{"1": {"fulltext": "n oiimxt\\nCHRISTIAN SCIENCE\\nC?tfiJ*M A\u00c2\u00a3\\nrf ;v/ 7////*\\nAnli-Cl|ris(\\nfin\\n_ V\\n\u00c2\u00a71 \u00c2\u00a3C^4\\n//I \\\\i\\nf/V /J i\\n^ak\u00c2\u00abM\\n%i* 1 1\\n1 irlw ijiji i)\\n(k If J\\nikili H 1 If\\nV JF l\\nH^HH ^H\\nn\\nyiiui 1 1 i ti^-%\\nHH|HH|", "height": "3964", "width": "2544", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nChap. Copyright No.\\nSheIL_ :_Li\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "ORTHODOXY\\nVS.\\nChristian Science\\nor\\nfJnti-Christ in 1900.\\n1/ i\\nBy REV. W. P. LflSSWELL,\\nEditor of Orthodoxy.\\nILLUSTRATED BY TrjE AUTHOR.\\nLASSWELL PUBLISHING COMPANY\\nHEYWORTH. ILLINOIS.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "2650\\nTWO copies received.\\nLibrary of Ctngrti*\\nOffice of tbt\\nJUN 7 1900\\nRe\u00c2\u00a7l\u00c2\u00bbUr of Copyrlgktli\\n0,JJ3C\\n9Uev S}\\nSfcCONB COPY.\\n-L3S-\\n62499\\nEntered according to act of Congress, March 5. 1900,\\nBy W. P. Lasswele,\\nIn the office of theLibrarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.\\nAll, Rights Reserved.\\nPUBLISHED BY\\nLASSWELL PUBLISHING CO.^\\nHEYWORTH, ILLINOIS.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "To the Brethren and Ministry\\nof the Church-Militant, with all who desire to\\nKnow thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thon.\\nhast sent, and the power of the Holy Ghost,\\nthis volume is dedicated, by\\nThe Author", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Christian Science is the huge cartoon on\\nthe page of the century; its scientific and\\nreligious garb but masks the\\nANTI-CHRIST IN 1900.\\nIt is a system of religious alchemy; the\\nBoston mortar is the scientific crucible,\\nwhere the alkahest is applied to the equal in-\\nredients of heathen religions, pagan philoso-\\nphies, and modern infidelity, that produces a\\ntransmutation, which its discoverer named\\nCHRISTIAN SCIENCE?", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nIt is with considerable diffidence that the author un-\\ndertakes to invite the reading public to a comparison of\\nOrthodoxy with Christian Science, since able authors\\nhave put forth scholarly efforts to expose this religious\\nanomaly.\\nBut having an experience both with the Science, and\\nin the Christian church, it is therefore hoped it will not be\\nconsidered presumptuous to represent Orthodoxy vs. Chris-\\ntian Science.\\nThe discussion of the subject naturally involves both\\nreligion and therapeutics, and the indulgence of the\\nreader is craved as he is led into the realm of mysticism\\nand superstition, as well as true science and religion.\\nThese are the latter times whose coming was fore-\\ntold by Christ and his apostles. Isms, schisms, sects and\\nso-called sciences with their Lo here and lo there! are\\nbut the fulfillment of scripture prophecy concerning false\\nprophets, false Christs, damnable heresies, seducing\\nspirits, doctrines of devils, and Anti-Christ.\\nThe design of this book is to assist in the overthrow ol\\nsectarianism and fanaticism in the church, and ignorance\\nand superstition out of it, thus encouraging science on the\\none hand, and assisting in the advancement of God s King-\\ndom on the other.\\nWe have endeavored to be clear, concise, and correct,\\nas well as careful, thorough, dispassionate; since we know\\nwell that in that temper only shall we arrive at truth.\\nThe best authors and ablest writers on the subject have\\nbeen consulted. Quotations are indicated.\\nMinisters and members of all orthodox churches, with\\nall their adherents are earnestly solicited to help stay the", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "progress of this mighty evil that is rapidly infecting the\\nreligious world.\\nBelieving the cause of God is suffering vastly from in-\\njury inflicted by Christian Science and hoping to be\\nhelpful to humanity, in a candid exposition of the false doc-\\ntrines of this new sect, these lines are published. If in\\nthe hands of God, they may be instrumental in saving\\nprecious souls from fanaticism and leading them to a sav-\\ning faith in Jesus, it will be gracious compensation.\\nThe Author.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nChapter I. Introduction.\\nBut speak thou the things which become sound\\ndoctrine. Tit. 2:1.\\nChapter II. Black Art.\\nTheir folly shall be manifest to all men. IL Tim 3:9.\\nChapter III. Hypnotism.\\nWisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and\\nwith all thy getting, get understanding. Prov. 4:7.\\nChapter IV. False Christs.\\nTake heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come\\nin my name, saying 1 am Christ: and shall deceive\\nmany. Matt. 24:4-o.\\nChapter V. Orthodoxy.\\nPure religion and undeiiled before God and the Father is\\nthis, To visit the fatherless and widows in their\\nafflictions, and keep himself unspotted\\nfrom the worid. J as. 1:27.\\nChapter VI. Christian Science Worship.\\nThe true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit\\nand in truth. John 4:23.\\nChapter VII. Sects and Creeds.\\nIn vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the\\ncommandments of men. Mark 7:7.\\nChapter VIII. Fallen Angels.\\nAnd his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven\\nand did cast them to the earth. Rev. 12:3.\\nChapter IX. A Religious Fraud.\\nBe not not deceived; God is not mocked. Gal. 6:7.\\nChapter X. Christian Science Doctrine.\\nAnd they shall say to you, See here; or see there; go not\\nafter them, or follow them. Luke 17:23.\\nChapter XI. Christian Science Surgery.\\nThey speak great swelling words of vanity. II. Pet. 2:18.\\nChapter XII. Christian Science Healing.\\nThey are spirits of devils working miracles. Rev. 16:14.\\nChapter XIII. Is Christian Science Christian.\\nBeware of F^lse prophets which come to vou in sheep s\\nclothing. Matt. 7:15.\\nChapter XIV. Suggestive Orthodoxy.\\nThe soul that sinneth it shall die. Ezek. 18:4. Ye\\nmust be born again John 3:7.\\nChapter XV. Conclusion Mortality and Immortality\\nIf a man die shall he live again? Job 14:14.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3970", "width": "2622", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "4Z4?\u00e2\u0082\u00acZs?t/\\ntZ^.\\nV V LUKE X: 8.", "height": "3970", "width": "2622", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER I.\\nINTRODUCTION.\\nBut speak thou the things which become\\nsound doctrine. Tit. 2:1.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6Jff*N undertaking the effort suggested by the title of this\\n1 1 book, to properly represent orthodox religion as op-\\nposed by Christian Science, the greatest caution will\\nbe necessary to keep within bounds.\\nIt is not within the scope of this volume to discuss all\\nthe isms, creeds, and sects that have existed from the crea-\\ntion down to the present time, but allusions are made to\\nsome of them to bring out the true. This naturally in-\\nvolves the evangelical churches as they existed in Ancient,\\nMedieval, and modern ages, with their accompanying pro-\\ngressions and retrogressions.\\nWith due defference to the rights and feelings of those\\nwho may not today be numbered among those of evangel-\\nical faith, whether in the church or out of it, these lines\\nwill be devoted to strict adherence of Scriptural doctrine\\nas taught by the evangelical churches of all denominations\\nfor those, and those alone, are orthodox.\\nPray what other mission has the church here on earth\\nWhy should the Heavenly Father leave his suffering saints\\nhere on earth if it were not to carry the glad tidings of the\\nGospel to a ruined race?\\nTherefore every denomination of whatever creed that\\nhas not this end in view is useless to God, and useless to\\nhumanity as an organization. Their sphere is swallowed\\nup in some denomination already extant. On this plat-\\nform it is not expected to win the applause of Buddhism r\\nMohammedism, Spiritualism, Dowieism, Christian.\\nScience, or even narrow Sectarianism that comes like a\\nwolf in sheep s clothing among even the evangelical\\nchurches; but it is hoped that in exposing the sects, and", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nfrauds that menace the present and eternal happiness of\\nthe human family, God will be pleased, true religion built\\nup, and humanity benefited.\\nChristian Science is not only antagonistic to true re-\\nligion as taught by the evangelical churches, but also to\\nthe science of medicine. It is a deplorable fact that in the\\nmedical fraternity too many are ungodly and immoral men.\\nReligion ought to be so married to every calling and\\noccupation in life that we would not only have Christian\\nDoctors, but Christian Carpenters, Christian Lawyers, and\\nChristian Farmers.\\nIt would be just as consistent for those of any trade or\\nprofession to join the name of their vocation to religion and\\nstart a new sect and get a following and build churches, as\\nfor Christian Scientists to do so. How would it seem to\\nhave the lawyer go out with Blackstone in one hand and\\nthe Bible in the other to start a new religion called Chris-\\ntian Civics Etc., etc.\\nThe three dollar book, the seventy-five dollar treatment\\nand the three hundred dollar scholarship, suggest other\\nmotives than philanthropy, and leads one to think that\\ncompiling the occult and mysterious under a new name and\\nchristening it religion, contains a shrewd financial policy.\\nIn fact it is practically demonstrated among them. The\\nprivate fortunes acquired by its practitioners, and their\\nsplendid churches that rival Soloman s temple for magnifi-\\ncence, indicate, as straws, which way the wind blows.\\nIt seems impossible to believe after centuries of pro-\\ngress in literature, art, and civilization, bringing us out of\\nthe dark ages and developing England, Germany, and\\nAmerica, that Luther, Knox, Calvin, Finney and Wesley,\\nwere a set of religious fanatics, and were all teaching the\\nworld a system of religion that was to be exploded by\\ntheories emanating from the brain of the most remark-\\nable woman of this or any age*.\\nThe authorship of a book which is revolutionizing\\nthe world\u00e2\u0080\u0094 as Science and Health with Key to the Script-\\nChristian Science Sentinel, Page 181.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 15\\nures is doing is too important a matter to be lightly\\npassed by.*\\nSurely, in both religion and medicine it is rapidly mak-\\ning its devastating march. The Christian world ought not\\nto think lightly on these things. See here for instance a\\nclipping from an advertisement that a Chicago practioner\\nis heralding through the secular papers:\\none million cured cases.\\nYou can be cured whether you believe in Christian\\nScience or not. Over a million cures of disease in every\\nform are now to the credit of Christian Science Healing.\\nMost of these were cases that the doctors had given up as\\nincurable. Many more were chronic maladies that had\\nbaffled their skill for years. All were cured quickly; some\\nwere cured instantly. The evidence on these facts is\\nsimply indisputable and the curing still goes on. The\\nhealers and their work are still in the public view. As a\\nChristian Science healer my many marvelous cures have\\nstartled the world. During the past thirteen years I have\\nhealed diseases of almost every known kind and in every\\nstage of severity. They included many surgical cases\\nwhere operations were otherwise threatened. I cured cases\\nthat were far away from me, as well as those near at hand,\\nand I tell you in like manner that wherever you may dwell,\\nand whatever your bodily ailment, you shall be cured.\\nThis is no vain or idle promise. My past success fully\\njustifies it. You can be cured in this city or a thousand\\nmiles away from me. In our Christian Science Healing\\ndistance is of no account; disbelief is not any hinderance;\\ndisappointments of the past only make stronger grounds\\nfor hope. All you really need is the wish to be healed.\\nThis equals the occultism of Paracelsus in the Dark\\nAges. The Father of Alchemy said Whether the object\\nof your faith be real or false you will nevertheless obtain\\nthe same effects. Thus if I believe in St. Peter s statue as\\nI would have believed in St. Peter himself, I will obtain\\nthe same effects that I would have obtained from St. Peter:\\nChristian Science History. PageSi.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nbut that is superstition. Faith however, produces mira-\\ncles, and whether it be a trueora false faith, it will produce\\nthe same wonders.\\nThe tendency of the age is to depart from the faith\\nand give heed to seducing spirits. This is manifest in\\nthe Dowieite, Spiritualist, and Christian Scientist, all of\\nwhom are running greedily after the reward of Balaam.\\nWhile Christian Science may boast of the fact that it\\nhas won the friendship and adherence of a few of the lead-\\ning lights from the intellectual world, not least among\\nwhom we mention Judge S. J. Hanna, Editor of the Chris-\\ntian Science Sentinel and Hon. William G. Ewing, of Chi-\\ncago, Illinois, yet on the whole, its membership comes from\\nthe mediocre of society. It very rarely appeals to the really\\neducated on the one hand or to the uneducated on the\\nother; but its natural habitat is in that vast class of people\\nwho lie between, who have little cultivated the power of\\nthought, and cannot keep in view two ideas at a time, and\\nare therefore unable to draw a sound deduction. J\\nThis fact has helped to shake off the diffidence felt by\\nthe author in trying to write a book; not claiming the elo-\\nquence of Demosthenes or Cicero, or the splendor of diction\\nthat embellished the oratory of Webster or Sumner, much\\nless claiming rivalry with the skillful reasoning that\\ncharacterized the logic of Bacon or Locke, but with the\\nconscientious aim of obeying the Apostolic command to\\nearnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered\\nto the saints, 1 this work is prepared and offered to a candid\\nworld, not even desiring to present his own thoughts, but\\nrather present these lines in such a way as to reach the\\ncommon masses by letting books talk/\\nThe chimerical changes of Christian Science to suit\\nthe peculiar religious view of the adherent is interesting to\\nnote. Although the founder of this religion purports to be\\nvery much opposed to superstition, yet as a system of re-\\nligion or therapeutics it contains many of the errors of tin 4\\nAncient. Medieval and modern ages, along with many valna-\\nhail in A \\\\\\\\;iy Til 1 S.-i inrl li Ki-rlil.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "i\u00e2\u0080\u0094 i\\nM\\nC\\ni y\\n11 H\\nU\\nffi\\no\\nP\\nI r-\\ni\\nH\\ni CJ\\nx;\\ni H\\nl\u00e2\u0080\u0094l\\nX\\n;H\\ncc", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 INTRODUCTION.\\nble and well established truths, involving Magianism,\\nWitchcraft, Clairvoyancy, Necromancy, Alchemy, Sor-\\ncery, Fortune-telling, as well as Spiritualism, Mesmerism,\\nHypnotism, Somnambulism and Telepathy. That the\\nreader may get a clear conception of the relation of the\\ntricks of the conjurer or exorcist in his feats of legerde-\\nmain, in what is sometimes called Black Art, to the really\\nscientific experiments in this enlightened age, and more\\nespecially for the benefit of those desiring to be truly re-\\nligious, and anxious to understand the difference between\\nOrthodoxy and all false religions, including Christian Sci-\\nence, it seems necessary to introduce this book to the\\nreader with a chapter on Black Art and one on Hypnotism,\\nalthough if it were possible to do justice to the subject, they\\nwould be most gladly omitted.\\nOethodoxy versus Christian Science invites the\\nmind of the reader to pure religion versus religious Science.\\nWhether the evangelical churches of the present age are\\nin keeping with the Orthodox religion of any age, and need\\na renovation by Christian Science, or are in keeping with\\nreligious superstitution and priestcraft of the different\\nag j s of human existence, the reader is requested to with-\\nhold judgment till after the persual of this book, which\\nhas been carefully and prayerfully prepared after consult-\\ning Science and Health, Christian Science History,\\nA Way That Seemeth Bight,* Hypnotism by Hart and\\nMason, and Spiritualism by Hammond and Weimar.\\nSuggestive Therapeutics by Burnheim, and the Proceed-\\nings of the Society for Psychical Research of London, and\\ncarefully comparing them with the teachings of the Bible.\\n\u00c2\u00a3Li\u00c2\u00a3~,^", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER II.\\nBLACK AKT.\\nTheir folly shall be manifest unto all\\nmen. II. Tim. 3:9.\\n\u00c2\u00aeNE convinced against his will, is of the same opin-\\nion still, is a common proverb; yet how true. The\\nlimitless credulity of the human mind often in-\\nvolves the unwary in such a manner as to cause serious\\ndifficulties socially, civilly, scientifically and religiously.\\nSeeing is believing passes current also among the\\nunsuspecting, but the maxim must be carefully received;\\nAll that glitters is not gold is true also.\\nMany are ready to cry out and say that there is no\\nsuch thing as Black Art, as practiced by the Alchemist,\\nNecromancer, Witch, Clairvoyant, etc. Such statements\\nneed to be received with some modification. To begin with\\nlet us not get into the sorry plight of the Christian Scient-\\nist, who says that there is no matter and then says that\\nsickness is an illusion propagated by matter.\\nIdealism conceives of a body without the infirmities\\nof disease and death, but Realism convinces us that sin,\\ndisease and death are hard stubborn facts with which\\nhumanity has to deal, and Christian Scientists are not ex-\\nceptions; their founder herself having buried two hus-\\nbands, Dr. Asa Eddy being one of them who succumbed\\nto the Death Angel after the wonderful discovery of what\\nis purported to be Divine Science.\\nAlchemy was a pretended science that was cultivated\\nfrom the thirteenth to the seventeenth century, but it is\\nnow held in contempt.\\nParacelsus and Van Helmont pretended they had the\\nalkahest, the universal solvent, a menstrum capable of dis-\\nsolving all bodies. By application of the alkahest to the\\nbaser metals they claimed to be able to change them by a", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nscientific process to gold. It was also claimed to be a uni-\\nversal remedy for all diseases, as Christian Science does\\nnow-a-days.\\nNow what shall we say about the other occult sciences\\nalluded to Do you believe the Bible Do you love\\nGod? Then listen to what He says about such things:\\nThere shall not be found among you any one that maketh\\nhis son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that\\nuseth divination, or an observer of the times, or an en-\\nchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with famil-\\niar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do\\nthese things are an abomination. Deut. 18:10-12.\\nThose desiring to know more fully what the Bible says\\nconcerning the Black Art are requested to read the follow-\\ning references: Ex. 22:18 Lev.l9:26-31: 20-6. 27. Mic.\\n5:12. Mai. 3:5. Gal. 5:20. Rev. 21:8-15.\\nSorcery. Fortune-telling, and Spiritualism are only\\nmodern names for the same evil practices. The question\\nfor us to settle is. are they realities with which we have to\\ndeal.\\nThe Christian has had to deal with the Black Art since\\nthe beginning, just as the true philosopher of the medieval\\nages has had to deal with Alchemy as a rank imposture.\\nBut this statement must be understood. No process was\\never discovered that could turn iron or 1 j ad into, gold or\\nsilver, even though alchemists produce 1 counterfeits, Mid\\ndeceived many.\\nThe Clairvoyant, and Spiritualist of the pi\\\\ s -l.t day\\noften perform wonderful feats that have the appearance of\\nmiracles to the unlearned, such as revealing family secrets,\\nfinding lost articles, curing warts, telling past events which\\nare known to no one but yourself, tipping tables, untying\\nbound persons, etc. All of which can be accounteJ lor by\\na proper investigation of the laws of hypnotism or de-\\nonism.\\nAn 1 while many of these are counterfeits ye1 th\u00c2\u00bb\\none -r.in 1 frau 1 thai is always a fraud an 1 nothing be, a\\nfraul. an 1 that is communication with the depart. 1 dead.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "BLACK ART. 21\\nTliis phase of Necromancy is as false as Alchemy and the\\nincantations and conjurations of its practitioners are gastly\\nan 1 g lonlish, insomuch that its grisly, ghostly perform-\\nanc js are considered improper to be narrate:! in this book,\\nas practiced by Cellini and other Italian Mystics of the\\nmedieval ages. Spiritualism and its demoniacal practices\\nis illustrate 1 in the 28 th chapter of Samuel:\\nNow Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented\\nhim, and buried him in Raman, even in his own city. And\\nSaul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the\\nwizards, out of the land.\\nAnl the Philistines gathered themselves together,\\nand came and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all\\nIsrael together, and they pitched in Gilboa.\\nAnd when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he\\nwas afraid, and his heart greatly trembled.\\nAnd when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord\\nanswer e 1 him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by\\nphophets.\\nThen said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a wcman\\nthat hath a familiar spirit, that I may go to her, and in-\\nquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there\\nis a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En-dor.\\nAnd Saul disguised himself, and put on other rai-\\nments and he went, and two men with him, and they came\\nto the woman by night: and he sail, I pray thee, divme\\nunto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up whom\\nI shall name unto thee.\\nAnd the woman said unto him, Behold, thou kriowest\\nwhat Saul hath done, how he hath cut off* those that nctve\\nfamiliar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wh\u00c2\u00abrof*ore\\nthen layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?\\nAnd Saul sware to her by the Lord, saying. As the\\nLord liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for\\nthis thing.\\nThen said the woman, Whom shall I bring up unto\\nthee? And he said, Bring me up Samuel.\\nAnd when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nloud voice: and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why\\nhast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.\\nAnd the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what\\nsawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods\\nascending out of the earth.\\nAnd he said unto her, What form is he of? And she\\nsaid, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a\\nmantle. And Saul i: erceived ^hat was Samuel, and he\\nstooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.\\nAnd Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted\\nme, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore dis-\\ntressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God\\nis departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither\\nby prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee,\\nthat thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do.\\nThen said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of\\nme, seeing the Lord is departed from thee, and is become\\nthine enemy?\\nAnd the Lord hath done to him, as he spake by me:\\nfor the Lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and\\ngiven it to thy neighbor, even to David:\\nBecause thou obeyedst not the voice of the Lord, nor\\nexecutedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath\\nthe Lord done this thing unto thee this day.\\nMoreover, the Lord will also deliver Israel with thee\\ninto the hands of the Philistines: and tomorrow shalt thou\\nand thy sons be with me: the Lord also shall deliver the\\nhost of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.\\nNote carefully the following: (1) Saul went to a witch.\\n(2) The witch saw an apparition resembling Samuel. (3)\\nThe witch knew Saul. (4) Saul believed it was Samuel.\\n(5) The apparition and Saul conversed together. (6) The\\nrevelation. (7) Saul s punishment:\\nSo Saul died for his transgression which he com-\\nmitted against the Lord, even against the word of the Lord,\\nwhich he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that\\nhad a familiar spirit, to inquire of it. -I Chronicles, 10:13.\\nThis is probably the most difficult case on record to", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "BLACK ART. 23\\nexplain but even this is very interestingly explained by\\nWeimar in Mysteries and Revelations, Page 95:\\nSaul waited until night and then with two compan-\\nions disguised himself and went forth to fill up the measure\\nof his iniquities and transgressions rebellion and stub-\\nbornness. Finding the medium he requested her to call\\nup Samuel. But since we have already given sufficient\\nproof that the mediums do not consult the spirits of the\\ndeparted ones it is clear that the demon in the medium\\nmasqueraded, mimicked and personated the departed spirit\\nof Samuel.\\nIt was a diabolical and demoniacal personified reality,\\nand the medium pretended to see the materialized spirit of\\nSamuel, and in order to make it appear as being the real\\nSamuel she started at seeing him. Then falling into a\\nstate of clairvoyancy she pretended seeing Elohim Gods\\nJust pause and think And likewise pretended seeing\\nthe materialized Samuel, for that is what Saul desired\\nto see. Saul, however, did not see Samuel with his\\neyes, but supposed that it was he from the mediums de-\\nscription, which she gave in the state of clairvoyancy, or\\nseeing that which is beyond the material. Had it been a\\nclear case of clairvoyance, that is without being coupled\\nwith one having a familiar spirit, or having a demon in her,\\nwe could accept her talk from a different standpoint, but\\nthe demon in her not only personated the spirit of Samuel\\nbut also the message that Samuel might have formulated\\nand used. The indwelling demon in the medium person-\\nated and imitated Samuel in materialized form.\\nI cannot conceive for a moment that God for any spec-\\nial reason awakened his beloved servant out of his repose\\nor rest especially merely on the ground of the following\\nstatement, Why hast thou disquieted me.\\nShall we believe the rebellious and stubborn King\\nSaul had the power and the effect upon the repose or rest\\nof Samuel to disquiet him? The righteous enter into\\npeace.\\nSauls inconsistency was convicted by the language\\nused, not by the real Samuel, but by a personater.***", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nBut one asks, What about the denunciating judgment\\neorcerrirg Saul and Israel s defeat by the Philistines?\\n(which came true.) Does not that prove Samuel s appear-\\nance? No, not necessarily.\\nDo you not 1 now that God gave a wonderful and all sig-\\nnificant double denoument through that most wicked high\\npriest, Caiaphas He said to the priests, Sanhedrim, and\\nthe people: Ye know nothing at all nor consider that it is\\nexpedient for us that one man should die for the people,\\nand that the whole nation perish not. John 11:19, 50.\\nAnd what does the inspired Apostle say concerning\\nthis prophecy? But Caiaphas said not this of himself but\\nbeing High Priest that year he predicted that Jesus was\\nabout to die in behalf of the nation, and not only in behalf\\nof the nation but that he should assemble into one, the\\nchildren of God who has been scattered abroad. Verses\\n51,52.***\\nNow could not God make similar use of the medium\\nat Endor in giving the denunciation of judgment concern-\\ning Saul s death and Israels defeat by the Philistines?\\nAnd the medium attributing it to Samuel in order to have\\nit in harmony with her role play and with her functions of\\nclairvoyancy, ventriloquism, and polyphonism And being-\\nrecorded as it is, does it not appear to be merely a repeti-\\ntion of I Sam. 15:18, 19, 28? Showing that God may not\\nhave had anything to do with it. The medium and the\\ndemon in her could repeat the substance of the reference.\\nThe only logical and common sense way of meeting\\nthe pernicious fact of any diabolical use of science or re-\\nligion is with the Bible: and it clearly teaches that the\\nDevil and his angels are through some high purpose of\\nthe Almighty Father permitted to visit this mundane\\nsphere: but God has said Be not deceived. Undoubt-\\nedly it is for the perfection of his people.\\nSpurgeon says Tribulations are treasures, and if we\\nare wise we ought to reckon our afflictions among our rar-\\nest jewels, the caverns of sorrow are mines of diamonds.\\nOur earthly passions may be silver, but temporal trials are", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "BLACK ART. 15\\nto the saints, invariably gold. We may grow in grace\\nthrough what we enjoy, but we probably make the greatest\\nprogress through what we suffer/\\nIn the furnace G( d may prove thee,\\nThence to bring thee forth more bright:\\nBut can never cease to love thee,\\nThou art piecious in his sight.\\nGod is with thee,\\nGod thine everlasting light.\\nThe most modern imposture masquerading under the\\ncloak of religion, outri vailing in mysticism the tricks of the\\nDavenport brothers, or even the magical performance of\\nthe East Indian Jugglers is Christian Science.\\nCoupled with its peculiar nomenclature are the mysti-\\ncal statements that there is no matter. there is no pain,\\nsin, sickness and death, are illusions of mortal mind,\\nand their opposites spirit, happiness, holiness,\\nhealth and life are the only realities. But these\\nso-called scientific statements have never been demonstrated,\\nby either the founder of the religious farce, or her enthus-\\niastic followers, any more than iron has been converted into\\ngold, or the dead raised by the Italian necromancer.\\nWhatever may have been the motive of Paracelsus or\\nVan Helmont to pretend to transmute the metals: what-\\never may have been the motive of the necromancer or\\ngypsy fortuneteller; whatever may have been the motive\\npower that incited Papacy to the sale of Indulgences,\\nwhatever may have been the impelling power to originate\\nand practice the tricks of Spiritualism, a slight investiga-\\ntion of the modes and practices of the Christian Scientist,\\nwill reveal his money getting proclivities, and the moral\\nindignation of the public is especially induced, as they are\\npracticed in the name of religion.\\nOne cannot help feeling toward the Christian Scientist\\nas the Irishman did toward a certain species of insectivora,\\nwell known to the, gc wis homo, in his nocturnal habits:\\nSaid Pat, As a bug, I ve no objections to him as a bug,\\nbut its the way he gets his living. Its not the Scientist\\nwe hate, but the way he makes his money.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nAlchemy, Necromancy, and Spiritualism are the\\nunmasked enemies of science and religion; some are\\ndead and the others ought to be.