MONDAY. APRIL 2G. 1915.
PL.TTSMOUTn SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
PARE 7.
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A Comedy of Youtti Founded by jMr. Manners on His
Great Play of the Same Title Illustrations
From Photographs of the Play
Copyrliftt." 1913. by Dodd, Md t Compsay
CHAPTER X.
Peg Away Frcm Home.
TrOR the next few days rg was
busy preparing herself for the
journey and Luying little things
for Iicr scanty equipment. Then
the cable came to (he effect that a
passage was reserved for h-r and mon
ey was waiting at a banker's for her
expenses. This Peg obstinately refus
ed to touch. She didn't want anviliing
except what her father pave her.
When the niorniiig of her departure
came poor Peg woke with a heavy
heart. It was their first parting, and
Kile was miserable.
('Council, on Ihe contrary, seemed
full of life and high spirits. lie
laughed at her and j )ked with her and
made a little bundle of some things
that would not go in her bag and that
lie had kept for her to the last minute.
They were a rosary that h-d been hi
mother's. :i prayer book Father Caki'l
pave him the day he was confirmed
and lastly the little miniature of An
pcla. It vrni:'.' his heart to part with
it. but he wanted Peg to have it near
Jier. especially as she was going
smiong the relations of the detd wo
man. All through this OVoinvl! show-J
cd not a trace of emotion before Fog.
He kept telling her there was nothing ,
to be sad alxut. It was all going to
be for her good.
When the time nine to ;ro- the
Ft rai lire pair made their Avay down to
the ship the tall, erect, splottdil look
ins man and the little red haired girl
in her simple black suit and her little
bhu k hnt. with red flowers to bright
en it.
O'(.'o!:i:ell went aboard with her. and
rut odd t'oupie they 'c-eked on the sa
loon deck, with I"''ir holding on to
Michael, much to the amusement of
th" passengers, the visitors and stew
ards. I'oor. state h. loyal, honest, true lit
tle I Vs. gojnj: alone to what? Leaf
ins the one hrrian bei'.is she eared for
.vi : e I worshiped her playmate. ouuscl
or. friend and father all in one!
O'Conueil never dropped his high
spirits all the time they were together
on board the ship.'- lie went aboard
with a laugh, and v hen the bell rang
for ail visitors to so i'.hore he sail
soodby to l'es with a laugh, while
poor lVg's heart feit like u stone in
her breast. She sood sobbii.g up
against the rail of the saloon deek as
the .-!.ip swung cle:;r. She was looking
for her father through the rais's of
tears lliat blinded ikt.
Just its the boat si nJy swept past
the end cf the dock she saw hiru right
at the lait post .so that he could w.u li
the boat uninterruptedly until it was
out of s'vht He was crying himself
now cryins like a c'liid and : s the
lxi.it sw IP's away he called up: "My lit
tle I'": rs o' my heart:' llow
the longed to set o;T the ship and so
back to hlml They stool wavk.g to
e.-e h oilier as lore; a 4 they remained
in sii.-ht.
While the ship., plow 1 her way to
wa:d England with little Peg on board
the man whom she was cros.irg the
Atlantic to m.-et died qu'etly one morn
ing with no one near him.
The l.urse found Mr. Kiiigsnorih
smiliiis jeaeefuliy as though asleep.
He had been dead several hours..
Near him on the UiMe was a cable
dispatvh from New York:
My 'KiupliUr sa.itd cn the ilaurctania
tvtay at l' o'ctoeU.
IT.ANiC OUXX 0'COXX.":U,.
fdrs. Ch'ehester, wd:om we last saw
under eMivme.'y distressing clrcum
rtanees in Ire'and, i-.ow eaters pioxrd
iictitiy ititu ti e story. She was lead
'i.s a seciu e-d and charming e.vi-tenee
i:i an old and pictures pie villa at Pcar
lioroush, in the north of England. Al
though her husband h id been de.lJ for
leveral years, yhe still clung to the.
outward symbols of iiiotirnins. It add
ed a softness to the patrician Lue of
Lei fcaturos and a toii"h of di.-ti.iction
her jiiai.ner and poise. She had an
iiiu-striou ; example of a lifelong sor
row, and, b( i"q- ever loyal, Miv. Chi
chester retained the weeds of widow
hood and the crape cf atlliction ever"
present.
