The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-04

keep the sucking a lifelong babe. NO
Impossible thing do I ask when urging
the claims of Christian Science. but be-
cause this teaching is in advance of the
age we should not deny the need of
spiritual understanding. Mankind will
improve through science and Christian
ity The necessity for uplifting the
race is father to the fact that mind can
do it, for mind can impart purity instead
of impurity. beauty instead of deform-
ity and health instead of sickness.
IF exposure to draft of air while in
q state of Precipitation is followed by
chillss dry cough, influenza, congestive
symptoms in the lungs or hints of in
f1amfnatory rheumatism your mind
remedy is safe and sure. If you are a
Christian Scientist, such symptoms win
not follow the exposure; but if you be-
lieve in the laws of matter and their IA
tai effects when transgressed you are
not fit to conduct your own case or to
destroy the bad effects of belief. When
the fear subsidies and the conviction
abides that you have broken no law,
neither rheumatism, consumption nor
any other disease will ever result from
exposure to the weather..
And yet the opponents of Christian
Science aver that Mrs. Eddy herself
takes the best care of her health, drives
uout in a closed glass carriage" in
stormy weather. and, moreover, they
cite cases of people who have died from
diseases while being treated by Sci
enlist healers.'' The demise of those
who have succumbed to mortal ills, de-
spite apparently firm faith in the sci
ence, would seem to upset the theories
Of even an enthusiast like Mrs. Eddy,
but there are. according to her, many
ways of explaining these adverse cir
cumstances, the prime reason being
lack of faith. Except We have faith to
move mountains seems to be accepted
almost literally by the Christian Sci
entists.
However. Mrs. Eddy's disciples claim
to have effected many cures, and there
are many living witnesses, believers in
her system, who have testified not only
in words, but in works, their Joy at re-
covery from sickness and even from inn
minent DEATH The mere fact that there
are today several churches, a million
adherents of the faith and abundant
wealth at the disposal of the priests
and prophets of the order would seem
to imply some reality in the doctrine
and a firm belief in its application to
mundane affairs.
It is not so much the doctrinal side Of
the science as the therapeutical appli-
cation of it that excites controversy and
negation. Mrs. Eddy's premises. say
many of her eminent opponents, can be
accepted without any great strain upon
the credulity of sensible people. but the
deductions cannot. From the really sci
entific explanation of human origin and
descent in Darwin's materialistic the
cries the latest cult, Christian Science.
is as far removed as are the poles. Oar
win explains, ubstantiates-so far as
speculation on such a subject can be
Observation-Disclosures he states as to the
origin of the human race; Mrs. Eddy,
on the contrary, utters, without ad-
ducing proof, certain afirmations as to
the spiritual side of man and leaves it
to the Imagination of her readers and
disciples to supply the missing links in
her chain of evidence" Laying hold
on certain beliefs common to our race
the world over. she sets forth what has
long been accepted on the strength Of
spiritual insight and inspiration" as
the idea of God 1t is when she goes