St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-04
CRAZES.
Not many years ago one of our English

Raving and bowling round the universe?
and answered
Because the Devil bit it from the birth;
The fault is all with him.
Looking back through the ages at the
mental and moral as well as physical cpl
denies which have ragged and swept Of I'M
numbered multitudeS of victims, it would
seem as though the world were at the first
devil bittenl Witness the horrors off the
olden time gladiatorial shows, the suffer
ings of early monasticism, the wild vagaries
of mad knight Grants and crazy crusaders,
the diabolism of relentless inconoclaSts and
and cruel inquisitors and burners of witches.
AS the world advances in civilization, the
horror and diabolism are driven into the
background, but the tendency of the human
race, or part Of it, toward mania seems as
great as ever. In one century art is the
fashionable epidemic, in another literature,
While religious maniaS of various kinds and
degrees OF fervor are always raging. Are
all these craZes only results of
the wild vagarles of half turned
brains? There are, no doubt.
could we but rightly read laws governing
them as intleXible as are the laws of CRAWL
tation, and under all the seeming madness
and evil, the is a germ of saneness and real
good. In looking back over the enthusi-
aSmS of history, from the early days of
rigid monasticism down to the hot-headed
raids of John Brown and nihilism, we see
the germ and acknowledge the outcome to
be uplifting, yet when living in the midst
Of a craze we, who claim sanity, lose pa
thence with the false, which covers and de-
grades the true are apt to denounce the
whole thing as humbug and believes in
it as rampant lunatics.
rTocu,orSfc c,Oiri licfo fo;4I
healers, have thus in these latter days been
denounced, and yet, notwithstanding the
announcement. so popular are the repre-
sentatives of the latter class-mind-he
becoming in our principal cities and so
literally patronized that they no doubt coin
money faster than most of the bust
ness firms, yet probably the great
majority Of those who patronize
and of those who denounce know little or
nothing of their beliefs or their claims to
confidence. Does this mean that people
enjoy being humbugged, like to be igno-
rant? Having lately reviewed two or three
late publications on the subject by as many
different advocates, perhaps [ may, by
partial statement of what the author of the
most pretentiouS of the volumes claims to
teach, crafty the curiosity of some of the
readers of the GLOBE. The book, entitled
Science and Health" and containing over
500 pages, is written by Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, who has charge of these far as we
know-only so-calied metaphysical college
in existence, located at Boston. She claims
to be the discoverer, through the study OF
the Bible, which, she says, was her sole
teacher of the principle Of metaphysical
healing. which principle she names Chris
tan Science"
She claims to demonstrate that God is
Supreme Being, and the only principle or
life; that man is the reflection OF this prin-
clple: that error is neither mind nor one of
its faculties; that God is not the author of
error, but that sin, sickness and death are
It's effects; that Jesus presented more than
all other men, the idea of truth or God:
that He healed the sick and the sinful, but
that few understood in the least, his glorl-
GUS teachings and their proofs, namely.
that Life, Truth and Love DESTROY all err
ror. sickness, sin and death; that sickness
is an illusion, a suffering of the mortal
mind. disease is simply fear made mani
test on the body, taking the form of can
GER consumption, smallpox, an injured
limb, etc.; that Divine truth takes away
this physical sense of error, just as it re-
! moves the sense of mental and moral error.
That history is now, in the new develop
lhClib VI SClGllC6 Only repeating
the truth accepted in the early Christian
era.
1t would of course, be impossible. if de-
sirable. to attempt in short article to
present her arguments in proof of these
statements. Suffice it to say, she claims
to have received her revelations from Di-
vinity, and while taking the Bible as her
guide her interpretations thereof are so
radically different from those accepted by
the orthodox churches of the day that it
will be long before they are even tolerated.
to say nothing of being accepted.
For example. our English poets rabid
bitter of the world is non-entity, evil be-
ing the only devil, and that only seeming.
not reality.
Man, per Genesis, first chapter, was Gre
ated perfect spiritual being, having a
mortal body only when he erred, as see
Genesis second chapter. How perfect
spiritual being could by any possibility sin,
or why the sinless lower animals are cursed
with mortal bodies, the does not explain
To moderately sane people the theories of
these new enthusiasts calling themselves
mind healers' SAVIOR much of mental mad
ness, yet no doubt beneath the rubbish of
error there are some germs OF truth. which
living and growing will in the outcome out
live and outgrow the error. So while we
cannot follow their leading and must de-
plore their delusions, we hold ourselves
ready to accept any grains of truth they
may present. For candid examination Of
this and kindred manias viewed from
common sense standpoint see the late
articles in the Century written by j. NJ.
Buckley, d. d.
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colors, such as red, blue and purple. When
these are removed plain brown or black