The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03

, accepted, but recommends Science
| and Health to be read instead.
8. Another tendency is to neglect
medical aid. This would not be SO
serious ii it only affected the adult
believers, but we have known of
children suffering and dying from the
pure neglect of their parents to pro-
ttan Scientists. Numbers of cases of
this character are OH record and
these records can be produced if
necessary.
4. There is a tendency of the teach
ing toward the disregard OF morals
and moral life. If a person can do
no wrong or sin, according to the
doctrine, what becomes OF morals?
Mrs. Eddy makes no distinction be-
tween vlrtue ana vice, mortanty and
immortality; and, according to her
we may lie for Lnere is no IalSehouu,
we may praCuce lmpurity for Jnere Is
no vice, we may defy al GODS laws
Tor there Is no disease, we may ue-
sIroy ire tor lnere Is no death. .n.S
Knu OF teaching leaus 10 preanlng
up of tamIIes, Tree IoVe, the Sanction
| nag of suicide and murder ana tne
abolition Oh all restraints.
Objections to the teachings.
l. CnrIstIan science denies lne eX-
istence OF everything except mind
and is nothing more than PantheIStIc
Ideallsm, the theories OF which nave
long been eXploded.
Z Christian ScIence condemns au-
dible prayer, and makes mockery OF
the Lord prayer in It's Daraphrases.
Mrs. Eddy says: prayer to a per-
sonal Goa is a hindrance. AuuIble
prayers may lead us into tempta-
ton"
3. They Intentionally and deliber-
ately attempt 10 delude by their false
teachings which are contrary to the
reason and experience Of all normally
constituted people.
4. Mrs Eddy, in her teachings, de-
MES the plainest facts of existence TO
make as plausible as possible her doc
trineS.
5. Christian Scientists do not prac-
| tice their own teachings. They eat
sleep, drink and dress just as all
other mortal people, and even COM
pliment the excellent flavor of ma
| terial food, though their doctrine de-
ciareS it to be nothing but an illusion
| Of mortal mind. Often they carry
umbrellas when it rains, wear cloa-sS
| and oVercoats when it is cold ana
som times rubbers when it SHOWS,
though they are believers liz doc
| trine that declares there is 10 rain
| no temperature SO that it can neither
| be hot nor cold, and no snow; they
| are all Illusions of mortal minds.
Just suppose for once that the civil
| lied portion of the world were to ac-
cept Mrs. Eddy's teachings in toto
All business would cease and people
would starVe to death. They would
| look tanker and thinner than most
Christian Scientists l know and dark
| est Africa would soon be sending mis-
sionarieS out.
6. All the so-called cures of Chris
| tian Science can be explained upon
purely material principles, that is. by
hypnotism ana suggestion, and they
| have no connection with any special
| power of Mrs Eddy or any one else
| that may be connected with her or
| her doctrine. Many practitioners OF
| hypnotism have done more Wonuer-
| full things than Mrs. Eddy, but tuey
did not teach heresy to effect these
| cures, and claimed nothing super
natural about them.
Z. Christian Science cannot be a
science and revelation as it claims.
Science treats of the classification OF
4 truth discovered by experiment, rea-
son and experience. Revelation
comes to the soul directly from God.
8. Christian Science simply denies
the great facts of experience and
them 1t gives no explanation Of
matter, sin or sickness, but simply
! denies their existence, and because
| it's votaries do not know what these
| things are intellectually there is no
excuse to deny their existence any
| more than because one cannot see lis
own heart he should deny having
| any
| Christian science logically con-
| cludes as a contradiction of all known
facts, reasoning and experiences, de-
| nying all institutions, making this
| world a great phantasm of unreal
| ties. It's philosophy is dangerous, its
| theology is heresy, it's therapeutics is
quackery and its whole teaching is
! a denial of common sense and rea-
| sons and a lie.