The Newtown bee., 1899-08-11

die people who have little else to do
except to think upon imaginary fills.
The poor there new physicians do not
want to treat because they have not the
cash and the time to think about them
selves. From which it is manifest that
this new discovery so-called, ia only the
old mind cure which has been known for
centuries.
The other work which treats upon
Christian Science Is by the noted evan
gelist, Henry Marley. He examines
the new system by careful comparison
between Mrs Eddy's works and the b.
BILE and brings before us the words of
Jesus and Mrs Eddy and her impious as
snmptions concerning herself and her
system. He notes at the outs ct the same
thing as the English writer, that It 10 a
money getting scheme, as Mrs Eddy, &C.
eording to Newspaper interview, lives |
In a large and sumptuously furnished |
house in Boston and has also fac house
at Concord, N. H., another at r ,sIindsle. |
Mass, and. when interviewed, was richly
dressed, with very noticeable display
of diamonds upon her person. The
college costs $500 for three weeks tut
ton, which ls, to say the least, rather
high for so short time, especially when
the high priestess of this new faith has
so much to say about love for man and
the soul and the immaterislity of matter.
Mnv,au 70 TO h 1nndlu tho
Christian Science leader. Another ques-
tion which Mr. Varley dwells much upon
is the assumption of Mrs Eddy that all
her teachings are drawn from the Bible
and have Biblical basis. A comparison
! of few statements shows how far Mrs
In one place she says, sit is improper to
speak of souls as it is improper to speak
Of gods" Christ says, "For what shall
it profit man If he shall gain the whole
world and lose his own soul. Or what
shall man give in exchange for his
SOUL" Mrs Eddy says, "Man remains
perfect" The Bible sayg, "They are all
gone out of the way, they are togeth-
er become unpr ofltable; there is none
that doeth good, no not one." Gan have
sinned and come short of the glory of
God" And still further if man remains
perfect, what is the use of Christian
Science to work on a perfect man.
What is perfect cannot be improved.
In regard to her doctrine that matter
has no existence, she has this to say,
"To regard God as the Creator of matter
is not only to make Him responsible for
all the disasters, physical and moral, but
to announce Him as the source; and to
make Him guilty of maintaining perpet
ual misrule in the form and uoder the
name OF natural laws" Mrs Eddy evil
! IDENTIFY does not believe that man has any
: free will, and when she talks about God
and matter, she does not read her Bible
where it says, Il have made the earth
and created man upon it," "God Him
self that framed the earth and made it,
"In six days the Lord made heaven anC
" earth, the sea and all that in them ia.'
"All things were made by Him and with.
out Him was not anything made that wal
m ade."
Mrs Eddy claims that there is no such
; being as the devil. The Lord said, 81
beheld Satan as lightning falling from
heaven" In other words, to read the
Bible through her eyes, Christ saw what
was non-existant and when, according to
the ospel, He was led up into the wilder
ness to be tempted of the devil, He wal
tenn pied by that which had no being even
in His thought.
There are also brought out in this wori
some of the very peculiar statements o
Mrs Eddy which coincide neither will
science, nor experience, nor philosophy
She says that Pain is feeling and to tn
Christian Scientist the sense of feeling
T does not exist" II that ia so, will tn
: Christian Scientist be comfortable sittin
= on redhot stove? Can he drinkscarbol
ic acid and not feel its IL be loses hi
arm with buzz saw, will he have n
feeling about the matter? II, by adopt
ing Christian Science, feeling will no
exist, then we must make 1t conpulsor,
for our city firemen to be Christian SCI
entists, go that they will not feel it whel
4
: ings and have to 60 through fire an,
| when block falls on them and crushe
l the life out of them, it will not hurt.
Il Again, Mrs Eddy says, "No matter Il
life and no life in matter; no matter II
J.. good and no good in matter" 1t is evi
dent that Mrs Eddy must live on air
She sees no good in pudding an,
no life for herself In steak.
cooling soda is not much matter, to b
u ,ure, but it is good, nevertheless, to til
ordinary mortal on hot day. Most @
Us see plenty of life in matter, at least
we try o keep the weeds out of garden
u And most of US, too, get life by eatin
matter of an animal or vegetable sor
y But the diet for the believers In this me-
faith must be no matter and they woul
u be cheap boarders.
Another curious statement is the TO
J. lowing, "Man is not old or young. q
u has neither birth nor DEATH" II MI
9 Eddy lives long enough, she may have
j. wear glasses, grow deaf in hearing an
L have the rheumatism. When tbos
'' ,hings come, she will find that there
% old and young. 1t she was ever mott
y er, she knows that it is falsehood ths
man has not birth and she can walk OF
= into cemetery any day and find OF
ls chat there is such thing as death. He
% Bible ought to teach her that SIT Is al
y pointed unto man once to die"
Il There are many other statements tbs