326 Return of Christ will be God’s final answer to Mary Baker Eddyism, Chris tian “Science falsely so called.” “Chris tian Science” has been exposed and its every claim exploded times without number, and no one can in this day remain an honest Christian Scientist except through gross and unpardonable ignorance of what Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy taught or what the Bible teaches, or else because since they would not receive the love of the truth they have been given over to strong delusion to believe a lie (2 Thess. 2:8-11). But the second coming of Christ, His Visible and Glorious Return will be God’s final answer. Mrs. Eddy taught that, there was no such thing as the body, that the body is only “illu sion,” “mortal thought,” but when Jesus comes again in the same manner in which He went (Acts 1:11), bodily, and visibly and actually and forever incarnate Jesus, Christian Science will be seen for the empty and ridiculous lie that it is. Mary Eddy taught that the actual historic Jesus was not the Christ she believed in, but that the Christ she believed in was the ideal Christ, but when Jesus Himself comes again in the clouds of heaven and all the holy angels with Him, she will know and her deluded disciples will know that the actual historic Jesus who was born of the Virgin Mary, who suffered and actu ally died, who actually and literally rose from the dead, is the true and only Christ and that, as John puts it, “Who soever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father” (1 John 2:23), and “he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ, this is the antichrist” (1 John 2:22). “Christian Scientists” teach that the revelation of Christian Science to Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy in 1876 was the second coming of Christ. I will not stop to show that Christian Science was not in any sense a revelation to Mrs. Eddy either by God or by Satan, but that it has been clearly proven to be Dr. Quimby’s child which Mrs. Eddy
THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S kidnapped, redressed and rebaptized as her own child. That does not matter now, but when Jesus Christ comes again, publicly, bodily, visibly, and in great glory, Mary Baker Eddy’s claim will be seen unclothed from its gaudy dress of high sounding but empty words in all its naked hideousness. Mary Baker Eddy taught that there was no such thing as death, that death was an illusion and that therefore there could be no proper resurrection of the dead, but when her mentally and finan cially duped followers hear the voice of command of our descending Lord, and see the graves opening and the dead coming out of them and ascending to meet the Lord in the air, and they themselves left behind to pass through all the horrors of the Great Tribulation, and to feel the stern hand, not of “the Beast of Berlin,” but “the Beast” of Revelation, they will see what a mock ery was their imagined “Science” and what utter fools they have been. VI. The Second Coming of Christ, God’s Final Answer to Universal- ism in All Its Forms. In the sixth place the second coming of Christ, the Visible and Glorious Return of our Lord will be God’s final answer to Universalism in all its forms. Time fails me to dwell upon that. Sim ply let me point you to one passage in the Word of God, 2 Thess. 1:7-10, “The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, with the angels of His power in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus; who shall suffer punishment,' even eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of His might, when He shall come to be glori fied in His saints, and.to be marvelled at in all them that believed. . . in that day.” Men are unwilling to believe that any man shall be finally and forever lost. I do not wonder that men are loath to believe it. They try to make out that in some way, in some
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