She was proud i.-elied of her two
children, about whom she had written
bo glowingly to her brother Nathaniel.
.Marie wa.s the elder. In him Mrs.
Chichester took the greater pride, lie
was so nearly being great even from
infancy that he continually kept his
mother in a condition cf expectant
wonder. He was nearly brilliant at
Kcheo!. At college h almost g )t his
decree. He just missed his 'blue' at
cricket, and but for an unfortunate
hall dribbling over the net at a critical
moment in the semi final of the tenuis
championships he inisht have won the
cup. lie was quite philosophic alout
it, though, and never appeared to re
proach fate for treating him so suab
Liiy. He was always nearly doing some
thing, anl kept Mrs. Chichester in a
livr'y cond'tion-of trusting tope and
occasional disappointment. She knew j
he would "arrive" scree day come into
PEG
O' 'MY
HEART
By J. HartleVi Manners
his. own. Then all these half reward
ed effort: would be invaluable in the
building of his character.
Iler daughter, Ethel, on the other
hand, was the exact antithesis to .Mar
ie. She had never shown the slightest
interest in anything since she had first
looked up at the man of medicine who
ushered lier into the Avorld. She rc
traided everything about her with the
greatest complacency. She was never
surprised or angry or pleased or de
piessod. Sorrow never seemed to af
fect her nor joy make her smile. She
looked on life as a pontic brook down
whose current she was perfectly con
tent to drift undisturbed. At least
that was the effect created in Mrs.
Chichester's mind. She never thought
it possible there might be latent pos
sil i'.itles in her Impassive daughter.
While her mother admired Ethel's
lofty attitude of indifference toward
the world, a manner that bespoke the
aristocrat, she secretly chafed at her
daughter's lack of enthusiasm. .
How different from .Marie, always full
of nearly new ideas, always about to
do something. AlarLc kept those around
him en the n!err. No one ever really
knew what he would do next. On the
other hand. Ethel depressed by her
stolid content with everything about
do or thought they did.
.Mrs. Chichester had long since aban
doned any further attempt to interest
her brother Nathaniel in the children.
Angela's wretched marriase had up
set everything driven Nathaniel to be
a recluse and to close his doors on
near and distant relatives.
Angela's death the followins year
did not relieve the situation. If any
thing, it iuictisiiled it. since she left a
baby that, naturally, none of the fam
ily could possibly take the slightest
notice of nor interest in.
It was tacitly agreed never to speak
of the unfortunate incident, especially
I li,.f l.rt .n i irl i' .11 ft- wn-c neli fi
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tenable example for Kthel and so dis
couraging to the eager and ambitious
Alari.-.
Consequently Angela's name was
never spoken inside of Regal Villa.
And so the Chichester family pur
sued an even course, only varied by
A lane's sudden and definite decisions
to enter cither puH'e life, or athletics,
or the army, or the world f art it
was really cxiie-nciy hard for so well
equipped a young man to decide to
limit himself to any one particular pur
suit. Consequently he put off the final
choice from diy to day.
Suddenly a most untoward incident
happened.
Alrtric. returning from -t long walk,
alone during which lie had almost de
cided to become a doctor walked in
through the windows frota the garden
ir.to the living room and found his
mother In tears, an open letter in her
hand.
This was most umisual. Mrs.Chh hes
ter was not wont to give vent to open
emotion. It shows a lack of breeding.
So she always supv'vssed it. It seemed
to grow inward. To find her weeping
and almost audibly impressed Alarie
that something of more than usual im
portance had occurred.
