Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-05-23


are decidedly original, the following eX-
tracts from her book show:
1t is plain that God does not employ
drugs or hygiene or provide them for hu-
man use. else Jesus would have recon-
mended and employed them in His healing
The sick more dep.orably lost than tn
sinful if the sick cannot rely upon GOD 10
help and the sinful can. The Divine Min
never called matter medicine, and matt
required material and human belief
fore it could be considered as medicine.
Her Views on Medicine.
Scientific healing has this advantage
over other methods-that in it truth con-
trolls error. Other methods undertake TO
oppose error with error, and thus they in
crease the antagonism of one form of mat
ter toward other forms of matter.
Medicine is not science, but a bundle
of speculative human theories The pre-
scription which succeeds in one instance
fails in another, and this is owing to the
different mental states of the patient
These states are not comprehended and
they are without a sign except to the skill
full Christian Scientist. The rule and its
perfectness of operation in my system
never vary. If you fail to succeed in any
case, 1t is because you have not demon
strated the life of Christ truth. more in
your own life; because you have not obeyed
the rule or proved the principle of Chris
tan Science.
I'VE weep because Others weep, We yawn
because they yawn, and we have smallpox
because others have it; but mortal mind,
not matter, contains and carries the tnfec-
ton When this mental contagion is I'M
derstood We shall be more careful of our
company, and shall avoid the Ioqua-
ciouS tattler about disease as We should
the advocate of crime. Neither sympathy
nor society should ever tempt us 70 boar
about error. and certainly we should not
he its advocate.
When the sick recover by the use of
| drugs it is the law of a general heller c,I-
minating In individual faith, which heals.
ard according to this faith will the effect
he Even when you take away the iudi-
! vidual confidence in the drug You have not
| yet divorced it from the general faith Tbe
| chemist, the hCtanist, the druggist the
| doctor and the nurse equip the medicine
| with their faith and the majority of be-
! liefS rule. When the general belief IN
dorseS the inanimate drug as doing This or
| that. individual dissent or faith unless il
rests on science, is but a minority belief
| governed by the majority.
'NegetariantSm, homeopathy and HYDRO
! Iathy have diminished dragging but if
| drugs are an antidote to disease why lessen
! the antfdote? If drugs are good things is
! it safe TO say that the less you have of
| them the better? If drugs possess intrinsic
virtues or curative qualities, those qualities
| must be mental. Who named them and
what made them good or bal beneficial
| or injurious to mortais? If drugs are part
! OF Gods creation, which according to the
| narrative in Genesis. He pronounced good
! then drugs cannot he poisonous If He
could create drugs intrnsicalIy bad then
! they should never be used. If He creates
drugs a all and designs them for medical
I use then why did Jesus not employ them
| and recommend them for the treatment of
disease? Matter is not self-creative, for it
| is uninteliigent. Mortal mind confers the
! only power drug can ever possess.
| drugs, cataplasms and whisky are stupid
) substitutes for the dignity and potency of
divine mind and its power to heal. 1t is
pitifui to lead men into teInpta ton through
| the bywayS of physiology and materia
me3ica-to VictimiZe the race with intoXi-
| eating prescriptions for the SICK until NOR
tai mind acquires an educated appetite for
! strong drink and men and women are made
| loath~0me SotS.
THE idols of civilization are far more
| fatal To health and longevity than the idols
| of harbarism. The Esqumaux restore
health by lamentations as effectually as
civilized practitioners by their more studied
| methods. Is civilization only higher form
| of ido1atry that man should bow down to a
flesh brush, to flannels, to baths, diet, ex-
ercise and air? Nothing is able to do as
much for man as he can do for himself with
| Omnipotent aid When there are fewer
| doctors and less thought is given to sani-
| tary methods, there will be better constitu-
| tons and less disease. In old times who
ever heard of dyspepsia, cerebro-spinal
| meningitis, hay fever and rose cold?
AbSut heaicat
''Treatises on anatomy, physiology and
| health sustained by what is termed ma
| teral law, are the promoters of sickness
and disease. 1t is proverbial that long
| as you read medical works you will be
sick Descriptions of disease given by
| physicians and advertisements of quack-
, cry are both prolific sources of sickness. To
reduce Inflammation. dissolve a tumor or
| cure organic disease, l have found divine
| mind more potent than all lower remedies.
And why not, since the mind is the source
and condition of all existence"
! In this strange book however Mrs. Eddy
touches on many other subjects besides
| medicine. She says among other things:
Never record ages Minute chronology
cal data are no part of the vast forever
Time tables of birth and death are so
many conspiracieS against manhood ana
womanhood But for the error of measur-
ing and limiting all that is good and beau
tifui We should enjoy more than three
score years and ten, and yet maintain our
| yigor freshness and promise. We shall
continue to be always beautiful and grand
whenever mortal mind so DEGREES Each
succeeding year will then make us wiser
| and better in looks and deeds. Life is
eternal Beauty and goodness are i'm
mortal. Let us then shape our views OF
| existence into loneliness, freshness and
| continuity instead of into age and ug1iness.
"A wicked man is not the idea of God:
He is little else than the expression OF
error. To suppose that hatred, envy pride,
| ny pocrisy revenge have life abiding in
them is terrible mistake. Life and life's
idea, truth and truths idea, never make
men sick and sinful. The sin and error
which possess US at the instant of death do
not cease at that event, but endure till the
death of these errors. To he wholly spirit
ual man must be snless. and he becomes
spiritual only when he reaches perfection.
| The murderer though slain In the act, does
not thereby forsake sin. He is no more
spiritual for believing his body dead and
learning that his cruel mind is not dead
| His thoughts are no purer until evil is dis
armed by goodness. His body is as ma
terial as his mind and vice versa.
Missionaries Criticized.