CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 
 
 FALSELY SO CALLED 
 
From the Religious Press. 
 
 "Brief, clear and convincing." — Western Christian Advocate. 
 
 "The author of this work has covered the field briefly and 
 thoroughly." — 'United Presbyterian. 
 
 "The book is a convenient exhibition of the folly of what 
 Christian Scientists think they believe." 
 
 — 'Pittsburg Christian Advocate. 
 
 "This gigantic evil is strongly, skillfully arraigned and its 
 monstrosities thoroughly shown up." —Zion's Herald. 
 
 "If the reader is afflicted with 'Christian Science' and will 
 give this author half a chance, he'll cure him."^ 
 
 -Religious Telescope. 
 
 " For those who think that God knows more about the problem 
 of existence than did Mary B. G. Eddy, the answer is con- 
 clusive." — New York Observer. 
 
 " Every one who believes or does not believe in that teaching 
 (Christian Science) ought to read the book and get a clear 
 understanding of what its leaders have written." 
 
 —The Baptist Observer. 
 
 "The author uses the deadly horizontal with fine effect, quot- 
 ing freely and accurately from the fifty-first edition of 
 'Science and Health, With Key to the Scriptures.' The 
 book ought to be very helpful." — Western Recorder. 
 
 "This is an excellent volume with which to combat the sophis- 
 try and errors of this peculiar system of belief. It is tolerant 
 in spirit, moderate in tone, fair in interpretation and con- 
 vincing in logic and arguments." — Evangelical Messenger. 
 
 "This 'Key to the Scriptures' he criticises mercilessly, and 
 give his reasons by quotations from it, comparing them with 
 the Scriptures. He makes the Key speak out its real spirit, 
 and thereby records its utter condemnation." 
 
 — The Examiner. 
 
 "Both clear and forceful, the book could be safely, in fact, 
 with wisdom, be handed to any one who seems in danger of 
 being led astray by this falsely called science." 
 
 —Episcopal Recorder. 
 
What the Pulpit Says about this Book. 
 
 "The book will do great good." — Pres. Samuel Dickie. 
 
 "I am sure that the book will be of much service." 
 
 —Wm.A. Waldo, D.D. 
 
 "God speed your Uttle book on its 'errand of light.'" 
 
 — Geo. M. Lehigh. 
 
 "It is a very strong book with its arguments so clearly pre- 
 sented." —Myron W. Haynes. 
 
 "I have just finished reading it and will read it again and 
 again." — /. K. Howard. 
 
 "I think the book in many respects a strong treatment of the 
 subject." — i?. A. Torrey, D. D. 
 
 "I like it well. I wish every hesitating soul in our country 
 might read it." —Pres. C. A. Blanchard, D. D. 
 
 "Your book is a practical answer to it" (Christian Science) 
 and is "calculated to do much good." — C. M. Carter, D. D. 
 
 "He goes straight to the core of things in a clear and logical 
 way. My conviction is that his exposures of the fallacies of 
 the Christian Science teaching cannot be successfully an- 
 swered or refuted." — Rev. W. T. Stackhouse, D. D. 
 
Christian Science 
 Falsely So Called 
 
 / V 
 
 
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 WILLIAM LEON BROWN 
 
 MJN 3 1918 
 
 SECOND EDITION 
 
 New York Chicago Toronto 
 
 Fleming H. Revell Company 
 
 London and Edinburgh 
 
Copyright, 19", by 
 WILLIAM LEON BROWN 
 
 New York : 158 Fifth Avenue 
 Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave. 
 Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W. 
 London : 21 Paternoster Square 
 Edinburgh : 100 Princes Street 
 
Preface 
 
 As we thoroughly investigate Christian 
 Science, it proves to be one of the several 
 ways in which the antichrist is manifesting 
 himself at the present time. Perhaps, in its 
 subtle teachings, there is no other delusion so 
 vile and deceptive. 
 
 As I learn more about it, I am confident 
 that the great multitudes of Christian people 
 are ignorant of its real teachings, and, there- 
 fore, feel impelled, as one upon Zion's watch- 
 tower, to sound the alarm and announce the 
 approach of a deadly enemy. 
 
 My arraignment of this gigantic evil will 
 not be from hearsay, as I have before me a 
 copy of the fifty-first edition of " Science and 
 Health " — a book which contains what is 
 called a " Key to the Scriptures " — a book 
 which declares that its author is the wife of 
 the Lord Jesus Christ, and in which she is 
 pictured as the mighty angel of whom John 
 spoke as coming down from heaven. 
 
 If Christian Science did not wear a mask 
 and ever promena \e before us under an as- 
 sumed name ; if, instead, it called itself by its 
 proper name, " Counterfeit Christianity," if it 
 5 
 
6 Preface 
 
 refrained from using the word of God deceit- 
 fully and ceased its pretense to be an angel of 
 light — its danger would be comparatively 
 trifling and its influence would soon recede. 
 
 On the contrary, Christian Science comes 
 to us arrayed in the attire of a saint, quoting 
 the Scriptures with great profuseness ; but in 
 the end it denies the very being of God as well 
 as the truth of His word. It comes to the sick, 
 enfeebled in mind and body, offering health 
 and happiness in a name which they have 
 ever heard associated with righteousness and 
 truth ; thus have many been taken off their 
 guard, led astray, and ruined forever. 
 
 At Christian Science meetings, a part of 
 the exercises consists in reading portions of 
 Scripture alternately with the writings of Mrs. 
 Eddy. We will reverse this order. Selec- 
 tions from "Science and Health" will be 
 quoted, and then we will view these passages 
 in the light of God's word. 
 
 But, instead of reviewing the book in the 
 order in which it is written, or attempting to 
 follow it in its haphazard wanderings, we will 
 consider its teachings on a number of vital 
 questions — subjects of intense importance to 
 every thoughtful mind. 
 
 W. L. B. 
 
 Lawrence, Ind. 
 
Contents 
 
 I. 
 
 The Author's Assumption . 
 
 9 
 
 II. 
 
 The Author — Her Personality 
 
 12 
 
 III. 
 
 The Bride of Christ . 
 
 i6 
 
 IV. 
 
 Prophecies Concerning CHRISTIA^ 
 Science .... 
 
 22 
 
 V. 
 
 The Bible Acknowledged ane 
 Denied .... 
 
 25 
 
 VI. 
 
 The Personality of God Denied 
 
 34 
 
 VII. 
 
 Jesus the Christ Denied 
 
 . 44 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Matter — Its Existence Denied 
 
 53 
 
 IX. 
 
 Sin and Evil ; 
 
 . 6i 
 
 X. 
 
 Sex, Generation, and Marriage 
 
 68 
 
 XI. 
 
 Sickness and Disease . 
 
 75 
 
 XII. 
 
 Death . . . . . 
 
 94 
 
 XIII. 
 
 Contradictions in "Science and 
 Health " . 
 
 99 
 
 XIV. 
 
 The Scriptural Key . 
 
 io6 
 
 
 Conclusion .... 
 
 112 
 
" Beware of false prophets which come to you 
 in sheep's clothing but inwardly they are 
 ravening wolves " — MATTHEW vii.—is. 
 
 " There shall be false teachers among you, 
 who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, 
 even denying the Lord that bought them, 
 and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 
 And many shall follow their pernicious ways ; 
 by reason of whom the way of truth shall be 
 evil spoken of. And through covetousness 
 shall they with feigned words make mer- 
 chandise of you." — Second Peter 2: i to 3. 
 
Christian Science 
 Falsely So Called 
 
 THE AUTHOR'S ASSUMPTION 
 
 Christian Science is said to be a dis- 
 covery, and on page i the author of "Science 
 and Health " announces herself as the dis- 
 coverer. It is also called a *' re-discovery " 
 and of this it is said (p. 43) that it is " the 
 second coming of the Gospel of peace on 
 earth and good will to men." Furthermore 
 Christian Science is spoken of as an ** awaken- 
 ing" which is designated (p. 126) as **the 
 coming of Christ." Again the author de- 
 clares, 
 
 (p. 371) That " Christian Science and Christianity 
 are one." 
 
 (p. 4) That it is a •' revelation." 
 
 (p. 53S) That such " revelation " is a "message 
 from God." 
 
 Not only so, but Christian Science she 
 calls 
 
 9 
 
lo Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 (p. 485) " The Word of God." 
 (p. 542) " The Holy Ghost." 
 (p. 569) " Kingdom of Heaven." 
 (p. 571) "New Jerusalem." 
 
 Her revelation, she informs us, is infallible, 
 and she speaks (p. 225) of the Spirit bearing 
 witness to the " infallibility of Divine Sci- 
 ence." 
 
 She also says (p. 304) that " Christian 
 Science . . . coincides with the Scrip- 
 tures and sustains . . . every point it 
 presents." 
 
 \(p. 229) That " Divine Science, taking (takes) 
 \v^^ away the sins of the world, as Christ had 
 
 ->^^ always done." 
 
 ^ (p. 250) That •♦ all we correctly know of Mind 
 
 (God) ... is learned through Christian 
 Science." 
 (P- 545) That " God . . . will eventually 
 rule all nations and peoples . . . with 
 Divine Science." 
 
 Of her book, she says 
 
 (p. 441) " that it is the voice of Truth to this age." 
 (p. 9) (Truth, in " Science and Health," is a 
 
 synonym for God.) 
 (p. 291) That •* in this volume of mine there are 
 
 no contradictory statements." 
 (p. 4) " neither tongue nor pen can overthrow it." 
 
 Of the Bereans, it is said that ''they 
 
The Author's Assumption 1 1 
 
 searched the Scriptures daily, whether these 
 things were so." Jesus said to the Jews, *' If 
 I do not the works of my Father, beheve 
 me not," and we are told "to prove all 
 things." 
 
 Since, then, we are not required to believe 
 even the testimony of Christ without evidence 
 as to its truth, and since we are encouraged 
 to thoroughly investigate every subject — 
 accepting only that which can be proved, we 
 certainly ought to be allowed to examine the 
 nature of the evidence sustaining the truth of 
 this reputed '* revelation." 
 
 If it is the voice of God to this age, taking 
 away the sins of the world, which only Christ 
 can do ; if only through it we can learn of 
 God, and must be eventually ruled by this so- 
 called science, it certainly becomes us to listen 
 with reverence and give heed to every utter- 
 ance. 
 
 If this book contains no contradictions and 
 coincides with the Scriptures, we readily 
 grant that neither tongue nor pen can over- 
 throw it ; but like the Bereans of old, we pro- 
 pose to search the Scriptures, compare them 
 with "Science and Health " and see if what 
 it says is true. 
 
II 
 
 THE AUTHOR— HER PERSONALITY 
 
 On one occasion, owing to some of Christ's 
 statements concerning Himself, the Jews said 
 to Him, "Who makest thou thyself?" In 
 no sense were they to blame for this inquiry 
 and if He had been only a man they were 
 justified in accusing Him of blasphemy for 
 making Himself to be God. Their fault con- 
 sisted in not weighing the evidence and seeing 
 if He proved Himself to be what He claimed. 
 
 In this investigation we desire to candidly 
 consider the claims of the author of " Science 
 and Health." If they are true, an examina- 
 tion will only confirm them as such, and if 
 false, it is proper that the falsehood be made 
 manifest to all. Who, then, according to her 
 own testimony, was this Mrs. Eddy, the au- 
 thor of ** Science and Health " ? 
 
 Was she the one whom God had called ? 
 (p. 25) " This Science has come already, and 
 
 come through the one whom God has 
 
 called." 
 (p. 4) " no human pen or tongue taught me the 
 
 Science contained in * Science and Health.' " 
 12 
 
The Author — Her Personality 13 
 
 From these quotations it is only fair to 
 conclude that she means herself by " the one 
 whom God has called T We do not dispute 
 but God calls people to certain kinds of work, 
 but that He ever called one to deny all the 
 fundamental teachings of His own word, is 
 an utterance that we cannot believe. That 
 such is done in the book called *' Science and 
 Health," we think will be abundantly proved 
 as we progress in this work. 
 
 Did she give the Holy Ghost ? 
 (p. 167) '• Our Master said, • But the Comforter 
 
 . . . shall teach you all things.' When 
 
 the science of Christianity appears, it will 
 
 lead you into all Truth." 
 (p. 227) " The Holy Ghost, or Spirit, reveals this 
 
 triune Principle, and is expressed in Divine 
 
 Science, which is the Comforter." 
 
 The meaning of the above is very hazy 
 and can only be interpreted in the light of 
 other passages from " Science and Health." 
 
 (p. 571) " ' God,' ' Principle,' * Spirit,' ' Truth ' are -^ 
 synonyms." 
 
 Therefore, the meaning must be that when 
 Christ promised to send the Comforter, He 
 had reference, not to a perso7t, but a teachings 
 which teaching is Christian Science. 
 
14 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 (p. 227) She calls *' Divine Science" — "the Holy 
 Comforter " and this comforter she says 
 
 (p. 467) is her '• sacred discovery " which *• no 
 other person has ever given ... to the 
 world." 
 
 Let us quote just what Jesus said about 
 the Comforter (John xiv. 26) and see if the 
 omission made by the author of '* Science 
 and Health " is not one way of •* handling 
 the Word of God deceitfully." We put the 
 words omitted in italics : ** But the Comforter, 
 which is the Holy Ghost, whoin the Father will 
 send 271 7ny name, he shall teach you all 
 things, arid bring all things to your reniem- 
 brance, whatsoever I have said unto you ^ 
 
 Why were these words omitted if not to 
 mislead the reader? Jesus does not speak 
 of the Holy Ghost as a science or a teaching, 
 but 2i person whose mission is to teach, " even 
 the Spirit of Truth ; whom the world cannot 
 receive, because it seeth him not, neither 
 knoweth him ; but ye know him ; for he 
 dwelleth with you and shall be in you." 
 Jesus did not say that for more than eight- 
 een centuries after His departure He would 
 leave us without the Comforter, but He in- 
 formed those to zvhom He had beeri speaking 
 that they knew Him, and that He dwelt in 
 them. 
 
The Author— Her Personality 15 
 
 Our Saviour '' breathed on them and said 
 unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost." 
 On that wonderful day of Pentecost we are 
 informed that the disciples ** were all filled 
 with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak 
 with other tongues as the Spirit gave them 
 utterance." 
 
 Therefore, the claim of any person in this 
 age that the Holy Ghost is but a science 
 which has been revealed to them to impart 
 to others is unreasonable, unscriptural, and 
 miis^ be false, and from such teachers we are 
 admonished to ''turn away." 
 
Ill 
 
 THE BRIDE OF CHRIST 
 
 (Rev. xii. i) " And there appeared a great 
 wonder in heaven ; a woman clothed with 
 the sun, and the moon under her feet, and 
 upon her head a crown of twelve stars." 
 
 In her so-called " Key to the Scriptures " 
 the author of "Science and Health" un- 
 locks (?) the above passage in the following 
 remarkable language : 
 
 (p. 541) *' The Revelator beheld the spiritual idea 
 from the mount of vision. . . . He saw 
 also the spiritual idea, as a woman clothed 
 in light, a bride coming down from Heaven, 
 wedded to the Lamb of Love. To him the 
 Bride and the Lamb represented the corre- 
 lation of Principle and its spiritual idea, 
 bringing harmony to earth. . . . The 
 woman in the apocalypse is the vignette, 
 which illustrates the spiritual idea of God 
 and man — divine Principle and its divine 
 idea. . . . The idea is clad with the ra- 
 diance of spiritual Truth, and matter is put 
 under its feet." 
 