\\nShall the contaminating breath of the latest progeny\\nof Sin and Satan, be permitted to invade the sanctity of the\\nhome and social circle under the high sounding title of\\nChristian Science? Or shall we insist that Black Art and\\npriestcraft, including this and other religious anomalies, be\\nsunk into oblivion, leaving medicine and miracles, and Sci-\\nence and Religion in the sphere for which they were de-\\nsigned by the Creator; to walk together in harmony through\\nthis progressive age?\\nAs corroborating authority for all that has been said in\\nthis chapter or will be said in the succeeding ones these\\nsix theses and their comments by Prof. Frederic W. H.\\nMyers, in an address before the Society For Psychical Re-\\nsearch, 1895, on Resolute Creduality, are submitted:\\nThesis 1.- There is such a thing as Occult Science or\\nMagic; and supernormal powers, especially in the East, are trans-\\nmitted by tradition, or acquired by ascetic practices, so that the\\npossessors of such powers can understand and control them.\\nI was disposed to believe in the truth of some parts at\\nleast of this thesis, but the study of various books and\\nperiodicals written to defend it has destroyed that tendency\\nto belief.\\nThesis 2.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mahatmas exist in Thibet; Mme. Blavatsky s oc-\\ncult performances and those of her friend were genuine,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and\\n(this last clause is now optional) have been continued since her\\ndeath by Mr. Judge.\\nI do not propose to say anything more on all this.\\nHistory tells us that Moseilana after the death of Mahomet\\nintroduced an egg into a bottle, and by the marvel of that\\nsight shook the prestige of the Prophet and balanced for\\nsome months the destinies of Islam.\\nAn egg in a bottle! One might exhibit an apple in a\\ndumpling to Mr. Judge s admirers, and ask them triumph-\\nantly what they had to say to that.\\nThesis 3.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The heavenly bodies indicate or influence in an\\noccult way the destinies of men.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "BLACK ART. 27\\nI do not know on what evidence this belief is based.\\nThesis 4.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The lines in a man s hand indicate his history,\\ncharacter, and destiny.\\nI have seen no evidence of any value for this proposi-\\ntion.\\nThesis 5. \u00e2\u0080\u0094By the act of bathing in or drinking the water of\\nthe spring of Lourdes or of other sacred springs; or by invoca-\\ntions of a special kind; or by the practice of a Christian\\nScience which can be learnt from books and lectures; therapeu-\\ntic results are obtained which differ in kind from those in\\nordinary suggestion or self-suggestion without any of these\\nadjuncts and are occasionally produced.\\nI am personally very anxious that some part of the\\nabove thesis should be proved true; that is to say that\\nsome method should be found by which the processes of\\ntherapeutic self-suggestions, at present so rarely effective,\\nshould be made more certain and more profoundly effica-\\ntious. I cannot but think that there must be some method;\\nbut I see little evidence that it has yet been found.\\nThesis 6.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Some public showmen now use in their exhibi-\\ntions some form of supernormal power.\\nI should be very willing to believe this thesis, which\\nwould show T more regularity in the operation of telepathy\\nor clairvoyancy than we have ever seen obtained in experi-\\nments. But I see no proof that it is true of any public-\\nperformer at the present time.\\nThe frauds and fallacies of the pretended religious\\nscience of Christian Science, as well as other false philoso-\\nphies and false religions may be better understood by a\\ncareful study of the above theses.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "CHAFJtK III.\\nHYPNOTISM.\\nWisdom is the principal thing; there-\\nlore get wisdom: and with all thy getl ing\\nget understanding. Pro v. 4:7.\\nfmpostures are so numerous in both Science and Re-\\nligion that skepticism abounds on every hand not less\\nin one than the other. The Savior himself said,\\nAnd because iniquity shall abound, the love of many\\nshall wax cold. Mat. 24:12.\\nYet among the truly wise, Science as well as Religion\\nis recognized and embraced. Hypnotism is comparatively\\na young child of Science, being born about 1773 and\\nchristened Mesmerism after its discoverer, an uneducated\\nGerman physician, philosopher and mystic, but was re-\\nchristenecl, Hypnotism, the name which the science now\\nbears, by an English surgeon named Braid, who made some\\nnew and interesting experiments in 1812.\\nHe showed that the so-called mesmeric sleep could be\\nproduced in some patients by other processes than those\\nused by the early mesmerists: especially could this be ac-\\ncomplished by having the patient gaze steadily at a bril-\\nliant object or point, without resorting to passes or\\nmanipulations of any kind*.\\nThe science of Hypnotism has undergone some periods\\nof ebb and flow; it has had its ups and downs as we\\nsometimes say and in some instances, probably right I v\\nenough, from its abuse. For instance take Hart s account\\nof Mesmer himself, making merchandise out of his dupes\\nin Paris. Not. fully understanding the cause of the phe-\\nnomena accompaning his experiments, Mesmer himself\\nsupposed the hypnotic state of his patients to be due to\\nsomething which he called a magnetic fluid.\\nAt the time when all Paris rang with the wonders of\\nTelepathy and the Subliminal Self. Page 32.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "HYPNOTISM. 29\\nhis power, and when his ante-chambers were rilled with the\\nPrinces of the blood royal; with the halt, the lame, and the\\nblind; with mystics, monks, reJtgieuses; with ladies of\\nfashion and the heterogeneous multitudes who love the\\nmarvelous; he had constructed huge and complex tubs filled\\nwith bottles of fluids, erroneously called electrical fluid,\\nsuch as Count Mather now dispenses, and connected by a\\ncomplicated system of wires with handles to be held by his\\nsubjects. Mesmer received 16,000 for telling his secrets,\\nwhich of course turned out to be no secrets at all and it\\nwas found that there was no electricity in the bottles or\\ntubs. Presently he returned across the Rhine, enriched by\\nhis dupes, who ceased to be cured as the fashion died away\\nand their faith waned.****\\nBut Mesmer left a doctrine, a principle and a nomen-\\nclature, which has served the purpose of succeeding gener-\\ntions of quacks and gobemoiwhes*\\nEven though Mesmer was an unprincipled practitioner,\\nyet that fact does not overthrow hypnotic science.\\nHow often we see the religious world humbugged in\\nlike manner; nor does that overthrow Christianity.\\nBroad is the road that leads to death\\nAnd thousands walk tog-ether there,\\nBut wisdom shows a narrow path,\\nWith here and there a traveler.\\nand the faithful few will be victoriously crowned at last.\\nIt will be interesting and beneficial to note some of the\\nphenomena incident to Hypnotism, and investigate their\\ncauses from a scientific standpoint. Those who are unwill-\\ning to learn either in science or religion will reject as\\nsuperstition, the plainest facts of human experience, with\\nno better excuse than I don t believe in such things.\\nLess than a hundred years ago the wonders of the\\ntelegraph, the phonogragh, telephone and Xrays would\\nhave met with the same opposition that wireless telegiaphy.\\nTelepathy, and Hypnotism do today from some sources;\\nbut the progressive and unprejudiced will investigate and\\nadvance/ For everything there is a caus j\\nHypnotism. by Hart. Page 1", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nSciences deal exclusively with natural causes, while\\ntrue religion is revealed from God to man. While the\\nworkings of God are mysterious and supernatural yet as\\nscience advances and we know more of nature and more of\\nour wonderful mechanism we assign causes for what takes\\nplace in the scientific world as well as among congregations\\nof religious worshipers. As Dean Hart says: It is not the\\nfacts of which we need entertain any doubt. The exist-\\nence of hypnotic and telepathic phenomena are settled\\nby a mass of the most substantial evidence, but it is of\\ntheir interpretation and the use to which they are put that\\nthe world should be admonished.\\nI define hypnotism as the induction of a peculiar\\npsychical condition which increases the susceptibility to\\nsuggestion.\\nEvery day occurrences, around home and in business,\\nor in society, or at church, in fact all the scenes of life are\\nreplete with coincidences that awaken our interest in the\\ndouble existence of man his physical and psychical na-\\ntures.\\nWho has not wondered about his dreams, or perhaps\\ntalking or walking in sleep, or perhaps the curious acts of\\nthe somnambulist\\nA gentleman once in a state somnambulism hid his\\npants and neither he nor his friends could find them. The\\nnext night his friends watched him visit the scene of the\\nsecreted goods and discovered the useful articles.\\nIn another instance a farmer was building a house and\\none of his small children, who was in the habit of rising in\\nhis sleep would mount the scaffolding, and accomplish\\nambulations on the frame-work of the building that would\\nrival the daring rope walker of the circus.\\nMy brother once sold a handful of warts to a stranger\\nfor an old envelope which he undoubtedly lost purposely,\\nand my cousin finding it received apparently the same old\\nugly knotty things oi) her corresponding hand: Every\\nschool-boy wonders what was the matter with the Salem\\nwitches. The following case may not only clear up tin 4\\nSuggestive Therapeutics, y Burnhelm.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "HYPNOTISM. 31\\nmystery but also be given as a good example of hysteria.\\nFour children of John Goodwin, of Boston, remark-\\nable for their piety, industry and honesty, were in the year\\n1688 made subjects for witchcraft. The eldest, a girl\\nabout thirteen years old, had a dispute with a laundress\\nabout some linen that was missing, and the laundress\\nmother, a scandalous Irish woman of the neighborhood\\napplied some very abusive language to the child. The\\nlatter was at once taken with odd fits which carried in them\\nsomething diabolical. Soon afterwards the other children,\\na girl and two boys, became similarly affected. Sometimes\\nthey were deaf, sometimes blind, sometimes dumb, and\\nsometimes all of these. Their tongues would be drawn\\ndown their throats and then pulled out upon their chins to\\na prodigious length. Their mouths were often forced open\\nto such an extent that their jaws were dislocated and were\\nthen suddenly closed with a snap like that of a spring lock.\\nThe like took place with their shoulders, elbows, wrists and\\nother joints. They would then lie in a benumbed condi-\\ntion and be drawn together like those tied neck and heels\\nand presently be stretched out and then drawn back enor-\\nmously. They made piteous outcries that they were cut\\nwith knives and struck with blows, and the plain prints of\\nthe wounds were seen upon them.\\nAt times their necks were rendered so Umber that the\\nbones could not be felt, and again they were so stiff that\\nthey could not be bent by any degree of force. The woman\\nwho by her spells was supposed to have these possessions\\nwas arrested. Her house was searched and several images\\nmade of rags and stuffed with goats hair were found.\\nThese the woman confessed she employed for the purpose\\nof producing the torments in the children, which she did\\nby wetting her finger with saliva and stroking the images. 1\\nThe experiment was made in court to the entire satis-\\nfaction of all concerned.\\nWithout further burdening this chapter with narra-\\ntions of incidents and the veritble facts of hypnotized per-\\nsons eating pepper and mustard with a relish, and reject-", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\ning as nauseaing the most wholesome articles of diet, read-\\ning writing in sealed envelopes etc.. and passing over the\\nshams, tricks, and feats of legerdemain perperated by the\\nstage performer and ungodly x^ersons to glean the shining\\nsheckels from the two willing 1 public, let us turn our at-\\ntention to the demonstrated facts of both hypnotism and\\nof psychology upon which the erudite agree in many parti-\\ncular phenomena, even though differing in the use of\\ntechnical terms. On Page 12 of \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Telepathy Dr. Mason\\nremarks: Among the subjects which may be considered\\nestablished may be placed:\\n(1) The reality of the hypnotic condition.\\n(2) The increased and unusual power of suggestion\\nover the hypnotized subject.\\ni S) The usefulness of hypnotism as a therapeutic\\nagent.\\n(4) The perfect, reality and natural, as contrasted\\nwith the supernatural character, of many wonderlul phe-\\nnomena both physical and psychical exhibited in the\\nhypnotic state.\\nOn the other hand much remains for future study;\\n1 The exact nature of the influence which produces\\nthe hypnotic condition is not known.\\n(2) Neither is the nature known of the rapport or\\npeculiar relationship which exists between the hypnotizer\\nand the hypnotized subject a relationship which is some-\\ntimes so close that the subject hears no voice but that of\\nhis hypnotizer, perceives and experiences the same sensa-\\ntions of taste, touch, and feeling generally as are experi-\\nenced by him and can be awakened by him only.\\n(3) Nor is it known by what peculiar process sug-\\ngestion is rendered so potent, turning for the time being-\\nwater into wine, vulgar weeds into choicest flowers, a large\\ndrawing room into a fish- pond, and clear skies and quiet\\nwaters into lightning-rent storm clouds and tempasi tossed\\nwaves; turning laughter into sadness, and tears into mirth.\\nOf the subjects he considers established (3) is consid-\\nered dubious by eminent scholars. (1). and (3) of", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "HYPNOTISM. 33\\nwhat remains for future study is enveloped in too much\\nuncertainty to merit a place in this book.\\nOur attention is therefore invited to the verified hyp-\\nnotic phenomena, and when these are understood their\\nproper relation to Orthodox religion may be determined.\\nAt the first let the mind be disabused of the fact that\\nthe Nervous Disorder treated by most authors on hypno-\\ntism, under the head of Hysteria is not strictly within\\nthe scope of hypnotism but belongs more properly to the\\nrealm of Materia Medica, where it is called neurosis.\\nHysteria is not a synonym for any nervous impression-\\nability whatever, for as we all have nervous tissues, and as\\nit is a property of such tissues to be impressionable, we\\nshould all be hysterical.\\nFrom this standpoint the hallucinations, visionary\\nstatements, and frantic freaks of the religious fanatic may\\nalso be satisfactorily accounted for, as well as the various\\nand multitudinous complexities of home and social life,\\nand yet the power of mind over matter is wonderfully\\nevinced.\\nIt is sometimes spoken of as one sympathizing with\\nhimself. In extreme cases it has been known to throw the\\nphysical being into convulsions, bring on hemorrhage, ex-\\ncite fevers and may even bring on disease and death, all\\nby a law of sympathy which may be better understood by\\nstudying the ganglionic phenomena of the physical system.\\nPersons so affected would gain much every way by\\ndiversion of some kind, a change of climate, or change of\\nemployment.\\nSuggestion is a technical term used in hypnotism\\nand means the act of hypnotising and conveys the idea of\\noccult j)ower. It is, says Bernheim, the key to Braidism.\\nSuggestion is the influence exerted by an idea which\\nhas been suggested to, and received by the mmd. f\\nBraid proved that no magnetic fluid exists and that\\nno mysterious force emanates from the hypnotizer. The\\nSuggestive Therapeutics. Preface Page S.\\n+Bernheim. Page 125.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nhypnotic state and its associated phenomena are purely\\nsuggestive in their origin, which is in the nervous system\\nof the subject himself.\\nWhile under the influence of hypnotic suggestions a\\nlad for instance, is made to go through the pantomime of\\nfishing in an imaginary brook, a dignified man to canter\\naround the stage on all fours, under the impression that he\\nis a pony, or watch an imaginary mouse-hole in the most\\nalert and interesting manner, while believing himself a cat;\\nor the subject is made to take castor oil with every ex-\\npression of delight, or reject the choicest wines with dis-\\ngust, believing them to be nauseous drugs, or stagger with\\ndrunkenness under the influence of a glass of pure water\\nsupposed to be whiskey. All these things have been done\\nover and over for the past forty years, and people have not\\nknown whether to consider them as species of necromancy\\nor well practiced tricks in which the performers were ac-\\ncomplices; or perhaps a few more thoughtful and better\\ninstructed people have looked upon them as involving\\npsychologicial problems of the greatest interest, which\\nmight some day strongly influence all our systems of men-\\ntal philosophy. f\\nStigmatization is a term of Roman Catholic origina-\\ntion, coming from marks on the cody resembling the wounds\\non the body of the crucified Savior. St. Francis is said to\\nhave had them in his body both before and after his death.\\nThis was in the 13th century.\\nSt. Paul himself said, I bear in my body the marks\\nof the Lord Jesus. Gal. 6:17.\\nIt is further stated by Dean Hart in A Way That\\nSeemeth Right, Page 27, If later years had not supplied\\nus with unquestionable instances of marks on the skin,\\ncoming at the instigation of the will, abnormally directed,\\nwe might be inclined to believe that the origin of the stig-\\nmata in every case might be naturally accounted for. and\\nnot seldom traced to the persons themselves.\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2.-MiL^-st Ive Therapeutics. I ;i ;e 111.\\nr I If| :i1 liy. Page 53.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "HYPNOTISM. 35\\nHerein is a wonderful lesson on the effect of the mind\\non the body.\\nThe idiotic expression of the opium eater; the silly\\nlook of the cigarette dude, the hateful appearance of the\\nwhisky sot; the sneering, scornful, domineering, and\\nsearching gaze of the gambler; the gnarled, shrivelled,\\nmenacing piercing face of the sorceress; and the glaring,\\ndeceitful, sinister, smiling countenance of the mystic all\\nfurnish a fruitful field for the research of the physiog-\\nnomist.\\nAlthough often counterfeited by wicked people, Clair-\\nvoyancy properly interpreted into Scriptural language is the\\ngift of prophecy. The Bible is full of instances of this\\nphenomenon in both the old and the New Testaments.\\nAmong the instances of this kind that may be men-\\ntioned is that of Elisha and the Syrian King.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 II Kings,\\n6:12, and the New Testament, prophet Agabus Acts 11:28,\\nand 21:10. This is a gift amongst those mentioned by St.\\nPaul in I Cor. 12:10. The readers will please notice in the\\n9th verse the gifts of the Spirit. These things scienti-\\nfically understood and practiced by the godly man or\\nwoman is in accord with the divine will. The working of\\nmiracles is not hypnotic suggestion. Instead of scienti-\\nfic phenomena they are religious phenomena.\\nSome good Christians get tinged with the Christian\\nScience idea, that the use of medicine is unscriptural. This\\nis fanaticism\\nThe Bible says, A merry heart doeth good like a\\nmedicine. Prov. 17:22. Strictly speaking the only cases\\nof divine healing are where the glory of God may be\\nmade manifest. When medicine is no longer potent, and\\nall human effort is exhausted, in answer to the prayer of\\nfaith God has raised the sick, thus verifying the maxim\\nthat Man s extremity is God s opportunity. In such\\ncases God would be glorified as well as in cases of con-\\nversion.\\nNumerous and well authenticated cases of divine\\nhealing are on record in religious history.\\nBut everything in the church that cannot be accounted", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nfor by a demonstrated natural law is rejected by the ma-\\nteralist, but those phenomena that are purely supernatural\\noften lead the Christian to exclaim, Oh the depths of the\\nriches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How\\nunsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding\\nout! Romans 11:33.\\nIt is further stated by Dean Hart in A Way That\\nSeemeth Right, Page 27, Telepathy is the science of\\nthought transference. Dean Hart published Hypno-\\ntism, Mesmerism and the New Witchcraft in 1893, in\\nwhich he refers to this science among the popular errors\\nand pseudo-scientific superstitions, in the following lan-\\nguage:\\nTelepathy is a silly attempt to revive in a pseudo-\\nscientific form, such as self-deception of this kind has al-\\nways assumed, and in a very feeble form, and with very\\nfutile and inane results, the failures and impostures of the\\npast.\\nYet four years later in 1897, Telepathy and the\\nSubliminal Self, by Dr. Mason, was published, in which\\nare somethings hard to be understood; and yet the follow-\\ning is beyond successful contradiction: The recognition\\nof the subliminal self as forming a part of the psychical\\norganization of man will throw light upon many obscure\\nmental phenomena, and bring order out of seemingly hope-\\nless confusion. Placed before us as a working hypothesis,\\nmany other facts, before unclassified, group themselves\\nabout in wonderful clearness and harmony.\\nAgain: Sometimes the subliminal self takes full\\ncontrol, making itself the active ruling personality to\\nthe entire exclusion of the primary self; and sometimes it\\nonly sends messages to the primary or ordinary self, by\\nsuggestion, mental pictures, or vivid impressions made\\nupon the organs of sense, and producing the sensation of\\nseeing, hearing, and touch. f\\nThe above is certainly more scientific than to account\\nfor the very ordinary phenomena recognized and observed\\nTelepathy. Page 145.\\nIbid. Page H3.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "HYPNOTISM. 37\\nalmost universally in human experience by a mere passing\\nremark of wheels within wheels, or subjective mind.\\nWhole pages have been read by the primary self while\\nthe subliminal self was engaged in planning some impor-\\ntant work, and upon the primary self assuming control, the\\nstudent recognizes the fact that he has read several pages\\nof which he knows nothing, and in order to be thorough is\\ncompelled to re-read the pages.\\nSome use the term subjective mind to designate the\\nsame thing, but no matter, A rose would smell just as\\nsweet by any other name.\\nNor is this contrary to the teaching of Scripture or\\nhuman experience. On the mount of transfiguration Peter\\nsaid unto Jesus, Master it is good for us to be here and\\nlet us make three tabernacles; one for thee, one for Moses\\nand one for Elias: not knowing what he said. Luke 9:33.\\nThe visions of Ezekiel, John the Revelator, Peter and\\nPaul are all easily accounted for in this way and elucidates\\nthe first five verses of the 12th chapter of II Cor.\\nIt is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will\\ncome to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man\\nman in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the\\nbody I cannot tell; or out of the body. I cannot tell; God\\nknoweth;) Such an one caught up into the third heaven.\\nAnd I knew such a man (whether in the body, or out of the\\nbody, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) how that he was caught\\nup into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is\\nnot lawful for a man to utter. Of such an one will I glory;\\nyet of myself I will not glory but in mine infirmities.\\nThe man or woman that will walk with God as Enoch\\nof old did will find more things in heaven and earth, Dr.\\nHammond, than are dreampt of in your philosophy.\\nWhat is termed ecstacy, enthusiasm and even fanati-\\ncism by the materialist or unscientific, was a blessed reality\\nto the saints in the days of Finney, Wesley, Whitefield,\\nCartwright and Redfield.\\nShall we have the same now-a-days? Or shall the\\nChurch follow medieval Romanism with the spirit of the\\nInquisition", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "38 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nLuther established the Reformation, Joan of Arch led\\nthe French to victory, and successfully crowned Charles\\nthe Dauphin at Rheims, and yet the ignorance and super-\\nstition of the church caused the former to appear before\\nthe Diet at Worms, and the latter to be burned at the stake.\\nOh for that flame of living lire\\nWhich shone so bright in saints of old,\\nWhich bade their hearts to heaven aspire,\\nCalm in distress, in danger bold.\\nIs not thy grace as mighty now\\nAs when Elijah felt its power?\\nWhen glory beamed from Moses brow,\\nOr Job endured the trying hour?\\nRemember Lord the ancient days\\nThy works renew, Thy grace restore,\\nAnd while our hearts to Thee we raise\\nOn us the Holy Spirit pour.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IV.\\nFALSE CHKISTS.\\nTake heed that no man deceive you.\\nFor many shall come in my name, saving\\nI am Christ; and shall deceive many.\\nMat. 24:4, 5.\\nHS a proof of the blasphemous and anti-Christian\\nprinciples of the so-called Christian Science, the\\nhistory of a couple of religious sects, which is given\\nby Prof. W. A. Hammond, M. D., in a work entitled Spirit-\\nualism are herewith submitted, with some clippings from\\nauthenticated Christian Science publications which are\\nnot allowed to contain an article, that does not meet with\\nthe approval of the board of education, under the auspices\\nof the Mother Church at Boston.\\nThe reader is left to his own conclusions in the com-\\nparisons. The first sect alluded to is the Shakers that ex-\\nisted in England and America in the latter part of the 18th\\ncentury. Page 239 in Spiritualism Prof. Hammond says:\\nBut the relation of hysteria to religion has never been\\nmore distinctly shown than in the fact that women under\\nits influence have been able to gather numerous followers,\\nand actually to originate new religious faiths, of such pre-\\nposterous tenets and practices, as to inevitably lead to the\\nconclusion that the adherents are either fools or knaves!\\nTake for instance the Shakers. This sect professes\\nto believe that Christ made his second appearance on earth\\nin the person of one Ann Lee, an English-woman, daugh-\\nter of James Lee, a blacksmith of Manchester, England.\\n(His second coming is Christian Science, says Science and\\nHealth, Page 587.) This woman was employed in a hat\\nmanufactory, was married when very young, and had four\\nor five children all of whom died in infancy. At a very\\nearly period in life Ann Lee began to feel the awful sinful-", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nness of sin and depth of man s fall. Although she could\\nneither read nor write, she managed to pick up from others\\na little smattering of the Bible, and evinced a great inter-\\nest in the Apocrapha, as was natural she should under the\\npeculiar circumstances of her career, she always said the\\nApocrapha was the cream of the Bible.\\nNight and day she labored to discover the root of all\\nevil, and being convinced beyond a doubt where it lay, she\\nopened a naming testimony against it, which brought down\\nupon her head showers of persecutions too cruel for long\\nendurance.\\nBut many adopted her views ana she was called\\nMother as the head of the band of followers she had gath-\\nered around her (The very dear title given to Mrs.\\nEddy by her worshipers. They are not only glad to call\\nher their friend and benefactor, but by common and\\nalmost unknown impulse they endow her with the endear-\\ning name of Mother. Judge Ewing says, The proof is\\nabundant that like results and signs follow her teachings\\nand its demonstrations as followed the words and com-\\nmands of the Nazarene\\nBy continual fasting and prayer, much agony of soul,\\nincessant cries, tears and entreaties by day and by night,\\nshe wasted away, till becoming helpless, her followers were\\nunder the necessity of taking her in their arms as an in-\\nfant.\\nIt is said she was fed with pap from a spoon, a great\\nportion of the time she was travailing in the New Birth.\\nShe travailed in this way for nine years, and then she an-\\nnounced that she was born again, completely redeemed from\\nall propensities of a fallen nature in July 1790. She then\\nseparated fom her husband and was duly regarded as the\\nsecond Christ the Redeemer of the world! (Reader\\nplease note how much of the kindred spirit is discernible\\nin Christian Science principles and practices.)\\nLike all new religions this met with violent perse-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Clii istian Science llislory. Page 20.\\ntChriStlan Science Sentinel.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "FALSE CHRISTS. 41\\ncution not enough to crush it, just enough to feed it.\\nIn every place in England in which Mother Ann under-\\ntook to worship God by dancing on Sunday and preaching\\nagainst the institution of marriage, persecution was ex-\\ncited; but she bore up against it and her followers\\nincreased.\\nAs in the case of the originators of other religious\\ndogmas which do not admit of proof, Mother Ann began\\nto work miracles for the confusion of unbelievers and the\\nstrengthening of the faithful. (Almost every issue of the\\nChristian Science Sentinel teems with accounts of the\\nmiracles which is claimed to be done by the very same\\npower that Jesus had.)\\nThus we are told she was dragged before magistrates,\\nfor no other offense than worshipping God in the way laid\\ndown by herself, and was condemned to a cold, dark, prison\\nwith a small allowance of bread and water; yet she lived to\\nthe great astonishment and confusion of her enemies.\\nAfter being confined in this dark prison in delicate\\nhealth, and with insufficient food, the doors were thrown\\nopen and thousands of spectators in breathless anxiety\\nawaited the egress of an emaciated subdued woman sup-\\nported by one of her followers; but to their great astonish-\\nment Mother Ann came forth in unsurpassed beauty, with\\nan air of dignified buoyancy, a halo of glory around her\\nhead, singing a song of paradise given her by an angel who\\nattended her in the prison, and who had fed her with food\\nsent by the Eternal Mother. For the Shakers worship a\\nquadruple God, consisting of the Eternal Father, the Eter-\\nnal Mother, the Son, and Holy Ghost; corresponding to\\nPower, Mother Ann, Jesus Christ, and Wisdom.\\nShe died in a few years and took her place in Heaven,\\nto be worshipped as a member of the Godhead. (Such\\nis the dubious history quoted- from an unpublished manu-\\nscript, Boston, 1850. It is not to be wondered at if some\\nof the old seed of Salem Witchcraft or Shakerism should\\nagain break out in these latter times. Boston is the\\nHub of literary greatness as well as Witchcraft and re-", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nligious fanaticism. The discerning may see the twin sis-\\nter of Christian Science in Shakerism by a continuation of\\nthe history from the same document.)