St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-11-12

conscience anybody can have to so muir
late the scrip ures and pervert them and
still find 1t convenient to honor them
with place side by side with Science
and Health which, with a reader, consti-
tute the only pastor that Christian
Science church possesses or is allowed TO
have
We simply say that it is not at all nee
essary to swallow any or all OF this in
order to receive all the benefits from a
true mental science OF healing of which
this teaching is travesty, while fortu-
nately the power separated from its poor
human explanation, is glorious reality.
am not Chris ian Scientist because
as system it is constituencies. ! must
ask you inasmuch as this does not sound
well TO await the explanation Of what
is meant.
NoChristian Scientist has everrep0rted
to the Board Of Health any case OF intec'
tious disease but has regarded it in the
same way as any simple malady, even to
the endangerlng of whole communities.
This is considered to be restitution Of
the civic conscience Christian Science
claims to heal everything regardless of
medicine or the knife OF the surgeon, and
then when it fails, it invariably in the
courts has fallen back upon the lack of
understanding on the part of both healer
and patient. An unlimited claim for
limited work proceeds from an obtuse
conscience ii not an absent one. After
person is death doomed and even death
struck, the Christian Scientist stands
uumoved before the household, declaring
that there is no disease, danger, pain or
mortality present and thus showing the
utter absence OF a sane conscience.
To thus deny the whole material realm
of life and yet to remain as dependent
upon shelter, and food and clothing and
money as the rest of us poor mortals is
to be devoid Of a human conscience in
this particular. There is not Christian
Scientist anywhere that would entrust
his beautiful and delicate gold watch to
the cage of monkeys in Central Park,
N. Y, or o any other irresponsible crea-
lures who did not understand it's won.
dertul mecanism, and yet the practitioner
asks me to commit to his care some more
exqusitelv organized part of my an.
atomy like my heart, for instance, while
he processes that he knows nothing
about the physiology or anatomy or
hygiene OF the heart, and does not want
to know for all such knowledge is more
of hinderanceI than a help to him. Ibis
is lack of cultured conscience.
So that without the slightest reflection
upon the character OF the Christian Sci
enlist we saw hat as a system of healing
it is a constituencies one, a sad feature
which is not necessary in order that the
world may be blessed by any advanced
truth.
am not Christian Scientist because
the evidence is contrary to the claims of
Mrs. Eddy as to it's origin.
If Mrs. Eddy had given due credit to her
healer and instructor, Dr.. P. p Ouimby,
and had taken only to herself the pecu-
liar system of religious instruction with
which she surrounded and beclouded the
matter of h'aling and OF which she most
certainly is the sole author, then the orr
gin of Christian Science would not have
become suchsa matter for self glorihca-
ton and so many lawsuits.
Dr.. Qujmby was well known in Maine,
in Belfast and Portland as a
man poss ssed of wonderful magnetic
powers of healing. His views are briefly
expressed in bis words, II deny disease
as truth, but admit it as a deception,
started like all other stories without any
and banded down from gen
grafton to generation till the people
believe it and it has become a part OF
their lives"
Science and Health abounds in similar
statements. These attracted Mrs. Eddy
(then Mrs Patterson) and as a result of
the time spent in being healed and receiv-
ing instruction from Dr.. DUMMY, Dr.
Patterson her second husband, deserted
her while she was away from her home,
and she obtained divorce from him
in Salem, Mass.
Of Dr. Quimby she published in a Port
land paper the following testimony be-
fore she had any idea of practising her
self the mind cure, of which DR.. DUMMY
was a prolessed practitioner: "P. p.
Quimby stands upon the plane of wis
dom with his truth. Christ healed the
sick, but not by juggling or with drugs
as the former speaks as never man before
spake and heals as never man healed
since Christ, is he not iden flied with
truth and is not this the Christ that was
in him? P. P. Qumby rolls away the
stone from the sepulcher of error and
health is the resurrection" We have no
doubt that any jury of twelve intelligent
men would set aside Mrs. Eddy's claim
to have discovered the healing part of
her system.
am not Christian Scien list because
of it's commercial spirit which incor-
porated metaphysical college in Bos.
ton charging $500 for twelve primary
lessons; 5000 tor normal course OF six
lectures; 500 for course Of six lectures
in obstetrics (metaphvscaD; and 5000
for class in Theology, taking six lac.
lures. Regular diplomas were given and
a great business was done with the un,
Outstanding that graduates would soon
make much more monty than they had
paid, by practising their profession
which was correct. Two years after.
wards, however, the courts withdrew
the right to grant such diplomas and
they were dropped, but the instruction
went on Just the same. Experiences to-
day confirm the fact that this spirit is
not dead
l am not Christian Scientist because
of its philosophy which is found as g
theory of life among the Hndoos ano
which the learned Pundita Ramabai saws
is the root otIudia' s deplorable condition
TODAY. From the fifteenth to the eioht
zenith centuries the same theories were
held by Bruno, Spinoza, Describes, Locke
and Bishop Berkeley. so there is no ex