Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1899-02-06

a trisamist ne simply blackened his
guilt. Let no sickly sentiHentalisIa
sfesecrafe the holy word wife by APP
plying it TO the partners of his guilt
and let no false charity excuse them
BY asserting that ii was done while
they were in ignorance. They all
knew better. and acted in defiance Of
the law of God and the decencies of
Christian civilization, because for
sooth. Joseph Smith and Bringham
Young had visions authorizing their
dehaucheries-
The Congressman who votes 70 seat
Roberts viii cast a stigma upon every
home in this land and cause every
l--lre woman to blush with shame.
The people vii see In it that such men
do not return TO the places they have
disgraced.
SERMON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Text: Science falsely so-called"
> Timothy Is 2o.
Pundta Ramaba a native of India.
in recent article says:
.aOn my arrival in New York last
spring i was told that new philoso-
ply was being taught in the United
States. and had already many dis
ciples The philosophy was called
christian Science" and. when ash eel
what its teaching was. | recognized it
as being the same philosophy that has
been taught among my people for four
thousand years. Ii has ruined mil
lions of lives. and caused iInmea sure
able suffering and sorrow in my land.
for it is based on selfishness and
knows no sympathy or compassion.
But what has shocked me most has
been the report that there are women
! in America who are not deceived by
| are confessedly studying and adopting
the philosophy of the Hindus. As l
was born and educated i'll the philo-
| sophy. having taken my degree of
Pundita in it. / am acquainted with
both its literature and its influence
upon my people. and / want TO witness
to its degradation.
1T means just this: the philosophy
of nothingness. You are to take the
whole universe as nothing but false
hood. You are TO think that ii does not
exist You do not exist. L do not ex-
| list. There was once upon a time a
great being called Brahma, and that
person was DO person at all. but some
thing like air. full of joy and know
ledge. That being had no mind. 1t
did not want TO say anything or have
anything near il. and therefore. of
course, it did not understand anything
Then there came another being Just
like himself, and that being was moth
ing but darkness. 1t was all false
hood. Now this air united with that
darkness and assumed personality.
1t became male and female. and as
that person has formed all things
the logical Inference is that everything
| is falsehood. The birds and beasts that
you see do not exist. You do not eX-
list. When YOU realize that You have
no personality whatever. YOU have no
life. no knowledge. nothing, then you
have attained the highest perfection
of what is called ''yoga." and that
gives You liberation. and you are
liberated from your body and you he
come like him, without any personal
lily. You draw on the blackboard zero,
plus zero. minus zero, multiplied by
zero. divided by zero. and ii equals
zero. 1t is just like that, nothing more.
And what has this philosophy done
for the people of India? y tree is
Judged by its fruits. You are a people
of some feeling. Everything is real
You feel that when other people are
starving you ought to give them some
thing to eat. but out in India they do
NOT feel szsssyassSmpa,hy for others
They do not feel for people who are
starving. or being killed in war. In
our late famine our philosophers felt
no compassion for sufferers. and did
not help the needy. For why should
they help. when they claimed the suf-
fering was not real, neither were the
dying children real The first result
then, of the philosophy. is the basest
cruelty and seltishness: no compass
sion for sufferers. and supreme
egoiSm."
In frs Ras of
announced as Il new discovery. The
pagan myth from India, that divine
mind is the only reality" and that
Matter and mortal body are the il
lusions of human belief" Upon this
foundation Mrs. Eddy began to erect
philosophy. and to establish an in
stitution of healing without medicine
According to her philosophy there is
no such thing as sickness. All dis
ease is Illusion. f YOU have tooth
ache, in the first place there is really
no tooth; and. in the second place,
it does not ache; both tooth and the
ache are the illusions of human be
lief Convince yourself tnat they do
not exist, and then you are we'll. Diet
and exercise are of no use; medicines
are hindrances, for they lead one to
think of these iiiusory diseases.
1t is evident to one who thinks that
Christian science is neither Christian
nor scientific. 1t Is not Christian be-
cause il denies the existence of pers-
onal God. and that there is such
thing as sin. The Divine Mind is
everywhere and everything; there is
nothing else. We are a part of il.
This is simply pantheism imported
with the rest from India. If Christian
ity teaches anything clearly. il is that
iS pa~SnuaI God sin
is tremendous fact Jesus came to
seek and save the lost: he was the
friend of sinners: he put away sin hy
the sacrifice of himself. Calvary be
came a fact. because sin was Il fact.
Now Christian Science asserts that all
this is a blunder. Those who think
that they are sinners are simply under
an illusion. They may be honest in
their belief but are sadly mistaken.
All men need is TO be convinced that |
they are not sinners. and they are
\ more seductive faIlacy
was never invented.
Christian Scientist who goes the !
whole length of his convictions must ,
believe and advocate some very silly
absurdities. one of them sasely tells
Us that alcohol intoxicates because
such is the general belief If all men
believed that alcohol nourished like
milk we might feed our babies only
on whiskey. And If all men believed
that milk intoxica ted ii weuid make US
drunk. If il was universal belief
that hunion on - foot caused de-
ii would effect Us like q
fumor on the brain If. ON the Other
md, all men agreed that a tumor Oh
{ brain simply worried you and made
gu feel lake keeping your friends at
distance, such would be the effect