Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3)Strong, Augustus Hopkins
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Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3)
Strong, Augustus Hopkins
Baptists -- Doctrines; Theology, Doctrinal
So disease remains also. Hospitals for Incurables,
and the deaths even of advocates of faith-cure, show that they too
are compelled to recognize some limit to the application of the
New Testament promise.
In view of the preceding discussion we must regard the so-called
Christian Science as neither Christian nor scientific. Mrs. Mary
Baker G. Eddy denies the authority of all that part of revelation
which God has made to man in nature, and holds that the laws of
nature may be disregarded with impunity by those who have proper
faith; see G. F. Wright, in Bib. Sac., April, 1899:375. Bishop
Lawrence of Massachusetts: “One of the errors of Christian Science
is its neglect of accumulated knowledge, of the fund of
information stored up for these Christian centuries. That
knowledge is just as much God’s gift as is the knowledge obtained
from direct revelation. In rejecting accumulated knowledge and
professional skill, Christian Science rejects the gift of God.”
Most of the professed cures of Christian Science are explicable by
the influence of the mind upon the body, through hypnosis or
suggestion; (see A. A. Bennett, in Watchman, Feb. 13, 1903).
Mental disturbance may make the mother’s milk a poison to the
child; mental excitement is a common cause of indigestion; mental
depression induces bowel disorders; depressed mental and moral
conditions render a person more susceptible to grippe, pneumonia,
typhoid fever. Reading the account of an accident in which the
body is torn or maimed, we ourselves feel pain in the same spot;
when the child’s hand is crushed, the mother’s hand, though at a
distance, becomes swollen; the mediæval _stigmata_ probably
resulted from continuous brooding upon the sufferings of Christ
(see Carpenter, Mental Physiology, 676-690).
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