\\nSometimes Christ or Mother Ann enters the meeting\\nroom, bearing such presents as the band wants. The pres-\\nents are Spiritual and are handed around by Christ to\\nthe faithful, who receive them as though they were real\\ngifts. To one, golden potatoes are given; to another,\\noranges; to others, cakes, puddings, jellies, etc., with var-\\nious other things not known to the world.\\nOne can but think that Dr. Hammond voiced at least\\ncommon sense when he said:\\nHow can any person not utterly lost to all sense of\\nthe dignity of the human species think of these things\\nwithout doubting the sanity of those who practice them?\\nAgain, there is the remarkable example of Joanna\\nSouthcott, who announcing that she had conceived by\\nsupernatural agency and was about to give birth to another\\nChristy or rather that Christ was to be born again through\\nher, obtained many followers who anxiously expected the\\npromised advent.\\nShe called herself the woman spoken of in the\\nrevelation of St. John as the Bride, the Lambs Wife,\\nclothed with the sun; as she said by types and shadows,\\ndreams and visions, I have been led on from 1792 to the\\npresent day! (Similar features can be detected in Chris-\\ntian Science. And he had in his hand a little book open.\\nRev, 10:2. This angel or message from God is Divine\\nScience. The angel had in his hand a little book open\\nfor all to read. Mortal obey the heavenly evangel! Take\\nup Divine Science. Head it from beginning to end.\\nDay and night she had hallucinations or visions, as\\nshe called them, which she accepted as realities, and which\\nformed the basis of her prophecies and system of religion.\\nWhen in her sixty-fifth year, she gave out that her preg-\\nnancy had occured and Christ would be born again ol her.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Science and Health. Pages 588-9.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "REV. MAEY BAKER GLOVER EDDY,\\nFounder of Christian Science.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\n;g u t a j) T gi ms took another view of the case and\\ngave his views at lenth for arriving at a contrary opinion.\\nNevertheless the faithful continued to believe. A\\ncrib of satin wood, mounted in gold, was provided for the\\nheavenly infant. This was called the manger. (A\\nscriptual garb.) The time arrived, her adherents waited\\npatiently but there was no birth.\\nAs a kindred topic the following is offered for com-\\nparison. It seems to be a parody on the latter part of St.\\nMark s Gospel, narrating the death, burial and resurrection\\nof Jusus and it seems also that unless the Mother Church\\nhad some motive she would not have permitted the publi-\\ncation\\nThe discovery of Christian Science came in this way:\\nA woman met with an accident which her physician con-\\nsidered fatal; he said that she could not survive over three\\ndays. On the third day which was the Sabbath, her pastor\\ncalled to say farewell, believing the injury to be fatal and\\nthe end to be near. When he was gone the other people\\nwere sent from the room, and the sufferer opened the Bible\\nand read about the healing work of Jesus. Then dawned\\nupon her consciousness the assurance that Divine Love\\nmust be omnipresent and the sense of this truth came like\\nwarm sunshine. Agony ceased, life warmed the cold limbs,\\nstrength was restored and she arose healed.\\nWe see the fulfillment of the Savior s words in the\\nlarge membership of the Christian Science organization\\nwhich is said to number upwards of a million; and shall\\ndeceive many.\\nIf we should look for the natural cause it could be\\nfound in the following apt words of Prof. Hammond con-\\ncerning false religions:\\nA little inquiry into the operations of the human\\nmind, as they relate to matters of faith, is sufficient to\\nreveal to us the fact that the extent of human credulity is\\nillimitable, and that nothing can be asserted so absurd, so\\nChristian Science, Sentinel.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "FALSE CHRISTS.\\n45\\ndegrading, so blasphemous, so impossible, that there will\\nnot be found men and women with minds badly enough\\norganized to accept it as an article of belief.\\nThe latest anomaly in religion prettily christened\\nChristian Science, by its founder, with key to the Scriptures;\\nin many respects out-rivals Mormonism with its Book of\\nMormon. Shakerism, Mormonism, or Inquisitions, are\\nno more blasphemous in principle, issuing edicts,\\nbulls, canonized revelations etc., regardless of Script-\\nural authority, than is Christian Science in its loyalty to\\nwhatever comes from the Mother Church at Boston.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER V.\\nORTHODOXY.\\nPure religion and undented before God\\nand the Father is this, To visit the\\nFatherless and widows in their afflictions,\\nand keep himself unspotted from the\\nworld. Jas. 1:27.\\n^^HE word orthodoxy is derived from two Greek\\nII words; the first means true, and the second to think,\\nand literally means true thinking. The pri-\\nmary meaning according to Webster is Soundness of\\nFaith; a belief in the genuine doctorines taught in the\\nScriptures. The word is used antithetically to heterodoxy\\nwhich litterally means another opinion, and according to\\nWebster is defined as follows: An opinion or doctrine\\ncontrary to the doctrines of the Scriptures.\\nOf course every sincere person of any sect or creed is\\nready to say to those of another sect. Heterodoxy is your\\ndoxy, but orthodoxy is my doxy. Consistency would at\\nleast grant that much to every consciencious human being.\\nAnd herein there is a difference between science and\\nreligion. What has long been a known an 1 a settled fact\\nin science cannot be overthrown by some apparent phe-\\nnomena.\\nThe existence of matter is a known fact, and it is safe\\nto act on that principle. The vast majority of people think-\\ning and acting in accordance with the opinion ought to\\nmake one very conservative in acting otherwise.\\nBut the fact that over three-fourths of the human\\nfamily act as though there were no Christ does not make\\nthat a safe principle to go by, an inference that can be\\ndrawn from unbelief in Christ from the in iividual to the\\nnation.\\nThe wHe differences between the different religions\\nof the worlJ is conslusivj evidenci tha! thiyarenot all", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "ORTHODOXY. 47\\npure religion. Buddhism with its 350,000,000 follow-\\ners replete with magicians, sorcerers, snake charmers, etc.,\\nis proof conclusive to enlightened minds that the heathen\\nChinee greatly needs a better religion.\\nMohammedism, having a following of 220,000,000,\\nteeming with innumerable harem keepers, fortune-tellers\\nand nomadic gypsy bands, gives evidence that the bar-\\nbarious Turk needs a better rule of faith and practice than\\nis laid down in his Koran. Killing Christians, pilgrim-\\nages to Mecca and kissing smooth the stones of its temples,\\nis conclusive proof that worshiping their great prophet,\\nAllah, is not in harmony with right thinking.\\nThe Bible, revealing the great commandments, is the\\nonly true guide of man.\\n(1) Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy\\nheait, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and\\nwith all thy strength. (2) Thou shalt love thy\\nneighbor as thy self. On these two commandments hang-\\nall the law and the prophets. Mk. 12:30, 31. Mat. 22:40.\\nThere is conclusive evidence, in the above named re-\\nligions, when we look at their effects upon mankind, to\\nknow that they are not orthodox.\\nIt follows as a coralary that Catholicism with its Saint\\nworship and with-holding the Bible from its laity; and\\nChristian Science with its Eddy worshipers, and Science\\nand Health superceding the Bible, will never have the\\nsame beneflcient effect upon the world that God intended\\npure religion should have.\\nIf we say we believe the Bible let us take it all and\\nlet it shine forth in pure noble word and deed.\\nChristian Scientists do not believe in kneeling, but\\ntheir service is full of Our Leader, The Discoverer,\\nOur Head and Mother. To those who observe the\\nadepts wresting the Scriptures so as to make the twelfth\\nchapter of the Apocalypse mean that the opening of the\\nsixth seal referred to the coming of Christian Science,\\nthat the woman, 11 was Mrs. Eddy, the little book, Science\\nand Health, and the place in the wilderness, Boston, and", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "48 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIE NC E-\\nthe Holy Ghost, was Divine Science,f the above titles\\nseem at least to mean St. Mary, Holy Mother, etc. And\\nfurther, we. would think, if such praise was not sought and\\ndesired it would be suppressed in their official organ, the\\nChristian Science Sentinel, where such captions and lauda-\\ntions are numerous.\\nIn the one and only genuine system of religion in the\\nworld, there can be but one saving feature, namely: Su-\\npreme love to God and its accompanyment which always\\nfollows: To love your neighbor as yourself.\\nNo wonder the Lord Jesus Christ said, On these two\\ncommandments hang all the law and the Prophets. Love\\nto God, and love to man, embraces the whole of revealed\\nreligion. He hath showed thee, O man, what is good;\\nand what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly\\nand to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God?\\nIt is said that man is a natural worshiper and will\\nworship something. This is found to be true by the mis-\\nsionaries that visit heathen lands. Even the savages of\\nAmerica worshiped the Great Spirit.\\nGod himself being love was compelled to people the\\nuniverse, that he might love and have his affection recipro-\\ncated in angels and men. No wonder God took the mar-\\nriage relation to show man his attitude toward God, and\\ncalls the church by the endearing name of Bride and\\nThe Lamb s Wife. Surely the religion of Jesus is a\\nreligion of love.\\nIs this the distinguishing characteristic of paganism\\nor idealism\\nSt. Paul in the first chapter of Romans, 22nd to 32nd\\nverses, shows the tendency of a moral being who forgets\\nGod. It sent Lucifer and his followers to Hell and it will\\nevery son and daughter of Adam s lost race that will not\\nheed the admonition, Son, daughter, give me thine heart.\\nProfessing themselves to be wise they became fools,\\nand changed the glory of the uncorruptible God, into an\\nScience and Fleall h, Page 54C-567", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "ORTHODOXY. 49\\nimage made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and\\nbeasts, and creeping things.\\nWherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness\\nthrough their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies\\namong themselves: who changed the truth of God into a\\nlie, and worshipped the creature more than the Creator\\nwho is blessed forevermore. Amen.\\nFor this cause God gave them up unto vile affections:\\nfor even their women did change the natural use into that\\nwhich is against nature: and likewise the men leaving the\\nnatural use of the women, burned in their lust one toward\\nanother, men with men working that which is unseemly\\nand receiving in themselves that recompence of their error\\nwhich was meet.\\nAnd even as they did not like to retain God in their\\nknowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do\\nthose things which are not convenient; being filled\\nwith all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covet-\\nousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, haters\\nof God, despitefull, proud, boasters, invt niors of evil things,\\ndisobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant\\nbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerci-\\nful: who knowing the judgment of God, that they which\\ncommit such things are worthy of death, not only do the\\nsame, but have pleasure in them that do them\\nWhat pure minded man or woman after looking at St.\\nPaul s pen picture of a polluted moral nature would not\\nthank God that Eternal Justice had decreed that These\\nshall go away into everlasting punishment but the right-\\neous into life eternal. Mat. 25:46.\\nIt is in the very nature of a moral being, if his affec-\\ntions are alienated from their proper resting place, to seek\\nanother.\\nThis accounts for unsettled relations in religion as\\nwell as in the home. Herein is Christian Science to be re-\\njected, because impersonating God and making Him prin-\\nciple as is declared in Science and Health.* As a religion\\nit robs the soul of its repose in God. to wander in the\\nwaste places till it settles on something inferior to the", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nGodhead.\\nBuddha, Allah, and St. Mary herself will never\\nbe permitted to usurp the place of the Creator in the\\nhearts of His people without suffering the wrath of a jeal-\\nous God History proves it and the edict has gone forth\\nfrom the throne of God\\nThese false systems of religion have much of the\\nmystic about them, and it attracts the curious and captures\\nthe credulous, but Orthodoxy has stood the test of the ages\\nand the Old Book still stands as the great light-house to\\nguide the mariner over life s ocean, in spite of all opposi-\\ntion from Scientists and materialists, and the Christian\\nis ready to say with the Psalmist. Thy word is a lamp\\nunto my feet and a light unto my path.\\nThere are many phenomena connected with Orthodox\\nreligion, that it may take a philosopher to explain and the\\nfact that they are explainable need not weaken our faith in\\nthem as coming from God, or that many of them are unex-\\nplainable, need not make us skeptical. No one has\\nreasoned out the Trinity or the New Birth, the Resurrec-\\ntion, etc., but many of the phenomena accompaning the\\nfacts of such things are attested by thousands of living-\\nwitnesses.\\nFor everything there is a cause, either natural or\\nsupernatural. Science is derived from the latin word seio,\\nto know, and therefore means knowledge.\\nMan has just two sources to draw from: Nature and\\nits Author God. This gives rise to natural and revealed\\nreligion. The former may interest, excite and afford pleas-\\nure, but is only temporary and fleeting and of itself alone\\nis unsatisfactory to the human heart, but the latter brings\\na revelation of God himself as well as his handiwork to the\\nsoul of man with wonderful joy and peace.\\nJesus Christ said. Behold the kingdom of God is\\nwithin you. Luk. 17:21. The word behold is in the im-\\nperative, expressing a command or exhortation an! is by\\nno means a in ;re exclamation. -Wei ster.\\nSt. Paul under Lnspiratij n of God said. The kingdom\\nof Go I is not :r.( a! and Y.uk: but righteousness and peace", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "ORTHDDDXY. 51\\nand joy in the Holy Ghost. Romans, 14:17.\\nLooking at the statement from the ratio of words used,\\none would be justified in saying that Bible religion is\\ntwo-thirds feeling. This however would not harmonize\\nwith Dr. Hammond s rather dogmatical expression in his\\npreface to Spiritualism: The Outpouring of the Spirit\\nof God, an expression which would be blasphemous if it\\nwere not the result of ignorance is too often to the physi-\\ncian s perception, only another name for epilepsy, chorea,\\ncatalepsy, ecstacy. hysteria, or insanity.\\nAnd in the conclusion** he says too, rather arrogantly,\\nconcerning Science and Religion and Black Art: My\\nmain object has been to show that so far as the matters\\nwhich have engaged our attention are concerned, there are\\nno phenomena connected with them which are not readily\\nexplainable by well known physiological, pathological, or\\npsychical laws, and that many assertions made in reference\\nto them are false. We see. too. that at all times during the\\nhistoric period two classes of individuals have been con-\\ncerned in the propagation of false ideas relative to certain\\nphenomena which have been regarded as supernatural\\nThese are the deceivers and the deceived. Whether as\\npriests, witches, magicians, somnambulists, ecstatics, hys-\\nterical persons, or mediums, the first are deceivers, some of\\nthem honest, but by far the greater number of them guilty\\nof fraud. Whether subject to illusions, hallucinations, or\\ndelusions: whether weak-miiide:l. superstitious or ignorant\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094the second are deceived.\\nSome one has aptly pasted a newspaper clipping on\\nthe fly leaf of Vie volume from which the above was ex-\\ntracted: Hammond is somewhat dogmatical in his state-\\nments. and many people whose word is as mighty as his\\nown Wxll be incline 1 to take issue with him on certain\\npoints.\\nH s statement that no medium has ever lifted tables,\\nor chairs, but by mat-rial agencies, no one has ever been\\ntied or unti 1 1 by spirits, no one has ever heard the knock\\nSpiritu.ili!-m. Page 353.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "52 CRTHCDOX^ vs CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nof a spirit, and no one has ever spoken through the\\npower of a spirit other than his own, is very well re-\\nbutted by well authenticated evidence in Dr. Mason s Tele-\\npathy and the Subliminal Self/\\nBut of course, as has been intimated in the chapter on\\nBlack Art, many of the demonstrations narrated in the\\nbook are accomplished by practices forbidden in the word\\nof God.\\nTake for instance the Planchette performances in\\nwhich Gov. Stuyvesant wrote a blaspln m ;us n e sage about\\nan old pear tree, t\\nSo. it so eminent a gentleman as Dr. Hammond does\\nderide the 1 doctrme of the Outpouring of the Spirit of\\nGod, 1 an 1 rid cule Mr. Wesley s ideas of the demonstra-\\ntion of the Sp rit 1 that accompanied the wonderful revivals\\nof President Finney, Alexander Campbell and Dr. Red-\\nfield, yet the humble Christian believes the Pentecostal\\nseriron preached by the Apostle Peter, that the prophecy\\nof Joel was fulfilled and the promise is to us and to our\\nchildren. (See Acts. 2:39.)\\nBut all these great men knowing of the power of the\\nDevil to mimic, instructed their audiences to neither seek\\nor reject it. It is true, many good and sincere people are\\nhysterical. This is especially true of women, and probably\\naccounts for the fact that Christian Scientists are mostly\\nwomen.\\nBut to the psychical scholar the joy and peace are ad-\\nmitted as guests of the soul. Take the emotional nature\\nfrom man and he would become a Stoic.\\nThe light of this century will not admit of stoicism.\\nJoy moves as well as grief and the philosopher is not of-\\nfended at its demonstration. While mirth excites laughter,\\nhuman experience and the Bible teaches that laughter tills\\nthe mouth of God s people.\\nWhen the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion,\\nwe were like 1 them that dream, then was our mouth rilled\\nwith laughter and our tongue with singing: thee, said they\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Teleput .y. Ca. u LJi*.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "ORTHODOXY. 53\\namong the heathen, the Lord has done great things for\\nthem. Ps. 126:1-3.\\nNo one censures the child when he dances for joy\\nupon the receipt of a new book or toy; it is natural.\\nNo one took exceptions to the great enthusiasm that\\ntook possession of the great statesmen at the great con-\\nventions that nominated Abraham Lincoln, or W. J. Bryan\\nto the presidency of the United States weeping, laughing,\\nshouting, jumping and many other demonstrations of great\\njoy were perfectly admissible; it was patriotic. In the\\ngreat emancipation of the slaves of sin from the powers\\nof Hell in the days of Wesley, Finney, Alexander Camp-\\nbell, Peter Cartwright, and Redfield, the shouting, scream-\\ning, crying, laughing, falling, were the effects of religion\\non the human body. Religious emotions are just as legi-\\ntimate as the patriotic, or social, for in fact they are all\\nembraced in Orthodoxy.\\nHerein is explainable the different tenets among\\nOrthodox churches, as well as many of their reform\\nissues.\\nUnder what is scientifically termed suggestion\\nBaptists declare for emersion, Presbyterians for sprinkling,\\nwhile Methodists and Congregationalists allow the candi-\\ndate his choice in the mode of baptism. Psedo Baptists\\nintroduce feet washing, Christians insist on every\\nSunday for communion, and the Salvation Army believes\\nin military terms and a uniform, yet these and many other\\ndenominations are all admitted by the unsectarian to be\\nOrthodox.\\nSuggestion scientifically accounts for the help the\\nChristian gets in using the Means of Grace which em-\\nbraces not only the ordinances of the Church, such as bap-\\ntism, and the Lord s Supper; but preaching, praying, and\\nsinging and congregating which are also in perfect harmony\\nwith the teaching of Scripture. He that believeth and is\\nbaptized shall be saved. Mk. 16:16. This do in remem-\\nbrace of me Luke 22:19; I Cor. 11:21, 25. It pleased\\nGod by the foolishness of preaching to save them that be-\\nlieve. I Cor. 1:21. Men ought always to pray. -Luke", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nlcS:l. ;i Pray one for another. J as. 5:16. Sing ye to\\nthe Lord. Ex. 15:21; Isa. 12:5; Ps. 80:4. Speaking to\\nyourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, sing-\\ning and making melody in your hearts to the Lord. Eph.\\n5:19. I was glad when they said. Let us go into the\\nhouse of the Lord. Ps. 122:1. Not forsaking the as-\\nsembling of yourselves together, as the manner of some\\nis. Heb. 10:20.\\nGod honors them that honor his Word, and those that\\nare obedient to the commands of the Bible will prove that\\nthere is virtue in them.\\nGod does Pour out his Spirit upon His worshipers,.\\nand, as Dr. Mason scientifically expresses it the Sublimi-\\nnal Self is the controlling being and it is wonderful what\\nIlluminations come to the soul.\\nIt is sometimes termed getting warmed up when ap-\\nplied to jjublic speakers, but the Christian speaks of it as\\nthe Holy Ghost and fire.\\nThe Harbinger of Christ said, He shall baptize you\\nwith the Holy Ghost and fire. Matt. 3:11.\\nSpecific acts of praying should be performed with the\\neyes closed that the primary self may retire and give the\\nHoly Spirit the control of the Subliminal Self, then we\\ncan demonstate what the poet was singing:\\nThere is a place where Jesus sheds\\nThe oil of gladness on our heads,\\nA place than all beside more sweet,\\nIt is the blood-bought mercy seat.\\nThere is a scene where spirits blend,\\nAnd friend holds fellowship with friend.\\nThough sundered far by faith they meel\\nAround one common mercy seat.\\nThere, there, on eagle s wings we soar,\\nAnd time and sense molest no more.\\nAnd Heaven comes down, our souls to greet.\\nWhile glory crowns the mercy seat.\\nHow favorable also is this wonderful phenomena.\\nTake for instancr that verse of the. old hymn that brings\\nto us the Love of God in the vicarious atonement, a doctrine", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "ORTHODOXY. 55\\nthat Christian Science and other infidel religions deride.\\nL S J\\nJesus sought me when a stranger\\nWandering from thy fold, O, God,\\nHe to rescue me from danger\\nInterposed his precious blood.\\nOn the cross he died to save me,\\nRose to plead my cause above:\\nHenceforth all my life I give thee,\\nVanquished by such wonderous love.\\nOften men and women are converted by a hymn, the\\nwords of which so portray the wonderful love of God to us\\nas an unmerited favor, when the Subliminal Self pre-\\ndominates and is wooed to the surface by the harmony of\\nthe music.\\nIs it to be wondered at that men and women submit\\nhumbly to God, by leaving their wicked, rebellious career\\nand swearing eternal allegiance to Heaven? Love begets\\nlove, and when the slumbering Subliminal Self is aroused\\nto see the truth, that God loves him, love to God with every\\nattribute of His eternal holy Divine nature is planted in\\nthe willing heart, by the Holy Ghost. Being born again,\\nnot of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word\\nof God which liveth and abideth forever. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Peter 1:23.\\nThe Christian Science Sentinel. Jan. 18, 1900, nar-\\nrates how even love to a woman cured a man from liquor\\nand tobacco habits. After describing the cure of his wife,\\nhis reformation and healing of his own eyes, he adds the\\nfollowing significant paragraph:\\nMy w T ife and I are members of the Mother Church,\\nand our little girl is one of the busy bees. We are doing\\nwell and am thankful every day that we were lead to the\\nblessed Truth. I have thought often very kindly of yon\\nas being the one who first gave me the true thoughts.\\nHow shallow must be the love of one who professes to\\nlove Jesus and will not quit his tobacco and wdiisky!\\nBeing of one accord and in one place was the secret\\nof the pentecostal shower to the little company of one hun-\\ndred and twenty at Jerusalem. How true it is of the\\ngeneral assemblies of the Church today in her conventions", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nand conferences. What power! What light! Oh, let us\\nas a Church anil as individuals expect the promise of the\\nFather that Jesus said he would send, and tarry at the\\nthrone of grace till He comes, and receive Him as He\\ncomes, then every fiber of our being, primary self and\\nsubliminal self will vibrate harmoniously to the will of\\nGod while here we stay, and when we ve suffered and ful-\\nfilled all His righteous will, we ll be transported to the\\nscene of the beatific vision discribed by the on^ that was\\nin the Spirit on the Lord s day.\\nAfter this I beheld and lo, a great multitude which\\nno man could number of all nations and kindreds, and\\npeople, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the\\nLamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;\\nand cried with a loud voice saying, Salvation to our God\\nwhich sitteth upon His thone, and unto the Lamb.\\nAnd all the angels stood around about the throne and\\nabout the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the\\nthrone on their faces, and worshiped God, saying, Amen:\\nBlessings and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and\\nhonor and power, and might be unto our God forever and\\never. Amen. Rev. 7:9-12.\\nOh spread the tidings round,\\nWherever man is found,\\nWherever human hearts and human woes abound,\\nLet every Christian tongue proclaim the joyful sound:\\nThe Comforter has come\\nThe Comforter has come,\\nThe Comforter has come,\\nThe Holy Ghost from Heaven,\\nThe Father s promise given;\\nOh, spread the tidings round,\\nWherever man is found,\\nThe Comforter has come\\nSing till the echoes fly,\\nAbove the vaulted sky,\\nAnd all the saints above.\\nTo all below reply\\nIn strains of endless love.\\nThe song that ne er will die,\\nThe Comforter has come", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "ORTHORDOXY. 57\\nThe Comforter lias come,\\nThe Comforter has come,\\nThe Holy Ghost from Heaven,\\nThe Father s promise giv n;\\nOh spread the tidings round,\\nWherever man is found,\\nThe Comforter has come\\n^^fc", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VI.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2CHRISTIAN SCIENCE WORSHIP.\\nThe true worshipers shall worship the\\nFather in spirit and in truth.\\nJohn 4:23.\\n^^*Q some it may seem saereligious to attack forma\\nII lism, under its various guises and garbs, especially\\na sect as well organized and presenting such a fine\\nexterior as Christian Science.\\nLittle hope exists of freeing those already entangled,\\nbut it is highly important to prevent others from falling\\ninto so plausible and luxurious a snare, and to show that\\nChristianity is not to be held responsible for aberrations\\nof the imagination which belong exclusively to no race,\\nclime, age, party, or creed.*\\nBut courageous old Joshua threw down the challenge\\nto the Captain of the Lord s host with the boldness of a\\nlion, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?\\nIt is not the purpose of this chapter to attack the\\nsincerity of its members. There is no doubt but there is\\na large percentage of its membership composed of those\\nwho are earnest and sincere. As they have not excluded\\nthe Bible, nor singing, nor praying, together, some may re-\\nceive some spiritual help, but of course that would, con-\\nscientiously followed up, lead them to a church that was\\nnot so pronounced against such things. Their attitude\\nalso in reform movements is not to be disdained as in-\\ndividuals or as an organization. But it is the deceptive\\nmanner, in which the candid and sincere are lead, from a\\nproper reverence for God and true devotion, to idealism\\nand mysticism.\\nFrom the fact that this sect is well organized it only\\nbecomes more alarming to know it is opposed to Orthodox\\nreligion.\\nm. M. Buckley, LL. D", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nConcerning their congregation, churches and member-\\nship, Judge Ewing said in his lecture Oct. 5, 1899:\\nMay I tell you something Christian Science has ac-\\ncomplished in fifteen years There are 500,000 adherents,,\\nand over 400 congregations. In the last five years it has\\nbuilt many churches ranging in cost from $1,000 to $200,-\\n000. The membership has been drawn from all the\\nchurches. 7\\nIt has a novel form peculiar to itself, and takes its\\nrank among the churches of the world. The church direc-\\ntory in the hotels and restaurants of the various cities con-\\ntain similar notices to the following one copied from the\\nPeoria, 111., directory:\\nFirst Church of Christ, Scientist.\\nSunday Services, 10:45 a. m.\\nSunday School, 12 m.\\nWednesday Evening Meeting, 7:30 p. m.\\nIt claims to have no creed, but it has what is called, irt\\nScience and Health, a brief exposition of the religious\\ntenets of Christian Science. To those six short paragraphs\\ncontaining a syllabus of its doctrines, each one must sub-\\nscribe, to become a member of the Mother Church, or any\\nof its sub-churches. The Mother Church alone has a\\nmembership of 15,000.\\nThe 51st revised edition of Science and Health of the\\n1890 copyright has the following question and answer.\\nPage 455:\\nQ. Are doctrines and creeds a benefit to man?\\nA. The author subscribed to an orthodox creed in\\nearly youth, and tried to adhere to it until she caught the\\nfirst gleam of that which interprets God as above mortal\\nview. This sense rebuked humam beliefs, and gave the\\nspiritual import of all things from the Divim 4 Mind ex-\\npressed through science. Since then her highest creed has\\nbeen Divine Science, which reduced to human apprehen-\\nsion, she named Christian Science.\\nCould any one be blamed for not wanting to regard\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Science and Health as a sacred book when it has to be re-\\nvised and rc-written and re-copyrighted again and again?", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "62 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nOr can Christian ministers be censured for barring Chris-\\ntian Science readers from their ministerial associations, on\\nthe ground of unorthodoxy, for subscribing to a belief that\\nsuch utterances as the above came from inspired lips, and\\nform a part of what they call a sacred book?