The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-18
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
It's Claims ms a Religion and "a Phil
OsOphy.

Eugene Wood, in Ainslees.
But Christian Science Is not merely get
ting along without doctor; il is a phil
osophy, an answer to the riddle OF the uni
verse. In all other systems of healing, dis
ease is recognized. Practitioners try to get
the best of it, more or less by the aid of
the patients will power and auto-sugges-
ton. Christian Science denies that there
is such thing as disease. II a boy stubs
his toe against a stone not only is his pain
an Illusion, but his toe does not really ex-
list, and a stone is impossible to conceive
1t all seems very real to the boy, but that
is simply his mortal mind The Reverend
Mary Morse Baker Glover Patterson Eddy,
discoverer and founder Of Christian
Science, says: The material senses testify
falsely In Christian Science there is moth
ing but God. The Scientific Treatment Of
Being as ordained to be read in the church
services Immediately before the benedic-
ton is:
""There is no life truth. intelligence or
substance in matter. All is infinite mind;
and its infinite manifestation for God is all
in all. Spirit Is immortal truth, matter is
mortal error: spirit is the real and eteynal.
matter is the unreal and temporal Spirit
is God, and man is His image and likeness;
hence man is spiritual and not material.
Now, in case you do not quite grasp this,
/ will quote another statement OF mother s
which is so constructed that IL is just as
true backwards it is forwards:
" L. God is All in all.
20. God is Good. God is Mind.
g g. God, Spirit being all, nothing is mat
ter.
-. Life God Omnipotent Good deny
death, evil. sin, disease. Disease, sin, evil,
death deny Good Omnipotent God, Life
Quite clear now? 1t may seem TO sound
a little like riding to fire, but you must
remember that to make a great philosoph-
ical truth read the same backwards and
| forwards is a tolerable severe test 10 put
! literature to. Still, think IL is quite plain
| that il effectually disposes OF stone. pain
| and toe, and am not sure but the boy, too.
| IL 1t could be read sidewise l know it
would.
There being nothing i'm the universe but
| God II is evident that there can be moth
| ing unpeasa like sin, sickness or death.
| We just think there is. that's all. The
| etymologists all agreed that the word
| God is not I'm any way derived from the
| is derived from, but they are absolutely
| sure that 1t cannot be from good. But
| Mrs. Eddy knows better. and confidently
asserts that God is only the word good
made shorter Well then, God being all
| i'm all. what can there be more? Moth
Nothing. Everything being good there
| can be nothing bad God knows no such
| thing as sin And again: Destroy the
| itself disappears Destroy the sense OF
sin and sin itself disappears. EV-
| cry disease Is an invention OF man, and
| has no real identity In wisdom
| 'As to the noneXistence Of death. Mother
| says: Is ii unchristian 10 believe that
| there Is no death? Not unless il be a
| sin to believe that God Is life and all-in-all.
1 Death is error exposed 10 truth. IL is
unchristian TO believe i'm the transition
| called material death. since matter has
| no life, and such misbeief must enthrOne
| another error. But ii is sometimes wiser
| TO leave the door little the jar than
! 10 lock 1t and throw the key away. 80
| she adds: To say that you and | as
| mortals will not enter this dark shadow
| Of material sense called death Is TO assert
| what We have not proved.
| This is not the place to inquire whether
| philosophy that teaches that there is
| no such thing as sin i'm the world: that
| teaches that. since there is no pain. the
| crucified One was merely shamming: that
| denies the resurrection, since there is no
! death; that denies that God il personal
! and says: If we pray to God as a per-
/ son this will prevent US letting go the
| human doubts and fears that attend all
| personalities'-th / say. is not the place
! TO inquire ~ IL may rightly be called
| Christian. Whether II be science or not
| i must leave TO you"