The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-08-23


August IS, 1919.
Chicago, Illinois,
Dear Madam:
Your letter to the General Overseer was
received in the Ecclesiastical Secretary's
office the 18th inst 1t has come to my of
flee for reply.
Our understanding of the Scripture to
which you refer, Revelation 12:1-o is as
follows:
The woman" is Israel, clothed with the
sun = the Sun of Righteousness, Jesus
the Christ. The moon under her feet was
the Mosaical Dispensation. The crown of
twelve stars upon her head is a symbol of
the twelve tribes, making up the corporate
body of Israel
The woman" Israel, fleeing into the
wilderness will take place exactly in the
middle of the Antichrist's career of seven
years. In that wilderness Isaiah 1855
and Ezekiel 20:33-38) she is hidden 1860
days, the last half of the seven years.
How absurd, preposterous and unscrip-
tural is the claim of Christian Science that
the woman" of Revelation Twelfth
Chapter was Mrs. Eddy, the founder of
the so-called Christian Science Church
Christian Science is neither Christian nor
scientific; it is one of the strong decisions
UI Thessalonians 2:1-12 and I Timothy
Ais, with II Peter 2:1-3 and Jude and
~ of these last days, so clearly foretold in
the Scriptures.
The heart of this Internal system is the
denial and reputation of the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Son of the living God.
l. Christian Science considers Jesus
Christ only as an example and way-shower
NOT the Way. 1t never once refers to
Him as the Great Passover Lamb, the Sim
less, Vicarious Sacrifice of God, and with
out the shedding of Whose blood On the
cross of Calvary, no human being can be
saved. In Mrs. Eddy's book, "Science and
Health, she was so guided of Satan that
she wrote, "the material blood of Jesus
was no more eficacious to cleanse from sin
when it was shed upon the accursed tree
than when it was flowing in His veins.
Note we'll the fact that Mrs. Eddy, in
the words "accursed tree, places the curse
upon the tree (cross) and not upon the
One accursed upon the tree.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse
of the law, BEING MADE A CURSE FOR US:
for it is written, Cursed is every one that
hangeth on tree Galatians 1913.
Consider this question: Was there as
much efficacy or power in the living Pass
over Lamb as there was in the blood of
that Lamb, when sprinkled upon the two
side posts and the overhead post of the
doors? Gods Word makes vast differ
ence between the blood of the living Jesus
and the blood of that same Jesus when
crucihed on the cross
And the blood shall be to you for token
upon the houses where We are: and WHEN
SEE THE BLOOD, will pass over you, and
the plague shall not be upon you to destroy
you when I smite the land of Egypt Exodus
1918.
No matter what Christian Science, Mil
1ennial Dawnism, Theosophy, and the many
other doctrines of demons, say God for
ever and forever looks upon the precious
blood of His Son from the moment in
which it was shed on the cross In Heaven
above ever since Calvary, angels and re-
deemed, looking steadfastly, see Lamb as
it had been slain from before the founda-
ton of the earth
e. Christian Science pretends to acknowl-
edge one Supreme God, but the Christian
Science god is one without personality
Mrs Eddy called it Mind
g. Christian Science believes in the Son,
and then straightway declares that Son
to be simply an idea of the infinite ALL
Good and All-Mind manifesting itself
through the Virgin Mary, thus overthrow
ing the real Deity of the Lord Jesus Christ
Thus it strikes would-be death-blow to the
All-Holy Person of the Lord Jesus. 1t
robs Him of His Divinity. 1t ignores or
repudiates His supreme Lordship.
f. Christian Science asserts that there are
two persons, one called Jesus, and the other
called Christ, and it positively denies that
Christ ever died, but the Bible just as
positively asserts that He did, and that He
was buried, and that He rose again on
the third day.
S. Mrs Eddy asserted that Divine or
Christian Science is the Holy Spirit In
declaring herself to be the discoverer and
founder of Christian Science, she virtually
declares that she was the discoverer and
founder of the Holy Spirit. What horrid
basphemy! She says, IT understand the
other Comforter to be the revelation of
Christian Science"
g. Christian Science denies any medium
of, or benefit from prayer. In Science
and Health" she says God is not influenced
by man. The Divine ear is not an auditory
nerve. According to this statement, God
does not hear prayer.
Again she says, "God is not moved by
the prayer of praise to do more than He has