The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1904-04-21
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

inence was given to the Denver Repub-
LEANS report of a sermon on Chris
tian Science by Rev. David Utter.
While it was evidently the intention of
this reverend gentleman to be fair and
impartial, he presented some phases of
Christian Science and some reflections
OH Mrs. Eddy which are incorrect. That
Mrs. Eddy received instructions from
DIR. P. P. Quimby has been disproved
SO often that it seems like reiteration
to do SO again. The story is a hoary
falsehood. DR.. Quimby's method was
not prayer but manipulation. After
immersing his hands in water he rub
bed the head, etc. He never called his
practice mental method of healing
disease Mrs. Eddy was not healed by
DR.. Quimby as the Rev. Utter states.
She was treated by him, but he failed
to cure her. The statement that Mrs.
Eddy has shown unwillingness to make
known to the world her relation to DR..
Quimby is not true. She has denied
the charges of plagiarism and proven
it to the satisfaction of thousands who
with unbiased thought have read the
evidence. Mr.. Geo. A. Quimby son of
DR.. Quimby, over his own signature
and before a witness, stated in 1888 that
he had all the writings of his father.
In 1887 Mrs. Eddy agreed to pay the
Of T.,
order to expose the falsehoods of those
who publicly intimated that she had
appropriated DR.. Quimby's ideas. This
offer was never accepted. Well known
witnesses have examined these manu-
scripts and declare they bear no resem-
blance to Mrs. Eddy's writings. We
are glad to note that the Rev. Utter,
while quoting those who have accused
Mrs. Eddy of plagiarism, has been able
to separate the tares from the wheat
sufficiently to say that Science and
Health is undoubtedly Mrs. Eddy's
Gown production" In view of the fact
that thousands have been healed
through Christian Science of nearly
every disease known to man, it is rather
surprising that our critic should term
this healing delusion. Inasmuch as
there is an army of living witnesses
healthy and happy-who were healed
five, ten or fifteen years ago by this
method, it can hardly be intended in
the sense that this healing is tenn
poral delusion. Then again, as our
most eminent physicians and surgeons
had pronounced these cases consump-
ton, cancer, Bright's disease, etc. in
incurable stages, would our critic in
fer that the diagnosis in these instances
was delusion?
The Rev. Utter is manifestly unable
to discriminate between Faith healing
and Christian Science, not realizing the
difference existent between blind
faith and the prayer of understanding.
When Mrs. Eddy defines Mind as God
she does not refer to mortal or carnal
mind, which the Bible says, SIS enmity
against God," but the Divine Mind, that
Mind which the Scriptures declare "Was
also in Christ Jesus Then again the
critic fails to make the proper distinc-
ton and falls into similar error when
he confounds man made in the image
and likeness of God with the SHINING
race of Adam. AS Rev. Utter makes
misleading references to Mrs. Eddy's
book, Science and Health, giving his
own Interpretation of certain sentences
separated from their context, permit
me to quote from page 461 of this book,
Il do not maintain that you or l can
exist in the flesh without breath, food
and raiment; but | do believe that man
is immortal, and that he lives in Spirit,
and forever. Christian Science must
be accepted at this period by induction.
We admit the whole because a part is
proven" While Christian Scientists
believe the Scriptural prophesies, at
firming that the time will come when
there is no more death, they claim no
extraordinary immunity from the last
enemy, either for themselves or for
their leader Neither does Mrs. Eddy
herself make any such claim. Christian
Scientists are grateful for their restora-
ton to health and the consequent pro-
longing of life. They realize that Ion
gevity increases with spiritual growth,
but that centuries may pass before
death is finally abolished. Careful OBJ
servers will find that the Christian
Science denomination compares favor
ably with other religious bodies as re-
CARDS the culture and intelligence of its
adherents; the large number of college
graduates, the learned judges, clergy
men, physicians and lawyers that have
become identified with it indicates this.
From a purely literary standpoint, Mrs.
| Eddy's book, Science and Health, with
Key to the Scriptures, has been men
toned by competent critics as one of
the most wonderful and meritorious
productions of the age; while its un-
derlying philosophy has healed thou
sands and is healing thousands today,
not only of physical ills, but of sin in
all its myriad forms.
CALEB H. CUSHING.
Foxcroft, Me-, April II, 1904.
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