If Christian Scientists practiced their doctrines; if they refrained from food and lived on truth; if they needed no covering to keep their bodies warm; if they were never ill; if they transported themselves on their journeys without mechanical help of any sort; if they never betrayed signs of increasing age; if above all they never died, there would be one, and only one religion in the world-Christian Science.
But when in addition to its antichristian doctrines we find it breaking down on every one of these points, we are more than justified in describing it as Satan's Great Delusion and wonder why such a blasphemous system can exist at all.
I. M. Haldeman, D.D., of New York, in his excellent work on this evil system, gives good advice: "Turn from this thing which, calling itself Christian Science, is neither scientific nor Christian, and, beneath its indecent defiance of science and its treacherous betrayal of Christ, conceals the face of Antichrist and the form of Satan."
Surely advice was never more timely and needed, nor expressed in language more accurate.
Mrs. Eddy might well ask,- "Is there any more reality in the waking dream of mortal existence than in the sleeping dream? There cannot be, since whatever appears to be a mortal man is a mortal dream. Take away this mortal mind, and matter has no more sense as a man, than it has as tree" (S. & H., p. 250). Even Mrs. Eddy had, by her own words, danced herself dizzy. She did not know whether she was sleeping or waking. Now she knows. Can we be blamed, if we refuse to follow her an inch in such paths of incredible folly?
We cannot do better in closing this brief sketch than quote the opinion of Pundita Ramabai, a native of India, converted to Christianity, and the only woman upon whom the title "Pundita" has been conferred.
"On my arrival in New York I was told that a new philosophy was being taught in the United States, and that it had won many disciples. The philosophy was called Christian Science, and when I asked what its teaching was, I recognized it as being the same philosophy that has been taught among my people for 4,000 years. It has wrecked millions of lives, and caused immeasurable suffering and sorrow in my land, for it is based on, selfishness, and knows no sympathy or compassion. It means just this, the philosophy of nothingness. You are to view the whole universe as nothing but falsehood. You are to think it does not exist. You do not exist. I do not exist. The birds and the beasts that you see do not exist. When you realize that you have no personality whatever, then you will have attained the highest perfection of what is called 'Yoga,' and that gives you liberation, and you are liberated from your body, and you become like him without any personality."
In short, Christian Science is pagan in origin and teaching. How true it still is, "For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe" (1 Cor. 1:2121For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. (1 Corinthians 1:21)).
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