"Hello, materl" he cried cheerfully,
though his looks belied the buoyancy
of his tone. "Hello: What's the mat
ter? What's up';"
At the same moment Hthei tame in
throush the door.
It was 11:00, and precisely at that
time every morning Ethel practiced for
half an hour on Ihe piano not that
she had the slightest interest in music,
but it helped the morning so much.
She would look forward to it for an
hour lefore and think of it for an hour
afterward, and then it was lunebtixie.
It practically filled out the entire morn
ing. Mrs. Chichester looked up as her be
loved children came toward her, and
real tears were in her eyes, and a real
note of alarm was in her voice:
"Oh. Ethel! Oh. .Marie."
Alaric was at her side in a moment.
He was genuinely alarmed.
Ethel moved slowly across, thinking
vaguely that something must have dis
agreed w ith l.cr mother.
"What is it. mater?' cried Alaric.
'Mother" said Ethel, with as nearly
a tone of emotion as she could feel.
'We're ruined:" sobbed Mrs. Chiches
ter. "Nonsense!" said the bewildered son.
"Itcrdly?" asked the placid daughter.
"Our bank has failed: Every penny
your poor father left me wa.s in it!"
wailed Mrs. Chichester. ' We've noth
ing nothing! We're beggars."
A horrible fear for a moment gripped
Alaric the dread of poverty. He shiv
ered Snv'tose such a " thing should
really happen: - Then he dismissed it
with a shrug of his shoulders. How
perfectly absurd: Poverty, indeed!
The Chichesters-beggars? Such non
sense: He turned to his mother and
found htv hcldurg out a letter and a f
newspaper: He took them both and
read th-m with mingled amazement
and disgust. First the headline of the J
newspaper caught his eye: .
"Failure of Cifford's I'.ank."
Then he looked at the letter:
"(I ifl'ord's batik suspended business
yesterday:' IJack his eye traveled to
the paper:
"(Jifferd's Dank, Has Closed It3
Doors !'
He was quite unable at tirst to grasp
the full siguilieance of the contents of
that letter and newspaper. He turned
to Ethel:
"tlh?" he gasped.
"Pity," she murmured, trying to lind
ii particular piece of music among the
mass on the piano.
"We're ruined:" reiterated Mrs. Chi
chester.
Then the real meaning of those cryj
tie headlines and the businesslike let
ter broke in on Alaric. All the Chiches
ter blood was roused in him.
"Now, that's what I call a downright.
rotten, blackguardly shame a black
guardly shame!" His voice rose in
tones us "it increased in intensity until
ifaliuost reached a shriek.
Something was expected of him at
any rate, indignation. V'eil, he was
certainly indignant.
"Closed its doors, indeed:" he went
on. "Why should it close its doors?
That's what i want to know! Why
shoulJ it?" And he glared at the mi
iffoiidirtg letter and the noncommittal
newspaper.
He locked at Ethel, who was sur
reptitiously concealing a : yawn and
was apparently quite undisturbed by
the appalling news, lie found no in
spiration there. Hack he went to his
mother for suppi.rt.
"What right have brinks to fail
There should be a law against it.
They should be made to open their
doors and Keep 'em open. That's what
we give "em our money for so that
w can take it out again wdien we
want it."
Poor Mrs. Chichester shock her head
sadly.
"Everything gone:" she moaned.
"Ituined, and at my age:"
(To lie CuliLitiiicil.)
Y.'all Paper, Paints, Glass, Ticture
Framing. Frank Gobelman.
Misses Fein, Vera and Leiha Sut
ton, Ruth Laker and Thelma Denson
came down from Council Bluffs Sat
urday evening and visited here over
Sunday at the home cl Mr. and ilrs.
Roy Denson in this city.
LIN T BE SLED
Plattsniouth Citizens Should Read and
Heed This Advice.
Kidney trouble is dangerous and
often fatal.
Don't experiment with something
new and untried.
Use a tested kidney remedy.
Begin with DoanV. Kidney Pills.