\\nAs everything is conducted under the auspices of the\\nMother Church at Boston, every sermon throughout the\\ndomains of the sect is exactly the same for the Sunday\\nmorning service. As it has been the privilege of the\\nauthor to attend their meetings it may be interesting to\\nthe reader to u;ei the form. Take for example the services\\nof March 25. 1900.\\nIt was a damp, dismal morning, but at 10:45 a. m.. the\\nauditorium of the handsome church was well rilled with a\\ncongregation of several hundred people that seemed gay\\nand worldly, rather than joyous and devout.\\nThe church, a magnificient structure, erected at a cost\\nof $80,000, and built after the Roman style of architecture,\\nwas lo *a v 1 in a beautiful part of the city.\\nIts massive stone wall was decorated upon the outside\\nwith escutcheons engrave 1 with Scriptural mottoes, one of\\nwhich is a follows: The people that walked in darkness\\nhave seen a grc it light. The very mode of constructing\\nthe bud lings as wed as the ur e of the mottoes is to im-\\npr. S3 the world that Christian Science is the only true\\nrehgior. Even Science and Health is claimed to be a\\nsacred hock.\\nThe inside was elegantly finished and ornamented.\\nhaving all the movrn improvements and c nveniences.\\nBesides Scriptural mottoes upon the wallr, over the rostrum y\\nhaving elegant chairs and a double pulpit, in large gilt,\\nletters was the following inscription:\\nChristianity is again demonstrating the life that is\\ntruth, and the truth that is life.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rev. Mary Baker Eddy.\\nThe program was as follows:\\n)verture, Pipe organ solo.\\nReaders enter, taking seats.\\nFirst re i ler announced the hymn and lined the first\\nverse and the congregation joined heartily in singing it to", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE WORSHIP. 63\\nthe tune, Woodworth. It will be noticed that in this\\nhymn, as in most of them, the sentiment is right, but Chris-\\ntian Science light makes the hymn mean, as it does the\\nBible, just what the Science 7 means.\\nOh sometimes gleams upon our sight,\\nThrough present wrong, the eternal Right:\\nAnd step by step since time began,\\nWe see the steady gain of man.\\nThrough the harsh noises of our day,\\nA low sweet prelude finds its way:\\nThrough clouds of doubt, and creeds of fear.\\nA light is breaking calm and clear.\\nHenceforth my heart shall sigh no more.\\nFor olden time and holier shore;\\nGrid s love and blessing then and there,\\nAre n w and here and everywhere.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094J. G. Whittier.\\nAfter the singing the first reader announced and read\\na Scripture lesson from Matt, loth., at the close of which\\nall joined in silent prayer, congregation sitting in their\\nseats. During the painful silence the clock relieved the\\noppressive stillness by chiming eleven. The audible repe-\\ntition of the Lord s prayer with the spiritual interpreta-\\ntion from Science and Health 1 closed that part of the\\nceremony\\nThe following was the manner of the performance,\\neach reader reciting a clause alternately:\\nSecond Reader from: First Reader from:\\nBible. Science and Health 7\\nOur Father, which art Our eternal Supreme Being\\nin Heaven, all harmonious,\\nHallowed be thy name. Forever glorious.\\nThy king lorn come Ever-present and omnipotent.\\nThy will b j doni in earth Thy supremacy appears\\nas it is in Heaven. as matter disappears.\\nGive us this lay our (rive us ea.ch day\\ndaily bread; the living bread;\\nAnd forgiv. us o ir l.- o.r. And truth trill destroy\\nas we forgive oar debtorc. the claims of error.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nAnd lead us not Lead by spirit mortals arc\\ninto temptation, freed\\nbut deliver us from evil: from sickness, sin and death:\\nFor thine is the kingdom, For thou art all substance,\\nand the power, and the Life, Truth, and Lore, for-\\nglory, forever. ever.\\nAmen. So be it.\\nThe above form of the prayer is taken from the 51st\\nrevised edition of Science and Health, but the 1894 copy-\\nright, 183rd edition, is quite different, beginning Our\\nFather-Mother God, etc., and having no Amen so\\nmote it be at the close. These are strange transmuta-\\ntions to occur to an inspired book.\\nAfter singing another hymn the first reader announced\\nthe sermon-subject, which for that morning was Unreality.\\nBefore the sermon the 39th Psalm was read by read-\\ners and congregation responsively. The sermon was then\\nperformed in the following novel manner.\\nThe Bible citations were read by the second reader\\nand the spiritual interpretations from Science and Health\\nwas read by the first reader, alternately:\\nUNREALITY.\\nI.\\nSecond Reader: First Reader:\\n-The Bible. Science and Health\\nGenesis, 5 :3 515 :20, 28-32\\nGenesis, 6:5-8; 517:23;\\nGenesis, 7:1,21-13. 536:19-21;\\n543:2;\\n507 11- 17.\\nII.\\nJob, 15:14, 25, 28-31, 33,34. 471:29;\\n198:5-25;\\n196:15.\\nAnd so on through five divisions of the subject.\\nThe solo was a hymn by Mrs. Eddy and rendered by a\\ngentleman. After singing another hymn the first reader\\nconcluded the services by readings benedictioB from Sci-", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nence and Health. without an Amen.\\nSunday school followed immediately conducted simi-\\nlarly to the schools of orthodox churches, in which the little\\nphilosophers were taught that All is God. It was a pity\\nto see the little innocent minds polluted with their irre-\\nligious sophistry.\\nDuring the above exercises the scarcity of men was\\nperceptible. However, it was noticeable that the form of\\northodoxy was almost entirely reversed. Women took the\\nlead.\\nMen were permitted subordinate positions. The first\\nreader seemed to read from Science and Health more\\nreverently than the second reader did from the Bible. Tru-\\nly their manner was such as to give more credit to Sci-\\nence and Health than it did to the bible and the effect on\\nthe subliminal self could be accounted for in this very\\nthing. No wonder they are ready to accept Divine Science\\nas a synonym of the Holy Grhost. But it is only an imita-\\ntion and spurious in its effect upon the moral nature.\\nFor formalism and sectarianism, for church pomp and\\nchurch power. Christian Science outrivals Catholicism in\\nits worst stage, and will only need the time to develop into\\nwhat Romanism was in the Dark Ages.\\nJudge Ewing once put to a Dakota congregation a\\nproblem something like this:\\nIf 3 Christian Scientists can demonstrate 30 Scien-\\ntists in 3 years, how many can those 30 demonstrate in 10\\nyears?\\nIt seems like it would be a rapid growth to see 1.000\\nChristian Scientists where but a few years before there\\nhad been but three, hence the alarmingly rapid growth of\\nt lis blasphemous denomination ought to startle every true\\nworshipper of Jesus.\\nThe problem that confronts tin 1 Orthodox Church is:\\nIf ONE Christian Scientist can demonstrate 500.000\\nScientists in 25 years, how many can those 500,000 demon-\\ns rate in a century? Or in other words, where will the\\nt lodox Church be at tln^ end of the next century?\\nT te following stanzas from Prof. Weimar s poem on", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE WORSHIP. 67\\nThe Limitation of the Spirits Knowledge is very appli-\\ncable to the Christian Science sect.\\nScientists never question the mistakes of their Science,\\nHow can there be mistakes here? they say.\\nThey apologize for what they cannot demonstrate,\\nAnd continue to believe what they can t reveal.\\nMatter and Death are classed with the Higher\\nProblems.\\nThey don t know it is like old Roman religion,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nEven practiced like theirs in cathedrals\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nNevertheless it changes from year to year.\\nHow Christian Science converts men to Skeptics,\\nAgain and again demonstrated I find;\\nOutward, with fine human blended feelings,\\nBut, hearts like their heads, hard and cold.\\nThese modern, unscientific interpreters\\nWould cut off life s best, truest hopes,\\nBy unnerving and emasculating the Bible,\\nIn attempting to canonize Science and Health.\\nWoe, woe to to the Healers and Reiders\\nWho handle Gods word with deceit:\\nWho compass the United States, Sir,\\nOne proselyte (wealthy) to greet!\\nOh God, send them the Prophet Elijah,\\nTo turn their hearts back from the worst\\nAnd may they accept Jesus Christ\\nInstead of the Baal, at Boston.\\nReconstructed.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VII.\\nSECTS AND CREEDS.\\nIn vain do they worship me, teaching\\nfor doctrines the commandments of\\nmen. Mark 7:7.\\n+fT^ OW often have I, in this great city stood gazing\\nIt upon the sea of humanity as it throngs the thor-\\noughfares like the current of a mighty river,\\nrushing on to the ocean of eternity!\\nFifteen years ago, I used to stand and look upon the\\nbusy rushing crowd, issuing from offices, stores, factories,\\nand various places of commercial interest, and contemplate\\nthe end of it all.\\nThe swift vicissitudes of the changeful years have\\nmaterially modified my opinions.\\nOrthodox religion was then but a green spot in my\\nmemory Its ecstatic thrills were replaced by the scorn-\\nful hate of the sceptic, and I wondered if to all these it\\nseemed as dark and gloomy as it did to me. To be born,\\nlive, suffer, die and what then? All was blank. It seemed\\nbut a leap in the dark.\\nI thought of the days of my youth when I accompanied\\nmy parents, and brothers and sister to church and Sunday-\\nschool, and often from the depths of my sin-polluted soul,\\nI would cry out, O days of my youth and innocency come\\nback\\nDays of sw r eet rapture when belief in God, in the Bible\\nand in prayer caused the chords of my pure, childish,\\ntender heart to vibrate with the love of J esus awakening\\nheaven s symphonies in my soul\\nIn after years, when my heart was hardened by sin,\\nmy mind darkened by infidelity and my conscience suffer-\\ning the pangs of guilt and remorse, how often would mem-\\nory revert to those happy scenes and I would long to bathe\\nmy weary soul in the pure Fountain of Life.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "SECTS AND CREEDS 69\\nAt this juncture in my life s history Christian Science\\nappeared, with its signs and wonders to attest that it\\nwas the rediscovered religion of Jesus Christ and of course\\nI was not tardy in embracing it.\\nIt taught that the principles of Orthodox religion as\\ntaught by Luther, Calvin, Knox, Finney, and Wesley with\\ntheir hosts of followers, were only a will-o -the-wisp\\nthat leads into the mists of superstition and darkness.\\nA fair investigation and a sincere desire to become a\\nbetter man proved to me, as it will to all, that it was but a\\ntraveresty on religion and extremely sectarian in practice.\\nThis is especially manifest in their intolerant spirit toward\\northodox believers, or toward each other who may chance\\nto differ in any particular from their founder.\\nChristian people have seen the error of Spiritualism,\\nMormonism, etc., but Christian Science is a new garb for\\nAnti-Christ.\\nSchools in religion and medicine are prone to\\nmagnify their own achievements and depreciate those of\\nothers. Nor does this always spring from dishonesty;\\nsince faith often prevents that scrutiny which would reveal\\nreasons for discounting testimony or appearances, while\\nsuspicion would lead to a treatment of the reports of others\\nthe opposite of that accorded to their own.\\nProbably, among the many wily arts of the enemy of\\nall righteousness, none is more subtle, in deceiving the\\nchildren of God, and thus destroying their usefulness, than\\nsectarianism.\\nSectarianism is wrong, radically wrong, and is an evi\\ndence of moral pollution in the soul of those who are af-\\nfected with it. Hence it is a blot on the moral nature.\\nThis is true of us either as individuals or societies. Let us\\ninvestigate the subject under two heads:\\n1. Applied to societies;\\n2. Applied to individuals.\\nAccording to Webster, sectarianism consists in the\\ndisposition to dissent from the established church or pre-\\nJ. M. Buckley. LL. P.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\ndominant religion and to form a new sect.\\nThe root of the world is from seco, to cut off.\\nAmong the Jews the principal sects were the Pharisees.\\nSadducees, Essenes, and Zealots.\\nIndependent thought among philosophers and states-\\nmen, leading to different schools and parties, may be con-\\nducive to benignant results, but in religion quite the\\nopposite is evident as proven by history. If Columbus,\\nGalileo, Edison, or Lincoln had never lived we might all be\\ncrowded on foreign soil, believing the earth to be flat and\\nstationary, with the planets and stars revolving around it\\nas taught by Ptolemy; we might still be harboring the\\nsuperstitions of the dark ages, with all their inconveniences\\nand terrors. We are now reaping the benefits, with which\\nthese men of independent thought and fearless action,\\nhave blessed the world, and will yet bless the unborn\\ngenerations, by encouraging and promoting advancement\\nin science and civilization.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure sky,\\nFor thou art Freedom s now and Fame s,\\nOne of the few the immortal names.\\nThat were not born to die. 1\\nOn the other hand, what is, in the strict sense of the\\nword, a sect in religion, has been a blot on society and a\\nstench in the nostrils of God.\\nThe Sadducees took from the words of the prophecy\\neven denying the resurrection from the dead, and said,\\nThere is neither angel nor spirit. They never had any\\nmore beneficent influence on the world than the average\\ninfidel of the present day. Their liberalism necessarily\\nmade them sharply opposed to Jesus, whom they hated as\\na fanatic. They rapidly disappeared from history after\\nthe first century.\\nSectarians are always extremists and very intolerant\\nin their views. Of this sort were the Zealots. They arose\\nunder the leadership of one Judas in the days of Herod.\\nThey expected an earthly Messiah, and were insubordinate\\nto the powers that be\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a fault of some extremists today.\\nTheir fate may be learned by reading Acts. 5:37. After", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "sects and creeds. 71\\nthis man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the tax-\\ning, and drew away much people after him: he also\\nperished; and all, even as many as obeyed him, were dis-\\npersed.\\nThe Essenes were another religious sect, that lived and\\ndied for themselves alone. In their extreme nicety, they\\nforbade marriage and increased by adopting children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 an\\napproach to which we find amongst the adherents of social\\npurity, so-called today. Their life was ephemeral and com-\\nparatively useless.\\nThe Pharisees, with their vain traditions such as the\\nwashing of cups, and pots, and brazen vessels, and of\\ntables, teaching them for doctrines, were rebuked by the\\nSon of God as hypocrites, doing little things and neglect-\\ning the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy and\\nfaith.\\nHear His awful denunciation of them: Woe unto\\nyou scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites for ye shut up the\\nkingdom of Heaven against men; Woe unto you scribes\\nand Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited\\nsepulchers which indeed appear beautiful outward, but\\nwithin are full of dead men s bones and of all uncleanness;\\nWoe unto you scribes, Pharisees hypocrites for ye com-\\npass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is\\nmade, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than\\nyourselves; Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can\\nye escape the damnation of hell? Mat. 23.\\nWhat shall we then say of modern sectarianism whose\\nadherents say, we no doubt, are the people and wisdom\\nshall die with us. Job 12:2. Have we not a religious\\nsect among us today, that claims to be the original Apos-\\ntolic church, and is so sure its membership is the only\\nchosen and elect of God, and believe contact with other\\npeople so polluting, that the dead are ostracised?\\nReligious sectarians may be known by their holier\\nthan thou attitude. It affects them them in every walk\\nof life.\\nThe Pharisees and Essenes were especially noted for\\ntheir prudery and affected scrupulousness in their associa-\\ntions.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "72 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nIn a relig o is sense of the word, sectarianism, it has\\nbeen usually applied to the innocent party.\\nCatholics charged Lutherans with heresy; Episco-\\npalians charged th^ Methodists with being dissenters; and\\nin the days of Christ the Pharisees cried out, What new\\ndoctrine is this? (Mark 1:27,) when the trouble was\\nwith themselves. They had drifted so far from the first\\nprinciples of true religion that they did not recognize its\\ntrue teachers. The Apostles also were assailed as sectar-\\nians; in Acts 28:22 it is written, For as concerning this\\nsect everywhere it is spoken against.\\nIn each case above mentioned, in the lapse of centur-\\nies the primitive organizations, departed, in practice at\\nleast, from the ancient land-marks which thy fathers\\nhave set.\\nThe intolerant and bigoted spirit was apparent in the\\ntreatment of the reformers and promulgators of the true\\nand original doctrine. Christ and the Holy Apostles suf-\\nfered martyrdom at the hands of the Jews for preaching\\nMoses and the prophets.\\nIn the beginning of the Reformation, John Huss,\\nMartin Luther, Melancthon, and many others were de-\\nnounced as heretics, and some of them burned at the stake\\nby the Church of Rome, for opposing the sale of Indulg-\\nences and heralding the gospel of Justification by faith.\\nRom. 5:1.\\nThe Church of England, in a more enlightened age,\\nmanifested her intolerant spirit by denouncing Metho-\\ndists as Dissenters and Ranters, for daring to forsake cold\\nritualism, and embrace the gracious gospel of experiencial\\nreligion, whereby the believer becomes sanctified wholly in\\nthis life, (see I Thess. 5:23) and enters into that Rest\\nthat remains for the people of God, (Heb. 4:9), a doctrine\\npreached by Wesley, Whitefield, and Finney and per-\\nmeated all their hymnology.\\nBreathe, O, breathe bhy loving Spirit,\\nInto every troubled breast;\\nLet us all in Thee inherit\\nLot us ti nd that second rest.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "SECTS AMD CREEDS. 73\\nAnd so the rise of many modern evangelical churches\\nmight be traced, but the thought may be perceived that\\nthe history of tne different denominations of the world,\\nproves that the reformatory ones are not sectarian as de-\\nfined by Webster, while the old church is the formal,\\nworldly and popular one.\\nAnd yet as a pretext for the existence of Christian\\nScience religion, in his lecture under the auspices of the\\nMother Church, Oct. 5, 1899, Hon. William G. Ewing said:\\nIt w T as years after I had been rescued from the cold\\nclutch of death, by Christian Science, before I could give\\nup the early lessons learned of God, life, death, Hell, and\\nHeaven.\\nIf John Calvin had not questioned the beliefs of his\\nfathers,, there would have been no Presbyterian church if\\nMartin Luther had not raised his mighty voice against the\\nbeliefs and practices of his father, the world would never\\nhave rejoiced in the light and glory of the Reformation; if\\nthe Wesleys had not forsaken the tenets of their fathers\\nthe sublime devotions and heroic sacrifices of the Metho-\\ndist circuit rider would never have gladdened, purified and\\nsanctified the humble homes of England and America.\\nOne may see that Christian Science is unlike the\\nformal church; it is not so much as a departure from the\\ndoctrines of true Christianity, and does not contain its first\\nprinciples, and denounces those of the present era that\\nadhere to the original tenets of the Apostolic Church yet\\nit inconsistently uses orthodox hymns.\\nIn these days of sects, creeds, and dogmas, the peril-\\nous times of New Testament prophecy are upon upon us.\\nMen shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters,\\nproud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,\\nunholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false\\naccusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are\\ngood, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures\\nmore than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but\\ndenying the power thereof, and from whom we are com-\\nmanded to turn away. II Tim. 3:1-5.\\nThe same inspired penman also said The Spirit", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74\\nORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nspeaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall de-\\npart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and\\ndoctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy; having\\ntheir conscience seared with a hot iron. I Tim. 4:1-3.\\nFormalism would not have been more plainly desig-\\nnated, if the Holy Apostle had inscribed on the sacred\\npage, with pen of iron:\\nAnti-Christ in 1900!\\nDowieism and Christian Science\\nT3w\\nSECTS* CREEDS.\\nThe mask of Dowieism is torn aside and the wolf in\\nsheep s clothing is revealed, but beneath the beautiful ex-\\nterior of the other modern sect, whose coming is after\\nthe working of Satan, with all power, and signs, and\\nlying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteous-\\nness in them that perish. (II Thess. 2:9, 10.) may be seen\\nthe subtle foe that strikes at the very heart of Orthodoxy.\\nChristian Science.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "SECTS AND CREEDS. 75\\nThe great problem facing the Christian Church in the\\npresent century is, How may sectarianism be eliminated\\nfrom among us?\\nThis brings us to the second division of our subject.\\nviz: Sectarianism in Individuals.\\nThe problem solved and practiced would usher in the\\nmillennium, but we believe the manner in which the Lord\\nJesus Christ begins with His Church, here on the earth, is\\nwith us as individuals.\\nSo let us see to it first, that we do not, as individuals,\\nlet the Devil make us believe that the instrument, used in\\nthe hands of a merciful God, to save us from perdition, is\\nThe Church.\\nIf he accomplishes this, we become ensnared with\\nsectarianism, which is a moral pollution, a disease of the\\nsoul, that breaks out in various forms, among the chief of\\nwhich we note: Bigotry, Rabidism, and finally Secession.\\nWhen Bigotry appears, the patient is seized with a\\nkind of obstinate moral blindness that makes him think\\nthe tenets of his church exactly right, to the exclusion of\\nihose of all other churches. This fills him with prejudice\\nagainst all other denominations.\\nHow often is this true with the minister A spirit of\\nintolerance is engendered that often causes him to wage\\nwar on sister churches, and instead of realizing the benefi-\\nficent effects of the Gospel on his own soul and the souls of\\nhis hearers, he only aggravates the disease of his own\\nmoral nature and prepares the way for its second phase.\\nLove begets love. We certainly could not blame any-\\none for becoming greatly attached to those who helped to\\npull him out of the fire. Usually converts assimilate with\\nthe people who gave them the light, but that need not lead\\nthem to think they are the only people upon whom God\\nsmiles.\\nThe Bigot never tires of lauding his own creed and de-\\nnouncing all others, and soon his case assumes a more\\nmalignant form, which might be diagnosed as Rabidism.\\nThe dictionary does not license the use of the word,", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nbut the Bible does. In Galatians 5:15 we are warned of\\nthe malady. Says the Apostle, but if ye bite and devour\\none another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of\\nanother.\\nPersons in this stage are deceived, thinking it a\\nsymptom of spiritual health and vigor known as Radicalism.\\nRadicalism is a grace that causes the true Christian\\nto adhere to the root cr original doctrines of God, but\\nRabidism causes the afflicted person, like a canine in a\\na virulent state of the rabies, to attack everybody whose\\nbook of notions does not tally with his, and in some cases\\nthe notion book is bigger than his discipline or Bible.\\nThere is a panacea prescribed by the Holy Ghost which,\\nif taken in this stage, will produce a permanent cure. The\\nprescription can be obtained by reading Rom. 14:5. Let\\nevery man be fully persuaded in his own mind.\\nOne reaching this stage of the disease and unwilling to\\ntake the remedy, will continue as does the afflicted canine,\\nsnapping and biting, till its last and fatal form is reached\\nand death ensues.\\nSecession is spiritual hydrophobia. In this state the\\npatient dies a horrible death. It is more familiarly known\\nas Come-out-ism.\\nThey first come out from the church, and then come\\nout from each other till they remind one of a knot of\\nserpents hissing and biting at each other. The contor-\\ntions, convulsions, and paroxysms, that result from their\\nvenomous bite, can only be healed by the Balm of Gilead.\\nOh Lord, deliver us from sectarianism and heal the\\nhurt of the daughter of thy people for Jesus* sake\\nAll progress in science or religion is due to the fear-\\nless daring of men, who took a firm stand on the side of\\nradical truth, even though opposed by the martial hosts of\\nearth and hell.\\nThrice blest is he to whom is given\\nThe instinct thai can tell.\\nThat G-od is on the field, when he\\nIs most invisible.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "SECTS AND CREEDS. 77\\nBlest too is he who can divine\\nWhere real right doth lie,\\nAnd dares to take the side that seems\\nWrong to man s blindfold eye.\\nThen learn to scorn the praise of men,\\nAnd learn to lose with God;\\nFur Jesus won the world through shame,\\nAnd beckons thee this road.\\nIt never was popular with the multitude to keep the\\nnarrow way. The bigot, the fanatic, and the hypocrite\\nmay be found in the ranks of the visible church, but in\\nTeality they are not members of the mystical body of Christ.\\nThey may belong to our human organization, but while in\\nthat moral condition, they never did and never wdll belong\\nto the general assembly and church of the first born,\\nwhich are written in Heaven. Heb. 12:23.\\nCain professed as much religion as his brother Abel,\\nbut that did not save him. Judas w^as church-treasurer,\\nbut was yet the son of perdition. Lucifer may have been\\nthe chief singer in the choir of heaven, but he was cast\\ndown to hell.\\nTruly it takes God to discern the hypocrite. They\\nalways have imposed themselves upon the church, and\\nprobably always w 7 ill.\\nLet us not stumble over them into hell. Our souls\\nwill never get fat by feeding itself on their crookedness.\\nShall we not, rather, get our eyes on the *Lamb of God\\nthat taketh away the sin of the w T orld, and with fingers in\\nour ears, like one of old, rush toward the celestial city, with\\nthe soul-thrilling shout, Life, life, eternal life", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER VIII.\\nFALLEN ANGELS.\\nAnd his tail drew the third part of the\\nstars of Heaven and did cast them to\\nthe earth. Rev. 12:3.\\n^^*HE Bible reveals the fact that God has at least two\\nII orders of creation angels and men. Of the first\\nthere are two classses; those who kept their first\\nestate and those who did not. Concerning the second it\\nis a deplorable fact that all are fallen. Of such moment\\nis it to be created and endowed with free will and account-\\nability.\\nThere is no doubt that somewhere back in the pre-\\nhistoric ages, Satan was the highest archangel of Heaven.\\nIn the Holy Scripture there is an allusion made in the fol-\\nlowing language: How art thou fallen, O Lucifer, son of\\nthe morning Isa. 14:12.\\nWhen he lifted up himself and said. I will exalt my\\nthrone above the stars of God and I will be like the most\\nHigh, Jesus Christ, the Prince of Heaven and rightful\\nheir, marshalled the cherubic hosts that hurled him and\\nhis unholy consorts from the battlements of Heaven to the\\nlake of fire.\\nHim the Almighty P wer hurled headl ng,\\nFlaming fr m the eternal sky,\\nWith h .cleous ruin and combustion,\\nDown to bottomless perdition,\\nThere to dwell in adamantine chains and penal tire\\nWho durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.\\nRegion of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace\\nAnd rest can never dwell, hope never conies\\nThat conies to all. but torture without end\\nStill urges, and a fiery deluge fed\\nWith ever burning sulphur unconsumed:\\nSueh a place Eternal Justice had prepared\\nFor those rebellious\\nParadm Lost", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "SO ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nHuman wisdom would wish that he and his mighty\\nlegions had never been permitted to visit this terrestrial\\nsphere; but through the high sufferance of the Almighty,\\nnot altogether understood by man, hellish skill constructed\\na mighty bridge from the infernal regions to the earth, and\\nhere, says the Apostle, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh\\nabout, seeking whom he may devour.\\nBut he, once passed, soon after, when man fell,\\nStrange alteration, Sin and Death amain\\nFollowing his track (such was the will of Heaven)\\nPaved after him a broad and beaten way\\nOver the cark abyss, whose boiling gulf\\nTamely endured a bridge of wonderous length\\nFrom Hell continued, reaching to the utmost orb\\nOf this frail world, by which the spirits perverse\\nWith easy intercourse pass to and fro\\nTo\u00c2\u00ab tempt or punish mortals, except whom\\nG-od and good angels guard by special grace.\\nParadise Lost.\\nThis unconquerable foe, except by the blood of the\\nLamb and the word of their testimony is the one that\\nwaged war in Heaven, desolated Eden, and today is the\\narchangel opposed to God and man.\\nThe Bible represents that we have not only Satan,\\nthe Chief of many throned powers, to contend with, but\\nBeelzebub, the prince of devils. Mammon, the God of this\\nworld, and legions of fallen angels, princes, potentates war-\\nriors, once the s :ars of Heaven, now hell s egregious host,\\nheated with the rage of hate; and scorn of pride, powers\\nwhich none but the Omnipotent can foil, all besetting-\\nman s pathway,\\nThick as autumnal leaves that strew the brocks,\\nbent upon his destruction.\\nAt w T hat a disadvantage the race would be in the con-\\nflict of life, if left without divine assistance Our Captain\\nhas said, Lo I am with you always; and of his angels, Are\\nthey not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to\\nthem who shall be heirs of salvation.* If we fail to k ok\\nfor help from above we are sure to be defeated.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "FALLEN ANGELS. 81\\nAngels our march oppose,\\nWho still in strength excel,\\nOur Secret, sworn eternal foes,\\nCountless invisible.\\nBy all hell s host withstood\\nWe all hell s host o erthrow;\\nAnd conq ring them through Jesus blood\\nWe on to conquer go.