The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1918-03-09

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tnguish between 'the nature of mat
ter" and ''the existence of matter"
We may know that thing is with
out knowing what it is. Thus Mr..
Ross knew very we'll that l gave a
lecture, but he did not know what l
lectured about. All the physicists
and chemists the world over pro.
claim the existence of matter even
in their vain endeavor to get down
to it's ultimate nature. They would
be in a strange plight surely were
they to learn that all their expert
ments were performed on non-eXist-
ing matter or on nothingness.
Another very interesting point in
the reply of Mr.. Ross is that uncon-
sciously he supplies an argument
which does away with mind as we'll
as matter. The chemists and physi-
cists may know very little about the
ultimate nature of matter, but they
know as much, perhaps, even more
than the Christian Scientists meta
physicians know about the ultimate
nature of mind" l have frequently
read in Christian Scientists writings
that until the physicists can tell us
what matter is, they have no right
to say what it is" but have yet to
find a Christian Scientists who has
ever attempted to tell us what mind
! is, what God is, or what the soul is,
and l think that a materialist could
readily retort their argument and
| say, Until the Christian Scientists
tell us what mind is, they have NO
right to say that it isl
What Is Mind?
This, in fact, might suggest a sub
ject for another letter from the
learned Christian Scientist who was
kind enough to notice my first lee
ture even though he was unfortunate
enough to miss the subject of the
lecture. A clear cut answer to the
question, what is mind?" from an
authoritative Christian Scientist
would be rare intellectual treat.
l need not here refer to what the
brilliant scholar has to say about
other phases of Christian Science,
because l should thus anticipate the
lectures that are to follow, but
take great pleasure in assuring Mr.
Ross that my talks on Christian
Science and Christian Sense are not
destructive merely, but contain a sin
cere plea for the universal adoption
of genuine Christian Science.
At One With God.
In his first lecture on Christian
Science and Christian Sense, Father
Kavanagh explained and analzed the
doctrine of Mrs. Eddy and her fol
lowers on the unreality of matter
In the second lecture, the learned
clergyman spoke on "The All-ness
of Mind or, according to his state
ment backed by many quotations, it
means the same thing, "The All-ness
of Cod"
| If "God is ALL" he said in sub
stance, in the sense in which the
expression is used in Christian Science
literature, it follows logically that
GAIL is God,' or what seems more
terrible that II am God," and that
"You are Cod" But terrible as this
may seem to those who are unfamiliar
with the teachings of this new sect
it has no terror to the Christian Scien
lists themselves.
What am I? You may ask any
Christian Scientist and if he is al
all familiar with his text book
Science and HEALTH" he will answer
in the words of the author of that
book, II or Ego" (am) "divine prin
ciple, spirit, soul, incorporeal, unerr
ing, immortal and eternal mind" OF
again II am God; incorporeal and
eternal mind; divine principle; the
only ego.''
But has not this doctrine of uni
flying God and man been explained
in some way by the philosophical ex
Founders of Mrs. Eddy so that the
evident Pantheism may be avoided
All the authorized expounders ot
Christian Science insist upon the
same unity between God and man
The only reality recognized in divine
metaphysics "is infinite, divine prin
ciple and is identified in Christian
Science as spirit (the words arc
Herman Hering's c. S. b., the in
destructible substance; as soul includ
ing all spiritual identity and individ
uality; as the supreme ego, the great
/ AM, the being who was and is and
shall be- If God is all, adds Mr.
Greenwood c. S. B., something be
sides God is not possible" *
One must abandon his belief in an
existence separate from God if he
would accept and abide bv the state
ment that God is all"
| All-ness and One ness.
| After these and many more quota
tions from authorized exponents ot
Christian Science, Father Kavanagh
explained the different senses in
which the terms all-ness and one
ness could be used, and again had
recourse to quotations to show that
Christian Science oneness was that
of individuality, or in other words
there was only one individual in ex