The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1890-01-25

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As sat writing At my desk on Tuesday
last funeral possession passed the window
which had caused q profound sensation In
ceartain quarters Of the city. A few
months ago yourg Girl came to New
York on visit 10 her aunt. She had been
q school teacher At home, but her health
falling she was compelled to abandon her
school and come 10 this city for rest. Hef
aunt with whom she made her home was a
convert TO q christian science, and she per-
susded her niece that there was really moth
ing the matter with her, that her sickness
was only q matter Of the imagination,
nothing more, and that IS soon az she fol-
y realized the fact the disease, whatever IL
was, (if there was any such diseased, would
lake wings TO itself and dv away. In or
der 10 fully disabuse her mind OF the hal
luclnatiOn that she had anything the mat
ter with her they compelled her TO get up
at FIVE o'clock IN the morning, light the
fires scrub the floors on her knees, wash
Of the sidewalk, and give other evidences
Of freedom from all imaginative supersti-
ton. A strict course Of diet was prescribed
Of y character so light that two weeks
old chicken would have died on IL. Meat
was forbidden, tea and coffee were tabOoed,
butter was prohibited, and the poor crea-
ture, under the scientific acnt, fingered
until Sunday when, starved To death, she
passed away The day before her death
she lit the fires and prepared breakfast for
the entire family. This and the death OF
= Young lady on Madison street, BROOKLYN.
the week before under precisely similar
circumstances, set me thinking, had in.
yestiRated the Faith Curists when Jansen
and Olsen we're tried and imprisoned IN
Brooklyn for denying medical aid TO per.
sons diving In their horses, and could not
zee q particle OF difference between the ig-
norant Faith Curists and the Scientific
Christians. don't like to be thought lg.
nOrAnt on any subject, and won't be IL
have chance 10 investigate it, and as IL /,
q matter which at the present time excites
q very great interest In certain quarters
thought would find out II possible the
difference between the two The faitl
cure is very easily understood, the theor,
being that the Lord made US, we are hii
creatures; If he did not want us TO be sicl
we would not be sick, and il he did wan
uS to be sick all the powers OF earth coulC
not help Us. If he wanted us to live W,
would live, and IL he wanted us to die ",
would die. In fact 1t was little short of :
sacrilege to attempt to interfere with thu
will Of the Almighty. Now. this is no new
doctrine, it Is the fatalism of the Mussul
man, old as Mahomet, whose followers sa!
to-day. "Al ali wills it," This is the be
ginning and the end. But it antedste
MahOmet, Away back in the musty page
Of the VedaS, heavy with the CRIME o
centuries. the same inhexible law pre-
Yslls, "GOd wills it,"
But what is the difference between thi
and Christian science? "Ah, there's th
rub" tried to think, couldn't. Itre,
to analyse, l couldn't. So, as / wished L
understand it, l thought l would consul
one deep In ths mysteries of the new re
yelation which professed to be severa
millions of miles in advance of the Faitl
, Cure. Madam L is professional scientist
It vas to her Miss B was taken who die
last week. She has explored its mysterie
as far as human investigation can pOssibl
go and is EN RAPPORT with the nhabltanI
of the other world and knows all abou
them. She is hardly thirty and fair t
b look upon, of commanding presence. a
IEoSt six feet high, turning the scale at tW
hundred, yet sweetly womanly withs
: with large melting blue eyes and a YoC
tuned low and sweet. She Is just such a
angel as any ordinary mortal would b
: happy to meet hereafter. Two dollars an
e half was the consultation fee, but wha
was that, mere bagatele for the solutio
y OF the most abslruse scientific problem
. the age. Having laid down my two do
lars and half, which was immediatel
e covered by = paper weight, the doctC
looked at me SerenelV and said, "Proceet
II sir, what is II you wish TO know?" q
y wish to know, DOCTOR" l replied, 'Lhe di
e ference between Christian science an
n Faith Care" ooh, my dear sir" 81
n said, there is not the slightest reseu
il blance between them. One has q blir
e. belief in the supervising power Of Il
y Almighty. the other scars into the emp
: rean immehsity, and holds = spiritual cor
le munion with the supernal powers of Il
+, Infinite. The one means ignorance, II
y other Intelligence; the one means ligh
y and the other darkness, hyperborean, il
Vi penetrable, vast, unfathomAble, never en-
d lug. Let me explain. The spirit, or
A YOU would say the life Of the man, is II
II cryStAliEed essence Of the Infinite. tn
r. ethereal and purified concentration is n
N created, Is not boIn; IL always existed, Al
o. and always will exist. for it contains wit
+" in itself the VitalEed powers Of indestruc
bility which lie the primary and dislinguis
III ing Characteristic Of the Infinite himse
" Of which man Is indissolubly = part. T.
y Infinite 10 indestrucIible; matter G.
% be annihilAted. Or If not annihilated,
. least so changed in form that can be 50
y no longer to exist. Nov matter is col
posed Of molecular particles which
be themselves are incapable Of pleasure
be pain; a stone when struck feels no pal
Of 1t never has the headache or neuralgia
Is never weepS or laughs; and why. do y
a ask; because the stone laeks the vitallzi
IS spirit Of the Infinite, which In all create
80 is mans distinguishing and sole charact,
Id iHtitc. Life permeates all nature, the ire,
is the grass, the animal creation high a
ed low, from The most ininrtesimal molecl