\\nMan in his pristine beauty and power was unable to\\ncope with this aw^ful foe, and shall we in our fallen state\\nexpect to be more successful when the enemy has added\\nto his strength six thousand years experience?\\nFallen angels are mighty pow r ers, but all perverted,\\nand we must be warned, not only by their power, and\\nmight, and skill, but also of their wiles.\\nSatan transforms himself into an angel of light in\\norder to deceive mankind. Instead of their hideous\\nshapes, so great is their power, that they transform them-\\nselves and appear as beautiful angels of light to men.\\nHence says the Apostle, Such are false Apostles, deceit-\\nful w T orkers, transforming themselves into the Apostles of\\nChrist. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers\\nalso be transformed as the ministers of righteousness.*\\nII Cor. 11:15.\\nGot them new names: wandering o er the earth\\nThrough God s sufferance, for the trial of man\\nBy falsities and lies, the greater part\\nOf mankind they corrupted to forsake\\nGod their creator, and the invisible\\nGlory of Him that made them, to transform\\nOft to the image of a brute, adorned\\nWith guy religions full of pomp and gold\\nAnd devils to adore for deities,\\nThen were they known by various names.\\nParadise Lost.\\nOne of his chief wiles is to play upon the credulity of\\nthe race. Many sincere people in 1900, have not discerned\\nthe fallen angel in his gorgeous garb of Christian Science.\\nThe devil s tactics now-a-days is to deceive by lying won-\\nders, and through miracles of healing. (Kev. 16:14) cause", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "62 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nthe credulous and unwary to accept him and worship him.\\nEver since the rebellion in Heaven, his spirit has been\\nto exalt himself above God, and cause his followers to wor-\\nship him as such.\\nEspecially was this true of the temptation in the\\nGarden.\\nOn creations fair morn, when the Eden of earth was\\noccupied by that blissful pair, with cunning artifice and\\nangelic guile, proud Lucifer stole softly up to our grand-\\nmother Eve, and whispered in her ear the lie that ruined\\nman, prefaced by the arrogant statement that arraigned\\nJehovah himself, Yea hath God said.\\nIn answer to the woman s reply he set forth, as he al-\\nways does, truth enough, though wrongfully applied, to\\nlead her to disobey God. He told her they would be as\\ngods, knowing good and evil Out-reasoned by the wily\\nfoe, she did the deed when shared by Adam, that cursed\\nthe race and cursed the ground.\\nOh how much better never to hdve known the evil,\\nbut only the good.\\nSatan triumphed over man and hell rang jubilant with\\nfiendish horror Oh, if the eyes of our race had never\\nbeen opened to the dark Fide of this picture\\nGod. in his love and Omniscience, could foresee the\\nevil consequences of disobedience, and forwarn them but\\nhis eternal immutable law must in the very nature of\\nthings have its course.\\nSin brought every tear, every sigh, every groan into\\nthis world. It brought every disease, dug every grave and\\nis the cause of every human woe. Surely, the wages of\\nsin is death. And yet God s eternal purposes were not\\noverthrown, for Infinite Love devised the great scheme of\\nredemption.\\nBut such is the fate of all who heed the advice of him\\nwhom the Stygian Council, commissioned to destroy the\\nrace and be revenged on God.\\nWuile in Heaven he coveted the place of the Son of\\nGod, and since making his way to earth his only hope of", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "FALLEN ANGELS. 83\\ndestroying mankind eternally, is to exalt himself above\\nall that is called God.\\nThis is that spirit which is in the world and has been\\nsince God said, the seed of the woman should bruise\\nthe serpent s head.\\nWhile in the various religions of the world, he has\\nchosen various guises, yet we see the same spirit opposing\\nChrist and showing himself that he is God. Hence his\\nname Anti-Christ.\\nHis only hope of success is to divert the mind of man\\nfrom the power of the only name under Heaven, given\\namong men, whereby we must be saved, the name of\\nJesus.\\nHis spirit may be discerned in every religion that\\nexalts anyone to the seat of Christ our great mediator of\\nthe new covenant. And such seems to be the aim and\\npurpose of Christian Science.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER IX.\\nA KELIGIOUS FEAUD.\\nBe not deceived; God is not mocked.\\nGal. 6:7.\\n^^^HERE are many religions in the world and each\\nII claims for its devotees a panacea for the ills and\\ngriefs incidental to this transitory existence, a cor-\\ndial for the sin and misery and shame of man:\\nPlunged in a gulf of dark despair,\\nWe wretched mortals lay,\\nWithout one cheering beam of hope,\\nOr spark of glimmering day.\\nIn our natural and unawakened state we are all more\\nor less sensible of our pitiful condition, and hence have ac-\\ncepted something that originated in the mind of man or\\nSatan, or both combined, which we call religion.\\nEveryone of them, and they are many, come far short\\nof their claims, either for this world or that which is to\\ncome.\\nBut in the midst of all the creeds, shams, and sciences*\\nof human or Satanic ingenuity hear it, O earth and hear\\nit all hell Orthodoxy is now and always has been the\\nonly genuine religion of the Bible. (See Jas. 1:27.)\\nJehovah himself endorsed it in the ante-deluvian\\nworld and in the patriarchal ages, and does yet, for us\\nupon whom the ends of the world are come. Blessed be\\nhis name forever, and ever, and ever\\nPure religion is that which ministers to man in his\\nthree-fold nature, Physical, Mental and Moral, and brings\\nto him present and eternal joy unspeakable and full of\\nglory 1\\nWe do not wish to discuss Buddhism. Mormonism,\\nSpiritualism, etc.. which are considered by the enlight-\\nened and more civilize nations of the globe, false re-", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "A RELIGIOUS FRAUD. 85\\nligions, and have an immoral effect upon their adherents;\\nbut we wish to sound the tocsin that will call general at-\\ntention to a new and modern sect of esoteric religion,\\nthat recently originated at Boston, Ma s.. and is in its\\ntenets but an improved compound of the various religions\\nmentioned above, and sailing under the misnomer of\\nChristian Science.\\nIt is spreading over the world like an infection, and\\nits contaminating ed e^ts on the moral man, is of such\\nstupendous proportions as to demand the immediate atten-\\ntion, and decisive action, of all Christian nations. That\\npeople everywhere, both in the church an 1 o.itof it, should\\nbe delude! is no marvel, for Satan is transformed.\\nThis is the angel of light in 1900! Let us beware of\\nthe wolf in sheep s clothing.\\nThat the system is a religion is not denied, for Web-\\nster defines religion as Any system of faith and worship,\\nbut, we ask, is it true religion?\\nWhile there are many true Christians that have gone\\nto them for healing, and may be investigating the system,\\nas a rule their membership is composed of these who have\\nfaith in its founder and worship either her or Satan\\ntransformed. This is evident to any who have attended\\ntheir gatherings. He who spake as never man spake,\\nsaid, By their fruits ye shall know them. Satan is a\\ngreat imitator; so are his followers.\\nThere would be no need of a counterfeit dollar if there\\nwas no genuine money. There would be no counterfeit\\nreligions in the world if there was no genuine, and all this\\ngreat ado in the world over religions only proves to the\\nworld that there is a genuine, a Gcd-given cne.\\nWe may know the works of God from the spurious\\nimitations and lying wonders of Satan. Here is where\\ntoo many are led away and like Pharaoh, harden their\\nhearts against the Gospel. All supernatural power is not\\nfrom Heaven. It may come from hell, as it often does, to\\noppose God and array itself against His cause.\\nThere is quite an important sense in which we may", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nsay all evil that originates in the mind of man is instigated\\nby the Devil.\\nWe believe the magicians and sorcerers that worked\\ntheir miracles before Pharaoh in Moses time was but an\\nancient expression of the modern follies of Spiritualism,\\nMormanism and Christian Science.\\nNow as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do\\nthese also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, repro-\\nbate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no\\nfurther, for their folly shall be made manifest to all men\\nas theirs also was. II Tim. 3:8, 9.\\nOrthodoxy encountered the enchantments of the\\nmagicians of Egypt, in ancient times, as it does today this\\nmodern magian science in America and other parts of the\\ncivilized world. The ancient sorcerers cast down their\\nrods and they become serpents, but Aaron s rod swallowed\\nthem up every one.\\nThe magicians could also turn the Nile into blood and\\nbring frogs upon the land of Egypt, but they did not have\\nthe power to stay the plagues as was manifested by ser-\\nvants of God; so it is with every false religion; it will be\\nlacking in that which will be the greatest blessing to man.\\nThe conjurers of Egypt could not produce the plagues\\nof lice, flies, murrian, hail or darkness, neither could they\\nstay the hand of the death angel, all of which were won-\\nderfully demonstrated by the men of God before the king,\\ntill the magicians cried out, This is the finger of God\\nand Pharaoh let the people go.\\nThese modern esoteric Christians who charge ex-\\nhorbitant prices to demonstrate their Black Art, may build\\nChristian Science churches, have them beautifully en-\\ngraved without and within with Scriptural mottoes, and\\nalso hire a phophet of Baal to imitate the Holy Ghost, and\\ny^t for all this there is yet to be shown a single instance\\nwhere they have turned one soul from darkness to light\\nand from the power of Satan unto God.\\nThe Science may have made individuals rich, but it\\nnever gave one a title to a mansion in the skies that -Jesus\\nhas gone to prepare; it may have brought physical strength", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "A RELIGIOUS FRAUD. 37\\nto some diseased body, but it never healed a soul; it may\\nhave suddenly brought fame to a few individuals, but it\\nnever meets the great need of humanity, which is to bring\\nin the new creation of righteousness and true holiness.\\nIt has undoubtedly exalted its illustrious founder to a\\nplace above Jesus in the estimation of her followers but it\\nwill never take her nor her devotees to the throne, where\\nJesus and the overcomes will be permitted to sit with\\nthe eternal Father in His kingdom of glory.\\nAmazing grace, tis Heaven below\\nTo feel the blood applied,\\nAnd Jesus, only Jesus, know\\nMy Jesus crucified.\\nI see the new creation rise,\\nI hear the speaking blood,\\nIt speaks, polluted nature dies,\\nSinks neath the crimson flood.\\nThe cleansing stream I see, I see,\\nI plunge, and Oh, it cleanseth me;\\nOh, praise the Lord, it cleanseth me,\\nIt cleanseth me, yes, cleanseth me.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER X.\\nCHRISTIAN SCIENCE DOCTRINE.\\nAnd they shall say to you, see here:\\nor, see there: go not after them nor fol-\\nlow them. Luke 17:23.\\n/f^^ WING to the peculiarity of the age in which w r e live\\nan age of culture and intellectual advancement in\\nliterature, art and science, an age when one may\\nnot be surprised at the announcement of any newly dis-\\ncoved invention, or some great achievement in art or\\nscience we have become very credulous as a race. Under\\nsuch circumstances, humbuggery is rife in the land.\\nCharlantry, quackery and fraud, stalk abroad with\\nwheedling words to deceive the public.\\nToo often we see the credulous and unwary, gulping a\\ndiet that becomes indigestible. If this be so in the realm\\nof the material world what must it be in the occult and\\nspiritual?\\nReligion is not free from impostors. It has never\\nbeen in this world, and never will be. The Lord himself\\nespecially w T arns us of their appearance in the last days.\\nFor there shall be false Christs and false prophets, and\\nshall show great signs and wonders; in so much that, if it\\nwere possible, they shall deceive the very elect.\\nMat. 24:24.\\nThe masked foe can do vastly more injury than the\\nopen enemy. So these enemies of the cross are doing-\\ngreater injury to Christianity, with their treacherous,\\nHail Master than the open defiance of skeptics, inhdels r\\nand atheists combined. It is easier to detect the adversary\\nin the open blasphemy of the ungodly, and the sneers of\\nthe scorner, than to discover him in his scientific and\\nScriptural garb. An ill seeming appearance would not\\nsucceed in hoodwinking the intelligence of the present age.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DOCTRINE. 89\\nThe woman who introduced the corrupting leaven into\\nthe pure meal of the Gospel, has produced many discord-\\nants. She borrows the very phrases of the Holy Scripture\\nto give her doctrines a religious aspect, which, if accepted,,\\nsweep away the very foundation of Christian faith.\\nThe most subtle foe the Christian Church has to deal\\nwith in 1900, is Christian Science. While there is great\\ntendency on the part of American and European nations\\nto investigate the occult sciences, such as Spiritualism,\\nPalmistry and other Sorceries, etc., the practice of which\\nis clearly forbidden in the word of God, none has proven\\nso hurtful to Orthodoxy as Christian Science. Secret\\nthings belong unto the Lord our God but those things\\nwhich are revealed belong to us and our children forever,\\nDeut. 29:29.\\nSince the origin of the sect and publication of its dis-\\ncipline, Science and Health, in 1875, 400 chartered\\nchurches have sprung up, having an enrolled membership\\nof 500,000, and nearly 1,000,000, adherents. These start-\\nling facts ought to arouse every sincere Christian worker.\\nThe whole civilized world is flooded with its literature:\\n183,000 editions of Science and Health alone, and millions\\nof minor works on the same subject are read, and their\\nteachings believed by curious and credulous patrons, while\\n10,000 teachers and practioners are growing rich. Churches,\\ncolleges and universities are springing up all over the\\nworld. In the great cities of Europe and America over\\n5,000 people have attended a single lecture, conducted\\nunder the auspices of the Mother Church, at Boston, Mass.\\nIt has weekly and monthly publications, the chief of which\\nare the Sentinel and the Journal.\\nPhysicians and ministers of the gospel, almost\\neverywhere, find this modern therapeutic and religious\\ntravesty making inroads upon an unsuspecting public with\\nits Lo here or lo there Presbyterians, Baptists, Con-\\ngregationalists and Methodists seem to be suffering most\\nextensively from its unholy assaults, although all orthodox\\ndenominations are made to feel its mighty onward tread.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nMinisters are astonished and grieved to find that some of\\ntheir choicest minds and best people feel its power, and\\nsooner or later they gradually drop out of the churches.\\nCertainly this subtle foe is the Anti-Christ of 1900,\\nand is described in I John 4:1-3.\\nIn the Christian Science text book Science and\\nHealth, we read that Mrs. Mary Glover Baker Eddy dis-\\ncovered the doctrines and founded the sect in 1866. She\\noutlines its fundamental doctrines in the four following\\nstatements.\\nI. God is all.\\nII. God is good, God is mind.\\nIII. God, Spirit, being all, nothing is matter.\\nIV. Life, God Omnipotent good deny death, evil,\\nsin, disease disease, sin, evil, death, deny good, Omnipo-\\ntent God, Life, f\\nIt is easily seen that the argument contained in the\\nforegoing summary is:\\n1. God is all, God is good, therefore all is good; hence\\nthere is no evil.\\n2. God is all, God is spirit, therefore all is spirit;\\nhence there is no matter.\\n3. God is all, God is perfect, hence there is no imper-\\nfection, no misery, no sickness, only that which seems to be\\nso. The other propositions flow as corralaries from these\\nthree: we are spiritual, perfect, healthy, good, free, wise,\\nimmortal. The fallacy lies in the statement God is all,\\nwhich is affirmed in a sense that so identifies God with the\\nuniverse, as to annihilate human free will and accountabil-\\nity.\\nThe metaphysics of Christian Science, like the rules\\nof mathematics, is proven by inversion; for example: there\\nis no pain in truth, and no truth in pain; there is no matter\\nin mind, and no mind in matter; there art 1 no nerves in in-\\n*Christian Science Sentinel.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Science and Health. Page 7.\\nDr. Pattern in Chicago Inter-Ocean.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DOCTRINE. 91\\ntelligence, and no intelligence in nerves; there is no matter\\nin life, and no life in matter.\\nTo undertake the elucidatiom of the forgoing postu-\\nlates, baffles the skill of the best logician, for they cer-\\ntainly are undemonstrable, even by their inventor. She is\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2deserving of a patent upon them.\\nIn her Statement of Christian Science, Ursula N.\\nOestefeld of Chicago, 111., frankly says: Its statements\\n.are in the main paradoxical, nonsensical, and incompre-\\nnensible to those who hear them for the first time; an im-\\npression which is not entirely removed, after a further\\nhearing.\\nThe statement is certainly true, for the doctrine will\\nnot bear the test of reason. There being an error in the\\npremise, there must be an error in the conclusion. Let us\\n-examine these doctrines:\\nI. God is all.\\nThis first statement upon which all the others depend\\nis but a modern statement of Gnosticism.\\nThe Gnostics were a sect of philosophers that arose\\nin the first ages of Christianity. Their doctrines, which\\nharmonized with those of Pythagoras and Plato, held that\\nall natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are de-\\nrived by successive emanations from the infinite fountain\\nof Deity. (Webster.)\\nTheir views were but the medieval expressions of an-\\ncient Oriental philosophy. Hence Christian Science is\\nbut a religious philosophy, of which Magianism is the^\\nwarp, and Gnosticism the woof.\\nA ferocious system that leaves nothing above us to\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness.\\nIts author says the statement is self-evident. Not so.\\nEarth, sea, and air, with their teeming millions of beings\\nare not God, but his creatures, among whom is man, pos-\\nsessed of free will and accountability.\\nTo confound God with the work of His hands, instead\\nof elucidating the great problem of life, and revealing God\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Science and Health. Page 7.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92 CRTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nto man, but befogs the whole scene, and less is understood\\nof God and His divine will to man, than before accepting\\nthe presumptious statement that God is all.\\nII. Gcd is good, God is mind.\\nThis statement is true, only in so far as it applies to\\nGod.\\nMan is a being created by God and endowed with intel-\\nlect, sensibility and will. He is both material and Spirit..\\nIn speaking of the great change that awaits us all, the\\nBible says, Then shall the dust return to the earth as it\\nwas; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.\\nEx. 1:2, 7. Again it says, But though our outward man\\nperish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 7\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094II Cor. 4:16.\\nThe inner man, the deathless spirit, unseen to mortal\\neye, is the ego, the real man, having an endowment that\\ndistinguishes him from the brute a conscience which in-\\nvolves the free will and accountability of man.\\nHis mind maybe, and often is, the birth place cf terri-\\nble crime and fearful evil. In human history this is proven\\nto be a hard fact, and is common in experience. Locks and\\nbolts on our doors, jails and penitentiaries all over cur fair\\nland, the crack of musketry and thunder of the cannon s\\nroar, all remind us that this earth is not a paradise nor its\\ninhabitants altogether angelic beings.\\nIII. God is Spirit: being all, nothing is matter.\\nThis erroneous statement is based on postulate I, which\\nwe have noticed so confounds God with the work of His\\nhands as to annihilate His xjersonality.\\nThe statement that There is no matter is contrary\\nto common sense and antagonistic to the plainest facts of\\nhuman experience.\\nJudge Ewing said in his lecture before the Mother\\nChurch, Oct. 5th, 1899:\\nThe very substratum of Christian Science, its initial\\nprinciple, the premise of all its reasoning, is the declara-\\ntion of, and insistance upon, the patent fact that God\\nis all. This premise I venture to say no intelligent be-\\nliever in God will presume to question; and yet if conced-", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DOCTRINE. 93\\ncd the genious of Bacon or Locke could not imperil the\\nlogic of Mrs. Eddy: viz. Christian Science.\\nTo admit the premise with all its reasoning would, of\\ncourse, lead us into the Mysticism of Christian Science, but\\nwith due defference to Hon. W. G. Ewing, the mass of intel-\\nligent Christian believers do not admit that God is all\\nnor can it be established.\\nThere is no matter is the mystic presto of the\\nScience juggler, that enables her to bring order out of\\nchaos, light out of darkness, and health out of sickness,\\nand gives her power to banish sin, sickness, and death\\nfrom the earth.\\nIt is interesting to observe her Perigrinations from\\nplane to plane, and from altitude to altitude in her scien-\\ntific explorations.\\nIn Science and Health we are solemnly informed\\nthat seasons will come and go with the change of tide,\\ncold and heat, latitude and longitude; and as the farmer\\nrises with her to the higher plane of thought he will find\\nthat these changes cannot effect his crop in seed time or\\nnarvest.\\nBy this token our rural friends in the frozen north\\nwill find it just as convenient and profitable to raise corn,\\npotatoes and cucumbers in December as in May, and the\\nHuckster of the frigid zone may pick and peddle straw-\\nberries from snowy fields for Christmas dinner.\\nThe mariner will find himself having dominion over\\nthe fish of the sea and the fowl of the air. What a splen-\\ndid arrangement?\\nHow nice to scud across the Atlantic behind a fine\\nteamvof domesticated whales, or to make an aerial voyage to\\nthe Philippines astride our national bird How delight Jul\\nto roost up among the stars, and take observations from\\nJupiter to Uranus\\nChristian Science may not admit of a personal God nor\\na personal Devil, but the Bible does, and it is generally re-\\ngarded as the best authority. In the Bible it says. He\\nChristian Science Sentinel.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "v", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DOCTRINE. 95\\nthat searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the\\nSpirit. Rom. 8:27.\\nTwice the Apostle Paul exclaimed, Who hath known\\nthe mind of the Lord? We might as well deny our own\\npersonality as to deny the personality of God. The Scrip-\\nture speaks of Him as a being possessed of intellect, sensi-\\nbility and will, and this is the highest sense in which man\\nwas created in His image and after his likeness.\\nIt is here and here only that we find anything of a\\nmoral character.\\nHence Christian worshipers deem it a right and rea-\\nsonable service to worship God in prayer; but this false\\nreligion plainly declares that God is not a person, and if\\nwe pray to him as a person, it will prevent us from letting\\ngo the human doubts and fears that attend all personality.\\nShe further states, We cannot bring out the practi-\\ncal proof of Christianity while we make a personal God\\nand a personal Devil our starting points. J\\nGod, angels, and the spirits of just men made per-\\nfect are the personalities that inhabit Heaven, and to-\\ngether with the scenic beauties of the place, constitute the\\nbeatific vision that greets the eye of faith and ravishes\\nthe human soul and urges him on to joys supernal.\\nDissolve me into ecstacies,\\nAnd bring- all Heaven before mine eyes.\\nThese earthly dignities purloin Heaven s bliss, and offer\\nas a substitute nothing but the transitory pleasures of earth\\nand its glory.\\nFor what is glory but the blaze of fame,\\nThe people s praise, if always praise unmixed?\\nAnd what the people but a heard confused,\\nA miscellaneous rabble who extol\\nThings vulgar and, well weighed, scarce worth the praise?\\nThey praise and they admire they know not what.\\nThis is true glory and renown, when God,\\nLooking on the earth with approbation, marks\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Hopkins Outline Study of Mam. Page 249.\\nScience and Health. Page 377.\\nScience and Health. Page Mi.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "96 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nThe just man, and divulges him through Heaven\\nTo all his angels, who with true applause\\nKecount his praises: Thus he did to Job,\\nFamous he was in Heaven, on earth less known,\\nWhere glory is false glory.\\nParadise Lost.\\nIV. Life God Omnipotent good, deny death, evil,\\nsin, disease disease, sin, evil, death, deny good, Omnipo-\\ntent God, life.\\nThe culmination of this false syllogism is to contra-\\ndict common sense, reason, the Bible, and God himself.\\nLogic is a machine like a mill; what it turns out de-\\npends upon wdiat is put in it; as stones by no manner of\\ngrinding can become flour, so error, though it pass\\nthrough all the syllogisms of the world, cannot be changed\\ninto truth: (Beard.)\\nThe founder of this false religion says in substance,\\nwhen she discovered the awful unreality of the matter, it\\nbecame known to her that pain, sickness, sin, and death,\\nw^ere the mere beliefs of mortal mind, the phantoms of\\northodoxy\\nIt is a system of rank fanaticism. It requires the\\nman who was born blind, to say that he is not blind, in\\norder that he may see. It tells the man whose face is eaten\\nto the bone with cancer, to believe and maintain that he\\nhas no cancer, that he is not sick, in order that he may\\nrecover. It instructs the man whose leg or arm is broken\\nto deny having any broken bone, as a means of cure. It\\nwould always force us to conclude, should we accept its\\nteachings, that the criminal whose neck is broken and\\nwhose breath is stopped by swinging from the gallows,\\ndied, or rather appeared to die, because of an illusion in\\nwhich he thought his neck was broken and his breath shut\\noff, when in reality nothing of the kind had taken place.\\nSuch is Christian Science, that so-called system of\\ntherapeutics, philosophy, and theology, which its notaries\\nclaim is to banish all the ills of humanity and usher in the\\ndawn of a new and golden era. t\\nt Christiaii Science Cnmaske l. Page 1!\u00c2\u00bb.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DOCTRINE. 97\\nIt is a religious arrogation, which is always Anti-\\nchrist, describeciyby^St. Paul in II Thess. 2:3, 4.\\nLet no man deceive you by any means: for that\\nday shall [not gome, except there come a falling\\naway first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son\\nof perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself\\nabove all that is called god or that is worshiped; so\\nthat he as^god sitteth in the temple of god, showing\\nhimself that he is god.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XL\\nCHRISTIAN SCIENCE SURGERY.\\nThey speak great swelling words of\\nvanity. II Pet. 2:18.\\nWING to the untenable doctrines and sweeping state-\\nments of Christian Science, its practitioners are\\nfrequently compelled to take most presumptuous\\npositions, and indulge the wildest extravagancies.\\nSailing under the commission that Jesus Christ gave\\nHis Apostles Heal the sick, cleanse the leper, raise the\\ndead the apostles of this modern Therapeutic Theology\\nsally forth with blazoned boldness and effrontery that out-\\nrivals the most sanguine of any age.\\nRelying on their belief in their chief doctrine, the\\nnihility of matter, they deny the things our senses compel\\nus to acknowledge.\\nUnder the powerful demonstrations of this so-called\\nDivine Science, its votaries claim to heal every form of\\ndisease and successfully treat the most difficult cases of\\nsurgery.\\nIt is claimed by its teachers that skilled scientists\\nwill be enabled to set broken bones, prevent railroad\\nwrecks, overcome conditions of climate: stilling the tem-\\npest, preventing flood or drowth, and tempering the torrid\\nand frigid zones!\\nOur great American humorist. Mark Twain, in an arti-\\ncle published in the Cosmopolitan, tells of an adventure,\\nwith which he met, while traveling in a foreign clime.\\nHaving walked off a cliff seventy-five feet high, and\\nbroken some arms, and legs, and one thing or another, and\\nhaving been picked up by some peasants while searching\\nfor an ass, he was taken to their humble dwelling.\\nThe village was a mile away but there was no surgeon\\nthere", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SURGERY. 99\\nThe medical fraternity of the place consisted of a horse-\\ndoctor and a Christian Science lady from Boston, who hap-\\npened to be summering there, and had a reputation for be-\\ning able to cure any thing.\\nHe chose the Scientist.\\nAs it was night by the time she was reached and con-\\nsulted, she sent word to the afflicted tourist that she would\\ngivehim absent treatment for the time being, and go to see\\nhim in the morning; meantime for him to make himself\\ntranquil and remember that there was nothing the matter\\nwith him. Although convinced that she had not diagnosed\\nthe case with sufficient care, there was nothing left but to\\npass the time till morning as best he could.\\nHe called for ref resements but was again disappointed,\\nfor the Christian Science doctor had anticipated that lie\\nwould be troubled with such delusions and had pre-\\nscribed that he should pay no attention to them and to\\nparticularly remember that there was no such thing as\\nhunger, and thirst and pain, whereupon he dismiss-\\ned his nurse and desired to be left to his delusions^\\nto await the arrival of his eccentric doctor in the morning.\\nThe distinguished humorist passed a night of anguish,\\nor at least he supposed he did for it had all the symptoms\\nof it.\\nIn due time the mysterious person arrived, and with\\ndistressing deliberation, unpinned, unhooked and uncou-\\npled her upholsteries and disposed of them; she then\\npeeled off her gloves, took a book out of her hand bag, and\\ndrew a chair, and descended into it without a hurry, by\\nthe bedside.\\nThe crippled man being unable to offer his pulse, pre-\\nsented his tongue, whereupon she remarked with pity but\\nwithout passion, Keturn it to it s receptacle! We deal\\nwith the mind only, and not with its dumb servants.\\nAny attempt to state the symptoms of his case or how\\nhe felt, was repelled with the statement that she did not\\nneed to know those things, and that his remarks about how\\nhe felt was an abuse of language; for said she, One does\\nnot feel.