has every reason to be grateful to the enlightened ruler of ‘the sunrise kingdom.’  Welcome to the men of India, and all faiths!  Welcome to all the disciples of Christ! ...  It seems to me that the spirits of just and good men hover over this assembly.  I believe the spirit of Paul is here.  I believe the spirit of the wise and humane Buddha is here, and of Socrates the searcher after truth....  When a few days ago I met for the first time the delegates who have come to us from Japan, and shortly after the delegates who have come to us from India, I felt that the arms of human brotherhood had reached almost around the globe.”  World’s Parliament of Religions, Chap.  III.  Similar congresses have since been held.  While I never expect to see all these principles of evil under one organized form, yet it is evident that the spirits of devils that have gone forth into “all the world” are uniting them all under one spirit—­that of Antichrist.

Another form in which the old dragon is manifesting himself and uniting thousands of people against the truth, and one in which the “miracles” ascribed to this latest confederation of Satan are performed, is that of “Christian Science.”  Attracted by its healing doctrine, multitudes are lured into this deceptive communion of Mrs. Eddy’s.  At the very best her system is, as every historian knows, only a slight revision of the Oriental Philosophy; and notwithstanding its forged name Christian, it is truly subversive of the doctrine of Christ.  Her grand central doctrine of the “allness” of mind and the unreality of matter is a true copy of the “fantastic idealism” of the Gnostics.  Gnosticism was based on “speculative knowledge.”  So is Mrs. Eddy’s theory.  Gnosticism denied the “true humanity of the Redeemer, and made his person a mere phantom, and his work a mere illusion.”  So does Christian Science.  Although Mrs. Eddy clamours loudly that her work is Christian and her multitude of followers believe her claim, still a careful study of her work Science and Health will convince any unprejudiced person that she utterly repudiates the atonement-work of Jesus Christ by denying his person and the reality of sin and matter.  Though the system may contain some good moral principles, yet it has no power to save men from sin, since it denies the existence of actual sin.  Her denial of the one personal God—­“all is infinite mind, and its infinite manifestations,”—­ is but a swing of the pendulum from the godless and graceless system of the materialistic philosophy propounded by Darwin and Haeckel and is as absurd and unscriptural (although opposite) as the rankest Pantheism.