Used in kidney troubles 50 years.
Recommended here and every
where. A Plattsmouth cilir.en's statement
forms convincing proof.
It'a local testimony it can be in
vestigated. E. M. Buttery, Tenth and Walnut
street?, riatt.smouth, says: "I ued
Doan's Kidney Pills for pain in my
back and hips and other symptoms of
kidney trouble. The quick relief they
brought warrants me in endorsing
them. I still us Doan's Kidney Pills
occasionally and recommend them as
highly as ever."
Price 50c. at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy get
Doan's Kidney Pills the same that
Mr. Buttery had. P'oster-Milburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
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IB THE
TAIL OF THE
60LDEII RULE
"Do Unto Others as You Would Have
Them Do Unto You" Is No Doubt
a Fine Proposition, but How
Many Live Up to It?
The Golden Rule is a good rule, but
we often twist its tail to a frazzle. It
was laid down as a jruiding star to
the faltering and wayward footsteps
of humanity But there are many
feet in this town that neglect to tread
the golden pathway of life. It has
been taught us at the mother knee,
preached to us from the pulpit, fed to
us in the schools, declaimed from the
lecture platform, and advocated from
a thousand other sources. But there
?re local ears that hear not and eyes
that, refuse to see. The tail of the
Golden Rule is receiving some
vigorous twists in this town. Often
we are asked by some merchant to
preach the doctrine of "trade at
home." We preach it, and it helps to
enrich the merchant who made the re
quest. That is good, for we believe
:n patronizing local institutions we
like to see them grow we want the
money kept at home. But when th j
same merchant whose money till we
have helped to fill sends out of town
for his job printing we cannot hut pity
the isolation of the poor old Golden
Rule. Some people make their money
in this community, enjoy life in the
community, educate their children at
the expense of the community, and
then buy their goods from merchants
who are not in or of the community.
It is some tug at the golden tail.
There are some people who want the
earth for what they sell and then ex
I ect to receive some of their own
purchases' for less than cost. And the
Golden Rule is helpless forgotten
l icked into the discard. A few peo
ple make a practice of parading their
own virtues and sneering at the
frailties of their neighbors. Some
want to hog everything in sight,
though the less fortunate experience
the gnawing" pangs of hunger. Oc
casionally we see a sanctimonious
countenance in church while toe mind
within is devisingmesms of skinning
others out of their hard earcd dol
lars. The Golden. Rule? Why, the
poor, decrepit old rule is strangling
three hundred and sixty-fivs days in
the year. Its coat of gold has turned
io rust, and the once sparkling water?
of its purity are stagnant from dis
ease. The Golden Rule? Can you
point to a soul in all this wide world
who in all things does unto others as
he would have them do unto him?
Possibly we, too, are twisting th-? tail
of the Golden Rule when we publish
this article, for we are teiiir.g others
of their faults when we have many
of our own which we too often for
get. And yet we repeat, the G lden
Rule is a GOOD rule. W mav not
walk steadfastly in accordance with
its teachings, but we may at least
practice a portion of that" which we
preach. We may accord to others a
slight degree of that which we d
manded for ourselves. We may even
trail along in the shadow of the Gold
en Rule, though our steps he falter
ing and our limbs over-wcarv. For
we are but human, and no Lnan be
ir.g of today is perftct. Ye.', the ta:"l
of the Golden Rule receives many
twists, yet it is the ta'.i that never
Knows disjoinlment.
THE ATTRACTION AT THE
PARmELEMONDAY. M 3
One of the new and most important
stage offering's of the present season
will be that of the big scene produc
tion of "The Winning of Barbara
Worth," which will be presented at
the Parmele theater on Monday even
ing, May 3. As the title indicates, the
piece is a stage version of Harold Bell
Wright's most popular novel and the
dramatization, which consists of a
prologue and three acts, is by Mr.
