The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-29
THE .sNEw THOUGHT"
Cult Is About to CoIonize and VIII
Then Fade Out.
s Times-Democrat.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The New Thought" cult is about 70 start
a summer colony about forty miles from
New T TrH Gty IS bu In the more vague the
principles of a cult, as far as beliefs 80,
the faster hold is secured on the people.
Men are more apt 10 believe in that OF
which they know nothing than in the thing
of which they have some knowledge. once
a New Thought becomes concrete IL Is
lost. 1t is equally true that colonization is
thing else. The New Thought people will
delight in inflicting themselves on the pub
lie. but collect them in colony and infiict
them on themselves and the end is not far
distant. The New Thought" has some eX-
ceptional advantages over other esoteric
stunts. You can belong to the movement
as you thrill over the brotherhood of man
and the uselessness of drugs and are
buOyed up by metaphysics as applied 10 the
wheelbarroW, the mop and the soup dish
There is much thought In the New
Thought" The subjects already mapped
out for the summer campaign at the col
thinking apparatus is tired over the theses
that are to be advanced. The brains of the
cOlOnists are 10 be invigoraced by thought
along these lines: THE Sunrise of Spirit
ual Consciousness 1.-The Will to be Well"
THE Mystical Death 1.-The Lover-Life OF
the New Age" The colonistS are TO wrestle
with these simple subjects while blowing
the fields belonging TO the colony and while
raising squash for the market There IS
no trouble with the New Thought II
these subjects are to be taken as a sample
of the study to which the colOnists are 70
be subjected. There will be no drugs in
the colony, for the New Thought goes
hand IN hand with Christian Science. and
that cult knows that drugs are harmful
and useless things. Reference 10 pipe
dreams is. therefore, out of order.
Every one Will hope that the colony will
prove TO be a success and that the colonists
Will be induced to remain on their squash
farms and keep away from the madding
crowd There would seem TO be no neces-
sity for madding the crowd further, and
these New Thought" people are calcu-
lated TO do that very thing. But il is TO be
feared that no amount of metaphysical
reasoning Will save the colony from sudden
and prompt smash. There are some things
that these metaphysicians cannot handle.
lncurable maladies are simple for them.
but the sim pier forms Of diseases. while
especially real to the sufferer, are beyond
their scope, and the mere assertion that the
disease is not requires too much of a
strain on the faith OF the afflicted. Dowie.
the Chlcago prophet. who is known as
Elijah II, reincarnated, struck a snag when
the small poN struck his colony,
and finally refused to. have anything TO
do with the disease or with any
one afflicted by it. He insists that any
Llohst VINO mas the smallpox shall go TO
the cltys isolation hospital Dowie is bald
Eeaded and does not like his badness but
that is another thing that his miraculous
powers are unable TO handle. Here is
metaphysical proposition for the New
can perform any other miracle with the
greatest ease cure badness? And why do
Christian Scientists and reincarnated
prophets become bald? 1t is such simple
concrete things these that have de-
suoyed many cult and something should
be put into the bylaws of the new colony
providing for such things However. the
New Thought is very new and has much
TO learn. When ii has conquered The VIII
10 Be Well proposition. badness u~v come
In Tor Its innings. And that which frus-
trated Dowie may be solved in the simplest
way.