calf refers does not in the least
change the absolute ultimate truth
concerning God and man. Neither
does the belief relative to birth, ma
turity and decay in the least inter-
fere with the forever fact that man
is immortal, possessing eternal Life,
because God is his Life.
Jesus said: whatsoever liveth and
believeth in Me shall never die. Be-
lievest thou this?" Is this statement
true or is it one of those "sophor-
ific'' terms which he accuses Chris
tian Scientists of using? If Jesus
statement is true, then neither Mrs.
Eddy, nor any other Christian Scien-
fist nor any other Christian has real
ly died, Notwithstanding, the logic
of time" which is supposed to event
ually answer every Christian Science
argument"
1t is true that Christian Science
teaches that imam cannot do evil, or
become SICK but this does not refer
to the concept of man to which Mr..
Metcalf refers 1t refers to the man
mentioned in the first Chapter OF
Genesis, created Gin the image and
likeness of Cod
Christian Science differentiates
and distinguishes between the human
concept called man, and the divine
idea which is the real man. The
mortal concept or carnal mind, is as
st. Paul states it: "Enmity against
God" 1t is this carnal mind, which
constitutes the selfhood of sO-called
mortal man, and which becomes sick
or sinful. This false sense of man
must be displaced by the spiritual
understanding of what constitutes
mans true being, and then the real
man begins to appear. AS st. Paul
states it: "Be ye therefore trans
formed by the renewing of your
minds"
Our Critics objection to consider
ing the common thief" Benedict
Arnold" Aaron Burr" "Pontius
Plate" and some others as mani
Testing qualities Of God" is well
taken. 1t is also apparent that his
inference that Christian Scientists
do not discriminate is simply con-
troversial verbiage.
When Rev. Metcalf gives some
clearer evidence that he really un-
derstands the Christian Science
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be perhaps better qualified to discuss
it. At the present time, he is simply
ridiculing his own concept of this
teaching, and in this, he is quite con-
sistent. 1t may, however, be justly
said that while the human family as
a whole, believes that matter exists,
no one has ever proved it except as
the decentralization of human con-
cepts. Therefore, necessarily men,
tai.
Mr.. Metcalf may not agree with
Bishop Berkeley or with Mr.. Herbert
Spencer, or Prof. Thomas Huxley, or
other wellknown natural scientists,
and it may be that in this disagree
ment, he is following what he terms
experience" or evidence of the
senses or other material reasoning.
There is abundant evidence of the
fact that Mrs. Eddy's ideas relative
to matter accord with those of the
worlds deepest thinkers. Space will
permit of only a\few citations in
point.
In Mr. HuXley's lecture on Joseph
Priestly, he states: "He had been led
to admit the sufficiently obvious
truth thai our knowledge of matter
is a knowledge of its properties, and
that of its substance, if it has sub
stance, we know nothing. So far as
we can know, there may be no diff
ference between the substances of
matter and the substances of Spirit"
In his scientific work First Prin-
ciples," Mr.. Herbert Spencer states,
Matter and motion as we knew
them, are differently conditioned
manifestations OF force. .concretes
built up from the contents of various
mental relations" And again, he
states such being our cognitions of
the relative reality ;matter) what
are we to say of the absolute real
ity? We can only say that it is some
form of the unkuowable related to