Mark Swan. The story is visualized
and realized. The several western
scenes, including a sand torm on the
desert and several other elaborate ef
fects, is portrayed of the wild locale
of the romance, are heralded as
masterpieces of stage depiction.
Reduced Prices cn Eggs for Hatching.
l After May 1st I will ' i sell S.' C.
Rhode Island Red eggs for hatching
tA'oOc per setting of l.r.
Duroc -Jersey swine, any age or sex,
for sale at all times. Col. Gano, Crim
ron Wonder and Gold Model strains.
Call Platts. 'Phone 2221.
W. B. Porter.
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11111 BE
B II HIE?
"Come, Lsf Us Reason To
geliier, Safin ilia 'Lord."
Remarkable Growth of This Cult Its
Adherents Their Realization of a
Supernatural Power Outside of Man.
An Outgrowth of Present-Day Con
ditions Are Its Teachings Logical?
Some Perplexing Problems Power of
the Will In Resisting Disease.
ninghnmton. X.
Y.. April 'J-j. ras
ter Russell's dis
course here today
was of unusual in
terest. His text
was, "Come now,
let us reason to
gether, saith the
Lord: though yotrr
sins be as scarlet,
iliey shall be 33
fPSTOR gU5SalH (Isaiah 1:1S.) He
-! 111 'till.
What a man believes or disbelieves
is his own business, and not subject to
public criticism. But when a number
of people associate themselves, adopt a
name, publish tlicir doctrines to the
worid and invite members, their doc
tiines are properly subject to public
criticism. They etill preserve their in
dividual rights, however. Doctrines
only may be criticised: and these
should be honestly treated, not mis
represented. This applies to every
creed, every cult: and all honest people
should welcome such investigation and
truthful criticism. We assume that
Christian Scientists, therefore, will aj
preciate what we now have to say as
much as. or more than, others. We
trust that we always have this attitude
toward any criticism leveled against
our public teachings. We are therefore
following the Golden Rule laid down
by the Lord, and acknowledged by all.
The growth of Christian Science has
astonished the world. Its teachings
seem to have appealed to a very in
telllironr. well-to-do class of people, of
considerable mental independence, pos
sessed of considerable "bncklone." So
far as we have conversed with them
we Cud that physical healing seems to
have been more or less associated with
their conversion fr their cult. Either
themselves or their friends have been
healed. Their realization of the cure
brought them religious conviction as
instead of the doubts and wonder
ments of their previous experiences.
The awakening to this conviction that
there is a real power outside of man.
a supernatural power, aroused a re
ligious sentiment such as they had
never known before. It seems to them
that they have started a new life.
The reason for this is that nominal
Christianity is merely a form of god
liness, without power or conviction.
This form of godliness has spread to
such an extent that the whole world
is styled Christendom Christ s King
dom. In countries like Great Britain.
Germany. Russia and Scandinavia, ap
proximately ninety-lire tier cent, of the
population are rated as Christians.
even though some of these are in pris
on, some in insane asylums, and some
too young to think at all or be any
thing. In Italy, everybody is rated a
Christian although amongst svme of
the Italians who come to our shores
flourish works of the Devil, such us
the Black Hand, the Mafia, etc.. J
8ewi!dsred Christendom.
Additionally, a sincere class of
Christian people have during the last
fifty years, been in great perplexity be
cause of the stupendous nonsense in
termingled with Truth which was
handed down to us from the Dark
Ages. Under the increasing light,
thinking people have not been able to
swallow some of the moustrous state
ments of the creeds as readily as did
their forefathers. The persecution of
Baptists gave place to toleration that
they might baptize as they chose, even
though their teaching that immersion
is . the door into the Church implied
that all the unimmersed are outside the
true Church, outside the pale-of salva
tion, and hence prospectively subject
to eternal torture. Presbyterians and
Methodists, unable to down each other
on the subject of Election or Free
Grace, agreed to "live and let live."