 Now, let us analyze the application given 
 16 
 
The Bride of Christ 17 
 
 to this passage. *' Spiritual idea" is defined 
 " as a woman clothed in light, a bride com- 
 ing down from Heaven, wedded to the Lamb 
 of Love." This '* idea " or '* woman " is said 
 to be ''clad with the radiance of spiritual 
 Truth and matter is put under its feet." 
 
 In "Science and Health" the existence of 
 matter is denied, and an attempt to prove 
 that it is but a delusion occupies perhaps 
 nearly as much space as all else said. The 
 author presumes matter to be a delusion, 
 and this she classes as her ''sacred dis- 
 covery" which, she says, "no other person 
 has ever given ... to the world." 
 Who then, according to her own statements, 
 can she be but this "idea" or "woman" 
 imagining herself clad in spiritual Truth and 
 with matter beneath her feet, wedded to the 
 Lamb of God ? (Love she also gives as a 
 synonym for God — p. 571.) 
 
 We quote again from 
 
 (p. 545) " The impersonation of the spiritual 
 idea had a brief history in the earthly life 
 of our blessed Master ; but of his Kingdom 
 there shall be no end, for God's idea will 
 eventually rule all nations and peoples 
 . . . with Divine Science. This im- 
 maculate idea, presented first by a man and 
 last by a woman, will baptize with fire and 
 . . . burn up the chaff of error." 
 
i8 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 Here again she associates herself with the 
 Master and speaks of an " immaculate idea " 
 being presented " first by a man and last by 
 a woman," by whom she cannot mean others 
 than the Lord Jesus Christ and herself ; and 
 she tells us that all nations will eventually be 
 ruled with Christian Science, of which she 
 claims to be the discoverer. 
 
 Again let us take the Christian Science 
 Key and in the light of its interpretation 
 consider Revelation xii. 9 : 
 
 " And the great dragon was cast out, that old 
 serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which 
 deceiveth the whole world : he was cast out 
 into the earth, and his angels were cast out 
 with him." 
 
 (p. 547) " That false claim — that ancient belief, 
 that old serpent whose name is Devil (evil), 
 claiming that there is power in matter to 
 harm and deceive mortals — is pure delusion, 
 the red dragon ; and is cast out by Christ, 
 Truth, and the spiritual idea, and so proven 
 to be powerless." 
 
 Here the author of " Science and Health " 
 again associates herself with Christ and 
 pictures the Saviour, with her assistance, 
 casting the devil out of heaven. She says 
 it was accomplished by Christ and the 
 " spiritual idea,'' by which, as shown before, 
 she means herself. 
 
The Bride of Christ 19 
 
 Once more we quote from Revelation 
 
 xxi. 9 : 
 
 •* Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the 
 Lamb's wife." 
 
 Note the comment on this passage : 
 
 (p. 554) « The message of Love, which your de- 
 ceived sense deems wrathful and afflictive, 
 becomes an angel entertained unawares. 
 Then it gently whispers " (note carefully 
 the false construction which this author puts 
 into the mouth of the inspired writer), 
 " Come Hither ! Arise from your false con- 
 sciousness, into the true sense of Love, and 
 behold the Lamb's wife,— Love wedded to 
 its own spiritual idea." 
 
 And, apparently, for fear that she has not 
 made sufficiently prominent her own imagi- 
 nary relationship as the Lamb's wife, she 
 adds : 
 
 Love (God) was wedded to its own ''Spiritual 
 
 Idea " or to herself. 
 Again (verse 22), " And I saw no temple therein ; 
 
 for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb 
 
 are the temple of it." 
 (p. 556) " The Lamb's wife presents the spiritual 
 
 union of male and female as no longer two, 
 
 but one; and this compounded spiritual 
 
 idea reflects God as Mind." 
 
 Into this verse which refers only to there be- 
 ing no temple in heaven, since the Lord God 
 
20 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 Almighty and the *'Lamb" are the temple 
 of it, the author of " Science and Health " 
 must inject the thought of '* the Lamb's 
 wife," must speak of a spiritual union of 
 male and female and again make prominent 
 this ^'spiritual idea^^ or herself reflecting 
 " God as Mind.'' 
 
 Of the above, what can be said, only that 
 it is the vilest blasphemy which could be 
 uttered by a mere human being? It is like 
 one attempting to mount the throne of the 
 Infinite and proposing to share with Him in 
 the government of the vast universe. Think 
 of a mere woman claiming to be the wife of 
 the Son of God ; seeking to monopolize the 
 bosom of the Redeemer to the exclusion of 
 those for whom He died, even the Church 
 which He bought with His own precious 
 blood. 
 
 But it may be asked, can such be said of 
 the Church, and is there a marriage cove- 
 nant between God and His people? Let 
 us turn to God's own word and read for our- 
 selves. 
 
 (Isa. liv. 5) " For thy Maker is thine husband ; 
 The Lord of hosts is his name; and thy 
 Redeemer the Holy One of Israel." 
 
 (Hos. ii. 19, 20) "And I will betroth thee unto 
 me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto 
 
The Bride of Christ 21 
 
 me in righteousness and in judgment, and 
 in lovingkindness, and in mercies ; I will 
 even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness, 
 and thou shalt know the Lord." 
 
 (Rev. xix. 7-9) " Let us be glad and rejoice, and 
 give honor to him : for the marriage of the 
 Lamb has come and his wife hath made 
 herself ready. And to her was granted that 
 she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean 
 and white ; for the fine linen is the righteous- 
 ness of saints. And he saith unto me, 
 Write, Blessed are they which are called 
 unto the marriage supper of the Lamb." 
 
 (Rev. xxii. 16-17) "I Jesus have sent mine 
 angel to testify unto you these things in 
 the churches. . . . And the spirit and 
 the bride say, Come." 
 
 But who are this spirit and bride ? Who 
 could they be but the Comforter, whom 
 Jesus, the bridegroom, has sent, and the in- 
 habitants of the ** Holy City new Jerusalem," 
 the redeemed church triumphant, "coming 
 down from God out of heaven, prepared as a 
 bride adorned for her husband" ? 
 
 The Comforter, then, is the Holy Spirit. 
 The bridegroom is the Lord Jesus Christ and 
 the bride is His Church. Even the redeemed 
 whom He has purchased with His own pre- 
 cious blood. 
 
IV 
 
 PROPHECIES CONCERNING CHRISTIAN 
 SCIENCE 
 
 (p. 386) " The Christian martyrs were prophets 
 of Christian Science." 
 
 (p. 1 84) " Christian Science . . . fore- 
 shadowed by the Prophets and inaugurated 
 by Jesus." 
 
 (p. 211) " Jesus was the mediator between spirit 
 and the flesh, between Truth and error. 
 Explaining and demonstrating the way of 
 Divine Science." 
 
 The above are mere utterances without a 
 reference to one passage from the Scriptures 
 to confirm their truth. But the vanity and 
 blasphemy of such language — the idea that 
 Stephen, Peter and Paul had suffered martyr- 
 dom because of prophecies proclaimed by 
 them announcing the approach of Christian 
 Science or advocating the silly nonsense 
 which it teaches, such as the denial of the 
 existence of matter or the unreality of sin, 
 sickness and death I And the thought of 
 putting the Lord Jesus Christ in the attitude 
 of being but 2.forerumier, whose mission was 
 
 22 
 
Prophecies Concerning Christian Science 23 
 
 only to inaugurate, to explain, and to denoion- 
 strate the absurdities of Eddyism. 
 
 We do not deny but there are prophecies 
 in the Scriptures concerning Christian Science, 
 as there are about other forms of unbeHef and 
 wickedness, and we acknowledge that these 
 were uttered by the Christian martyrs and by 
 Christ Himself. Note the following : 
 
 (2 Pet. ii. 1-2) " But there were false prophets 
 also among the people, even as there shall 
 be false teachers among you, who privily 
 shall bring in damnable heresies, even deny- 
 ing the Lord that bought them, and bring 
 upon themselves swift destruction. And 
 many shall follow their pernicious ways ; by 
 reason of whom the way of truth shall be 
 evil spoken of." 
 
 (Matt. xxiv. 24) " For there shall arise false 
 Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew 
 great signs and wonders ; insomuch that 
 it were possible, they shall deceive the very 
 elect." 
 
 (Acts XX. 29-30) " For I know this, that after 
 my departing shall grievous wolves enter 
 among you, not sparing the flock. Also of 
 your own selves shall men arise, speaking 
 perverse things to draw away disciples after 
 them." 
 
 (i Tim. iv. i) " Now the spirit speaketh ex- 
 pressly, that in the latter times some shall 
 depart from the faith, giving heed to seduc- 
 ing spirits and doctrines of devils." 
 
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 lew 1 
 
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24 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 (I John iv. 3) " Every spirit that confesseth not 
 that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is not 
 of God." 
 
 That Christian Science is doing its part in 
 the fulfillment of these prophecies we think 
 will be abundantly demonstrated under other 
 topics bearing upon its doctrines and teach- 
 ings. 
 
 " It is impossible but that offenses will 
 come : but woe unto him through whom they 
 come ! It were better for him that a mill- 
 stone were hanged about his neck, and he 
 cast into the sea, than that he should offend 
 one of these litde ones." 
 
THE BIBLE ACKNOWLEDGED AND DENIED 
 
 (p. 20) " The Bible has been my only text-book. 
 1 have had no other guide in • the straight 
 and narrow ' way of this Science." 
 
 (p. 40) «* Divine Science derives its sanction from 
 the Bible." 
 
 From the above as well as from many other 
 quotations that might be adduced, one would 
 be led to think that the author of " Science 
 and Health " must have been an exceedingly 
 devout person and that surely she hailed the 
 Holy Scriptures as a lamp unto her feet and 
 a light unto her path. But, as we carefully 
 read and analyze passage after passage in 
 this book, we discover beyond question that 
 instead of so-called Divine Science deriving 
 its sanction from the Bible, the Bible is mis-j 
 quoted, misconstrued, denied, and handled] 
 " deceitfully " in order that it may appear to 
 sustain these false doctrines. In proof of 
 this statement, let the reader closely observe 
 the following : 
 
 Misquotations 
 (P- 317) " The ' prayer of a righteous man ' heals 
 the sick, say the Scriptures." 
 
 25 
 
 \ 
 
26 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 Now compare this with what the Scriptures 
 really do say : 
 
 (J as. V. 1 6) ** The effectual fervent prayer of a 
 righteous man availeth much." 
 
 Not only is this passage misquoted, but its 
 truth is denied. Note this language : 
 
 (p. 313) "God is not influenced by man. The 
 divine ear is not an auditorial nerve. . . . 
 The danger from audible prayer is, that it 
 may lead us into temptation." 
 
 Thus Christian Science teaches that audible 
 prayer is an evil. 
 
 I (p. 318) "This common custom of praying for 
 ^' the recovery of the sick, finds help in blind 
 
 belief." 
 (p. 350) " For if, when we were enemies, we 
 were reconciled to God by the (seeming) 
 death of His Son, much more, being recon- 
 ciled, we shall be saved by his Life." 
 
 Now let the reader compare this quotation 
 with Romans v. 10. Why is the word 
 "seeming" inserted? If Christ only died 
 in appearance, the inspired writer must have 
 been mistaken. He even states in the pre- 
 ceding verse that we are "justified by his 
 blood." Also, why is a capital " L " used in 
 the word " Life " ? The reason of these 
 changes is obvious, viz : Christian Science 
 
The Bible Acknowledged and Denied 27 
 
 denies that there is such a thing as death, 
 and in every instance defines the word " life " 
 as meaning *' God " — hence a capital "L" 
 is used. So, in order to force these mean- 
 ings, it does not hesitate to change the very 
 words of this passage. 
 
 Misconstructions 
 (p. 409) " It is recorded that once Jesus asked 
 the name of a disease — a disease moderns 
 call dementia. The demon, or evil, rephed 
 that the name was Legion. Thereupon 
 Jesus cast out the evil, and the insane man, 
 believing that he saw a host of demons enter 
 a herd of swine, was changed in belief, and 
 straightway became sane." 
 
 In comparing the above with the narrative 
 as recorded in Mark v. 1-20 we discover that, 
 instead of the man's affliction being a " dis- 
 ease" or an " evil," it is said that he had an 
 ** unclean spirit " and this unclean spirit gave 
 his name as " Legion " for he said *' we are 
 many." The "many" are said to be 
 '* devils,"— not "evil," or evils, and these 
 devils must have possessed inteUigence, since 
 they knew Christ, answered a question which 
 He asked them, and besought Him, saying, 
 "Send us into the swine." Whether the 
 afflicted man saw or thought he saw the 
 devils enter the swine is only a matter of 
 
28 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 conjecture as nothing is said about it ; but 
 that they did so is plainly declared and that 
 those who fed them were witness is equally 
 evident. 
 
 What a false construction, then, to put 
 upon this most remarkable narrative (in 
 order to fit it to Christian Science teachings), 
 to substitute "evil" in the place of ''devil" 
 (as is done in numerous passages that might 
 be quoted) and to declare that, instead of 
 Jesus actually performing the miracle re- 
 corded of Him, He only caused the man to 
 imagine that He had done so. 
 
 (p. 207) " It is the sense of sin, and not the sin- 
 ful soul, which must be lost." 
 
 Compare this with 
 
 (Ezek. xviii. 4) " The soul that sinneth, it shall 
 
 die." 
 (Mark viii. 36-37) " What shall it profit a man, 
 
 if he shall gain the whole world, and lose 
 
 his own soul ? or what shall a man give in 
 
 exchange for his soul ? " 
 
 What an absurd construction of Ezekiel 
 xviii. 4 it would be to say, " The sense 0/ sin 
 that sinneth, it shall die," and how unfair it 
 would be to put these words into the lips of 
 Jesus instead of what He did say? — ''What 
 shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the 
 
The Bible Acknowledged and Denied 29 
 
 whole world, and lose his own sense of sin f " 
 " What shall a man give in exchange for his 
 own sense of sin f " 
 
 But, if we accept Christian Science, we 
 must so translate these verses. 
 
 Denial of Scripture 
 D. 502) " The second chapter of Genesis contains \ 
 a statement of this material view of God and i^ 
 the Universe, which is the exact opposite of !l 
 Scientific Truth." 
 
 Upon this utterance we observe (i) that 
 Christian Science regards the second chapter 
 of Genesis as false because it does not coin- 
 cide with its teachings, and (2) that it 
 blunders in confounding the Creator with i 
 His own handiwork — thinking that God, who 
 is ever declared to be a Spirit, is here said to 
 be material, when such an idea is not even 
 implied. 
 
 (p. 509) " Here falsity, error, charges Truth, God, 
 with inducing a hypnotic state in Adam, in 
 order to perform a surgical operation on 
 him, and thereby to create woman." 
 
 In these words it is not only denied that 
 God made Eve from one of Adam's ribs, but 
 the record in Genesis ii. 21 is declared to be 
 false. 
 
 (p. 176) " The argument of the serpent in the 
 allegory, * I will make you as Gods.' " 
 
30 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 (p. 507) " The first mention of evil is in the 
 second chapter of Genesis, in the legend of 
 the serpent." 
 
 (p. 510) •• He (the serpent) enters into the meta- 
 phor only as an evil." 
 
 (p. 511) •• This myth" (and the serpent said unto 
 the woman) '« represents error as always 
 asserting its superiority over Truth giving 
 the lie to Divine Science." 
 
 Thus, the Scriptural record of the serpent 
 tempting our first parents is treated by Chris- 
 tian Science as an allegory^ a legend^ a vieta- 
 phor, or a 7nyth. 
 
