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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-
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deed. We know, too. that the spirit of Jesus is in
Ihe world todav, more wid-elv active in our social
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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
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