Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 32, Number 236, 29 September 1907 — Page 4
THE RICHMOND CPAIXADIU3I AND SUX-TELEGRA3I, SUNDAY, SEPTE3IRER 29, 1907.
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Where wa3 (S. F.) Moses when the floor gave way?
The Evans-Kepler case Is beginning to assume sort of a "continued in our next issue" aspect.
Terre Haute handed Hugh J. McGowan a fine, healthy lemon here's hoping Richmond can do the same.
Richmond has again established its location on the map it Is now the proud(?) possessor of a man with an affinity.
John D. Rockefeller had better pay
his 29,,0h fine to the government
before attempting to finance the next
Thaw trial.
That man who wanders about the country seeking his affinity ought to
make the acquaintance of Artist Earle
Df New York.
To plant or not to plant tomatoes-
It's up to 500 odd farmers as to wheth
er Richmond shall have a new Indus try and they a better market.
John W. Gates, horseman and multimillionaire, adds the horse racing game to Wall Street as another unprofitable line to be interested In.
In the prison hospital Mrs. Cassle Chadwlck la a chronic Invalid. Orlglpally she was a vendor of invalid securities to aged and susceptible financiers.
John D. Rockefeller has offered to advance funds to Mrs. Wm. Thaw for the next trial of her son. Is the price Df oil going higher, or has the Standard Oil company discovered a new way to accept rebates and keep them secret?
Charles Henry Gilman, father of Mabelle Oilman Corey, has announced that suit will be Instituted against Ellis Corey, asking $2.V,fxK) damages for the alleged alienation of the affections of the ex-actress from her father. News Item. Evidently Ellis has not properly provided for the welfare and comfort of Charles Henry. '
HOT VERY FRUITFUL YEAR, REPORT SHOWS Missionary Societies Are Not Well Remembered.
HAVE A LOSS OF INCOME.
New York, Sept. 2S, Missionary societies that are closing their books report that this has not been an over fruitful year in the matter of gifts. For the first time in the history ot Congregationalism In America, all of Its missionary organizations will meet together this fall. The cocieties which meet at Cleveland, where also the National council, a triennial body, will sit this year, are closing their accounts and some of them are able to report conditions. The three principal organizations arc the American board, the American Missionary association and the Home Missionary society. The American Board has not completed its figures, but for eleven months of the year it showed a loss of income compared with last year on all accounts save the small one of interest income.
Editor Palladium: In your issue of the 8th, Dr. Hurston, after a long silence, writes further
In what he is now pleased to term
"this controversy." We would fain ut
terly eschew controversy, and In the spirit of the Master say to other forms of religion and medicine, as did Adam
to Lot, "Let there be no strife." Con troversy is unprofitable and unpleas
ant. The writer's sole mission a3
committee on publication, and hi3 on
ly purpose In writing, on thfs or any other occasion in the interest of Chris
tian Science is to correct misstate
ments and misapprehensions relative
to Christian Science teaching. Did
our brother but confine himself In his
comitnunications published in your col
umns to his own field of research and
to medical thesis, or did he but under
stand and correctly state, in incidental
reference thereto, the Drincioles of
Christian Science, our voice would not
be raised in remonstrance.
It would seem that in this last in
stance, hardly a better course could be pursued by us than simply to turn
back upon our critic his own quota
tions from the Bible and from the
Christian Science text-book, utterly to
refute his arguments. If your readers
will but " scan again the doctor's last
effort, giving no heed to our present or past articles, our own contentions will, we feel sure, be reasonably established and very clearly will it be seen that "his Bible quotations conflict," so
far as his effort to buttress medical
and physical science with scriptural authority is concerned: while at the
same time Mrs. Eddy's line of argu
mfnt and sniritual Internretatlon of
the scriptures on the points cited will appear rational and reasonable. A
careful and unbiased study of Mrs. Ed-
rfv ontirfi hook in connection with
the bible will serve to convince any
one, far better than can possibly our
poor effort or that of Dr. Thurston, of
the comparative truth and efficacy oi
the two systems under discussion
In our first reply to Dr. Thurston,
far from an attempt to "snearingly
Insinuate" as to his professional prac
tice, we commended the thoroughness of the gentleman's graip of medical and anatomical information, we deprlcated in no sense the profession or
achievement of the present-day reputable physician, but we did maintain and we still contend that spiritual things. I. e., spiritual life, spiritual
healing, spiritual man, can be discern
ed only "spiritually." We have not at any time misquoted or distorted the language of our critic, and we regret that the gentleman does not give us credit with being actuated by "common honesty" in our efforts to set forth the principles of our faith and
give a reason for the hope" that is
In us.