 " Ha7idlmg the Word of God Deceitfully " 
 (p. 216) " When he was led by Wisdom to cast 
 down his rod, and he saw it become a ser- 
 pent, Moses fled before it ; but Wisdom bade 
 him come back and handle the serpent, and 
 then his fear departed. . . . Matter was 
 shown to be a belief only. . . . The 
 illusion of Moses lost its power to alarm him, 
 when he discovered that what he apparently 
 saw was really but a different form of mortal 
 belief." 
 (Ex. iv. 2-4) " And the Lord said unto him, 
 What is that in thine hand ? And he said, 
 A rod. And he said. Cast it on the 
 ground, and he cast it on the ground and 
 it became a serpent ; and Moses fled from 
 before it. And the Lord said unto Moses, 
 Put forth thine hand, and take it by the 
 tail." 
 
The Bible Acknowledged and Denied 31 
 
 (Ex. vii. 8-10) " And the Lord spake unto Moses 
 and unto Aaron, saying . . . Take thy 
 rod and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall 
 become a serpent. . . . And Aaron 
 cast down his rod before Pharaoh and be- 
 fore his servants, and it became a serpent." 
 
 What a deceitful manner in which to 
 handle the Scriptures ! Instead of this event 
 being but an *' illusion " in which Moses was 
 deceived, the record is that it was an actual 
 rod which God told him to cast on the ground, 
 and when he did so it become a real serpent 
 which Gody not man, told Moses to take by 
 the tail. Again, God promised that when his 
 rod should be cast before Pharaoh it would 
 become a serpent, as it did in the presence 
 of Pharaoh and his servants. If, then, the 
 event as recorded was but an illusion in 
 which Moses and Aaron and Pharaoh and 
 his servants were deceived, with equal pro- 
 priety it might be added that God also was 
 deceived. 
 
 (p. 509) " According to this narrative, surgery 
 was first performed mentally and without 
 instruments ; and this may be a useful hint 
 to the medical faculty." 
 
 Thus, a narrative, the truth of which is 
 denied, when it refers to our first parents, is 
 here presented in a favorable light because 
 
32 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 it is imagined to contain a suggestion ad- 
 vantageous to Christian Science. But if the 
 narrative is false in one case, it cannot be 
 true in the other. Such reasoning is one 
 illustration of the unfairness of those whom 
 the Scriptures designate as blind guides. 
 Another illustration of this extreme unfair- 
 ness : 
 
 (p. 514) *' Woman (was) the first to confess her 
 fault. She says ' The serpent beguiled me, 
 and I did eat.' . . . Hence she is first 
 to abandon the belief in the material origin 
 of man. . . . This enables woman to 
 be first to interpret the Scriptures in their 
 own true sense, which reveals the idea of 
 God as Love." 
 
 Here the record of the serpent beguiling the 
 woman is again referred to as if it had really- 
 happened, when other passages already cited 
 regard this passage as an ''allegory," a 
 " legend," a *' metaphor," and a " myth." 
 
 But what is the motive in her presenting 
 as a fact what is elsewhere designated as 
 false ? Ah ! let us pause and consider care- 
 fully. Is it not to present a woman, whose 
 advent the world has awaited for six thousand 
 years — a woman who has been *' first to 
 abandon the belief in the material origin of 
 man " as well as the existence of matter of 
 
The Bible Acknowledged and Denied 33 
 
 any character ; yea, a woman who alone can 
 *' interpret the Scriptures in their true sense" 
 and until whose coming no professing Chris- 
 tian has denied the awful reality of sin, sick- 
 ness and death ? 
 
 What blasphemy / How can it be more 
 fittingly rebuked than in the use of these 
 words of Holy Scripture ? 
 
 " They speak great swelling words of vanity." 
 " Wells without water, clouds that are carried 
 
 with a tempest." 
 " Cursed children : which have forsaken the 
 
 right way and gone astray." 
 ** Servants of corruption." 
 
VI 
 
 THE PERSONALITY OF GOD DENIED 
 
 The casual observer, from the frequent 
 references which Christian Scientists make to 
 Deity, speaking so often of God, of Christ 
 and of the Holy Spirit, would be apt to con- 
 clude that surely the views of these, appar- 
 ently devout people, must be perfectly sound 
 on the Godhead. But let us look carefully 
 into their teachings and the reptile, which 
 has so cunningly concealed itself in the 
 grass, will be brought to light. 
 
 (p. 152) "The theory of three persons in one 
 God . . . suggests heathen Gods." 
 
 That the doctrine of the Trinity is not only 
 suggested, but taught in the Scriptures, we 
 will prove by the following passages : • 
 
 ! (Eph. i. 3) " The God and Father of our Lord 
 
 i Jesus Christ." (God the Father.) 
 
 1 (John i. i) " The Word was with God and the 
 
 j Word was God." (God the Son.) 
 
 j (Acts v. 3, 4) " Why hath Satan filled thine heart 
 
 1 to lie to the Holy Ghost ? . . . thou hast 
 
 not lied unto men, but unto God." (God 
 
 the Holy Ghost.) 
 
 34 
 
The Personality of God Denied 35 
 
 (Col. ii. 9) " In him dwelleth all the fullness of ^ 
 the Godhead bodily." (The Three in One.) 
 
 Again we quote from *' Science and 
 Health": j 
 
 (p. 227) " Life, Truth, and Love constitute the 
 Triune God." 
 
 Here " life,'* a mere condition — the opposite 
 of death — and "truth" and "love," which 
 are only attributes, characteristics, or quali- 
 ties of the Divine Being, are put in place of 
 the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and are 
 said to *' constitute the triune God." But to 
 show further the absurdity of Christian Science 
 phraseology, since in it Life, Truth, Love, 
 and God mean the same thing, this quota- 
 tion might be written as follows without 
 changing the meaning, — " Life, Life, and 
 Life constitute the Triune Life." Or any 
 of these words might be used in a similar 
 manner. How meaningless ! 
 
 In Christian Science the following are 
 synonyms : 
 
 (p. 449) " * God/ * Principle/ ' Mind/ ' Spirit/ 
 
 * Soul/ ' Life,' • Truth/ ' Love.' " 
 (p. 7) "'Good/" 
 (p. 571) '"Mother/" / 
 
 In the light of other passages from " Science 
 
36 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 and Health " let us analyze some of these 
 terms : 
 
 (p. 226) " God is Spirit." 
 
 (p. 85) ♦' Spirit cannot believe in God. Spirit is 
 God." 
 
 (p. 230) " There is but one Spirit." 
 
 (p. 205) " The Science of Being shows it to be 
 impossible for . . . man to be a sepa- 
 rate intelligence from his Maker." 
 
 Now observe how the Bible contradicts these 
 teachings : 
 
 (John iv. 24) " God is a Spirit ; and they that 
 
 worship him must worship him in spirit and 
 
 in truth." 
 (Heb. i. 14) "Are they not" (the Angels) " all 
 
 ministering spirits, sent forth to minister 
 
 for them who shall be heirs of salvation ? " 
 (Eph. vi. 12) "We wrestle . . . against 
 
 spiritual wickedness " or as on the margin 
 
 " wicked spirits." 
 (Num. xvi. 22) " O God, the God of the spirits 
 
 of all flesh." 
 
 The phrase *'God is Spirit" is repeated 
 many times in ** Science and Health " ; the 
 article ** a " being invariably omitted for this 
 obvious reason — Christian Science teaches 
 that '' there is but one Spirit." But this is a 
 false quotation as well as being unscriptural. 
 From the passages here quoted we are 
 
The Personality of God Denied 37 
 
 taught that God is a Spirit, that the angels 
 and devils are spirits, and that we ourselves 
 are also spirits. Not only so, but the manner 
 in which we are to worship the true God is 
 herein prescribed. 
 
 Therefore, directly contrary to these teach- 
 ings of Christian Science, the Bible declares 
 that spirits can and do believe iii God, even 
 " the devils also believe and tremble." Spirit 
 is not God ; but God is a Spirit. Instead of 
 there being but ojie spirit, 7ne7i, angels and 
 devils are all spirits and each one of these is 
 a separate intelligence from his Maker. 
 
 (p. 89) " Life is God." 
 
 If we take this sentence in the light of Chris- 
 tian Science, it is equivalent to saying " Life 
 is Life " or ** God is God," either of which 
 utterances would be nonsense. 
 
 (p. 178) "As mortals begin to understand Spirit, 
 they give up the belief that there is any true 
 life outside of God." 
 
 This either means that angels, men, and 
 animals do not possess life or that every 
 living being, as well as animals, constitutes 
 God and that all individualities are lost in 
 Him. Either meaning is unscriptural, as 
 shown by the following passages : 
 
38 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 (Rom. xiv. 1 1) *♦ As I live, saith the Lord, every 
 knee shall bow to me, and every tongue 
 shall confess to God." 
 
 (Gen. i. 28) •' And God said unto them, . . . 
 have dominion over the fish of the sea, and 
 over the fowls of the air, and over every 
 living thing that moveth upon the earth." 
 
 Certainly without life, men could neither 
 bow the knee nor confess to God, and God 
 Himself here declares that fish and fowl as 
 well as everything that moveth upon the 
 earth hath life. 
 
 The Pantheistic idea that every living thing 
 constitutes God is also here rebuked. Every 
 knee must bow and every tongue confess to 
 God. Who could imagine God bowing or 
 confessing to Himself ? 
 
 (p. 183) " Truth is God." 
 
 It is a truth that an apple falls to earth. Ac- 
 cording to such teaching, this fact is God ! 
 
 (p. 449) " God is divine principle." 
 
 (p. 308) " Who would stand before a blackboard, 
 
 and pray the principle of Mathematics to 
 
 work out the problem ? " 
 (p. 635, Index) '* Prayer to a personal God is a 
 
 hindrance." 
 (p. 316) " Principle never pardons our sins or 
 
 mistakes." 
 
The Personality of God Denied 39 
 
 (p. 226) " Nothing possesses reality or existence 
 except God." (Therefore everything that 
 exists, including all animals, must be God.) 
 
 (p. 1 3) " In one sense God is identical with 
 nature ; but this spiritual nature is not ex- 
 pressed in matter." 
 
 But, since Christian Science denies the 
 existence of matter, what can be the mean- 
 ing of this hazy passage — except that it 
 teaches that God is Nature ? or that Nature 
 is God? Therefore, Christian Science and 
 Pantheism are identical in their views of 
 God. 
 
 From these quotations it is evident that 
 Christian Science denies that God is a person. 
 It declares Hi7n to be but a principle. Ac- 
 cording to its teachings, God is constituted 
 of every real thing in existence — Nature is 
 God, and yet in flat contradiction to this, 
 Christian Science denies that there is such a 
 thing as nature, or that anything is in exist- 
 ence except spirit. 
 
 In reply to such declarations (though the 
 only thing that is new about them is the 
 dress in which they are attired — the mask 
 they have put on, in adopting a Christian 
 name) let us take up our Bibles and carefully 
 investigate this subject. 
 
 (Gen. i. i) " God created." 
 
40 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 (Gen. i. 2) " The Spirit of God moved." 
 
 (Gen. i. 3) " God said." 
 
 (Gen. i. 4) " God saw " " God divided." 
 
 (Gen. i. 5) " God called." 
 
 (Ex. XX. 1,2)" God spake all these words, say- 
 ing, I am the Lord thy God, which have 
 brought thee out of the land of Egypt." 
 
 (Ex. XX. 5) " I, the Lord thy God, am a jealous 
 God." 
 
 (Ps. vii. 1 1) " God is angry with the wicked." 
 
 (Ps. ix. 8) " He shall judge the world." 
 
 (Isa. Iv. 7) " Our God . . . will abundantly 
 pardon." 
 
 (John iii. 16) " God so loved the world." 
 
 The attributes ascribed to God in these 
 passages could not be so ascribed were He 
 but a principle. While the word " principle " 
 has many meanings, as, " source," " origin," 
 " fundamental truth," " rule of action," etc., 
 yet it would be preposterous to speak of 
 any of these having ability to ** create," to 
 "speak," to "see," to "love," or to "hate," 
 and it would be equally preposterous to say 
 that a principle could become "jealous," could 
 " pardon " an offender, or " judge the world." 
 
 But again, the Bible positively declares the 
 personality of God. 
 
 (Hcb. i. 1-3) " God who at sundry times and in 
 divers manners spake in time past unto the 
 
The Personality of God Denied 41 
 
 fathers by the prophets, hath in these last 
 days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he 
 hath appointed heir of all things, by whom 
 also he made the worlds ; who being the 
 brightness of his glory, and the express 
 image of his person." 
 
 Here it is said of Christ, the Son, that He is 
 the express image of God's person. 
 ! If, as Christian Science says, "nothing 
 expresses reality or existence except God," 
 then the Bible declaration that God " created " 
 is not true, nor would it have been possible 
 for Him to have created the heavens or the 
 earth or anything that is. But, as we fathom 
 the teachings of those who falsely call them- 
 selves " Scientists " we discover that, like the 
 Pantheist, they teach that '* God is identical 
 with Nature." 
 
 Hence, those who fall prostrate before the 
 rocks and hills and who worship the river, 
 the fire, and the storm, are true worshippers 
 of God, while we, who approach Jehovah 
 through our Great High Priest who ever 
 liveth to make intercession for us, are the 
 deluded ones. Such are the only logical 
 conclusions to which we can come if God is 
 not a person and if " prayer to a personal 
 God is a hindrance." 
 
 But the word ** created " implies that the 
 
 J 
 
42 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 Creator existed before and is separate and 
 distinct from the thing created. Hence God 
 is self-existent and eternal, and at His pleas- 
 ure He can create and He can destroy. 
 What a blunder, then, to confound God with 
 His own handiwork, — the universe which 
 He has spread before us ! How absurd it 
 would be to regard a house and the builder 
 thereof as one and the same — and yet such 
 is the teaching of Christian Science with re- 
 gard to God and the sun, the moon, and the 
 earth, and all things which He has created. 
 
 We would not in any sense undertake to 
 solve the mystery of godliness or to find out 
 the Almighty unto perfection, but this one 
 thing is plainly taught us in the Holy Scrip- 
 tures, that God is a person, as distinct from all 
 other beings, whom He has created, as we 
 are from each other. 
 
 (Ps. xi. 4) He has a throne in heaven. 
 
 (Rev. iv. 10) The elders fall down before this 
 throne and worship. 
 
 (Ps. xvi. II) In his presence is fullness of joy. 
 
 (Ps. xvi. II) At God's right hand there are 
 pleasures forever more. 
 
 (Rev. vii. 11) Before this throne the angels fall 
 "Pc>n their faces and worship God. 
 
 (Mati. XXV. 32) Here all nations will be as- 
 sembled for judgment. 
 
The Personality of God Denied 43 
 
 (Rom. xiv. 11-12) Before this throne every knee 
 shall bow and every tongue confess and 
 here every one of us will give an account of 
 himself to God. 
 
 Let, then, those who adhere to Christian 
 Science be consistent, and cease to use God's 
 word deceitfully — let them cease to use it at 
 ally and let God's people view this evil in its 
 true light — as the antichrist of which we 
 are warned, that would deceive the very 
 elect if it were possible. 
 
VII 
 
 JESUS THE CHRIST DENIED 
 
 On this subject as on all others, the teach- 
 ing of Christian Science is subtle and mis- 
 leading. If we do not look deep into the 
 meaning, in some instances, we would regard 
 it as sufficiently orthodox ; but when viewed 
 in the light of other teachings, we behold the 
 King of Glory robbed of His crown, disowned 
 as our Saviour, and even regarded as being 
 but an ** idea " or a " myth." Some of the 
 misleading passages are these : 
 
 (p. 227) " Jesus the Christ was the son of God. 
 