The great churches which formerly
persecuted all others as heretics, for
bidding any to preach except by their
rdinations, gradually found them
selves compelled to desist, from making
their tenets too prominent. Thus peo
ple are more or less bewildered as to
what are the differences between the
various denominations; and many con
clude that the only difference is io
forms, ceremonies, ordinations, etc.
The doctrine that God had foreor
dained 00!) out of every KM) to an eter
nity of torture in fire was gradually
looked at as too horrible to telieve.
The alternative doctrine, that God did
not "foreordain the matter thus, but
bad not the wisdom or power to avoid
such a catastrophe for His creatures.
was equally repugnant. As a conse
quence, preachers Jegan to tell that
the destiny of the world was not literal
fire, but gnawing of conscience, etc.
each manufacturing a Hell in accord
ance with his own wisdom or igno
rance and to suit his congregation.
Under' such conditions Christian Sci
ence was 'born, and has grown 'to its
present proportions. Three things es
pecially favored it: (1) its acceptance
.Kasfi' '2-, TT4 5 I
lasiing torment, mental or physical;
(?,) its teaching respecting Divine heal
ing. Mrs. Eddy, the acknowledged
head of Christian Science, bad A keen
mind and considerable wisdom in its
exercise. She would hold to the Bi
ble, even though she needed to per
vert its teachings. She would not
make her teachings respecting the fu
ture life too pronounced or too antag
onistic to other theories. She content
ed herself with vague, arubig'.iou'!
statements re the future life. She
laid principal stress on healing. nd
Fettled all doctrinal difficulties with
the dictum that there is no evil, tlicre
is no sin. there is no death: thajt what
have been called sin. death and evil
are merely errors of the mind.
The very absurdity of some of these
statements advertised them. Peopl
said. ,What does it mean There is no
death, no sickness, no pain, no sor
row, no evil of any kind? Absurd!
Later, they said. We will see how
Christian Scientists explain death,
sickness, pain, sin. Thus curiosity
led them into the metaphysical laby
rinth wlrich Mrs. Eddy had skilfully
constructed. Having no intelligent
knowledge of the Bible, they were just
in condition to fall an easy prey to
"Mother Eddy's" errors. If some of
her definitions were fanciful, far-fetch
ed and unscriptural. they were no more
so than the teachings to which people
had been accustomed from childhood
and which substantially claim that the
more unreasonable and illogical a mat
ter is, the more faith is Implied by the
believing of it.
C. S- Readers and Practitioners.
Christian Scientists feel what might
Ik termed spiritual pride in connection
with their healing practises and with
the public reading of the Scriptures
and Mrs. Eddy's comments as much
spiritual pride perhaps as is sometimes
felt in other churches by preachers,
elders, de'tcous. vestrymen, deaconess
es, etc. To be lifted from the ordinary
walks of life to places of distinction in
Christianity, especially in scientific
Christianity, would surely apieal to
the majority. Once elevated to posi
tions as readers or practitioners or
healing practitioners, it becomes their
duty loyally to support and defend thu
system which they represent.. And so.
just as earnestly as with other sects,
the establishment and defence of Chris
tian Science goes courageously onward.
Still another class is interested, finan
ciallythose in control of the Christian
Science literature. It sells at good stiff
prices; and anybody questioning the
merchandising of tLe truih is given to
understand that he is unappreciative;
and with the majority of people the
price regulates the value, anyway.
Is Christian Science Logical?
Having, we believe, fairly stated the
facts and claims of Christian Scientists,
we now inquire whether or not their
teachings are logical. We hold that
"they are not. and will endeavor to
show in what respects this is true.
'Mother EdJy." striving alter a
truth, declared that there is no pain,
no sickness, no sorrow, etc. The truth
she was feeling after, but did not fully
grasp, is that sin. sickness, sorrow,
death, are abnormal conditions. There
could be none of tl;ie. except f"r the
curse that came upon our race at the
beginning, because of disloyalty to
God. We agree with Mrs. Eddy to the
extent that these conditions are not
designed by God to be everlasting. He
does not recognize them as proper for
those In fellowship with Him.
