Arizona republican., 1899-10-12
MARK TWAIN AND
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

One of the brightest of the many
 bright stories written by Mark Twain
 is Christian Science and the book of
 Mrs Eddy" in the last Cosmopolitan
 He tells that after trying the appetite
 cure in the mountains he fell over a
 cliff and broke lot of arms and legs
 and things. He was found by some
 peasants and carried to their home.
 A lady from Boston, a Christian Sci ence doctor, was sent for She sent
 word that she would come in the morn
 ing, but in the meantime would give
 him absent treatment, and begged him
 to make himself tranquil, for there was
 nothing the matter with him.
 She came. She told him that he only
 imagined that he had pain. Pain is
 unreal. In making a gesture to indi-
 cate the shooing of the Illusion of pain
 out of the mind she raked her hand on
 a pin in her dress and said ''ouch."
 Just then the chambermaid stepped on
 the cats tail and the cat profanely ex- postulated. Mark tried to find out why
 the cat spoke as she did if she had no
 feeling, but the doctor broke in:
 Peace. It is wiser and better and
 holier to recognize and confess that | there is no such thing as disease or
 pain or death."
 Mark could not comprehend it. She tried to enlighten him, and gave her formula of words over and over again, each time with a little different word SiT God omnipotent, God life; matter is nothing. all being spirit. God mind is good, good is God; all in all is God. Now do you understand?"
 In the third degree mortal mind dis appears. Tt is very curious Mark says, "the effect which Christian sci ence has upon the verbal bowels. 1t makes one think of a dictionary with the cholera Said the doctor: "The all in all is the Altogether. and the AL together embraces the All One, Soul Mind Mind-Soul. Love, Spirit, Bones, Liver, one of a series alone and with out equal"
 The doctor said that she would read to him from Mrs. Eddy's book-but she had forgotten to bring her glasses.
 She quoted from Mrs. Eddy, Through Christian science, religion and medicine are inspired with di- viner nature" Mark inquired. What kind of medicine do you give for ordi- nary diseases ?'
 We never give medicine in any cir cumstances." But, madam, it says " "I don't care what it says Mark apologized for seeming to see an inconsistency. She continued: There are no inconsistencies in Christian sci ence. It rests upon the immovable basis of an Apodictica1 Principle" Mark says that the word flattened it. self against his mind trying to get in.
 She continued: This principle deliv- CTS the children of men from pain, dis ease, decay" Mark referred to her eyesight. My eyesight cannot fail, nothing can fail" She was under the inspiration of the third degree. Love, Livers, Lights, Bones. Truth, Kidneys, one of series, alone and without equal it is beyond imagination for won der" Yes. Under the near and ab- sent treatment Marks bones began to come together. Every minute or two he could hear a dull click inside. Soon all the connections had been made. All except dislocations; of these there were only seven-hips, shoulders, knees and neck-but soon the bones slipped into their sockets, and Mir. Twain was one once more.
 But he had pain in his stomach | and a cold in his head So as he was un- willing to trust these to a woman | whom he did not know, he sent for q | horse doctor. who looked at his teeth | and hook, and gave him something to | turn the stomachache into the botts i and the cold in the head into the blind | staggeTs, so that he could help him. | He prescribed a bran mash every two 1 hours and a drench of turpentine. | Mark also read the Christian science | book, which was evidently written 1 under the mental degree composed | at small expense of time and no eX- i pense of mental effort. Mark notes the fact that the so-called Bible annex was handed down to Mrs. Eddy by the Angel of the Apocalypse eighteen hun dred years ago. but has been changed several times. for there are four copy rights on it-1S75, 1885. 1890, 1894.
 He says: Mrs. Eddy cannot write English today" and quotes from some of her recent articles to prove it. Some one, not Mrs Eddy. has doctored the annex and made it read smoothly.
 Mark has no doubt that the mind has great influence over the body. He illustrates by the kings cure of the kings evil, etc. He speaks of a farm CTS wife whom he knew when a boy who performed wonderful cures as a faith doctor. He refers to the mind cure, faith cure, prayer cure. mental cure and Christian science cure. All do their miracles with the same cd powerful instrument-the patients inn lgination- But they do not give that