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FOUR MODERN RELIGIOUS
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ARTHUR HAIRE FORSTER
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BOSTON
RICHARD G. BADGER
THE GORHAM PRESS
Copyright, 1919, by Arthur Hairv Forster
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Christian Science 25
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Theosophy 39
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The Mormons or Latter Day Saints . . .58
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Christ the Word 72
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The Value of Death 77
VII
SPIRITUALISM
A SPIRITUALIST
who believes
vironment to which
in
man
a
ought to mean a person
spiritual order or en-
should adapt himself if
the " messages " from the dead given by the me-
dium. At one, for instance, the medium alleged
seance and had told her that she was dull in the
other world. The mother was probably afraid
that her dead child might be lonely; the medium
had read what was in her mind and given it as a
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spiritualism 1
spiritualism 1
toric church.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
book, ''
The Faith and Works of Christian Sci-
ence," can say of them, " They bully dying women
and let babies die In pain; they rob the epileptic
of their bromide, the heart cases of their digitalis;
let appendicitis go on to septic peritonitis, gastric
THEOSOPHY
Tkeosophy 41
this life is, they say, the result of our past lives
and our condition in future lives will depend on
our conduct in this one. Conduct is a seed which
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) There is no satisfactory evidence. The-
osophists say that sudden friendships and infant
prodigies are evidence, but if it be true, there
should be more of both and infant prodigies are
prodigies only in music and numbers, not in science
or philosophy. This merely means that the oper-
ations of the mind that have to do with numbers
are often developed early. It may be mentioned
that reincarnation does much to deprive children
Theosophy 43
Madras.)
Theosophlsts are not content with belief in rein-
thing.
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the essence of all religion and of absolute truth."
Theosophy 5
page 574, of
" The Secret Doctrine " is worthy of
notice: "When He (Jesus) is made to say —
'
I ascend to my Father and your Father '
— it was
simply to show that the group of his disciples and
followers attracted to Him belonged to the same
Dhyani Buddha, '
Star,' or '
Father,' again of the
Theosophy 53
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But the meaning of the name Christ must be set
Theosophy 57
in
''
Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith and
his Progenitors," by his mother, Lucy Smith.
A Mormon elder says of the Book of Mormon
62 Four Modern Religious Movements
" In Its pages there are no anachronisms and no
contradictions." " Take away the Book of Mor-
mon and the revelations," Joseph Smith declared,
" and where is our religion? " " We believe the
Book of Mormon to be the word of God," Is the
eighth of the Mormon articles of faith.
These are rash statements, for several glaring
anachronisms have been pointed out by Bishop
Jones of Utah. The Book professes to be an ac-
count of — (
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) The Jaredltes, who left the tower
of Babel at the time of the confusion of tongues
and came to America In barges, but owing to in-
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" The bishop must be the husband of one
wife " yet the ;
Mormon who was exe-
bishop, Lee,
JOURNALIST
A
innkeeper who was a
tells
of one subject
in a village
— Death.
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than our way from the first to the second, the way
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minded or fraudulent.
Most men, perhaps, have a reasonable certainty
of survival after death, but not a scientific cer-
tainty, the evidence, from the necessity of the case,
He described himself as
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The Religious Opinions of Dean Swift 87
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A clergyman of special note
For shunning those of his coat."
Clergyman: ''
For my part, having considered
the matter impartially, I can see no great reason
which those gentlemen you call the free thinkers
as a thing to be abolished.
" For of what use is
ity."
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