 He was a mediator between humanity and 
 
 spirit." 
 (p. 228) " The proper name of our Master, in the 
 
 Greek, was Jesus the Christ." 
 
 Let us carefully note the terms used in 
 
 speaking of the one mediator between God 
 
 and man. He is called " a mediator," as if 
 
 1 there were others. What does ** Mediator " 
 
 mean in Christian Science ? 
 
 \ (P- 335) A " Way-shower." 
 
 44 
 
Jesus the Christ Denied 45 
 
 So then, when we analyze this passage it 
 simply means that Christ is only a way-shower 
 between humanity and — what — God? Oh, 
 no. Our God is not known to Christian 
 Science, but ** a way-shower betzveen humanity 
 and spirity^ or ** Principle," as ** Spirit '* is 
 elsewhere definedo 
 
 (p- 35 S) "Jesus bore our sins in His own body." 
 
 How much like Scripture, but how unscrip- 
 tural. Let us have it correct. 
 
 (i Pet. ii. 24) " Who his own self bare our sins 
 in his own body on the tree." 
 
 As we fathom this subtle statement we 
 discover that Christian Science denies that 
 there is such a thing as sin, that Jesus had a 
 real body, or that He suffered in our room 
 and stead. Christ is defined as only — 
 
 (p. 562) " The divine manifestation of God which 
 comes in the^^.y^." 
 
 But that He really came thus is elsewhere 
 contradicted. Note how this word is de- 
 fined — 
 
 (p. 565) '* Flesh — an error of physical belief, I 
 . . . an illusion." 
 
 But let us read further. 
 
46 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 (p. 358) " At the time when Jesus felt our infir- 
 mities, he had not conquered all the beliefs 
 of the flesh, or his sense of material life, 
 nor had he risen to his final demonstration 
 of spiritual power." 
 
 Here it is plainly stated that our Saviour 
 had failed to conquer what is explained to 
 be " his sense of material life." This must 
 mean that Jesus, in common with His dis- 
 ciples, was laboring under the delusion that 
 matter really exists, that life is real and 
 earnest, and that man consisted of a soul 
 and body. It is equivalent to saying that 
 the Master had not attained to as high an 
 altitude in knowledge as have the mere 
 beginners of Christian Science at the present 
 time. 
 
 Again, 
 
 (p. 228) " The advent of Jesus of Nazareth 
 marked the first century of the Christian 
 era, but the Christ was without beginning of 
 years or end of days." 
 
 (p. 229) " The invisible Christ was incorporeal, 
 whereas Jesus was a corporeal or bodily ex- 
 istence." 
 
 (p. 331) " The Christ is the divinity of the man 
 Jesus." 
 
 Christian Science here teaches that Jesus 
 and Christ are not the same, but that Jesus 
 
Jesus the Christ Denied 47 
 
 was merely a body while Christ was body- 
 less and possessed only a spiritual nature. 
 
 (Matt. xvi. 13-16) "Jesus asked his disciples, 
 saying, whom say ye that I, the Son of 
 man, am ? Peter answered, and said. Thou 
 art the Christ, the Son of the living God." 
 
 In the seventeenth verse Christ assured 
 Peter that he had given the correct answer, 
 and not only so, but added, 
 
 (Matt. xvi. 17) "flesh and blood hath not re- 
 vealed it unto thee, but my Father which is 
 in heaven." 
 
 Then these verses make it plain that the\ 
 names of "Jesus" and "Christ" are syno-l 
 nyms and ever refer to the same person. ^ 
 
 (p. 334) " The Christ dwelt forever as an ideal in 
 the bosom of the Principle of the man 
 Jesus." 
 
 Christian Science here teaches that instead 
 of Jesus being the Christ, as He is declared 
 to be in John xx. 31, Christ is so far from 
 being Jesus that He only dwells— nor does 
 He dwell in reality; but as an idea or fancy, 
 and where does He thus dwell — in the 
 bosom of Jesus? Nay, but only "in the 
 bosom of the principle of the man Jesus." 
 
 This expression, like the larger portion of 
 Christian Science teaching, is without mean- 
 
48 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 ing or reason ; but it shows that its author is 
 farther from the remotest idea of the true 
 personality of Jesus Christ than were those 
 who said He was "John the Baptist, Elias, 
 Jeremias, or one of the prophets." 
 
 (p. 334) " The virgin-mother conceived this idea 
 of God, and gave to her ideal the name of 
 Jesus." 
 
 (p. 335) " Jesus was the offspring of Mary's self- 
 conscious communion with God." 
 
 Taking these two passages together, the 
 meanmg is simply this — that Mary had com- 
 munion with God ; that this communion 
 resulted in the conception — not of a son 
 (though the angel had so declared to Joseph, 
 Matt. i. 21), nor was the son "the only be- 
 gotten of the Father" (John i. 14), but Mary 
 had merely conceived ait idea; just a 
 thought, a fancy had entered her mind, and 
 that fancy she called Jesus. Thus the Jesus 
 of Christian Science is nothing more than an 
 idea which passed through the mind of the 
 Virgin Mary. 
 
 Let us now turn to our Bible and read its 
 simple story about Christ. 
 
 (Luke ii. 7) " And she brought forth her first 
 born son, and wrapped him in swaddling 
 clothes, and laid him in a manger ; because 
 there was no room for them in the inn." 
 
Jesus the Christ Denied 49 
 
 If Christian Science is correct, this passage 
 should read, **And she brought forth her first 
 born idea, and wrapped it in swaddling 
 clothes, and laid it in a manger ; because 
 there was no room for ideas in the inn." 
 
 (Matt. ii. 1 3) " Arise, and take the young child 
 and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and 
 be thou there until I bring thee word ; for 
 Herod will seek the young child to destroy 
 him." 
 
 (Luke ii. 28) " Then he took him up in his 
 arms." 
 
 (Luke ii. 43) " The child Jesus tarried behind in 
 Jerusalem." 
 
 If we substitute the word ** idea " in these 
 verses for the word " child," we cannot but 
 be shocked at the absurdity ; and yet, to be 
 consistent, that is what Christian Science 
 must do. If these changes be made, we 
 would read that ** Joseph was warned to take 
 the young idea and its mother and flee into 
 Egypt, for Herod would seek its destruc- 
 tion." Such rendering would present Sim- 
 eon taking an idea up in his arms, and it 
 would present an idea as tarrying at Jeru- 
 salem and sitting in the midst of the doctors, 
 both hearing them and asking them ques- 
 tions. 
 
50 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 (p. 229) '* The divine idea, or Christ, was, is and 
 ever will be inseparable from its divine prin- 
 ciple, God." 
 
 (p. 229) *• The invisible, the spiritual idea, or the 
 Christ." 
 
 (p. 231) " A portion of God could not enter 
 corporeal man ; neither could His fullness be 
 reflected by him." 
 
 From the quotation on page 228, as already 
 observed, it would seem that Jesus was 
 merely a body. On page 334 this same Jesus 
 is said to be but an ideUy conceived by Mary. 
 Again, on page 229, Christ is also defined 
 as only an idea. 
 
 It certainly would be difficult to harmonize 
 these passages, but one thing is clear — the 
 incarnation of Jesus Christ is most emphatic- 
 ally denied. 
 
 Let us again examine our Bibles and ask 
 God to give us light on this subject. 
 
 (Luke i. 35) " The Holy Ghost shall come upon 
 thee, and the power of the Highest shall 
 overshadow thee ; therefore also that holy 
 thing which shall be born of thee shall be 
 called the Son of God." 
 
 (John i. 14) He is " the only begotten son of the 
 Father." 
 
 (Heb. X. 10) " By which will we are sanctified, 
 through the offering of the body of Jesus 
 Christ once for all." 
 
Jesus the Christ Denied 51 
 
 From these passages it is evident thati 
 
 Jesus Christ has a body, and it is equally! 
 
 evident that Jesus and Christ are one andf 
 the same person. 
 
 (Luke xxiv. 39) " Behold my hands and my feet, 
 that it is I myself; handle me and see; for 
 a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see 
 me have." 
 
 (Luke xxiv. 42, 43) "And they gave him a 
 piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb, 
 and he took it, and did eat before them." 
 
 We cannot think of any way in which 
 Christ could have more fully demonstrated 
 to the disciples that He was not a mere 
 **idea" or myth, than for Him to have eaten 
 in their presence. Nor can we conceive of 
 a more effectual method to prove, con- 
 clusively, that He had an^^en from the dead, 
 with the identical body in which He was 
 crucified, than by the manner in which He 
 gratified the doubting disciple : 
 
 (John XX. 27) '• Then saith he to Thomas " (in 
 the presence of the other disciples) " Reach 
 hither thy finger, and behold my hands, 
 and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it 
 into my side ; and be not faithless, but be- 
 lieving." 
 
 (Heb. xiii. 8) " Jesus Christ the same yesterday, 
 and to-day, and forever." 
 
52 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 These words deda.re /esus Christ to be co- 
 existent with God the Father. 
 
 But of the blasphemous teachings of Chris- 
 tian Science concerning our Saviour, what 
 can we say ? Ah ! let us be silent and listen 
 with reverence, while the Holy Spirit rebukes 
 them: 
 
 (i John ii. 22) " Who is a liar, but he that de- 
 nieth that Jesus is the Christ ? " 
 
 (l John iv. 2, 3) ♦' Hereby know ye the spirit of 
 God; every spirit that confesseth that Jesus 
 Christ is come in the flesh, is of God ; and 
 every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus 
 Christ is come in the flesh, is not of God; 
 and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof 
 ye have heard that it should come; and 
 even now already it is in the world." 
 
 (2 John 7) " For many deceivers are entered 
 into the world, who confess not that Jesus 
 Christ is come in the flesh. This is a de- 
 ceiver and an antichrist." 
 
VIII 
 
 MATTER—ITS EXISTENCE DENIED / 
 
 (p. 173) " Nothing we can say or believe regard- 
 ing matter is true, except that matter is 
 unreal." \ 
 
 (p. 452) " All is mind, there is no matter." 
 
 After such a declaration as this, it would 
 seem that Christian Science would have noth- 
 ing more to say. It declares the testimony 
 of our five senses to be absolutely false; 
 that seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and 
 smelling are but hallucinations. Therefore, 
 according to its teaching, that which we call 
 the earth is but an illusion. It is not in reality 
 beneath our feet, nor are the heavens above 
 our heads. The sun, moon, and stars are 
 not God's handiwork, but only fancies of our 
 distorted minds. The trees and brooks and 
 all the beauties of Nature and our very exist- 
 ence is but a dream. Such declarations we 
 believe can emanate from no other source 
 than "the father of lies," the "God of this 
 world who hath blinded the minds of them 
 which believe not." They are like to the 
 ravings of a maniac and the utterances that 
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54 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 proceed from those who are hopelessly mad. 
 But since their seductive teachings are lis- 
 tened to by multitudes, and since thousands 
 of people are assenting to them — many of 
 whom are in utter ignorance of the real 
 teachings of Christian Science ; since, also, 
 this monstrosity comes in the name of our 
 Christ, calls itself infallible, and has bound 
 its vile book between the same covers as our 
 blessed Bible. In view of all these facts, it 
 becomes the children of the living God to 
 arise and repudiate the insults heaped upon 
 His Son. We will, therefore, proceed to 
 prove that life is real, and that it is earnest, 
 and that matter does exist. 
 
 Yet, to attempt to reason with those who 
 deny the testimony of their own senses would 
 be the height of folly, since it is only by these 
 witnesses that any fact in this life can be 
 established. 
 
 When the disciples of John delivered his 
 message to Jesus, and said unto Him : 
 
 (Matt. xi. 2-5) " Art thou he that should come, 
 or do we look for another?" "Jesus an- 
 swered, and said unto them, Go, and shew 
 John again those things which ye do hear 
 and see. The blind receive their sight, and 
 the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and 
 the deaf hear, the dead are raised up." 
 
Matter — Its Existence Denied 55 
 
 But this authority, coming from the lips of 
 Christ, could avail nothing with Christian 
 Scientists, since they deny the testimony of 
 both their eyes and ears. To them, men 
 have no eyes with which to see ; therefore 
 even Christ could neither give nor restore 
 sight. To them there are no lame people — 
 men do not even possess limbs, and therefore 
 even Christ could not make them to walk. 
 As for the lepers — there is no such thing as 
 disease of any kind ; therefore Christ's claim 
 that He cleansed them was untrue. The 
 sense of hearing is but a delusion, which 
 even Christ could not make real, and as for 
 the dead, there is no such thing as death. 
 
 Thus even the most sacred utterances of 
 Christ, when He refers to matter, come with 
 no authority whatever to those who deny its 
 existence. 
 
 There is, therefore, no method by which 
 we can reason with Christian Scientists on 
 the existence of matter, only to prove that, 
 by the same method by which they seek to 
 overthrow the testimony of our senses in 
 proof of everything to which they bear 
 witness. Christian Science is itself a fraud. 
 If our eyes and ears and sense of feeling are 
 only deceivers and if we cannot believe their 
 testimony regarding other matters, how can 
 
56 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 we accept what they testify to us regarding 
 Christian Science ? It is only through them 
 that we have ever learned anything about 
 ** Science and Health " or its author, and if 
 they have lied to us about everything else, 
 they are surely lying to us about these things. 
 Therefore by the same method by which 
 Christian Scientists undertake to disprove 
 the existence of matter, we can overthrow 
 their entire system. 
 
 Furthermore, we will show that *' Science 
 and Health" contradicts itself and unwit- 
 tingly acknowledges that matter exists. In 
 attempting to prove that appearances are 
 often erroneous, it acknowledges the exist- 
 ence of our earth as well as that of the entire 
 solar system. 
 
 (p. 1 5) " The earth revolves about the sun once a 
 year, besides turning daily on its own axis." 
 (p. 10) " Mortals are corporeal." 
 
 This is the same as to say ** Man has a ma- 
 terial body." 
 
 (p. 255) "Matter is neither intelligent nor crea- 
 tive." 
 
 How can Christian Science harmonize this 
 statement with the declaration that " there is 
 no matter" ? 
 
Matter — Its Existence Denied 57 
 
 (p. 178) " Mind cannot pass into non-intelligence 
 and matter." 
 
 Compare this with 
 
 (l Cor. vi. 19) " Your body is the temple of the 
 
 Holy Ghost which is in you." 
 (p. 5 1 1) "This is the error — that mortal man 
 
 starts from dust." 
 
 Note how this is contradicted in 
 
 (Gen. ii. 7) " God formed man from the dust of 
 the ground." 
 
 If, then, it is an ** error" that man was 
 formed from dust God's record is untrue. 
 
 (p. 9, Preface) " A child drinks in the outward 
 world through the eyes, and rejoices in the 
 draught. He is as sure of the world's exist- 
 ence as of his own." 
 
 No exception can be taken to this statement, 
 but Christian Scientists, to be consistent, should 
 blindfold their children from infancy and thus 
 prevent their optic nerves from conveying 
 such gigantic lies to their minds. 
 
 But now we address ourselves to reason- 
 able men. With such it seems to be a waste 
 of time to prove a thing that is self-evident ; 
 yet it cannot be amiss to obtain a clear under- 
 standing about God's teachings on this sub- 
 
58 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 ject and especially so since Christian Science 
 has so much to say about His word, and so 
 often misconstrues and misquotes it. 
 
 (Gen. i. i) " God created the heaven and the 
 earth." 
 
 To create means to " bring into being ; to 
 cause to exist." Such is beyond the power 
 of man and even beyond his conception ; but 
 the evidence that a creation has taken place 
 is so overwhelmingly great that we only have 
 to open our eyes and behold the heavens and 
 the earth. 
 
