Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-10-08
rnRISTIAN SCIENCE.

a number OF conscientious and we'll
meaning persons have been more or less
worried by the prevalence CT the
christian Science doctrine. MI this
worry is entirely unnecessary. such a
gigantic fraud as that ioste,d upon an
intelligent people BY the divine heal
ers'' must shortly fall to pieces as i re
suit of its own clumsy s,urihirv and
asinine falseho4-i.- Recent events con
vince US that the dissolution of the in
famous rake" which has its basis upon
ignorance and supersti,ions of the low
est and most debased nature. is very
near at hand. One of the leaders of this
new sect is named Alexander Dowie
and he delivers dirty ,ii;ltiibes from a
Chicago pulpit devoted to "Christian
Science" In .ne Of his recent dis
courses he referred to Evangelist D. L.
Moody in the following crincntly char
liable and chaste manner: '>Molass,s
Moody. Curses on him. He referred
TO the Chicago physicians as Il col
lection Of ours and cowurds." He also
rays his respects to the dogs OF the
pres he skunks Of medical swintlers,
the cantinG sorcerers Of the churches,
and does not stop at THIS wholesale de
nunciation of the natural ana logical
enemies Of the sect, but lights in on his
own flock ana berates them as follows:
There sit before ms. with holy John
faces a lot OF hypocritos :. lot of low
down thieves and dirty robbers. You
have not Deen giving your lawful
tithes, Your sworn lithrs. to the store
house OF Zion. You have lied; YOU have
stolen; you have held up God Why
don't you keep your oath Wv your Maker
and give your tithes To Zion? Because
sou are Wickedly selfish: you are
thieves. Get out OF Zion. YOU perjurers.
YOU leprcus brutes % not want you
here will pray to God that Your
houses may burn up tonight and that
You and your wives and children may
Perish in them. for | want none Of such
breed on earth"
The logica! end Of ar lrganiZat ton,
religious sect on institution Which toll
crates such Il blatherstil4 as Bowie is
not difficult TO foresee. such doctrins
and such language may tind 4 passing
support among the vicious. the super
stitious and the ignorant. But. as they
have no lasting Foundation, must event
nally pass into the limbo Of things
worthless and forgotten
Repressive measures ia this ccnncc-
ton would scarcely be Wise. They
would simply have Il tendency 10 make
martyrs Of those Who viii so -ncr q,
later disgust all rational beings by
their nonsensical actions and language
We We're under the impression that
the question as to now the battleshiL
Maine was destroyed in Havana harbol
had been settled. 1t is, therefore, lalh-
er surprising 10 note the following in
an esteemed Virginia contemporary
anent the proposition to blew W the
hulk Of the old warSi?ip with dyna mite:
All foreigners and hundreds of thou
sands Of appropriated and intelligent
Americans firmly believe that the
Maine was lost by an explosion within
and not outside Of that Inflated vesse!
and the constant efforts of people who
want it to appear that she was blown
up from the outside, AID not by any
fault OF those on board Of her, TO have
the wreck torn 70 pieces 50 that the
real cause Of the explosion could never
be known, tends Very mach not only Il
TO increase the stain. When millions are
spent in surveying and Laying cables