CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TESTED
By R. C. P.
The Mother and the Baby Both Knew There Was Pain — The Bible Speaks Clearly Enough on the Subject
LINCOLN once said, "You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all the people all the time." One is forcibly reminded of this terse and truthful statement when confronted by the bald and groundless claims of the unscientific cult known as Christian Science. During a recent visit to Manila, a well informed hospital nurse related to me the following interesting statement of her experience while attending an obstetrical case in a Christian Science family. The case proved to be very serious, the use of instruments being required by the physician in charge. The patient was also attended by a Christian Scientist, who sought to conduct her through her ordeal upon strictly Christian Science principles. She constantly reminded the patient that there was no pain, that what seemed to be pain was only a mental illusion. The dutiful patient made no response, except that she cried out now and then in the same way that others do under severe pain. Some months later, the babe was suffering of a severe attack of colic; and while the nurse was busy with the case, the mother began to soothe the youthful patient by administering the usual Christian Science instruction. She said: "My little darling, there is no such thing as pain. It is only a mental illusion. But you can bet your life that your mother had pain all right at the time of your birth." THE BABE TOO INNOCENT, THE MOTHER TOO HONEST FOR SUCH A SCIENCE
That babe with colic was too innocent, and that mother was too honest, to suppress the truth in support of a fraudulent theory. She could no longer be fooled upon the question of the Christian Science doctrine, "There is no such thing as pain." And that doctrine is diametrically opposed to the plain teaching of the Bible, which says: "Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in Thy sight, O Lord." Isa. 26: 17. "We have been in pain." Verse 18. WHEN PAIN WILL BE GONE FOREVER
Not until our feet are securely planted within the pearly gates of the gold-paved city, the New Jerusalem, does the Bible warrant the assertion that there is no pain. Its statement is: "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away. . . . And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven. . . . And there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." Rev. 21: 1-4. WHEN GOD WILL AGAIN WALK AND TALK WITH MEN
It is not until the former things have passed away, and the Paradise from which man was removed at the time of the entrance of sin is restored, and God again walks and talks with man as in Eden of old, that there will be no more pain. From that time, no more heartaches will be felt, no tears will flow, and there shall be no more death. Until then, how stupid in the eyes of God must appear the teacher of His holy word, who teaches that there is no such thing as pain! Christianity has lived to see the dismantling of many frauds, which have been announced to the world in the name of Christ; and the antichristian and unscientific teaching of Christian Science should soon share their fate. R. C. P.