1116 THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS burning faith.” We may hold to the Apostles’ Creed and still not have the apostles’ Christ. We must take our stand against error, but let us see to it that we are not merely bristling for our beliefs but fervent in our fel lowship with Christ Himself. K. b. B. m m LOOK ING to the Lobsters “ All disease is wholly mental. What is termed disease does not exist.” So says Mrs. Eddy. “ Sickness is a growth of error springing from man’s ignorance of Christian Science. Sufferings are not the penalty for having broken a law. Any supposed information coming from the body is illusion- of mortal mind. Nerves are a part of a -belief that there is sensa tion in matter.” In proof of this contention Mrs. Eddy tells us that “ cold empurpled the cheeks of our ancestors but they never indulged in inflamed bronchial tubes because they were ignorant of the existence of such things as tubes and lungs.” (We wonder how she knows.) But she gives an even more convincing argument when she says, “ When the unthinking lobster loses its claw it grows again. If Christian Science was understood, the human limb would be replaced as readily as the lobster’s claw. The less mind there is manifested in matter the better.” (It is true that a lobster’s claw will grow again, but she forgot that a cat’s tail if cut off will not replace itself. Evidently lobsters make better Christian Scientists than cats, the latter having too much intellect for their own good). Now if all of this is true, then the only hope for a one-legged man is to become either a lobster or a lunatic. “ The less mind there is manifested in matter the better.” Instead of recognizing the reality of matter, sin, sick ness and death and looking to Jesus Christ for overcoming strength, we should look to the unthinking lobster and go and do likewise. Strange, is it not, that Mrs. Eddy is compelled to scrape down amidst the crags and rocks of the ocean bottom for a perfect example of her doc trine when we have in the high heavens One Who patiently suffered and “ left us an example that We should follow in His steps.” If lobsters could only understand, they might well swell with pride at the number of people in the world who are trying to follow in their footsteps as the result of the free advertising given their virtues by Mrs. Eddy. Now you will understand why some people are called lobsters. It is a genteel epithet for an ignoramus. K. L. B.
DEATH OF CHAS. ALEXANDER A telegram received at the hour of going to press announces the death of Chas. M. Alexander, in England, on Oc tober 12, following a brief illness.
MUCH TALK WITH JESUS “A little talk with Jesus” will do well enough for the tiny saintlets who de sire just religion enough to keep them in respectable society, but those who would be strong in the Lord and make inroads on hell-territory must be mighty in prayer! They must talk MUCH with Jesus.
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