Eddyism, Commonly Called “Christian Science” 15S for all men of lofty character than to be cured of any gnaw ing ulcer that eats into the flesh. And to be so delivered in the name of religion—to be told that since all is God, nothing can be evil—oilers a tremendous bribe—a tremendous, but most unholy bribe. To accept this doctrine is to head straight for moral disaster. The higher evolution of our race consists in man’s growing sensitiveness to the distinction between good and evil, and anything calculated to dull that sensitiveness, to wipe out that distinction, is high treason against humanity. To pretend to solve this problem of evil by denying its existence, to teach that “there is no will that is not God’s will,” so that whatever the individual does is God’s doing, is far worse than folly, or one of the aberrations of an eccentric cult; it is a crime against the moral universe. As to the Atonement, or the relation of Christ to the fact of sin, Eddyism favors us with the amazing statement that “The Atonement is the exemplification of man’s unity with God”! The idea of Christ giving His life as “a ransom for many”, of being “made sin for us”, though He “knew no sin,” is entirely foreign to Mrs. Eddy’s scheme. There is no sin to be atoned for, and no need for a ransom to be paid. Then, as if it were not enough to deny the reality of sin and the atonement, Eddyism indulges in what to the Christian is blasphemy. For example, “The true Logos is demonstra bly Christian Science” (p. 134, “Science and Health”). If that be so, then we might read the first verse of the Gospel according to John in this way: “In the beginning was Christ ian Science, and Christian Science was with God, and Christ ian Science was God. All things were made by Christian Science, and without Christian Science was not anything made that was made.” We are also told that the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, is Christian Science! And Mrs. Eddy herself is also the Word, and the Comforter, and the Second Advent, and the Woman in the Sun, and the Last Day.
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