The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-06-18
FAITH HEALING ARRAIGNBD
\ Philadelphia Preachers Address
on Christian Science.
His Sarcastic Arrangement of Mrs.
Eddy and Her CIaims-A DecIara-
zion That GuIiibic People Are
often MisIcd by Sounding Names

often MisIcd by Sounding Names
PHILADELPHIA. June 1S-Rev- F.
4. Demaris, pastor of the State Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, read a pa
per on Christian Science yesterday be
fore the Camden Preachers Meeting.
We live in q land Of religious free
DOM" said he, "a country the soil Of
which is very productive Of religions,
We may be paCans. Jews. or Christ
ians. If pagan, we may worship in the
temples of Buddha; If Jew, we may be
| ORTHODOX or heterodox; if Christian, we
may be six kinds of an Adventist, seven
| kinds Of Catholic, twelve kinds OF
| Presbyterian, thirteen kinds of Bap-
| fist, sixteen kinds of Lutheran, or
! seventeen kinds Of a Methodist.
We may be members of any one of
| 143 denominations, or all in succession
| If none of these suits US. We may take
! our choice of $50 separate and indepen-
| dent congregations which have no de-
nominationaI name, creed, or connec-
| ton What a variety of churches. small
and great, high and low, black and
| white, orthodox and heterodox. Christ
/ ian and pagan, Catholic and Protestant,
! liberal and conservative, CalviniStic
and Armenian, native and foreign, Trim
| itarian and UnitarianI You pay your
| money and take your choice; you may
| enter one of the old time companies or
| take up with the more modern kind
| In the religious world of today there
| are a great many isms and asms. Ere
| quertIy it happens that a person whose
| head and heart powers are insufficient
| TO make them prominent in the church
! where they are, have a spasm because
| of the non-recognition OF their imagin-
/ airy talents. This assn results in an
| ism, and, strange to say, will speedily
| get a following, respectable or other
| wise, for there are many Micawbers
waiting for something to turn up in
| the religious line
"One of the most pernicious of the
new fad religions is that of Christian
Science. This society has one ordained
| pastor for the 300 American churches,
and has at least 1000. 600 votaries in the
| United States. The pastor was ordain-
| ed in 1881, and today lives in luxury is
| almost inaccessible in her palace, is fire.
| quenuy seen riding IN her Victoria
/ dressed like 4 queen She really poses
/ as a female Christ. Almost 10000 cop
/ les Of her book are in circulation. Mrs.
! Eddy claims to be inventor, creator, or
! founder of the boon or bane of Christ
/ ian Science. She is compared to Christ,
whose face is made 30 resemble hers
| in q picture where the two stand side
!
man for forty years, yet she is believed
TO be perfectly sound by her disciples
she IS thought to be the fulfllnent of
the prophecy as recorded in the tenth
and twelfth chapters of Revelations.
! .'Frs. Eddy's deyotees claim that she
is the feminine principle Of the Messi-
anic expectation in the nineteenth cen
! fury; tEat the man child born Of the
iapocalyptic woman is Christian Science,
! while the angelic little book preceding
this birth is Mrs Eddy's Science and
Health with key to the Scriptures.
Mrs. Eddy claims that She is the
/ originator of the term Christian Sci
ence- She says: It was in AIassachu-
sets, in the year 1866. that I discovered
the science Of metaphysical healing,
| which / afJeTwaTd named Christian Sci
ence- The discovery came to pass in
| this way During twenty years prior
I had been trying to trace all physical
! effects to a mental cause. and in Janu-
airy of 1866 I gained the scientific Ger
tainty that all causatiOn was mind, and
every effect a mental phenomenon
Mrs Eddy claims to have been for
many years Il sufferer from chronic dis
eases, and finally met with an accident
! which produced, according to physi-
! clans. a fatal injury The physicians
gave her up to die declaring that she
would not live until noon. She replied
| that she would be well a. that time. Her
pastor called after service, and found
! her busy about the house. Now she
| teaches it TO others at the rate Of $500
for the thirty lessons which are Tequir-
e for the mastery of the subject
Christian Science is a misnomer. It
/ IS neither Christian nor scientific It It
unscientific because IL is Illogical
There is no sickness Of body. no pain.
Eradicate all thoughts Of physiology.
| drugs. laws Of health. sickness, and
pain, and know that God is the only
| pauacea. Divine love the only medi-
cine. If there is no sickness, why a
panacea?
1T IS unscientifc because it is an
tagOnIstic to hygienic law: it is unset
entific n the doctrine that as we grow
older we shall grow younger This new
system viii make US younger at sew
enty years than we were ct seventeen
1t is unsCientific because it is in Op-
position to the known laws of Obstet-
rics. il is unscientific because it teach
IS that all ills of body and all Ills of
whatever nature are subject to the
healing power Of mind OF spirit.
If this be true, the temperance
/ workers have been on the wrong tack
| Instead of moral suaSicn and prohibit
ton. we simply must work to change
/ the mind Of the public, and get them
/ TO think that alcohol is not intoxicat-
5 ing We must impute some other viz
| tue TO it: impute to it the same virtue
p ! that We do to castor oil. and the drunk
2 enness Of the people VIII be thing OF
: | the past
In the name of God, how can a doe
triue be Christian that denies the fun.
damentaI principles of our holy Chris.
= tianity" How can a thing be scienuf,
! that ad Htnces such erroneous teaching!
D as these Christian Science Is certain
~ q misnOmeT. It's a wolf in sheep!
10 clothing It's q pirate craft sailing IN
q der the Christian cOlOrs. Ii is mas
; queradinE with a Tnildewed theosoph-
= on the one hand and a metaphysical
\ / cure on the other. l believe it to be on
d Of the denominations of the present age
fair on the outside, but rotten at tn
q | core. InSiGiously it IS wOrming It's wa,
into the thought Of the age, and I be
Iieve the time has come when the cler
2 gy should speak out in no uncertain
Z sound, and. if possible, check tn
! growth Of this erroneous belief, whic
has done and is destined to DO a grea