 That the earth is composed of matter may 
 be proved from the following words : " God 
 formed man from the dust of the ground." 
 ** Then shall the dust return to the earth as 
 it was ; and the spirit shall return unto God 
 who gave it." 
 
 Dust is not spirit, nor is it mind or soul ; 
 but it is matter. It was when God breathed 
 into the nostrils of man whom He had formed 
 that "he became a living soul," and it is 
 when the separation of this soul and body 
 takes place that man returns to the ground 
 out of which he was taken ; then it is clear 
 that " dust we are and unto dust shalt we 
 return " (Gen. iii. 19). 
 
 But Christian Science in '• Science and 
 
Matter — Its Existence Denied 59 
 
 Health" (p. 526), substitutes "nothingness" 
 for the word ** dust " in this very passage, 
 and if its application would be correct here, 
 it would be in all other passages where it 
 occurs or where matter in any of its forms is 
 referred to. Let us, therefore, substitute 
 this word as Christian Science would have 
 us do in a number of passages and the ab- 
 surdity of such a rendering will be made 
 more apparent than perhaps it could be in 
 any other manner. 
 
 ** God created nothingness " (Gen. i. i) ; 
 " And God called the dry nothingness earth, 
 and the gathering together of the noth- 
 ingness called he the seas" (Gen. i. 10). 
 ** Nothingness thou art, and unto nothingness 
 shalt thou return " (Gen. iii. 19). (Why would 
 an infinitely wise being waste time in speak- 
 ing to a nothingness?) **As nothingness 
 without the spirit is dead, so faith without 
 works is dead also" (James ii. 26). (How 
 much more could nothingness be alive with 
 a spirit than without it ?) " But nothingness 
 which are now, by the same word are kept 
 in store, reserved unto fire against the day 
 of judgment and perdition of ungodly men " 
 (2 Peter iii. 7). (How could nothmgness be 
 now, or how could nothingness be kept in 
 store and reserved mto fire ?) But the time 
 
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 would fail us to show the innumerable ab- 
 surdities into which such a rendering would 
 lead us. 
 
 Thus, Christian Science flatly denies the 
 teaching of God's word with regard to 
 creation. It says God created nothing, and 
 it puts the Almighty before us in the attitude 
 of a liar. 
 
IX 
 
 SIN AND EVIL 
 
 (p. 207) " Sin exists only so long as the material 
 illusion remains." 
 
 In other words, as soon as we become con- 
 vinced that matter is unreal, we will no longer 
 have any sense of sin even though we may 
 be guilty of the vilest crimes. — 
 
 In our chapter on Matter we not only 
 proved its existence from the Bible and from 
 reason, but demonstrated it to be real by 
 the same witnesses as testify to us about the 
 false doctrines advocated by Christian Science 
 — viz. : our eyes and ears. Therefore, if 
 matter is an illusion, there is nothing that is 
 real — not even the existence of such a book 
 as ** Science and Health " or the teachings 
 advocated therein. But since matter is not 
 an illusion, then sin really exists and the be- 
 lief that we are not sinners only makes us the 
 more vile in the eyes of God. 
 
 (p. loi) " The unreality of evil." 
 (p. 165) " The nothingness of evil." 
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62 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 (p. 464) " Evil is but an illusion." 
 (p. 237) •' Evil has no reality." 
 (p. 459) " Man is incapable of sin." 
 (p. 4) " The awful unreality called evil." 
 
 In passages without number " Science and 
 Health " quotes and misquotes Scripture in 
 an attempt to sustain itself by forcing false 
 meanings into God's word. In proof, there- 
 fore, that the above declarations about sin 
 are unfounded in the Scriptures, let us con- 
 sider the following : 
 
 (i John i. 8) •' If we say that we have no sin, we 
 deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in 
 us." 
 
 (Num. xxxii. 23) " Be sure your sin will find you 
 out." (Men may for a while enjoy the fruits 
 of their wickedness, but a dreadful judgment 
 shall tread upon the heels of their sin.) 
 
 (Isa. hx. 2) " But your iniquities have separated 
 between you and your God, and your sins 
 have hid his face from you, that he will not 
 hear." 
 
 By the sacrifices under the old dispensation 
 the reality of sin was deeply impressed upon 
 all people. Therefore, every lamb or bullock 
 that was slain and offered upon Jewish altars 
 was an acknowledgment of sin against God 
 
Sin and Evil 63 
 
 and a petition for pardon for the offense, 
 through this typical ofi^ering. 
 
 (i Pet. ii. 24) " Who his own self bare our sins in 
 
 his own body on the tree." 
 (Isa. liii. 5) " But he was wounded for our trans- 
 gressions, he was bruised for our iniquities ; 
 the chastisement of our peace was upon him ; 
 and with his stripes we are healed." 
 '(i Cor. XV. 3) " Christ died for our sins." 
 -{2 Cor. V. 21) " He hath made him to be sin for 
 us, who knew no sin." 
 
 In these verses the doctrine of the atone- 
 ment is plainly set forth. Christ's offering 
 upon the cross became necessary, because no 
 other being in the universe could accomplish 
 the end, neither could all the blood of goats 
 and bulls that had been sacrificed remove a 
 single sin. Our sins are such an awful reality 
 that to cleanse us required the death of God's 
 only begotten Son. ^J 
 
 Thus we have set the Bible side by sidel i 
 with the teachings of Christian Science on J 
 the subject of sin, and we find that they flatly \ 
 contradict each other. The Bible says that 
 " the whole world lieth in wickedness " (i John 
 V. 19). Christian Science not only denies 
 that there is such a thing as evil, but it plainly j 
 declares that "man is mcapable of sin." 
 
64 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 (i Tim. iv. i) ** Now the spirit speaketh expressly, 
 that in the latter times some shall depart from 
 the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, 
 and doctrines of devils." 
 
 If the proclamation of man's inability to sin 
 is not one of Satan's doctrines, we cannot 
 conceive what would be. A few centuries 
 ago Luther made Germany ring with the 
 atrociousness of putting a price on crime in 
 the sale of indulgences, but what a tame thing 
 that was compared to opening the flood-gates 
 of iniquity, inviting men to enter if they so 
 desire, and telling them that *' evil is but an 
 illusion." 
 
 When we follow these teachings to their 
 logical conclusions, a murderer is as innocent 
 as he who administers relief to the suffering. 
 A thief has done nothing amiss, the adulterer 
 need not hide his head in shame, and he who 
 has committed crime of whatever nature is to 
 receive equal homage for his deeds with the 
 philanthropist who has spent his all for the 
 good of his fellow men. 
 
 But while Christian Science so positively 
 denies that there is such a thing as sin, yet 
 it flatly contradicts itself in the following 
 language : 
 
 (p. 92) " Sin alone brings death/' 
 (p. 99) " The sinner is a suicide." 
 
Sin and Evil 65 
 
 (p. 1 30) " Sin is thought before it is acted." 
 (p. 123) " Evil and error lead into captivity." 
 (p. 334) " Christians must take up arms against 
 error at home and abroad. They must grap- 
 ple with sin, in themselves and in others." 
 
 We can conceive of no way in which these 
 passages can be harmonized with the former 
 ones, nor can we account for such an ac- 
 knowledgment that after all there really is 
 such a thing as " evil," '* sin " and ** death." 
 Except it be that like Balaam who, when he 
 wanted to curse God's people, only pro- 
 nounced a blessing upon them — so the author 
 of "Science and Health" in these instances 
 denies her former teachings because she is 
 not permitted to " go beyond the word of the 
 Lord." Her testimony here regarding sin 
 and death is much in accord with the Bible, 
 which not only teaches that there is such a 
 thing as sin, but also declares that God ** will 
 not justify the wicked" (Ex. xxiii. 7), for 
 "though hand join hand, the wicked shall not 
 be unpunished" (Prov. xi. 21) and this pun- 
 ishment is said by Christ to be everlasting 
 (Matt. xxv. 46). So terrible a thing is sin 
 that to Israel it was said, "Your iniquities 
 have separated between you and your God, 
 and your sins have hid his face from you, that 
 he will not hear " (Isa. lix. 2). 
 
66 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 But the most vivid of all pictures of sin and 
 its awful consequences is that drawn by 
 Christ. 
 
 (Luke xvi. 19-26) " There was a certain rich man, 
 which was clothed in purple and fine hnen, 
 and fared sumptuously every day ; and 
 there was a certain beggar named Lazarus 
 which was laid at his gate, full of sores, and 
 desiring to be fed with the crumbs which 
 fell from the rich man's table ; moreover the 
 dogs came and licked his sores. And it 
 came to pass, that the beggar died, and 
 was carried by the angels into Abraham's 
 bosom ; the rich man also died and was 
 buried ; and in hell he lift up his eyes, being 
 in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off and 
 Lazarus in his bosom. And he cried and 
 said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me 
 and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip 
 of his finger in water and cool my tongue; 
 for I am tormented in this fiame. But Abra- 
 ham said, Son, remember that thou in thy 
 lifetime receivedst thy good things, and 
 likewise Lazarus evil things ; but now he is 
 comforted, and thou art tormented. And 
 beside all this, between us and you there is a 
 great gulf fixed ; so that they which would 
 pass from hence to you cannot; neither 
 can they pass to us, that would come from 
 thence." 
 
 Soon after Christ had thus depicted the 
 eternal destiny of the righteous and the 
 wicked, a tragedy occurred upon Calvary 
 
Sin and Evil 67 
 
 which revealed to the world the reality of sin 
 in a more emphatic manner than any event 
 in the history of the world. Listen to the 
 agonizing cries of the Son of God as He hung 
 upon the cross and while He sweat great 
 drops of blood — ''My God, my God, why 
 hast thou forsaken me?" (Matt, xxvii. 46). 
 Ah 1 the reason was because of our sins ! 
 Jesus was our representative — when there was 
 no eye to pity or arm able to deliver, Christ 
 stepped upon the scene in our behalf. God 
 forsook Him because He was suffering in our 
 room and stead. 
 
 Had sin been " unreal " or but an " illusion " 
 would Christ have left the glory which He 
 had with the Father and undergone such suf- 
 ferings and death? Nay, above all places, 
 when we are overshadowed by the Cross, let 
 it not be intimated that men cannot sin. 
 
 Thus in these declarations Christian Science 
 denies the atonement of Christ, His mission 
 to earth to save souls, and sets at naught the 
 entire word of God. 
 
X 
 
 SEX, GENERATION AND MARRIAGE 
 
 (p. 201) " Gender is a quality, a characteristic of 
 mind, not of matter." 
 
 If this rule applies to human beings, it 
 would also apply to all animals. Therefore, 
 there is no such thing as distinction of sex 
 among human beings or the brute creation, 
 only as is indicated by their mental character- 
 istics. Such are the teachings of Christian 
 Science, while Jesus declares of man and wife 
 that " God made them male and female." 
 
 (p. 274) " The time also cometh of which Jesus 
 spake, when he declared that in the resur- 
 rection there should be no more marrying 
 or giving in marriage, but mortals should 
 be as angels. Then shall soul rejoice in its 
 own, wherein passion hath no part. Then 
 white-robed purity shall unite masculine 
 Wisdom and feminine Love in spiritual un- 
 derstanding and perpetual union. Until it 
 is learned that generation rests on no sexual 
 basis, let marriage continue." 
 
 (p. 275) " Matrimony, which was once a fixed 
 fact among us, must lose its present slippery 
 footing, and find permanence in a more 
 spiritual adherence." 
 68 
 
Sex, Generation and Marriage 69 
 
 (p. 266) " Marriage is the only legal and moral 
 provision for the generation among human 
 kind. Until the spiritual creation is dis- 
 cerned, and the union of male and female 
 apprehended as in the vision of the Apoc- 
 alypse, . . . this union should con- 
 tinue." 
 
 To define the exact meaning of the above 
 is a task of which the writer is not capable, 
 but these things are very plainly taught : 
 
 1. That a time is coming when marriage 
 will be discontinued. 
 
 2. That that time will be when "it is 
 learned that generation rests on 710 sexual 
 basis y 
 
 3. Christ's reference to the resurrection is 
 construed to mean that time when Christian 
 Science will have entirely done away with 
 marriage, and when generation will con- 
 tinue without this divine ordinance. 
 
 4. Matrimony — instituted by God Him- 
 self for the welfare and perpetuation of the 
 human race is to be done away with by 
 Christian Science, and an undefined " per- 
 petual union " between " masculine wisdom 
 and feminine Love" (whatever that means) 
 is to be substituted in its place. 
 
 5. " This union " (marriage) " should con- 
 tinue until the spiritual creation is discerned^^ 
 
yo Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 but as soon as " human kind " make this dis- 
 covery and discern the spiritual creation, 
 "generation may take place without 'mar- 
 riage,'" the present ''legal and moral pro- 
 vision." 
 
 Thus Christian Science and the Bible are 
 at swords' points : 
 
 1. Christian Science declares that there is 
 no such thing as sex while the Bible teaches 
 (Gen. i. 27) that *' God created male and 
 female." 
 
 2. Christian Science declares that " gen- 
 eration rests on no sexual basis " w hile the 
 Bible teaches that God's command to those 
 whom He has "joined together" as man and 
 wife is that they (Gen. i. 28) " be fruitful and 
 multiply." From the beginning generation 
 has rested on sexual basis, as is abundantly 
 proved by the genealogies of the Old and 
 the New Testaments as well as those of later 
 years. 
 
 3. Christian Science, which denies that 
 there is such a thing as death, declares that 
 in this mortal state of our existence marriage 
 is to cease, while Christ teaches that it will 
 not cease until we become immortal by the 
 resurrection from the dead (Matt. xxii. 29, 30). 
 
 4. Christian Science declares that matri- 
 mony is to lose the footing upon which God 
 
Sex, Generation and Marriage 71 
 
 established it, while Christ teaches that until 
 ** the coming of the Son of man " '* marrying 
 and giving in marriage shall continue " 
 (Matt. xxiv. 38, 39). 
 
 5. Christian Science declares that after 
 what it calls **the spiritual creation is dis- 
 cerned," generation may take place without 
 marriage, while Jesus teaches that ** whoso- 
 ever looketh on a woman to lust after her 
 hath already committed adultery with her in 
 his heart" (Matt. v. 28). No exception is 
 made for those who may imagine that they 
 have discerned a spiritual creation^ but the 
 very impulse of generation without marriage 
 is here rebuked by Christ as amongst the 
 vilest of crimes. 
 
 (P- 334) " The illumination of Mary's spiritual 
 sense put to silence material law, and its 
 order of generation, and brought forth her 
 child by the revelation of Truth, demon- 
 strating God as the Father of men." 
 
 From the supernatural conception of 
 Christ, Christian Science here attempts to 
 prove its declaration that ** generation rests 
 on no sexual basis," but with regard to this 
 conception, note : 
 
 I. That Mary said unto the angel, "How 
 shall this thing be, seeing I know not a man ? 
 
72 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 And the angel answered and said unto her, 
 The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and 
 the power of the Highest shall overshadow 
 thee " (Luke i. 34, 35). 
 
 2. Though this conception was revealed 
 unto Mary, yet she in no sense adopted the 
 Christian Science delusion regarding genera- 
 tion. Nay, so far from it that we are told 
 that Joseph her husband knew her not until 
 she had brought forth her first-born son 
 (Matt. i. 25) ; but what afterwards ? Read 
 Matt. xiii. 55, 56. Here we learn that Joseph 
 and Mary had become the parents of a large 
 family of sons and daughters. 
 