Our critic would commiserate us In
our futile (?) effort to "ignore atomic matter, organic life or material existance, positive philosophy and exact physical sciences." His sympathy is
doubtless well intended, but In this Instance is not well directed. The
atom Itself is, to say the least, but
an assumed quantity, and in the light of advanced scientific research has come to be a very doubtful one. Indeed it Is now maintained that recent developments have completely exploded the theory of the atom, and in consequence principles of physics and chemistry, once considered fixed, have been turned much awry, and textbooks on the above named subjects recently published contain sweeping revisions. "Exact" physical sciences, indeed! The greatest Teacher that ever lived declared, "The words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit and they are Life." The Good Book teaches, "In the beginning was the word, the
Word was God, in Him was Life." The same inspired book assures us that to "know aright" our God is Life eternal. Jesus healed the sick, raised
scripture points twai. distinct and decidedly conflicting records of creation in Genesis and logically draws her conclusion that the first record, that contained In the first Chapter of Genesis and the opening verses of the s&cond chapter, is the spiritual and true account of this creation; while the other account, in the remainder of the second chapter and in succeeding chapters of thi3 book. Is an account not of creation but of a human, distorted conception of God's spiritual and perfect creation. Significantly also does she call attention to the fact that In this second ac
count of creation, the task of creating
all things materially, "out of the dust of the ground," is ascnDed, not to the "God" of the first chapter and of the
spiritual account, but to the "Lord God" or Jehovah, this latter appellation having been adopted by the Hebrews later and is even supposed by some to have been borrowed from the heathen. This latter fact still further supports Mrs. Eddy s contention that the second account is but a false human conception of both creator and creation. Therefore she logically deduces that God, Spirit, created man in His own image, necessarily spiritual and perfect. Our good critic, on the other hand, quoting only from the latter and less authoritative account, and basing
his reasoning upon material premises alone, deduces that God evolved man from "animalism" and resorted to corruptable matter in the process of cre
ation. We will leave our readers to determine the plausibility or desirability of such a line of reasoning, to say
nothing of such conclusions.
Our critic argues for the necessity of
opposites. If there can be no con
ception of health and life without a counter conception of disease and
death, why did Jesus why does Dr. Thurston, for that matter wage war to the hilt against the "last enemy"
and its preliminaries? When God cre
ated all and pronounced that all good
and very good, did that creation rea
sonably include any one of the long line of human ills? Does revelation
Inculcate the necessity for or attempt a justification of sin. disease, death.
"inimical
substances"?
darkness of
Jesus healed the crooked ankles and
rent a rock-ribbed tomb, proving bones
and rocks neither inimical or substantial in the face of spiritual facts and spiritual power. The scriptures de
clare that God Is of purer eyes than the discussion at this point and leave to beholu iniquity, to say nothing of j its readers to investigate and judge for
that by the scriptural process of gradual substitution or of spiritual education they nyiy keep under their bodies and regenerate the. same, until finally when "every thought" shall have been "brought Into subjection to the obedience of Christ" or of "that mind which was also in Christ Jesus," then can they truly and as a "reasonable service" "present their bodies a living sacrifice (not a dead or a diseased one) holy and acceptable unto the Lord," as did Jesus. Christian Science teaches that life comes from and is inherent in God, who alone indeed Is life itself, and tnat to "know aright" that perfect
Father Is life eternal for man. In other words. Christian Scientists inculcate from a careful study of the bible and of the life of Jesus that "spiritual religion," is In reality the only "religion of the body;" that "by keeping his commandments" indeed, expressed not nowever In humanly conceived laws of health and hygiene or in "bodily religion" as our critic puts it, but as expressed in the decaloaue and in the ser
mon on the mount, "can we approach Him." We are puzzled to know what system of religious teaching can possibly lay greater claim to the true designation "religion of the body," than that system which absolutely heals the ills of the flesh and transforms the carnal or fleshly body into the "spiritual body," by a process of renewal along spiritual lines. Our good critic declares himself convinced that even from the standpoint of ."omnipotent wisdom" creation was "eternally perfect," yet argues that "there could be absolutely nothing
good without its counterpart." Ills
argument is quite as reasonable as is materialistic reasoning in general, and is as amusing as a line of argument pursued by a brother recently who, when cornered, declared, "Yes, God is infinite, but in a limited sense; He its omnipotent, but there are other powers." If we would oi e and all confine ourselves strictly to rational processes of reasoning when discussing the issues of the hour for general edification, rather than stubbornly labor to prove each his own point, such discussions would more often prov.e profitable, we
would err less frequently, learn more
and bore the public less. Further discussion in this particular Instance cannot but prove burdensome, and the
Palladium should reasonably terminate
Oil fuel is coming Into general use among the railroads in Mexico, according to the United States consul at Monterey. The Mexican Central railway Is now taking 4,0X barrels of fuel oil dally from the Mexican Petroleum company. All new engines purchased by the Mexican Central are equipped for burning oil.
