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DOCTORS AND MOTHER EDDY.
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CULT
FROM A MEDICAL STANDPOINT.

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Editors of the Georgia journal OF
Medicine and Surgery Discuss
Mother Baker Eddy's Claims at
Healing in Plain LanEuage-Drs.
Graham's and Fitch's Questions TO
the Fountain Head of Christian
Science and Her RepIy-Dr. Reeds
Challenge.
The lecture of Mrs. Livingston Minis last
week on Christian Science naturally caus-
ed some talk in the medical profession.
Mother Baker Eddy's methods of healing
are 50 out of line with the ordinary meth
DDS of medical practitioners that they are
looked upon with anything but credulity-
, Drs. st. J. b. Graham and W. Z. Fitch,
editors Of the Georgia Journal of Medi-
cine and Surgery. deal with the subject at
some length in the February number of
the Journal. which will be issued to-mor-
row. Their leading editorial is on Chris
tian Science. and is as follows
Those of us who are familiar with the
history of medicine. and who have given
some study to the evolution Of our hu-
name science, cannot but be impressed
with the manifest effects Of certain er-
ratio impulses of certain aberant forces.
Thus several years ago a woman, the
Rev. Baker c. Eddy, 0he mother Of this
wonderful revelation, Christian science)
conceived the idea, or at least she says
she did, that matter is non-existent, and
that all that is, is mind or spirit
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an account of the wonderful revelation:
In the year 1856 l discovered the science Of
metaphysical healing and named it'Chris-
tan Science" God had been previously
fitting me during many years for the re-
ception of a final revelation of an absolute
principal of scientific mind healing. Chris
tan Science unfolds the demonstrable
fact, that matter possess neither sensation
nor life, that human experience shows
the falsity of all material things; the only
suffering is mortal mind since being in
God cannot suffer sin, sickness death.
Disease is the false testimony of false
material sense; that this false sense
evolves in belief subjective state of NOR
tai mind, which this same mind calls mat
ter. thereby shutting out the true sense
of spirit. Ny discovery that erring NOR
tai. msnamed mind, produces all the or
ganism and action OF the mortal body set
my thoughts to work in new channels and
led up to my demonstra tion of the propo-
sition that mind is all and matter naught'
According to Mother Eddy and Chris
tian Science, matter is unreal matter can
not feel OF know anything. and hence mat
ter cannot be sick, mind being perfect can
not be sick either; hence there is no sick
ness In the world. That which is called
disease is only belief: not belief of the
all divine mind. but of the mortal mind;
destroy this and you destroy all sickness
and death, for there is no death, it being
only a false belief which truth concerning
life annihHates.
This wonderful philosophy was labeled
with the name of Christ. evidently because
Christ never taught anything of the sort
This science seeks 10 modify our con-
ceptions of God. of man, of matter of SIN
of the present life, and of our future des-
tiny. and is antagonistic to religion, phil
osophy, medicine and all science. With
the followers of Christian Science, this
strange philosophy represents all the pos
sibilities of cure and in their eyes those
who seek to relieve human suffering by
any other means or agencies, are trans
gressors of the laws of God.
''Snce this fad, the most remarkably
unreasonable in modern times, is largely
concerned with the healing art it is
therefore, proper to examine this-'some-
thing new under the sun'-as Mother Ed
dy claims it new discovery Derogatory,
however, to Mother Eddy's claims, there
has lately been published a memoir of the
life of one DR.. r p. Quimby of Port
land, Me, who far a number of years
practiced some kind of mind healing and
in 1862 this same Mrs Eddy was a pa
tient of his and says that DR. Quimby
was lovely man; so there seems to be
some doubt Of Mrs. Eddy's priority for
the honor of the discovery. Medical