 Thus in Christian Science attempting to 
 sustain its groundless attitude with regard to 
 generation from the miraculous conception 
 of Christ, it only defeats itself and proves the 
 opposite from the same records. 
 
 From the above it is plain that Christian 
 Science is seeking in its subtle manner to 
 undermine the divine institution of marriage, 
 and while it acknowledges that it is the only 
 legal and moral provision for generation, yet 
 it advocates that it be abolished by those who 
 can discern the " spiritual creation." But who 
 can so discern except " students " of Christian 
 Science who have advanced far enough in its 
 false teachings to deny the existence of matter 
 
Sex, Generation and Marriage 73 
 
 and believe that " nothing possesses reality 
 or existence except mind " ? (p. 226). 
 
 Therefore, marriage is tolerated by Chris- 
 tian Science only because its adherents are 
 not all sufficiendy advanced in the doctrine 
 of "spiritual creation" to discontinue the 
 *' union " and because the world, bad as it is, 
 is not willing for the appalling results that 
 would inevitably follow the breaking down 
 of this bulwark to society. 
 
 "Marriage is the divinely uplifted dyke 
 that keeps back the inrush of the tidal wave 
 of lust, mad passion, and lawless gratification. 
 Marriage is the basis of all social security and 
 purity. Abolish marriage, break down the 
 sacredness of motherhood, the nobility of 
 fatherhood, and the unshamed right of child- 
 hood, and every institution of order and de- 
 cency would go down with a crash, as when 
 a temple swings and sways, and then sinks 
 to its fall because its base no longer re- 
 mains." * 
 
 If left to itself Christian Science would 
 soon precipitate these most dreadful condi- 
 tions in society, and with its denial of the 
 actual existence of sin and evil, it must ever 
 remain silent amid the corruption, degrada- 
 
 * I. M. Haldeman in his excellent book, " Christian Science 
 in the Light of Holy Scripture," 
 
74 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 tion, and lawlessness brought by it upon the 
 human race. 
 
 But blessed be God for His promise that 
 " when the enemy shall come in like a flood 
 the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard 
 against him." Just to what extent God will 
 permit these delusive teachings to spread, we 
 do not know, nor can we tell hqw long He 
 will permit the heathen to rage and the people 
 to imagine a vain thing ; but we do know 
 that '' they that wait upon the Lord shall re- 
 new their strength ; they shall mount up with 
 wings as eagles ; they shall run and not be 
 weary, and they shall walk and not faint." 
 
XI 
 
 SICKNESS AND DISEASE 
 
 As a premise Christian Science denies the 
 existence of matter. If we grant this premise, 
 we must acknowledge the logical conclusion 
 — that there is no such thing as sickness or 
 disease. In a previous chapter we think we 
 demonstrated the premise to be false — hence 
 the conclusion is groundless. 
 
 Nevertheless since '* Science and Health," 
 in passages without number, denies the re- 
 ality of sickness and disease, and since it 
 declares 
 
 (p. 384) " that the evidence of the senses is not 
 to be accepted in the case of sickness " 
 
 we feel impelled to refute the statements. If 
 we deny the evidence of the senses in the 
 case of sickness we must deny their testimony 
 in everything, including what we see and hear 
 about this so-called Christian Science. When 
 we dispute the testimony of our eyes and 
 ears, denying that we see evidences of suffer- 
 ing in the emaciated bodies of our fellow be- 
 ings ; that we hear their agonizing cries and 
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76 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 groans ; and when lying on beds of anguish 
 we tell our own sense of feeling that it is ly- 
 ing to us — then we may also deny that there 
 is such a book as " Science and Health," that 
 there is a people who call themselves Chris- 
 tian Scientists, and that amongst this people 
 there are those who pretend to be healers, 
 insisting upon the payment of money for 
 restoring to health those whom they say were 
 never sick. It ill becomes those who believe 
 and teach such absurdities to call themselves 
 "Scientists" or "healers." 
 But now to our subject : 
 
 (p. II, Preface) "Sin and disease lose their re- 
 ality." 
 
 How could they lose what the same authority 
 elsewhere declares that they never possessed ? 
 
 (p. 2) " Disease is the false testimony of false 
 material sense." 
 
 This is a scientific (?) expression signifying 
 that there is no disease. 
 
 (p. 8) " The author calls sick and sinful humanity 
 mortal mind." 
 
 And by "mortal mind," as the phrase is 
 used in teaching Christian Science, it is meant 
 to designate something which has no real 
 
Sickness and Disease 77 
 
 existence. Therefore, there is no such thing 
 as sickness. 
 
 (P- 373) " The body, when bereft of mortal mind, 
 
 at first cools." 
 
 Since *' mortal mind " and " sick humanity " 
 are synonyms, this passage might also read 
 — ** The body, when bereft of sick Jnnnanity, 
 at first cools." Either of these expressions 
 is nonsense ; but such is scientific (?) phrase- 
 ology, and to complete the absurdity, we 
 read : 
 
 (p. 392) " Man is never sick." Then in almost 
 
 the same breath it is said, " It is well to be 
 
 calm in sickness." 
 (p. 372) " Disease is a fear." 
 (p. 46) " You say a boil is painful ; but that is 
 
 impossible." 
 (p. 406) " Sickness is always hallucination." 
 (p. 410) "Argue with the patient (mentally, not 
 
 audibly) that he has no disease." 
 
 Whether mentally or audibly, it matters not, 
 since in Christian Science there are neither 
 sounds nor auditory nerves to receive them. 
 
 (p. 477) " Sickness is an illusion.'V 
 
 The above quotations are all that are 
 necessary to prove that Christian Science de- 
 clares that there is no such thing as sickness 
 
78 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 or disease, that the afflicted are only suffer- 
 ing from hallucinations, and that boils and 
 even cancers are not painful. 
 
 How rational beings can make such utter- 
 ances is inexplicable on any other principle 
 than that the god of this world has blinded 
 their eyes and hardened their hearts. How 
 people unpossessed^ in the light of all the 
 suffering to which their sense bears testimony, 
 can coolly affirm that the whole thing is a lie, 
 we can have no conception. 
 
 (p. 400) " Some time it will be learned that Mind 
 constructs the body, and with its own 
 materials. Hence no breakage or disloca- 
 tion can really occur. You say that acci- 
 dents, injuries, and disease kill men; but 
 this is not true." 
 
 If Christian Scientists believed this utterance, 
 they would not hesitate to stand as targets 
 at a rifle range, permit a train to run over 
 their bodies, or dive to the bottom of the sea. 
 According to these teachings, the doors 
 of every hospital and asylum in the land 
 might be swung open and all the patients 
 walk out free and well. The lame man 
 might throw away his crutches and the de- 
 formed walk erect. All severed and withered 
 members of the body might be restored to 
 perform their natural functions ; and suffer- 
 
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 ing in the human family, as well as in the 
 animal kingdom, would instantly cease. 
 
 It seems unnecessary to reply to absurd- 
 ities so self-evident that to most minds they 
 will refute themselves ; but as disciples of 
 Christ, one of our missions is to *' earnestly 
 contend for the faith" and now, as in all 
 ages, we are to defend the truth. 
 
 Christian Science sets before us a creation 
 of its own which it chooses to call " Mortal 
 Mind," meaning, as it defines it, ** something 
 which has no existence." This " something 
 without existence " it represents as ever pro- 
 claiming the existence of matter, declaring 
 to humanity that they are sick, diseased 
 and sinful, all of which utterances we are 
 assured are absolute falsehoods, since all 
 mankind is in perfect health, cannot sin, and 
 do not exist, except as mind. 
 
 In ''Science and Health" (p. 510) an ex- 
 planation is demanded of the origin of the 
 serpent. We answer that this is one of the 
 many things in His word that God has not 
 seen fit to explain to man ; but when Chris- 
 tian Science can give a half-way intelligent 
 explanation as to how this non-existent mon- 
 strosity called " mortal mind " found its way 
 into being, then the serpent's history can be 
 easily related. 
 
8o Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 In overthrowing the attitude occupied by 
 Christian Science regarding sickness and 
 disease, we will prove it to be false from its 
 own testimony as well as from the Scriptures 
 and from reason. 
 
 (p. 5) •• After a careful examination of my dis- 
 covery, and its demonstration in healing the 
 sick, this fact becomes evident to me, — that 
 Mind governs the body." 
 
 Here the discoverer of Christian Science 
 actually says that we have a bodyy and that 
 this body is governed by mind and that her 
 discovery has proved effectual in ** healing 
 the sicky 
 (p. 77) " A lady whom I cured of consumption." 
 
 This lady must really have had co7isinnpiion^ 
 or she could not have been cured of that dread 
 disease, 
 
 (P- 55) " The author has restored health in both 
 acute and chronic disease and in their 
 severest forms. Secretions have been 
 changed, the structure has been renewed, 
 shortened limbs have been elongated, cica- 
 trized joints have been made supple, and 
 carious bones have been restored to healthy 
 conditions." 
 
 If there is no disease how could she rebuke 
 it? If no limbs, joints and bones, how could 
 she restore them to a healthy condition ? 
 
Sickness and Disease 8l 
 
 (p. 6i) •' I have discerned disease in the human 
 mind, and recognize the patient's fear of it, 
 many weeks before the so-called disease 
 made its appearance in the body." 
 
 Then, the patient must have had a body and 
 a disease must have appeared in it to the un- 
 fortunate patient, to others who witnessed 
 the case, and even to this discoverer of 
 Christian Science. 
 
 (p. 167) " Those who are willing to leave their 
 nets . . . have the opportunity now, as 
 aforetime, to learn and practice Christian 
 heahng." 
 
 And so the disciples of old learned the art of 
 performing miracles ! But why is healing 
 necessary if there is no sickness? and how 
 could it be practiced if all are in perfect 
 health ? 
 
 But to cap the climax of Christian Science 
 testimony on disease we are informed that 
 when Dr. Geo. L. West, who on December 
 5, 1910, was called to the home of Mrs. Eddy 
 to make out the death certificate, he was 
 informed by the one who had acted as her 
 right hand man for several years, even Mr. 
 Frye, that ** Mrs. Eddy had been in error 
 about a week, and passed away very 
 quietly." 
 
82 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 Mr. Farlow, one of the hierarchy of the 
 " Mother Church " when asked if " Mrs. Eddy 
 had simply become sick and died?" an- 
 swered, " Yes." 
 
 Dr. Adam H. Dickey, who had been Mrs. 
 Eddy's private secretary for many years, and 
 who, with others, has now taken full charge 
 of the church management — having become 
 one of its directors — on the morning of Mrs. 
 Eddy's death stated that '' she had been in- 
 disposed for eight or nine days." In answer 
 to questions put by Dr. West he said, " I 
 think Mrs. Eddy had pneumonia," also that 
 " she had suffered from some coughing, and 
 that in the end her bronchial tubes had be- 
 come congested and that the air passages 
 had so filled up that she could no longer 
 breathe." 
 
 The foregoing is copied from Associated 
 Press reports as given in the Indianapolis 
 News, all of which seem to be written in the 
 most friendly way to Christian Science. 
 
 What a testimony emanating from Chris- 
 tian Scientists themselves regarding the final 
 sickness of their founder, who declared that 
 *' man is never sick " ! 
 
 But now let us examine the Scriptures with 
 regard to sickness and disease. In God's 
 wonderful dealings with the Israelites He sets 
 
Sickness and Disease 83 
 
 blessings and curses before them, dependent 
 upon the observance of His laws. If they 
 walked in His statutes, every good thing 
 would be showered down upon them ; but 
 accordingly as they departed from Him, they 
 would be visited with sickness, afflictions, and 
 punishments. 
 
 (Lev. xxvi. 16) "I will even appoint over you 
 terror, consumption, and the burning ague, 
 that shall consume the eyes, and cause sor- 
 row of heart." 
 
 (Deut. xxviii. 27) "The Lord will smite thee 
 with the botch of Egypt, and with the 
 emerods, and with the scab, and with the 
 itch, whereof thou canst not be healed." 
 
 (Deut. xxviii. 35) " The Lord shall smite thee in 
 the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch 
 that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy 
 foot unto the top of thy head." 
 
 (Deut. xxviii. 59, 60) ** Then the Lord will make 
 thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of 
 thy seed, even great plagues, and of long 
 continuance. Moreover he will bring upon 
 thee all the diseases of Egypt." 
 
 Whether the Israelites have ever been 
 visited with the plagues herein enumerated 
 is not now the question at issue. It is to 
 determine if the Bible teaches that there is 
 such a thing as bodily suffering, sickness and 
 disease. We believe that no candid mind 
 
84 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 can read these passages and not decide this 
 question in the affirmative. 
 
 In these verses God, not man, is the 
 speaker. Note carefully He uses the words 
 " sickness y^ and " diseases. ^^ Some of these 
 He calls by name as the '' ague," the " botch," 
 the "emerods," the "scab" and the "itch." 
 These diseases are not pictured as being 
 imaginary, but real, inflicted upon the person 
 by God Himself, and various parts of the body 
 are named as being afifected by them, viz. : 
 the eyes, the legs, and to indicate a sickness 
 of the entire body it is added — " from the sole 
 of thy foot unto the top of thy head." 
 
 Again, the cases of sickness and disease 
 recorded in the Bible are very numerous. 
 We select the following : 
 
 (2 Kings xiii. 14) " Now Elisha was fallen sick 
 of his sickness whereof he died." 
 
 (2 Chron. xvi. 12) " And Asa, in the thirty and 
 ninth year of his reign, was diseased in his 
 feet, until his disease was exceeding great." 
 
 (2 Kings XX. i) "In those days was Hezekiah 
 sick unto death." 
 
 (2 Chron. xxi. 15) "Thou shalt have great sick- 
 ness by disease of thy bowels, until the bowels 
 fall out by reason of the sickness day by 
 day." 
 
 Upon these quotations let it be observed 
 that they are the records of inspired writers, 
 
Sickness and Disease 85 
 
 that the diseases spoken of are declared to be 
 facts and that the sufferings of the afflicted 
 were visible upon the bodies of those upon 
 whom they were visited. 
 
 Elisha had been permitted to live a long 
 and useful life ; but now the hand of God is 
 laid upon him and he is taken home. 
 
 Asa, of whom it is said he did that which 
 was right in the eyes of the Lord, is now in 
 the thirty-ninth year of his reign. Many 
 good works had been accomplished by him, 
 but his record was not entirely clear, and 
 whether because of this we cannot say, but 
 he takes a disease— not imaginary, but real. 
 This disease did not appear in his mind, but 
 in his feet, and so severe did it become that 
 it resulted in his death. 
 
 The good King Hezekiah is here declared 
 to be sick unto death and in the seventh 
 verse of the twentieth chapter of Second 
 Kings we have some information as to the 
 nature of his sickness. It seems to have 
 been caused by a boil. This Christian 
 Science declares to be a mere belief on page 
 47, and on page 46 it says that it is impossi- 
 ble for it to be painful. Hence, when we set 
 the Bible against *' Science and Health" 
 there is a flat contradiction. 
 
 But Hezekiah did not die at this time. 
 
86 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 nor was he restored by the prophet arguing 
 with him " that he had no disease." So far 
 from it that by divine direction a material 
 means was used. They took a bunch of figs 
 " and laid it on the boil, and he recovered." 
 