.Nothing tkc-j us auy reason to sup
pose that they have prisons, insane
asylums, hospitals, doctors or ceme
teries iu Heaven, where all is perfect
and in fullest harmony with God
Messiah's great, work of Redemption
w iil obliterate these unsatisfactorj con
ditions from tLe earth. Jesus Himself
tells us that their abolition will Le the
result of Hi:; Kingdom work of a thou
sand years. Revelation -OX,; 21:4: '1:2
i;ut is It wise lor us to say in one
breath that all these will pass away.
and iu the next breath that they are
non-existent? Surely we all value con
sistency and logic! Otherwise language
would bring us merely confusion, in
stead of intelligence. Let us then say
that, with mankind iu proier relation
ship with God. there would be none of
these things: that they exist now be
cause man is out of relationship with
God through sin; and that God's prow-
sicu, according to the Bible, is that man
kind shall be delivered from this bond
age of sin and death into the glorious
liberty of the sons of God. Rom. S:'J1.
Iu this view. too. we see that the
perfect earth was represented in Eden,
and that eventually Eden will be
world-wide. The perfect race was rep
resented in Rather Adam before he
sinned; .".ml through Christ, eventually
the earth will be filled w ith perfec t hu
msm beings, such as Adam w as.- Then
whoever will not come into fullest ac
cord with the Ird will die the Second
Death. Theirs will be perishing like
nr.tural brute beasts, which St. Peter
mentions the punishing with an ever
Inslirrg destruction, mentioned by St.
Paul. (2 Peter 2:12: 2 Thessalo'nians
1:0.) But nothing In the Bible Implies
an everlasting torture of any uioraliei
of our race or even of Adam himself.
In the 'Bible presentation there is a
special place for the Church of the
OospoCAge. called out cf the world be-!
fore the Restitution Times. Her accept
ance of the Call implies her attempt to
live in fullest harmony with the Lord
under present imperfect, unsatisfactory
conditions even to the extent of lay
ing down life for the brethren, for the
service of God and His Word. To this
Church class; the Bible'assurrs us.. will
come a still higher blessing than that
rf Tf net Hn trv
ti,ci;.!, A Uvi'.""-'l Jl ol"o "I'on. .mo. in in
spirit nnture-vea. the highest form of :i"iP' because u .s usetu, ns a con-
Fpiritnatn.-tbeLdvine."-2 14erl:t.!'"'lt',,,7' t"iJ
1 aestrovhig. nud surc'v lead away from
Truth Biblical, Scientific -.Sanctifying.. tb? 8anctl3cnrion 0f heart and life and
We, commend Christian -Scientists for from tDe tadth Mch the Bible Incul
thelr endeavor to hold fast to the Bible, ; rates.
ij . -
jut remind them that not the letter of
:he Bible merely wid enlighten and
sanctify, but its spirit, its real meali
ng. This is obtainable, not by con
fusing definitions, but by simplicity of
nind in accepting the words tor what
:hcy are and putting them together lu
logical order.
Let us give Mrs. Eddy credit for de
siring to be logical; but let us noti e
:J:at, whatever she thought, her lan
guage was confusing when she said,
'There is no death, no siekucss. no
pain." The most that can be conceded
ty the most generous logician would
te that there should be no doath. no
sickness, no pain, no sorrow, if things
were iu right condition. But they are
aot in a right condition, as the Bible
Jeelares and as all can see. And
;hey will not be so until the Savior
iv ho redeemed the world by the sa ri
Ice of Himself shall assume I lis king
y cilice and right the wrongs which
dn has brought us. As a result of
His work, there will then le at the
lose of the Millennial Age no bin, no
death, no sorrow, no pain.
But since Mrs. Eddy and Christian
Science fail to recognize si ml Mate
these facts clearly, it follows that how
ever attractive some of the teaching
tuay he to some people, they cannot
be relied uhu. because they are off
the true foundation reoogniy.iug nei
ther the facts of siu and death nor tho
necessity for a redemption from those
conditions by the sacrifice of Jesus, nor
nppm-iating the necessity for the com
ing Restitution.