\\ni*, tfi", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "100 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nTherefore to speak of a non-existent thing as existent\\nis a contradiction. Nothing exists but mind; the mind\\ncannot feel pain; it only imagines it.\\nThe wounded man ventured a condition But if it\\nhurts just the same\\nIt doesn t. Pain is unreal, hence it cannot hurt.\\nIn making a sweeping gesture, as if shooing the illu-\\nsion of pain out of the mind, she raked her hand on a pin\\nin her dress, said Ouch and went tranquilly on with her\\ntalk, declaring that the patient should never allow himself\\nto speak of how he felt, or permit others to do it; neither\\nshould he permit others to talk about disease, or pain, or\\ndeath, or similar non-existences in his presence.\\nJust at that moment the maid trod on the cat s tail and\\nthe cat let fly a frenzy of cat profanity, and the following\\nconversation took place:\\nMark Twain: (With caution.) Is a cat s opinion\\nabout pain valuable?\\nHealer: A cat has no opinion opinions proceed from\\nthe mind only; the lower animals being eternally perish-\\nable, have not been granted mind; without mind, opinion\\nis impossible.\\nM. T. She merely imagined she felt a pain?\\nH. She cannot imagine a pain for imagination is the\\neffect of mind; a cat has no imagination.\\nM. T. (Soliloquising.) It is strange and interesting.\\nI do wonder what was the matter with the cat. Because,\\nthere being no such thing as a real pain, and she being\\nunable to imagine an imaginary one. it seems that God in\\nHis pity, has compensated the cat with some kind of\\nmysterious emotion, usable when her tail is trodden on,\\nwhich for the moment joins cat and Christian in one\\ncommon brotherhood of\\nH. (Indignantly.) Peace The cat feels nothing,\\nthe Christian feels nothing. Your empty and foolish imag-\\ninings are profanation and blasphemy, and can do you an\\ninjury. It is wiser and better and holier, to recognize and\\nconfess that ther. is no such thing as disease, or pain, or\\ndeath.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE BURGEON", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "102 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nM. T. I am full of imaginary tortures, but I do not\\nthink I could be any more uncomfortable, if they were real\\nones. What must I do to get rid of them?\\nH. There is no occasion to get rid of them, since they\\ndo not exist. They are illusions propagated by matter,\\nand matter has no existence. There is no such thing as\\nmatter.\\nM. T. It sounds right and clear, but yet it seems in\\na degree elusive; it seems to slip through, just when you\\nthink you are getting a grip on it.\\nH. Explain.\\nM. T. Well, for instance: if there is no such thing as\\nmatter, how can matter propagate things?\\n(In her compassion she almost smiled. She would\\nhave smiled if there were any such thing as a smile.)\\nH. It is quite simple; the fundamental propositions\\nof Christian Science explain it; and they are summarized in\\nthe four following self-evident propositions: I. God is\\nAll in all. 2. God is good. Good is Mind. 3. God\\nSpirit, being all, nothing is matter. 4. Life, God, omni-\\npotent Good, deny death, evil, sin, disease. There, now\\nyou see.\\nM. T. It seems nebulous. Does does it explain?\\nH. Doesn t it? Even if read backward it will do it.\\nM. T. What is the origin of Christian Science? Is\\nit a gift of God, or did it just happen?\\nH. In a sense, it is a gift of God. That is to say, its\\npowers are from Him, but the credit of the discovery of\\nthe powers and what they are for, is due to an American\\nlady.\\nM. T\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Indeed? When did this occur?\\nH. In 18()(). That is the immortal date when pain,\\nand disease, and death disappeared from the ear h to re-\\nturn no more forever. That is. the fancies for which those\\nterms si and. disappeared. The tilings themselves had\\nnever existed; therefore as soon as it was perceived that\\nthere were no such things, they were easily banished. The", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SURGERY. 103\\nhistory and nature of the great discovery are set down in\\nthe book here and\\nM. T. Did the lady write the book?\\nH. Yes, she wrote it all herself. The title is Science\\nand Health, with key to the Scriptures. They were not\\nunderstood before. Not even by the twelve Disciples.\\nShe begins thus I will read it to you (Having forgotten\\nher glasses she quotes from memory.) In the year\\n1866 I discovered the science of Metaphysical Healing,\\nand named it Christian Science. Through it religion and\\nmedicine are inspired with a diviner nature and essence,\\nfresh pinions are given to faith and understanding, and\\nthoughts acquaint themselves intelligently with God.\\nM. T. It is elegant. And it is a fine thought too\\nmarrying religion to medicine, instead of medicine to the\\nundertaker in the old way for religion and medicine prop-\\nerly belong together, they being the basis of all spiritual\\nand physical health. What kind of medicine do you give\\nfor the ordinary diseases such as\\nH. We never give medicine in any circumstances\\nwhatever We\\nM. T\u00e2\u0080\u0094 But, Madam, it says\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nH. I don t care what it says, and I don t wish to talk\\nabout it.\\nM. T. I am sorry if I have offended, but you see the\\nmention seemed in some way inconsistent, and\\nH. There are no inconsistencies in Christian Science.\\nThe thing is impossible, for the science is absolute. It\\nrests upon the immovable basis of an Apodictical Prin-\\nciple.\\nM. T. Beg pardon, the word flattened itself against\\nmy mind in trying to get in.\\nH. This Apodictical Principle is the absolute princi-\\nple of Scientific Mind Healing, the sovereign Omnipo-\\ntence, which delivers the children of men from pain,\\ndisease, decay and every ill that flesh is heir to.\\nM. T. Did the discovery come suddenly, like Klon-\\ndyke, or after long study and calculation, like America", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "104 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nH. The comparisons are not respectful, since they\\nrefer to trivialities but let it pass. I will answer in the\\nDiscoverer s own words: God had been graciously fitting\\nme for the reception of the final revelation of the absolute\\nprinciple of Scientific Mind Healing. This American\\nlady, our revered Founder, is distinctly referred to. and her\\ncoming prophesied, in the twelfth chapter of the Apoca-\\nlypse. She could not have been more plainly indicated by\\nSt. John, without actually mentioning her name. (Con-\\ntinues quoting.) In the opening of the Sixth Seal, typi-\\ncal of six thousand years since Adam, there is one distinc-\\ntive feature which has special reference to the present age.\\nAnd there appeared a great wonder in Heaven; a woman\\nclothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, and\\nupon her head a crown of tAvelve stars. Rev. 12:1.\\nThat is our Head, our Chief, our Discoverer of Christian\\nScience nothing can be plainer, nothing surer.\\nAnd the woman fled into the wilderness, where she\\nhath a place prej)ared of God. Rev. 12:6. That is Bos-\\nton A little book merely a little book, could words be\\nmodester? Yet how stupendous its importance. Do you\\nknow what that book was?\\nM. T.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Was it\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nH. I hold it in my hand Science and Health\\nFor the benefit of those who have never seen the book,\\nor met with any of its students, the same writer s views are\\nsubmitted.\\nFor all the strange and frantic and incomprehensible,\\nand uninterpretable books, which the imagination of man\\nhas created, surely this one is the prize sample. It is\\nwritten with a limitless confidence and complacency, and\\nwith a dash and stir and earnestness, which often compel\\nthe effects of eloquence, even when the words do not seem\\nto have any traceably meaning.\\nThere arc 1 plenty of people who imagine they under-\\nstand the book; I know tin s, for I have talked with them;\\nbut in all cases, they were people who imagined there were\\nno such things as pain, sickness and death, and no reali-", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SURGERY. 105\\nties in the world; nothing actually exists but Mind. It\\nseems to me to modify the value of their testimony.\\nWhen these people talk about Christian Science they\\ndo not use their own language but the language of\\nthe book; they pour out the book s showy incoherences and\\nleave you to find out later that they were not originating,\\nbut merely quoting. They seem to know the volume by\\nheart and to revere it as they would a Bible another Bibie,\\nperhaps I ought to say.\\nWhen you read it you seem to be listening to a lively\\nand aggressive and oracular speech delivered in an unknown\\ntongue, a speech whose spirit you get, but not the particu-\\nlars; or, to change the figure, you seem to be listening to a\\nvigorous instrument which is making a noise which it\\nthinks is a tune, but which to persons not members of the\\nband is only the martial tooting of a trombone, and merely\\nstirs the soul through the noise but does not convey a\\nmeaning.\\nWithout ever presenting anything which may right-\\nfully be called by the strong name of Evidence; and some-\\ntimes without, even mentioning a reason for a deduction\\nat all, it thunders out the startling words I have proved so\\nand so!\\nr v?\\nIt is the first time since the dawn-days of Creation\\nthat a Voice has gone crashing through space with such\\nplacid and complacent confidence and command.\\nWhile Mark Twain seemed to be willing to admit that\\nthe Angel of the Apocalypse handed down the book, yet\\nhe seemed to have serious doubts about Mrs. Eddy having\\ntranslated it alone, owing to the several copyrights on it,\\n1875, 1885, 1890, 1894. Yet her worshipers are seemingly\\nblind to this fact and there is a general tendency among\\nthem to exalt her above Jesus Christ and His Holy\\nApostles.\\nHe acknowledged the proficiency of Christian\\nScience in the surgery of his case, but the cold and", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "106 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nstomach-ache acquired by the accident, he was not willing\\nto trust in the hands of a woman he did not know, and in\\nwhose ability to treat mere disease, he had lost all confi-\\ndence; for they also had been in her charge from the first.\\nSo necessity compelled him to send for the horse-doctor.\\nOwing to aromatic circumstances he would have pre-\\nferred absent treatment, but it was not the horse -doctor s\\nmode of practice.\\nThe veterinarian prescribed to turn the stomach-ache\\ninto the botts, and the cold into the blind staggers, so he\\nwould be on his own beat and know what to do. So he pre-\\npared a bucket of bran mash and required the patient\\nto take a dirjperful every two hours Hear the conclusion\\nof the great American humorist:\\nNo one doubts certainly not I that the mind exer-\\ncises a powerful influence over the body.\\nFrom the beginning of time the sorcerer, the inter-\\npreter of dreams, the fortune-teller, the charlatan, the\\nquack, the wild medicine-man, the educated physician, the\\nmesmerist, and the hypnotist, have made use of the client s\\nimagination to help them in their work. They have recog-\\nnized the potency and availability of that force.\\n-x-\\nWithin the last quarter of a century in America,\\nseveral sects of curers have appeared under various names,\\nand have done notable things in the way of healing ail-\\nments, without the use of medicines.\\nI believe it might be shown that all the mind\\nsects, except Christian Science, have lucid intervals; inter-\\nvals in which they betray some diffidence, and in effect\\nconfess that they are not the equals of the Deity; but if the\\nChristian Scientist even stops with being merely the equal\\nof the Deity, it is not clearly provable by his Christian-\\nScience Amended Bible. In the usual Bible the Deity\\nrecognizes pain, disease, and death as fads. lmt the Chris-\\ntian Scientist knows better. Knows better, and is not\\ndiffident about saying so.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SURGERY. 107\\nThe Christian Scientist was not able to cure my\\nstomach-ache, and my cold; but the horse-doctor did it.\\nThis convinces me that Christian Science claims too\\nmuch. In my opinion it ought to let diseases alone, and\\nconfine itself to surgery. There it would have everything\\nits own way.\\nThe horse doctor charged me a half shilling, which\\nout of a feeling of generosity I doubled; but the Christian\\nScience doctor brought in an itemized bill for a crate of\\nbroken bones, mended in two hundred and thirty-four\\nplaces one dollar per fracture\\nI asked her if all was mind, to which she replied:\\nAll else is substanceless, all else is imaginary.\\nI gave her an imaginary check and she sued me for\\nsubstantial dollars. It looks inconsistent.\\nWhile sketching the above article my wife, who had\\nleft the wash-tub to administer to the wants of the baby,\\n(whether real or imaginary) seeing the swift apioroach of\\nthe dinner hour, decided that absent treatment would\\nneither stay our appetites nor cleanse the clothes.\\nWhat fools these mortals be", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XI L\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING.\\nThey are the spirits of devils working\\nmiracles. Rev. 16:14.\\n^^m*Q assert that Christian Science performs no cures\\nLI would be to assume a position as untenable as to\\ndeclare that Spiritualism or Necromancy are not\\nblack arts. We do not question their ability to do miracles\\nof healing, but the means used to accomplish these cures\\ndemand serious investigation.\\nIt is the duty of moralists, psychologists and medico-\\nlegal practitioners to scrutinize courageously great ques-\\ntions of this kind, which force themselves upon the human\\nconscience.\\nIn Suggestive Therapeutics. page 75. the same au-\\nthor says: A blister can be raised by hypnotic sugges-\\ntion, and gives the experimentof a young lady being hyp-\\nnotized and eight postage stamps being applied to her left\\nshoulder, whereupon some hours later, the blister was\\nplainly observed. Other experiments of hemmorrhage are\\nalso cited, thus proving the effect of mind on the body.\\n4 As long ago as the time of John Hunter, it was es-\\ntablished by a variety of experiments and by his own ex-\\nperience that the concentration of attention upon any part\\nof the human system affects first the sensations, next pro-\\nduces a change in the circulation, then a modification of\\nthe nutrition, and finally an alteration in structure. f\\nIn this phenonu n a Christian Science, along with many\\nfalse doctrines plays upon the credulity of its votaries, the\\nmost of whom are earnest and sincere truth seekers.\\nBut like Alchemy, Necromancy, and other sorceries.\\nChristian Science as a religion will decline before the\\n-Burnheim. Page 160.\\n.M. Buckley, LL. I).", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING. 109\\nscrutiny of the truly philosophic. And yet in some way\\nGod makes the wrath of man to praise Him. The science\\nof Chemistry arose from the ashes of Alchemy; scientific\\nexperiment and psychical research have established on the\\nvery decline of Spiritualism the facts of Hypnotism and\\nTelepathy, and it is to be hoped that on the very grave of\\nChristian Science, as it founder says: religion and medi-\\ncine will be inspired with a diviner nature, fresh pinions\\ngiven to faith and understanding, and mortals be acquainted\\nmore quickly with God, through Orthodoxy.\\nBefore embracing Christian Science or any other sys-\\ntem of therapeutics, the first question to be settled in every\\nconscientious man or woman s mind should be\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Is it right?\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nDoes the means used harmonize with the will of God as\\nTevealed in the Bible? If we are not careful along this\\nline we are liable to drop back to the religious plane that\\ncharacterized Popery in the time of Luther and Melanc-\\nthon. In the sale of indulgences and in other wicked\\npractices, Catholicism declared the ends justified the\\nmeans.\\nThat spiritualists and Christian Scientists have done\\nmarvelous things, is a known fact, but the manner of such\\npractices is forbidden by the Word of God and has a\\npernicious effect on the moral nature of man.\\nIn the jurisprudence ol the universe, the Omnipotent,\\nthe Omniscient, and the Omnipresent God is the supreme\\nlegislative, Judicial and Executive.\\nAmong the armies of Heaven and the inhabitants of\\nearth, none dare say unto Him, what doest thou?\\nHell is the fiery prison place God has prepared for the\\nTebellious spirit of man or angel.\\nImperishable spirit of man list to the voice of thy God.\\nIs not the life more than meat, and the body than\\nraiment Mat. 6:25.\\nThe poet caught the inspiration when he sang:\\nScience and Health. Page 1.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "110 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nThe world can never give,\\nThe bliss for which we sigh:\\nTis not the whole of life to live,\\nNor all of death to die.\\nBeyond this vale of tears\\nThere is a life above,\\nUnmeasured by the flight of years,\\nAnd all that life is love.\\nThere is a death whose pang\\nOutlasts the fleeting breath:\\nOh, what eternal horrors hang\\nAround the second death.\\nChristian Science is a religion propagated by those\\nwho take it upon themselves to decide which parts of the\\nBible are canonical and which are not. This is infidelity\\nand leads its adherents into the wildest fanaticism.\\nStatements are made that contradict God s plainest\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2commands and conflict with the common facts of human\\nexperience.\\nIn its effort to be highly spiritual it becomes excess-\\nively material. In profession it denies our physical exist-\\nence, but in practice admits its supremacy. Its healing\\nart attracts the multitudes, without which it could assume\\nno name but Gnosticism.\\nAs in the solution of any problem, one wrong princi-\\nple applied or the omission of one that is right, leads to\\nerror and confusion, so these Christian Scientists, by add-\\ning to and subtracting from the book of this prophecy\\nenvelope their followers in doubt and mysticism.\\nBy the transgression in the Garden, man fell from a\\nlofty height, and the march of sixty eenturies finds us still\\nas a race, an infinite distance from God. Nature alone is\\nnot enough, w T e need His Word an I His Spirit to reveal\\nHim to us through Jesus Christ His Son, the doctrine\\nwhich Christian Scientists contradict.\\nIn order to be proficient in the healing art Christian\\nScientists claim one must admit the nihility of matter as\\napplied to man.\\nThat is to say. he is not flesh, bljod. bones and brains\\nhis anatomical structure is a myth.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING. Ill\\nThey predicate the statement upon two Scriptural\\nstatements one of which they misquote, leaving out the\\narticle a to deny the personalty of God. We will give\\nthen in their way:\\nGen. 1:27. So God created man in his own image.\\nJohn 4:24. God is Spirit. Their deduction is Man\\nis Spirit.\\nOr to put it in the Christian Science oracular.\\nMAN=GOD.\\nOther deductions follow such as:\\nGod is not sick, therefore man is not sick,\\nGod cannot die, therefore man cannot die,\\nAnd many others might be mentioned which if not\\npositively irreverent and blasphemous are very absurd.\\nGod tells us that the body is a verity as much as the\\nspirit. This is plainly understood all the way through the\\nBible. To deny the reality of the body, destroys the grand-\\nest hopes of the Christian and leaves him in the realms of\\nmysticism. The personality of God and the angels, the\\nresurrection and a glorified body, heaven as a blissful local-\\nity, all recede from his vision, and it becomes dim to him\\nconcerning his own earthly existence. Life itself to him\\nbecomes unreal. When reduced to this state of mental\\nabberation it becomes easy for the Scientist to inject al-\\nmost any hallucination into his confused imagination. To\\npersons in abjection, the sudden revelation of such start-\\nling phantasies as are announced by the Christian Science\\noracle, often have an exhilirating effect when believed.\\nTo a person whose body is writhing in torture, or\\nracked with excruciating pain to one who is near the con-\\nfines of mortal existence and who believes in divine retribu-\\ntion, the startling announcement, from the lips of one, in\\nwhom he has reposed unswerving confidence, No Pain, No\\nDeath, No Sin, No Hell falls on his willing ear like strains\\nof heavenly music, and often stimulates like a medicine.\\nToo often their cures are transitory and their joys\\nephemeral, and the despondent victim lapses into a state\\nworse than the fiis", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING. 1 13\\nThe sphere in which Christian Science gains its great-\\nest fame, and wins the applause of its votaries, is the\\nrealm of the material, that which they claim to be\\nnon est.\\nChristian Science healers are making use of some very-\\nscientific principles, along with their ignorance,but probably\\ndoing it blindly, which are very proper within their limit\\nas taught by Bernheim, Charcot, Liebault, and the strictly\\nscientific, but the extremes to which these enthusiasts go\\nis unwarranted either by the Bible or common sense. It\\nis not religion but rank fanaticism, and acts as a sugges-\\ntive shock on those who become their dupes.\\nThe following newspaper anecdote will illustrate their\\ninconsistency and absurdity.\\nOPERATING ON A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST.\\nThe jovial dentist is a scientist, and, presumably, a\\nChristian, but the ways of the Christian Scientists are a\\nmystery to him.\\nThe other day, he said, one of the leading Chris-\\ntian Scientists came to me to get some work done. He\\nneeded it badly.\\nYou are a Christian Scientist, are you not? I\\nasked him.\\nHe admitted it, thanking God that he was not as\\nsome other men are.\\nAm I right, I asked, as I made ready to operate on\\nhim, in understanding that you deny the existence of\\ndisease?\\nYes, he said, there is no disease?\\nThen, my friend, why do you come to have this\\ntooth operated on?\\nWell, he evaded the question; said that it was diffi-\\ncult to shed light on minds that had not been touched by\\ngrac?, and intimated that his time was limited. So was\\nmine, so I said no m^re, but put on the forceps and did my\\nduty.\\nHow he yelled You couLl have hedrd him a block", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "114 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\noff. I haven t had a patient in a year that made such\\na fuss.\\nMy dear sir, I asked soothingly, as he quieted down,\\nam I right in understanding that, in your view, there is\\nno such thing as pain?\\nHe gave me a grieved look, thought awhile, and said:\\nWith more perfect mental control I should have felt\\nnone.\\nWould more perfect mental control, I asked, have\\nkept your tooth from decaying?\\nI fear I cannot make you understand, he said, and\\noff he went.\\nAnd pon my soul, ruminated the jovial dentist, I\\nfear he couldn t. Buffalo Express.\\nDeprive them of their healing power and there would\\nnot be a Christian Science church or college in the land.\\nThe imposture ranks with magic, alchemy, necromancy, and\\nother occult sciences of the middle ages.\\nTrue religion administers to both soul and body.\\nChristian Science while denying the existence of matter,\\nmakes its ministrations to the body and slights the soul.\\nTemporal bliss is sought and eternal interests for-\\ngotten. It is certainly naught but a mongrel religion,\\nwhose chief components are Buddhism, Atheism, and mod-\\nern Devilism, spiced with pagan philosophy, and having\\nfor its principal tenet the nihility of matter. Its dam-\\nnable heresies are contaminating the world, and it needs\\nbut time and opjoortunity to turn this earth to a vast\\ncharnel-house, annihilate Heaven, and banish God Himself\\nfrom the realm of existence.\\nAs a phrenopathic practice. Christian Science claims\\nto be Scriptural in its mode, and supernatural in its appli-\\ncation.\\nThe Bible cites many cases of divine healing, but\\nnot one of mind healing. Naaman s leprosy, Hezekiah s\\nboil, the fever of Peter s wife s mother, and the cripple at\\nthe 1 Beautiful gate, all give proof that the prayer of faith\\nshall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up: and", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING. 115\\nif he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.\\nJas. 5:15.\\nIn the above text there are three things that conflict\\nwith Christian Science religion.\\n1. A personal God. The Lord shall raise him up.\\nChristian Science says, God is Divine Principle not\\nperson. Science and Health, page 377.\\n2. Prayer. The prayer of faith shall save the sick.\\nChristian Science boldly asserts, Prayer to a personal God\\naffects the sick like a drug that has no efficacy of its own.\\nScience and Health, page 489.\\n3. Sin. And if he have committed sins they shall\\nbe forgiven him.\\nChristian Science positively asserts There is no sin.\\nScience and Health, page 7.\\nFrom the above it will be seen that Christian Science\\nis very unscriptural in its mode of healing.\\nJ ust how far the supernatural is involved in the appli-\\ncation, may not be understood, but the thought may be\\nsuggested that God is not pleased with us using all kinds\\nof supernatural power. Devilism is positively forbidden.\\nOur Creator is pleased to visit us and send His angels\\nto minister for them who shall be heirs of Salvation.\\nHeb. 1:14, 2:6, but the Siniatic thunders have reverberated\\nthrough the ages. There shall not be found among you,\\nany one that useth divination, or an observer of the times,\\nor an enchanter, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar\\nspirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer, for all that do these\\nthings are an abomination unto the Lord. Deut. 18:10,\\n11, 12. The violation of this injunction by King Saul\\nmay be understood by reading I Sam. 28, and his punish-\\nment learned in I Chron. 10:13, 14, and King Asa s in II\\nChron. 16:12.\\nIn the Apostles time the spirit of divination was re-\\nbuked and cast out, and they that used curious arts\\nbrought their books together and burned them before all\\nmen. Acts 16:16, 19:19. Such a revival is needed now-\\na-days as will cause the literature containing this scientific", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "116 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\npow-wow of God is All and All is God, all is mind\\nand nothing is matter, All is good arid there is no\\nevil, to be speedily consigned to the flames.\\nThe Christian Science healing formula, read to the\\nsick or mumbled in the silence either in the form of\\npresent or absent treatment, outrivals witchery in the\\nage of chivalry, with its\\nDouble, double,\\nToil and trouble.\\nKettle boil,\\nAnd caldron bubble.\\nTheir conjurations and pretended religious exorcisms,\\ncoupled with a pious attitude, often deceive the unwary\\nand credulous. With Bible and Science and Health in\\nhand they perform verbal ceremonies over the sick that\\noften affect the patient like magic. By way of illustra-\\ntion it may not be inexpedient for the author to relate a\\npersonal reminiscence.\\nI first came in contact with this so-called Christian\\nScience in Atkinson, Neb., in which place my mother was\\nconducting a small restaurant business. I was living at\\nthe time on my farm twelve miles distant, with my family.\\nIn the winter of 1889 my mother succumbed to ner-\\nvous prostration and heart disease, and was unable to\\nconduct her business.\\nAbout 3 o clock, a. m., each morning she would become\\nentirely helpless, unable to move hand or foot, or rise\\nfrom her bed, till about 9 o clock, a. m., when she suddenly\\nregained use of her bodily powers, except great quivering\\nof her flesh, palpitation of the heart, and trembling of limbs,\\naccompanied by bodily weakness.\\nMedical skill failed to assist her and it seemed as if\\nher end was near. My wife became her constant attendant\\nand I only awaited her dreadful summons by the death\\nangel.\\nImagine my joy and surprise to receive word from my\\nwife that my mother was well had been healed instan-\\ntaneously by a woman, who said she did it by the power\\nof God", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING. 117\\nI hastened to learn the particulars of this mysterious\\ncircumstance, and see the wonderful woman myself.\\nSure enough when I got to town I could scarcely be-\\nlieve my own senses there was mother apparently as well\\nand as strong as ever, and busily engaged over the wash-\\ntub! It was life from the dead and our greeting was as im-\\npressive as is often witnessed in a red-hot Methodist\\nrevival of religion.\\nHer joy was beyond measure. She seemed to have\\nfound the elixir rite, the fabled fountain of De Leon,\\nthat insured perennial bloom to her cheek, and never fail-\\ning health to her bones\\nShe hastened to tell me that she was perfectly well,\\nand that she would never be sick again she couldn t be\\nfor there was no sickness. no \u00e2\u0096\u00a0sin, no death. and\\nthere was no matter, and all that seemed so real to us\\nwere only illusions the false supposition of a false\\nsense, and many other things that affected me somewhat\\nalternately like chills and fever. To see her well made\\nme rejoice, but that gibberish jargon seemed like delirium\\nto me, and I felt concerned lest the affliction had gone\\nfrom the nerves and heart to the head.\\nMy wife rather encouraged me to believe that the cure\\nwas genuine, for she said the editor s wife, whom I had\\nknown to be bed-fast for years, was also well and was healed\\nas mysteriously and instantaneously. She further in-\\nformed me that the august person, who had been such a\\nbenefactor to the town, was still in the midst, teaching the\\nwonderful art to the astonished citizens at fifteen dollars\\nper scholarship. I thought it did not seem just like Christ,\\nfor He never charged a fee to obtain a membership in His\\nChurch, or for healing diseases. But I cast my little mis-\\ngivings aside, being confronted with such overwhelming\\ntestimony, and resolved to take a scholarship.\\nI was impatient for evening to arrive, that I might get\\na glimpse of the mysterious personage. I wondered if she\\ncould and would multiply bread and meat for the poor of the\\ntown, or if she could control the Nebraska blizzard, or if", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "118 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nher face shone so that it would be necessary to appear as\\na veiled prophetess\\nThe time arrived to go to class and I fully expected to\\nsee a Christ of the female persuasion, with a rainbow about\\nher head, and a golden scepter, bespangled with stars, in\\nher right hand, to hold out to the highly favored of her\\ndisciples.