 But of Jehoram and the ''incurable dis- 
 ease " visited upon him, what can be said ? 
 In 2 Chronicles xxi. 19 we learn that his 
 disease was of a lingering character lasting 
 for a period of two years when, as it is 
 expressed, " his bowels fell out by reason of 
 his sickness ; so he died of sore diseases." 
 This is not given as Jehoram's belief about 
 himself, but it is God's record of what had 
 actually happened. It is in fulfillment of 
 Elijah's prophecy delivered to himself. It 
 came upon him as a judgment because of 
 his awful wickedness, and, as a further dis- 
 honor to him, it is said that he "departed 
 without being desired." How absurd it 
 would be to picture Elijah as going to this 
 wicked man, instead of delivering the mes- 
 sage as God had directed, and argue with 
 him that he could not have a disease, nor 
 would it be possible for his bowels to fall out ! 
 
 But the time would fail us to tell about the 
 leprosy of Miriam, Naaman, Gehazi, and 
 the ten who were cleansed by Christ ; of the 
 sickness of Peter's wife's mother : of the 
 
Sickness and Disease 87 
 
 woman who touched the hem of Christ's 
 garment and was cured of the issue of blood 
 with which she had suffered for twelve 
 years ; of the many, whom by Paul's instru- 
 mentality while on the Isle of Melita, were 
 cured of divers diseases and of the multi- 
 tudes of sick people who, wherever Jesus 
 entered, into villages, or cities or country, 
 were laid in the streets that they might touch 
 the border of His garment, and as many as 
 touched were made whole. 
 
 Jesus did not argue with any of the people 
 — telling them that there is no such thing as 
 sickness and consequently that they were 
 entirely well, but on the contrary He recog- 
 nized them as people who were really sick, 
 rebuked their diseases and restored them to 
 health. 
 
 Indeed Jesus went further than this ; in- 
 stead of placing a stigma upon medicine, a 
 slur upon the physician and a cruel rebuke 
 upon the sick and diseased. He said, ** they 
 that be whole need not a physician, but they 
 that are sick" (Matt. ix. 12). Here Jesus 
 bears testimony to the fact that at such 
 times we need a physician. How dare 
 Christian Science then deny the very decla- 
 rations of Christ and teach that there is no 
 sickness, disease, or even death ? 
 
A'' 
 
 88 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 As an example of the pure bitterness dis- 
 played in " Science and Health " against 
 medicine, sanitary laws and physicians, we 
 quote the following : 
 
 (p. 290) " Why support the popular systems of 
 medicine, when the physician may be per- 
 chance an infidel, and loses ninety and nine 
 patients while Christian Science cures its 
 hundred ? " 
 
 (p. 114) " Why do you substitute drugs for the 
 
 I Almighty's power, and employ a doctor to 
 
 lead us contrary to God's will ? " 
 
 (p. 67) " When there are fewer doctors, and less 
 thought is given to sanitary subjects, there 
 
 ! will be better constitutions and less disease." 
 
 In answer to the first of the above quota- 
 tions, we desire to ask, IVho could be a 
 greater infidel than a thorottgh Christia^i 
 Scientist? He declares God to be but a 
 ** Principle," tramples not only the Bible, 
 but the blood of the covenant, beneath his 
 feet and denies the very existence of every- 
 thing that has been created by the Almighty. 
 It is not necessary to dispute the implication 
 here made that physicians, even infidel 
 physicians (and happily there are compara- 
 tively few of these), lose ninety-nine per cent, 
 of their patients, while all who submit to the 
 " healers' " (?) treatment are made whole. 
 Every observant and intelligent person 
 
Sickness and Disease 89 
 
 knows that such an utterance cannot be 
 sustained. 
 
 With regard to the other two quotations^ 
 those in Israel who violated the sanitary laws 
 which God instituted were no less guilty than 
 the transgressors of any other divine precept. 
 Read some of those laws given, not by doc- 
 tors or boards of health, but by God Himself 
 (Deuteronomy xxiv. 8 ; Leviticus vii. 19; xv). 
 
 Again, if these words from '* Science and 
 Health " express the truth, of what avail were 
 the physicians and all the balm of Gilead ? 
 (Jer. viii. 22.) Also, Christ must have been 
 wrong in declaring that the sick need a physi- 
 cian and Paul blundered exceedingly (Col. 
 iv. 14) in speaking of Luke as the beloved 
 physicia7i. Luke should have abandoned the 
 practice of medicine as soon as he became 
 a Christian ; but it is evident that he did not 
 do so. On the contrary, in following his 
 noble profession as well as in proclaiming 
 the everlasting gospel, he became a blessing 
 to many in his day, and, in the use of his 
 pen, he imparted a benediction to all the 
 sons of men. 
 
 That sickness and disease are real is a fact 
 overwhelmingly proved to us from reason, 
 from the Bible and from our own conscious- 
 ness. 
 
90 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 Not only does the Bible declare disease to 
 be real, but it makes it equally plain that in 
 many cases it is contagious ; and not only 
 is disease contagious according to Scripture, 
 but it may be carried from one person to an- 
 other in a garment, and therefore in Leviticus 
 xiii. 52 the law of Moses required the destruc- 
 tion by fire of the garments worn by those 
 afflicted with leprosy. Yea, more, so con- 
 tagious was leprosy that God Himself in 
 Leviticus xiv. 44, 45 required the destruction 
 of the house wherein he who suffered with what 
 was called **a fretting leprosy" had dwelt. 
 The stones, timbers and mortar of such build- 
 ings seemed to imbibe the germs of this 
 dreadful disease to such an extent that it 
 must not be allowed to stand as a death- 
 trap to those who afterwards should enter 
 within its walls. 
 
 Thus Christian Science is again proved 
 to be at variance with the teachings of the 
 word of God. It assumes a Christian name, 
 makes a pretense of piety and glibly quotes 
 and misquotes the Scriptures ; while all the 
 time it is only acting the part of Joab who 
 while feigning friendship to Amasa stabbed 
 him in the fifth rib. 
 
 But Christian Science occupies a double 
 attitude with regard to sickness and disease. 
 
Sickness and Disease 91 
 
 While so positively and repeatedly denying 
 its existence, yet it contradicts itself by not 
 only acknowledging, as already shown, that 
 there is sickness, but by imparting instruc- 
 tions to its " healers." These Christian Sci- 
 ence practitioners have left their nets, as 
 expressed by the author of ** Science and 
 Health" to 'Mearn and practice Christian 
 healing." They claim to accomplish great 
 wonders in restoring the sick, and these are 
 the chief drawing cards for Christian Science. 
 Even in ** Science and Health" we find a 
 number of testimonials (pp. 86 and 87) which 
 are introduced by the author, saying, *' I never 
 believed in receiving certificates or present- 
 ing testimonials of cures." That great won- 
 ders are performed by Christian Science 
 is a question which we will not dispute. In- 
 deed we grant it to be true and in learning 
 of these wonders we marvel at the exact ful- 
 fillment of Scripture. 
 
 (Rev. xvi. 14) •' For they are the spirits of devils, 
 working miracles, which go forth unto the 
 kings of the earth and of the whole world, 
 to gather them to the battle of that great 
 day of God Almighty." 
 
 (Matt. xxiv. 24) " For there shall arise false Christs, 
 and false prophets, and shall shew great signs 
 and wonders; insomuch that, if it were pos- 
 sible, they shall deceive the very elect." 
 
92 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 Why God, at various times, has permitted 
 Satan, through his instrumentalities, to per- 
 form wonders, and even afflict humanity, I 
 would not attempt to explain ; but that He 
 has done so is beyond question. 
 
 (Ex. vii. 12) It is said of the magicians that 
 " they cast down every man his rod, and 
 they became serpents." 
 
 (Job ii. 6, 7) " The Lord said unto Satan, Be- 
 hold, he is in thine hand ; but save his Ufe. 
 So went Satan forth from the presence of 
 the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils, 
 from the sole of his foot unto his crown." 
 
 (Luke xiii. i6) '< Ought not this woman, being a 
 daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath 
 bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed 
 from this bond on the sabbath day ? " 
 
 In the case of Job, he was in Satan's hand 
 to afflict him as he saw fit, and in the loss of 
 his vast possessions, the sudden death of all 
 his children and his intense suffering from 
 boils, it would seem that every conceivable 
 disaster befell Job, but Satan must save his 
 life. 
 
 Of Satan it is also said that ** he is trans- 
 formed into an angel of light " (2 Cor. xi. 14) ; 
 and that " his ministers also be transformed 
 as the ministers of righteousness " (2 Cor. 
 xi. 15). 
 
Sickness and Disease 
 
 93 
 
 What a presentation of downright wicked- 
 ness and deception is here brought to our 
 view ! The arch-enemy of God, angels and 
 men, who hates everything that is good and 
 rejoices only in evil and in the misery and 
 degradation of the human race — such an 
 enemy is here portrayed as transforming 
 himself into an angel of light having ^ninisters 
 feigning righteousness whose real purpose is 
 only to deceive and to mislead. 
 
 But what a chapter might be written by 
 those who have sought relief in Christian 
 Science only to be disappointed ! We have 
 known those who have given up all medicines 
 in the hope of a speedy cure by these divine 
 healers, (?) only to be quickly ushered into 
 eternity. We have known others, who while 
 limping from accidents received, to deny that 
 they have been injured or that they were 
 suffering the least inconvenience. Yet the 
 healer, even in such cases, though denying 
 that money or matter exists, does not forget 
 his fees, and we have known cases where 
 payment has been demanded even when such 
 practitioners had not been counselled. 
 
V 
 
 XII 
 DEATH 
 
 Not only does Christian Science deny the 
 reality of sickness, but it also declares that 
 death is "an illusion." 
 
 (p. 563) " There is no death." 
 
 (p. 401) " You say that accidents, injuries, and 
 
 disease kill man ; but this is not true." 
 (p. 347) '♦ Death will be found at length to be a 
 
 mortal dream." 
 
 Of Christ's death upon the cross in our 
 
 stead, Christian Science denies that it ever 
 
 I occurred. On page 348 it speaks of the 
 
 ! Saviour as being only an " idea of God," and 
 
 { of His trial and crucifixion it says ** which " 
 
 I (referring to Christ as but an idea) " they had 
 
 mocked and tried to slay." So, of those who 
 
 crucified Christ, Christian Science says that 
 
 in reality they only mocked and tried to slay 
 
 ''the true idea of God." 
 
 (P- 350 "Jesus' students ... did not per- 
 form many wonderful works until they saw 
 him after his crucifixion, and learned that 
 he had not died." 
 
 (p. 349) " His disciples believed Jesus dead while 
 he was hidden in the sepulchre." 
 
 94 
 
Death 95 
 
 Language cannot be plainer than this. Not- 
 withstanding the many meaningless things 
 in " Science and Health," it cannot be mis- 
 understood in its denial of the reality of 
 death. Yet with equal plainness it contra- 
 dicts itself and acknowledges death to be a 
 solemn fact. 
 
 (p. 244) •* Many instances could be cited of death 
 occasioned by the fear of death." 
 
 (p. 271) " If some fortuitous circumstance places 
 spiritual children in the arms of gross par- 
 ents, these beautiful children often early 
 droop and die." 
 
 (p. 70) " If a dose of poison is swallowed through 
 mistake, and the patient dies, . . . does 
 belief, you ask, cause this death ? Even so, 
 and as directly as if the poison had been in- 
 tentionally taken." 
 
 Even the death of the author of " Science 
 and Health " on the morning after its occur- 
 rence was acknowledged in these words by 
 Mr. Farrow— "Mrs. Eddy died quietly and 
 as an old lady would be expected to die." 
 Mr. Dickey said that '' in the end her bron- 
 chial tubes had become congested and that 
 the air passages had so filled up that she 
 could no longer breathe." So, notwithstand- 
 ing this woman's oft repeated declaration 
 that " there is no death," yet she herself suc- 
 cumbed to sickness and gave up the ghost. 
 
96 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 In the above quotations the reality of death 
 is not only acknowledged by "Science and 
 Health " and Christian Scientists, but its oc- 
 currence is attributed to four different causes, 
 viz. : fear, neglect, poison, and disease. We 
 do not take exception to any of these pas- 
 sages, but they are directly contrary to the 
 former ones, and as positively as one declara- 
 tion is true, the other is false. 
 
 But to ascertain the truth on this subject, 
 let us again examine our Bibles. The pas- 
 sages declaring the awful reality of death are 
 so numerous that we scarcely know where to 
 begin. We will therefore consider only a few. 
 
 (Gen. XXV. 8) "Then Abraham gave up the 
 ghost, and died in a good old age, an old 
 man, and full of years ; and was gathered to 
 his people." 
 
 This is only one of hundreds of passages that 
 might be quoted announcing the death of 
 patriots, kings, and leaders amongst the Is- 
 raelites, as well as other nations in the early 
 history of the world. After recording the 
 deeds of these individuals, whether good or 
 bad, the inspired biographer concludes with 
 their death. In this instance, as in many 
 others, not only is the party's death recorded, 
 but various terms are employed to emphasize 
 
Death 97 
 
 the fact. Abraham gave up the ghost and 
 was gathered to his people, and in the follow- 
 ing verse it is said that " his sons Isaac and 
 Ishmael buried him in the cave of Mach- 
 pelah in the field of Ephron." 
 
 Here we are taught that in death the soul 
 and body are separated from each other. 
 Abraham's " spirit returned to God who gave 
 it" while his body which consisted of dust 
 was buried beneath the clods of the valley. 
 
 (John xi. 14) " Then said Jesus unto them plainly, 
 Lazarus is dead." 
 
 (John xi. 39) " Martha, the sister of him that was 
 dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he 
 stinketh ; for he hath been dead four days." 
 
 The incident here referred to is familiar to 
 every one who has read the Scriptures. Who 
 in the face of such an utterance by Christ 
 Himself could deny the fact which He here 
 declares ? The fact that Lazarus was really 
 dead and that his entombed body had begun 
 to decompose — ah I listen how the very 
 words of the Saviour are misconstrued in 
 "Science and Health" in order to deceive — 
 only a part of what He said being quoted. 
 
 (p. 241) " Jesus said of Lazarus : ' He is not dead, 
 but sleepeth,' He restored Lazarus by the 
 understanding that he had never died." 
 
98 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 Thus the testimony of the senses, the teach- 
 ings of reason, and the very word of God are 
 all denied, and the adherents to Christian 
 Science are required to believe that which is 
 contrary to the teachings of these witnesses. 
 In concluding this subject we will only 
 briefly cite the utterances of the devil and 
 Christian Science, and compare them with the 
 words of God — leaving the reader to note how 
 flatly the one contradicts the other. 
 
 The Words of the Devil and 
 
 « Science and Health:' 
 (Gen. iii. 4) " Ye shall not 
 surely die." 
 
 (p. 563) "There is no death." 
 
 God's Word. 
 
 (Gen. ii. 17) "In the day that 
 thou eatest thereof thou 
 shalt surely die." 
 
 ( Jas. ii. 26) " The body with- 
 out the spirit is dead." 
 
 (Heb. ix. 27) " It is ap- 
 pointed unto men once to 
 die." 
 
XIII 
 
 eONTRADICTIONS IN " SCIENCE AND 
 HEALTH » 
 
 (p. 291) " In this volume of mine there are no 
 contradictory statements." 
 
 What an utterance for one to make con- 
 cerning her own productions ! Others should 
 be allowed to determine that for themselves; 
 but instead of submitting her writings to 
 reason, the author of *' Science and Health " 
 denies the privilege of investigation by adding 
 — ** at least none which are apparent to those 
 who understand its propositions well enough 
 to pass judgment upon them." How arbi- 
 trary, how distasteful and how repulsive to an 
 honest mind seeking for the truth. In sub- 
 stance it is equivalent to saying — ** If you do 
 not accept everything I say without a ques- 
 tion or a doubt, it is because you do not un- 
 derstand me, and, therefore, you are incapa- 
 ble of passing judgment. Silence only be- 
 comes those who fail to see the perfect har- 
 mony in my infallible teachings." 
 99 
 
lOO Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 How different is such a tyrannical posture 
 from that of Christ and Paul. Jesus said to 
 the Jews, 
 
 (John X. 37) " If I do not the works of my Father, 
 believe me not." 
 
