Arizona republican., 1899-06-01

point of the physician, to disease, to
 the cure of disease, to failures to cure,
 l am not speaking from my own point
 Of view. In order that we may thor
 oughly understand each other it IS necessary that should tell you at once | why I refer to them at all in the way l propose to do. It is often difficult Tor
 one not familiar with Christian Science
 to readily understand its prInclp-eS even though in sympathy with 1t; It
 is vastly more difficult when there IS
 lack of sympathy or when there Is l prejudice in the mind against It.
 Nothing seems more real than the
 evidence given by our material senses
 indeed. we are often told that the
 basis of all we know or think or feel
 comes to US through them. Yet we
 neither see. hear, taste, touch, nor
 smell as those senses would make us | think we do. Let Us refer to several
 phases of this fact. A number of you | have. before now, had some slight trouble with your ears; you may have heard whistles blow or bells ring when you knew, there were no whistles whistling or bells ringing. The listen ing mind was in error, the thinking
 mind discovered it, and you decided the real cause was a mere disturbance of the nerves. Every one is familiar
 with the visual distortion produced by
 the use of concave, convex or uneven
 mirrors. Tie same body which ap-
 pears short and broad before one, be-
 comes tall and slim before another,
 and full of irregularities before
 third, and the seeing mind, in each
 c3se, gets a picture of that which the
 thinking mind knows to be an error
 and non-existent. Spectacle lenses
 ground to remedy defects of vision
 produce abnormal pictures within the
 normal eye, and the eye itself is an optical instrument the curves of whose
 walls and lenses are such that nono Of us ever get true pictures of the shapes Of objects looked at. As with shapes, so with color. We are told that rays
 of light are carried to the sensOriam through the nerve ibers especially adapted to respond to their differing vibrations; that when these fibers are perfectly adapted to their work the sense of color discrimination is won deTfulIy delicate, but that, in many cases, this adaptation Is quite incOm- plete and the person is said to be color
 blind. Probably to no two people whom we could select would the same object appear exactly the same in color and it has been demonstrated to the satisfaction Of science that there are color waves whose vibrations are both above and below those our nerves are capable of responding 70. Were we to stop right here it would be plain that no enc sees an object in it's com plete or true coloring any more than one sees an object in it's true shape. |
 Mrs. Eddy very aptly presents the | essence of this thought in few quot ed words added to her own when she | says: Has not the truth in Christian 1 Science met a response from Professor i Langley, the young American astrOn- | omer? He says that *cClor is in us not l in the rOse,' and ne adds that this is | not any metaphysical subtIety' but a l fact almost universally accepted with | in the last few years by physicists.
 The special point to be noted in all | this is, that things are not what they | seem.''
 Christian Science, like other radi- cal.y advanced and unfamiliar teach | ings, has been met with hostile cppo- siticn on every hand. It has been as sailed by grossest nlisrepres entati0n i'itterest satire, and merciless ridicule. Those who have practiced it have been brutaIly mallgned, branded as cTimi- nals, prosecuted in the courts. Yet the reasons for this enmity will not stand analysis. The real cause lies in | the tendency Of human nature to dis trust that with which it is not famii- jar, especially in religion and in the treatment of the sick. This has been particularly illustrated in the history lf Christian Science. Thousands, hun 1reds of thousands, millions, of chronic cases continually defy the regular practitioners (though nCth- n was pI-n1- 1llrT-n is-r.oo1rIa-. }racticel, who net only fail to cure but 9ven to relieve. If death comes to one )f the unfCrtunates, and some phys elan Of the old school who has pre- 7iously inspected the tongue, felt the pulse, and looked wisdom as doth the ]w!, writes the mOrtuary certificate, he public rolls it's eyes heavenward, )0wS to the will of GCd, announces hat everything has been done which an be done, and praises the p0werless medical attendant for keeping the pa ient alive so long. But, if, as often the sufferer comes to realize ] ne worthiessness of the efforts Cf the AesculaDIan and calls in a Christian Scientist, and. to the surprise of his friends recOvers, it is suddenly found 1 hat there was no real sickness in this ,aTticular case and that he would have 5Ctten well anyway-unwittingly greeing, for once, with the Christian z Scientist who also declared that there : vas no real sickness. But if the pa ient unable to emancipate himself ' rom his beliefs and fears, should fol- : CIV the same course he would ineyi- . ably have taken under his old phys cian, there is no end to the villifcatiOn f those who ministered to him. The .. Inference is not in the fact of death,
 r---n +s +sr,4s 1g that a larger percentage Of tho ases recover under Christian Science han under medical treatment, but ir he one case public prejudice has been s 1llOwed and in the other it has not. hat Is the difference.
 There are many troublesome facts uite familiar to the most regular of he regulars. Temporary cures are eing made by every conceivable kind