Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1893-05-24
Christian Science.

Americans are a wonderful peo- | pie. No sooner does spiritualism wane than some other ism takes its | place. The latest fad. If it may hc so termed, is christian science. The writer has been favored with few copies of a small monthly magazine. under the cognomeu of this article. which he has read with a great deal of pleasure, if not of profit. The leading topic of the articles of tho magazine are lst, that thsre is poevil in the world; 2d, that there is no matter; 3d, that a true believer in the science can and does cure all diseases and sickness to which all nesii Is heir, and this without medi- cine or drugs of any kind, and it Is not necessary for the subject to be treated or cured of his or her ail- ments to have faith in the operation
 Many are reported in the magazine referred to in which, 1t would seem sickness has been cured. the cripples healed, shriveled limbs made whole and firm, the lame to walk, the blind to see, deaf to hear and the dumb to speak.
 Now if these things are true the world should know it. The publi- cation to which | have referred is in Chicago, but l understand its name has been changed to that of Uni versal Truth" Another dogma of the Christian Science, is that there IS no death, all that what We call death is an unreality. It also does away with the christians heaven. That all mankind who have ever lived on the earth are still on the earth. although not visible to nor tai vision. This does away with the golden paved streets of the new Jerusalem, with which pulpit orators electrify their congregations. The teachers of the various creeds of the human race take their cue from the dominant idea of the people where they preach, thus the dominant idea of christians is to get richer. there fore the heaven is paved with gold. The Mohametan's idea of bliss in their heaven Is the hOuri. The Per siaus are sun worshipperS, and their heaven is in the sun or some com fortable place where its beams and warmth will shine upon the true worshippeI with unalloyed happi- ness.
 The christian scientist, however. does not cheer its votaries with any fear of heaven but confines its de votiOn tO the precincts on earth. The latter has the better ring of proha- bility than the golden heaven of the christian, or the houri of the Mo- hametan or the basking in the sun of the fire worshippers. I do not find the literature of the Christian scientist above that of the common people, in fact quite below that of the educated of the land. This. however, may be cured. Facts, they assert, but eschew argument, but if the facts are true, argument Is unnecessary. Facts are stubborn things and when fully authenticated ! are hard to overcome. When they l say they there is no death, if they 1 mean that the physical body is not ! subject to decay, the fact of the | daily and hourly dissolution of the ! body contradicts that assertion. When they tell us there is no evil in | the world, the daily and hourly mur- ders, robberies, thefts and the thous- and and one peculations of various kinds, contradict. ii. To tell us that Evans and Sontag ct omne genus are not evil minded men is to ask our credulity beyond reason.
 w II. MCGREw.