Milford chronicle., 1922-10-20
WHAT 1 KNOW OF CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE-WHAT CHRISTIAN
SCIENCE TEACHES
BY Mrs. Anna Y. Davis Swan

NAne quoIaIons from Science an,
Health and pages referred to are
Y taken from several different
t editions)
Many years ago, in the last years OF
her life, Mrs. Annie Dempster Jumr
came to me with a copy of "Science
ana Health" written by Mrs Eddy,
ana asked what I thought OF it. This
circumstance led to my study and in
Vestlgation of the system, as to its
merits and demerits, in order that I
might be able in the future to :givo
an intelligent answer to all 1nuuirers
whose minds are disturbed and pel-
picked, as was hers, by so called
Christian Science.
since that time ] have met and
talked with many Christian Science
people in the East, West and South.
ana this l can say in it's favor-that
the tone of life has been changed for
many self-pitying people, a limited
number of functional disorders have
been cured, but no organic troubles.
The challenge to prove that they have
has never been met. However, as a |
class, I believe that Christian Scien-
lists are a people who are upright,
clean and peaceable. Further than
this I cannot go.
The following is their teaching as
have cleaned it from all sources. In
so-called Christian Science there is
strong similarity to pagan philo-
sophy, taught for thousands of years
in pagan lands, the belief and prac-
ice of which wrecked millions of
lives. People now living in these
same lands, who have become true
Christians have DISCARDED it as a
of sheer "Nothingness."
They viewed the whole universe as
lothing but falsehood-yOu do not ex- X
ST do not exist. In India when >
title ones were dying by hundreds, .
he pagan philosopher would say, .
There are no little children to "
tarve to death in famine" They had =.
o sympathy, no compassion for suf-
ering humanity. -
What says the Christian Science n y
'cturer quoted and published in the :,
Iilford Chronicle under date of May ~
9TH, 1922? Matter and the Material NJ
inverse have no existence; Jesus G,
lreality of matter and material he
rces." In Science and Health" page
g, we read, moral body and mater -
men are delusions," and again on
!ge 20, Moral matter or body is but ID
false concept Of mortal mind-This
dy is only material and sensuous
lief; page 335, "God never created M MM9
atter'; page 280, Matter is un- eat Ill
own in the infinitude of mind"
Then in regard to SICKNESS. In
cience and HEALTH" page ATT, we Pb,
d, sickness is an illusion to be
initiated by mind" page 1872, ''Man
never sick, for mind is not sick and Gel
tier cannot be-SICKNESS is DE-
SION" page AIS, "The way to cure
patient is to make disease UN-
AL to him." In Christion Science
re is no sympathy or compassion M
suffering.
n the house where was stopping
California, was little boy who cut i'h'
finger badly and naturally came -
ming to his mother for help. The -
her said, "No, you have not cut
r finger, you only think so-it is
our mind" The boy, in tears, con- 81
ed, "But I did cut it with the
e, mother" (and there it was
ding profusely). mo, you didn't {
1t, so run along about your play" .
nile we were in st. Petersburg,
ida, last winter, boy of about
en- years, was taken sick, but his =
nts told him that he was not sick ~
compelled him to get ready and ~
o school. He came home and was
Ill but his parents sent him out
he street to walk. In a little while
BOY died of diphtheria without ev- HI
he comfort of parental sympathy, ar
lis books, papers, ETC., that he had
at school had to be burned, but
about his contact with other
ren?
s. Eddy has declared, "There is
lch thing as poverty" Hence the
les of benevolence are closed.
us see in the next place what
3 Christian Science definition of
In Science and Health" page
we read, "God is mind, and God HI
all is mind; page $40,
is the one God;" page 8, Mind
and matter is nought. This is
eading factor in mind SCIENCE;
1913, "The soul or mind of man
d." We see then, that Christian
ce dethrones the God of the BIZ
Id would place on His throne an
SOnal thing which Mrs. Eddy
er lecturers call principle, love,
ruth, good, etc. She, Mrs. Eddy,
hat these are God. The Bible re-
God as Creator Ruler
er," Who loves and cares for
lildren. Mrs. Eddy says, "Princi-
d its idea are one and this one
L" God is divine principle"
she announces and teaches what
'wn in pagan philosophy as
leism."
| in regard to JESUS CHRIST. NJ
pretty tributes are paid to Jes- NiI
Science and Health" but in the
nguage His diety and PERSONAL -
denied. Mrs. Eddy says, "Jesus
is not God"-"Christ is a di- -
eal'-"The virgin mother con- L.
the idea of God and gave to her
he name of Jesus. Jesus was -
spring of Mary's self-cOnscious -
nion with God" e 80
has Christian Science to say ~
'IN? MAN is incapable of sin IsS5YgI,
SICKNESS, and DEATH are s9AAA-cc
as but illusions of mortal -
ffr1IOT.o l.