The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-16
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AGAIN
One Of Them Wants to Know if Mark
Twain Has Gone.

maj rage supper the pest mas oeen saved
Tor the last. There has been a stiffness.
a profound stiffness. a stiffness almost
Of death. among Christian Scientists since
Mark Twain passed through the State. in
Sundays News and Observer. They are
Just beginning TO peep out covertly from
their hiding places, and in the language
Of the proverbial b%arnyard fowl-or
Shakespeare's bird of %dawning." If you
prefer-to ask. after the circuit riders
visit, Has Mark Twain gone YETI" They
have actually had a lucid interval. have
Counted their number. and are congratula-
ing themselves that all Of their little
flock have in some way been spared; none
OF the lnnocents are abroad. They are
still at home in North Carolina. and will
be. so long as the State provides homes
for her insane. Many of US have no doubt
heard the joke on the fellow who was bap-
tized by mistake. when not even a candi-
date for immersion. but hat joke never
yet kept any one from being immersed.
People have read and heard certain lee
lures, they have read novels. when mar
riage was a farce-nay. worse, a dead
failure-they go to see plays where love
and matrimOny go through all the trials
and tribulations incident TO them. but no
one bent on entering the holy estate, is
ue1cIIeu LDeToDE. their TedulDS anu go
ing merely shows they are interested. So
all the press comments show people are
interested in Christian Science. All the
wit and humor that Mark Twain can
scintillate. and he is full of it-cannot
keep people from seeing the truth. AS
we'll might we say people will not see the
moon, because the stars are shining.
Mark Twain knew what hobby to mount
when he found Christian Science. Like
an old politician who has been whirled
out Of the seething current of public life,
he drifted naturally into calm and shady
places and reflected. He saw Christian
Science bearing dow the stream of
thought, drawing by force of attraction
all interest to itself. His opportunity
was at hand, he snatched it by the fore
lock, and has again been drawn into the
current of public thought. The theme
and the man have met. He has certainly
handled it we'll in his way. There are
ways and ways. When people want a good
laugh, they lave only to pick up Twain
On Christian Science" When they want
a book to lift their thoughts and the
thoughts of others to a higher plane,
| When they want to realize this truth
of the Bible. that the real man is spirit
ual, made in Gods image and likeness,
they can read Eddy on Christian Science"
Some people prefer Talmage's sermons.
Some to listen to their own divines. 9th
erS again prefer the Sunday World.
Every one to his or her own notion. till
religion enters the trust. Then the two
Marks can run it for us.
When two people agree on any subject,
each is apt to think the other a pretty
| sensible sort Of person after all. We are
| prone to measure other people by our
Selves. Mark Twain does not think like
| Mrs. eddy.
When Col. Sellers, in the Gilded Age,
entertained his guest in a room heated
by a lighted candle, hid in a stove, is he
trying to challenge DR.. Hygiene to prove
| that natures laws cannot be transgressed ?
DR.. Hygiene would fain have us believe
that when we transgress natures laws
we must pay the penalty. and he Knows.
Do we read that Col. Sellers had pneu-
monia, sore throat grippe was not yet in
style) or rheumatism from sitting in a
room without fire? Yet DR.. Hygiene says
all these are but the effect of exposure
to cold. Are natures laws yielding as
the laws of an indulgent mother? Punish
today and forgive tomorrow? Let one
man pay the penalty, another go free :?
Four and four always make eight.
Since Mark has been so wonderfully
mended in Christian Science. he might
for the sake of Justice. have given Mrs.
Fuller's paper the scoop, instead of CIV
ing it to the Cosmopolitan. Some people
are ungrateful. How well it would have
sounded in the C. S. Journal, published
at 95 Falmouth Street. Boston. alias
Wilderness. But then people do not re-
ceive pay for writing demonstrations in
| fhn IOIrno1 Tic q nittV for knowing
Marks veracity, behold the world would
have gone after him! We would all have
been Christian Scientists. for we have
enough of the monkey in us to follow
the fashion. Other demonstrations, COM
pared to Marks. would have been, las
water unto wine
People nave been known to see rocks
and maybe boulders, and sometimes, the
ground itself, rise up and hit them IL
the face. which is imagination. 1t should
be bottled, labeled and kept in a COO
place, and not left lying around loose.
Christian Scientists feel so grateful t6
the man who gathered up the fragments
after the fall of Mark. that nothing was
lost. Otherwise, Mrs. Fuller might nave
had to call on the toothache doctor to sup
ply deficiencies, and science would no.
have had the glory all alone, of this wond-
erful demonstration in surgery. Mark
intelligent comprehension, numerous ques
tons, and right classification OF terms
put him on record as one Of a series.
No. But as one alone unique. ANY
other man under like conditions, woult
very properly have died, and the coroner's
Jury would have brought in this verdict
I'VE, the undersigned, find that this maj
came to his death. partly because o.
imagination, and partly because a Chris
tian Scientist is boarding in the neighbor
hood" And if he had not died, nj:
groans would nave precluded the asking
of any questions, and instead OF a healer
horse doctor. and hOusemaid he Woult
have had a dozen nurses, a dozen doctor:
and surgeons, a drug store and all els
in proportion. Not SO with Mark. Mrs
Mark is to be congratulated that her hus'
band is such an interesting, easy patien
to nurse in case of falls.
He is an important witness VINO cal
give testimony, truthful testimony, 10
both sides. Mark says his mother wa
cured of a severe toothache by her faltl
in a woman doctor. who pretended u
no occult powers" He also says ID nj
demonstration that the horse doctor curet