 He thus invites investigation and regards 
 even His enemies as being capable of deter- 
 mining whether He be an impostor or is truly 
 the Son of God, and the inspired Apostle 
 Paul, in addressing the Corinthians, salutes 
 them as reasonable men (i Cor. x. 15) and 
 calls upon them to judge as to the wisdom 
 of what he says. 
 
 But how different in Christian Science. 
 One who becomes a follower of its teachings 
 must first deny the testimony of his own eyes 
 and ears and all five of his senses — except 
 when its ** discoverer " speaks. Then every 
 utterance must be accepted without a ques- 
 tion. He must even beheve the founder when 
 she declares that 
 
 (p. 4) " No human pen or tongue taught me the 
 Science contained in * Science and Health.' " 
 
 This must be accepted as true notwith- 
 standing the overwhelming evidence, pro- 
 
Contradictions loi 
 
 duced by Lyman P. Powell/ that her book is 
 largely suggested by the teachings of P. P. 
 Quimby, of whom she said before the publi- 
 cation of her '* revelation " (?) he ** speaks 
 as never man before spake and heals as never 
 man healed since Christ ; is he not identified 
 with the truth? and is not this the Christ 
 which is in him? " ^ 
 
 This Quimby died in the year 1865 — one 
 year before Mrs. Eddy's discovery of what 
 she calls Christian Science. He had been 
 her teacher and healer as acknowledged by 
 herself by letters still extant addressed to 
 him. In one of these, dated January 12, 
 1863, she says, " 1 am to all who see me a 
 living wonder and a living monument of 
 your power." In letters after this date ad- 
 dressed to this same man, she says, " Who 
 is wise but you?" "Dear doctor, what 
 could I do without you ? " "I am up and 
 about to-day, i. e., by the help of the Lord." 
 (Quimby.) ^ 
 
 Mr. Powell says, ** Later in the same year 
 (1862) I find in the Portland Courier an 
 eloquent denial that Quimby was either a 
 
 > Powell's remarkable Look is worthy a wide circulation. 
 Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.— The Knicker- 
 bocker Press. 
 
 2 Powell, p. 29. » Ibid.y p. 31. 
 
)02 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 spiritualist, or mesmerist, and an unequivocal 
 statement that under Quimby's care patients 
 recovered in proportion to their perception 
 of truth. This letter is signed by Mary M. 
 Patterson, earlier Mary M. Glover, and now 
 Mary Baker G. Eddy." ^ Thus we see how 
 closely Mrs. Eddy and her teacher were 
 associated, and yet after all this she declares 
 that ** neither pen nor tongue taught me the 
 science contained in * Science and Health,' " 
 and, as if to terrify those who would venture 
 an investigation she adds (p. 4), *' and neither 
 tongue nor pen can overthrow it." " This 
 book," she continues, *' may be distorted by 
 shallow criticism, or by careless and mis- 
 chievous students and its ideas may be 
 temporarily forced into wrong channels ; but 
 the Science and Truth therein will remain 
 forever, to be discerned and demonstrated." 
 
 Here it is impHed that every one who 
 takes issue with her teachings is a distorter 
 and a shallow critic. If he cannot see eye to 
 eye with her and ventures to express a con- 
 trary view, he is only a mischief maker — at- 
 tempting to force her ideas into wrong 
 channels. 
 
 That the science and truth contained in 
 her book will remain forever is an utterance 
 
 1 Powell, p. 40. 
 
Contradictions 
 
 103 
 
 to which we readily assent ; but the folly of 
 its blasphemous and misleading teachings, 
 together with the author's exalted claims will 
 ultimately be made manifest. 
 
 To what extent God will permit Christian 
 Science and other delusions to expand and 
 how many are to be deceived by them we do 
 not know ; but we do know that the more 
 popular they become and the higher their 
 flight, the greater will be their fall. 
 
 Now for the writer to say that there are 
 contradictions in "Science and Health" 
 would prove nothing, but when he places 
 before the reader in parallel columns a few 
 of hundreds of flat contradictions in this book, 
 it will certainly overthrow the author's as- 
 sumption that ** in this volume of mine there 
 are no contradictory statements." Let us 
 note the following : 
 
 (p. 142) " Never record ages." (p. 141) "Some American 
 
 travellers saw her when she 
 was seventy-four, and sup>- 
 posed her a young lady." 
 (Why does the author of 
 " Science and Health " re- 
 cord the age of this woman?) 
 
 (p. 142) " Time-tables of Why, then, has such an adieu 
 birth and death are so been made by Christian 
 
 many conspiracies against Scientists about the age and 
 
 manhood and womanhood." birthdays of Mrs. Eddy and 
 
 with her sanction ? 
 
104 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 (p. 237) «' Close your eyes, 
 and you may dream that 
 you see a flower — that you 
 touch and smell it. Thus 
 you learn that the flower is 
 a product of mind. . . ." 
 
 (p. 240) " Who will say . . . 
 that we are in Europe 
 when we are in the opposite 
 hemisphere?" (If a flower 
 is but 2. product of the tnind, 
 the same reasoning will 
 prove that a continent is 
 equally so. Therefore, if 
 this statement is logical we 
 may close our eyes, and in 
 whatever hemisphere we 
 dream ourselves to be, 
 there is surely where we 
 are.) 
 
 (p. 563) " There is no death." 
 (P- yji) " Nothing that lives 
 ever dies." 
 
 (P- 385) "A blundering des- 
 patch, mistakenly announc- 
 ing the death of a friend, oc- 
 casions the same grief that 
 his real death would bring." 
 ( Then there must be such a 
 thing as real death. ) 
 
 (P- 392) 
 
 sick." 
 
 Man 
 
 is never 
 
 (p. 392) " It is well 
 calm in sickness." 
 
 to be 
 
 (P- ^1Z^ "Nothing we can 
 say or believe regarding 
 matter is true, except that 
 matter is unreal." 
 
 (p. 411) " Mind can regulate 
 the condition of the stomach, 
 bowels, food and tempera- 
 ture of children, far better 
 than matter can." (If 
 " there is no matter " how 
 could matter regulate any' 
 thing ?) 
 
Contradictions 
 
 105 
 
 (p. 452) " There is no mat- 
 ter." 
 
 (p. 438) " I have never wit- 
 nessed as decided effects 
 from the use of material 
 remedies as from the use 
 of spiritual." (Then even 
 the author of " Science and 
 Health " who declares that 
 «• there is no matter " here 
 says that she has witnessed 
 the use of " material reme- 
 dies:') 
 
 (p. 459) " Man is incapable 
 
 of sin." 
 (p. 461) " Jesus taught . . . 
 
 that man is unfallen, pure 
 
 and holy." 
 
 (p. 457) " Christ came to 
 save sinners." 
 
 (p. 328) " One sacrifice, how- 
 ever great, is insufficient to 
 pay the debt of sin." 
 
 (p. 334) " Christians . . . must 
 grapple with sin in them- 
 selves and in others." 
 
 (p. 174) " There are no ma- 
 terial senses." 
 
 (p. 170) *« Knowledge gained 
 from matter, and through 
 the material senses, is only 
 an illusion." (If there are 
 no '• material senses " how 
 could knowledge be gained 
 through them ?) 
 
XIV 
 
 THE SCRIPTURAL KEY 
 
 In perfect harmony with the exalted per- 
 sonality claimed by the author of " Science 
 and Health," she presumes to present to the 
 world a Key to the Holy Scriptures ; but 
 upon everything she attempts to explain in 
 this Key, as well as in her Glossary, she not 
 only murders the language, but puts a mean- 
 ingless explanation upon the sacred page. 
 
 The following illustrations we believe will 
 convince the intelligent and candid reader 
 that our statement is not overdrawn. 
 
 Scriptural Narrative. 
 
 (Gen. i. 9) " And God said, 
 let the waters under the 
 heaven be gathered together 
 unto one place, and let the 
 dry land appear." 
 
 As Explained (?) in «* Sci- 
 ence and Health.^^ 
 
 (p. 488) «• Spirit gathers un- 
 formed thoughts into their 
 proper channels, God un- 
 folds these thoughts." 
 
 (Gen. i. 15) "And let them (p. 491) "Truth and Love 
 
 be for lights in the firma- enlighten the understand- 
 
 ment of the heaven to give ing, in whose light we shall 
 
 light upon the earth." see light." 
 
 106 
 
The Scriptural Key 107 
 
 (Gen. i. 17, 18) "And God (p. 492) "God is revealed 
 
 set them in the firmament through harmony, and also 
 
 of the heaven to give light in Divine Science, which is 
 
 upon the earth, and to rule the seal of Deity, and has 
 
 over the day and over the the impress of heaven." 
 night, and to divide the 
 light from darkness." 
 
 "A key has two offices. It may open a 
 door or effectually close it." ^ We leave the 
 reader to decide whether this " Key to the 
 Scriptures " has opened or closed their mean- 
 ing to an intelligent mind. 
 
 In the Christian Science ** Glossary " in 
 " Science and Health " occur the following 
 definitions : 
 
 (P- 565) " Eyes. Spiritual discernment — not 
 material, but mental." 
 
 (p. 564) " Ears. Not organs of the so-called cor- 
 poreal senses, but spiritual understanding." 
 
 If the above words are properly defined, then 
 John xviii. lo should read, ** Peter having a 
 sword, drew it, and smote the high priest's 
 servant, and cut off his right spiritual iinder- 
 standingT And 2 Kings xxv. 6 and 7 should 
 be thus translated, — " Then the King of Baby- 
 lon . . . put out Zedekiah's spiritual 
 discernment — not material but spirituaV^ I ! ! 
 
 (p- 565) " Flesh. An illusion." 
 
 > Dr. Gray's " Antidote to Christian Science," p. 30, 
 
io8 Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 Then we should read the words of Christ to 
 His disciples in Luke xxiv. 39, ** Handle me 
 and see ; for a spirit hath not an illusion and 
 bones as ye see me have." 
 
 In connection with this passage, let us read 
 
 (2 John 7) " Many deceivers are entered into 
 the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ 
 is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and 
 an antichrist." 
 
 Here the Holy Scriptures warn us against 
 just such teachings as we have in so-called 
 Christian Science. 
 
 (p. 561) " Children " are here defined as " Love's 
 Spiritual thoughts, sensual aud mortal be- 
 liefs ; counterfeits of creation." 
 
 How preposterous I 
 
 After having thus gathered into groups 
 some of the haphazard teachings contained 
 in " Science and Health," let us again wander 
 for a little while through this book — and 
 consider a few isolated passages on various 
 subjects. 
 
 (p. 256) " Let us rid ourselves of the belief that 
 man is a separate intelligence from God." 
 
 (p. 497) " Man is co-existent and eternal with 
 God." 
 
The Scriptural Key 109 
 
 If man is co-existent and eternal with God, 
 and not a separate intelligence from Him, 
 theit 7nan must be God. 
 
 (p. 236) «' The divine mind maintains all identi- 
 ties as distinct and eternal, from a blade of 
 grass to a star." 
 
 And is the divine mind also deceived? If 
 " there is no matter," can it be possible that 
 God imagines that grass and stars do really 
 exist ? 
 
 (p. 189) " Electricity is not a vital fluid, but the 
 least material form of human consciousness, 
 — the material thought essence, which forms 
 the link between matter and mortal mind." 
 
 We leave the reader to figure out what 
 electricity really is from the definition here 
 given. As for us we cannot but exclaim 
 ** who is this that darkeneth counsel by words 
 without knowledge?" 
 
 (p. 523) " Minerals and vegetables are found, 
 according to Divine Science, to be God's 
 ideas — creations of thought, not of matter." 
 
 Then we ask, does ** Mortal Mind " cause 
 God also to imagine the existence of vege- 
 tables and minerals, and thus deceive the Al- 
 mighty ? 
 
1 lo Christian Science Falsely So Called 
 
 (p. I) " God had been graciously fitting me, 
 during many years, for the reception of a 
 final revelation of the absolute Principle of 
 Scientific Mind-healing." 
 
 How could it have been a final revelation 
 that the author received in the year 1866 
 since in the various editions of her book so 
 many later revelations must have been 
 given? " Science and Health " in its present 
 dress, or as it appears in its latest edition, 
 has undergone wonderful changes in its 
 phraseology from that in which it was 
 originally presented. We call upon Chris- 
 tian Scientists to explain how " a final reve- 
 lation " undergoing constant changes could 
 be di final revelation. 
 
 (p. 171) " Divine Metaphysics, as revealed to my 
 understanding, shows me that all is Mind." 
 
 There is here unwittingly implied a doubt, 
 or it would read, *' Divine metaphysics demon- 
 strates all to be mind." 
 
 (p. 322) " Here let me give what I understand 
 to be a spiritual interpretation of the Lord's 
 Prayer." 
 
 A doubt is again implied or it would read, 
 " This is a spiritual interpretation of the 
 Lord's Prayer." 
 
The Scriptural Key iii 
 
 (p. 345) " Science removes the penalty, only by 
 first removing the sin which incurs the 
 penalty. This is my sense of divine pardon, 
 which I understand to mean God's method 
 of destroying sin." 
 
 Certainly this is strange language for one 
 who claims to have had a ''final revelation " 
 from the Almighty, who was authorized by 
 Him to write a Key to His Holy Word, and 
 who claims herself to be the wife of His only 
 begotten Son. Strange that after making so 
 many declarations with supreme authority, 
 she should forget herself and make it known 
 to the world that after all she may be mis- 
 taken and mistaken on a subject of such vital 
 interest as ** Divine Pardon '' — not knowing 
 how the awful penalty under which we stand 
 condemned can be removed. 
 
CONCLUSION 
 
 We have seen from the foregoing that 
 while Christian Science makes much of the 
 Bible, and while its founder speaks of it as 
 being her *' only text-book," yet, when we 
 carefully analyze her teachings, we discover 
 that every fundamental truth revealed in 
 God's word is flatly denied in *' Science and 
 Health." 
 
 If we follow and accept what this book 
 inculcates, we are of necessity driven to these 
 conclusions : 
 
 1. That there is no personal God. 
 
 2. That even the author of " Science and 
 Health " as well as ourselves has never had a 
 personality. 
 
 3. That the book said to have been writ- 
 ten by Mrs. Eddy does not exist. 
 
 4. That in reality God never did create 
 the heavens and the earth. Therefore, there 
 is no world, no landscape, no seas, no heaven, 
 no hell ; but all is blank. 
 
 Yet in the face of these teachings, even 
 though they may be believed by multitudes, 
 God's people need not become in the least 
 112 
 
Conclusion 1 13 
 
 alarmed. In various phases and in heathen 
 lands the god of this world has had similar 
 delusions in vogue for many centuries ; but 
 never before have they assumed a Christian 
 name or been attired in saintly dress. 
 
 In the meantime our mission as the re- 
 deemed of the Lord is to discern the signs of 
 the times, to contend earnestly for the faith, 
 and, while patiently waiting, be ever looking 
 for that blessed hope and the glorious appear- 
 ing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
 Upon the arrival of that happy day when 
 the Son of Man shall come in His glory, 
 we which are alive and remain shall be 
 caught up together with the risen saints 
 in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air ; 
 and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 
 Then, the promise is that we who are 
 Christ's shall shine forth as the sun in the 
 kingdom of our Father. 
 
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