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“ I did not like it at all.” “Why not?” “ First of all, you had no ser mon.” “What do you mean,” said the Christian Scientist, “ by a ser mon?” My sister replied, “ An ex position of the Scripture.” “ Oh,” said this woman, “ we would not have that, that would be human and we have nothing human in our gather ings.” “ But,” my sister replied, “ they read Mrs. Eddy’s ‘Science and Health’ for half an hour.” “ Oh, yes, but that is not human, that is the second coming of Christ.” If she had said it was a coming o f the anti christ there would have been more reason in it. All of these inner cham ber Christs and obscure corner Christs are, as we- have said, a long since predicted and exploded humbug. One does not need to go to hear them or see them. Christ Himself has told us all about them and exposed them centuries before they appeared. Pas tor Russell’s Christ who came in Oc tober, 1874, belongs with the rest; certainly His coming was not the coming described by our Lord Him self in Matthew 24 :26, 27; on the contrary, it was a kind of coming against which our Lord Himself warned us. You may be able to see Pastor Russell’s moving picture shows .for nothing but none the less you are being humbugged if you go. Fifth, When the Lord Jesus comes again, He is “ coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” In Matthew 24.30 He says, “ They shall see the Son of man com ing on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” Some one may ask, “What does it mean by say ing, He is coming on the clouds? If you will look up with your concordance all the passages in the Bible in which any one is said to come with clouds, you will find that there is but one person who came in the clouds, or on the clouds, and that person was
if Prof. Herron might not be the Christ come back again. I pointed him to the passage given above, which, of course, utterly exploded that nonsense. When Mr. Moody was' holding his last meetings in De troit I assisted him in the work. One day a long-haired disciple o f Prince Michael, who was at that time in the Jackson State’s Prison for a statutory offense, came to Mr. Moody to explain to him his opinions and to get Mr. Moody to accept them. Mr. Moody turned him over to me, as he usually did cranks of various kinds. I took this disciple of Prince Michael to my room and let him ex pound his views. Then I said to him, “ Do you really think that Prince Michael is Christ come back again?” He said that he did. Then I asked him what he did with Matthew 24: 26, 27, “ As the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.” He gave me this very illuminating answer, “When Christ appeared first, did He not come in Palestine?” “ Yes.” “ Is that not in the East?” “ Yes.” “ And is not Michigan in the West?” “ Yes.” “Well, then, in the coming of Prince Michael is He not coming from the East to the West?” This apostle of Prince Michael afterwards deserted Prince Michael and came to me and wanted me. to put him into Christian work, but I fear that his grasp of truth was not very strong, for he was soon involved with Ann O ’Delia Dis de Bar. A very enthusiastic disciple of Mrs. Eddy invited my youngest sis ter a number of times to go with her to the Christian Science meeting in the leading Christian Science church in New York. Finally my sister yielded to her importunities and went. As they came home from the meeting this ardent Christian Scientist said to my sister, “ How did you like it?”
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