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About The Reason. (Savannah, GA.) 1908-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 27, 1908)
tarium for th<‘ cure of drunkenness without any permanent results, lie feels that his embracing the Christian Science religion has amounted to his sal vat ion. The Church in Savannah has comfortable and neat reading rooms on the first floor of the Georgia State Bank building. Readings are held every Sun day morning at 11 o'clock and each Wednesday evening at S o'clock. These are all well attended and highly entertaining. Some of the literature being distributed contains gems of thought which no one may read without being better for having done so. In the June 6th issue of The Sentinal. I he official weekly organ of the Church is a reprint from a letter by Rev. M. S. Hoagland in the Lowell, (Mass.) Courier-Citizen that is inspiring. “1 do not quarrel with people" says Mr. Hoag land ‘‘who ('all Jesus Cod. if by that they mean his godliness, for whatever Jesus was. we are or may be come. Man means more than any of us can tell. We are .just beginning to understand his powers and capacity. Jesus never claimed powers for him self alone: never affirmed of himself capacities which he did not also recognize as the equal heritage of his disciples. Greater things than 1 do shall ye do, was his high affirmation. He calls himself repeated ly ‘the Son of man.' Eighty-four times is that ex pression used in the Gospel records. The name man was sweet to him: but when Peter called him ‘the Son of the living God.' He accepted the title with joy, for ‘Son of man' is ‘Son of God,' and Peter was commended for his spiritual discernment. The essential things about Jesus, or about any great character of history, are not the accidents or cir cumstances of his birth and death. The immaculate conception and the bodily resurrection of Jesus are not the central things in his life and influence * * * The divine paternity and holy motherhood were not exhausted by the birth of one Godlike child in Palis tine two thousand vears ago. That were heresy in- • « deed. We know, too. that the spirit of Jesus is in Ihe world todav, more wid-elv active in our social *7 « and civil life than ever before. We know that great souls do not perish with the body's death, but live again in minds made better by their presence. “The miracles of Jesus, which once we stumbled at accepting as supernatural, or rejected altogether as amiable delusions, we may now accept on purely scientific grounds. Jesus did not make any exclu sive claim to these unusual powers, and there is abundant evidence that many of his disciples and followers in every age had the power to heal the sick and ('lire disease in the same way that Jesus did. More than that, there is plenty of well attested evidence that many people today possess remarkable powers that seem to be independent of the bodily functions by which matter as well as mind is in- THE REASON flueneed and controlled. Hitherto orthodox Chris tianity has calk'd the miracles claimed in support of other religions false, and our rationalists have called them all a delusion: hut now. without running any risk of being calk'd fanatical or unscientific, we may look upon all of them as hints of the soul's power innate in man's as a child of God. Was Christ a man like us.’ Then let us see if we too can be such as was He." la the same issue of The Sentinal appears a time ly comment by Archibald McLellan on “Doctor in Politics" that scorches the medical profession for its attempts to monopolize the healing art, in proof of which an extract from a speech of one of the promi nent members of the American Medical Association is reproduced. It appears from this comment that the church is as much opposed to special privilege and monoply as Mr. Roosevelt or Senator Tillman. The expediency of the radical religious bodies enter ing the arena of practical reformers seems to have been left out of the question entirely in publishing the article. It is too good for us to omit in this con nection, so we print it in full : “During the past five or six years the American public has had an opportunity to learn a great deal about the extent Io which the desire of the few to obtain special privileges over tin* many has been gratified, through paternalistic legislation, unlawful combinations of capital or labor, and other means for subordinating public good to the selfish interests of some particular class. It would seem that enough has already been said and written on this subject to make any person of even ordinary perception hesitate about proposing to take away any further rights of the people, but this dot's not appear to be tlit' cast 1 with our friends the doctors. We copy the following from the Boston Transcript's report of the meeting of the American Medical Association now being held in Chicago:— “ ‘Physicians must break into politics. This was the keynote of an address on ‘Civic Duties of the Medical Profession’ delivered last night at the an nual banquet of the American Medical Editors’ As sociation by Dr. Charles A. L. Reed, former presi dent of the American Medical Association. A seat in the President's Cabinet, with a secretaryship of the proposed department of public health, is con ceded to be the end sought by the proposed political campaign. According to Dr. Reed, it is only by representation in Congress, which he described as being ‘waterlogged with lawyers,’ that the medical profession can secure or prevent legislation.’ “There is not the slightest objection to a physi cian going to Congress as an individual, just as there is no objection to any reputable person of any other profession or occupation holding a. seat in that body, but we do not understand that Dr. Reed would be satisfied with such a tame proposition as this. What 9
