New-York tribune., 1920-12-21
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Baker Eddy and her student. AUGUSTA
+. Stetson, which we're nub)ished
IN your columns on Sunday. Docem-
Der 18th, including many fac-simile
letters Of Mrs. Eddy, have been
source Of enlightenment and relief to
thousands who were ignorant Of the
1acts concerning Mrs Stetson's excom-
mun'cation from the Boston Church hv
the board Of directors, which occurred
eleven years ago.
he reason for tho excommunication
OF woman whose Christian life. dur
ing a residence. of more than +hir+r
years in New York City. has been
known to all. was a mystery to the
people. Her years of adherence to the
teachings Of Christ Jesus and Mary
Baker Eddy finally brought forth tho
demonstration of a church cdiice. in
which to carry on the work Of teachinc
and demonstrating the doctrine of
CHRISTIAN. Science, according to tho
spiritual methods which Christ Jesu.
employed. His spiritual mental power
was revealed to Mary Baker Eddv. who
discovered. founded and promulgated
His teaching and named it Christian
Science
AS we understand it. Twenty-Five
wears of this time Mrs. Stetson was
the head of her church and seventeen
years of this time she occunied th.
pulpit as Pastor and Reader The fac
smile letters of Mrs Eddy prove that
during all this time Mrs. Eddv held
her in highest esteem and atrcction
ard recognized hcr superior sririt,al
attainments. which Mrs Eddy regarded
as essential to her in her great work
Of preserving the Ch,istionjty of
Christian Science.
Could Mrs. Eddy suddenly have been
awakened to the fact that Mrs Stot-
sons character and knowledge Of that
which she had practised with Mrs
hddy's approval for many years had
been lost in a moment and that she
had reversed Mrs. Eddyis 4eachincs
As reasonable would it be for an ad-
ranced mathematician to lose his
knowledge of the science of matbe-
matics, or for great musician to re
verse every rule of harmony in dav
Christian Science, or the Christ
Nind-healnr, has been fully set forth
by Mrs. Eddy in her book. "Scionce
and Health With Key to the Scrin-
lures and her other writings. Cor
reSpondcnce, private and otherwise.
also arc regarded by her students as
the inspired word of God voiced
through her, as God has voiced Him
self through prophets, Christ Jesus
and the Apostles down through the
ages.
AS VIC understand the situation. the
cornerstone upon which the Christian
Science platform rests IS. God is Life.
Truth and Love. tho only Creator or
Cause, and the universe. including
every object, is the effect. phenomenon.
or man tChrst) of this one and only
Cause God. God being all. there is
no reality in any phenomena which
are the opposite of eternal Life. Love
and Truth. There is no reality in the
phenomena Of sin, sickness, death, sor-
row or discord of any name or nature.
They are the result Of the carnal mind
and not the Mind Of Christ
These discordant conditions the
Christian Scientists claim are the re
suit Of sin, and to them sin is belief
Of life and Intelligence in matter. AS
we understand it, they interpret
Christ's words "whosoever liveth and
belicveth in me shall never die" to
mcan he that commits sin must meet
the penalty in suffering and finally in
death. Christian Scientists work men
tally and meet all evil thought with
the God thought, which annus the
power of evil Now. this teaching ap-
peals 70 those who are anxious to gain
their health and harmonious conditions
in homes and in business therefore
so many adherents to the theory of
Christian Science, and they afir rm that
it is dcmonstrablc.
No Christian would deny that Jesus
possessed certain mental power,
which destroyed sin and suffering and
at last made Him victor over death
and the grave. Mrs. Fddv's theory of
the Science of demonstrable Truth
should engage the attention of human
ty 1t appeals to us as emancipation
from mental s|arerV. the carnal
thoughts to which Paul referred when
ne wrote. "to be carnaly minded is
death; but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace"
The contention apparent in Mrs
Stetson's case comes from the fact that
she declares that she is immortal
which is the basic theory Of Christian
Science. On this foundations rock she
seems to have stood for more than
thirty years, mmovable in her warfare
against sin, sickness and death, and
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