of sin, sickness or death. He needs no Saviour because he is his own saviour. They steadfastly claim that if one believes faithfully “ in the Christ-life, he will never die” (Talks on Truth, p. 150) but they die as do other men and women. Charles Fillmore, his first wife Myrtle and his second wife Cora, are in their graves. So are thou sands o f their followers who be lieved by diet, and denial o f sick ness, and their kind o f praying, and making affirmations against sin, sickness and death they could live forever. Unity has embraced the repul sive teaching o f transmigration o f souls, taken from Hinduism. The goal is the same as that of this East Indian heathen religion, the final emancipation and re union with Brahm, or cessation o f being. U n i t y has substituted Christian names for Nirvana and Brahm. “We are coming closer to that great ultimate, the incarnation of Christ. . . . Our human incarna tions are steps along the way to the great incarnation. . . . Rein carnation is the gospel o f the sec ond chance. . . . You will continue your progress from the point where you left off, and you will rear a new body. . . . Eventually you: will have purified your mind and your body to such a degree that you do not need to relinquish it to corruption but will be able to quicken it to spiritual expres sion as did Jesus the Christ” (Have We Lived Before? Wilson, pp. 61-99, portions). Fillmore had a cheery note for his followers: “We fall asleep without any sense o f apprehen sion . . . the soul leaves the body, yet it does not fail to return in due time to take up a body . . . if his life has been lived by the Golden Rule, his souls basks in the sunshine o f a world Elysian and his hope o f heaven is fo r a season fulfilled” (Talks on Truth, pp. 47, 48). For all its “ sw e e tn e s s and light” Unity is one o f the most heartless and cold-blooded denials o f the Gospel in existence. HU
overcame” (Talks on Truth, p. 164). His incarnation is denied by Unity: “ To say that Jesus Christ was a man as we are men is not true. . . . He was one with the absolute principle o f Being. He was that Being, to all intents and purposes” (Talks on Truth, p. 169). Unity and Salvation What kind o f salvation does Unity teach if it does not believe in salvation from sin as revealed in the Word o f God? “ Salvation is finally attained when the cycle o f rebirth is bro ken and man comes to birth no more. The true spiritual body is to replace the physical body and the man becomes like Christ. This is to be done here on earth . . . eternal life means conscious exist ence in the body” (Talks on Truth, pp. 150-151). Unity rejects the new birth. “ Being ‘born-again’ or ‘born from above’ is not a miraculous change that takes place in man; it is the establishment o f that which has always existed as the perfect-man idea o f Divine Mind” (Christian Healing, p. 24). “ This being is spiritual man, who will be equal with God, when he overcomes or handles with wisdom and power the faculties o f the body” (Twelve Powers o f Man, p. 163). “ I f you fully recognize the fact that the God that dwells in you dwells in all men, you know that each one’s own Lord, the Christ within each one, will make no mistake. . . . Your Lord is the Christ within y o u r own being” (Lessons in Truth, p. 108). Fillmore makes very plain what he means: “Man is the direct offspring o f Divine Mind, God’s idea o f perfect man. This is the only begotten Son, the Christ, the Lord God, the Jeho vah, the I AM. . . . This Jehovah or divine idea o f perfect man, forms the manifest man and calls his name Adam” (Mysteries of Genesis, p. 12). The core o f Unity teaching, then, is the same as that o f Chris tian Science that man is incapable
NAVAJO GOSPEL MISSION 1118 it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?” (Lam. 1:12) Reaching: some of our First Americans, Navajo Pastors, Bible Training Classes, Grade School, Radio Ministry, Outstations, Medical Ministry, Hogan Visitation, Camps and Con ferences, V.B.S. for all ages. Write for the publication. NAVAJO PRAYER CHALLENGE Oraibi, Arizona 86039 A UNIQUE MISSIONARY MINISTRY Rev. Youngve R. Kindberg, Executive Director An evangelical missionary organization, dis tributing the Scriptures in over 70 languages about the harbor and Metropolitan New York Area. Divisions: Marine, Immigration, Foreign, Jewish, Negro, Hotels, Hospitals, Blind, Scripture texts in subways. New York Mission to the Jews Since 1895 this Mission, founded by Rev. and Mrs. Bernhard Angel, has proclaimed the Gospel to the Jews of New York’s fabled East Side. There are more Jews in metropoli tan New York, than in the State of Israel. MINISTRIES: Gospel services; open-air^meet ings; hospital and home visitation; Scripture distribution. You can help by prayer and grift. 149 Ave. B, New York, N.Y. 10009. THOUSANDS OF MUSLIM STUDENTS are seriously studying the Bible N E ED ED : (1) “ apostles” who like Paul will disciple these individually (2) prayer warriors who will strengthen both m issionary and new Christian. W rite to : NORTH AFRICA MISSION 47 Long Lane, Upper Darby, Penna. 19082 205 Yonge Street, Toronto 1, Ontario, Canada NORTH AMERICA INDIAN MISSION Formerly Marine Medical Mission, Inc., this interdenominational faith mission has evan gelized native Indians of Pacific Northwest since 1949 through resident missionaries, DVBS, summer camping, and itinerant coastal villages. Worked in 80 Indian com munities in 1968. Write for free publication. William W. Lottis, Director 2205 Fir Street, Dept. B., Vancouver 9, B.C. NORTHERN CANADA EVANGELICAL MISSION An interdenominational faith mission seeking to reach our Canadian Indians with the Gos pel . . . a mission field of 250,000 Indians. • Establishing Indian Indigenous Churches • Indian Bible Schools • Translating Scriptures in Indian Languages • 8 -1 5 minute radio programs each week in Cree, Ojibwa and Chippewan. Head Office: 58 - 18th St. East, Prince Albert, Sask. 0 M S Interdenominational faith mission specializ ing in the establishment of indigenous churches on eleven fields through evangelism, medicine, radio, and teaching ministries. The Oriental Missionary Society P.O. Box A Greenwood, Indiana 46142 PACIFIC GARDEN MISSION 646 So. State St., Chicago, Illinois, 60605 The rescue mission where Billy Sunday and Mel Trotter and a host of others got their start with Christ. Open around the clock, PGM not only reaches Skid Row but operates a Women's and Children's Division, Servicemen's Center, and conducts a world wide radio ministry through ''UNSHACKLED!'' Proclaiming the Good News since 1877 PARTNERSHIP MISSION, INC. Rochunga Pudaite, Executive Director P.O. Box 805 Wheaton, Illinois 60137 Proclaiming the Gospel o f Jesus Christ through National Missionaries in India and Burma. Formerly Indo-Burma Pioneer Mission NEW YORK BIBLE SOCIETY 5 East 48th Street New York, N.Y. 10017
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