The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03
HOW MRS. EDDY'S TEACHINGS
AND HER PRACTICES CLASH
Material Dollars Against Non-Existence of Natter
Collisions Between the Bible and Christian
Science Pointed Out by This Writer.

/ denied by her. One of her statements
is: 1.-The word Adam is from the He
brew word Adamah, signifyins the
red color of the ground, dust, moth
ingness. Divide the name Adam into
two syllables and it reads, u dam, or
obstruction. This suggests the
| thought of something fluid. OF mortal
min IN solution, eJc.'' one could
| expect no better than the above Ell
/ fusion from an idiot or a lunatic, but
| what must be said OF Il teacher OF
science as she claims to be. In her
| book she warns ner readers that, on
account or English beng inadequate
to the expressions of spiritual con-
ceptions," 1t Will not be fully under
| stood tor several centuries TO come
The Key or Glossary to her work on
| Science and Health is intended, as she
| states, to assist Christian Science and
Bible students SO that they may in
| diligently study the Bible. A few
| Illustrations of the meanings of words
and terms used by the willy old pla-
| giarist Will be interesting.
The Euphrates river is transformed
| into Divine Science" encompassing
| the universe and man.
/ The resurrection is the "Spirituali-
cation of thought" and the new Jer-
| usalem is Divine Science
| Christian Scientists state that, un-
der the light shed by MIS-. Eddy
! book, the Bible has become a new
book to them, and do we wonder with
| such definitions and interpretations
| as given above.
The following are a few of the In
stances in which the teachings Of
Christian Science contradict the
| Bible:
| Science decides matter or mortal
body to be nothing but a belief and
an illusion" IS. q H., p. 1913.
| Let not sin, therefore, run i'll your
| mortal body"-Rom. 6: IL. "He
shall also quicken your mortal bodies
by the spirit that dwelleth in you. -
| Rom. 8: Il.
Mortal BODY and material man are
delusons that spiritual understand
| ng destroys. IS. & H., p. 81
And the Lord God formed man
| Of the dust of the ground and breath
ed into his nostrils the breath of
| life. Gen. 2: z.
Man is incapable of sin.
| Man cannot depart from holiness
5. & H, p. Al.
For all have sinned and come
short of the glory of od."-Rom.
3: %.
God is too pure to behold ini-
guilty. IS. & H., p. 125.
1.-THE eyes of the Lord are in every
place beholding the evil and the
good. Prov. Is: 8.
There is no death. Any material
evidence of death is false, for it con-
tradicts TIE spiritual facts of life
S. & H., p. 531.
cit is appointed unto man once to
die. Heb. 8: ~.
1.-The body is the same after as be-
fore death. IS. & H., p. 52S.
1T is sOwn a natural body, it is
raised a spiritual body Cor. Is:
a.
The above comparisons with GER
tain contradictory passages of the
Scripture well illustrate the teachings
of Christian Science. They sound
more like the vaporings of some in
sane Fanatic than the logical CD rea-
sonings of a sane woman who claims
to be a prophecies a guider and
teacher of the people. The whole
matter amounts to but one of two
things A person must either accept
the teachings OF the Bible and reject
Christian Science, or he must accept
Christian Science and reject the
Bible and those who believe in Chris
tian Science have already rejected
the teachings of the Bible, or else
they are miserable hypocrits in trying
to serve two masters.
Explanation of Cures.
Mrs. Eddy states that all manner
of sickness and disease are dreams
or illusions of mortal thought. To
cure all ailments and beliefs to which
flesh is heir she informs us we must
Mentally contradict every complaint
from the body; and hold ground dis
putatiously until the body yields TO
your demand" Suggestive therapu-
tics is intimated in the above as all
through her writings and directions
concerning healing. Well-informed
physicians use suggestion often and
many cures, some of which might be
called remarkable and heralded be-
fore the world, if these parties pos
sessed Mrs. Eddy'S inclinations. No
one doubts the influence of the mind
over the body and many cases of
functional nervous diseases are cured
by suggestion alone. But to go so far
as to claim, as the Christian Scien
lists do, that it will cure all forms
of disease, both functional and or
yanic, is absurd and ridiculous. The
:urses that have been wrought by
Christian Science are not nearly so
marvellous as some of the cures OF
Charcot of France, DeLuys of Eng
and, and many others | could men
lion by hypnotism and, yet they did
lot claim to be inspired people, do
ng miraculous things no one else
could do unless they denounced the
Bible and its teachings. Here is an
other one of her great principles
from her greater book, Science and
Health, Science by the alchemy of
spirit neutralizes disease. What
| term Decentralization is the upheaval
| produced when Immortal Truth is
| destroying erroneous and mortal be-
lief Patients unfamiliar with the
4 cause of this commotion and ignorant
that it is a favorable omen, may be
| alarmed" | should not wonder at
| their alarm should such a thing,
| whatever it may be, ever take place.
1t is a marvellous thing that people
| who ordinarily possess common sense
! should accept such nonsensical va
porings of a penurious and crafty
| woman as science. In nine-tenths of
the cases it is done it is because they
do not know what the doctrine really
is, and in the other one-tenth it is
done on account of avaricious proclivi-
ties, I fully and firmly believe.
Prof Townsend, of the Boston Uni
versity, in 1884, made an offer of ST.,
600 if she or her entire following
| would reduce q real case of ankle or
hip dislocation without resorting to
ordinary manipulation or touching it.