The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-25
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HUMBUGs.
FIRST MEETING OF THE cANTER-
BURY ANTI-HUMBUG SOCIETY.
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BURY ANTI-HUMBUG SOCIETY.
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After federation had finished. two or
three Jumped onto their feet at once. and
tried 10 speak. but Jane Bates she got
the floor. She's always forehanded on
all questions OF debate. and she Is always
on the offish side of everything. She said.
''Mr. Chairman, you talk about mystjfy-
ing arguments OF Christian Science folk;
now, it's my opinion that your definitions
and answers are just about az befogging
as theirs What / want Is more proof.
You may mako an assertion, but that
ts not enough for me. I want something
that speaks right out loud and to the
point" Then she sot down In the chair.
Tolerntion he started to answer, and
got as far as ''Wef, Miss Bates, you
might as well be sailing In one as
another go long az you are IN a fog. for
You can't make much headway in
either" Then I got up myself and broke
right IN, for I thought IL women Were
going to ask questions. II was time some
OF the women folks answered them. SO
I says. says l. '"Tisn't necessary for the
Chairman to answer all the questions
put to this meetin'. and tisnt according
TO good order nuther. Now. IL is my
opinion that mother earth has answered
Mlss Bates questions in stentorian tones
and II she had only had her ears open,
she might have known all about it be-
fore this meetin' was called" Then
went on TO say.
why, when Mount Pelee. way down
there tho Island OF Martinique, exploded
and belched forth earth and ashes. the
old earth was sick, and it wasn't no
imaginary sickness nuther; had the cole
IN a bad form; and. because there wasn't
any avenue for those pent mp gases to
escape through, something had to give
away and the whole earth. this great
ball of matter, was convulsed by tho
mighty upheaval that took place; and
when the top of that mountain was
blown of, the pains in the bowels of the
earth subsidized after II had vomited
enough to give them relief. That ex-
plosion, would like TO emphasize right
here, not only shook the earth but IL
shattered the Christian Science notion
that there IL no such thing as matter.
and sickness, into a million fragments.
no small that you can't find one with n
magnifying glass big enough to know
what II WAS ever INTENDED for.
/ then went on 10 say: Talk about
disease and sickness. 'tisnt confined 20
animal matter, with nerves and mind
attached TO warn the body when some
thing must be done to counteract the
conditions that cause conyuleions and
suffering There Is sickness I'm the ele-
ments when tornadoes destroy cities and
IN the thunder bolt that destroys life.
both animate and inanimate. And the
commissions don't cease until some kind
Of a pouItice has been applied TO change
the conditions that created the pain
Trees become sickly and die, and all
forms of vegetation develop disease
where certain conditions prevail. And
Miss Bates and everybody else via. any
common sense ought TO know that wnen
oil the laws OF nature are fulfilled, then
the inanimate as wen as the animate
substances remain IN state OF health.
but as soon AZ the law Is trespassed
upon. then sickness follows. "a from the
effects OF worm agnawing at the roots.
or atearing OF tho bark from the trunks
of trees which cauecs them TO bleed 10
death. Now. II that doesn't talk plain
enough and loud enough, ] don't believe
the Almighty could speak loud enough
himself through any other medium TO
shake some people up to convinced Idea
OF things"
Then Jane Bates she got UP md broke
right in on what | was asaying. and she
Gays. Mrs. wilberforce evidently has
lost sight OF the fact that one must be
Scientifically Christian in order 10 be n
real Christian, and there must be q
'nxed rule for the demonstration or di'
vine principle
And when she sot down. I says, for
kept astanding all the while che was
atalking. "'Fixed Ruler Well. now
want 20 know IL that IN so. Well. II
the Christian Scientist means Love your
neighbor as yourself. and the Lord witt
all you heart, IL that 'hxed rule why
I've no objections to Il, b,rt there aim
any more fixed rule than that. for Christ
has said So and don't believe I've come
20 tho point where any mortal being u
asoing 20 interpret his sayings aocordins
90 their scientific humbuggery, and make
me swallow II all at one gulp. an
roins to lean on the Scriptures while
longer and use the brains that God ha'
Riven me TO interpret and UNDERSTAND
them by, for calculate they were giver
to me for n purpose higher than taknl
for corn what everybody has TO say. M
matter how honest they may he IN say
ing IL. I'VE known some folks atellinl
como pretty big lies when they though
they were telling the truth"
Then Miss Bates she got UP again anC
Gays, "If Mrs. Wilberforce would onlI
look into the great volume OF Science
and Health with Key 20 the SCRIPTURES
that Mrs Eddy has written, she woul'
md that II would be a great revocation
IN her"
Then ! says. says 7, IT would like Z
have Miss Bates understand that Iv
read the book that she refers 10 quite
numerous number OF times. and I've hunt
cd IL all over 10 try 20 find wherein
was Key to the Scriptures While tn
book says many beautiful things ] fail I
find I'm all Of my readings any such revel
alton as Miss Bates speaks OF. After read
Ing u, I've turned TO my Bible and re
ceived more inspiration and revelation
from Christ's Sermon on the Mount. tha
IN Mrs. Eddy's and all the other Chris
tance Science books that I've ever hear
,n.
Talk about Key 10 the Scriptures
The astonishing thing 20 me Is that an
mortal being has got the audacity to max