Article February 16, 1907 Issue

Some "said that it thundered: others said, An angel...

Reuben Pogson—Hull, England.

Eastern Morning News,

Some "said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him." As in Jesus' time, so to-day, those who listen only with the ears that "hear not" and look with the eyes that "see not," hear only the "thunderings" of a material voice, whereas those who through suffering have worn out the unsatisfying consolations of scholastic theology declare that God's message has come to the ears of a weary, waiting world. Every point that our reverend critic has brought up was thoroughly answered by the Rev. A. R. Vosburgh. "When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the wayside."

Mrs. Eddy does not try to teach us "how to free our non-existent bodies from disease which exists only in our own imagination." What the author of Science and Health does say is this: "Sickness is neither imaginary nor unreal,—that is, to the frightened, false sense of the patient. Sickness is more than fancy; it is solid conviction. It is therefore to be dealt with through right apprehension of the truth of being. If Christian healing is abused by mere smatterers in Science, it becomes a tedious mischief-maker." (Science and Health, p. 460).

The lecturer said: "I hope no one will go away from this hall to-night with the impression that I have said that Christian Scientists have no bodies." The teaching of Christian Science is in line with Paul's declaration that "they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God." All the quotations our critic has made are easily explained from the spiritual light thrown upon the Bible by Science and Health, yet he still views them from behind the veil of matter.

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