The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-11-30

offered her was the reading of Mother
Eddy's book. Physicians declared
that the difficulty could have been
easily overcome II skillfull aid had
been obtained. A man used to attend
my church at Mt. Clemens who had a
cancer that was eating his life away.
He refused treatment and died always
insisting that he was perfectly sound
in body and in mind.
A young lady was taken suddenly
Ill in the early hours of the night, her
groans and means and pains were not
abated by the reading Of Mrs. Eddy's
book and in the morning some board
ers in the house, who had been kept
awake all night by the groans of the
sufferer, entered protest, a physician
was called and I'm twenty minutes re-
ief was obtained. The lady after
ward denied having been sick although
she was not able to attend school for
two days. Thousands of cases have
| occurred where medical aid has been
denied to children and other helpless
persons whose sufferings might have
been relieved and whose lives might
have been spared but for the infamous
practice of this superlative nonsense.
The cases of supposed healing by ig-
noring the existence of disease can all
be explained on some more reasonable
hypothesis while this psuedo science is
properly chargeable with a vast
amount Of unrelieved suffering and
the needless sacrifice of thousands of
human lives. The evil results of this
system, awful as they are, would be
magnitied Thousand fold but that
Christian Scientists themselves do not
believe it and have generally to con-
form to the same conditions of life as
other people. Mr.. Kimball thinks it
sin to be afraid of getting his feet
wet and taking cold so he wears rub
bers and an overcoat, he carries an
umbrella or rides to meeting in hack
when 1t storms and takes precautions
to protect himself otherwise than by
simply dismissing his fears. Until
Christian Scientists give up eating and
drinking, and sleeping, until they
abandon stoves and fires in winter and
ice in summer until they cease TO act
as though they had sensitive bodies
and were subject to laws of materi-
ality it is idle for them to talk Of their
psuedo science being demonstrable.
The logical absurditieS to which the
system OF bald idealism leads is illus
trated in the statement of Mrs. Eddy, |
that sit would be foolish to stop eat
ing until we gain more goodness and a |
clearer apprehension of the living
God," that is, we now eat because we
are lacking in goodness and in |
knowledge of God. Is this why Jesus
Christ ate and drank? Was he lack
ing in goodness and i'm knowledge Of |
God? Is this why he was hungry and |
weary? Verify this Christ, imperfect |
in goodness and knowledge, is not the |
Christ which christians believe in, nor |
in the imperSOnal God of Mrs. Eddy |
and Mr.. Kimball, the God to whom all |
personal attributes are aScribed in the |
the scriptures. There are at least five |
hundred passages OF scripture, which
are fatty contradicted by these people
who would fain persuade us that they
believe i'm the bible | have already |
given two; here is a third: There is
no sin, says the 'ChriStian Science
Journal" "Sin is unreal" says Mr..
Kimba.l. II we say that we have no
sin. we "eceiVe ourselves and the truth
is not Ia is, Says tie bible.
JOHN SWEET