Bishop Totter was staying with a friend in a country house. On Sunday morning as he passed through the library he found a small boy curled up in a big chair deeply interested In a book. "Are you going to church, Tom?" he asked. "No," he replied. "Why, I am." the bishop said. "Huh!" the boy returned. "That's your job."
The permanent free school fund cf Texas amounts to more than $30,000,000 In value, and the revenue derived comes In large part from interest on bonds of the various counties, and
much of it from rent or lease of school lands for grazing purposes and from Interest on notes taken for deferred payments on land sold.Houston, Texas, Chronicle.
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the dead, fed the multitudes and fasted forty days, by simply knowing that God is the Life of man, but never once did he use drugs, take note of physical organism, urge obedience to health laws or hygiene, or maintain that food, air or water sustain or perpetuate life. On the other hand He urged, "Behold the lillies of the field," "The life is more than meat." Very evidently he successfully ignored organic life and physical existence in his final victory over matter and the senses in his Olivet experience. Significant for all, including even our good critic, in this connection, is our Lord's command, "The works that I do shall ye do also." Christian Scientists find approximation to final achievement along spiritual lines extremely gratifying and encouraging, to say the least, and like Paul are content to "press toward the mark." As to "positive philosophy," if our critic will but analyze the term "phil-. osophy" he will find that it means literally "a Jove for or a search after knowledge." None of those whom the
world has designated philosophers ev-;
er advanced beyond the theoretical . stage in their processes of reasoning,) none set forth positive principles. Yet it is such philosophy that Dr. Thurs-j ton designates "positive." And what j of the gentleman's exploited "wisdom ! of the ages!" Jesus, who was, after j all, the only real philosopher, who was j the one of all the world's teachers and i reasoners who solved all problems, j who healed "all our diseases," spoke radically, "as never man spoke" and at every turn set aside the learning of the ages. The Bible declares that "the wisdom, of this world is foolishness with God." As to our alleged opposition to the scriptures, we will venture the assertion that pitting scripture for scripture, the Christian Science contention for spiritual healing can conclusively be proven while at the same time wide range of inter
pretation can be left any critic for the texts which may be advanced in support of medical and other material theories. Aside however from this fact the overwhelming and ever increasing weight of evidence in favor of spiritual methods of healing must not be lost sight of by Dr. Thurston or any ; other critic. Mrs. Eddy in her exposition of the
the ridiculous assumption that He
could possibly have Instituted the same
or that He In any sense perpetuates it.
There is a glad promise furthermore
of no pain, no night, no tears, no need
of sun or moon or stars. In the great day of final triumph, when humanity's "warfare is accomplished" and beliefs of matter and corruption and discord are "done away" (as only beliefs can be done away, never realities,)
and spiritual bliss ?s attained, "they
shall run and not be weary; and they
shall walk and not faint." Possibly in that day of final consummation. If not in this poor hour of reasonable and
gratifying approximation, Dr. Thurston will pardon us if this great and glorious and satisfying outlook upon spirit
ual and resplendant facts of creation
and of being turn us from uis cherish
ed but groveling quest among microscopic "atoms of dead inorganic mat
ter" for "minute living organisms."
Christianity, revelation, nature and common sense point man away from dust, outward and ever upward toward the infinite.
Christian Scientists will readily agree
with our critic that a diseased body is not a fit dwelling place for Deity, and this fact is in itself sufficient and reasonable incentive to seek health spiritually; but generations of experience
lead them to feel it impossible, by drugging, "rational physical culture" or processes of mere intellectuality to render that same body a fit temple for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Rather do they hope, and in gratifying measure is their hope being realized.
themselves of the merits and demerits of Materia Medica and Christian Sci
ence. Very sincerely, R. STANHOPE EAGTERDAY,
Christian Science committee on publi
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