Furthermore. Christian Science does
not clearly differentiate between the
Church, which has been in process of
calling and election for more than
idghteeu centuries, and the world, w hi h
still lies in the Wicked One. and whi h
will not be dealt with until the Church
shall be glorified, and with her Lord
shall constitute the Kingdom of Right
eousness. Jesus prayed for His Church. "Saiie
tify them through Thy Truth; Thy
Word is Truth." While Christian Sci
entists and people of other denomina
tions, and some of the heathen as well,
are. many of them, moral, exemplary,
honorable, nevertheless few of them,
surely, claim to be sanctified. Indeed,
the sanctifying features of the Truth
they ignore or do not see. W e are not
lo ihink of church attendance or of
rejection of profanity, liquors, etc.. as
sanctilication. The putting away of
the filth of the flesh is indeed coin
niendable. but is only a primary step
in the right 'direction.
God is now calling a sanctified class
a set-apart people whom He is test
ing under the promise, "Be thou faith
ful unto death, and I will gi.e thee a
Crown of Life." This does not signify
faithfulness to a denomination or a
cult, but faithfulness to the IrL to
the testimony of 1 1 is Word, to the prin
ciples of righteousness, to self surren
der to God to walk in Jesus footsteps.
We will not discuss at length the sci
entific clement of Christian Science.
To some it seems very unscieiit ifie in
harmonious with the Truth. We be
lieve that the only way that anything
scientific could be associated with It
is by adding to it the thought that
sorrow, sin and death are in the world
only temporarily, by reason of trans
gression of Divine Law, and that thev
are to be rooted out and destroyed as
noxious Cecils by Messiah's Kingdom.
Christian Scientists toil Us that they
have received great benefit mentally
and physically from following Mrs,
Eddy s theory and denying that there
is any pain. etc. We quite agree that
the will is a powerful factor in resist
ing disease that if we brood over sor
rows, diiliculties, aches and pains, they
are increased by the otteration of our
minds. We agree, as do all physicians,
that the mind should be lifted as min li
as possible from our diseases and
placed upon h;ippifing subjects. Tld
Is rational ami logical, but it is illog
ical, irrational and. above all. untruth
ful, to say that we are without pain
when we have pain. The lover of the
truth can never consent to this. Hon
esty must be first w ith all right minded
people, and surely Is pleasing to God.
Let us then not go to the extreme t
untruthfulness or to the other extreme
of exaggerating our ills; but. Lot every
man think soberly. Romans 12
A Very Pernicious Teaching.
There is one doctrine held by Chris
tian Scientists and for that matter by
many of other denominations, who
state themselves less positively that
is very pernicious, very injurious, very
untrue, very unscientiiic. very unserip
tural. This is the teaching that God
is omnipresent present in everything
and in every place. Nothing in the
Bible so declares; and when we at
tempt to be wiser than w hat is written,
ve are surely making a mistake.
Whoever thinks of God as omnipres
ent necessarily .thinks of Him as im
personal; and the more he thinks, the
more -vague his God becomes, until
rradually he has no God. but merely
as some Christian Scientists, im luding
Mrs. Eddy, express it believes in u
principle of good, and calls that pri tri
ple God. Such wish to believe in a su-
p.-cuie Creator, but by this erroneous
reasoning they mislead their own in
telligence into the denial of a personal
G ,cL Whoever believes in a God w ho
is every w here believes in one w ho is
not a person.
The Bible teaches a personal God
n great Spirit Being. The Bible give
Him a home, or locality, and does not
teach that Ho is everywhere. It was
desus w ho taught us to pray. "Our Fa
thor. which art in Heaven." Oh. how
different this Is from saying that God
is in everything that has use or value
in the soil. !eeause it is useful for the
i development of fruits; in the chair, be-