The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-24
III.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HUMBUGs,
FIRST MEETING OF THE CANTER
BURY ANTI-HUMBUG SOCIETY.
(Continued.)

'roleration he got up out of his chair.
and after he had stretched his body UP
20 its fun height, a towerin over the
rest of the audience. over six feet four,
he said to Jasper, Seeing as you have
addressed the Chair to answer this ques-
ton. want TO say that here Is just
where am goin' 10 twist the tail OF this
ere argument so that it'll holler right
out and cry for mercy:
1T is true" said he. that God is
good and Good is mind But ! want you
and Mrs. Eddy and all the Scientists of
Christendom TO understand that matter
A. good too, for God Almighty who
created this earth and your body and
soul and mine, has said so, and what He
says Will remain on record for quite a
spell after all the Christian Science
books OF the world have grown yellow
with age. and have been laid away upon
tho upper shelf OF bygone crriosities!"
Said he, God created the earth, and
after lie had finished II. lie pronounced
Il good and now 10 be more concise.
you will remember that the good Book
says that God called the dry land earth
and the gathering together OF the waters,
called He seas; and God saw that II was
good Now let me impress upon you.
good people. that this land which He
called earth was matter, and you cannot
question that OF course; and the waters
lie placed there, of course, you know
was matter, and He saw that IL was
good. then, OF course. good must be
in matter. And then again the Book
says. The earth brought forth grass.
and herbs Yielding seed after his kind,
and the trees yielding fruit whose seed
was I'm itself, after HIS kind: and God saw
that IL was good Now, have you got
sense enough TO know that grass n mat
ter, and that tho trees are material
things. and that God Almighty saw that
these were all good and, consequently.
there was good I'm matter as applied to
vegetation. Now this was before any
soul was brought into question.
''Man with soul had not yet been
made. but when lie got ready to make
him. He took OF the matter OF the earth
which Is pronounced Good and made
house i'm which good soul was TO
dwell. And SO. according to the
Creators own declaration, the body.
mere matter and the soul, or mind, are
both Good and they live Jointly and I'm
harmony with each other. The mind re-
spending to the nerves of the body, and
the nerves 10 the impulses OF the mind.
How about your hogs now?"
Well, Jasper he htched and hemmed.
and some of the others scratched their
=
and finally Jasper says, We'll. you are
wrong, you must be wrong, for Mrs. Eddy
says you are by her book. She goes on
10 say, There is no pain in truth and
no truth I'm pain, no nerve in mind, ana no
mind I'm nerve. no matter In mind, and
no mind I'm matter, no matter in life and
no life in matter no good I'm matter
and no matter I'm good What have you
got 10 say to that? There is a sticker for
your"
'Wel." federation says. say he, THAT
is what | call a metaphysical tumble OF
words that don't have any special signi-
fcance. 1t Is simply one of those things
that tends to mystify, and think by that
Kind of sentence. ] can see how the
ordinary Christian Scientist IL lead into
a state OF mystery so far that he can't get
out and as he doesn't understand his
surroundings. he feels he has got some
thing that Is so remarkable, and SO far
beyond his comprehension he must en-
brace it, and so he does.
NOW the idea Of saying" says he,
"sThere is no pain in truth and truth in
pain Everybody knows that this a per-
version OF truth. What is truth? Truth
is a fact An actual condition. Every
sensible person under the sum- who will
stop for minute and think. knows that
there are thousands OF conditions I'm
which there is pain, and as this condition
must be truth, there certainly Is pain in
truth and truth IN pain. Now, as TO
there being no nerve in mind and no
mind In nerve. OF course there isn't.
'Tisn't necessary that there should be.
The Almighty never designed that nerves
should possess mind. They were made by
him to possess force. The mind was
given intelligence to appreciate that force.
'Tisnt necessary to have nerve I'm mind,
nor mind I'm nerve Then as to no matter
.l.4A Ia taF ~
course that Is true enough, 'tan't 'neces-
sary. Matter with It's forces wasn't made
with the idea OF developing intelligence in
itself; Il shows its force In the develop
ing OF thousands OF forms In the way OF
vegetation. The mind possesses the intel
lgence which gives us the power TO ap-
preciate this development OF force I'm mat
ter, though we cannot understand the
underlying power which causes the seed
10 germinate; yet we have the power 10
appreciate its results. It would be a per-
version OF Gods laws for one to imagine
that there Is any mind I'm matter or any
matter In mind. That's n jumblin of
words for the sake of seeing how much
they can be jumbled.
"Now as TO there being no matter In
life or no life in matter, no matter i'm
good or no good in matter, that is per-
version Of the truth again. God Almighty
has told us I'm thousands OF ways that
there is plenty of life I'm matter but not
the kind of life that has the intelligence
of the mind. but the kind OF life as
have already said that possesses force,
that In one sense Is greater than the In
telligence OF the mind. The mind cannot
create the electric current. but by its In
telligence ~ can appreciate the power OF
the electric current after IL has been de-
veloped; but n is true that the mind can
plan and put together certain forces so
that electricity can be harnessed, but
those forces which come from matter
were In existence before the mind devel-
oped the way or the form In which they
were to be utilized. The mind Of man