The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-14
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AGAIN
One of Them Wants to Know if Mark
Twain Has Gone.

q profound STIFFNESS, 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 ont covertly from
their hiding places, and in the language
CT the proverbial barnyard fowl-or
Shakespeare's bird of dawning," if you
prefer-to ask. after the circuit riders
visit, HAS Mark Twain gone yet?" They
have actually had lucid interval, have
counted their number and are congratula-
ting themselves that all of their little
flock have in some way been spared; none
of the Innocents 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 candi-
date for immersion, but that 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, dead
failure-they go to see plays where love
and matrimony go through all the trials
and tribulations incident to them, but no
enc bent on entering the holy estate, is
deferred thereby. Their reading and 60
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 down 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 good
laugh, they have only to pick up Twain
On Christian Science" When they want
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
IL,
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
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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 room heated
by 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 q
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 90 Falmouth Street Boston alias
Wilderness! But then people do not re
ceive pay for writing demonstrations il
the Journal. 'Tis a pity, for knowing
Marks veracity, behold the world woult
have gone after him! We would all hav
been Christian Scientists. for we hay
enough of the monkey in us to follow
the fashion. other demonstrations, com
pared to Marks. would have been, "a
water unto wine"
People have been known to see rock
and maybe boulders, and sometimes, tn
ground itself, rise up and hit them i
the face, which is imagination. 1t shout
be bottled. labeled and kept in a coo
place, and not left lying around loose.
Christian Scientists feel so grateful
: the man who gathered up the fragment
after the fall of Mark. that nothing wa
| 1OSC. OIHSIWlS6 MID L uliSi hight nav
| had to call on the toothache doctor to sup
ply deficiencies, and science would nc
have had the glory all alone, of this wond
erful demonstration in surgery. Mark
, intelligent comprehension, numerous ques
e tions, and right classification of terms
+ put him on record as one of a series.
No! But as one alone unique. An
other man under like conditions, woul
very properly have died, and the coroner
jury would have brought in this verdict
1--WE, the undersigned, find that this ma
: came to his death, partly because
e imagination, and partly because Chris
q tian Scientist is boarding in the neighbol
hood" And if he had not died, h
groans would have precluded the askr
!, of any questions, and instead of a heale
G horse doctor. and housemaid he won
y have had dozen nurses, dozen docto
and surgeons, a drug store and ali ell
in proportion. Not so with Mark Mr.
/ Mark is to be congratulated that her hui
Q band is such an interesting, easy paticl
# to nurse in case of falls.
e He is an important witness who CO
l. give testimony, truthful testimony. +
II both sides Mark says his mother w
= | cured of a severe toothache by her fai