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F REASON, SILVERTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1897
to he S'*nt as soon as called upon.
W ishing you every success in
The latest development of Chris­ vour field of labor, I rem ain,
tian Science m ust appear to m any
Very fraternally,
outsiders as very rem arkable. The
J . J ohnston .
founder of this sect and its leader, X'ictoria. B. C.
Mrs. Mary Raker Eddy, has just
announced to her followers in the
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United States and Canada that they
are enjoined “not to teach a student
If an existence necessarily implies
C hristian Science for oueyear, com­ a creator, who made (iod? W hat
mencing on March 14, 1897.” To was he made out of? Isn ’t it easier
this command she adds th at a new to believe that all organic life is
volume of her own, just published, the result of of n atural selection
is the heat m eans of prom ulgating and evolution than th a t it was all
the faith, and then says:
“The made at one mixing. W hen did
B ible,‘Science and H ealth,’ with time begin? When will it end?
‘Key to the S criptures,’ ami my Was God in a good business when
other published works are the only be made the Devil? W bat will be­
proper instructors for this hour. come of idiots after death? C hrist­
It should be the duty of all C hris­ ian friends ‘‘win re are you a t? ”
tian Scientists to circulate and to Does nature wait until after a
sell as m any of these hooks as they person is dead to punish him for
can.” Those who disobey this com­ violation of n atu ra l law?
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m and are told th a t they will he
liable to lose m em bership in the
On a Firm Basis.
church. A nother order is given,
th at, when her “Science and H ea lth ” Dear friends:
is read in church, the title of the
1 have been receiving I he Torch
book and its au th o r are to l>e a n ­ regularly since it began publication.
nounced only once; hut this calls Our cause has at last been placed,
attention to the fact th a t “ Science where it all the tim e belonged, by
and H ealth ” is treated very much the declarations of the last con­
in the sam e way as the Bible, and vention.
Placed on the solid
is, apparently, put upon a basis of
foun Jation of a m oral basis, if we
equal authority.
The autocratic will but be tru e to ourselves and
tone of these orders leads to the our cause, we cannot fail to have a
query whether a female pope has
great influence in shaping the
arisen in th isco u n trv . O r is itto h e destinies of the hum an race, for
assumed th a t Mrs. Eddy is a sharp progress and happiness.
business woman and has taken
We need no longer occupy the
m eans to secure for her new book
partially defensive attitude, which
the largest sale possible?
In any
we have kept so long. We can now
event, these orders are astonishing
wage a fight not only against
indications of how one of the most
superstition but against every other
liberal of sects can be made to yield
violation of reason or n atu ral law.
obedience to the autocratic com­
It is not necessary to rem in d
m and of a religious leader.—C hris­
Secularists th a t we are building,
tian Register.
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will bear th eir legitim ate fruit as
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