of its own, but that language is voiceless-wordless— and can only be comprehended by Soul. If all the children of earth would but seek to find their own Soul-Selves, to live in harmony therewith, only thoughts of love, of truth, and of goodness would be sent out to vibrate through the universe."

Denies a Personal God.

On page 236 of the same number of the Washington News Letter we find the following: "The Soul is eternal. No power in the universe can harm or destroy the Soul, because it is the only eternal, pure, simple in the universe. You, blessed Soul, are eternal. Realize that truth, and you are saved from all delusion and insane thought about creation, a monster God, and a Satan or devil. Realize you are a part of the Great One, and you will not commit. so-called sin or evil deeds. Live in the universal Mind, and you will live with the true God and the angels. Live in the Universal Mind, and you are all love, all peace, all calm, all power, and all force of the universe, you are omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent."

"I Am God."

In an article written by Annie Rix Militz, entitled "I Am Myself," on page 232 of the same number of the News Letter, appears the following: "My being is God, and not the image and likeness of God. I am what I choose to be. I am no imitation or suggestion... I am the real thing. I am IT." And again, "I am God-being, absolutely loving, forgiving, healing, redeeming, saving. I AM CHRIST. I am

the God-Self, perfect, pure, free, wholesome. Nothing can use me for evil. I am no mirror for devils. I know no adversary. I am the light of the world, and in me there is no darkness at all."

An Exact Fulfillment of Prophecy.

If this blasphemous self-exaltation does not fulfill the prophecy of Jesus in Mathew 24:5, 23, 24, how could such a prophecy be fulfilled? "And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in My name, saying, I AM CHRIST; and shall deceive many." "Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."

We do not deny that healings and wonderful works have been wrought by Christian Scientists, and others who derive their power from the same source; but we do affirm that the source is not divine, but evil and intended to deceive. Then is not the terrible prophecy recorded in 2 Thess. 2:9-12 being fulfilled? Of this power the apostle says, "Whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

An Unfailing Test.

"To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them." Isa. 8:20.

As will be seen by a considerate reading of this chapter, almost every essential claim of the Scripture is denied and nullified by the counter-claims of Christian Science. Yet the highest claims are put forth as to the source of these manifestations. In fact, Christian Science claims the Holy Spirit as the direct source of all its manifestations and power.

"To the law and to the testimony." What says the word of God? "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God; and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come." 1 John 4:1-3.

If there is one principle of the Scripture more than another which is denied by Christian Science, it is the mission of Jesus Christ to this world, His death and burial, and His atonement for the sins of the world. The whole trend of the teachings of this cult is diametrically opposed to the principles of the Bible, some of which they attack openly. Hence their light cannot be the light of heaven, nor their power the power of God.

Whence, then, is its origin? It must be found in the only other supernatural power in the universe, the power of Satan. The exercise of this power is

to deceive and lead mankind to final ruin. Christian Science and kindred errors are the outgrowth of the subtle, deceptive workings of Satan in the last days, against which the follower of Christ is particularly and many times warned.

John Alexander Dowie.

Pedigree, from claims by Dowie, and the outcome as recorded by history:

Elijah I., translated to heaven. Elijah II., John the Baptist, forerunner of Christ, beheaded by Herod. Elijah III., John Alexander Dowie, founder of Dowieism, banker, publisher, and controller of vast financial enterprises in Chicago, and founder of Zion City. Claimed many wonderful faith cures.

Although not affiliating with Christian Science, his work was closely akin to it. In a few years he gained a large following, and from the gifts of adherents accumulated over twenty millions. Through disappointment in his mission to New York and other places, his health gave way, and in 1906, forsaken

and repudiated by his former followers, he died, it is claimed, a raving maniac. His fortune and enterprises are scattered

and Zion City is bankrupt.

"Babylon . . . is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, ... and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." Rev. 18:2.

New Thought and Pantheism

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EW Thought originated from identically the same source as Christian Science. The Rev. Warren Felt Evans, M. D., is called the father of the New Thought school. He was born in Rockingham,

Vt., Dec. 23, 1817. For a time he was a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church. During years of broken and frail health he began to study the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, the noted spirit medium and teacher, and in 1863 he visited Phyneas Parkhurst Quimby.

Mr. Quimby was the discoverer in America of the so-called principles of Mental Healing. Mrs. Eddy her

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