Article March 30, 1899 Issue

In Reply to Mr. Warring

with contributions from J. T. W.

Our friend and neighbor, Mr. Warring, says in the Eagle this morning that the teachings of Christian Science (according to his understanding) are the same as those of Atheistic France in the last century, and that "All violators of law, human or divine, hold these views;" and further that Mrs. Eddy's "followers profess great regard for the Bible, but it is not the Bible of our youth." Has the Bible changed since the days of our youth? Does Mr. Warring mean that the Bible of our youth taught that "infants were in hell a span long," and that in order to be converted we must believe that God would be perfectly just to consign us to everlasting punishment because we were born sinners; and that part of His creation were foreordained or elected to eternal happiness and the other part to go to hell, a lake of fire and brimstone, to suffer a continual death and never die? This is the teaching that I received in the church of which Mr. Warring is now a member. Does he hear this kind of teaching there now? No. If it is believed it is not spoken. "For those who have not been carried away by her sophistries, (meaning Mrs. Eddy), it may be a good thing to compare God's word and hers." Let me quote from the Bible and from the same writer as Mr. Warring does:

We know that whosever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

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