\\nMy ardor was somewhat cooled to behold a very ordi-\\nnary looking woman with a parchment in her right hand\\nand a book in her left. The parchment, she said, con-\\ntained twelve written lessons, which she professed to have\\nwritten all herself, and were only exceeded in their in-\\ntrinsic value by the book she held in her other hand, and\\nwhich she proposed to read aloud.\\nShe stated that there was not one present, if he would\\nhear and heed the instruction imparted, but would not\\nonly be healed of any bodily infirmity of any form what-\\never, whether of disease injury or deformity, but would\\nalso have the power to do the same thing.\\nI paid the price, purchased the Key to the Scriptures\\nat $3 r heard the course of lectures, received my diploma\\nand went forth to the benighted world as a full fledged\\nmetaphysician.\\nTruly Christian Science had produced a shock,\\nwhether it was physical or psychical, hetrodox or orthodox,\\nhypnotic or by the Holy Ghost, I was unable to say, but I\\nsuddenly became interested in the Bible, and began to\\nmake inquiries about praying. When I attended Christian\\nScience meetings I began asking many questions, and\\namong others was How shall I pray?\\nThe significant look from one to the other only added\\nto the intensity of my desires and I insisted that Jesus\\nprayed. They said In Divine Science prayer is mental.\\nWe sit in the silence.\\nWhile I knew Jesus often prayed in seeivt yet he\\noften prayed in public, as when he fed tin 1 multitudes, in\\nthe Garden, for the 4 Apostles, etc. .and the Bible told the very\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Science and Health, Pa ere 318.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING. 119\\nwords he used, and it seemed to me that importunity also\\nin prayer was taught by the Savior in the first 14 versas of\\nthe 18th chapter of Luke. But they told me I would\\nunderstand it better as I progressed in Science. I learned\\nlater that If the blind lead the blind they both fall into\\nthe ditch.\\nHowever, I had gained considerable confidence in\\nChristian Science, not that I saw anything in the lectures,\\nor was able to translate the Bible into Science and Health,\\nbut because there was a member of the class who had been\\nsuffering for a number of years from what the medical\\nfraternity had pronounced fistula on one of her internal\\norgans, which she claimed she felt instantly healed during\\nthe course of the lectures; but which I found in later years\\nwas not a permanent cure.\\nYet I felt a kind of timidity and didn t feel quite safe\\nin displaying a shingle that would bring a patronage\\nfrom those suffering from severe diseases, such as cancer,\\ndiphtheria, or smallpox, till I had tested my ability some-\\nwhat.\\nI soon met with a favorable opportunity. In spite of\\nthe religious tenets of my recently adopted Scientific\\nChristianity, I was my own first subject. A careful diag-\\nnosis revealed symptoms of toothache.\\nI tried to follow the formula laid down in my $3 pro-\\nfessional library, and endorsed by my Christian Science\\ntutor. When my tooth ached, I lied to myself as hard as I\\ncould, and stuck to it with all my might in the use of all\\nthe amuletic words and sentences of the cult, but all to\\nno avail.\\nI said, There is no pain, there is no matter, All\\nis God, God is All, it is an illusion delusion!!\\nconclusion I had the thing pulled, and settled back\\non the farm.\\nSome incidental circumstances, however, may be inter-\\nesting:\\nThe Christian Science healer and teacher turned out\\nto be a married lady, of a neighboring city, whose conjugal\\ninfelicities, and expertness with the Science-baited hook,", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "720 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nmade angling for suckers with coin in their mouth, and the\\nperformance of similar miracles, more pleasant and profit-\\nable than guiding the affairs of the household. Corres-\\npondence developed the fact that while among us, she\\nhad received seven dollars from a poor orphan girl, whose\\nmother in Germany she gave absent treatment, but had\\ndied before receiving the first treatment.\\nIt might be interesting to know of my mother s pro-\\ngress. She claimed to cure my sister of scrofula, from\\nNebraska to Illinois, by giving her absent treatment.\\nShe became so infatuated with her success as to give up\\nall other employment and devote her time to therapeutics.\\nI have never known positively of her performing a miracle.\\nWhile she was rusticating with us on the farm, a cir-\\ncumstance occured that might be interesting to lovers of\\nChristian Science.\\nAmong my other rural possessions were a team of oxen\\nand a small wagon. I say team because we hitched\\nthe oxen up like horses, with harness, and drove them with\\nlines. One bright morning, during my absence, mother\\nthought it would be delightful to hitch up the cattie and\\ntake a drive. All went well, till a short distance from the\\nhouse, a stream of water was reached which seemed so un-\\npleasant to the oxen that they declined to cross it. Mother\\nbeing possessed of a stiong will insisted, but the oxen,\\npossessing a stronger will and superior strength, were\\nsoon wending their way homeward.\\nNeither Scientist nor oxen were on amicable terms by\\nthis time. Jim, becoming infuriated in the harness, began\\nto gore Dick, and soon the Scientist became the unwill-\\ning spectator of what might be termed a Nebraskan bull\\nfight. Whether there was matter or no matter, death or\\nno death, she seemed to think she was facing such stern\\nrealities, and made 4 a hasty flight to the top of the nearest\\nhaystack. A neighbor seeing the danger hastened to her\\nassistance. Before the infuriated animals could be un-\\nhitched, they had broken loose from the wagon, chased the\\nneighbor into the stable and horned down one corner of", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALING 121\\nour sod house. If the founder of Christian Science herself\\nhad been there she would have had to admit if All was\\nmind, there was matter enough, at least mother was con-\\nvinced.\\nEgypt has had her Jannes and Jambres, China her\\nBuddha, and Turkey her Mohammed; but they all show\\nthe decline of fading glory.\\nThe United States may boast of a Schlatter or a\\nDowie, but\\nChristian Science is the huge cartoon on\\nthe page of the century; its scientific and\\nreligious gc^b bid masks the\\nANTI-CUBIST IN 1900.\\n^^fc", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIII.\\nIS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHRISTIAN?\\nBeware of false prophets which come\\nto you in sheep s clothing. Mat. 7:15.\\n^^HE very name of this spurious religion is calculated\\nCI to deceive.\\nIt is neither Christian nor science. It is antagonistic\\nto the Bible and every demonstrated law of nature. One\\nmight as well aspire to pulling himself over a stake and\\nridered ten-rail fence by his boot-straps or render himself\\nimponderable as to hope to make a practical demonstra-\\ntion of the fundamental principles of this therapeutic\\ntheology. If it could be followed out in practice, it would\\ndethrone God and Deify man. These are facts that are too\\nevident in its leadings and teachings.\\nBelief in personality with reference to God and the\\nangels, as well as the infernal host, is the chief corner-\\nstone of revealed religion, yet it is firmly denied by these\\nfalse philosophers. This is Atheism, pure and simple.\\nThe declaration that God is all confounds God with\\nHis works and makes God and nature synonomous terms.\\nThis is Pantheism and Gnosticism in equal proportions.\\nIt might be further shown that the system contains ele-\\nments of Spiritualism, Buddhism, Magianism, Mesmerism,\\netc., etc.\\nIt is a system of religions alchemy; the\\nBoston mortar is the scientific crucible.\\nwhere the alkahest is applied to the equal in-\\ngredients of Ilea then religions, pagan philos-\\nophies, andmodern infidelity. Had produces a\\ntransmutation, which its discoverer named\\nCHRISTIAN SCIENCES\\nIt is amazing to see how greedily an unsuspecting\\npublic are grasping after its illusive pleasures. It", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHRISTIAN? 123\\nhas become the Eldorado of the t religious world. People\\nare emigrating from Orthodoxy to Christian Science as the\\nworld flocked to California in 1850, and are now rushing\\nto Klondyke.\\nTheir hopes are as sadly disappointed as were those of\\nsome early adventurers who came to America for gold, but\\nreturned with their vessels laden with yellow earth instead\\nof precious ore\\nWhile pretending to teach the doctrines of the Bible,\\nit substitutes the falsities of its own peculiar creed. The\\ndoctrines that have had a salutary effect on mankind wher-\\never taught and believed, such as the incarnation, the\\natonement, the resurrection, the judgment, etc., are flatly\\ndenied, and substitutes disseminated that lead to many\\npernicious practices.\\nThese Scientists are as apt at proselyting as are\\nthe Plymouth Brethren. As evidence thefollowing is sub-\\nmitted from Judge Ewing s lecture, under the auspices of\\nthe Mother Church, at Boston, Oct. 5, 1899.\\nDoubtless there are many points involved in Chris-\\ntian belief and conduct, respecting which you and Christian\\nScientists are in perfect accord a brief reference to these\\nwill, I think, bring us a little nearer together.\\nYou believe in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son\\nof God, Who taught in the temple, preached the gospel,\\nhealed the sick, made the lame to walk, gave sight to the\\nblind, hearing to the deaf, purity to the sinful, was cruci-\\nfied, buried, and on the third day arose triumphant over\\ndeath, and with the radiant splendors of the transfigura-\\ntion, spanned the heavens with a bow of promise, and dis-\\npelled forever the shadows of earth by the demonstrated\\ntruth of life immortal as God. You believe in this dear\\ncompasssionate, loving, healing, Christ as your Lord, your\\nSaviour, your Exemplar. So do we.\\nWe believe the Ten Commandments are God s laws\\nof requirement and restriction, to be resolutely and abso-\\nlutely obeyed, one not less than the other. So do we.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "or\\no\\no\\nca\\nUJ\\nUJ\\nh\\n00\\nO\\nDC\\noa\\nr\\n1-\\n2\\nUJ\\nU.\\nQ; 3:\\nLI\\nh-\\nK\\nr\\nUJ\\nBQ\\nh\\nt\\nr\\nK\\nUJ\\nX V", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 1 CHRISTIAN? 125\\nYou believe that prayer is a duty and a privilege.\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6So do we.\\nYou believe in the great commandment, Thou shalt\\nlove the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy\\nSoul, and with all thy mind, and the second which is like\\nunto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy self. So do\\nwe.\\nThus it is found that we are substantially in accord\\nupon the essential requirements of the religion of Christ\\nas you understand it.\\nThis seems but an adroit speech to catch the unwary\\nand is talking cream and practicing skim milk.\\nThe Christian Advocate, Sept. 12, 1889, relates a\\nnotable scandal in Christian Science circles that illustrates\\nthe logical outcome of their principles, applied to the\\nfamily and the state.\\nOne of their priestesses spiritually divorced herself\\nfrom her husband and spiritually married another, the\\nhero of half a dozen bigamies.\\nThe professors of Christian religion sometimes fall\\ninto great sins, by departing from its principles; but what\\nmust be the moral disposition of them who are taught that\\nthere is no sin? Their very breath is tainted with social\\nanarchy and domestic infelicity.\\nAdherence to the doctrine; of nihility of matter\\nenables one to perform marvelous cures among the sick,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2says the Scientist.\\nThe great apostle and founder of this modern sect, in\\nher Bible Annex, says it was the secret of the wonderful\\npower of Jesus to open blind eyes, unstop deaf ears, cure\\nthe cripple and raise the dead; he was simply a Christian\\nScientist (See Science and Health, page 14.)\\nShe is not the first to have claimed that Jesus Christ\\nperformed His miracles by Beelzebub. There is no\\nmatter may be a therapeutic formula that his Satanic\\nMajesty may honor under certain circumstances but it is\\nnot an infallible cure. Those mystic words may be atten-\\nuated with potency from iiwisible beings; they may be the", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "126 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\npresto of an occult science; but God is no more in them\\nthan he was in the necromancy of the middle ages, or the\\nMagianism of Egypt in the days of Moses and Aaron.\\nBefore this mighty dogma, the Christian Scientist\\nclaims that sin, sickness, and death will vanish away, but\\ntheir greatest experts have failed to make a practical\\ndemonstration.\\nIntelligent missionaries and travelers in heathen\\nlands, where they have given any investigation to the sub-\\nject, unite in testifying that extraordinary cures follow the\\nenchantments and magical rites employed by priests and\\nphysicians claiming supernatural powers.\\nThe influence of witch-doctors among the negroes of\\nAfrica, both to produce disease and cure it, is as well au-\\nthenticated as any facts concerning the Dark Conti-\\nnent.\\nVoodooism has power to bring on diseases and also\\nto cure; nor need this burden be placed upon the negros\\nand American Indians exclusively. In various parts of\\nAustria, Germany, and Russia, among the peasantry and\\nignorant classes, belief in witchcraft, and the coincidences\\nwhich sustain it, still exists; and on the authority of most\\ndistinguished physicians and surgeons in those countries,\\nI state that the results both in inflictirg and in removing\\nwhat they never inflicted, which follow the operations of\\nthese witch-doctors, are often astonishing.\\nTo the mental conceptions of these religious enthus-\\niasts, animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms are exiled,,\\nbrains, bones, lungs and livers, are relegated to the sphere\\nof nothingness, and pain, sickness, and death are false\\nsuppositious of a false sense\\nOn this basis they declare that if it were commonly\\nbelieved that strychnine were a proper remedy to admin-\\nister to infants for colic, it would be harmless as an infusion\\nof catnip tea. and vice versa a prmc i le that Socrates him-\\nself could not demonstrate, when compelled to drink the\\nclip of hemlock.\\nChrlstiaii Sciencu and Other Superstitions. Page 32, by .1. M.\\nBuckley. LL. n", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "IS CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHRISTIAN? 127\\nThese vain philosophers are wiser in their own conceit\\nthan seven men who can render a reason.\\nThe profoundest and most transcendental teachings\\nof the Oriental religious philosophies, including Budd-\\nhism, Brahmanism, Kabalistic Judaism, and esoteric Chris-\\ntianity, are based on the eternal truth, that all our sense\\nperceptions are an illusion, or deceptive appearance, and\\nour senses never tell us the real truth, but only that which\\nis an inversion of the truth. We are to judge and to de-\\ncide directly contrary to the illusory decisions of the sen-\\nsuous degree of the mind, for it is only in that way that\\nwe can come to the cognition of the real truth. According\\nto this principle, which is the method of philosophizing\\ncalled the reconciliation of contradictions, pain is a pleas-\\nure misunderstood and a fever is not a disease but a\\nremedy\\nBefore closing this chapter it might be beneficial to\\nmake the following\\nSTATEMENT OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE:\\n1. It is, in the strict sense of the word, sectarian in\\nspirit.\\n2. Whatever likeness it may have to religion is bor-\\nrowed from orthodox churches.\\n3. Proselyting is part of its practice.\\n4. Its novel features are contrary to spiritual worship.\\n5. Its flagrant attacks of Scripture are unholy.\\n6. All that is of therapeutic value in its practice is\\nwell known in the science of Hypnotism. That which is\\nmere pretense belongs to the realm of Black Art.\\n7. It is hypocrisy to claim its therapeutic phenomena\\nunder the name of the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ.\\n8. Its extreme and fanatical statements, contradicting\\nboth science and religion are disastrous to both body and\\nsoul.\\n9. The joy and peace of heavenly anticipations are\\nwrecked in the vortex of a selfish present life.\\n10. The exhorbitant prices of its literature, treatment\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Esoteric Christianity, Paga 60.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "128 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nand lecture courses, are antagonistic to a free gospel, and\\nbetray the motive for its existence.\\nInstead of being Christianity, it is empiricism in the\\nextreme, and hypocrisy unalloyed\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a morality that cures\\none vice by means of another.\\nA concise and correct editorial appeared recently in the\\nFree Methodist in answer to the quesiton, What is Chris-\\ntian Science?\\nIt is a crude, muddy, misty, nebulous mixture\\nof idealism, pantheism, Buddhism, theosophy etc.,\\nchristened by the high sounding name it bears, as a means\\nof blinding the unwary to its positively unscientific and\\nanti-Christian character.\\nIt is the preeminent travesty of the age on both science\\nand Christianity. It has not a single characteristic of true\\nscience, and denies every fundamental doctrine of Chris-\\ntianity, and then steals the livery of heaven to serve the\\nDevil in, by arrogating to itself the name of Christian\\nScience What more unblushing fraud has the Christian\\nera seen?\\nIn the Holy Scriptures the prophetical index points\\nout this modern sect in numerous places; the following is\\nunmistakable\\nBUT THERE WEEE FALSE PROPHETS ALSO AMONG THE\\nPEOPLE, EVEN AS THERE SHALL BE FALSE TEACHERS AMONG\\nYOU, WHO PRIVILY SHALL BRING IN DAMNABLE HERESIES, EVEN\\nDENYING THE LORD THAT BOUGHT THEM, AND BRING UPON\\nTHEMSELVES SWIFT DESTRUCTION. AND MANY SHALL FOL-\\nLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS; BY REASON OF WHOM THE WAY\\nOF TRUTH SHALL BE EVIL SPOKEN OF. AND THROUGH COVET-\\nOUSNESS SHALL THEY WITH FEIGNED WORDS MAKE MER-\\nCHANDISE OF YOU: WHOSE JUDGEMENT NOV OF A LONG TIME\\nLINGERETH NOT, AND THEIR DAMNATION SLUMBERETH NOT.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094II Pet. 2:1,2,3.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XIV.\\nSUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY.\\nThe soul that sinneth it shall die.\\nEzek. 18:4.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Ye must be born again. John 3:7.\\nfN physical and psychical sciences we find authors using\\nthe terms, suggestive hypnotics, suggestive telepathy\\nand suggestive therapeutics and it seems proper to\\nmake a similar use of the word suggestion, as applied to\\nreligion, to illustrate its phenomena.\\nIt is true that great minds differ in therapeutics as\\nwell as the diseases of the soul and the manner of their\\ntreatment. Charcot, Braid, Luys, Hart, Bernheim, Mason\\nand Hammond differed in many points, some of which were\\nquite important. As Dr. Mason himself expressed it con-\\ncerning the differing opinions of double personality, It is\\nLocke against Descartes, Hamilton against Locke, and\\nHobbes against the field. If we find M. D.s differing\\nwidely we may not be surprised to find a difference among\\nthe D. D.s. The differences among the medical fraternity\\ndo not lead to skepticism concerning the science of materia\\nmedica, and a difference among the ministerial fraternity\\nshould not cause one to reject orthodoxy, for even among\\nthem none but the Pope of Rome professes infallibility.\\nAlthough the peculiar application of scientific terms\\nare used in designating religious phenomena it is done\\nwith the hope of bringing science and religion closer to-\\ngether, though they have sometimes been nearly divorced.\\nSpeaking of the scientific experiments of Bernheim,\\nCharcot, Braid, Luys, and others, Dr. Cook says in Hyp-\\nnotism, page 150:\\nThese gentlemen are all careful observers and their\\nposition in the medical world, together with their scientific\\neducation will give weight to their testimony. The early", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "130 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\ninvestigators of these subjects, like the pioneers of every\\nnew science, were shining marks for every sort of abusive\\nepithet, and for their devotion to science were called insane,\\ntermed rascals, were branded as charlatans in fact had\\nexhausted upon them the whole magazine of vituperative\\nabuse. The Church settled the whole question to its satis-\\nfaction, at least for the time, by announcing that they were\\nthe emissaries of His Satanic Majesty. In this neither\\nthe scientific nor religious world is to be wholly condemned.\\nIt is right of course for the Church especially to be re-\\nticent about admitting strange things till fully established\\nby scientific and religious tests. The divine injunction is,\\nProve all things; hold fast that which is good. I\\nThess. 5:21.\\nThose who walk circumspectly must have the su-\\nperior faculties of the understanding the mind, and con-\\nscience, and affections properly wrought upon before the\\nwill, will yield to the veriest facts of either religion or\\nscience.\\nM. Liebault says: Without being aware of it we ac-\\nquire moral and political predispositions, prejudices, etc.;\\nwe are impregnated with the mental atmosrjhere about us.\\nWe honestly believe and defend as we would our own. wel-\\nfare, social and religious principles which may be opposed\\nto common sense, not to say reason. These principles\\nwere held by our ancestors. They are also national, and\\nthey descend from father to son. It is impossible to des-\\ntroy then by argument, and dangerous to do so by force.\\nTheir fallacy is pointed out in vain. Man thinks by imita-\\ntion and however absurd his thoughts may be, they form\\npart of the man, and are finally transmitted from genera-\\ntion to generation as instincts are.\\nIt will therefore be a matter of wonder if some except-\\nion is not taken to the phrase Suggestive Orthodoxy or\\neven the subject matter of this and other chapters in this\\nbook.\\nThe Bible plainly teaches that God is not only the\\nSuggesilve Them pen ties.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY. 131\\nCreator of the universe but our Creator also and that means\\nthe entire being spirit, soul and body. Orthodoxy there-\\nfore would naturally be friendly to every true science,\\nwhether physical, psychical or pathological. Christian\\nScience is the open antagonist of the first and last, and\\nthe secret enemy of the second.\\nThat God created the heaven and the earth and made\\nman soul, body, and spirit, is generally accepted, but the\\nlast quarter of a century has witnessed quite a stir in the\\nminds of the whole civilized world concerning the healing\\nof diseases without the use of medicine.\\nAs diseases have been cured by hypnotism, some have\\nbeen ready to throw overboard the whole science of pathol-\\nogy and declare doctors a humbug. It is to be hoped\\nfrom what has already been said that the uses and abuses\\nof hypnotic therapeutics have been made plain.\\nAgain, as the Bible teaches divine healing and it\\nhas been demonstrated in the Church all along the ages,\\nthere are religionists who are also ready to declare that\\nmateria medica is of Satanic origin or man s invention in-\\nstead of a science upon which God Himself sends His ap-\\nproving smile. St. Paul also, speaking by inspiration, said\\nLuke the beloved physician in Col. 4:14, and Luke my\\nfellow laborer, in Philemon 24. But some Christian Scient-\\nists have said that Luke was a metaphysician. It says\\nphysician. There seems to have been need of them among\\nthe Holy Apostles, for although Christian Science says\\nthere is no sickness, St. Paul also told Timothy that he had\\nleft Trophimus sick at Miletum. II Tim. 4:20. Again it\\nis written Hezekiah was so so sick that he was about to\\ndie, II Ki. 20:1; another thing Christian Science declares\\nto be an illusion.\\nThe Bible speaks of and recognizes hundreds of cases\\nof bodily sickness, all of which are claimed to be myths by\\nChristian Science, but these are not what instigated the\\nwriting of this chapter.\\nThe psychical sickness referred to in the phrophecy of\\nIsaiah alludes to a disease that needs the most pious at-", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "132 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\ntention to affect its cure, but Christian Science glaringly\\nsays it is an illusion. And after the soul has recovered its\\nhealth, the -violation of any law, physical, mental, or moral\\nwill have its legitimate effect unless a miracle is performed\\nby the Almighty God Himself.\\nThe prophet speaks of the diseased soul in the follow-\\ning language: The whole head is sick, and the whole\\nheart faint. From the soul of the foot even unto the head\\nthere is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises, and\\nputrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound\\nup, neither mollified with ointment. Isa. 1:5, 6.\\nSurely the above is a bad case and will need a greater\\nthan the discoverer of Christian Science to restore health.\\nBut, thank God, He has laid help upon One that is mighty\\nto save.\\nThe great Physician now is near,\\nThe sympathizing Jesus;\\nHe speaks the drooping heart to cheer,\\nOh, hear the voice of Jesus.\\nSweetest name on mortal tongue,\\nS .veetest note in seraph song,\\nSweetest carol ever sung,\\nJesus, blessed Jesus.\\nThe restoration of the sin-sick soul engages the martial\\nhosts of three worlds earth, hell, and heaven and the\\nscene of the conflict is the soul of the individual.\\nJesus Christ, the captain of our salvation, angelic\\nand archangelic hosts, and even men themselves volunteer\\nagainst men and demons under that archtraitor, the devil\\nto save the soul from death; and the modus operandi of\\nmen are found as divergent even in orthodox religion as in\\nmedicine, and yet each denomination has its adherents\\nwith apparently successful results.\\nThe situation with the soul is similar to that of the\\nbody. It must first be made cognizant of the direase and\\nthen set about for the recovery. In both religion and\\nmedicine too often we find the words of Lord Bacon vori-\\nfied, and fatal results following: The human mind does\\nnot Bincerely receive the light thrown upon tilings, but", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY. 133\\nmixes therewith its own will and passions; thus it makes a\\nscience [or religion] to its taste; for the truth that man\\nmost willingly receives is the one he desires.\\nThe providences of God often break the will and then\\nthe patient is willing to be led and take the remedy the\\nPhysician prescribes.\\nSome are unwilling to believe that God would entrust\\nsuch important work as saving a soul in the hands of man;\\nand so He is solely, but yet we are laborers together with\\nGod/ (I. Cor. 3:9) and He, the Holy Ghost, superintends\\nthe whole process and will do it right if men will give Him\\na chance. The great trouble with men and women is they\\nare not submissive to God till pecuniary loss, social distress,\\nsickness, death of a loved one, or some other providence of\\nGod will produce the suggestive shock of the moral\\nemotions that will break the stony heart and subdue the\\nstubborn will. But the loving Father has a gentler way of\\nwooing His children in the means of grace spoken of in\\nanother chapter. But alas too many, like the author of\\nthis book, will not employ them till the judgments of God\\nspeak louder than trumpet thunders into his deafened ears\\nand seared conscience. But this suggestive shock is neces-\\nsary, hence the Apostle Paul said Awake thou that sleep-\\nest and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee\\nlight. Eph. 5:14.\\nAs it is a settled fact that the most favorable condi-\\ntion to receive the hypnotic suggestion is willingness, so is\\nit with the sin-sick soul: orthodox suggestion, if one may\\nbe allowed to coin an expression to convey his thought,\\noccurs when one is willing and puts himself in a recep-\\ntive condition. Herein is involved the mourner s bench\\nof Methodist origin. Many have proven that by requiring\\nthe seeker to take specific steps, he becomes receptive and\\nthe Holy Ghost comes and produces the orthodox sug-\\ngestion that frequently brings a complete change to the\\nsoul and often renews the body.\\nThe moral reformation of the convert depends largely\\nupon the light he has been given. Hence it has been\\ndeemed prudent to preach the Law as well as the Gospel.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "134 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nTherapeutic suggestion also is often accompanied by\\nmoral reformation. Dr. Cook cites numerous instances in\\nwhich hypnotic suggestion has cured inebriant, tobacco,\\nmorphine, opium and other drug habits. For the narration\\nof the experiments see Hypnotism, page 103.\\nThere are many sincere persons in all the orthodox\\nchurches that are kept out of the Kingdom of God because\\ntheir prejudice to the altar or the violent emotions of\\nsuggestive orthodoxy are feared as the prejudiced fear\\nhypnotism.\\nThe radical change in the soul that brings complete\\ntransformation and its accompanying ecstacy is neglected\\nand rejected as fanaticism by the too much learned. To\\nobtain the joy unspeakable and full of glory or peace\\nthat flows like a river and passeth all understanding,\\none must submit to the operation of the Holy Ghost on\\nhis soul, Who will begin by touching the affections to\\nsubdue the will, and then He will reveal Bible light to a\\nwilling mind.\\nThe Bible doctrines of Sin, Righteousness, Judgment\\nand eternal Rewards and Punishments, all of which\\nChristian Science denies, have the salutary effect of\\nawakening the soul that is dead in trespasses and\\nsins, to see that he is an alien from the commonwealth\\nof Israel, and stranger from the covenants of promise, hav-\\ning no hope and without God in the world. Eph. 2:12.\\nHe sees then that he must be born again, and his own\\nworks will not save him, even though he gave all his\\ngoods to feed the poor or had founded schools, built\\nchurches or any other outward work unless the love of\\nGod was shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost, he\\nis but a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.\\nThis awakening quickens every faculty of his being\\nand self-love induces repentance and here the struggle\\nbetween will and desire begins, and the penitent cries\\nJesus forgive these parting tears and yet from every idol I\\nmust part.\\nThe blessed Holy Spirit helps the seeker every step", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY. 135\\nof the way and when the last fibre is severed that binds\\nthe heart to the things of this world, from the hopeless-\\nness of despair, the Holy Ghost brings Calvary to view and\\nteaches him the beauty of those inspiring lines\\nOther refuge have I none\\nHangs my helpless soul on Thee.