The Modern Siren (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...and sometimes without even mentioning a reason for a deduction at all, it thunders out the startling words, 'I have proved' so and so. It takes the Pope and all the great guns of his Church in battery assembled to authoritatively settle and establish the meaning of a sole and single unclarified passage of Scripture, and this at vast cost of time and study and reflection, but the author of this work is superior to all that: she finds the whole Bible in an unclarified condition, and at small expense of time and no expense of mental effort she clarifies it from lid to lid, reorganizes and improves the meanings, then authoritatively settles and establishes them with formulas which you cannot tell from 'Let there be light ' and 'Here you have it ' It is the first time since the dawn-days of Creation that a Voice has gone crashing through space with such placid and complacent confidence and command." Dr. D. A. Easton, one of the inspired apostles of this cult, writing in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE JOURNAL, and therefore officially and with authority, says, "When Jesus came forth from the tomb, it was not because he had supernatural assistance; he was only asserting the great fact of man's being, viz., that man cannot die." Then he speaks of the death of Jesus as being only a "seeming death," and adds, "Jesus rose from the dead because he realized that he never died." He does not seem to be disturbed at all by the statement, many times repeated in Scripture, that "Christ died," nor by the affirmation a score or more of times made, that "God raised up Jesus," nor by the magnificent and complete refutation of everything he says on this subject by Paul in his masterly argument recorded in the fifteenth chapter of Firs...