The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-15
New York WORLDLY
Rv Herbert N. Casson.


CAuthor OF tine Crime of Credulity.'
published by Peter Ecker, No. 80 Full
ton street. New York;
20 II New York is dlleG with sceptics,"
as an eminent minister recently de-
clared. it is not for lack of religion.
The critical may take their choice
from among ssveral score OF different
forms of worship. And il any very
particular person can find none to SUIT
him he may do as a large number Of
others are doing, start a new religion
of his own.
1t is said that in Boston a Religion
OF Humanity" is started every week,
and yet the demand is not satisfied.
New York cannot hope to beat this
record It's enthusiasms are of a more
practical and commercial nature. Yet
religiOn-building is carried on in New,
York to a Ear greater extent than most
OF its inhabitants realize.
Foremost among these new faiths in
point Of umbers come the devOut fol-
lowers of Mrs Mary Baker Eddy-the
Christian Scientists.
Last month they opened their eighth
church in New York City. Through
out the country they claim a member
ship of more than 1.000.O 900 believers.
The Christian Scientist declares that
n good Creator could not make an iIL-
perfect universe. and therefore sickness,
poverty and evil are nothing but habit
ual illusions of the human mind.
Everything is mind" Mrs. Eddy
teaches in her book. Science and
Health. With Key to the Scriptures
The streets. fields and buildings. every
thing that we see around US, and even
our own bodies, are no more real than
the stuff that dreams are made Of"
Death is but a foolish habit and old
age is an unnecessary inconvenience.
Everlasting health is the heritage of all
human creatures. Such is the optimis-
tic creed Of the Christian Scientist.
Not less wonderful has been the
growth of Mental Science. 1t is often
COMPOUNDED with Christian Science, but
the two are widely separated in many
respects
The Mental Scientist Is not. strictly
speaking. a Christian. He believes in
Infinite Mind rather than God.
Neither does he deny the reality OF
the material world. Matter exists. he
declares. but T. is inferior to mind and
can be governed in all things by
thought.
The Mental Scientist cherishes a hope
hat street cars viii some day be pro-
PEELED by the thought of the motorman
and not by cable or electricity.
He claims to have h power of heal
ing the sick by a Sort of wireless teleg-
raphy Of thought. Mrs. Helen Will
mans. the founder of Mental Science,
resides in Florida. yet she processes
to heal the sick in all parts of h ,Eorld
by merely concentrating her mind upon
their troubles.
There are upward of zoo magazines
and weeklies published by the Mental
Scientists, and they include in their
ranks such notable men as Rev. Heber
Newton. Henry Wood. 3. O.. Flower and
Ralph Waldo Urine
It is estimated that there are at least
5000 Mental Scientists in New York
City. They W 2 large publishing
plant on T~hirty-drst street.
Theosophy 2 it's boom six or seven
years ago. Like Christian Science. it
was founded By a woman-Mme. Bla-
vatsky Of london.
The extraordinary prophecies was a
mystery even to her friends. She was
an enormously fat woman with mag
netic hands and big owl-like eyes
About five years & sshe died, or, as
her followers say, passed over" and