\\nAs he begins to see the love of God in free grace,\\nand pinions of faith and love carry him heavenward, he\\nplants his feet firmly on the Word of God that liveth and\\nabideth forever. Skepticism and infidelity vanish away\\nlike the mists before the rising sun and the soul sings\\nexultingly\\n1 see the new creation rise,\\nI hear the speaking blood;\\nIt speaks, polluted nature dies,\\nSinks neath the cleansing flood.\\nWe may be elated to merit a place in the annals of\\nfame or to inherit a fortune, but to inherit eternal life\\nand become heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus\\nChrist, brings unspeakable bliss. The things of the world\\nbring pleasure, but the things of God afford joy and peace.\\nHuman emotions are sometimes uncontrollable and\\noften lead to acts that excite indignation in the uninter-\\nested or unaffected. So many times we need to draw the\\nmantle of charity over some scenes of great emotion, and\\nin fact, they are too sacred to speak of lightly. But God\\nhas furnished a safety valve for the blest spirit, either\\nof man or angel, and on earth as in heaven the amen, glory,\\nhallelujah, and praising God are all Scriptural licenses.\\nTo the illuminated soul of the Christian, the Bible be-\\ncomes a new book. In it he sees new beauties and cherishes\\nevery promise as his own. It becomes his constant com-\\npanion and he feeds his hungry scul upon it as the children\\nof Israel did the angel food that God rained upon them\\nin the wilderness.\\nHe senses the reality and beauty of the words of the\\nold prophet when he said:\\nFor as the rain cometh down, and the snow from", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "136 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nheaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth,\\nand maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to\\nthe sower and bread to the eater: so shall my word be that\\ngoeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me\\nvoid but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall\\nprosper in the thing whereto I sent it. For ye shall go\\nout with joy and be led forth with peace: the mountains\\nand the hills shall break forth before you into singing and\\nall the trees of the field shall clap their hands. Isa.\\n55:10, 11, 12.\\nThe words of the great Apostle, And you that were\\nsometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked\\nworks, yet now hath he reconciled.***** Even the mys-\\ntery which hath been hid from ages and from generations,\\nbut now is made manifest to His saints which is\\nChrist in you the hope of glory, (Col. 1:21, 26, 27,) come\\nto his enraptured soul with new meaning and fresh vigor.\\nEven the hymns he sings brings to his soul the sacred\\nbliss that he felt when in youthful innocence in his child-\\nhood home, he heard his saintly mother sing:\\nOh how happy are they,\\nWho their Saviour obey,\\nAnd have laid up their treasures above:\\nTongue can never express\\nThe sweet comfort and peace\\nOf a soul in its earliest love.\\nThat sweet comfort was mine\\nWhen the favor divine,\\nI received through the blood of the lamb:\\nWhen my heart first believed\\nWhat a joy I received,\\nWhat a Heaven in Jesus name.\\nJesus all the day long\\nWas my joy and my song:\\nO, that all His salvation might see\\nHe hath loved me, I cried,\\nHe hath suffered and died\\nTo redeem even rebels like me.\\nThat such glorious experiences aro wrought in the soul\\nis manifest on every hand, infidelity and formalism to the\\ncontrary notwithstanding.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY. 137\\nA poor besotted wife beater in a western town became\\ndeeply convicted of his sins, in answer to the prayer of his\\nsister-in-law residing at the time in another part of the\\nstate, insomuch that with hot penitential tears rolling\\ndown his cheeks, he arose from his bed in the night time,\\nand called irDon the minister in the town to pray for him.\\nThis was done and he returned home feeling some better,\\nbut still unsatisfied.\\nMany sincere people tried to make him think he was\\nconverted and even induced him to join the church; but ah,\\nhe knew his own heart too well to be deceived. He deter-\\nmined to find God and became so serious that many min-\\nisters were consulted, who of course had their various\\ntheories to present, but the man had got to the place where\\nhe wanted more than theory; he wanted an experience. He\\noften said I want to know that I am saved. Some said\\nhe could know it and others said he couldn t. He lingered\\nbetween doubt and despair for several months, but finally\\nthrew away his prejudice, came and humbled his proud\\nspirit at the much despised and unpopular mourner s\\nbench, gave up his sins, confessed them all under the blood\\nof the everlasting covenant and found Him of whom\\nMoses and the prophets did write.\\nWhisky, cards, tobacco and every vicious habit were\\nswept from him by the mighty outpouring of the Holy\\nGhost and today he is a watchman upon the walls of Zion,\\ndeclaring the whole counsel of God, that we may know\\nhere on earth that men and women may become saints by\\nthe application of the precious blood of Jesus through\\nfaith. May many more go and do likewise.\\nAs God fills and thrills with His glory, the gratitude\\nof the true saint is often expressed by shouting the high\\npraises of God. However, these states of ecstacy are to\\nbe well guarded. Every good and perfect gift that cometh\\ndown from the Father of lights has its uses as well as\\nabuses. Who does not know the peculiar temptations\\nof both physician and minister.\\nThe beggar Castellan s outrage and similar diabolical\\ndeeds prove the dangers of hypnotic influence. Doctors", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "138 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRTSTIAN SCIENCE.\\nof medicine, as well as Doctors of Divinity, perform the\\nduties of their respective callings within the sanctity of the\\nhome, and because wicked men are given to malpractice\\nand sinister motives, it neither overthrows the science of\\nhypnotism or pathology, nor annihilates the religion of\\nJesus Christ, though their progress is often very much re-\\ntarded thereby.\\nWhat has been said by Dr. Bernheim by way of advice\\nin employing hypnotic therapeutics is applicable to religion\\nFirst, never hypnotise any subject without his formal\\nconsent or the consent of those in authority of him.\\nSecond, never induce sleep except in the presence of a\\nthird person in authority, who can guarantee the good faith\\nof the hypnotiser and the subject. Thus any trouble may\\nbe avoided in the event of an accusation, or any suspicion\\nof an attempt which is not for the relief of the subject.\\nClinical prof essors as well as church theologians should\\nobey the Scriptural injunction Abstain from all appear-\\nance of evil. I. Thess 5:22.\\nIn the study of physical phenomena pertaining to re-\\nligion, the most scholarly are unable to draw a distinct line\\nof demarkation between the natural and supernatural; yet\\nscience and religion are not identical. (See Prof. Myers\\nchart at the close of this chapter.)\\nThat there are many of the deep things of God that\\ncan only be understood by the revelations of the Holy\\nGhost is proven by the Scripture.\\nEye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered\\ninto the heart of man the things which God hath prepared\\nfor them that love Him. But God hath revealed them to\\nus by His Spirit for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea the\\ndeep things of God. I. Cor. 2:9, 10.\\nJesus Christ who brought life and immortality to\\nlight through the gospel said to Nicodemus:\\nMarvel not that I said unto thee Ye must be born\\nagain. The wind bloweth where it listeth and thou nearest\\nthe sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh or\\nwhither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY. 139\\nYerily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know\\nand testify that we have seen and ye receive not our wit-\\nmess. Jno. 3:7, 8. 11.\\nThe words of our Saviour quoted above are quite con-\\ntr ary to Prof. Beard s triple division of the universe in its\\nTelation to the human understanding; he makes these three\\ngeneral divisions the demonstrably true, or science; the\\ndemonstrably false, or delusions; and the indemonstrable,\\nor religion.\\nAs orthodox religion is revealed, some of its tenets may\\nbe demonstrable and others not, and yet religion is not\\nscience nor science religion, but as has been said they are\\nnever antagonistic.\\nThrough repentance toward God and faith in Jesus\\nChrist, the most uneducated as well as the most erudite, can\\nde monstrate the fact of forgiveness of sins, and yet neither\\ncan demonstrate the Trinity. Probably in Dr. Beard s\\nphilosophy the conscience resides in the brain and that\\nleads to another fallacious statement of his that Religion\\nis recognized exclusively by the emotions and science is\\nre cognized exclusively by the intellect, but God says, I\\nwill put my laws in their mind and write them in their\\nhearts, (Heb. 8:10,) and finally to his statement The at-\\ntempt to make religion scientific to confirm the longings\\nof the heart by the evidence of the senses is a delusion.\\nWe agree with him that a Religion proved to be false be-\\ncomes a delusion.\\nHe, along with Christian Scientists and other infidel\\nteachers, may attempt to prove orthodoxy to be a delu-\\nsion but as long as the old ship Zion continues to ride the\\ntempestuous sea of life, and the evangelical mission of the\\nChurch militant is not countermanded by the King of\\nkings and Lord of lords, the saints on earth will continue\\nto sing that grand old hymn.\\nHow can a sinner know\\nHis sins on earth forgiven\\nHow can my gracious Saviour show\\nMy name inscribed in Heaven?", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "140 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nWhat we have felt and seen\\nWith confidence we tell;\\nAnd publish to the sons of men.\\nxiie signs infallible.\\nWe wh in Christ believe\\nThat He for us hath died,\\nWe all ilis unknown peace receive,\\nAnd feel His blood applied.\\nExults our rising soul,\\nDisburden d of her load,\\nAnd swells, unutterably full\\nOf glory and of God.\\nHis love, surpassing far\\nThe love of all beneath.\\nV\\\\ e find within our hearts, and darp\\nThe pointless darts of death.\\nStronger than death or hell\\nThe sacred power we prove:\\nAnd, conquerors of the world, we dwell\\nIn Heaven, who dwell in love.\\nIt seems appropriate in this connection for the author\\nto relate his personal experience with reference to the sug-\\ngestive shock that the Holy Ghost gave at the time of his\\nconversion\\nIt was on a bright morning tin August. 1894, after six\\nweeks of earnest effort to find the Lord, while alone reading\\nthe last two verses of the (5th chapter of I. Cor., in a sod\\nschool house on the plains of Nebraska, that Je us revealed\\nHimself to me. The transfiguration glory that caused the\\nthree Apostles to fall like dead men beeame a reality to me.\\nThe Scripture also was fulfilled in my case: Howbeit\\nwhen He, the Spirit of truth is come He will guide you into\\nall truth for He shall not speak of Himself, but whatsoever\\nHe shall hear that shall He speak; and He will show you\\nthings to come. Jno. 16:13. In addition to the knowl-\\nedge of sins forgiven, and adoption into the family of\\nheaven, I was told that my wife and family who had been\\nseparated from me for over fifteen months, and with whom", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "SUGGESTIVE ORTHODOXY. 141\\nI had no correspondence, would be restored to my embrace.\\nTo this I testified publicly, for which I was derided. But\\nthe strange part of it was that after the family was reunited,\\nmy wife told me that before she received any word from\\nme, while she was living in Peoria, 111., while awake one\\nnight she heard me call her plainly and knew my voice.\\nCall it telepathy, clairvoyance or any other scientific name\\npertaining to the supraliminal or subliminal self, the facts\\nand effects remain unchanged and harmonize with the\\nWord of God. Orthodoxy is orthodoxy and never conflicts\\nwith science.\\nThe subjoined chart by Prof. F. W. H. Myers, Hon.\\nSec. of the proceedings of the Society for Psychical Ke-\\nsearch, London, is the scientific basis of the thoughts of\\nthis and other chapters, and the reader is invited to study\\nit carefully in collection with the Bible.\\nBut in this and previous chapters of this book, what\\nhas been termed the suggestive shock relating to ortho-\\ndox religion, accompanied by conversion, salification,\\nrevelations, healing, etc., the line between the natural and\\nsupernatural is not to be obliterated even though not al-\\nways clearly understood, or defined to human intelligence.\\nThe investigation of Hypnotism, Clairvoyance and\\nTelepathy for scientific purposes is right and proper, and\\nwill undoubtedly yield wonderful and beneficial results in\\nthe near future, but if handled by the unsientific and irre-\\nligious, out of which to make merchandise, in the name of\\nreligion, it becomes empyricism on the one hand and hypoc-\\nrisy on the other and retards the x^rogress of both science\\nand religion.\\nIt is not to be inferred that the gifts alluded to in\\nChapter III, page 35, and termed religious phenomena\\nare always and invariably to follow them that believe.\\nThey belong to the Church, as a whole, and are dis-\\ntributed among the various members of the Body by the\\nHoly Spirit as He will.\\nNor are the demonstrations alluded to in Charter V to\\nbe confounded with what in the science of Hypnotism, is", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "142 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\ntermed ecstacy, catalepsy, etc., for wicked men and\\nwomen have in the name of religion, through Spiritualis m y\\nMormonism and Christian Science, accomplished simi lar\\nresults. Surely the origin of every religious sect is revealed\\nin this Scripture. Rev. 16:13, 14:\\nAnd I saw thkee unclean spirits like frogs come\\nOUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE DRAGON, AND OUT OF THE\\nMOUTH OF THE BEAST, AND OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE FALSE\\nprophet. FOR THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF\\nDEVILS WORKING MIRACLES, which go forth\\nunto the kings of the earth and of the whole world,\\nto gather them to the battle of that great day of\\nGod Almighty.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "w o\\nD\\nr\u00c2\u00bbi o\\nc\\no\\n3\\nr\\nO\\nto\\no\\nc\\nr\\nX\\n5 (0\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2n\\nc\\nH\\nC\\nO\\nW\\nd\\n3 GQ\\nn\\n!i\\no\\ni-3\\nO\\nM\\nW 3\\n?5\\n2 W\\nD O\\nC", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XV.\\nCONCLUSION\u00e2\u0080\u0094 MORTALITY AND\\nIMMORTALITY.\\nIf a man die shall he live again?\\nJob. 14:14.\\n^^*HE Bible reveals the fact that sentence of death is\\nCI passed upon all mankind, for it says The soul that\\nsinneth, it shall die, and All have sinned and\\ncome short of the glory of Grod. In spite of the vain\\ntenets of Christian Science, there is not a home in the\\nland, that has not been invaded by the grim monster Death,\\nwhom Milton represents as the the hellish progeny of Sin\\nand Satan.\\nIn his ancient allegory Milton represents Satan, com-\\nmissioned by the Stygian Council, and with purpose of\\nheart to be revenged on Grod, on his way from Hell to\\nEden, to tempt our grandparents.\\nAt the confines of his fiery abode he met the snaky\\nsorceress who held the portal key, and encountered Death,\\nhis sen and hers, whom he with disdainful look addresses:\\nWhence and what art thou, execrable shape,\\nThat darest, though grim and terrible, advance\\nThy miscreated front athwart my way\\nTo yonder gates Through them I mean to pass,\\nThat be assured, without leave asked of thee:\\nRetire, or taste thy folly, and learn by proof.\\nHell-born, not to contend with spirits of Heaven.\\nTo whom the goblin full of wrath replied:\\nArt thou that traitor angel, art thou he,\\nWho first broke peace in Heaven and faith till then\\nUnbroken, and in proud rebellious arms\\nDrew after him the third part of Heaven s suns.\\nConjured against the Highest: for which both thou\\nAnd they, out-cast from God, are here condemned\\nTo waste eternal days in woe and pain?\\nAnd reckons t thou thyself with spirits of Heaven,", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY. 145\\nHell-doomed, and breath st cleiiance here and scorn\\nWhere I reign king, and, to enrage thee more,\\nThy king and lord? Back to thy punishment,\\nFalse fugitive, and to thy speed acid wings,\\nLest with a whip of scorpions I pursue\\nThy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart\\nStrange horrors seize thee, and pangs unfelt before.\\nParadise Lost.\\nA striking representation of what paternal love and\\nfilial fear is to the inhabitants of Hell.\\nHow Sin was begotten in Heaven is portrayed in the\\nfollowing verses, in which Sin, who held the key to Hell s\\npondrous portal, but who had become so deformed in giv-\\ning birth to Death and other inbred progenies as to be in-\\ncognizable to Satan, thus addressed him:\\nHast thou forgot me then, and do I seem\\nNow in thine eye so foul? Once deemed so fair\\nIn Heaven, when at the assembly, and in sight\\nOf all the seraphim with thee combined\\nIn bold conspiracy against Heaven s King,\\nAll on a sudden miserable pain\\nSurprised thee, dim thine eyes, and dizzy swum\\nIn darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast\\nThrew forth, till on the left side opening wide,\\nLikest to thee in shape, and countenance bright,\\nThen shining heavenly fair, a goddess armed,\\nOut of thy head I sprung: amazement seized\\nAll the host of heaven: back they recoiled afraid\\nAt first: and called me Sin, and for a sign\\nPortentous held me; but, familiar grown,\\nI pleased, and with attractive graces won\\nThe most averse, thee chiefly, who full oft\\nThyself in me thy perfect image viewing\\nBecamest enamored\\nAt last this odious offspring whom thou seest,\\nThine own begotten, breaking violent way,\\nTore through my entrails, that with fear and pain\\nDistorted, all my nether shape this grew\\nTransformed: but he my inbred enemy\\nForth issued, brandishing his fatal dart\\nMade to destroy: I fled, and cried out Death!\\nHell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed\\nFrom all her caves, and back resounded Death!\\nParadise Lost.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "H6 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE\\nThe above extract, while filled with many gems of\\nthought is given to illustrate the fact that from time im-\\nmemorial it has been a well established doctrine that sin\\nmay originate with any being possessed of a will and a\\nconscience, nevertheless the opposite is that with which\\nChristian Science is poisoning the minds of the public,\\nand is repugnant to reason and common sense.\\nThe free will is a self-determining, original cause, it-\\nself uncaused, in its volitions. It is a new and responsible\\nfountain of causation in the universe.\\nThis is an axiom that all the postulates of Christian\\nScience cannot overthrow. So, in the Garden when our\\nforeparents yielded to temptation, inbred sins sprang up as\\nsands on the sea-shore innumerable, and the eternal God\\ndeclared, concerning man, That every imagination of the\\nthoughts of his heart was only evil continually. The truth\\nof sin originating in the mind of man is also substantiated\\nin the Scripture that says, By one man sin entered into\\nthe world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all\\nmen, for that all have sinned.\\nSin originated in the mind of Lucifer, son of the morn-\\ning, and she caused endless separation from God and con-\\nsequent misery to disobedient angels, and so it was with\\ndisobedient man. Dalliance with Sin unlocked the portal\\nof Hell and constructed a bridge from the infernal regions\\nthat flooded this earth with the martial hosts of Hell under\\nher first born angel, Death (See Jas. 1:15.)\\nThis brings us back to the original thought. That in\\nthe midst of life we are surrounded by death.\\nDeath rides on every passing breeze.\\nAnd lurks in every flower:\\nEach season has its own disease,\\nIts peril every hour.\\nOur eyes have seen the rosy light\\nOf youth s soft cheek decay.\\nAnd fate descend in sudden night\\nOn manhood s middle day:\\nBlnney s Oompend.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY. 147\\nTurn, mortal turn; thy danger know:\\nWhere er thy foot can tread,\\nThe earth rings hollow from below\\nAnd warns thee by her dead.\\nThere is none exempt from the grisly terror that\\nmounts his pale horse and girds the earth in a moment of\\ntime. He lays his icy hand on the high as v^ell as the low;\\nhe is a terror to the rich as well as the poor; and his time\\nthere is none can tell. His ravages and desolations are\\nseen on every hand. Homes are saddened, friends are\\nseparated, children orphaned, mothers bereaved, and yet\\nhis maw is not full.\\nHe brings the shroud, the coffin and the knell. We\\nfollow him with our precious one to the silent city, and.\\nsee the loved one lowered to his cold embrace, and hear\\nthe low dull thud of the clods of the valley, that bury from\\nour view the form of our dear one, and nothing to mark\\nthe spot, but the narrow mound on the grassy hill-side, the\\ncold slab, and memory\\nHelpless hands are wrung with sorrow, eyes are filled\\nwith scorching tears, and hearts are bursting w 7 ith unas-\\nsuaged anguish All these are but pitiless appeals to the\\nunmoved King of Terrors, and mortality is swallowed up in\\nDeath\\nHere ends the hope of the Gnostic Scientist. Buried\\nin that dark abyss is the fondest hope of the Christless\\ntherapeutic religionist In spite of his pretended demon-\\nstrations, and vain prating of no matter, no sin and\\nno death, in this solemn moment his better judgment,\\nwrought upon by the providence of God, enables him to\\nunderstand, instead of the aw T ful unreality of matter, it s\\nmighty reality as well as that of sin and death, notwith-\\nstanding the vain tenets of his religion.\\nDeath and the grave are enshrouded with a chill and a\\ngloom, to deep too be pierced by the eye of the materialist,\\nbut to the Christian they are the gateways to countries\\nelysian.\\nImmortality begins where mortality ends. The dark-\\nest hour precedes the dawn- and the pall that mantles the", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "148 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\ntomb is but the morning twilight of an eternal day\\nChristian hope discerns rays of light on his religious\\nhorizon, that herald the approach of the resurrection morn,\\nwhen the trump of God shall sound, and the dead shall\\nbe raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. For this\\ncorruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal\\nmust put on immortality.\\nThe eye of faith beholds a resurrected body that excells\\nthe grandest views of the most sanguine Scientist, a\\nbody fashioned like unto His glorious body, clothed with\\nimmortality, eternal life, caught up to elysian fields, when\\nthe Lord himslf shall descend from heaven with a shout\\nand the voice of the archangel. Glorious thought! Hear\\ntlie victorious Christian shout as he ascends to eternal bliss\\nwith glorified millions\\nO death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy\\nvictory?\\nBut thanks be to God who giveth us the victory\\nthrough our Lord Jesus Christ, and is able to present us\\nfaultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding\\njoy. To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and maj-\\nesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.\\nThe Bible does not reveal what God s plan and pur-\\npose with man would have been had he not sinned; but it\\ndoes graciously tell us how death, hell and the grave are\\novercome and how we may attain eternal life and dwell\\nwith God and the angels in heaven forever.\\nShall we not give heed to it?\\nOh let us, one and all, make it our first business and\\nchief aim in this life, to be Christians, and then when we\\nhear the voice from heaven saying Behold I come quickly,\\nwe may be found in Him and ready to say Even so Lord\\nJesus, come quickly.\\nThe doctrine of the Resurrection may not be very con-\\nsoling to the wicked and unprepared; but to the believer\\nit is glorious. By prophetical light, the righteous Daniel,\\nlooking down through the vistas of time, saw that grand\\nawakening and with awful eloquence exclaimed And many", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "MOQTALITY AND IMMORTALITY.\\n149\\nof them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,\\nsome to everlasting life, and some to everlasting shame and\\ncontempt.\\nOh man! remember the words of the Lord God Al-\\nmighty: Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return!\\nBut His Son four thousand years later spoke of the resur-\\nrection in the following language: For the hour is com-\\ning, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His\\nvoice, and shall come forth; they that have done good, unto\\nthe resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto\\nthe resurrection of damnation. John 5:28, 29.", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "150 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\nReader, death is inevitable. Are you ready? If not\\nwill you get ready? The decision is for you to make.\\nCast the die that decides your destiny for eternity. Will\\nyou follow the Anti-Christ that can only lure you with a\\nfalse hope in this world, and torment you forever in hell;\\nor will you accept the reproach of the cross of Christ for\\nthis life, and then be permitted to enjoy the pleasures for-\\nevermore at His right hand? God help you for His blessed\\nname s sake.\\nEternity, eternity, eternity were the dying shrieks of\\none without hope. Just think of it! Eternal torment!\\nEternal woe\\nIn that lone land of deep despair,\\nNo Sabbath s heavenly light shall rise;\\nNo God regard your bitter prayer,\\nNo Saviour call you to the skies.\\nSee the picture as the poet painted it and ask yourself\\nif it is overdrawn. What does God say about it in the\\nBible? Listen\\nAnd cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer dark-\\nness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\\nMat. 25:30.\\nAnd these shall go away into everlasting punishment.\\nMat. 25:46.\\nGod has traced it with his linger,\\nJesus said it should be so;\\nHe who lives and dies a sinner,\\nMust endure eternal woe.\\nHell and destruction are before the wicked and are\\nnever full. The inhabitants that ride those fiery billows\\nare tormented day and night forever. It says so.\\nOh sinner, flee to the arms of a sin-pardoning God\\nwhile there is time and opportunity; for if you go to the\\nJudgment a sinner, you will cry for the rocks and moun-\\ntains to fall on you and hide you from the face of Him\\nthat sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.\\nOh, who shall be able to stand in that great day?\\nAh yes, people in that greal day will pray for annihi-", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "MORTALITY AND IMMORTALITY 151\\nlation, and wish they never had been born, but then, as\\nwell as now, the nihility of matter as a doctrine will prove\\nuntenable.\\nReader, did you ever conscientiously and soberly con-\\nsider what annihilation would mean to you? Dr. Redfield\\ngives us an idea of what it meant to him when he refused\\nto obey God.\\nThe noted evangelist so felt the awful responsibility\\nof preaching the Gospel that he tried, as many have, to\\nescape the call by leaving home.\\nHe went about a hundred miles from all his acquaint-\\nances, but the Spirit followed him. In less than a fort-\\nnight after his arrival at his new destination he was\\nquestioned about his duty of preaching, and again he fled.\\nThis was repeated to the third place, where to shield\\nhimself, he resolved not to profess religion at all. His own\\nnarration of the circumstances is affecting:\\nI felt the Holy Spirit leave me as plainly as I ever\\nfelt the taking off of my coat. Now the funereal pall of\\nannihilation settled down over me, and I could see nothing\\nhut darkness and desolation. Man and earth seemed\\norphaned. I sought in anatomy, physiology, and philos-\\nophy for testimony to clear this up, and, if possible, give\\nme a single fact, to settle my distracted mind.\\nOne favorite haunt of mine, during this period, was\\nan ancient Indian burying ground. Some of the graves\\nwere entirely gone, washed away by the high waters of an\\nadjoining stream; others were partly gone, the dark sands\\nof which gave traces of the bodies which had been laid\\nthere to rest several hundred years before. A few sea-\\nshells, flint arrow-heads and hatchets, and beads, were all\\nthat bore testimony that these bodies had ever lived.\\nIn contemplation of there things my whole soul\\nwould cry out, while the suffication of death seemed to be\\nnpon me, O God, if there be a God, send me to the hell\\nof the Bible, but don t annihilate me.\\nIt seemed to me at such times that I could have died\\na hundred deaths if that would have made the Christian", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "V\\n152 ORTHODOXY VS. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.\\ndoctrines true, and have run my chances of heaven or\\nhell\\nIn after years he would say, Men may talk of anni-\\nhilation as a possible fact, and regard the theory as a light\\naffair; hut let them stand where I have stood, by the\\ngraves of the long-forgotten dead, and in imagination pass\\ndown the vista of coming time, and think; with all my\\nlonging for life, I must lie down in the dust and darkness\\nof the tomb, and let the rusty centuries fold over my head,\\ntill ages have passed and gone, and I sleep on as these\\nhave slept, who now lie here in a common ruin, forgotten\\nand forever gone! Poor nameless dust, who lived, hoped;\\nfeared made as they thought, ample provision for life in\\nthe spirit land; yet all in vain! and they will cry out, as I\\nhave cried, O God, spare me at least a bare existence.\\nNo! I would rather know the truth, however unwel-\\ncome it may be. (Life of Redfield, page 41.)\\nReader, think on these things, and in the light of a\\npure conscience, an open Bible, and human experience,\\ndecide on which side you wish to hang your immortal in-\\nterests; the doctrines of old, time-honored and God honor-\\ned Orthodoxy, or this modern, unsafe, and uncertain\\nChristian Science religion the Anti-Christ in 1900.\\nReflect, thou hast a soul to save,\\nThy sins how high they mount!\\nWhat are thy hopes beyond the grave?\\nHow stands that dark account?\\nThy flesh (perhaps thy greatest care)\\nShall into dust consume:\\nBut ah! destruction stops not there;\\nSin kills beyond the tomb.\\nDeath enters and there s no defense,\\nHis time there s none can tell:\\nHe ll in a moment call thee hence,\\nTo heaven or down to hell", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "J UN 7 1900", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3772", "width": "2256", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n022 216 727 9", "height": "4107", "width": "2576", "jp2-path": "orthodoxyvschris00lass_0160.jp2"}}